Jan 15 2023 70 mins 1
Born in 1963, and the son of a WWII veteran, Karl graduated from University of London, in 1984 with a BSc Honours degree in geology.
Based in London between 1984 and 2009 Karl opened, operated, and sold many successful restaurants, bars, and music & comedy venues. In 2011 he was named one of the top twenty most influential people in the UK hospitality trade.
He has found success as a real estate investor and developer since 1987 and involved in the travel sector since 2000, Karl is a co-founder and co-owner of a well-known family holiday brand operating in the UK, France, Spain and Ireland.
In sport Karl was a co-founder/investor at Seattle SeaWolves which took the silverware in the first two seasons of Major League Rugby in the United States.
He has been an occasional contributing writer for UK satirical magazine Private Eye. He has co-produced a series of award- winning short horror films.
A campaigner for reform of abusive practices in the UK pub sector Karl was instrumental in The Fair Pint Campaign culminating in a change to UK law after the successful defeat of the Cameron government on the issue in House of Commons and the passage of a private member’s bill.
Since 2009 he has lived in Vancouver, Canada, with Emma, his partner of 30 years and their two children. After family other passions include travel, wine, cooking, flyfishing for steelhead, big spaces, hunting, film, IPA, growing anything, being on his boat off the BC coast, music, trying to be better at playing the guitar, generally realizing that we aren’t here for very long at all, and motorbikes..............
Rupa Subramanya is a researcher and writer with graduate degrees in economics and international affairs from Carleton University, with more than ten years of experience in impactful, evidence-based public policy analysis and commentary focusing on India and the Asia Pacific region. At present, Ms. Subramanya is a columnist for the National Post and Nikkei Asia, focusing on Canada, India, and Asia Pacific issues.
For a decade, Rupa was based in India, where she wrote regularly on economics and public policy issues in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and The Globe and Mail, among others. She has written reports on India and Asia Pacific issues for think-tanks in Canada and India and co-authored a best-selling book, Indianomix, published by Random House in 2012 and reprinted in paperback in 2015.
Ms. Subramanya’s writing on violence against women in India led to a co-authored front page story in The Wall Street Journal (2013), which won the prestigious Society of Publishers in Asia award, and the story was anthologized in a book published by Harper Collins. Her recent research on sectarian violence in India has been widely cited, including in The Financial Times (2017).
She is frequently interviewed in the international media, including in outlets such as The New York Times, Financial Times, and BBC News and by think-tanks such as Hudson Institute. Her research and writing have been quoted in parliamentary debates in both India and Australia.
Ms. Subramanya has spoken at numerous invitation-only conferences and seminars, including making presentations to government officials and corporate and civil society leaders. Fora that she has spoken at or been invited as a panellist include the American Enterprise Institute, the Liberty Fund, the India Trilateral Forum (Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs), the US National Nuclear Security Administration, and Asia Society, amongst others.
