Matteo Rizzo's guest appearances

Matteo Rizzo

Ice Talk

Ice Time Podcast

EQUALS: Reimagining Our Economy

Ted Barton

Phil Hersh

Tracy Wilson

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva

Kaetlyn Osmond

Jason Brown

Michal Brezina

Vincent Zhou

Misha Ge

Meagan Duhamel

Philip Alston

Gary Younge

Christine Brennan

Michelle Kwan

Vanessa James

OwlTail

Bassam Khawaja

We need to talk about buses. Yes, buses. And inequality. The issue that nobody’s talking about.Since the 80s, transport across the world has been privatized – fueling an inequality crisis that undermines our human rights.Liz, Max and Nabil chat to Bassam Khawaja (Co-Director, Human Rights and Privatization Project, NYU Law School Center for Human Rights and Global Justice) and Matteo Rizzo (Senior Lecturer in Development Studies - SOAS University of London) who know lots about buses. We ask: What do buses have to do with inequality in countries from the UK to Tanzania? What did privatization do? What is this new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system springing up in developing countries all about? What are the solutions?Bassam and his co-authors recently made headlines about the privatization of large parts of UK’s transport system, writing a report on its failures. It shows that, despite the government promising that a privatized system would lead to “lower fares, new services, and more passengers”, while removing “any potential future liability on the taxpayer”, that has not been the case.Matteo, who lived in Dar es Salaam for 6 years has researched new bus systems. His recent publications cover work and employment; BRT’s exclusionary nature and neoliberalism and precarious labour in relation to public transport in developing countries.Please do share the episode on your social media.If you’re joining us on EQUALS for the first time, tune in to our earlier interviews – from talking with the award-winning journalist Gary Younge on what we can learn from Martin Luther King Jr to fight inequality, to best-selling author Anand Giridharadas on whether we need billionaires, Zambian music artist PilAto on the power of music, thinker Ece Temelkuran on beating fascism, climate activist Hindou Ibrahim on nature, and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva on what comes after the pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We need to talk about buses. Yes, buses. And inequality. The issue that nobody’s talking about.Since the 80s, transport across the world has been privatized – fueling an inequality crisis that undermines our human rights.Liz, Max and Nabil chat to Bassam Khawaja (Co-Director, Human Rights and Privatization Project, NYU Law School Center for Human Rights and Global Justice) and Matteo Rizzo (Senior Lecturer in Development Studies - SOAS University of London) who know lots about buses. We ask: What do buses have to do with inequality in countries from the UK to Tanzania? What did privatization do? What is this new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system springing up in developing countries all about? What are the solutions?Bassam and his co-authors recently made headlines about the privatization of large parts of UK’s transport system, writing a <a href="https://chrgj.org/2021/07/19/press-release-public-transport-private-profit-the-human-cost-of-privatizing-buses-in-the-united-kingdom/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">report</a> on its failures. It shows that, despite the government promising that a privatized system would lead to “lower fares, new services, and more passengers”, while removing “any potential future liability on the taxpayer”, that has not been the case.Matteo, who lived in Dar es Salaam for 6 years has researched new bus systems. His recent publications cover <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017020928248" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">work and employment</a>; <a href="https://theconversation.com/dar-es-salaams-new-rapid-bus-system-won-international-acclaim-but-it-excludes-the-poor-109987" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">BRT’s exclusionary nature</a> and <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/taken-for-a-ride-9780198839057?prevSortField=1&amp;sortField=8&amp;start=0&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;prevNumResPerPage=20&amp;lang=en&amp;cc=hk" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">neoliberalism and precarious labour</a> in relation to public transport in developing countries.Please do share the episode on your social media.If you’re joining us on EQUALS for the first time, tune in to our earlier interviews – from talking with the award-winning journalist Gary Younge on what we can learn from Martin Luther King Jr to fight inequality, to best-selling author Anand Giridharadas on whether we need billionaires, Zambian music artist PilAto on the power of music, thinker Ece Temelkuran on beating fascism, climate activist Hindou Ibrahim on nature, and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva on what comes after the pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

BUSES AND THE INEQUALITY CRISIS – With Bassam Khawaja and Matteo Rizzo

Daniel Grassl

Jack and Ayano speak with Italian skaters Matteo Rizzo and Daniel Grassl, and French skater Adam Siao HIm Fa about this season, their careers, goals for the future, and thoughts about Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno.

No. 20 - Matteo Rizzo, Daniel Grassl, Adam S. H. Fa

Michael Marinaro

World junior bronze medalist Matteo Rizzo tells host Jackie Wong how he was able to make it through his seemingly endless season and what it was like competing at his first Olympics. Then, Canadian pairs skaters Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro talk about how they first got together, dealing with expectations placed on them and the struggles Kirsten went through after suffering a concussion in the summer of 2016.

World junior bronze medalist Matteo Rizzo tells host Jackie Wong how he was able to make it through his seemingly endless season and what it was like competing at his first Olympics. Then, Canadian pairs skaters Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro talk about how they first got together, dealing with expectations placed on them and the struggles Kirsten went through after suffering a concussion in the summer of 2016.

Matteo Rizzo/Kirsten Moore-Towers & Michael Marinaro