The future of UK foreign policy

  • December 11, 2018
The future of UK foreign policy

Sharmila Parmanand will respond to the inaugural Fabian International Policy Group Christmas lecture on the future of UK foreign policy.

A Gates Cambridge Scholar is taking part in an all-female panel discussion on the future of UK foreign policy at the Palace of Westminster tonight.

Sharmila Parmanand is taking part in the Fabian International Policy Group event and responding to the inaugural Christmas Lecture given by former UN Deputy Secretary-General Lord Mark Malloch-Brown.

Lord Malloch-Brown's lecture will consider some of the big trends shaping the world today and what it means for the UK. In the context of what is happening with Brexit, it will also explore the challenges and opportunities for the country, and address the key question of what kind of ‘global power’ Britain should aspire to be. In addition, it will set out a future strategy and agenda for the UK’s foreign policy.

Sharmila [2016], who is doing a PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies, will join fellow panellists, including Helen Goodman MP, Shadow Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Minister, Brexit expert Georgina Wright from Chatham House and Leslie Vinjamuri, Head of the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House to respond to the speech.

Sharmila Parmanand is former Director of Policy and Advocacy at Visayan Forum Foundation which works for the welfare of marginalised migrants in the Philippines. She is also a debating champion and coach and is co-chief adjudicator for the European University Debating Championship 2019 taking place in Athens. 

 

Sharmila Parmanand

Sharmila Parmanand

  • Alumni
  • Philippines
  • 2016 PhD Multi-disciplin Gender Studies
  • Homerton College

My research projects interrogate how development and state interventions targeted at women in the global south reflect and shape their lived realities, with a focus on gender and international development, the politics of knowledge production, and feminist entanglements with the state on issues of human rights and women’s precarious labour.

Previous Education

University of Melbourne
Ateneo de Manila University

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