{"id":19842,"date":"2020-02-05T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/?p=19842"},"modified":"2020-02-19T11:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T11:43:23","slug":"sources-of-soft-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/2020\/02\/sources-of-soft-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansion House Reception &#8211; UK Soft Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>19th February 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>William Russell,<\/strong>\u00a0KJStJ, Lord Mayor of London<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Cleverly MP<\/strong>, Minister of State, the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development, Member for Braintree<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sophia Gaston<\/strong>, Director of the British Foreign Policy Group<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Reeve<\/strong>, Deputy Director and COO of the V&amp;A<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stevie Spring CBE (Chair)<\/strong>, Chair of the British Council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The British Foreign Policy Group and the British Council, co-convenors of the UK Soft Power Group, are hosting a drinks reception at Mansion House with the Lord Mayor for the City of London Corporation, exploring the future of the UK\u2019s soft power.\u00a0Bringing together senior representatives from a wide range of industries with a stake in the UK&#8217;s global image and influence, the event will launch the latest British Council research into the\u00a0<em>&#8216;Sources of Soft Power&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>and inaugurate the UK Soft Power Group&#8217;s\u00a0programme of high-profile events and activities in 2020. The reception &#8211; held at one of the most spectacular buildings in the City of London &#8211; will also feature a lively panel discussion, examining how to maximise the UK&#8217;s influence and impact, as we move beyond Brexit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>To apply for a place, please contact Matt Gillow at matt.gillow@bfpg.co.uk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Disclaimer(s):<\/em>\u00a0By signing up to this event, you consent to receiving British Foreign Policy Group e-mailings. You are free to opt-out of BFPG updates at any time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/about-us\/\">Privacy policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19th February 2020 Speakers: William Russell,\u00a0KJStJ, Lord Mayor of London James Cleverly MP, Minister of State, the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development, Member for Braintree Sophia Gaston, Director of the British Foreign Policy Group Tim Reeve, Deputy Director and COO of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":19843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-past-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}