Systems and Power (cancelled)
This event has been cancelled and will no longer take place.
Systems and Power (cancelled)
29 Jun 2023, 17:30 – 19:00
CANCELLED: Thursday 29 June 2023 | 17:30-19:00 (BST) UK Time
Due to unanticipated circumstances, please be aware that 'Systems and Power' on Thursday 29 June 2023 at 5.30pm-7pm has been cancelled. We are working on rearranging the event and hope to have an update in the near future.
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The climate crisis, increasing inequality and other crises demand transformational change and coordinated global action. In this context, the Entrepreneurial State highlights the role for the State in driving innovation and addressing grand challenges. But who has the power to set this agenda?
This panel will discuss the politics of the Entrepreneurial State. Considering reforms have winners and losers, what coalitions could support these changes? Who should have a place at the decision-making table? Could social movements and grassroots collective action have a role in shaping the Entrepreneurial State?
Join this conversation with global leaders and scholars and gain insight into the work the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose is doing with high-level decision-makers. Discuss the tensions and conflicts in changing the narrative and reshaping the global economy. Learn about the leverage points to enable change and the structures that resist, and discover lessons from the Global North and Global South to explore differences and similarities.
Chaired by Dr Kate Roll, Associate Professor in Innovation, Development and Purpose at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) in conversation with Damon Silvers, Visiting Professor of Practice in Labour Markets and Innovation at IIPP.
This event is part of the IIPP 2023 Festival: The Entrepreneurial State 2.0. - Rethinking the State in the 21st Century. #TheEntrepreneurialState2.0
Visiting Professor of Practice in Labour Markets and Innovation
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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Mr. Silvers is a Senior Fellow for the Roosevelt Institute. He is a member of the Investor Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Investor Advisory Group. Mr. Silvers is also a member of The Century Foundation’s Board of Trustees and is a member of the board of the investor coalition CERES.
From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Silvers served as the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP. Mr. Silvers has also served on the Treasury Department’s Financial Research Advisory Committee, as the Chair of the Competition Subcommittee of the United States Treasury Department Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession and as a member of the United States Treasury Department Investor’s Practice Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.
Mr. Silvers led the successful efforts to restore pensions to the retirees of Cannon Mills lost in the Executive Life collapse and the severance owed to laid off Enron and WorldCom workers following the collapse of those companies. He served from 2003 to 2006 as pro bono Counsel to the Chairman of ULLICO, Inc. and in that capacity led the successful effort to recover over $50 million related to improperly paid executive compensation.
Mr. Silvers received his J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School. He received his M.B.A. with high honors from Harvard Business School and is a Baker Scholar. Mr. Silvers is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude, and has studied history at Kings College, Cambridge University.
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Dr Roll holds a DPhil in Politics (2015) and an MPhil in International Development Studies (2011; distinction) from the University of Oxford. Dr Roll’s doctoral fieldwork involved logging over 1,000 km on a motorbike, crisscrossing Timor-Leste to survey and interview over 220 registered former combatants – now one of the largest studies of its kind. Her BA from Brown University is in International Relations (2006; honours, Phi Beta Kappa), where her award-winning thesis focussed on how private military companies establish legitimacy.