Conservative Party Conference 2019, Manchester

The Institute for Government was at the 2019 Conservative Party Conference from Monday 30 September to Tuesday 1 October. Find out about our programme of events.

Monday 30 September

Institute for Government and Association for Project Management

Chair: Gavin Freeguard, Programme Director and Head of Data and Transparency at the Institute for Government

Speakers:

• Jesse Norman MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury
• Chris Cook, Editor at Tortoise Media
• Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government
• David Thomson, Head of External Affairs at the Association for Project Management.

 

Institute for Government, Royal College of Nursing and Cancer Research UK

Chair: Nick Davies, Programme Director at the Institute for Government

Speakers: 

• Sir Bernard Jenkin MP, Chair of the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
• Emma Greenwood, Director of Policy at Cancer Research UK
• Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Leader of Oxfordshire District Council
• Dame Donna Kinnair, Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing.

 

Institute for Government and Advertising Association

Chair: Gavin Freeguard, Programme Director and Head of Data and Transparency at the Institute for Government

Speakers: 

• David Henderson, Senior Public Affairs Manager at the Advertising Association
• Adam Micklethwaite, Director of Digital and Social Inclusion at Good Things Foundation
• Renate Samson, Senior Policy Adviser at the Open Data Institute
• Antony Walker, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of techUK.

 

Institute for Government, Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Chair: Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government

Speakers: 

• Rt Hon the Lord Willetts, former Minister for Universities and Science
• Kate Andrews, Associate Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs
• John Barnett, Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation
• Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

 

Institute for Government and Future Care Capital

Chair: Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government

Speakers: 

• Andrew Selous MP, Member of the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee
• Richard Graham, Member of Parliament for Gloucester 
• Cllr Izzi Seccombe OBE, Leader of the LGA Conservative Group
• Greg Allen, Chief Executive of Future Care Capital.

 

Institute for Government and the Solicitors Regulation Authority

Chair: Gavin Freeguard, Programme Director and Head of Data and Transparency at the Institute for Government

Speakers: 

• Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General
• Damian Collins MP, Chair of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
• Carly Kind, Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute
• Daniel Korski, Chief Executive Officer of PUBLIC
• Tony Williams, Board member of the Solicitors Regulation Authority 

 

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Tuesday 1 October

Institute for Government, Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust

Chair: Dr Hannah White, Deputy Director at the Institute for Government

Speakers:

• Richard Graham MP, Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to the ASEAN EC, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines
• Hon George Brandis QC, Australian High Commissioner to the UK
• Stephen Adams, Senior Director at Global Counsel
• Dr Beth Thompson, Head of UK and EU Policy at the Wellcome Trust.

 

Institute for Government and Fragomen

Chair: Emma Norris, Director of Research at the Institute for Government

Speakers:

• Rt Hon Mark Harper, Member of Parliament for the Forest of Dean
• Harry Cole, Deputy Political Editor at the Mail on Sunday
• Julia Onslow-Cole, Partner, Global Government Strategies and Compliance, Fragomen
• Joe Owen, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.

 

Institute for Government and Bechtel

Chair: Nick Davies, Programme Director at the Institute for Government

Speakers:

• Nadhim Zahawi MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Sir Patrick McLoughlin MP, former Secretary of State for Transport
• Chris McMonagle, Head of Strategy and Business Development, UK Infrastructure at Bechtel.

This was a private roundtable. 

 

Institute for Government and PwC

Chair: Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government

Opening remarks: Sir Charles Bowman, Senior Partner at PwC

Speakers: 

• Iain Dale, broadcaster and journalist
• Iain Martin, co-founder, editor and publisher of Reaction and The Times columnist

 

Institute for Government and Atkins

Chair: Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government

Speakers:

• Tim Bowles, Metro Mayor for the West of England Combined Authority
• Julia Goldsworthy, Director of Strategy for West Midlands Combined Authority
• Mike McNicholas, Managing Director, Infrastructure at Atkins
• Akash Paun, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government.

This was a private roundtable.