He is the creator of the hit television series House of Cards, taken from his trilogy of political thrillers. Prominent figure of the English political panorama, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, he is now a member of the House of Lords.

The audience of ICS Europe 2014 and ICS Rome 2014 was fascinated by his acute reflections on the function of storytelling to construct and preserve the identity of a community and its cultural heritage.