Speakers

Eric Albert
Eric is a French journalist based in London, working as City correspondent for Le Monde and collaborating with the Swiss newspaper Le Temps. He has lived in London for 15 years, where he worked successively for Bloomberg TV, La Croix and La Tribune. He has started working for Le Monde in January 2012, first as general news correspondent and now as City correspondent. He is the author of a book about the English (“Les Anglais, dans le doute”, 2015).

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Peter is Head of Reed Smith’s French Business Group and has been involved in cross-cultural relations for over 30 years. He has been closely involved at all levels in law firm marketing strategy and implementation, including the training and individual coaching of other lawyers. Peter is bilingual in French, having been educated at the French Lycée in London and in 2003 was made Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in recognition of his services to Anglo-French business relations. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics. Peter is a Vice President of the French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain.

Anushka Asthana
Political Editor at the Guardian newspaper, jointly with Heather Stewart, thanks to their employer’s progressive approach towards job-sharing. Anushka has worked as a general reporter and education correspondent at the Observer, spent time at the Washington Post and held senior political correspondent positions at both The Times and Sky News.

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Philippe Auclair
Member of the Advisory Council of These Islands, French-born football journalist, lexicographer, political essayist, broadcaster and musician. A Londoner for three decades, biographer of Eric Cantona, Thierry Henry and Tony Blair. Also a cricket nut.

David Blanc
David is a Founding Partner at LGT Vestra and has been instrumental in developing the international platform of the firm. Prior to joining LGT Vestra, David held various senior positions at UBS Wealth Management and UBS Investment Bank in London. David graduated from ESSEC Business School and Bordeaux University where he also lectures.

Tom Brake
Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Exiting the European Union and International Trade. MP for Carshalton and Wallington. Tom was born in Leicestershire and from the age of eight, lived with his family in France, attending the Lycee International. Upon returning to England, Tom attended Imperial College, London where he gained a BSc (Hons) degree in Physics.

Sir Vince Cable
Leader of the Liberal Democrat party and MP for Twickenham. He was Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills for five years, and President of the Board of Trade (2010-2015). Vince was deputy leader of the Lib Dems 2007-2010 and shadow chancellor 2003-2010.

Olivier Cadic
French Senator representing the French living abroad.
Olivier is also a membre of the Foreign Affaires, Défense et Army Forces commission.
He is Vice-président of the Senat business delegation
Membre of the Brexit group and the reform of the EU.
Olivier has in lived in the UK for the past 22 years when he left France and moved his business to the UK .

Roger Casale
Roger set up New Europeans and runs the initiative on a day-to-day basis. He has experience in business, academia and politics both in the UK and internationally. He studied at Brasenose College Oxford and at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs.

Tahmid Chowdhury
Co-founder Here for Good

Patricia Connell
CEO of French Fairs Ltd (organisers of Brexit: Should I Stay or Should I Go), Elected representative representing the French in the UK.

Richard Corbett
Leader of the Labour Members of the European Parliament, part of the centre-left Socialists & Democrats group. First elected as an MEP in 1996, Richard has represented Yorkshire & the Humber since 1999. Richard is also Vice Chair of the UK European Movement and also Chair in the European Parliament of the Labour Movement for Europe. He sits on Committees including Constitutional Affairs and Fisheries, and is a member of cross-party intergroups on anti-racism and diversity, and animal welfare. Corbett has 2014 election commitments to make the case for Britain in Europe, to fight racism and to champion climate change.

Seb Dance
MEP for London – Seb is the deputy leader of the EPLP, and Labour’s European Parliament spokesperson on environment.Prior to being elected as an MEP, Seb worked for the international development charity ActionAid, on the front line of the fight against poverty. Previous to this he has worked in the private sector and as a Special Adviser in the Northern Ireland Office.

Dorota Darnell
Polish activist

Claudia Delpero

Founder of Europe Street News, a website and a newsletter about social and political trends in Europe, and everything related to being European citizens. Europe Street News offers in-depth coverage of citizens’ rights and is a unique source of information for EU nationals living in the UK, British citizens in the rest of the EU and anyone interested in a European perspective on the changing relationship between the UK and the European Union. Claudia is a journalist with over 15 years of experience in media and public affairs across Europe, China and Africa. After starting as a freelancer in Italy, she worked as a press officer at the European parliament and as head of communications at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Brussels and Beijing. Based in London, she regularly writes about the EU, international affairs, business, energy and environment.

