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Audley’s Unconventionally Wise Person of the Year 2023
Audley’s ‘Unconventionally Wise’ award recognises a leader in 2023 who thought or acted in a different way to achieve their goals.
Audley’s Cultural Highlights of 2023
As we come to the end of the year, the team at Audley select their cultural highlights from another great year of literature, film, podcasts, music and television.
ChatGPT: Here’s what you need to know
The release of OpenAI's ChatGPT has triggered a new global race in AI. Audley investigates the opportunities and limitations of this technology
The view from the ground: Nigerian elections
At end of last month Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of Nigeria’s highly-disputed Presidential elections. Ahead of the state elections on Saturday, we spoke to election observer Ambassador Mark Green about why this election fell short.
Four “Es” but not much ecstasy: reviewing the Spring Budget
With the Chancellor’s Spring Budget announced today, Rolf Merchant recaps on the key policies to look out for.
Ukraine one year on: three organisations on the ground
On the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the team at Audley spoke to three different organisations about the heroic work they are doing to support the Ukrainian people, and their reflections on the crisis one year on.
Audley’s Unconventionally Wise Person of the Year
Audley’s ‘Unconventionally Wise’ award recognises a leader in 2022 who thought or acted in a different way to achieve their goals.
Online Safety Bill Back in Action
This week, the Online Safety Bill returned to the House of Commons after much delay. In this Boxnote, we summarise the main outcomes of the hotly anticipated parliamentary debate.
Analysis: Hunt’s Bad Budget News
Following the announcement of the Chancellor’s Spring Budget today, Audley’s Rolf Merchant recaps the key measures to look out for.
5 things we learnt about countering disinformation
With Russia waging an information war, the Audley team attended the Aspen Institute to understand how we combat disinformation. Here are five things we learned..
5 things we learnt from a macroeconomist
With interest rates rising to 3% today, the Audley team sat down with a macroeconomist to discuss what this economic crisis means. Here are five things we learned….
Meet Rosanna Machado, CEO of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant
In the days following the landmark event, Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant, Audley sat down with its CEO Rosanna Machado to discuss her experience of organising the ceremonial extravaganza.
Sunak’s Spring Statement
Lucy Thompson analyses the good, the bad and the ugly of Chancellor, Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement.
Open and uncertain: Germany’s 2021 election
With Germany going to the polls in perhaps the most consequential election for a generation, the result is on a knife-edge.
We are on the precipice of a talent revolution and business leaders are ill-equipped to face it
We are on the precipice of a talent revolution and business leaders are ill-equipped to face it
The working generation have never lived through chaos like that wreaked by COVID-19. In 18 months, the pandemic has upended organisations which seemed infallible and forced business leaders to pivot in previously unimaginable ways.
‘After all – there is nothing like a good book!’
To mark World Book Day, the Audley team to tells us about a book they’ve read that changed the way they think.
Next steps for the arts
Venues will close post-COVID, but that doesn’t mean the arts shouldn’t still exist. We need to shift our emphasis from objects and institutions onto community experience. Everything we’ve created has been around the importance of buildings themselves, rather than the people within them and the communities around them.
Responsible investment takes centre stage
The global conversation about the environment, at all levels, has sky rocketed. 2020 was, broadly speaking, an unhappy stew of events. The ongoing swirl of the climate crisis mixed with persistent societal inequality and a dollop of pandemic thrown in for good measure, has caused more of us than ever to sit up and engage with the world we live in.
Post-COVID business world – a total restructuring?
As of January 2021, vaccines are being deployed across the world. Soon the lockdowns will end but can we expect to go back to the business world we knew before the pandemic?
The year of global Britain
Four years ago, while searching for a theme to headline the prime minister’s ‘Lancaster House’ speech on Brexit, I coined the phrase ‘Global Britain’ to capture the government’s vision for the role a post-Brexit UK would play in the world.