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Digital Trends, Future and Technology
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Education, Innovation and Creativity
Environment, Ethics and Science
Government and Politics
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The London Speaker Bureau: • first opened its doors in 1994
• provides CEOs and Chairmen to advise Boards of Directors
• was the first speaker bureau in the Gulf, Russia, India and Japan
• prides itself on the knowledge and experience of its consultants
• is a truly global business operating in ten different time zones
• helps finds solutions to corporate and government issues
• has 18 offices across the world and caters for over 2,000 speakers and advisors
• supports a range of projects in the community
• has provided speakers for more than 20,000 events
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Digital Trends, Future and Technology
The fast moving development of technology since the 1990’s which has made vast quantities of information available on an unimaginable scale may be considered the greatest intellectual invention since that of the printing press. Advancements in technology have moved at a rapid pace and our lives have become defined by technology and digital processes. New business trends such as social media have become important influences of our generation where they did not exist ten years ago. Facebook, Twitter and Google are not just modern business ideas, they have redefined the way we interact with each other and the way we live our lives as well as spawning a thriving generation of brilliant entrepreneurs from whom we can all learn a very alternative approach to business and society.
Speakers
James Alexander
James Harkin
Simon Moores
Nikesh Arora
Ben Hammersley
Gerry Pennell
Alex Balfour
Andrew Keen
David Rowan
Christian Baudis
Brent Hoberman
David Robertson
Till Behnke
Matthias Horx
Christopher Sacca
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Chris Hughes
Biz Stone
David Bosshart
Chad Hurley
Mark Stevenson
Leonard Brody
Raul Krauthausen
Lucian Tarnowski
Ben Casnocha
Ray Kurzweil
Peter Weill
Peter Cochrane
Ken Kutaragi
Joanna Shields
Vito di Bari
Ben Legg
Jimmy Wales
Gunter Dueck
Gerd Leonhard
Steve Wozniak
Kevin Eyres
Stafford Masie
Mike Walsh
James Alexander
Nikesh Arora Co-Founder of Egg and Zopa
Environment, Finance, Future, Strategy, Technology, Innovation WWW:
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/james_alexander
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James’ advice to aspiring entrepreneurs is simple; “believe in yourself, trust offers of help from others and realise that even failure is not as bad as you might think it is”
He is also an Advisor to Seedrs, the world’s first online platform for investing seed capital, and to Spacehive, the world’s first funding platform for public space projects, and Chair of GEN Community, an industrial provident society that delivers low carbon investments as well as social impact. James was previously a Founder of Zopa , the world’s first marketplace where people meet to lend and borrow money.
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Management, Technology, Marketing, Strategy
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He oversees all revenue and customer operations
Head of Digital Media 2012 Olympic Games
Prior to Zopa he was Strategy Director at Egg, launching Egg’s digital TV and mobile services and the UK’s first and most successful account aggregation service. James offers fascinating insights from his vast business experience with a “can do“ attitude.
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With a background as an analyst, Nikesh’s main areas of focus have been consulting, IT, marketing and finance. Prior to joining Google, he was Chief Marketing Officer and a member of the management board at T-Mobile. In 1999, he started working with Deutsche Telekom and founded T-Motion PLC, a mobile multimedia subsidiary of T-Mobile International.
Alex Balfour
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Olympics, Social Media, Technology
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Globally recognised leader in building and optimising digital performance for media, consumer, sport and entertainment brands
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Since joining Google in 2004, he has held several positions with the company. Most recently, he led Google’s global direct sales operations. He also developed and managed the company’s operations in the European, Middle Eastern and African markets and was responsible for creating and expanding strategic partnerships in those regions for the benefit of Google’s growing number of users and advertisers.
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James is a highly innovative and practical business creator, builder and strategist. He is currently a Partner of The Foundation, a leading growth and innovation consultancy (where he has worked with clients including M&S, O2, Just Giving, Barclaycard, Tesco, Eurostar), a Trustee for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and a Trustee and former CEO of Green Thing, a public service that inspires people to lead a greener life.