Hugo Dixon
Journalist, entrepreneur and campaigner. Hugo is Chairman of InFacts and also co-founder of CommonGround. He founded Breakingviews in 1999, which he chaired until it was sold to Thomson Reuters in 2009. He writes columns for Reuters, Breakingviews, The Guardian and other publications. He is also the author of The In/Out Question: Why Britain should stay in the EU and fight to make it better.

Anne-Laure Donskoy
Co-Chair of The3Million

Mark Drakeford
Cabinet Secretary for Finance at the Welsh government and
Assembly Member for Cardiff West.

Will Dry
Co-founder Our Future, Our Choice

Andrew Elliman
Head of European Business Development at AGS Group.Andrew has been active in the global mobility industry since 1986 and has a wealth of expertise in working with mobility managers and HR teams. He creates mobility solutions revolving around the client’s international and domestic needs, including policy benchmarking and creation, service delivery, transition management and ongoing management and trend reporting.

Sue Ferns
Deputy General Secretary at Prospect trade union for professionals

Peter French
Organiser of pro-EU marches across the country including The Great British Stop Brexit march in October 2018

Dr Mike Galsworthy
Doctor and founder of Scientists for EU. Mike is an independent consultant in research and innovation policy and a visiting researcher at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Previous to that he worked at UCL & the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Mike’s undergraduate degree is from Cambridge (Natural Sciences, 1st class) and PhD from King’s’ College London (behaviour genetics). His recent work includes a series of case studies on “international innovation” by UK universities for Universities UK and an analysis to assess the effectiveness of the EU’s health research programme under FP7 (science programme for the years 2007-2013). His commentary on UK-EU research relations has been cited in Government and House of Lords documents. Mike has analysed and written commentary (academic and lay) on EU research programmes since 2009, has given invited talks on science policy and has been vocal on why the UK should stay in the EU for science since 2013.

Stephen Gethins
SNP MP for Fife North East, SNP Foreign Affairs & Europe spokesperson, Member of Foreign Affairs Committee and Vice-Chair for the APPG on EU Relations.

Pr. AC Grayling
Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford.
He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are “The Good Book”, “Ideas That Matter”, “Liberty in the Age of Terror” and “To Set Prometheus Free”. For several years he wrote the “Last Word” column for the Guardian newspaper and a column for the Times. He is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Index on Censorship and New Statesman, and is an equally frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service. He writes the “Thinking Read” column for the Barnes and Noble Review in New York, is the Editor of Online Review London, and a Contributing Editor of Prospect magazine.

Dominic Grieve
Conservative MP for Beaconsfield since 1997, barrister,
Queen’s Counsel and Member of the Privy Council

Koshi Blavo Barna
Koshi assists small, medium and large UK and multinational businesses with sponsorship applications, Tier 2 applications to hire non EEA nationals, EEA applications and appeals and all corporate immigration law issues. She also assists with individual immigration law applications, in particular from entrepreneurs and investors and other professionals, acting for in country clients and out of country visa applicants. She is recognised as an expert in her field. The Legal 500 describes her as being ‘’renowned for her sympathetic and empathetic approach’’. Koshi regularly sits as a panel member at conferences.

Nicolas Hatton
Co-founder of The3Million

Tom Holland
Member of the Advisory Council for These Islands, Tom Holland is a historian of antiquity and the early Middle Ages: author of Rubicon, Persian Fire, Millennium and In The Shadow Of The Sword, and the translator for Penguin Classics of Herodotus’ Histories. His most recent work of history, Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar was published last year. His biography of Æthelstan, the first in Penguin’s monarchs of Britain series, was published last summer. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History, and of documentaries on topics that have ranged from ISIS to dinosaurs. He is the President of the Stonehenge Alliance, and Chair of the British Library’s PLR Advisory Committee.

Alexandre Holroyd
A member of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche movement, Alexandre Holroyd was elected Member of the National Assembly on the 18th June 2017 representing French citizens living in Northern Europe (UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia and Iceland). Prior to his election, he co-founded En Marche! UK, the British branch of Emmanuel Macron’s movement. As a member of the French National Assembly, he sits on the Finance Commission. He was the special rapporteur on a mission focusing on the public finances of theINSEE and the Banque de France. He is also President of the Franco-British parliamentary friendship group. As a member of the European Affairs Commission, he is now in charge of co-writing a special report on the Eurozone governance.

