Kate Bayliss | Privatising Humanity
Sun 22 Nov 2026 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Political economist, researcher and writer Dr Kate Bayliss brings us her powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs – water, energy and housing – into assets. In her new book Privatising Humanity, Kate shows how investment banks and hedge funds target our essential services. When it comes to investments in these sectors, we the end-users and taxpayers fund the shareholder profits. We have no alternatives. Kate shares the devastating consequences of this model, which is driving inequality to levels not seen in a century.
Venue: Cambridge Union Library
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Kate Bayliss is a Research Associate with the Department of Economics. She has worked extensively on privatisation, financialisation and social equity, in the UK and the Global South. Her particular research interest is in the shifting paradigms surrounding private sector engagement in the provision of essential infrastructures and in meeting basic needs.
