Luba Kassova, co-founder and director of the international audience strategy consultancy AKAS (Addy Kassova Audience Strategy Ltd), will speak about her recent report on the missing perspectives of women in the coverage of the pandemic, commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Turkey is required to hold presidential and parliamentary elections no later than June 2023. Barring any unexpected developments, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could very well remain in office. As the country’s longest serving leader, Erdogan has cast a long shadow on the country’s economic, social and political development. Until 2010, Erdogan was exemplified as a transformational leader who significantly raised per-capita incomes, placing Turkey on the path to full accession to the European Union (EU) and a “model” country for regional powers emerging out of the Arab uprisings.

The 21st century has undoubtedly been marked by periods of upheaval and disjunction. Examples include the global COVID-19 pandemic, the revitalising of Black Lives Matter by the US murder of George Floyd by a policeman, the Russian war against Ukraine, the murder of Sarah Everard by a UK policeman and the accession of King Charles.