Miliband to speak on future energy sources in Cambridge lecture

Mr Miliband will be giving the Dr S. T. Lee Public Policy Lecture at the Faculty of Law. The title of his speech will be “The Transition Economy – a future beyond oil?”

Aged 41, Mr Miliband is seen as one of the brightest of his generation of Labour MPs. He worked for Mr Blair's policy unit when the Labour Party was still in opposition and became head of Downing Street's policy unit after the 1997 election.

In 2001 Mr Miliband became MP for South Shields and following a rapid rise through the ranks of government is presently the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. His brother, Ed, is also an MP.

The S. T. Lee lectures were established in 2003 thanks to a benefaction from Seng Tee Lee, the business executive, philanthropist and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Each lecture considers aspects of scientific, medical or technological research and developments that are likely to have significant implications for public policy over the next decade.

This will be the third lecture in the series. Previous lectures have been given by Professor Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to the government, and the Nobel laureate, Sir John Sulston. The event will be chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Alison Richard.

The lecture will take place at 5.30pm on Monday, March 5th in Lecture Room LG19 in the Faculty of Law, West Road, Cambridge. The event is free and open to members of the public. There will also be a reception at which refreshments will be served.