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On Adversity and Public Service: A Conversation with Lord William Hague

Friday 26 June, 2026

What does it take to build a life of service to others—and how does one learn to live with failure, and disagree well, along the way?

In this wide-ranging conversation, Lord William Hague, Oxford University Chancellor and former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, sits down with Bincheng Mao, Rhodes Scholar and doctoral student in History at Oxford, to take up that question and many others gathered from Rhodes Scholars around the world.

Bincheng Lord Hague