In our May xChange Paul Skinner, founder of MarketingKind, will host and interview Sir John Kay, CBE to explore the ideas in his latest book The Corporation in the 21st Century.

John is an economist whose career has spanned the academic world, business and finance, and public affairs. He has held chairs at the London Business School, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, where he began his academic career in 1970. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He is the author of many books, including The Truth about Markets (2003), The Long and the Short of It (2009, new revised edition 2016), Obliquity (2010) and Other People’s Money (2015). Radical Uncertainty, jointly written with Mervyn King, was published in March 2020. Greed is Dead, co-authored with Paul Collier, was published in July 2020. And The Corporation in the 21st Century was published in August 2024 and was shortlisted for FT Business Book of the Year.