Chief Business Officer at Google
Alex was appointed Head of New Media for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) in 2006. At LOCOG he built a team from scratch that delivered 77 digital channels including london2012.com, two mobile apps, websites for ticketing, volunteering, education, online shop, and over 100 social media presences to a worldwide audience of over 150 million during the Games. During the Olympic and Paralympic Games London 2012 channels recorded 431m visits, 112m unique users, 15m app downloads, and attracted 4.7m social followers. His long and distinguished career in digital media began in 1994. Since then he has edited GE’97, the UK’s first General Election Website, made the first consumer Internet call to a traditional telephone and developed the first online government consultation. He went on to become part of the team that produced The Guardian Newspaper’s first significant websites. Alex founded Alex Balfour Consulting in October 2012 to help businesses make the most of their digital media.
Christian Baudis
Till Behnke Managing Director Google Germany 2006-8
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• The internet: interesting facts you need to know about search engines, social media, videos, blogs, and messages boards • Web 2.0 – how the internet is constantly changing us • The internet: data protection, transparency, and social relevance & changes • The transparent consumer Cybercrime
Christian has held leading positions in the media and internet sectors for more than 15 years. He worked as an international key account manager at DHL for several years and in 1997 took on the role of Managing Director of sales and marketing at ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. In 2000 he became the Executive Chairman of the teleshopping channel HSE24 AG. In 2003 he set up his own business, founding El Cartel Media. Three years later Google Germany appointed him as their Managing Director. In 2008 Christian founded Tremor Media Europe, a leading provider of online advertising for video portals. Currently, Christian is a member of AOL Europe’s advisory board and heads his Green-Tech venture Vivablu.org, which supports ecological technology start-up businesses in Europe.
Founder of betterplace.org Till developed the online marketplace “betterplace.org” for small donors and citizen organisations (COs) that provides radical transparency and allows users to judge the credibility of COs and make informed donation choices. The platform also puts the responsibility and the power to rally for support in the hands of COs.
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Entrepreneurship, Innovation/ Creativity, Society, Technology
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/till_behnke
Inventor of the World Wide Web
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In 1989, Tim proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. He wrote the first World Wide Web server, “httpd”. Since then he has served as the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium which coordinates Web development worldwide and as a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
the virtual business world www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ christian_baudis English French German Italian
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Innovation/Creativity, Technology, Future of the internet
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Ranked joint first of 100 greatest living geniuses The Telegraph
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Till helped see Paybox through its early growth stages where he was responsible for setting up distribution networks from taxi drivers to large telecommunication companies and invented new financial cash flow applications for users, learning a great deal about operating a start-up and financial systems.
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Just after high school, Till moved alone to a boarding school in Cape Town, South Africa to play professional rugby, and there confronted abject poverty for the first time. In his free time, he began volunteering with a number of local development projects, including the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity. He came back to Germany in 2000 and joined the recently founded, now global IT-company Paybox.
He is the author of ‘’Weaving the Web’’, on the past, present and future of the Web. Tim was knighted in 2004 and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit. Tim has worked with the UK Government to help make data more open and accessible on the Web. He is a professor at both MIT and Southampton University (UK). In March 2013, Tim was jointly awarded the new global Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for “ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity.” Being at the forefront of digital thinking, Tim explains the rapid evolution and revolutionary transformations of how the web is used, helping organisations to fully understand how technology can be used to leapfrog the competition.
David Bosshart
Leonard Brody CEO of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute For Economic and Social Studies (GDI)
Digital Media Entrepreneur Leonard is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. He has helped raise millions of dollars for start-up companies, been through one of the largest internet Initial Public Offerings (IPO) in history and has been involved in the building, financing and sale of five companies to date. At Onvia, where he was part of the initial team, the company was voted Canada’s number one start-up in 2000 and subsequently closed a US$240 million IPO on NASDAQ.
