A conference organised by ZANE. St Michael’s May 2016

Zimbabwe and Southern Africa:
Past and Present

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  Chairman: Sir Andrew Pocock KCMG

  Diplomatic Service since 1981. UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2006-9); High Commissioner to Tanzania (2003-6); High Commissioner to Canada (2010-2); High Commissioner to Nigeria (2012-14). Head, African Department, FCO (2001-3)

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  Introduction by Tom Benyon OBE

  founder and CEO of ZANE: Zimbabwe A National Emergency

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  Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE

  Global Head of Corporate Citizenship and Diversity for KPMG (2006- present). Head of Public Affairs then Corporate Responsibility at the BBC (1996- 2006). Chairman of Council of Reference to ZANE.

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  HE Catriona Laing CB

  HM Ambassador to Zimbabwe. Catriona has worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office concerning the Russian/ Ukraine crisis. Catriona has worked in Botswana and in the Department of International Development. She was a member of United Nations Mission to Somalia, and a member of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. She has also worked in the Ministry for Justice.

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  Canon Professor Nigel Biggar

  Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Christ Church, Oxford; Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life. Writer in the Times - and other papers - and lecturer, Nigel has studied British Colonial history, its positives and negatives. Nigel recently spoke in the Oxford Union at the “Rhodes must Fall” debate.