12:00 - 13:30  - Registration and Lunch at Said Business School (Foyer)

13:30 - 14:05 - Welcome Session

• Address by Baroness Jan Royall, Principal Somerville College
• Address by Mr Jai Shroff, Chairman & CEO UPL
• Address by Mr Sujit Ghosh, Deputy High Commissioner - India 
• OICSD's Research Objectives by Prof. Radhika Khosla, Research Director

14:05 - 14:25 - Keynote Address by H.E. Dr. Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone

14:25 - 15:00 - Tea and Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:00 - Plenary Panel: How does Agriculture Relate to Different Forms of Securities

Speakers:

- Mr Daniel Zeichner, MP. Minister of State (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).

- Ms Usha Rao-Monari, Former Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator UNDP.

- Mr. UnniKrishnan Divakaran Nair, Associate Director of Climate Change, Commonwealth Secretariat. 

- Dr Caspar Chater, Senior Research Leader at Royal Botanic Gardens. 

- Prof. John Ingram, Food Systems Programme Lead, ECI. [Moderator] 

16:00 - 16:30 - Tea and Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:30 - Breakout Panels:

• Water Security and Agriculture (Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, SBS)

Speakers: 

- Dr Carole Dalin, Associate Professor in Sustainable Food Systems, UCL. 

- Dr Celso Moretti (virtual participation), President of Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Cooperation).

- Mr Rupert Simons, Partner at SYSTEMIQ. 

- Dr Timothy Foster, Associate Professor in Water-Food Security, University of Manchester.

- Prof. Daanish Mustafa, Professor in Critical Geography, KCL. [Moderator]

• Energy Security and Agriculture (Rhodes House Lecture Theatre, SBS)

Speakers: 

- Ms Juliet Davenport, President of the Energy Institute.

- Ms Sabrina Rajan,  Senior Director, Sustainability, McDermott.

- Ms Aruna Chandrashekhar, Journalist, Carbon Brief

- Dr Radhika Khosla, Associate Professor at Smith School, University of Oxford. [Moderator] 

17:30 - 18:30 - Vote of Thanks

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