Compass conference next Saturday – 9 June

The Commission for Racial Equality and the Foreign Policy Centre are organising morning and afternoon seminars respectively, at next week’s Compass Conference.  2000 delegates are expected at the event which takes place in Westminster Central Hall.

Each of the morning seminars will be looking at how globalisation is shaping our world and the opportunities and threats we face in that regard. With this in mind the CRE’s seminar will be looking at Britishness, citizenship and identity. TMP editor and Compass management committee member, Chuka Umunna, will be chairing a panel made up of Nick Johnson, the CRE’s Director of Policy and the Public Sector, David Goodhart, editor of Prospect magazine, Barbara Roche, former immigration minister, and Richard Howitt MEP (tbc).

The afternoon seminars will be looking at how we want to shape globalisation and how can we achieve this. The Foreign Policy Centre is organising one such seminar and will be looking at migrant remittances. The Independent’s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown will be chairing their panel made up of International Development minister, Gareth Thomas MP, Murad Qureshi AM from the London Assembly, and Gibril Faal, Chair of the African Foundation for Development.