The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents:

This event is organised in partnership with Global Canopy, a data-driven non-profit that delivers transparency and accountability around the market forces driving deforestation and nature loss. http://www.globalcanopy.org

Brian Eno
Brian Eno is a global cultural icon: artist, musician, composer, and producer, best known for his pioneering work in ambient music. With a career spanning over five decades, Eno was co-founder of Roxy Music, and produced albums by David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2, and Coldplay. The relationship of people to the natural world is central to his current work that spreads electronic music, video art and writing. His latest book, What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory, is a collaboration with artist Bette A. His twenty-eight studio album ForeverAndEverNoMore features slow, spacious meditations on the state of our planet and its future.

Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is a multiple-award-winning American science-fiction writer, celebrated for his work exploring environmental, political, and scientific themes. His acclaimed ‘cli-fi’ novel The Ministry for the Future and his creative imagining of the not-too-distant future has inspired the work of academics, policy-makers and activists around the world. Robinson's work combines speculative fiction with a deep, moral commitment to understanding ecological and societal challenges.

Laline Paull
Laline Paull is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. An alumna and Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, she is renowned for stories based on real environmental science and biology. Her debut novel The Bees was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and her 2022 novel Pod was shortlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She had two plays performed at the Royal National Theatre, and she is a full voting member of BAFTA.

J. M. Ledgard
J. M. Ledgard is a leading thinker on advanced technology, nature, and risk in emerging economies. Over two decades, he reported from 60 countries as an award-winning foreign and war correspondent for The Economist—including a decade in Africa. As a director at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he invented blood delivery by drone for the tropics. His first novel, Giraffe, concerning captivity, is a cult novel for animal rights activists. His second novel, Submergence, juxtaposing life in the deep ocean and in war-torn Somalia was a New York Times Book of the Year.

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Sheldonian Theatre, Broad St, Oxford, United Kingdom