Curated on behalf of Stifel Europe

Ahead of The Curves

About the Project

 

Since 2018, Stifel Europe and President, Eithne O’Leary have hosted and supported our Ahead of the Curves programmes among expert communities, exploring current status and future trends in key industry and service sectors including:

  • Future of the Professions
  • Power in Technology
  • Ethics of Disruption
  • The Double-Wicked Challenge of Brexit & COVID

Each programme comprises a series of roundtable discussions, articles and podcasts – curated on behalf of Stifel Europe by London-based Jericho Chambers. Podcasts are hosted by award-winning journalist and BBC Radio 4 presenter, Matthew Gwyther.

Over 400 people have been involved in the programmes so far – a mix of business leaders; politicians and policymakers; experts, academics and authors; campaigners and civil society players; media and commentators.

 

For Further Information, please contact:

Becky Holloway, Programme Director
Matthew Gwyther, Editor
Rebecca Perrin, Content Manager

Articles

All Jericho projects include an integral content programme: opinions and summary reports captured by Editorial Director Matthew Gwyther, via articles, podcasts and/ or film. You can access all of our publications via our website – and/ or enjoy recent, relevant articles and podcasts from members of the Jericho community below.

Ahead of the Curves: Expertise – Don’t Die of Ignorance

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on 27th June 2023

This discussion took place in June 2023 as part of the Ahead of the Curves series, in partnership with...

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Podcast – Experts and Expertise – Don’t Die of Ignorance

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on 1st June 2023

The latest podcast in the Ahead of the Curves series, supported by Stifel Europe, is on the subject of...

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Ahead of the Curves: is Democratic Capitalism in Crisis?

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on 20th February 2023

This discussion took place in January 2023 as part of the Ahead of the Curves series, in partnership with...

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Podcast – Is Democratic Capitalism on the skids?

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on 20th January 2023

The latest podcast in this series supported by Stifel is on the subject of the crisis of democratic capitalism....

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Ahead of the Curves: Growth at any cost?

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on 7th November 2022

    This discussion took place in October 2022 as part of the Ahead of the Curves series, in...

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Podcast – The dash for growth, growth, growth

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on 7th October 2022

The British Government couldn’t have made its intent more clear – it’s grow or bust. But are the measures...

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Ahead of the Curves: The ‘S’ in ESG

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on 25th July 2022

This discussion took place in June 2022 as part of the Ahead of the Curves series, in partnership with...

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Podcast – What is the ‘S’ in ESG? The difficult jam in the sandwich?

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on 20th June 2022

As glaciers melt and dodgy peddlers of cryptocurrency go bust, we hear a lot about the “E” and “G”...

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Ahead of the Curves: Insecurity & Globalisation – The Return of Onshoring

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on 14th June 2022

This discussion took place in May 2022 as part of the Ahead of the Curves series, in partnership with...

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Podcast – “It’s Coming Home”: globalisation in reverse, onshoring and the new world order

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on 20th May 2022

This Jericho podcast, produced in association with Stifel, is about Davos Man’s worst nightmare. The combined effects of the...

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Provocation – The Return of Onshoring

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on 17th May 2022

It’s a lot harder to move goods, services, people and capital around the world, than it was 3 years...

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Ahead of the Curves: The Difficulties in Doing the Right Thing

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on 16th May 2022

This discussion took place in March 2022 as part of the Ahead of the Curves series, in partnership with...

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Podcast – The Difficulties in Doing the Right Thing

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on 7th March 2022

Business – be moral but don’t moralise (This podcast was largely recorded before the Russian invasion of Ukraine) What...

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Provocation – The Difficulties in Doing the Right Thing

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on 9th February 2022

“Expectations of business leaders have changed dramatically. When I was a young executive, the chief executive was expected to...

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Ahead of the Curves: Getting better? Where next in the great health debate?

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on 1st February 2022

This discussion took place in December 2021 as part of the Ahead of the Curves series, in partnership with...

