This event is now fully booked. Please join the waiting list聽and we will be in touch if any spaces become available. The lecture will be live streamed, with a recording available afterward for those unable to attend in person.
If you have already booked tickets but can no longer attend, please email us at聽events@rgs.org so we can offer your place to someone on the waiting list.
Geopolitical expert Tim Marshall explores how politics and geography are as important in the skies as on the ground, covering great-power rivalry, technology, commerce, combat in space, and what it all means for us down on Earth.
About the speaker
Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
He is the author of the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Prisoners of geography: ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics (which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide), The power of geography: ten maps that reveal the future of our world and The future of geography: how power and politics in space will change our world.
Booking for in-person attendance is required.
About Monday night lectures
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Monday night lectures are open to Fellows and Members and are included in the cost of membership.
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Monday night lectures are held in person in the Ondaatje Theatre and the bar will be open in the Map Room before and after the lecture.聽Please be advised all payments are card only.
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All Fellows and Members wanting to attend in person must pre-book a free ticket.
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All Monday night lectures are livestreamed via our website so you can watch them from wherever you are.
Venue information
This event will be held in the Ondaatje Lecture Theatre at Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR.
Doors open at 5.30pm. The lecture will begin at 6.30pm.
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