Times Radio presenter and leading political journalist, Jo Coburn, has been revealed as the host for Manifest, the inaugural Global Summit for Men and Boys.  The event will take place at the QEII Centre, Westminster, on Thursday 17 June 2027.  The summit is being jointly convened by the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys (CPRMB) in the UK in partnership with the American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM).

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The significance of the challenges facing men and boys is rising up the agendas of policy makers, educators and journalists alike.  Sir Gareth Southgate's Richard Dimbleby Lecture and his recent BBC TV documentary on the subject, along with the focus on the issues in hit dramas including Netflix's Adolescence, evidence the fact that they can no longer be ignored.

Jo Coburn is co-chair of the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys.  She says, “I am delighted to be hosting Manifest - the first global summit on Men and Boys.  The event will bring together policymakers, politicians and media along with other key players to discuss and define the myriad issues affecting men and boys; the goal, to then set out workable solutions.  It is a world first with the aim of making Manifest an annual gathering that takes place in different countries each year. I look forward to welcoming everyone to the event.”

This is the first ever global sector summit around work being done in the field.  The keynote programme will feature two of the most prominent voices in the conversation.

Richard Reeves has become a defining voice on men and boys internationally. He was Washington Correspondent and Economics Correspondent for The Guardian, Society Editor of The Observer, Director of the London think tank Demos, and Director of Strategy to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg until 2012. He moved to the Brookings Institute, where his book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It became a reference point for policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2023 he founded the American Institute for Boys and Men to focus on the outcomes of men and boys as a matter of evidence.

Scott Galloway is Clinical Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and, through his Prof G podcast and column, one of the widest-heard voices on the crisis facing young men. Notes on Being a Man is his direct account of what has gone wrong for boys and young men and what a workable model of modern masculinity looks like. The Prof G Pod holds the subject in front of a mainstream listenership each week.

Further speakers, drawn from across the sector, will be announced in the coming weeks.  Manifest will conclude with the signing of a ten-point Accord reflecting the issues and actions those gathered will address in the coming year.

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