Noreena Hertz Interviewed by Ian Goldin

Thought leader, academic and broadcaster professor Noreena Hertz talks to Professor Ian Goldin about how loneliness was already becoming the defining condition of the 21st century before social distancing and explains how we can reverse this trend.

Hertz explores how our increasing dependence on technology, changes to the workplace, and decades of policies that have placed self-interest above the collective good, are making us more isolated. It is a world in which two in five pensioners say their main form of company is television or a pet and four in ten 16-24-year-olds say they often or always feel lonely. Hertz explains what we can do to heal a fractured world and come together again.
Hertz, an honorary professor at at the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London,  was described as ‘one of the world’s most inspiring women’ by Vogue. She is author of The Silent Takeover, I.O.U. and Eyes Wide Open, a former host on America’s largest radio network Sirius XM, and a former ITV economics editor.

Goldin is a professor of globalisation and development at the University of Oxford and a former vice-president of the World Bank.