Keynote Address: Becoming the Change, Ben Okri

Ben Okri opens the "Currents of Change: New Horizons in Systemic Risk symposium," 7-9 June 2025. Ben is the Nigerian-born poet, cultural activist, and author of thirteen novels, including the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, the first in a trilogy, and Astonishing the Gods, which was selected as one of the BBC’s ‘100 novels that shaped our world’, as well as collections of poetry, short stories, plays and essays. His work has been translated into more than 27 languages.