CONVENTION ON MODERN LIBERTY 28.02.09 LONDON Chair: Guy Lodge, Senior research fellow, ippr Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is an Uganda-born journalist and author, based in London. She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre. In 2005, she was voted the 10th most influential black/Asian woman in the country in a poll and in another she was among the most powerful Asian media professionals in the UK. Gerry Hassan is a writer, researcher, policy analyst and broadcaster, who has worked on a range of Scottish, UK and international subjects. He has published widely and been involved in setting up a number of research and ideas networks. He is Head of the Demos Scotland 2020 programme and is the Head of the forthcoming Demos Glasgow 2020: Tales of the City project – a futures project looking at how citizens see cities. Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real England, has been a writer, journalist and environmental campaigner for the last ten years. From torture in the highlands of New Guinea to tree-sitting in Hampshire to armed rebellion in Mexico he writes about the political and the personal. Gareth Young is a campaigner for an English Parliament. He stands for an England and an idea of Englishness that is ‘the product of our collective psyche, a sum of parts, the national consciousness and self-awareness of the nation of England.’ Less