Each year since 2002, IRC-UK has hosted a public lecture to mark World Refugee Week in the UK. Previous speakers have included Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dambisa Moyo and Lord Malloch-Brown.

You can obtain transcripts of the lectures here, below. To be informed of the next lecture, in June, please sign up to our mailing list.

2010
Dr Ashraf Ghani, Major-General (retd) Tim Cross and Mike Young; chaired by Sir Jeremy Greenstock
'Soldiers on the School Run: Sensible Strategy or Disastrous Compromise?'

2009

Dambisa Moyo, Yash Tandon and George Biddle; chaired by Sir Jeremy Greenstock
'Foreign Aid: Dead Right or Dead Wrong?'

2008

Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
'People on the Move: The Challenges of Displacement in the 21st Century'

2007

Sir Mark Malloch Brown, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations 
'The Politics of Humanitarianism After Iraq'

2006

H.E. Mr Kamalesh Sharma, High Commissioner of India
'Sustainable Rescue: from Survival to the Knowledge Society'

2005

Richard C. Holbrooke, US Ambassador to the United Nations
'The UN, the US and the World'

2004

Monica Ali, Hari Kunzru and Dave Eggers
'Conflict, Refuge and Identity'

2003

Paddy Ashdown, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
'Broken Communities, Shattered Lives: Winning the Savage War of Peace'

2002

Clare Short, Secretary of State for International Development
'Refugees and Conflict'