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DowPamela Dow
chief reform officer
Catch 22
Pamela is chief reform officer at Catch 22, which delivers more local and human services across the social welfare cycle. She is a former senior Whitehall civil servant with experience of education and justice reform at the highest level. Serving as principal private secretary to Rt Hon Michael Gove MP in his role as secretary of state for education, and then again as his director of strategy at the Ministry of Justice, her particular interest is in public service improvement and how to change culture and practice using the machinery of government. More recently, she has been director of development, prison reform at HMP Wandsworth. Pamela has been a judge for the Academy of Ideas Debating Matters Competition for the past two years, including for the 2016 National Final, and helped found Debating Matters Israel. She also set up and runs De Beauvoir Debates, a quarterly event programme in North London.
PEOPLE
DEBATING MATTERS HISTORY
Championship: Oxford 2018
DEBATE: Medical data sharing
National FInal: National Final 2016/17
DEBATE: Populism
Championship: London South 2018
DEBATE: Online privacy (revised 2017)
Championship: London South 2018
DEBATE: Universal Basic Income
Championship: London South 2018
DEBATE: Contact sports
Regional Final: London North 2016/17
DEBATE: Water scarcity
Regional Final: London North 2016/17
DEBATE: Trigger warnings
Regional Final: East 2016/17
DEBATE: Political Parties
Regional Final: East 2016/17
DEBATE: Health monitoring
Qualifying Round: Hackney 2016/17
DEBATE: Political Parties
Qualifying Round: Hackney 2016/17
DEBATE: Historical monuments
National FInal: National Final 2015/16
DEBATE: Reparations
National FInal: National Final 2015/16
DEBATE: Trident
Regional Final: London North 2015/16
DEBATE: Reparations
Regional Final: London South 2015/16
DEBATE: Compulsory Vaccinations
Regional Final: London South 2015/16
DEBATE: Gentrification
Regional Final: London North 2015/16
DEBATE: Sugar
Qualifying Round: Hertfordshire 2015/16
DEBATE: The BBC
Qualifying Round: Hertfordshire 2015/16
DEBATE: Doping in Sport
DEBATE: DM Israel: Online Activism
DEBATE: DM Israel: Megacities
Regional Final: London North 2014/15
DEBATE: Art Censorship
Regional Final: London North 2014/15
DEBATE: Drugs Policy
Regional Final: South East 2014/15
DEBATE: Offence
Regional Final: South East 2014/15
DEBATE: Space Exploration
Qualifying Round: Bradford 2014/15
DEBATE: Art Censorship
Qualifying Round: Bradford 2014/15
DEBATE: Fracking
Qualifying Round: Enfield 2014/15
DEBATE: Role models
Qualifying Round: Enfield 2014/15
DEBATE: Libraries
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.