Post Brexit: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker Bios:

Rt Hon Gisela Stuart MP (Host) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston since 1997. Born and raised in West Germany, she migrated to Britain in 1974. Stuart served as Chair and leader of the Vote Leave Campaign Committee as Co-Convenor with Conservative Michael Gove MP.

David McAllister MEP is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who currently serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and as Vice President of the European People's Party (EPP). As a Member of the European Parliament, McAllister serves as chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the United States and as member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He previously served as the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony from 2010 to 2013.

Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Soames MP is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Mid Sussex. Soames was first elected to Parliament in 1983. He was Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 1994 to 1997 in the government of John Major. During last summer's referendum on EU memebership Soames advocated the postion that the United Kingdom's ought to remain a member of the union.