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Buxton International Festival

Perspectives - Inherent Tensions

Is it possible for the modern corporation to grow a conscience and a bottom line? Pavilion Arts Centrebutton--dates-and-timesDates & Times

David Pilling, David Edgerton and Tom Levitt imagine new models for old questions, chaired by Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE.

In association with the British Academy.

David Pilling has been a prize-winning reporter and editor for the Financial Times for 25 years. He won Best Commentator prize by the Society of Publishers in Asia in both 2011 and 2012 and Best Foreign Commentator for 2011 in the UK’s Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards for coverage of China, Japan and Pakistan.

David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor at King's College London, where he was the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. He is the author of a sequence of groundbreaking books on 20th century Britain and the iconoclastic and brilliant The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900.

When Tom Levitt ceased being the Member of Parliament for High Peak in 2010, after 13 years in post, he established himself as the writer and consultant on ‘using the tools of business to create public good’ that he is today. His third book, The Company Citizen, is an ‘excellent account’ of why business needs to help solve the problems of the planet, nation and community – according to Unilever CEO Paul Polman. 

Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE is Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She came to the College from the National Trust, of which she was Director-General from 2001–2012. Before her position with the Trust, she was Director of the Women’s Unit in the Cabinet Office and was previously Director of the Council for the Protection of Rural England (now Campaign to Protect Rural England) and Secretary to the Council for National Parks.

  • Duration: 1hr
  • Price: £15