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Civil Rights in the Changing World

Hosted by The Inclusion Initiative

Online public event

Speakers

Iain Anderson

Iain Anderson

Trevor Phillips

Trevor Phillips

Chair

Karina Robinson

Karina Robinson

Join us for this event where we will be discussing the change in human rights policies overtime and the impact of these changes on the workforce.

This is a time where the rights of all protected groups are being eroded – to note just two examples, the overturning of Roe vs Wade and the cancellation of the UK’s Safe to be Me landmark LGBT+ summit after an uproar over changes to the planned conversion therapy ban. What can civil society do to fight back against what appears to be an inexorable tide?

Meet our speakers and chair

Iain Anderson has over 25 years' experience in communications, initially as a business journalist and then as a founding shareholder at Incisive Media. Iain is co-founder and Executive Chairman at Cicero Group and focuses on public policy and corporate communications strategy supporting many global FTSE and Fortune 500 blue chip organisations. In September 2021 he was appointed by the UK Government as the first LGBT Business Champion - to drive forward workplace equality for LGBT people. He is a non-executive director at Innovate Finance - the body that represents the UK’s global FinTech community and is chairman of the Fintech Strategy Group for the Corporation of London/Innovate Finance. 

Trevor Phillips (@TrevorPTweets) is a writer, television producer, co-founder of Webber Phillips, and Chair of Green Park Interim and Executive Search. He is a Times columnist and Chairman of the global freedom of expression campaign charity Index on Censorship; a Senior Fellow at the Policy Exchange think tank; and a Vice-President of the Royal Television Society; a non-executive director of the behavioural science consultancy Mind Gym and founding chair of the EHRC.

Karina Robinson (@_KarinaRobinson) is a Co-Director and Senior Visiting Fellow of The Inclusion Initiative at LSE.

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