Fitzwilliam College Foundation Lecture 2013: 'Double standards: Perspectives on life in public companies and public office'
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| Description: | Fitzwilliam College Foundation Lecture 2013. Ken Olisa OBE, speaking at Fitzwilliam College on 7 November 2013. |
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| Created: | 2013-11-18 13:30 | ||
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| Collection: | Fitzwilliam College lectures | ||
| Publisher: | Fitzwilliam College | ||
| Copyright: | Fitzwilliam College | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
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| Keywords: | Lecture; Foundation; Ken Olisa; Fitzwilliam College; Government; | ||
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| Explicit content: | No | ||
| Abstract: | Ken Olisa OBE (Natural Sciences, Social, Political and Management Sciences, 1971) is an 1869 Fellow Benefactor of Fitzwilliam College. He started his career with IBM and Wang before setting up listed technology merchant bank Interregnum and – more recently – Restoration Partners.
Ken Olisa has spent the last five years in what he calls “parallel universes” at the heart of two of our nation’s cherished institutions – the City and the House of Commons. He was simultaneously on the boards of the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA). At ENRC he witnessed how London and Astana behaved as one of Kazakhstan’s most valuable companies went from hero to zero on the Stock Exchange. IPSA, standing between the Westminster village and the electorate, laboured to expunge the MPs’ expenses scandal from Britain’s collective psyche. This year’s Foundation Lecture draws on these rich seams of contemporary experience of governance and probity to distinguish between self-delusion and hypocrisy in public life. |
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