Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. The two-week OxTalks freeze period starts on Monday 2nd March. During this time, there will be no facility to publish or edit events. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period. Once Oxford Events launches, you will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Principal John Bowers will be in conversation with Brasenose College alumnus Siddarth Shrikanth.
After studying Biology at Brasenose, Siddarth worked in corporate sustainability for McKinsey in London and Indonesia before moving to Hong Kong to be a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. He gained a joint MPA/MBA from the Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, during which he co-founded a natural carbon removal start-up and consulted for the World Bank on environmental policy. Siddarth works in climate and nature investing at Just Climate, part of Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management team. In 2023 he published his book “The Case for Nature: Pioneering Solutions for the Other Planetary Crisis”.