Lord David Owen has been announced as the opening speaker of Malvern Festival of Ideas 2019.
David Owen was a Member of Parliament for Plymouth for 26 years from 1966- 92. Under Labour Governments, he served as Navy Minister, Health Minister and Foreign Secretary. He was co-founder of the Social Democratic Party established in 1981 and its Leader from 1983-87 and 1988-90. He currently sits in the House of Lords as an independent Social Democrat. From 1992-95 Lord Owen served as EU peace negotiator in the former Yugoslavia working alongside the UN negotiator, Cyrus Vance and then Thorvald Stoltenberg. Since then until he retired from business he had business interests in the US, Russia and the UK.
David Owen has written many books including In Sickness and In Power: Illnesses in Heads of Government, the Military and Business leaders; The Hidden Perspective. The Military Conversations 1906-1914; Cabinet’s Finest Hour. The Hidden Agenda of May 1940 and British Foreign Policy After Brexit. His latest book published in November 2018 is entitled Hubris. The Road to Donald Trump. Power, Populism and Narcissism.
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