Our keynote speakers

Will is Chief Executive of The Campbell Collaboration, an international social science research network that uses scientific methods

to synthesise all of the evidence on important policy issues. It aims to make using state of the art social science evidence as natural as looking up a word

in the dictionary.

Before joining the Campbell Collaboration, Will led the UK charity Full Fact, promoting trustworthy evidence use in public life, from 2010 to 2023. Full Fact’s fact checking and other work was used by tens of millions of people including policy makers, the media, and major internet companies. Working with international partners they built AI tools that have gone on to be used in more than forty countries worldwide.

Drawing on global experience, he will explore how

trustworthy, inclusive evidence must underpin foresight and horizon scanning and how embedding equity and ethics from the outset leads to more accountable, resilient futures.