The TBI Talks series returns this month, and we will be joined by leading thinkers in politics, academia, business, journalism and more to debate answers to the big policy issues of 2021 – from the economic and political reality of Brexit, to how to make the UK a global centre for tech innovation, to the increasingly frail state of the union and the promise of global leadership on climate change.

"We know that prevention and peacebuilding save lives and are cost-effective, especially when strategies come together across the peace, development and humanitarian nexus in support of national priorities. But they also require national leadership, political commitment and financial support" shares António Guterres on the 6th of January.

“The cost of closing schools – which at the peak of pandemic lockdowns affected 90 per cent of students worldwide and left more than a third of schoolchildren with no access to remote education – has been devastating.The number of out-of-school children is set to increase by 24 million, to a level we have not seen in years and have fought so hard to overcome", shares Fore.

The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) is holdin its annual flagship Singapore Perspectives (SP) conference, on 12, 14, 19 and 25 January 2021. The theme of SP2021 is “Reset”. The conference aims to bring together international thought leaders, academics, activists and community leaders with each other to consider the challenges presented by the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.