War, economic crisis, political repression and environmental degradation are pushing increasing numbers of people to make the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe with astounding numbers of deaths as a result. Chief executive of the Refugee Council, Maurice Wren, multi-award winning investigative journalist, Sorious Samura and Leopold Muller Associate Professor in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, at the University of Oxford, Alexander Betts form the panel of this talk chaired by executive editor of Monocle and host of Monocle 24’s The Foreign Desk, Steve Bloomfield.