How to Change the World 2020 - with photographer Sebastiao Salgado, Oxford vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert, and former US secretary of state John Kerry.

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Former Secretary of State John Kerry will share his reflections on the state of the US and the new presidency with Silk Roads author and Oxford professor Peter Frankopan; Harvard Professor Rebecca Henderson will show us the opportunity in our current crisis; Makaziwe Mandela will make an impassionated case for empowering women globally; and Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth will share his insights into injustice in all corners of the world.

Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan will investigate trust in medicine; genomics pioneer Sumit Jamuar will share his vision of democratised healthcare; and Sarah Gilbert, lead on Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine, will explore the endgame of the pandemic.

Sinead Bovell and Sophie Hackford will share their insights in to the future; Artificial Intelligence visionary Kai-Fu Lee will reveal the true impact of automation on our societies; MIT professor Sinan Aral will help us protect democracy from the threat of social media; and Improbable CEO Herman Narula will reveal the impact virtual worlds will have on how we think, play and make decisions.

And GRAMMY award-winner Nicola Benedetti, world-renowned photographer Sebastio Salgado, actor Simon Callow, poet and exonerated member of the Central Park Five Yusef Salaam and bestselling novelist Ibi Zoboi will explore the power of art to change the world.

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** Highlights from the Programme
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World War Zero
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** John Kerry

The 68th US Secretary of State and 2004 Presidental candidate is on a mission to make the world respond to the climate crisis the same way we mobilised to win WWII.
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The Power of Music
Nicola Benedetti

The winner of both a GRAMMY and two Classical BRIT Awards, Nicola Benedetti is one of the most sought-after violinists of her generation.

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Ways to Save the Planet
George Monbiot

The environmentalist and Guardian columnist joins us with a powerful reminder that the climate crisis is far from inevitable - if we act now.

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Empowering Women
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** Makaziwe Mandela

Nelson Mandela's eldest daughter is driving change both in her native country and as a leading global advocate for social issues that affect African communities.
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A Portrait of Our Planet
Sebastião Salgado in conversation with Alan Riding

Trained as an economist, Sebastiao Salgado may be the world's most important living photographer. An artist and documentarian whose aesthetically stunning works evoke a profound sense of our common humanity, he joins us in conversation with former Financial Times and New York Times foreign correspondent Alan Riding.


** The Future of Medicine
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Democratising Healthcare Through Genomics
Sumit Jamuar

Sumit S Jamuar is the CEO of Global Gene Corp, an organisation democratizing healthcare through genomics by mapping and organizing the world’s genomic diversity, overcoming the bias that 80% of all existing genomic data come from people of European ancestry.

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Reimagining Medicine and Leadership
Vas Narasimhan

CEO of Novartis, one of the world’s largest medicines producers, Dr. Vas Narasimhan is one of the youngest CEOs leading a Fortune 500 company. He has overseen the licensure of over 30 novel medicines, including cell and gene therapies and vaccines.



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The End of Life - What Really Matters?
Rachel Clarke

Dr Rachel Clarke specialises in palliative medicine, caring deeply about helping patients live the end of their lives as fully and richly as possible – and in the power of human stories to build empathy and inspire change.
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The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against SARS-CoV-2
Sarah Gilbert

A world-renowned research scientist, Professor Sarah Gilbert leads the development of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, one of the world's most promising candidates for a vaccine against COVID-19.




** How Tech Will Change the World
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Young Entrepreneurs and the Digital Future
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A futurist who has spoken at world-renowned institutions from the United Nations to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Sinead Bovell is the Founder and CEO of WAYE, an organization that prepares youth for a future with advanced technologies.


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Kai-Fu Lee - AI and the Post-Work World

The former President of Google China, author of the bestseller AI Superpowers and CEO of Sinovation Ventures Kai-Fu Lee reveals his vision of the future of work.