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Podcast – The Future of Healthcare: Interview with Dr Nicholas Moore

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on 25th January 2022

Ahead of the Curves Post-Covid what does the future of healthcare look like? Nick Moore is the Managing Director,...

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Ahead of the Curves: Professions and their Pedestals

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on 13th December 2021

This discussion took place in November 2021 as part of the Ahead of the Curves series, in partnership with...

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Podcast – Post-Covid what does the future of healthcare look like?

By
on 5th December 2021

Click the “share” button to listen on your usual podcast streaming service Few require telling we are living in...

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Podcast – Trust, talent and the future of the Professions

By
on 11th November 2021

One hundred years ago society’s reverence for the professional classes was almost a given. Those days are gone. Restrictive...

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Eithne O’Leary in conversation with…

By
on 28th July 2021

Over the last eight months Eithne O’Leary, President of Stifel Europe has hosted a series of roundtable discussions on...

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COVID and Brexit: Stablecoin – has the horse bolted?

By
on 25th June 2021

Digital currencies are hardly out of the news these days. On the morning of this roundtable discussion, two stories...

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COVID and Brexit: Crypto in the Balance

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on 21st May 2021

  Listen to this as a podcast  Most of us in the last fifteen months could be forgiven for...

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COVID and Brexit: Keeping ahead of the next curve

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on 19th April 2021

Reflections from the Programme so far Since late 2018, Stifel and Europe CEO Eithne O’Leary have been working with...

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COVID and Brexit: Values and fault lines: which virtues should the UK now signal to the world? 

By
on 10th March 2021

The 2012 London Olympics now feel like a lifetime ago. Many – not least quite a few Brits themselves...

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Interview with Sathnam Sanghera – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 26th February 2021

As a nation, the Brits have been through quite a bit over the last year. A sort of late...

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Interview with Angie Hobbs – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 26th February 2021

As a nation, the Brits have been through quite a bit over the last year. A sort of late...

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Interview with Stephen Bayley – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 26th February 2021

As a nation, the Brits have been through quite a bit over the last year. A sort of late...

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Interview with Eithne O’Leary – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 26th February 2021

As a nation, the Brits have been through quite a bit over the last year. A sort of late...

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Interview with Madison Kominski – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 26th February 2021

As a nation, the Brits have been through quite a bit over the last year. A sort of late...

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The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit – Values and Fault Lines

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on 19th February 2021

Values and Fault Lines As a nation, the Brits have been through quite a bit over the last year....

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The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 3rd February 2021

Brexit: reasons to be cheerful (or fearful) Part Two Matthew Gwyther reports on the second in a new season...

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Interview with Sylvain Fort – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 1st February 2021

Brexit may be of great import to us but maybe not such hot news for the rest of the...

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Interview with Lama Daher – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 1st February 2021

Brexit may be of great import to us but maybe not such hot news for the rest of the...

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Interview with Stephen Sackur – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 1st February 2021

Brexit may be of great import to us but maybe not such hot news for the rest of the...

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Interview with Ravi Mattu – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 1st February 2021

Brexit may be of great import to us but maybe not such hot news for the rest of the...

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Interview with Eithne O’Leary – The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

By
on 1st February 2021

Brexit may be of great import to us but maybe not such hot news for the rest of the...

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The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit – The View From Elsewhere

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on 21st January 2021

What those from outside the UK make of our nation’s latest adventure Three weeks in and how is Brexit...

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The Double-Wicked Challenge: COVID and Brexit

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on 11th December 2020

Competence, Character and Boiling Frogs – Is Britain now a country “too exhausted to care”? Matthew Gwyther reports on...

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COVID & Brexit: The Double-Wicked Challenge

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on 9th December 2020

What are the UK’s prospects as it grapples with the twin demons of COVID and Brexit? 2020 was the...

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Ahead of the Curves: Money and a New National Identity

By
on 24th November 2020

Next week sees the first in the new season of the Ahead of the Curves discussion groups, convened by...

