Plenary Speaker

Will Hutton

Educator, Writer and Economist, Principal Hertford College, University of Oxford

Will Hutton is Principal of Hertford College Oxford, co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre and co-chair of the Purposeful Company Taskforce (a group of leading companies examining how best to put purpose at the heart of their business model – and how the wider eco-system could better support them). He has chaired a number of commissions for the UK government, notably on Fair Pay for the Coalition and the Creative Industries for the Blair government, and was rapporteur of the Kok Commission's inquiry into shaping the EU’s knowledge economy in 2005. He has written a number of best-selling books on political economy and business, notably the State We’re In, the Writing on the Wall (on China), Them and Us and more recently, with Andrew Adonis, Saving Britain - the case for a second vote for the UK to stay in the EU. He writes a regular column for the Observer and is a well–known British commentator and public intellectual.