WESPOD: Challenging Perspectives

This episode of WESPOD features Warwick Economics Summit's global ambassadors: Gioele Giussani from the University of Bocconi. In this episode, Gioele explores the political economy of free trade; he discussing theories from Adam Smith to Bertil Gotthard Ohlin, and applies these insights to the modern U.S and UK economy, in relation to the emergence of Donald Trump and Brexit.  Look out for more Global Views with our WES Ambassadors. Each episode will feature ambassadors from all corners of the world, delving into issues that truly matter. Expect unique, internationally-minded student perspectives, shedding light on regionally diverse and often underreported stories. We hope you enjoy this episode! Don't forget to follow us for more challenging perspectives! Instagram: @warwickeconsummit / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit More on our linktree: https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials

This episode of WESPOD features Warwick Economics Summit's global ambassadors: Adeep Srinivasa from University of Adelaide and Nourhan ElHadba from the American University in Cairo. In this conversation, Adeep and Nourhan compare the implications of Fintech on financial inclusion across India and Egypt, the complexity of cryptocurrency, and the importance of openness to innovation.  Look out for more Global Views with our WES Ambassadors. Each episode will feature ambassadors from all corners of the world, delving into issues that truly matter. Expect unique, internationally-minded student perspectives, shedding light on regionally diverse and often underreported stories. We hope you enjoy this episode! Don't forget to follow us for more challenging perspectives! Instagram: @warwickeconsummit / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit More on our linktree: https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials

This episode of WESPOD hosts Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time. In this engaging interview, Polgar discusses the Queen’s Gambit, growing up as a chess prodigy, the advent of AI. Whether you're a chess enthusiast or are completely unfamiliar with the sport, her thoughts on the connections between chess and politics, and how AI has changed chess training and perceptions, remain both unique and fascinating.  Polgar’s professional career is hard to summarize. At the age of 15, she broke the record of Bobby Fischer, by becoming the youngest international chess Grandmaster ever. Since then she has defeated several chess world champions. Most notably, in 2002, she faced Garry Kasparov, widely considered as the greatest chess player of all time. The tournament was known as “Russia against the rest of the World”, highlighting Russia’s dominance at the time. Nonetheless, Polgar went on to beat Kasparov in 42 moves, becoming the first female player to do so.   We hope you enjoy this episode! Don't forget to follow us for more challenging perspectives! Instagram: @warwickeconsummit / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit More on our linktree: https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials

"Cryptocurrency will not [be a part of our future]. I strongly believe that national or supernational currencies cannot be privatised."  This episode of WESPOD provides an overview of FinTech from top industrial executives. Find here fascinating discussions from the role of digitalisation, gender differences in FinTech use, to debate on the future of cryptocurrency.  The panel includes: Bastian Nominacher - Co founder and Co CEO of Celonis Henrik Johnsson - Co Head of capital markets and european investment banking at Deutsche Bank. Henrik is also one of the co-founders of WES 20 years ago. Corrado Passera - Founder and CEO of Illmity Chaired by Elisa Martinuzzi, finance columnist at Bloomberg. Don't forget to follow us for more challenging perspectives! Instagram: @warwickeconsummit / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit More on our linktree: https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials

“To be clear, our newsroom will never be data-driven… we view our role as setting the agenda, not following the herd” Welcome to WESPOD! In this episode, we'll be hearing from John Ridding, the CEO of the FT Group, one of the world’s leading news organisations. Here, he discusses the integrity of media and journalism, amid the rising threat of fake news and other dangers.  Ridding's credentials are self-evident. Under his stewardship, the FT has expanded its global operations and transformed itself into a digital business, pioneering the reader-revenue or subscription model now widely adopted across news media. It now attracts the largest paying readership in its 131-year history, with more than three-quarters of its readers coming from digital, and is recognised as an industry leader in innovation and digital development and a champion of quality journalism. We hope you enjoy this episode!  Don't forget to follow us for more challenging perspectives!  Instagram: @warwickeconsummit / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit More on our linktree: https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials

“The online world, our world, was able to continue and in some way even to benefit hugely from this pandemic, as everybody has come to understand the richest people in the world got vastly richer in the past 12 months” This episode of WESPOD features a distinguished panel of speakers on the topic of Global Inequalities. The panel includes: Joseph Stiglitz, who is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Ravi Kanbur is the Co-Chair of the Food Economics Commission Mthuli Ncube is the Finance Minister of Zimbabwe Past Chief Economist and Vice-President of the African Development Bank Petya Koeva-Brooks is the Deputy Director in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department Jeffrey Sachs, President of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Tune in for a fascinating discussion of sustainable development, the impact of Covid-19 on global sustainability goals, and the consequences of the pandemic on global inequality. Don't forget to follow us for more challenging perspectives! Instagram: @warwickeconsummit / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit More on our linktree: https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials

The emotional turning point for David Davis which turned him from a “reluctant remainer” to Brexiteer was ultimately “the treatment of Greece”- “The response of the EU wasn’t to try and help them, it was actually to punish them.”   Welcome to WESPOD! In this episode, we will be hearing from David Davis, Chief Negotiator of Brexit, interviewed by Therese Raphael, Columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Here, Davis describes why Brexit, his "chipper" attitude to the Brexit negotiations process, Theresa May's approach, and views on the future and opportunities from the Brexit deal. Despite the "gritty movement to stability", he sees Brexit as an imperative for new, better things, including simplification of regulations, such as during COVID-19's vaccines. Moreover, he highlights the UK's moral role on the international stage.  Prior to 2017, Davis served as Member of Parliament for Haltemprice and Howden from 1987 to 1997, as well as serving in various positions, such as and not limited to: Conservative Party Chairman, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, and Shadow Home Secretary.  We hope you gained much insight from this episode. Don't forget to follow us for more challenging perspectives! Instagram: @warwickeconsummit / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit More on our linktree: https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials

"We must make a choice. We may have democracy or we may have a surveillance society. But we cannot have both. A democratic surveillance society is an existential and political impossibility."  Welcome to the first episode of WESPOD! We are excited to bring you Shoshana Zuboff, writer, activist, and professor at Harvard Business School. In this fascinating talk, Zuboff discusses the perils of surveillance capitalism, which profits from "data-fication" of human behaviour and experience. She argues that tech giants such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, who hold the answers to "who knows", and "who decides who knows", without being elected and for profit motives. This violates our epistemic rights, which poses a fundamental threat to democracy and the rule of law, and presses the need for better legal institutions.  Don't forget to follow us on our socials! https://linktr.ee/wes_socials/