Climate change: Meet the Leaders with Sony Kapoor

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Upcoming webinar: Monday 8th September, 6:00pm

Join charismatic and influential macroeconomist, finance expert, geopolitics adviser, sustainability specialist & development advocate, Sony Kapoor, and Chair of Fellows at Radix Big Tent, Vicky Pryce in conversation about Climate Change at 6:00pm on Monday 8th September for a Radix Big Tent 'Meet the Leaders' interactive webinar where guests will be encouraged to contribute.

Kapoor has pedigree and was, until recently, the Interdisciplinary Professor of Climate, Finance, and Geoeconomics at the prestigious European University Institute in Florence. He has drawn on all aspects of his unique and multifaceted 25-year portfolio career that ranged across roles, disciplines and countries to develop this system-wide multidisciplinary plan for the Indian, Brazilian and South African G-20 presidencies. 

Dynamic, and growing emerging economies such as India, South Africa, and Brazil uniquely have rising geopolitical heft, self-interest in tackling global warming, growing financial and technological sophistication and legitimacy in smaller low-income economies to help broker a grand bargain between the rich OECD economies in the EU, North America and Asia and low and lower middle income developing countries. Such an ambitious deal is necessary to tackle the ongoing polycrisis of sclerotic growth, financial dislocation, stagnating trade, global warming, unpayable debts, biodiversity collapse, rising conflicts, deepening polarization & sharply divergent demographic trends. 

This bargain builds on the fact that while OECD economies remain financially and technologically systemic, it is emerging and developing economies that are demographically and environmentally systemic as they contain the bulk (and rising share) of global human and natural capital. A Grand Bargain that marries the surplus capital and technology in rich economies with surplus labour and the need to preserve natural capital in developing economies can double global growth, while mitigating climate change and limiting biodiversity loss, by capitalising on asymmetric demographic shifts in rich and poor economies through boosting the productivity of human and natural capital.

Sony Kapoor

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Sony Kapoor is an influential macroeconomist, investment expert, geopolitics adviser, sustainability enthusiast and development advocate with a 25-year track record of successfully tackling policy, geopolitical, investment, and sustainability challenges. His portfolio career uniquely spans investment banking, economic policymaking, strategy consulting, geopolitical advisory, interdisciplinary research, investment committees, C-Suite and Board roles, and the non-profit sector across five continents.



 Currently, he is Chairman, World Benchmarking Alliance in the Netherlands, CEO, Nordic Institute for Finance, Technology and Sustainability in Norway, Trustee, Friends of Europe in Belgium, Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health in London, and was, until recently, the Interdisciplinary Professor of Climate, Finance, and Geoeconomics at the European University Institute in Italy. Mr Kapoor has also been a senior/strategy adviser to six G-20s, the EU, the UN, IMF, World Bank, many European & Emerging Market governments, large institutional investors and several corporates ranging from large MNCs to promising startups.



His successes in helping diffuse the Euro crisis, promoting global financial reform, accelerating climate action, and scaling up development finance have led to recognition as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a European Young Leader by the Friends of Europe, a Fellow by the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, and the awards of a Presidential Fellowship by the Open Society Foundations, and a Gold Medal for Outstanding Public Discourse by The HIST at Trinity College Dublin.

 Mr Kapoor is known for his insightful keynote speeches, influential reports & incisive agenda-setting advisory work. He has been invited to write for publications including The Economist, Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg and has been a frequent on Camera expert for the BBC, Bloomberg TV, France 24. His multifaceted advice on Geopolitics, Economics, Investment, Technology & Sustainability is in high demand by CEOs, corporate boards, government cabinets, investment committees and international organizations delivered through, advisory roles, high-level consultancies & invitations to deliver Keynotes & Seminars.

Vicky Pryce

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Vicky is the Chair of the Fellows at Radix Big Tent and a leading economist whose career includes being Director General for Economics at the Department for BIS, Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service and Chief Economist and Partner at KPMG. She is currently Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research. She is also Chair of the Economic Advisory Council for the British Chambers of Commerce and a visiting Professor at KCL and BCU. She is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on Corporate Social Responsibility.

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Date/time: 8th September 2025, 18:00- 19:00

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