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The Powerful and the Damned: Lionel Barber in conversation with Manveen Rana

Former FT editor Lionel Barber offers unique insight into the people who continue to shape our world and who, quite literally, make the news

Lionel Barber was editor of the Financial Times for the tech boom, the global financial crisis, the continuing rise of China, Brexit, and the established media’s fight for survival in the age of fake news.

In November 2020 Barber came to Intelligence Squared to discuss what it was like to run one of the world’s greatest newspapers through these tumultuous times. In this online event he revealed what transpired during private meetings and exchanges with political leaders on the eve of referendums, conversations with billionaire bankers facing economic meltdown, exchanges with Silicon Valley tech gurus and pleas from foreign emissaries desperate for inside knowledge – all against the backdrop of a wildly shifting media landscape.

Featuring stories of close encounters with Donald Trump, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel and Mohammed Bin Salman and many more, Barber offered unique insight into the people who continue to shape our world and who, quite literally, make the news. 

Barber was in conversation with Manveen Rana, journalist and broadcaster for The Times and Sunday Times.


Speakers

Speaker

Lionel Barber

Author and former editor of the Financial Times


Former editor of the Financial Times. As editor from 2005 until January 2020, Barber helped to transform the FT from a newspaper publisher into a multi-channel global news organisation. During his editorship the FT won many international awards for its journalism. He is author of the new book The Powerful and The Damned, has co-written several other books and lectured widely on foreign policy, transatlantic relations and economics. As editor of the FT, he interviewed many of the world’s leaders in business and politics, including: US President Barack Obama, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President of Iran Hassan Rouhani. He now serves on the Board of Trustees at Tate and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Chair

Manveen Rana

Senior investigative journalist and host of The Times and Sunday Times flagship podcast Stories of Our Times


Senior investigative journalist and host of The Times and Sunday Times flagship podcast Stories of Our Times. She was previously a broadcaster and reporter for BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme and The World at One.

 

Speakers are subject to change.