HARDtalk - Season 18 / Year 2021

Season 18 / Year 2021

Episodes

Neil Ferguson, Epidemiologist, Imperial College, London

Professor Barry Schoub - Chair of Advisory Committee on Covid-19 Vaccines, South Africa

Professor Kenneth Chan - Founding member of Civic Party, Hong Kong

Yuli Edelstein – Minister of Health, Israel

Thomas Byrne – Minister for European Affairs, Ireland

Madawi Al-Rasheed - Saudi Academic and Co-Founder of the National Assembly Party

Dr Soumya Swaminathan - Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya - Belarus opposition leader

Evan Medeiros - Director for China and Taiwan Affairs, US National Security Council 2009 - 2015

Laurie Santos - Cognitive Scientist, Professor of Psychology at Yale University

Yogendra Yadav - SKM farmers' organisation, India

Timothy Snyder - Professor of History, Yale University

Elizabeth Neumann - US Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, 2018-2020

Harvey Goldsmith - Music Producer and Promoter

Jewher Ilham - Uyghur Rights Activist

Valdis Dombrovskis - Executive Vice-President, European Commission

Khin Zaw Win – Political Analyst, Myanmar

Baroness Minouche Shafik - Director of the London School of Economics

Salome Zourabichvili – President of Georgia

Adar Poonawalla – CEO, Serum Institute of India

Vjosa Osmani - Acting President of Kosovo

Barbara Amiel - Writer

Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee - Hong Kong Legislative Councillor

Marina Abramović - Performance artist

Erika Lust – Erotic film director

Ken Rogoff - Economist

Tsitsi Dangarembga – Writer and activist

Serj Tankian – Singer and Activist

Professor Michael Mann - Climatologist

Dmytro Kuleba – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine

Fawzia Koofi, Leader of Movement of Change for Afghanistan

Haris Theoharis - Minister of Tourism, Greece

Kaja Kallas - Prime Minister of Estonia

Husam Zomlot - Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK

Tito Mboweni, South African Finance Minister

Tom Kerridge – Chef and Restaurateur

Dr John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Barry Hearn - Sporting Events Promoter

Michael Rosen – Author

McKrae Game - Founder, Hope for Wholeness

Johan Lundgren – easyJet CEO
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