Announcing our first Brighton Summit Keynote Speaker, Guy Standing

 

Guy Standing will give us a global perspective on our journey into the unknown. Guy will talk about how many of us small business owners are part of the "precariat", the people who have no job security, and work from project to project. Sound familiar? Guy will share his work, studying pilots across the world where people receive a Basic Income, how this could become a reality in the UK, and the impact on entrepreneurialism.  

 

Guy is an economist, and a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO active in 35 countries. 

 

Having gained a PhD from Cambridge, and held professorial posts at Bath and Monash universities, he has been a consultant to UNICEF, United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank. 

 

His recent books include The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011), translated into 18 languages; A Precariat Charter (2014), Basic Income – A Transformative Policy for India (2015), The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (2016), and Basic Income: And How to Make it Happen (A Pelican Introduction, 2017).