RSVP For the 2024 Warner Lecture

You are here because you have been nominated as a guest at the 2024 Founders’ Warner Lecture taking place on 10 October 2024.

This annual lecture is a chance for leading academics, industrialists and students to get together and hear a challenging insight into a current topic and to promote a lively discussion around it, all held under the Chatham House Rule. It has taken place since 1979, and covers diverse topics including finance, private equity, engineering, biomaterials, socially responsible investment, EU competitiveness, corporate governance, energy futures, the economy, medical start-ups, brain research, and sustainability. Last year’s Lecture was given by Rob Elder, Agent for the Bank of England. 

This year’s lecture will be given by Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE

Hayaatun is CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. She co-chairs, with the Science Minister, the government’s Business Innovation Forum and co-chaired, with Sir Lewis Hamilton, his Commission on improving Black representation in motorsport. She is a trustee of various charities, member of the government’s Levelling Up Advisory Council and Digital Skills Council, advisor to ARIA and NXD at construction company Laing O’Rourke. She has been named as one of the ‘Inspiring 50’ women in tech in Europe and one of the most influential women in both UK engineering and UK tech.

She has a Masters in Biochemistry (MBiochem) from Oxford and a PhD from Cancer Research UK/UCL. She is a Fellow of the IET, Honorary Professor at UCL and Honorary Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford. She was made a CBE for services to International Engineering in 2019.

After the lecture there will be a two course supper with wine, which we encourage you to join us for. The event is sponsored by The Worshipful Company of Founders. 

A waiting list is now active as the lecture and supper has reached capacity