There was a lot of interest when it was announced that a long-time advisor to some of the world’s wealthiest families was writing a book on their connections to society, tax, politics, the origins of their wealth and more. That excitement was not shared by the publisher’s lawyers who deemed the stories too controversial to print. 

This discussion will be a first ever distribution of the unpublished manuscript where we will discuss the need for a Ministry of Extreme Wealth, a moment of global redistribution and an ethical overhaul of the private wealth industry as well as exploring the models for more progressive approaches to extreme wealth. 

Everyone present will be given a copy of the unpublished manuscript and will hope to leave with a new lens on wealth, citizenship and how our society is organised.

Speakers

Jake Hayman has spent 20 years working with the world’s wealthiest families. Jake founded/co-founded a number of advisory firms working with wealth holders including The Social Investment Consultancy, Impatience Earth, Good Ancestor Movement and Ten Years’ Time. Jake is a serial social entrepreneur and was named one of London’s ‘Most Influential’ by the Evening Standard. Previously he co-founded social enterprises Future First, 2027 and InHive and served on the trustee board of the Early Intervention Foundation and the board and investment committee of the Lankelly Chase Foundation.

Arun Advani is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Warwick. He studies issues of inequality, tax compliance, and tax design, with a focus on those with high incomes or wealth. In 2020 he was one of three Commissioners at the Wealth Tax Commission. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute, and a Research Associate of the CAGE Research Centre.  From 2020-22 he was also a member of the Department for Education’s Skills and Productivity Board.

Louisa Mann is a director and family member of a privately managed and financed single-family office. Louisa is the Chair of Thirty Percy Foundation, an independent foundation established in 2018. Thirty Percy support pioneering and visionary leaders working to accelerate the transition toward a regenerative, equitable and just future for all. They consciously choose an emergent approach, involving a continuous process of listening and learning from those closest to the work at a community and systemic level. Louisa is also a very proud granny!

Jen Hooke is an advisor focused on exploring alternative pathways for organising and stewarding our shared planetary commons. A lawyer by training, Jen is interested in the role of governance in transformation: how we blend the technical complexity of the problem space, the ethics of interventions and human relational dynamics. Jen co-founded Thirty Percy (with Louisa Mann) and has helped catalyse a number of initiatives, the most recent being Haven and, together with Dark Matter Labs, a next generation capital allocator accelerator. Jen is the independent board chair of mission led climate foundation QCF and an advisory board member of Arkadiko Partners.