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An interview with Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK

An interview with Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK

FromThe Beverage Report Podcast


An interview with Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK

FromThe Beverage Report Podcast

ratings:
Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Aug 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this summer special edition of The Beverage Report, Tommy Sharpe interviews Kevin Watkins on how COVID-19 is impacting the world's poorest children, the need for educational reform, and whether charities are paternalistic.
Kevin Watkins is Chief Executive of Save the Children UK. He was previously Head of Research at Oxfam and has directed three Human Development Reports for the United Nations Development Program.
Released:
Aug 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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This year Raza Rasool and Rida Samreen are leading a team of six who share the same goal and passion - bringing forward intellectually-stimulating conversations with economists from the top of their fields, from within LSE and beyond. What really differentiates us from other podcasts is that you really get to explore far more than a specific field of study. Here, we have the answer to these questions: what motivated him/her to pursue his/her field of economics? How was working at the Oval Office? What are their favourite books? What gives them hope in a world with some pressing issue