Day:    Tuesday

Date:   2nd March 2010

Time:   6.30 p.m (latest arrival time) - 9.00 p.m. (presentation starts at 7.00 p.m.)

Venue:

The Parliamentary Offices (Thatcher Room) located in Portcullis House, Bridge Street, London, SW1A 2LW

Nearest Tube: Westminster
 

Cost:    £15 for members; £20 for non-members and guests. 

All proceeds will go to the HBS Alumni Club of London Social Enterprise Scholarship Fund.

PLEASE NOTE – THERE WILL BE NO REFRESHMENTS AT THIS EVENT
AS THEY CANNOT BE SERVED IN THIS VENUE

Few would dispute the challenges to be faced after the next general election – which must be held before Friday 4th June 2010 – are some of the most daunting for many decades. The forthcoming UK elections will determinate the country's response to the current economic crisis and the future's attractiveness for business and it’s place in the world. The Club has brought together a range of leading politicians and commentators for a panel discussion at the House of Commons about what will follow the election.

The meeting is taking place in the heart of Government, in Committee Room 10 within the Parliament building. Our moderator is Michael Liebreich, Chairman and Chief Executive of New Energy Finance and HBS (HBS Class of 1990) and the panel will include Edward Hadas, Assistant Editor at Breakingviews; Brooks Newmark MP Con (HBS Class of 1984), Andy Love MP Lab.

The event starts with registration at 6.30pm – please leave enough time to get through security –see above. The discussion will start at 7pm for about an hour, with 20-30 minutes for questions. There will be some time for networking – but no refreshments as they cannot be served in this venue - and the event will finish by 9pm.

About the Panelists:

Edward Hadas is Assistant Editor at Breakingviews, a financial commentary service with columnists around the world, reporting and commenting on the big financial stories as they break and which has daily columns in the New York Times, The Telegraph and le Monde. Edward has received the Business Journalist of the Year Award for economics, 2009. Before becoming a journalist in 2004, he worked for 25 years as a financial analyst for various firms, including Morgan Stanley and Putnam Investments. He has degrees in philosophy, classics and mathematics from Oxford University and Columbia University and an MBA from SUNY Binghamton. He also teaches political and social philosophy at the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, UK

Andrew (Andy) McCulloch Love - Labour/Co-operative MP for. Edmonton since 1997 was and since 2005, a member of the Treasury Select Committee which investigates issues surrounding the economy and the banking and financial sectors. He is also an active member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Small Business, Housing, Sri Lanka and Mexico. He was previously a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey, serving two terms and becoming Chairman of the Finance Committee and the Housing Committee and Chair of the Hornsey and Wood Green Constituency Labour Party between 1987 and 1989 and . Parliamentary Officer of the Co-operative Movement, working closely with a group of 19 MPs and Peers. He served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jacqui Smith when she was the minister at the Department of Health and Department for Trade and Industry between 2001 and 2005 and was previously a member of the Public Accounts Committee. He has a BSc from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and has studied for the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators qualification.

Brooks Newmark - elected in 2005 - is the MP (Con.) for Braintree.  He is an Opposition Whip and previously served as a Member of the Treasury Select Committee (2006-7) and the Science & Technology Select Committee (2005-7). His special interests include: Economic Policy, Foreign Policy (Mid East, India, China & US), Poverty Reduction & International Development (Micro Finance), Special Needs Education, Women's Issues (Healthcare & Politics: Co-Chairman of Women2Win). He received a BA in History in 1980 from Harvard; was a Research Graduate in Politics at Worcester College, Oxford from 1980-2, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1984. Prior to entering politics, he was Vice President in the International Division of Shearson Lehman Brothers ; Managing Director of Newmark Brothers Ltd, a corporate finance advisory company, Director of Stellican Ltd. and then a Senior Partner at Apollo Management (UK) LP. He is a Board Director at Harvard University and on the Advisory Board of London Business School's Private Equity Institute. His publications include Direct Democracy: an Agenda for a New Model Party (2005) Simply Red: The True State of the Public Finances (CPS, 2006); The Price of Irresponsibility (CPS, 2008) and The Hidden Debt Bombshell (CPS 2009)."

Chair/Moderator -  Michael Liebreich, - Chairman and Chief Executive of New Energy Finance, the leading independent provider of information and research to investors in clean energy and the carbon markets. Prior to founding New Energy Finance in 2004 Michael helped to build over 25 companies as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and executive. From 1995 to 1998 he was Deputy Managing Director of Associated Press Television and Founding Director of Sports News Television. He acted as Non-Executive Director of Interactive Investor and was UK Managing Director of a division of Groupe Arnault which invested $700m of technology venture capital. Before that Michael spent five years in the London office of McKinsey & Company. He is a two-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.  Michael serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies, Advisory Board Member for the Energy and Climate Change working group for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and Steering Group Member for a number of IEA RETD projects. He is on the Selection Committees for the 2009 Zayed Future Energy Prize, the annual Euromoney and Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards and a member of the Energy Leadership Forum of E+Co, an NGO which finances clean energy in the developing world, and an Advisory Board Member of the Wilderhill New Energy Global Innovation Index (ticker symbol NEX). Michael is Chair of the annual New Energy Finance Summit and Co-Chair of Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street 2008. He is regularly quoted in the press and has appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CBS and CNN. Michael has testified to the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and addressed the UN General Assembly, the United Nations Environment Programme’s Meeting of Ministers and numerous other governmental and multilateral bodies. He has a MA in Engineering with First Class Honours from the University of Cambridge, winning the Wyatt Prize for Engineering and the Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics. He has a MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business, where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar.

Please book on line at www.hbsa.org.uk  Guests are welcome.

Alternatively contact Janet Talbut on admin@hbsa.org.uk / Tel: 01799 540089