Latest Social mobility Podcast Episodes
"Fall in love with the problem and get to the table with the people you’re protesting against"
Policy Innovation Podcast - May 16, 2023 05:36 - 23 minutesListen to Navjot Sawhney, Founder & CEO of the Washing Machine Project, discuss their policy ideas for bridging innovation and humanitarianism. This includes: Increasing funds for innovative international development projects Increasing R&D tax credits for startups and small businesses (not j...
If the equality act was working, we wouldn’t see discrimination against women in the workplace
Policy Innovation Podcast - March 03, 2023 08:59 - 13 minutesListen to Emma and Natalie, Co-Founders of Dear Bump, talk about their ideas for innovating policy to help pregnant women in the workplace. Check out their website here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/policyinnovation/message
We will see rockets go to space on a daily basis
Policy Innovation Podcast - January 24, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutesListen to Dan Etenberg, Founder & CEO of LIA Aerospace, discuss why green policies in space are becoming increasingly important. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/policyinnovation/message
We need to reduce plastic waste. Here’s how
Policy Innovation Podcast - December 12, 2022 10:20 - 22 minutesGemma Guilera, Co-Founder & Director of Moving Beans, suggests city councils, waste facility managers, and big industries come together to build a common budget, overseen by an executive body, to be responsible for driving sustainability forward. Promisingly, she says as long as we breathe we ca...
There needs to be a step change in maternal health
Policy Innovation Podcast - August 31, 2022 22:20 - 9 minutesAbisola Oladapo, Co-Founder & CEO of Agnes Health, discusses why we need to share best practices around maternal health and adapt it to nations to improve the health and mental health of pregnant women around the world.
Why we need to share best practices around maternal health
Policy Innovation Podcast - August 31, 2022 22:20 - 9 minutesAbisola Oladapo, Co-Founder & CEO of Agnes Health, discusses why we need to share best practices around maternal health and adapt it to nations, so that pregnant women around the world can improve their physical and mental health.
There needs to be a step-change in maternal health
Policy Innovation Podcast - August 31, 2022 22:20 - 9 minutesAbisola Oladapo, Co-Founder & CEO of Agnes Health, discusses why we need to share best practices around maternal health and adapt it to nations/countries, so that pregnant women around the world can improve their physical and mental health. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spot...
Governments and companies should prioritise e-safety
Policy Innovation Podcast - July 11, 2022 13:05 - 21 minutesTinesh Chhaya, Founder & CEO of Decipher Cyber - Jenny Ltd, discusses why: Governments should prioritise e-safety policies and Companies should add the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to the C-Suite
Governments, businesses and parents should prioritise e-safety!
Policy Innovation Podcast - July 11, 2022 13:05 - 19 minutesTinesh Chhaya, Founder & CEO of Decipher Cyber, discusses why: Governments should prioritise e-safety policies, and Companies should add the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to the C-Suite Follow Tinesh on LinkedIn and check out Decipher Cyber here. --- Send in a voice mes...
E-safety should be a priority
Policy Innovation Podcast - July 11, 2022 13:05 - 21 minutesTinesh Chhaya, Founder & CEO of Decipher Cyber - Jenny Ltd, discusses why governments should prioritise e-safety policies and companies should add the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to the board.
Esther O’Callaghan OBE: “Young people are brilliant for business”
Policy Innovation Podcast - November 10, 2021 07:00 - 22 minutesToday's guest is Esther O'Callaghan OBE, Co-Founder & CEO of hundo Ltd, an innovative careers platform connecting Gen Z talent to leading employers. In this episode, Esther explains why you need paid work to lift yourself out of poverty and how you can’t do that without access to opportunities ...
Kabiné Komara: “My most important and exciting challenge was helping to save the country from chaos and war… without a single cent”
Policy Innovation Podcast - August 31, 2021 08:00 - 20 minutesToday's guest is Kabiné Komara, Adviser, Author, and former Prime Minister of Guinea. In this episode, key topics discussed include: Why climate change and access to jobs are our biggest shared issues Good Governance is one of the biggest issues facing Africa (the regulation is there, it just...
Kabiné Komara: “My most important and exciting challenge was helping to save my country from chaos and war… without a single cent”
Policy Innovation Podcast - August 31, 2021 08:00 - 20 minutesToday's guest is Kabiné Komara, an Adviser, Author, and former Prime Minister of Guinea. In this episode, key topics discussed include: Why climate change and access to jobs are two of our biggest shared issues globally Good governance is one of the biggest challenges facing Africa We need t...
Humaira Ali and Graham Howe: In conversation with two councillors
Policy Innovation Podcast - June 09, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesToday's guests are local councillors Humaira Ali and Graham Howe, representing Southwark and Wokingham in the UK. In this episode, Humaira and Graham explore what a council is, what councils do, and how we can improve the system through policy innovation - including whether or not we even need ...
Pippa Gawley: “Profit because of purpose”
Policy Innovation Podcast - April 28, 2021 07:00 - 22 minutesToday’s guest is Pippa Gawley, Founder and Director of Zero Carbon Capital. In this episode, Pippa explores why lithium is becoming the new gasoline, the cultural differences between UK and US venture capital, and making a healthy financial return because of purpose (not in spite of it). In a...
