Can the UK, Europe and US join forces to solve the Global Economic Crisis

November 05, 2009 : Friends House

Can the UK, Europe and the USA join forces to solve the Global Economic Crisis?

Chaired by Laurence Smy, Chairman of TEAM, and Dr. Martyn Bond, Visiting Professor of European Policy and Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London

  • What is the Crisis really about?

Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat spokesman on the Economy, author of The Storm: the World Economic Crisis and what it means

  • Is there a European Response to the Crisis?

David Marsh, Banking and financial consultant, former FT correspondent, member of the German-British Forum and the London and Oxford Group

  • What is the United Sates doing about the Crisis?

Lord Watson, President of TEAM, in dialogue with Iwan Morgan Professor of United States Studies, University of London.

  • The Politics behind the Economics – panel discussion

William Horsley, former BBC World Service Europe correspondent, Chairman of the Association of European Journalists

Quentin Peel, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times

Graeme Leach, Chief Economist and Director of Policy, The Institute of Directors

  • Where do we go from here?

Lord Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer