Ronald E. Bornstein
Richard Burdon Haldane
Summary
John Campbell discusses his book, Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Britain and Canada, and delves into Haldane’s groundbreaking proposals on defense, education, and government structure that were the building blocks of modern Britain.
Ronald E. Bornstein
Ronald E. Bornstein is an international lawyer who has practiced in New York, Paris, San Francisco, and London (where he currently resides). He is a member of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and a Lifetime Member of the Pacific Pension & Investment Institute (PPI). He was a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Academy of International Law at The Hague and a visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Dakar. Ron holds a BS (econ) degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a JD degree from its Law School.
Ron grew up in Manhattan and is a life long student of the “Great American Songbook” and American music from 1920 to 1970. He is also a Patron of the Musée d’Orsay and the British Museum where he sponsored its recent exhibition, “French Impressions: Prints from Manet to Cezanne”.
John Campbell
John Campbell OBE is the cofounder and chair of Campbell Lutyens, an international private equity and infrastructure advisory house. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and was educated at the King’s School Canterbury and at the University of Cambridge, where he read economics, winning an exhibition at Sidney Sussex College for his work in economic history. He began his career in corporate finance at N.M. Rothschild. He and his wife Shellard, have three children, Milo, Coco, and Rollo, four grandchildren, and two step-grandchildren.
I think that the answer to that is partly society and partly that Haldane never cared to be thanked for anything. But I think the main reason that he’s largely forgotten is that he was accused of being a traitor and a German sympathiser in 1915.