The talk will explore why modern governments find it so hard to make grand strategic choices. It will give a practitioner's insight into the forces which pull political leaders towards short-term crisis management and consider whether the nature of democratic politics in a digital age is a constraint on longer-term policymaking.

There is much focus on innovation currently, both in industry and within government. There exist buzzwords, bean bags, and open spaces in which to innovate. Yet innovation is not necessarily a creative process those words conjure. Our organization argues innovation must be disciplined, evidence-based, and rigorous.

Chardine Taylor-Stone is an award-winning cultural producer and feminist activist. She is the founder of Black Girls Picnic a global movement in collective self care for Black women and girls and Stop Rainbow Racism. In 2015 she was featured in The Voice newspaper as one of the 'Women Who Rocked the World', Diva Magazine’s LGBT Power List 2016 and Buzzfeed’s ‘The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016‘ and the 'Pride Power List 2017'. In 2017 she was awarded the British LGBTQ award for Contribution to LGBTQ life.

French TV documentary projection 'Brexit: les coulisses du divorce' (70 minutes) by Eric Albert, journalist for Le Monde and Thomas Johnson, produced by Galaxie with the participation of France Televisions.

The projection will be followed by a debate in English with the two journalists about the media coverage of Brexit, chaired by Dr. Alexandra Borchardt from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford.

Alexander will speak about the changing international politics of cyber; from the renewed UN negotiations on norms that begin in September 2019 to the growing work on deterrence, attribution and sanctions responding to the hostile use of cyber capabilities by states.

Dr Alexander Evans OBE is Cyber Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was previously Britain’s Deputy High Commissioner to India (2015-2018) and Britain’s Acting High Commissioner to India (November 2015 to March 2016).