Christian Aid is an international organisation of more than 900 staff working to end poverty. They believe that local people in poor countries are the real experts on poverty. So they support more than 700 local organisations, because they’re best placed to understand the causes of poverty and how to fight it.

Fairtrade works with similar aims and in similar ways. It was therefore appropriate that Wycombe for Fairtrade’s chairman and treasurer attended the event that celebrated Christian Aid’s 80th anniversary.

Here I Stand
The Christian Aid Annual Lecture – with Mariana Mazzucato
St Martins in the Fields
Monday 6th October 2025. 7.00 – 8.30pm

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, a world-renowned economist, brings new vision to economics that can tackle global issues and confront international inequalities on our threatened planet.

She focused on 5 elements that needed to be addressed:

• Meaning and direction of the economy
• The objectives that need setting
• Knowledge sharing and working together at local, national, and international levels.
• Transparency and Accountability – Who owns what? Who benefits? How and Why?
• Economics for the Common Good, Inclusivity and collective action and more public – private partnerships to include giving marginalized people a voice.

There is an embedded video of the lecture below. It is about 60 minutes long with 30 minutes of questions and answers, some from the floor, but other questions from a former Chief Political and International BBC journalist.