Mary Honeyball

Labour Member of the European Parliament representing London since 2000. Mary is the UK Labour representative in the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee in the European Parliament, and Socialist & Democrat group co-ordinator on the Parliament’s Culture and Education committee. She is also a regular blogger on women’s rights, religion and politics.

Matt Kelly
Editor in Chief of The New European

Michael Jary
Member of the Advisory Council of These Islands, Michael Jary is Senior Partner and a co-founder of OC&C Strategy Consultants, an advisory firm with 14 offices worldwide, and a non-executive director of Barclays Bank UK plc. He is also the non-executive chair of Itad, a leading consultancy in international development. He is chair of the board of trustees at The Fairtrade Foundation, chairman of Duchy Originals, and chairman of the commercial committee of The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation.

Caroline Lucas
Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales since September 2016, a position she shares with Jonathan Bartley, and MP for Brighton Pavilion, elected as the UK’s first Green Member of Parliament in 2010. Caroline is a Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency, Vice Chair of the Public and Commercial Services, Sustainable Housing, CND and Animal Welfare All Party Parliamentary Groups. She is also a member of various other all-party groups, including on HIV and Aids, 6th Form Colleges, Children and International Corporate Responsibility. She sits on Parliament’s influential Environmental Audit Committee and has also sat on temporary committees set up to scrutinise Government legislation.

Véronique Martin

French author and academic. Véronique is associate director of the “In Limbo – Our Brexit Testimonies” project and co-editor of “In Limbo: Brexit Testimonies from EU citizens in the UK”. “In Limbo” is a not-for profit collection of personal accounts which reveal the emotional and practical turmoil EU citizens have experienced since the 2016 referendum.

George Merrylees
Partner at Irwin Mitchell LLP

James McGrory

Executive Director of Open Britain. Prior to that, he was the spokesperson for Britain Stronger in Europe during the EU Referendum campaign. James has over a decade of experience in politics and communications and was Nick Clegg’s Special Adviser throughout the Coalition Government, after many years of working for the Liberal Democrate…

Niccolò Milanese

Director of European Alternatives, a transnational civil society organisation and citizen movement promoting democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state. Niccolò is a poet and a philosopher living in Paris, born in London to Italian and British parents. His grandfather emigrated from Sicily to Wales as a coal-miner in the 1950s. Niccolò was educated in Cambridge, Siena and Paris where he was an Entente Cordiale Scholar. Asides from European Alternatives he has been involved in the founding of numerous political and cultural organisations, magazines and initiatives on several sides of the Mediterranean, including The Liberal Magazine, YAANI, Mena Policy Hub, biting, Cultural Innovators Network, ECIT Foundation for European Citizenship, Europe+ campaign for a democratic EU and Civil Society Europe in which he currently chairs the civic space and fundamental rights working group. He regularly acts as a consultant for cultural, educative and political institutions and activist groups on cultural mediation and artistic innovation, citizenship and political theory beyond borders, generational trends and organisational design.

Calum Millbank
Co-founder Our Future, Our Choice

Gina Miller: Co-founder of SCM Direct, 2009 & founder of the

Gina Miller
Gina Miller is a prominent businesswoman, who brought the successful R (Miller) v Secretary for State for Exiting the European Union to the Supreme Court. In the months since the referendum, Gina has become a symbol for democracy and political accountability and recently said she would take the government back to Court if Parliament is denied a final say on any Brexit deal. Prior to this Gina has been a transparency activist for over 10 years in the charity sector, as well as founding her True and Fair Campaign that has been fighting for transparency and an end to rip offs in the fund management and pension industries.

Olivier Morel
Olivier is a dual national French / British and has worked and lived in the UK for over 30 years. He is an English Solicitor and a French Avocat à la Cour, and a partner with Cripps LLP. He provides legal advice and strategic solutions to international groups investing in the UK and advises UK clients expanding overseas.
Olivier is the Chair of the UK chapter of the Foreign Trade Advisors UK (Conseiller du Commerce Extérieur de la France), a French government think-tank on international trade; he is a member of the board of the French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain and sits on the board of Marcalliance, Cripps’ international alliance of lawyers.
He writes a blog on his personal views of Britain, the Franco-British relationship and Brexit.

Isabella Mosselmans
Co-funder Here for Good

Stacey Nevin
Stacey is a solicitor in Kingsley Napley’s family and divorce team assisting UK and international clients with matters involving all aspects of family law. She has particular expertise in advising on complex financial issues (including trust arrangements) on relationship breakdown; jurisdiction disputes; and private children cases, including child relocation and intractable contact disputes. Stacey is a member of the Brexit Working Party to the Resolution International Committee and Property, Tax and Pensions Committee. She works closely with Kingsley Napley’s immigration team to support clients where family and immigration issues need to be considered in tandem.

Femi Oluwole
Co-founder Our Future, Our Choice

Henry Porter
UK editor of Vanity Fair and long-standing campaigner inter alia for civil liberties. Henry co-directed The Convention on Brexit and the Political Crash in May 2017, and also co-directed The Convention on Modern Liberty in 2009. Henry held a number of positions in journalism, among them executive editor of The Independent on Sunday, editor for The Sunday Times and The Observer and now contributes to The Hive, a US current affairs website. Henry Porter is also the author of numerous books.

Vicky Pryce
A renown economist whose recent posts have included: Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting; Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS); and Joint Head of the UK Government Economics Service where she was responsible for evidence based policy and for encouraging measures that promoted greater productivity in the UK economy. She had previously been Partner and Chief Economist at KPMG and earlier held chief economist positions in banking and the oil sector.
She is patron of ‘Pro-bono Economics’ and has served as Master of one of the City of London’s Livery Companies. She sits on the Department for Business Innovation and Skills’ panel monitoring the economy and is on City AM’s Shadow Monetary Policy Committee.

Elena Remigi

Interpreter and translator originally from Milan, Italy. Elena is Founder and Director of the “In Limbo – Our Brexit Testimonies Project” and co-editor of the book “In Limbo: Brexit Testimonies from EU citizens in the UK”. “In Limbo” is a not-for profit collection of personal accounts which reveal the emotional and practical turmoil EU citizens have experienced since the 2016 referendum.

Emmanuelle Ries
Emmanuelle is the ebl miller rosenfalck’s Managing Partner and heads the French Desk.Emmanuelle is a specialist of employment issues in cross border situations, from recruitment and secondments arrangements to termination issues. She also advises employers and employees in relation to High Court disputes on post termination restrictions.
Emmanuelle sits on the Advisory Council of the French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain and also counsels British and overseas clients with the employment aspects of setting up operations or acquiring a business in France and handling workforce and HR issues in France.

Fabien Bénédicte Suant
Partner at CHAPLIN, BÉNÉDICTE & Co. Fabien is a self-made entrepreneur who started his first business at the age of 20 in London after having emigrated from his native France. He co-founded CHAPLIN, BÉNÉDICTE & Co aged 22 and is passionate about the creative process of entrepreneurship. He advises on issues relating to international business structuring, seat on the board of many innovative businesses and fly light planes as a hobby.He is a strong supporter of the concept of the European Union and can often be heard saying that London is his home and Europe is garden.

Lara Spirit
Co-founder Our Future, Our Choice

Jo Swinson
Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire constituency (Scotland), she had been the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment relations, consumer and postal affairs. Swinson was formerly a junior Equalities Minister. In June 2017, she was elected as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats. From 2007 to 2008, Jo was the Liberal Democrats’ spokeswoman for Women and Equality and the Department for Communities and Local Government, and was their spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2010, when the party entered into a coalition government with the Conservatives. She was previously the Liberal Democrats’ spokeswoman on Scotland and has chaired the Liberal Democrats’ Campaign for Gender Balance since 2004. From 2005 until July 2009, she was the Baby of the House (youngest member of the House of Commons).

Andrew Tingley
Andrew is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s immigration team, advising on all areas of UK immigration and nationality law. His clients include high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, start-ups and UK companies, and he has particular expertise in complex applications. He works closely with colleagues in our family team in advising on the immigration implications where a relationship with a British or EU citizen has broken down. He also assists with international surrogacy and adoption. He has a particular passion and aptitude for working with clients who require robust representation by way of appeal or representations to UKVI. He is ranked as a leading immigration lawyer in Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2017 and is described as ‘outstanding’ in Legal 500 2017

Eloise Todd
CEO Best for Britain

Chuka Ummuna
Labour MP for the Streatham constituency, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on EU Relations, Chair of the APPG on Social Integration, Chair of the Vote Leave Watch.

Kim Vowden
Kim is a solicitor in Kingsley Napley’s immigration team. He is skilled in a wide range of immigration matters including European law applications and complex British nationality cases. A French speaker, he has a focus on Points Based System applications and sponsor licence issues, and he advises EU citizens and their families on how to secure their status in the UK following the vote to leave the EU.

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