Mar
18
6:30pm
Bob Geldof & Rory Stewart - Rebels with a Cause: Rock and Roll Eloquence, Public Service and Social Justice
By Winter Series 2022
Rebels with a Cause: Rock and Roll Eloquence, Public Service and Social Justice.
Bob Geldof and Rory Stewart promise us a wide-ranging conversation with opinionated views.
These two men with a passion for social justice delve into contemporary global politics, touching on how recent UK foreign aid cuts will affect war-ridden countries like Yemen, discuss the link between spending on overseas aid and the climate crisis, the current humanitarian disaster in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the Brexit debacle and how Covid requires a global response.
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Sir Bob Geldof is a businessman, political activist, songwriter, musician and author. Born in 1951, Sir Bob Geldof is one of Ireland’s most successful exports and has gone on to both inspire a generation and make prolific social changes as a philanthropist and political activist. Shooting to fame as the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof was a major player in the 70s punk rock movement, and after leaving the band, he launched a successful solo career, published his best-selling autobiography, Is That It? and worked as a radio DJ, journalist and television presenter. In 1984 Geldof was the creator of Live Aid - $200 million was raised for the starving and the dying in Ethiopia. Geldof has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 8 times, more than any living nominee. Bob is internationally recognised as a leading authority on world politics, international and current affairs, music, humanitarian issues, philanthropy, poverty, human rights and Africa.
Rory Stewart is a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute, Yale University. Stewart focuses on contemporary politics in crisis and on international development and intervention in fragile and conflict-affected states. Stewart was the UK Secretary of State for International Development where he doubled the U.K.’s investment in international climate and environment. Prior to that Stewart served in a variety of roles including Minister of the environment, Minister of State responsible for development policy in the Middle East and Asia and UK policy in Africa, as Minister of State for Justice, and as Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. Earlier in his career, he served briefly as an infantry officer and then as a diplomat for the UK government in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq. He founded and ran the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Afghanistan and was the Director of the Carr Centre and the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Stewart has also written four books: The Places in Between, Occupational Hazards or The Prince of the Marshes, Can Intervention Work?; and The Marches.
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