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Forum Radio: Anthony Monckton

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2463768/fan_mail/new] Anthony Monckton (London, Vienna) is an expert on risk, security, negotiation and conflict resolution, having served as an army officer before moving into diplomacy, specialising in national security. He talks this week to Jessica Fellowes about ViennEast, the company he established over ten years ago as a risk advisory and due diligency consultancy.  ViennEast deals with a wide range of challenges faced by individuals and companies, from retrieving money that has been stolen and transferred across several countries – one case involves dealing with lawyers in six European countries – to personal fraud. Increasingly, too, there are complicated ethical and legal implications around data training in AI. But his simplest and best tip for protecting your own digital data: do the updates on your smartphone apps! Music by Alex Vickers

Forum Radio: Hanlie van Wyk

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2463768/fan_mail/new] This week, we talk to Forum 500 member Hanlie van Wyk (Chicago), a social scientist, psycho-geographer and executive coach working with leaders and teams across borders, resolving polarisation and conflict. All of us, no matter what our industry, have faced something of this nature at some point. Hanlie talks about how her own upbringing, in which she witnessed first-hand apartheid and the 1994 transition in South Africa to a democratically-elected government, informed so much of the way she works today. Hanlie brings great insight, too, to how conflict at work often starts small but if left unresolved can lead to very difficult situations: 'Death by papercuts.' There are also the bigger challenges that occur when companies merge or expand quickly, which is often the point at which Hanlie is brought in to help. Hanlie has found recently that it's become even more important to shift attention to the layer just beneath the most senior level of management, to ensure an open and fair culture.  Music by Alex Vickers

Forum Radio: Winston Fisher

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2463768/fan_mail/new] Winston Fisher (New York) is a partner and third generation of the Fisher Brothers, the royal family of real estate in Manhattan, founded in 1915. Winston directs the company’s financing and investing activities, property acquisitions and dispositions and oversees all new development initiatives. One of the most exciting of these being Area 15 in Las Vegas, which was developed with Michael Beneville (NY/LA). Winston sits on a number of boards and is also seriously involved in several philanthropic activities, particularly the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Funds, participating in extreme sports to raise funds to support wounded US troops. Alongside all of this, Winston has an active, thoughtful interest in politics, writing a monthly newsletter on current issues. And on the subject none of us can get away from, Fisher has a stark warning for the use of AI in his industry: 'I said three years ago, there's going to be two types of people who are employed. People who use AI will have a job and people who do not will not. At the end of this year, that's going to apply to everybody. Does that mean we're going to let everybody go? No, but if you're not able to utilize it, if you're not able to vibe code, if you're not able to understand sophisticated prompt engineering and multi-agent programs, I don't know if you have a place. It's not terrible. It's exciting.' This episode was edited by Vanessa Heaney.  Music by Alex Vickers

Forum Radio: Druv Kent

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2463768/fan_mail/new] Druv Kent – aka ‘Dhruv’ – is a financier turned singer/songwriter, recording in both English and Hindi. HIs 2015 debut saw him become the first Asia-based artist supported by BBC Radio 2 in twenty years. He’s since scored several #1 hits on the World Indie Music Charts, the Euro Charts and the US Top 20. Recently, he featured in Rolling Stone magazine.  Brought up in Kolkata before moving to America, Druv returned to India in the mid-90s to begin his banking career. In this he was very successful, and his work took him to Hong Kong and Singapore, for Credit Suisse and Deutschbank. But all the while that Druv was working as an investment banker, he was also a musician, and finally in 2013, he decided to pursue music as a career. There are some lovely thoughts in here about creativity and how to open yourself up to it:  "What's changed [for me] is there's a level of quiet confidence... when I started, I was in such a rush because I could not believe that I was capable or I could channel this kind of energy through me. It's less about my own capability. It's more about this ability to get into the state of being able to move yourself out of the way, move your ego out of the way, and let the song come to you and, through exploration, figure out what it's trying to say and let it speak through you." Music by Alex Vickers

Forum Radio: Lindsay Cooper

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2463768/fan_mail/new] Forum Radio host Jessica Fellowes talks in this episode with Lindsay Cooper (Singapore) about his transition from finance into the longevity and health sector. Lindsay attempted to semi-retire from business in 2017 but was scuppered when he was tempted into buying a convent in the Cotswolds just before the COVID pandemic. Initially intended as a wellness retreat, the project sparked an interest in preventative health and longevity science.  Through connections in Singapore – he has lived in Asia for most of his adult life –Lindsay met leading experts including Professor Brian Kennedy and Professor Andrea Meier. Together they have brought longevity science research into clinical practice with Chi Longevity, rapidly growing the business through partnerships with luxury brands like Four Seasons.  Linday argues that longevity medicine represents a fundamental shift in healthcare – from reactive, specialist-driven treatment to proactive, preventative and personalised care, driven by tech advances and increased public health awareness.  "We've had this wellness menu for some time, with diet, exercise, sleep and so forth. But the real excitement – and the reason that everyone's putting such huge money into this space just now – is because of the medical breakthroughs, which are increasingly beginning to break and will only be helped by the AI revolution." This episode was produced by Vanessa Heaney.  Music by Alex Vickers