Lecture
Robert Fox
Monday 29.09.2025
Robert Fox
Facing the Big Numbers
Monday 29.09.2025
Summary
Are We Being Overwhelmed ? We are being mesmerised by the big numbers—on economy, climate, conflict, population, and well-being. Should we be dismayed or should we find a way to interpret these phenomena and find ways through the statistical doom loop? In this lecture, we bravely take on four or of the five big numbers and suggest ways of working around them and using them to our human advantage.
Robert Fox
Robert Fox has been a professional reporter, commentator, author, and broadcaster for over 40 years. He has reported from the front in the Falklands conflict of 1982, the Middle East, including Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. After leaving Oxford with an honors degree in history in 1967, he has worked as a staff reporter and correspondent for the BBC and the Daily Telegraph. He is currently defense correspondent for the Evening Standard and broadcasts frequently for the BBC, Sky, and Radio 24 in Italy. Among his books are Eyewitness Falklands (1982), Antarctica and the South Atlantic (1985), and Camera in Conflict(1995). Robert lectures frequently to the British Army and the diplomatic community in London. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House.