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Weidenfeld Scholars Leadership and Public Policy Seminar

Scholars convened for annual five-day retreat

10 - 14 January 2012
Hartwell House

The Leadership and Public Policy Seminar, the cornerstone of the leadership component of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme, took place in early January at Hartwell House. 

More than 30 Scholars engaged in seminars and debates about political and moral philosophy and heard talks given by a range of eminent speakers including Sir John Holmes, Director of the Ditchley Foundation and former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty.

View images of this event on ISD's Flickr channel.

Vanessa Redgrave, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012, speaking at the University of Oxford, February 2012.
HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
Jonathan Powell, former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, addresses the inaugural Turkey Workshop, London, September 2011
Journalist and blogger Sunny Hundal, delivering a presentation at ISD's Social Media and Intolerance workshop, April 2012
Historian Saul Friedlander, Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford, May 2012
CEDAR Chair Ahmed Larouz, addressing the Social Innovation and Social Action Conference, Lambeth Palace, November 2011
Lord Weidenfeld and Sir Ronald Grierson, co-founders of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme, April 2010
Peter Kellner, President of YouGov and Dr David Muir, Faith in Britain, at the launch conference of the Phoenix Initiative, October 2010
Leading activists from pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, speaking at a Weidenfeld Debate, February 2012