They made millions just from a simple idea. Now you can attend their workshop for free, listen to their stories and get to meet them!
The Speakers:
James Eder (founder of StudentBeans.com) and Ajay Mirpuri (serial entrepreneur and multi-millionaire)
The venue:
Tuesday, 1st of December from 16:00-18:00
King’s College London Waterloo Campus, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Room G14 -
Maps: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/waterloo.html
Registration:
Please register soon, as of the limited amount of positions available, at http://www.tinyurl.com/ideaboxworkshops
Last week’s debate between Martin Wolf (Financial Times) and Professor Alex Callinicos (KCL) on the future of capitalism turned out to be a grand success! With more than 400 people attending, we are reconsidering more events of this kind in the near future. An article with all the insights and feedback from the event will also be available by our media team very soon.
If you missed the event there is no reason to worry
You can now watch the debate online! Click on the links below for:
Tomorrow - KCLBC and KCL Reading Capital Group present:
The future of capitalism - A debate between Martin Wolf (Financial Times) and Alex Callinicos (King’s College London)
Click here for more details
Speaker Profiles
Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf studied Philosophy at Nuffield College, Oxford University before joining World Bank’s Young Professionals programme, becoming a senior economist in 1974. He went on to become Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre in London before joining the Financial Times in 1987, where he is currently associate editor and chief economics commentator. He has won numerous awards, his most recent being AMEC Lifetime Achievement Award at the Workworld Media Awards in 2007, “Commentator of the Year” at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards in 2008 and the Ludwig Erhard Prize in 2009. He became a forum fellow at the annual meeting of World Economics Forum in 1996 and was awarded a CBE in 2000 for services to financial journalism. The London School of Economics also have awarded him with an honorary degree in Economics. He is considered to be one of the worlds leading public policy intellectuals.
Alex Callinicos
Alex Callinicos studied at Balliol College, Oxford University where he first became interested in revolutionary politics. He was a Junior Research Fellow in Contemporary Social Thought at St Peter’s College, Oxford University and he taught social and political theory at the University of York before joining King’s. Considered to be a prolific writer for socialist and academic presses, he has written numerous books on subjects like Marxism, political philosophy and social theory. His best known books include The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1983), Against Postmodernism (1990) and An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (2003). He has written extensively for the New Left Review, is a member of the editorial board of International Socialism and is a British correspondent for Actuel Marx. He has actively contributed to the development of the movement for another globalization through his work in the World Social Forum and the European Social Forum. He is also currently working in international political economy.
