INVITATION | CDE Conversations | Adrian Wooldridge on Reinventing the state, enabling business and meritocracy | Wed 12 Feb 2025 | 5 to 6pm SAST

Adrian Wooldridge, global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, is a British journalist, author and political commentator. He worked for the Economist for thirty-two years, writing, successively, the Lexington, Schumpeter and Bagehot columns, and serving as Washington correspondent and then Washington bureau chief in 2000-2010. His books cover topics ranging from the history of the company to the global race to reinvent the state, a critique of management theory and the ‘witch doctors’ who promote it, and how meritocracy made the modern world.  See his bio here.

Ann Bernstein, CDE’s executive director will be in conversation with Adrian. The discussion will be focused on reinventing the state, enabling business in the 21st century and why meritocracy is so important.

Date: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Time: 5 to 6 pm SAST
Registration: https://cde-org-za.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2Ce9DvDfSqCBZqE1XhOSyg

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