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CohenJoel Cohen
Communications Manager
BeyondMe
Joel manages communications and growth at BeyondMe, a movement of young professionals who donate time, skills and money to a range of charities working in London. Prior to BeyondMe, Joel co-ordinated volunteers for the UK’s toughest schools’ debating competition, Debating Matters, and worked to establish the competition in Israel. As an associate fellow of the Academy of Ideas, Joel is a regular convener and chair of debates at Europe’s premier ideas festival, the Battle of Ideas, and has written on a range of issues across civic life, education, politics, international affairs and the arts. In 2016 he co-founded Invoke Democracy Now!, a campaign group working for democratic renewal after Brexit. Joel graduated with a BA in Politics from SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and once survived driving from London to Ghana in a Ford Fiesta.
PEOPLE
DEBATING MATTERS HISTORY
Championship: Berlin 2018
Championship: Berlin 2018
Championship: London South 2018
DEBATE: Universal Basic Income
Championship: London South 2018
DEBATE: Historical monuments
Berlin: DM Berlin 2017
Qualifying Round: Bromley 2016/17
DEBATE: Historical monuments
Qualifying Round: Bromley 2016/17
DEBATE: Political Parties
Qualifying Round: ARK South 2015/16
DEBATE: Doping in Sport
Qualifying Round: Cornwall 2014/15
DEBATE: Unhealthy Lifestyles
Qualifying Round: Devon 2014/15
DEBATE: Fracking
Qualifying Round: South Wales 2014/15
DEBATE: Unhealthy Lifestyles
Qualifying Round: South Wales 2014/15
DEBATE: Fracking
Qualifying Round: South Wales 2014/15
DEBATE: Art Censorship
Regional Final: West & South Wales 2013/14
DEBATE: Fertility Tourism
Regional Final: West & South Wales 2013/14
DEBATE: Smacking
Qualifying Round: Hertfordshire 2012/13
DEBATE: Energy Futures
Qualifying Round: Hertfordshire 2012/13
DEBATE: Boozy Britain
Qualifying Round: Brighton & Hove 2011/12
DEBATE: Supermarkets
Qualifying Round: South London 2011/12
DEBATE: Public Health
Qualifying Round: Derry 2010/11
DEBATE: Sportspeople as Role Models
Qualifying Round: Derry 2010/11
DEBATE: Extremism on Campus
Qualifying Round: North Wales 2010/11
DEBATE: Privacy Online
Qualifying Round: North Wales 2010/11
DEBATE: Genetic Screening
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday 27 June:
Oxfordshire Championship at Oxford Union, in partnership with Magdalen College School and Oxford Festival of Arts
Friday 5 July:
North East Championship at Durham Sixth Form Centre
CHAMPIONSHIP ARCHIVE
Find a list of all our previous championship events here.
SUPPORT DEBATING MATTERS
Bernie Whelan, our DM coordinator, is raising money for Debating Matters.
To stage one of our Championships for six to 12 teams costs £6,000. Find out more on Bernie’s
Wonderful fundraising page.
