“We have to stop paniking about ideology. And we should put laws in effect to stop discrimination and hate speech”, concluded Kishwer Falkner while Yanis Varoufakis emphasized that “a populist offers everything to intensify division. Thatcher was not promising all things to all people, but Trump does the contrary.”
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Kishwer Falkner is a non-aligned Member of the House of Lords, which she joined in 2004. She has been Chairman of a select committee on EU Financial Affairs (2015–2019) and Vice President of Liberal International (2013–2017). She is a member of the Bank of England’s Enforcement Decision Making Committee, a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute at King’s College London, and a Commissioner on the LSE’s Economic Diplomacy Commission.
Kishwer holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Kent. She has held fellowships at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and at St Antony’s College, Oxford. She was Chancellor of the University of Northampton from 2008 to 2016. Her interests cover international affairs, economics and finance, and security policy.
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and politician. He served as Minister of Finance of Greece in 2015. Varoufakis held academic positions at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Athens, and the University of Sydney. From 2004 to 2006, Varoufakis served as economic advisor to George Papandreou, then leader of the opposition. In 2012 Varoufakis became Economist-in-Residence at Valve Corporation. He researched the virtual economy on the Steam digital delivery platform, specifically looking at exchange rates and trade deficits.
Varoufakis studied economics in the UK. He has written several books on game theory, microeconomics and macroeconomics.
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