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Saturday May 4, 2019 at 4:00pm
Tea and talk, followed by wine and cheese reception
Winchester Country Club
The New Cambridge Economy - a Phenomenon
The New Cambridge Economy - a Phenomenon
Cambridge retains its traditions of cows on Coe Fen and punting on the Cam, but it is also the location for over 5,000 technology companies, mostly indigenous, but now including research outposts of AstraZeneca, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Huawei. How has this come about and how it will fare in post-Brexit Britain?
Please join us at the Winchester Country Club at 4:00pm to hear Matthew address this topic.
Matthew grew up in Oxford and attended Magdalen College School but then crossed the Fens to Peterhouse, where he read History. He then moved into the world of banking with Barclays and then became CEO of the Norwich & Peterborough Building Society and was Chairman of the Building Societies Association. He became Master of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge in 2014.
While at Barclays, he became very involved in economic development in the Cambridge area. As the biggest and most successful high-tech cluster in the UK, Cambridge boasts such successes as the acquisition of smart phone chip manufacturer ARM Holdings by Japan’s SoftBank for $31 billion in 2018.
Head of House seems to run in the Bullock family – Matthew’s father, the noted historian Dr. then Sir and finally Lord Bullock was the censor of Oxford’s St. Catherine's Society from 1952-1962 and then raised the funds to lead its transformation into St Catherine's College, the first new undergraduate college of the 20th century, of which he was Master from 1962 to 1981. He was also the first full-time Vice Chancellor of Oxford, from 1969 to 1973.
The price per person for the event is $60 (or $40 for St. Edmund's College Cambridge alumi), including a full English tea, the Master's talk, and the wine and cheese reception which follows. The first drink is included in the ticket price and there will also be a cash bar. Please book online by the reservation deadline of Wednesday May 1st. Use the 'menu choice' dropdown to select the applicable price. Dress code is business casual.
The Winchester Country Club has ample parking. Directions are here. Although the Winchester Country Club is in the suburbs, it is somewhat accessible from Boston and Cambridge by public transportation. There is infrequent bus service (bus 350) between Alewife Station and the club (Mystic Street/Old Mystic Street stop), or it is a short Lyft/Uber ride from Alewife.
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