Conferences/cafés

Biographies of the speakers at our recent 'Leadership: Stress and hubris' conference, along with abstracts for most of their presentations, are available here: Abs and bios

"Simply recognising the cognitive constraints on decision-making is thus a first step towards making policy robust to them. So too is institutional design   Speech given by Andrew G Haldane,...

A fascinating lineup of speakers is programmed for our next conference. Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England has now been confirmed to open the day with a keynote address....

"I want to be sure that we examine what has gone right, and why, as well as examine what has gone wrong.... I had the extraordinary experience in the 1960s to...

"When we talk about what power does to people we need to be careful, because it all depends on how power is culturally conceived. How do people relate to power......

"... I will deal with, ‘Structures and processes that might bind, shackle and brake democratic leaders without inhibiting their ability to give of their best’. ‘Binding’ is very important … One...

"The theme today is the nature of leadership….Lord Owen has made a very interesting remark in his book The Hubris Syndrome that one possible ‘treatment’ for hubris may in fact be...

On 4 March 2014 the University of Westminster’s Centre for Studies in Democracy and the Daedalus Trust jointly hosted a Research Café. The event was attended by just over 50...

"Richard Branson is a handy starting point from which to try to explore the media’s involvement in this game because it is substantial. There’s no question that a lot of...

“How do the media magnify charisma when it’s a good thing, and deflate hubris when it needs to be?” “I think they do it very badly…” Jon Snow (long-serving Channel...