Amit Mishra: "Everything counts, even the smallest of our efforts"
Policy Innovation Podcast - March 16, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutesToday's guest is Amit Mishra, Founder of ID8VC, Policy Adviser to the Indian Government, and ex-Country Head of F6S and Sansan. In this episode, Amit explores: the appeal of the Indian market and Tier 2 cities, including as a place to build a Proof of Concept (PoC) the uptick in activity for ...
Stephanie Jensen-Cormier: "There is an opportunity for us to innovate to get to a Net Zero Emission world"
Policy Innovation Podcast - February 23, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutesToday's guest is Stephanie Jensen-Cormier, a biodiversity advocate living in Costa Rica. In this episode, Stephanie discusses why we need to understand the urgency of reducing our emissions because it threatens our survival as a specifies. In addition, Steph explains why: government-funded pro...
Bin "William" Xu: “Mental health issues are too big for one party to solve”
Policy Innovation Podcast - January 12, 2021 22:00 - 31 minutesToday's guest is Bin Xu, Head of Digital Innovation Labs at Pfizer in China and South East Asia. In this episode, Bin Xu explores why innovation in finance can help to improve access to healthcare, that people working in legacy (or conservative) industries should think more like an entreprene...
Bin Xu: “Mental health issues are too big for one party to solve”
Policy Innovation Podcast - January 12, 2021 22:00 - 31 minutesToday's guest is Bin (William) Xu, Head of Digital Innovation Labs at Pfizer in China and South East Asia. In this episode, Bin Xu shares why innovation in finance can help to improve access to healthcare, why people working in legacy (or old school) industries should think more like an entr...
Bin (William) Xu: “Mental health issues are too big for one party to solve”
Policy Innovation Podcast - January 12, 2021 22:00 - 31 minutesToday's guest is Bin Xu, Head of Digital Innovation Labs at Pfizer in China and South East Asia. In this episode, Bin Xu shares why innovation in finance can help to improve access to healthcare, why people working in legacy (or conservative) industries should think more like an entrepreneur,...
Sundeep Waslekar: Water is NOT the oil of the 21st century
Policy Innovation Podcast - October 21, 2020 22:00 - 26 minutesToday's guest is Sundeep Waslekar, President of the Strategic Foresight Group and Author of The Blue Peace: Rethinking Middle East Water. In this episode, Sundeep discusses why countries engaged in water cooperation do not go to war, how West Africa leads the world in water collaboration, an...
Sundeep Waslekar, Author of The Blue Peace: Rethinking Middle East Water
Policy Innovation Podcast - October 21, 2020 22:00 - 26 minutesToday's guest is Sundeep Waslekar, President of the Strategic Foresight Group and Author of The Blue Peace: Rethinking Middle East Water. In this episode, Sundeep discusses how we need to change our thinking of water as an arena for war to an instrument of peace, that innovation is not a singu...
Mandy Nyarko and Gosbert Chagula: "test your ideas and don't stop learning"
Policy Innovation Podcast - September 30, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutesToday's guests are entrepreneurs Mandy Nyarko and Gos Chagula, Co-Founders of Startup Discovery School. In this episode, Mandy and Gos discuss the importance of social mobility, why the 'BAME' acronym is unnecessary, and what governments and investors can do to overcome bias and empower people ...
Mandy Nyarko and Gosbert Chagula, Co-Founders of Startup Discovery School
Policy Innovation Podcast - September 30, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutesToday's guests are entrepreneurs Mandy Nyarko and Gos Chagula, Co-Founders of Startup Discovery School. In this episode, Mandy and Gos discuss the importance of diverse partner ecosystems, the usefulness of the 'BAME' acronym, and share their ideas about how governments and investors could bet...
Mandy Nyarko and Gosbert Chagula: "Test your ideas and don't stop learning"
Policy Innovation Podcast - September 30, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutesToday's guests are entrepreneurs Mandy Nyarko MBE and Gosbert Chagula MBE, Co-Founders of Startup Discovery School. In this episode, Mandy and Gos discuss the importance of social mobility, why the "Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic" (BAME) acronym is unnecessary, and what governments and invest...
Interview with Sir Graham Watson, former MEP
Policy Innovation Podcast - August 05, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutesToday's guest is Sir Graham Watson, former President of the Alliance of Liberal Democrats in Europe (ALDE) and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West of England and Gibraltar (1994-2014). In this episode, Graham discusses how the United Kingdom and European Union can innova...
Interview with Sir Graham Watson
Policy Innovation Podcast - August 05, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutesToday's guest is Sir Graham Watson, former President of the Alliance of Liberal Democrats in Europe (ALDE) and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West of England and Gibraltar between 1994-2014. In this episode, Graham discusses how the UK and EU could and should innovate poli...
Sir Graham Watson: "There is a need to constantly renew ones thinking"
Policy Innovation Podcast - August 05, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutesToday's guest is Sir Graham Watson, former President of the Alliance of Liberal Democrats in Europe (ALDE) and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West of England and Gibraltar (1994-2014). In this episode, Graham discusses how the United Kingdom and European Union can innovat...
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