Rio+20 and the green economy; how to make prosperity sustainable
Chair: Professor Lord Stern
In partnership with the UN Foundation *
19-21 January 2012
Philanthropy for the 21st Century
Chair:Mr Nicholas Ferguson
16-18 February 2012
Cultural Diplomacy: does it work?
Chair: Sir Vernon Ellis
In partnership with the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress *
8-10 March 2012
Income inequality and its impact on economic management and growth
Chair: The Rt Hon. James Purnell
22-24 March 2012
Multiculturalism and religion in foreign policy
Chair: Mr Kamalesh Sharma
19-21 April 2012
Can international intervention work?
Chair: The Rt Hon. Lord Malloch-Brown KCMG
24-26 May 2012
Putting science, government, business and innovation together
Chair: Sir Keith O'Nions
28-30 June 2012
Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture XLVIII
Changing Turkish Foreign Policy in a Changing World?
Delivered by H.E. Mr. Ahmet Davutoğlu -Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs
14 July 2012
Security and prosperity in East Asia
Chair: Ambassador Christopher R Hill
13-15 September 2012
A two-tier Europe and its consequences
Chair: Lord Jay of Ewelme GCMG
4-6 October 2012
Water: conserving our most precious natural resource
Chair: Ms Patricia Mulroy
In partnership with American Ditchley and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas *
26-28 October 2012
Global power shifts: what do the new players want?
Chair: The Rt Hon. Jean Chrétien PC OM CC QC
Canadian Ditchley sponsored conference *
15-17 November 2012
How should drug control policy change?
Chair: Baroness Meacher of Spitalfields
6-8 December 2012
* The Ditchley Foundation actively seeks financial support from other organisations sympathetic to the Foundation’s aims and objectives. Any such funding is accepted on the basis that the sponsor or funding institution gains no influence over the direction of the conference programme or individual conferences, though their support will be fully acknowledged in appropriate ways.