Good to hear the whole panel - Julia Gillard, Sajid Javid & Joe Cerrell - call for long-term consistent funding for R&D to maximise the impact of British science on tackling global challenges.

A bit of personal news. After an exciting couple of years Coalition for Global Prosperity, I’m off to join Gates Foundation this summer. I’ll be finishing up at CGP at the end of the month, then looking forward to a break before getting started on the next challenge in June!

The Bush administration’s anti-AIDS programme saved 25 million lives, and counting. Unfortunately it might now be discontinued. Superb and important piece by Saloni vox.com/future-perfect…

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Too often UK aid is crudely framed as cash wasted on 'Ethiopian Spice Girls' fluff

But cuts to budget have a human toll

This year cuts mean 3k more kids cd die of malnutrition & 1,530 more women die in pregnancy/childbirth, acc to FCDO's own assessment

ft.com/content/dc6161…

🎙A new episode of #GlobalSecurityBriefing is out!

With geopolitical competition intensifying, our host Neil Melvin discusses the future of UK-Africa relations with Ted Elgar and RUSI's SimonRynn. Tune in now!

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If you are in London on May 16, and are interested in #ChinaAfrica , join us for the launch of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Ntwrk in the UK

We have a stellar panel: Ely Katembo @katembogroup, david pilling, Jean Devlin @control_risks, Tin Hinane El Kadi, Wei Shen Institute of Development Studies, Isabel Hilton

With so much going on, it’s important to focus on the important as well as the urgent. Climate scientist ⁦Emily Shuckburgh⁩ and I develop here the argument that climate change is an issue of national security. independent.co.uk/voices/britain…

Congratulations to Andrew Mitchell MP for being back where his passion is: leading development policy for the UK.

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Today is #WorldPolioDay .

Here's some data on polio that you may not know of.

1. The number of paralytic polio cases has declined massively worldwide. Much was due to decades of effort led by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, responsible for preventing ~2.2 million cases

Many countries have been able to rapidly reduce extreme poverty.

These countries span regions & national contexts.

From our new and updated work on Our World in Data on poverty: ourworldindata.org/poverty

Today, CGP is launching its first report, ‘Global Britain: The Confidence to Lead’, which outlines how the UK can maximise its influence in the world and further a vision of world order more in line with its preferences.
🧵Thread below of the recommendations from our report 🧵:

🧵 UPDATED TIMES: Join us at Conservative Party Conference for our incredible line up of events looking at the UK's role on the world stage! Take a look at our schedule below. #CPC22 #GlobalBritain 👇

Happening today at The Labour Party Party Conference in Liverpool: In Conversation with David Lammy - Shadow Foreign Secretary. Chaired by CGP's Director of Advocacy Libby Smith!
📆 Monday 26th September | 1400 - 1500
📍 Collection Lounge, ACC Liverpool

Interesting piece: possibly the longest and most detailed setting out of the foreign policy challenges facing the UK as seen by someone not a million miles from Liz Truss on foreign policy: foreignaffairs.com/united-kingdom…

A pleasure writing this for Council on Geostrategy. I found Sarah Colenbrander's recent work on the Just Energy Transition Partnership very interesting in thinking about this and this piece by Charles Kenny and @Morris_ScottA foreignaffairs.com/articles/unite…

🌎 Our Head of Research Ted Elgar has written for Council on Geostrategy on The International Development Strategy and multilateral engagement.
#GlobalBritain #UKaid #ForceForGood
geostrategy.org.uk/britains-world…

Always exciting when a new Works in Progress comes out and thoroughly enjoyed this piece by Davis Kedrosky. Look forward to reading others over the weekend!

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So looking forward to chairing this & hearing from some of Westminster’s most impressive women on their experiences & why we need women at the heart of politics & policy-making💪♀️

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