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The people, in their own account.

The Beyond Home conversations programme: long-form interviews, in preparation, with people building careers, companies and capital beyond the countries they first called home.

Lead conversation · No. 01 · Planned conversation

The price of sending money home

Target guest profile: senior correspondent-banking practitioner. United Kingdom.

A planned conversation on the settlement chain behind a remittance: where a transfer can lose value between a European sender and a recipient in West Africa, and why the true cost may extend beyond the headline fee.

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6 conversations in preparation

  • No. 01 · Capital

    The price of sending money home

    Target guest profile: senior correspondent-banking practitioner
    United Kingdom

    A planned conversation on the settlement chain behind a remittance: where a transfer can lose value between a European sender and a recipient in West Africa, and why the true cost may extend beyond the headline fee.

    Planned conversation

  • No. 02 · Entrepreneurship

    Building a payments company from the outside

    Target guest profile: founder of a regulated cross-border payments business
    Western Europe

    A planned conversation on founding a regulated payments business in Europe for a market connected to home: operating at a distance, licensing where you live, and avoiding assumptions about customers you think you already understand.

    Planned conversation

  • No. 03 · Science & Health

    Two health systems, one career

    Target guest profile: consultant clinician in a public health service
    United Kingdom

    A planned conversation on training abroad, sharing expertise across borders, and the difficult arithmetic of medical migration for both the health systems clinicians join and the ones they leave behind.

    Planned conversation

  • No. 04 · Capital

    Financing infrastructure that outlives you

    Target guest profile: senior project-finance practitioner
    Continental Europe

    A planned conversation on long-dated capital: why infrastructure finance can be difficult to secure, what institutional committees need to see, and how convertibility, governance and exit risk shape investment decisions.

    Planned conversation

  • No. 05 · Policy

    The policy gap in diaspora strategy

    Target guest profile: development economist or public-policy practitioner
    Continental Europe

    A planned conversation on the distance between national diaspora strategies and day-to-day administration, and what would have to change for engagement to become an operating function rather than a document.

    Planned conversation

  • No. 06 · Science & Health

    Research without a passport problem

    Target guest profile: internationally mobile research scientist
    Continental Europe

    A planned conversation on visas, laboratory access and the quiet architecture of scientific collaboration — and how institutions can make knowledge mobility less dependent on where a researcher was born.

    Planned conversation

Contributors are described by role only. No conversation on this page refers to a named individual, and no interview has been recorded or published.