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Lecture

Robert Fox
Hope for a Troubled World

Monday 25.07.2022

Summary

Reporter, commentator, and author Robert Fox discusses recent global politics including the change of prime ministership in the UK and the resignation of Boris Johnson, rising debt and financial issues in the UK, the implications of Brexit, climate change, the war in Ukraine, and politics in the leadership of Europe and America, amongst other pressing issues of the moment. He also focuses on the next generation of leaders rising to power and how we can find hope in global politics in today’s world.

Robert Fox

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Robert Fox has been a professional reporter, commentator, author, and broadcaster for over 40 years. He has reported from the front in the Falklands conflict of 1982, the Middle East, including Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. After leaving Oxford with an honors degree in history in 1967, he has worked as a staff reporter and correspondent for the BBC and the Daily Telegraph. He is currently defense correspondent for the Evening Standard and broadcasts frequently for the BBC, Sky, and Radio 24 in Italy. Among his books are Eyewitness Falklands (1982), Antarctica and the South Atlantic (1985), and Camera in Conflict (1995). Robert lectures frequently to the British Army and the diplomatic community in London. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House.