In paternership with
Oxygen is an interactive events programme featuring high-profile Commonwealth speakers, predominantly from professional backgrounds outside of the creative industries.
In providing a platform for prominent individuals to speak about their experiences within their chosen field, Oxygen will seek to inspire those within the Scottish creative and cultural industries, offer new perspectives, and provide organisations in Scotland with the opportunity to host high-profile speakers.
The programme is led by the Royal Commonwealth Society in partnership with Creative Scotland.
Events will take place during 2011-12 in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and elsewhere in Scotland. See below for speakers and event details.
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Professor Tim Flannery
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Tim Flannery is one of Australia's leading thinkers and writers. As a scientist, explorer and conservationist his achievements are many. Amongst them are the discovery of over thirty new species of mammal, being honoured Australian of the Year in 2007, co-founding and chairing the Copenhagen Climate Council, and selling over a million copies of his book The Weather Makers, one of the most influential texts in our understanding of global warming.
Tim will be doing a series of three events - don't miss this opportunity to hear Tim speak about his extensive work, in conversation with Scott Donaldson from Creative Scotland.
Edinburgh
Wednesday 4th April 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edingburgh
This event is free to attend.Click here to register for tickets.
Aberdeen
Thursday 5th April 2012, 2pm, The James Hutton Institute
This event is free to attend. Click here to email Jane at The James Hutton Institute to reserve a space 
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London
Monday 16th April 2012, 12.30pm, The Royal Commonwealth Society
This event is free to attend. Click here to book a place.
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Josephine Rydberg-Dumont
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Josephine has a passion for creative leadership and ideas-based business development. Based in Sweden she directs her consulting firm advising international companies in their quest for a meaningful role in peoples' lives. Her business experience comes from 24 years of practicing creative leadership in the fast-growing IKEA Group, most recently as one of the top executives in the global IKEA Group Management. Between 2000 and 2007 she directed the IKEA home furnishing organisation- range, product development, purchasing, supply, commercial and a 13.000 world-wide people organisation- that grew IKEA sales from 7 to 20 billion Euro. Josephine is committed to the practice of design-thinking and to achieving simplicity as a universal mark of quality. Her claim is that good business can help improve peoples' everyday lives.
Come back soon for more information about Josephine's events.
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Past Speakers
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Mark Inglis
Oxygen was launched in November 2011 with a speaking tour featuring Mark Inglis. Mark lost both his legs to frost bite when he was 23-years-old and went on to be the only double amputee to have climbed Mount Everest, fitting in a multitude of careers in between, including working as a scientist, a world recognised winemaker, and Paralympic medal winner.
His first stop was New Galloway, a small village near Dumfries, and a sold out event at a local art gallery, The Catstrand.
"Mark gave an inspiring presentation and talk on his life and the audience were in awe of his story: to come back from the losing both his legs and then climb to the peak of Mount Everest. His motivation was the compelling factor in his life journey and the local community here were drawn
to this man because he delivered his story with honesty, humour and a respect for human nature and the world around us." Sean Paul O'Hare, The CatStrand
Mark also traveled across the country to Huntly, where he gave another three talks, two of them in schools. He also commandeered a 10km hike with local residents, using his mountaineering expertise to put them on the right path after they got lost along the way...
Hugh Masekela
As part of the Commonwealth Week activities in March 2012 Oxygen brought the legendary South African jazz trumpeter, Hugh Masekela to Scotland for an event in conversation with Hardeep Singh Kohli. An outspoken advocate for civil rights on both sides of the Atlantic and universally considered one of jazz's greatest horn players, he talked about his career spent pushing both social and musical boundaries.