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Faith Angle Europe convenes leading European and US journalists together in the South of France for three days of engaging discussions on today’s most critical issues.
Dr. Dato Kim Tan, PhD of Biochemistry, is a successful Malaysian-born UK-based biotech entrepreneur and leader in global social impact. Passionate about how Christian entrepreneurs can make a positive impact and the importance of investing ins social capital, he is currently the Chairman of SpringHill Management Ltd, a fund management company that focuses on life sciences and social venture capital investing. In addition to his work at SpringHill, Dr. Tan is a Founder-Chairman for Inquo Investments and NCI Cancer Hospital in Malaysia, as well as co-founded the Transformational Business Network (TBN). TBN is a network of over 2,000 professionals aiming transform communities through business solutions to poverty.
Dr. Tan’s publications include Fighting Poverty through Enterprise: The Case for Social Venture Capital (2007) with Lord Brian Griffiths and The Jubilee Gospel: The Jubilee, Spirit and the Church (2008).
Bishop Dr. D. Zac Niringiye is a theologian, pastor, and civic-political activist in Uganda, involved in several civil society-led social justice and peace campaigns including as the Citizens’ Manifesto Ambassador. He has previously served at Makerere University, as a Visiting Fellow in the Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC) Department, in the School of Law, where he was leading a project on Religion, Human Rights and Peace. Bishop Niringiye took an early retirement from serving as Assistant Bishop in the Church of Uganda in 2012, to serve in the cause of social justice and good governance in Uganda. He is the author of The Church: God’s Pilgrim People as well as The Church in the World: A Historical-Ecclesiological Study of the Church of Uganda.
Dr. Matthew Goodwin is an academic, bestselling author and speaker known for his research on politics, populism, elections, voting, public opinion, Brexit, Europe and more. He is Professor of Politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent, Fellow at Legatum Institute and in recent years served as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, Senior Fellow with the UK In a Changing Europe and Senior Advisor to the UK Education Committee. Matt is the author of six books including the 2018 Sunday Times bestseller and Financial Times book of the year, National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, which has been translated into multiple languages. He is also author of the 2015 Political Book of the Year, Revolt on the Right, which was long-listed for the Orwell Prize. Matt has also published several other academic books with Oxford and Cambridge University Press, including the first major study of the Brexit vote and data-led studies of populism, alongside dozens of peer-reviewed papers in top-ranked journals and research reports.
Edward Luce is the US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times. Before that he was the FT’s Washington Bureau chief. Other roles have included South Asia bureau chief, Capital Markets editor, and Philippines Correspondent. Luce was previously the speechwriter for the US Treasury Secretary, Lawrence H. Summers, in the Clinton administration. He is the author of three highly acclaimed books, The Retreat of Western Liberalism (2017), Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent (2012), and In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (2007). He appears regularly on CNN, NPR, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and the BBC.
Marc Weitzmann began his career as a journalist in the early 1980s, working with weekly magazine Sans Frontière (Without Borders), the first publication to specialize in migrant workers issues in France. After traveling and living in Brazil, he returned to France to become chief editor of the literary section of Les Inrockuptibles. He is the author of twelve books, including seven novels, two travel accounts, a book of essays, and most recently, Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France (and What It Means for Us). He is a regular contributor to Le Monde, Le Point, and Tablet, and hosts a weekly radio show called Signes des Temps at France-Culture. He lives in Paris.
