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Plenary with Nik Gowing: The Need to Think the Unthinkable
Across the education sector, the last nine months have tested our resilience and innovative skills to levels few ever thought possible.The unexpected and unthinkables are far from over. The acute challenges created by the pandemic will be further multiplied for the climate emergency.How can we learn - and teach - to acknowledge the unthinkable and prepare for it?What do we all need to adapt, survive and then thrive?Nik Gowing is founder and director of www.thinkunthinkable.org. At OEB 2019 he warned our sector to be prepared for unthinkables. He returns for OEB 2020 to share new ideas for how we can innovate and transform to cope with the next unthinkables.Please join this virtual plenary with your thoughts and ideas.
Nik Gowing
Founder and Director, Founder and Director www.thinkunthinkable.org, UK
In 2018 Nik Gowing co-authored (with Chris Langdon) “Thinking the Unthinkable”. In this era of a new disruption leaders reveal that they are ‘scared’, ‘confused’ and ‘overwhelmed’ especially by the new short termism. Nik founded the ongoing, dynamic project in 2014.
Nik was a main news presenter for BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London.
For 18 years he worked at ITN. He was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw, and Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News (1988-1996). He has been on the councils of Chatham House (1998–2004), the Royal United Services Institute (2005–present), the Overseas Development Institute (2007-2014), the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (1996-2005).
Nik was been a Visiting Professor at Kings College, London and Nanyang University (NTU), Singapore. In 2018 advised the President of the UN General Assembly on leadership challenges.
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Monika Weber-Fahr
Advisor Multi-stakeholder Partnerships and Solutions to Sustainability, , Austria