Andrew Preston

Andrew Preston is Director of the Oslo-based Forum for Environment and Development (ForUM), a network of over 50 Norwegian civil society organizations working on international environment, development, peace and human rights issues. Andrew has 20 years of experience in the non-governmental sector, working on grassroots economic and social development as well as human rights issues in the disability and water sectors. Andrew Preston holds a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Cambridge.

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Thursday 7 November 2013, 4.35pm Statoil ASA Fornebu, Oslo, Martin Linges vei 33 1364 Fornebu, Norway

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"Who would choose to go to a session on free will at 10:30 on a Sunday morning? A few hundred of the most engaged, passionate and discursive participants I have encountered. As a neuroscientist on the panel I felt my science was aired and challenged in exemplary fashion. As a passionate believer in engagement I couldn’t have been more delighted."
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