Green Templeton College’s annual Human Welfare Conference brings together leading graduate students, academics, and practitioners to engage with the specific challenges and opportunities of systematically improving human welfare in both academic and professional contexts. Encouraging collaboration between researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines, the conference explores new and comprehensive ways to tackle important issues relevant to human welfare.

Health: what kinds of innovation will drive future improvements in health?’

• Mara Airoldi, Green Templeton College Research Fellow; Director of the Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
• Nick Fahy, Green Templeton College Research Fellow; Senior Researcher at Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.
• Alexander Finlayson, Green Templeton College Doll Fellow; CEO and Head of Product at Nye; GP.
• Kokila Lakhoo, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon,  Children’s Hospital in Oxford and University of Oxford; Chair of the International Forum, British Association of Paediatric Surgeons; President, Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery.

‘How can investment drive human welfare improvements?’

• Mouhamadou Diagne, Inspector General of The Global Fund.
• Thierry Martin, Executive Director (a Swiss private bank funded by Kuwaiti capital); Bachelor in Finance (Geneva University); former Major (Swiss Army). He is speaking in a private capacity and not on behalf of the bank where he is Executive Director.
• Boya Wang, Research Fellow and Quantitative Lead for the Ownership Project at Oxford Saïd

‘Eating in a changing world system: balancing food, health and the environment’

• Maria Jose Alencastro, Food Security Technical Coordinator – Research and Innovation, Action Against Hunger.
• Thomas Cousins, Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa, University of Oxford; Fellow of St Hugh’s College.
• Karin Eli, Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick; Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford; Research Associate, SOAS Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London.