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Mobility and the Future of Cities

An entrepreneur and inventor, Assaf Biederman is the founder and CEO of Superpedestrian, a robotics company that building alternatives to the car that amplify the power of the human body.

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Herman Narula - Our Future in Virtual Worlds

Co-Founder and CEO of Improbable Herman Narula joins us to reveal the unprecedented impact that powerful, virtual worlds have on how we think, play and make decisions.

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How Robotics Will Change the World

The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Markoff is best known for his work at The New York Times exposing the dark side of the digital revolution.

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Satellites, Sensing, and Spaceports

An expert on present and near future technologies, Sophie Hackford's clients include Adobe, Deep Mind and Vogue - though the best questions come from schoolchildren.

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence

A pioneer of machine learning, member of Google's AI ethics council and leading cognitive scientist, Professor De Kai will share his insights into the single most disruptive technology that has ever existed.

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Sinan Aral - How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health
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An award-winning Professor of Management at MIT, and named one of the world's Top 40 Business Professors Under 40, Sinan Aral is here to provide answers to the most important questions of our hyper-connected age.



** Art to Change the World
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An Acrobat of Identities
Mira Awad

Arab-Israeli musician, actress and activst Mira Awad works to promote an agenda of dialogue and co-existence, and uses her stage visibility to promote peace and human solidarity.

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The Last Sentinels
Jimmy Nelson

Jimmy Nelson is an award-winning photographer, creator and author of Homage to Humanity. He believes that if you change the way you look at people, the people you look at change. And if that change is powerful enough, it will gather momentum to affect the whole of humanity.

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Fighting For Truth
Ibi Zoboi

How can art expose injustice? The Haitian-born, NYC-raised, New York Times bestselling novelist and National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi joins us to explore her new collaboration with Yusef Salaam, Exonerated member of the Central Park Five.

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This Wide and Universal Theatre
Simon Callow

Join the actor, biographer and director for a celebration of the power of theatre to bring us together and transform our understanding of the human condition.


** A Green and Sustainable Future
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Robotics and the Future of Food in a Hydrogen Based Global Economy

Entrepeneur William Jayne built the world's first AI food forecasting system, launched Windows, and revolutionised the outdoor advertising industry. Now he's set to do the same for global food production.

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Securing the World's Forests

Jenny Bonello is the 16-year-old Founder of Secure Forest, an organization focused on saving the trees through preventing forest degradation and deforestation around the globe.

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Navigating the Future of Food

As an independent consultant in sustainable food systems transitions, Dr. Afton Halloran advises governmental agencies and organizations across the globe on issues of food production, diet, and policy.



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Giving Form to a New Frontier

How can we supply the world with the essential metals to build the technologies needed for this sustainable future, while avoiding the impacts of terrestrial mining? Gerard Barron is on a mission to do exactly that.




** Ideas to Change the World
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Human Rights After the US Election

Executive Director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth leads a mission to investigate and report on abuses happening in all corners of the world, meeting with governments, corporations, and others to see that policy is changed, laws are enforced, and justice is served.

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Fighting for Truth

Poet and activist Dr. Yusef Salaam was just fifteen years old when his life was upended after being wrongly convicted in the “Central Park jogger” case, along with four other boys who are now known as the Exonerated Five.



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The Dream Defenders

A senior advisor to Bernie Sanders, Phillip Agnew co-founded the Dream Defenders in 2012 after the murder of Trayvon Martin and has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential African Americans in the nation.

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Reimagining Capitalism

Inside every crisis is an opportunity. For Harvard Business School Prof. Rebecca Henderson, the pandemic presents a chance to build a new capitalism that works for society as a whole.



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The Path to Peace | Insights From a Former Child Soldier and Humanitarian Activist
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>From his start in life as a child soldier in the war-torn region of Southern Sudan in the early 1980s, Emmanuel Jal has come through a huge number of struggles during his life to become a successful and acclaimed recording artist and peace ambassador.


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