Lend Me Your Ear is a series of extended one-to-one interviews with economists, politicians, policy makers and entrepreneurs conducted by Liam Halligan. Our guests range from leading academics to campaigners, opinion-formers and front-line lawmakers – all of whom share an interest in the interaction of economics and politics, that vital interface between ideas and vested interests where policy is made. In each episode, Liam leads an informal yet detailed discussion, a conversation designed to inform, illuminate and entertain. If you like what you hear, please subscribe – and encourage others to do the same. Lend Me Your Ear – Conversations Worth Hearing.
Sir Martin Jacomb was born in 1929. After Eton and Oxford, he was a barrister, before starting a career in business. He has been Vice-Chairman of Klei...
John Rossman is a US tech entrepreneur who worked alongside Jeff Bezos as he built Amazon. America’s third most valuable company after Microsoft and A...
Jonathan Tepper is the co-author of "The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition". In his book, Tepper describes how America has g...
Elisabeth Schimpfössl is the author of “Rich Russians – from Oligarchs to Bourgeoise” – an eye-catching study of the new Russian business elite that’s...
James Barr is the author of “A Line in the Sand” – a riveting book on how British and French diplomats re-made the map of the Middle East during and a...
Nomi Prins is a former senior banker with firms including Bear Stearns and Goldman Sachs. She left Wall Street in 2001 as “life was too short” and bec...
Michael Jacobs is an economist and political scientist who is currently the Director of the Commission on Economic Justice at the UK’s Institute for P...
Peter Platzer is the Founder and CEO of Spire. Since 2012, Spire has built a constellation of almost 60 nano-satellites that collect observations unde...
Helen Thomas is the London-based analyst and businesswoman behind the financial consultancy "Blonde Money". A former advisor to Chancellor George Osbo...
Ray Bassett is a Former Irish Ambassador who served as a senior Advisor to successive Irish Prime Ministers. Originally from Dublin, Bassett has a PhD...