OxFID 2009 Speaker Profiles

Opening Address (Saturday)

The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Panel Discussions (Saturday & Sunday)

Climate Change Panel
·   Neil Bowerman, Executive Director of Climatico analysis
·   Professor David Rogers, University of Oxford
·    Aubrey Meyer, Director of Global Commons Institute
·   Professor Simon Caney, University of Oxford

Food Crisis Panel
·   Sam Brickersworth, Head of policy at Oxfam
·   John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want
·    Representative from Afghan Aid (TBC)

$50 Billion to Save the World Panel
·    Dr. Andrew Steer, Director General of Research and Policy at DFID
·   Professor Lord May of Oxford
·   Dr. Kevin Watkins, UNESCO
·   Benedict Southworth, Director of World Development Movement
·   Anthony Courakis, Oxford University
·   Tristan Wilkinson, Intel

Film Screening & Talk (Sunday Morning)

Invisible Children

With
Davy K. D. Young, Movement Director, Europe
Adam Palumbo, Tour Coordinator

Workshops (Saturday & Sunday)

Addressing Child Trafficking: Pointers from faith based networks in South East Asia
Ian de Villiers is leader of the Viva Equipped people initiative and Asia Director for Viva

Uncertain Futures: Displaced Iraqis in the Middle East
Dan Tyler is a Policy and Advocacy Officer for the International Rescue Committee

Health and Food Security
Paul Kadetz, Reseracher at the Oxford University Department of International Development

The youth movement and its impact on a global climate deal
Guppi Bola is co-founder of the Healthy Planet campaign

Social Action projects in Rwanda
Brooks Newmark MP is a Conservative front bencher and is a member of the Treasury Select Committee and the Science and Technology Select Committee.

Development, Terrorism and Human Rights
Pritam Singh is a Research Associate at the Depart of International Development at Oxford

Plane stupid
Jonathan Leighton and Lucie Kinchin, activists in the climate change protest group

Helping the Poor Adapt to Climate Change
Kamal Kapadia and Andrew Newsham are Research Fellows at the Environmental Change Institute

Race, Class and Marginality: Dissecting Youth Violence in Toronto
Kofi Hope is Former Chair and Founder of Black Youth Coalition against violence in Toronto

How tax havens and tax mispricing impact developing countries
Andy Wilson is the Economic Justice Campaigner for Christian Aid

How to Campaign
Ian Ross is an International Team Analyst for Policy Research at WaterAid

Claire Cochrane is the Public Understanding of Poverty Officer at Oxfam GB and Co-chair of the Women's Budget Group
What models of change would be the best way to ensure that climate change and poverty are avoided/ prevented through joint solutions (policy/practice/awareness raising etc.). It will be run through a mixture of providing information inputs and facilitating plenary and smaller group discussion, in order to encourage and enable individuals to understand the importance of the topics and come up with solutions and strategies for addressing the issues in a joined up way.

Globally Aware but locally disconnected: The activist gap in Canada
Kofi Hope is Former Chair and Founder of Black Youth Coalition against violence in Toronto

Financial Crisis: what is means for development campaigning
Nick Dearden is Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign

Cash on Delivery
Kate Vyborny worked at the Center for Global Development and helped to create the Cash on Delivery scheme

Adapting to Climate Change: Actions in China
Dr. Jimin Zhao is a Research fellow at the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford