Former TV news presenter and journalist Nik Gowing will present his new research on why the top levels in government and corporations fail to anticipate and manage crises.
Mr Gowing delivers a Distinguished Visitor Lecture entitled Thinking the Unthinkable: Brexit? Trump? Migration? Russia? Why leaders have lost the plot on multiple issues on 23 November at 6pm in the Templeman Library Theatre on the University’s Canterbury campus. It is free and open to all.
A guest of the School of Politics and International Relations, Mr Gowing says that after the unexpected result of the Brexit referendum many question the capacity and readiness of leading executives, public servants and politicians to think “unthinkables” before they happen. The old assumptions and norms underpinning decision-making can no longer be assumed to be fit for purpose.
A former pupil of the Simon Langton Grammar School, Canterbury, Mr Gowing, who spent many years as a BBC World News journalist, is now a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London, and Nanyang Technological University Singapore.