Shirley Williams is leader of Britain’s Liberal Democratic party in the House of Lords. She has taught at Harvard, Princeton and Berkeley universities. She is on the board of the International Crisis Group and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Can globalisation be equitable? Is world poverty and inequality the result of too much globalisation, or not enough? Is an active role for government now endorsed even by neo-liberals? And in an age of global economic forces, must governance itself become global? On the eve of the World Trade Organisation summit in Qatar, the founder of the WTO and chairman of BP discusses these issues with the Harvard University academic and leader of Britain’s Liberal Democratic party in the House of Lords.