GDI is an independent European think tank which specialises in trend research, strategic workshops and conferences such as the International Retail Conference, the European Foodservice Summit and the European Consumer Trends Conference. The main topics are: changes in consumption patterns and behavior, innovation in retailing and the service industry. Management, Society WWW:
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Change, Economics, Future,
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/david_bosshart
Following high school and a business education, David capped his studies with a Phd from the University of Zurich in philosophy and political theory. He has been involved in communications and marketing consulting, in retailing and in scientific research. David is the author of numerous publications and a speaker at international events in Europe, the US, South America and Asia. His expertise is focused on consumption and retailing, management, social change, and political philosophy.
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Media, Technology, Globalisation, Future
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Leonard has been called a “controversial torchbearer for this new world order”
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He is co-founder of NowPublic which is a pioneer in citizen generated news and fast becoming one of the largest news agencies in the world with over 130,000 contributing reporters in 140 countries and 4,500 cities. It’s a company that TIME Magazine named one of the “Top 50 Websites in the World’’. A globally sought-after speaker, Leonard has lectured at leading institutions, such as Stanford, the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, the G8, the United Nations, Forbes, and Warner Music. He is the co-author of the bestselling books ‘’Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Jurassic Park to Java’’, and ‘’Everything I Needed to Know About Business… I Learned from a Canadian’’. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queens University and a law degree from Osgoode Hall, and is a graduate of the Private Equity Course at the Harvard Business School.
Ben Casnocha
Vito di Bari American Writer and Entrepreneur
Innovation Designer and Futurist
Ben is an award winning entrepreneur and author. He is co-author, with LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman, of the bestselling career strategy book “The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”. He is also author of the book “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley” which the New York Times called “precocious, informative, and entertaining”.
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Education, Entrepreneurship, Innovation/Creativity
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/ben_casnocha
He has written for Newsweek, the American Enterprise Institute and the US State Department. Ben is first and foremost a technology entrepreneur from Silicon Valley. He founded Comcate, Inc., a leading e-government software company, at age 14. He also incubates and advises internet entrepreneurs at Wasabi Ventures. Ben has featured in numerous media including CNN, The Economist, and CNBC. Still only in his twenties, Ben is an engaging speaker who can offer a unique perspective on entrepreneurship, careers and education.
Peter Cochrane Futurist, Entrepreneur, Business Advisor Peter is the former Head of Research at BT, the UK’s largest telecommunications company. His career in BT saw him manage a team 1000 strong engaged in studies spanning optical fibre, fixed and mobile networks, terminals and interfaces, artificial life and healthcare, through to war gaming, eCommerce, eRetail, eLogistics and business modelling.
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Future, Technology, Change, Science
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/peter_cochrane
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One of the world’s most respected speakers on technology and change.
As an investor and entrepreneur Peter has also engaged in the founding of new companies, investment and the management of growth leading to market success. Renowned for his out of the box thinking, Peter is the author of over 1000 blogs, articles and scientific papers, numerous books on the future, technology, business, management, and living with rapid change. Peter was awarded an OBE in 1999 for his contribution to international communications.
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After Dinner, Design, Future,
Vito is an acclaimed futurist, author and an authority on innovation in design. He has been described as one of the three most important forecasters in the world. He is internationally recognised for his innovative theories and many published works, having written eleven books including “Social Killer” (2010), “Short Circuit” (2009) and “Web 2.0” (2007). He is a columnist for the Italian newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore and has worked as a TV host on the Discovery Channel.
Innovation/Creativity, Presenter, Technology, US WWW:
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/vito_di_bari
He is Innovation Designer for the upcoming 2015 Universal EXPO to be held in Milan, in which he will feature his designs for a city of the near future where digital and physical architecture are intertwined and everyday life is transformed by his innovative solutions for the future. He is also the Scientific Director of LabNext, an international research laboratory, named “Milan’s think tank” by Wired Magazine. He has an engaging style in explaining how advancing technologies will make corporations and individuals change their behaviours in order to succeed in the future business world. From micro-trends to management, Vito presents in a provoking and personable style that captures the attention of any audience.
