The next Marlborough Brandt Lent Lecture – the thirty-third in the series – will be given by the cross-bench life peeress Baroness Cox. She is the founder and chief executive officer of the charity HART – the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust.
The lecture will be held in the College Memorial Hall on 5 March 2015.
The title of Baroness Cox’ illustrated lecture will be “The Pain and the Passion – the Privilege of Making a Difference”.
She says of HART’s work: “We work with people in conflict or post-conflict regions who are largely off the radar screen of international media and major aid organisations suffering oppression and persecution – whatever their faith tradition.”
“Often they are trapped behind closed borders suffering from repressive regimes who deny access to major aid organisations, so we spend some of our time crossing borders unofficially – and shamelessly to provide aid and advocacy for people who are unreached, unhelped and unheard”.
Baroness Cox was given a life peerage in 1982 by Mrs Thatcher. She became a cross-bencher in 2004 when she lost the Conservative Party whip after signing a letter urging people to vote for UKIP in the European Elections.