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Big Tech: From Robotics to Regulation

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on 6th November 2020

How to build a healthy tech-led future Across the year, Jericho has been hosting a series of roundtables as...

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Not when but how: Big Tech regulation is on the way

By
on 8th October 2020

As part of the Ethics of Disruption programme in partnership with Stifel, Matthew Gwyther reflects and reports on a...

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Robots: time for a re-boot?

By
on 24th September 2020

As part of the Ethics of Disruption programme in partnership with Stifel, Matthew Gwyther reflects and reports on the...

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FinTech: Are we regulating humans or systems?

By
on 16th August 2020

Stifel has been working with Jericho on an “Ethics of Disruption” programme and on the Tech sector more generally...

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Regulating Disruption: From Financial Services to COVID and Beyond

By
on 1st July 2020

Disruption comes in many forms and impacts us at varying speeds. The seismic events caused by COVID have been...

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The Ethics of Disruption: COVID and AI

By
on 19th June 2020

This podcast – the second in the series in partnership with Stifel Europe – looks into Artificial Intelligence and...

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Stifel Conversations: Ahead of the Curves

By
on 24th April 2020

Programmes for Stifel Europe – curated by Jericho Chambers   Over the past 18 months, Stifel Europe and President,...

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The Ethics of Disruption: Rights and wrongs with Artificial Intelligence

By
on 20th April 2020

Computer says ‘no.’ And sometimes it says ‘yes.’ But what are the risks with allowing AI to make important...

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Big Tech – What Is To Be Done? (Part 3)

By
on 13th February 2020

In the latest – and final – report from the Social Justice in Tech. programme, supported by Stifel, Matthew...

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Tax and Tech. – What’s Going On?

By
on 12th December 2019

On 29 November 2019, a roundtable was held in London – hosted by KPMG International (KPMGI) and investment bank...

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Social Justice in Tech: Damian Collins – Tech Crusader

By
on 18th November 2019

The third podcast in the series “Social Justice in Tech” in partnership with investment bank Stifel. In case you...

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Social Justice in Tech: Big Tech – the regulation battle lines are being drawn

By
on 15th October 2019

The following article is based on a roundtable conversation held at The Delaunay in London on 23 September 2019. ...

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Big Tech: the regulation battle lines are being drawn – The Podcast

By
on 3rd October 2019

In the second podcast in the series “Social Justice in Tech”, Matthew Gwyther explores themes of power and challenges...

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Social Justice in Tech: Men, Women and Power

By
on 18th July 2019

The following article is based on a roundtable conversation held at The Delaunay in London on 10 June 2019. ...

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Social Justice in Tech: Does Big Tech need a Fix?

By
on 4th June 2019

5 minute read 37 minutes of interviews and audio Time was when Big Tech could do no wrong. It...

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Social Justice in Tech: Fighting the Propaganda of Inevitability

By
on 16th May 2019

The tech sector is brimful of a dangerous self-confidence that it can fix everything. But many social ills can...

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From Partnership to PLC

By
on 13th May 2019

This article is part of our Future of the Professions series and is based on a roundtable discussion entitled...

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Technology, Legitimacy & Social Justice: Fighting “the propaganda of inevitability”

By
on 17th April 2019

The tech sector is brimful of a dangerous self-confidence that it can fix everything. But many social ills can...

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Game of Thrones, talent wars, flexibility and control

By
on 13th February 2019

This article is based on a roundtable discussion conducted under the Chatham House rule entitled “Will the War For...

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A professional house of cards?

By
on 23rd November 2018

This article is based on a roundtable discussion entitled Fragility and Stability in the Professional Services which was convened...

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Fragility in professional services

By
on 10th October 2018

Fifty years ago society’s reverence for the professional classes was almost a given, but those days are gone. Restrictive...

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Lawyers: The Millwall FC of the professions

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on 16th July 2018

The legal profession is walking a reputational tightrope. Seven strategies for getting to the other side. Football fans are...

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Further Reading

A selection of interesting pieces from those involved in the project and beyond. Feel free to contribute.


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