Category Archives: Politics

Bineta Diop, Founder Femmes Africa Solidarité.

Bineta Diop | Femmes Africa Solidarité | Our Connected World

 Loredana Sinardo, BBA student at the University of St. Gallen interviews Bineta Diop, Founder and President of Femmes Africa Solidarité, a non-profit organization which promotes women’s rights in Africa. This interview took place at the St. Gallen Symposium, Switzerland. St. Gallen, Switzerland The ancient town of St. Gallen in Switzerland has been a centre […]

Kristina Lunz Co-founder Centre For Feminist Foreign Policy

Kristina Lunz | Centre For Feminist Foreign Policy

Neil Koenig, ideaXme board advisor interviews Kristina Lunz, Co-founder Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. Neil comments: The battle of women for equality has been underway for centuries. But campaigners believe the rewards of success would be great; as Emily Venturi, a speaker at the 1878 International Congress of Women’s Rights in Paris put it, “the […]

Catherine Marshall, Professor British Studies at CY Cergy Paris Université, France and Director of the MA Political Ideas in a Digital Age.

Professor Catherine Marshall Appointed ideaXme Board Advisor

Professor Catherine Marshall is appointed as ideaXme board advisor. Catherine joins other notable advisors including former NASA astronaut, Nicole Stott, Dr Robert Brown, FAPS, FIEE, FInstP, MAE, who was CEO of The American Institute of Physics and is now Professor UCI Beckman Laser Institute and Clinic and Sir John Hegarty, co-founder of BBH (Bartle Bogle […]

Virginijus Sinkevičius EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries

EU Commissioner’s Call to Action: Step up International Co-operation to Tackle Climate Change

 Dr Renard Siew, Climate Change Activist and ideaXme Climate Change Ambassador interviews Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries. Amongst the many subjects discussed, they talk of COP26, climate change activism, key objectives for 2022 and the Commissioner’s new legislation relating to deforestation. Dr Renard Siew: [00:00:03] Hello, everyone, and welcome […]

Dr. LaMesha Craft ideaXme interview

Dr. LaMesha Craft: Intelligence and Resilience

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. LaMesha Craft, PhD. all-source intelligence warrant officer (retired) and now contracted faculty member at the National Intelligence University, USA. Find the audio interview on SoundCloud now. Shortly on all major audio podcasting networks. Disclaimer: The views expressed by Dr. Craft in this interview do not reflect the official […]

Craig Fugate, Chief Emergency Management Officer, One Concern

How To Build Resilience In Tough Times: Individuals, Countries and Planet-wide

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Craig Fugate, former Administrator at FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), USA, (2009-2017), reporting to President Barack Obama. Craig, now Chief Emergency Officer of One Concern, provides his perspective on the recent crisis in Texas – the power grid outage, the current Mexican border refugee challenge (9,500 unaccompanied […]

James Thornton, CEO ClientEarth.

ClientEarth: Can Law Save The Planet?

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews James Thornton, CEO of  ClientEarth to talk of how legal action could save the planet. ClientEarth ClientEarth is a non-profit international environmental law firm which employs over 200 people who work in more than 60 countries. The organisation uses the law to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, […]

George Duffield, co-founder Blue Marine Foundation

Blue Marine Foundation: Protect The World’s Oceans

 Andrea Macdonald Founder ideaXme interviews George Duffield Co-founder, with Charles Clover and Chris Gorell Barnes, of Blue Marine Foundation (Blue). Blue is a global marine conservation charity based in London. Its objectives are to ensure the protection of at least 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030. With a team of only 30 people, they […]

Credit: Simon Anholt

Simon Anholt: How We Can Repair the World in One Generation

 Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, socio-digital researcher and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Simon Anholt, political scientist, policy advisor, and Founder of The Good Country. Amanda Christensen Comments The Information Age has quite literally brought the world to our fingertips, at a moment’s notice we’re now able to tap into major global events, like […]