Who could you meet at the Chamberlain Forum?  If you’ve been attending Chamberlain Lectures over the past year or so, you would’ve met three out of Regen & Renewal magazine’s ‘10 to Watch in 2010′ for starters.  And many more people spanning from grassroots activists to policy makers and opinion shapers.

On Regen & Renewal magazine’s list of ‘10 to Watch in 2010′:

Caroline Spelman

Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary who may be heading CLG before the Summer of 2010.  Caroline spoke at the Chamberlain Forum in Summer 2009.

Iain Duncan-Smith

Former Conservative leader and head of the thinktank the Centre for Social Justice, IDS is expected to be in a Cameron cabinet with responsibility for social justice.  Spoke at Chamberlain Forum in 2008.

Phillip Blond

Head of the thinktank ResPublica, ‘Red Tory’ and Cameron’s ‘philosopher king’.   Phillip spoke at the Chamberlain Forum in November 2009.

Who else would you have met at the Chamberlain Forum over the past months? The list would have included: Balsall Heath Forum Director, Dr Dick Atkinson; ex-Home Secretary and influential Labour politician, David Blunkett; Head of the Centre for Cities, Dermot Finch; Mike Whitby, leader of Birmingham City Council; head of the Institute for Community Cohesion, Ted Cantle;  leader of the Respect Party, Salma Yaqoob; founder of the First Class Youth Network, Melissa Shervington; Neville Summerfield, Birmingham’s regeneration Cabinet member; and Sir Bob Kerslake – head of the Homes and Communities Agency.

All Chamberlain Forum lectures are free events.  We try and locate them in community venues and in neighbourhoods.  Why not join us at this year’s Chamberlain Forum and Resident University events to meet ‘the ones to watch in 2011′?