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Room for Discussion, UvA & SEFA

Room for Discussion is the interview platform of the University of Amsterdam. We organise interviews with professors, entrepreneurs, economists, politicians, philosophers, CEOs and journalists to discuss relevant economic topics and recent events.

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De strijd tegen terrorisme – Dick Schoof (NCTV)

De strijd tegen terrorism...

April 19, 2017

College Tour Turned Around – A Conversation with Twan Huys

College Tour Turned Aroun...

February 14, 2024

Startups in The Netherlands with Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau & Alexander Ribbink

Startups in The Netherlan...

March 7, 2016

Knot Your Average Banker: Klaas Knot, President of Dutch National Bank

Knot Your Average Banker:...

November 7, 2024

Lustrum: Turbulence Ahead? The Future of Flying  with Marjan Rintel, the CEO of KLM

Lustrum: Turbulence Ahead...

March 14, 2024

Ratan Tata

Ratan Tata

January 8, 2013

Thinking beyond Patterns with Arend Lijphart: Democracies & Decline in the Twenty-First Century

Thinking beyond Patterns ...

June 11, 2024

Moving beyond Migration Myths: On Rhetoric and Reality with Hein de Haas

Moving beyond Migration M...

April 22, 2024

Lustrum: Securing Peace, Ensuring Power – A Conversation with NATO’s Chair of the Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer

Lustrum: Securing Peace, ...

March 26, 2024

Lustrum: Defending our values? With Minister of Defence Ollongren

Lustrum: Defending our va...

June 19, 2024

Daron Acemoglu: The narrow corridor of states, societies, and the fate of Liberty.

Daron Acemoglu: The narro...

June 16, 2021

Blue + Yellow = Green? – Investigating the Sustainability of Vattenfall with their CCO, Cindy Kroon

Blue + Yellow = Green? &#...

February 29, 2024

Wouter Bos

Wouter Bos

October 8, 2014

De Natuur op Instorten: In gesprek met de Minister voor Natuur en Stikstof

De Natuur op Instorten: I...

March 6, 2023

Warfare beyond technology with Yehor Soboliev, AV unit commander & Former Ukrainian MP

Warfare beyond technology...

April 9, 2024