Rewiring democracy: Dr Hannah White in conversation with Suzanne Raine

Tuesday 21 October 6:00pm Quarry Whitehouse Auditorium Keir Starmer has argued that UK government needs to be ‘rewired’, but in an increasingly polarised and fragmented political context, and with public trust in government at an alarming low, what should be the priorities for state reform? And is our democracy equipped to understand what the public want to see? The event will open will open with a conversation chaired by the master of Selwyn College Suzanne Raine, followed by an audience Q&A. About the speaker Dr Hannah White OBE (SE 1997) leads one of the UK’s most high profile think tanks, the Institute for Government. The non-partisan IfG works with politicians and officials in Westminster and across the UK to help the people, processes and institutions of government improve delivery. About the master Suzanne Raine served for 24 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues, including postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. She was Head of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre from 2015-2017 and Director of Counter-Terrorism from 2017-19. Since leaving the civil service in 2019 she has engaged with academia through the Centre for Geopolitics in Cambridge and as a Visiting Professor at Kings College London, where she lectures on risk anticipation and warning. Video thumbnail portrait photo copyright Hannah White / Institute for Government Video thumbnail background copyright House of Lords 2024 / Photography by Roger Harris ©