Gunter Dueck
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Digital Media Entrepreneur
Angel Investor and Technology Expert
Gunter is the Chief Technologist and Distinguished Engineer at IBM Germany. His research at Bielefeld University earned him, along with Rudolf Ahlswede, the 1990 Information Theory Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society for a new theory of message identification. After a stint as Professor of Mathematics, he went on to work at the IBM Scientific Centre in Heidelberg where he focuses on the field of strategy and the technological direction of IBM. He also deals with cultural change.
Kevin is an Angel investor within the technology sector and until recently was an advisor to “Tech City UK” project for the UK Government. He has been responsible for the international operations of three Silicon Valley companies. He was Managing Director for LinkedIn Europe from 2007 until 2011. At LinkedIn he was responsible for developing, leading and delivering the company’s strategy and growth initiatives in Europe.
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Communication, Entrepreneurship, Innovation/Creativity, Technology
• “People in their welfare, • Cloud Computinga • World 2.0 • The future of education • Intelligence WWW:
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/gunter_dueck
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Gunter is a visionary and is also a successful author of numerous satirical and philosophical books, which deal with life, people and managers. His own philosophy was published in three volumes. One of his most well known books “Lean Brain Management : More Success and Efficiency by Saving Intelligence” is a satirical and wry portrayal of the dumbing down of people in the workplace. This work earned him the “Business Book of the Year 2006” from The Financial Times (Germany).
In 2009 he was named Business Leader of “Dynamic Infrastructure”
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/kevin_eyres
James Harkin Writer and Social Forecaster James is a forecaster with fifteen years experience of dissecting social, technological and political trends and what they mean for companies and institutions. After teaching politics and social theory at Oxford University, he moved on to work as a forecaster for communication agencies and think tanks in New York, London and mainland Europe. He has lectured on contemporary trends everywhere from the Edinburgh International Film Festival to Schroders Bank, from the Ottawa Writers Festival to the London School of Economics (LSE).
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In his presentations Prof. Dueck speaks about the issues our society currently faces. He points out the importance of economic reasoning, which takes the human individual into account and teaches us to be moderate in times of feast and remain calm in difficult times.
Prior to LinkedIn, Kevin was the General Manager of AltaVista International followed by European Managing Director at SideStep, (now Kayak Travel) and a Director at Shopping.com. He started his career as an engineer at Compaq Computers where he spent ten years leading development teams during Compaq’s hyper growth phase. In presentations, Kevin extols the virtues of working together to achieve big goals. Well versed in multi-cultural companies doing business throughout Europe and Asia, his speech themes include strategy, leadership and consumer marketing.
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Entrepreneurship, Future, Politics, Society, Technology
He also advises organisations on how to reap the benefits of the Internet. WWW:
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/james_harkin
He writes regularly for the Financial Times and The Guardian, where he used to write a column; between 2004 and 2009 he was also Director of Talks at the ICA in London. His books include ‘’Big Ideas: The Essential Guide to the Latest Thinking’’; ‘’Cyburbia: How Crackpots, Inventors and Visionaries Created Our New Life Online’’ and ‘’Niche: Why The Market No Longer Favours the Mainstream.’’
