BBUK Virtual Meetings 2026

Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi: "Hezbollah Global Inc: How terrorism and organised crime converge" (Bureau of International Affairs, 10 February 2026)

Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Terror Financing and a Senior Advisor to 240 Analytics LTD, an OSINT platform focused on identifying and mitigating risk from terror finance networks.

For more than two decades, Western intelligence has known that Hezbollah raises a large part of its budget from joint venture with trans-national criminal organizations

John Fieldsend: "Kindertransport: My Story" (BBUK, 21 January 2026)

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1931 and raised in Germany, John Fieldsend experienced growing antisemitism under the Nazi regime before being sent to Britain on the Kindertransport. His parents, who remained behind, were later murdered in the Holocaust. After the war, John received a final letter from them, which he still treasures to this day.

John later became an Anglican minister, and his life story reflects a powerful journey of identity, faith and survival. His testimony is moving, thoughtful, and deeply human