Thank you to everyone who showed an interest in attending the UK2070 National Symposium in Leeds – unfortunately both the main attendee list and the reserve list SOLD OUT.
To read a summary of this event, including copies of speaker’s presentations, please click here.
We will be holding another symposium later in the year – more information will be added to the Events Page soon.
The UK2070 Commission are pleased to today announce further details for our National Symposium, to be held from 10am-4pm on Thursday 13th June 2019 at Leeds Civic Hall thanks to our partners and hosts, Leeds City Council. The event will act as a National Forum to both share the work of the Commission to date, and also to obtain the views of interested stakeholders about our First Report, which is presently being drafted and will be published later this spring prior to this event.
The UK2070 Commission is particularly looking forward to hearing the thoughts of policymakers, politicians, business leaders and civil society about our work to date; and will use comments received in Leeds to both inform our work and to refine the First Report prior to publication of the Final Report. The event will also see a number of high profile speakers in attendance debating the themes of the report and facilitating further comment from the floor. These include:
- Former Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State, The Right Honourable The Lord Heseltine CH;
- The Mayor of Greater Manchester, The Right Honourable Andy Burnham;
- Chair of the Core Cities Group, Councillor Judith Blake CBE;
- Chair of Urban and Regional Economics at the University of Sheffield Management School and Tagliaferri Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Professor Philip McCann;
- Global Head of Infrastructure Equity & Director North West Region at AMP Capital, Boe Pahari;
- Professor in Economic Geography and Dean of Research for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cardiff University, Professor Gillian Bristow;
- The Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Mayor James Palmer;
- Professor of Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, Professor Duncan Maclennan CBE;
- Chief Executive of the West Midlands Combined Authority, Deborah Cadman OBE;
- Executive Director of Strategic Planning at The Peel Group, Peter Nears;
- President and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Dr. George W. McCarthy;
- Chief Executive of the North West Business Leadership Team, Emma Degg.
We will be holding another symposium later in the year – more information will be added to the Events Page soon.
In the meantime, the Commission would like to remind readers that while the initial Call For Evidence ended on 16th November 2018, due to unprecedented demand and having received in excess of 100 submissions already, our Call for Evidence remains open should you or your organisation not already have contributed – for more information please click the link provided.