Ben Hammersley
Andrew Keen Digital Journalist and Broadcaster
Future, Innovation/Creativity,
Andrew is author of ‘’Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is Killing our Culture’’, and is widely regarded as the leading contemporary critic of the Internet. The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote that “every good movement needs a contrarian. Web 2.0 has Andrew Keen.” In the mid Nineties, Andrew was a member of the pioneering generation of Silicon Valley visionaries who first “got” the Internet. He founded Audiocafe.com and established it as one of the most highly trafficked websites of the late 90s. As CEO of Audiocafe.com, Andrew became a Silicon Valley celebrity. Topics:
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/ben_hammersley
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Invented the word “Podcast”
Ben is currently the UK Prime Minister’s Ambassador to Tech City in East London which aims to be Europe’s centre of innovation and the location of choice for tech and digital companies and investors and is a member of the Tech City Advisory Board. He is a Fellow at The Brookings Institute in Washington, Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Defence Studies and Innovatorin-Residence at the Centre for Creative and Social Technologies, University of London. He is also a Member of the High Level Group on Media Freedom at the European Commission. He is Editor at Large of WIRED Magazine and writes regularly for the international media including The Financial Times.
• The impact of a hyper-connected world on society • Learning & education in the 21st century • Cult of the amateur: Is the internet
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Two of his most popular talks are: 1. Living Better As A Cyborg: How to live a better life with modern technology. As we live with (both surrounded by, and using) modern networked stuff, we find ourselves changing. We have new abilities, super-powers even, given to us by our devices, but we’re also assailed by the new information overload, always-on, always-connected workstyle. Ben explores how we can best live and work with modern technologies, and how companies and the executives themselves can use the latest technology to prosper in the modern world. 2. The New Networked Society: The effects of the internet on society at large, specifically about its effects on geopolitics - touching on Occupy, Beppe Grillo in Italy, cyberwarfare, the financial markets, and the rapid dissolution of the state.
killing our culture? • How companies should & shouldn’t use social media • The impact of the digital revolution on politics & culture • Reading, writing and thinking in the 21st century WWW:
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He is the founder of afterTV LLC, a firm that helps marketers optimise their brand desirability in the post-TV consumer landscape In “Digital Vertigo,” Andrew’s latest book, he presents today’s social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today’s online networking revolution and critiques of “social” companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Andrew argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be.
He identifies the good and the bad with a rare human and historical perspective. -- Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO WPP
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Ben specialises in the effects of the internet and digitisation on the world’s political, cultural and social spheres. As a trends - and digital guru, he writes and consults on the effects of the internet on society, foreign policy, business, and culture. His objective is to help people understand the modern world, and where it is taking us. Ben is the author of the acclaimed book ‘’64 Things You Need To Know Now For Then’’, which is a guide to the new concepts of the modern world. He also works as a high-level advisor on these matters to governments and business.
Prominent Digital Sceptic
Brent Hoberman
Matthias Horx Internet Entrepreneur and Investor
Influential German Futurist Matthias speaks on a wide range of challenging futuristic themes. He is the author of “Die Wilden 80er” (The Wild Eighties) and “Aufstand in Schlaraffenland”, which examined the changing values and the public mood of the eighties and paved the way for future interests. In 1993 he co-founded Trendburo. It grew quickly to become the cornerstone of future trend research in Germany, working with organisations like Philip Morris, Unilever, and Beiersdorf.
Brent shot to fame as one of the bright young faces of the ‘dot-com’ boom, when he co-founded lastminute.com. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Brent’s venture survived when the bubble burst. The company floated in 2000 when the dotcom bubble was at its peak. It acquired 14 businesses after the IPO to supplement the annual growth of the core brand. In 2005 lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for US$1.1 billion.
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/brent_hoberman
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Co-founder of lastminute.com and of Mydeco.com
A prolific entrepreneur, Brent went on to establish, mydeco.com, which provides interior design advice and furniture retail. He then took up the post of chairman of Wayn.com, a travel and leisure social network with over 10 million members. As an angel investor, Brent has backed a number of other start-ups including moveme.com (house moving), viagogo (tickets), t5m (celebrity channel), imagini.net (dating) and wigadoo.com (social events). With all that, he still finds time to be a Governor of London’s University of the Arts College, and a non-executive board director of the Guardian Media Group.
Economics, Entrepreneur, Future, Management, Society
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Chris Hughes Co-Founder of Facebook
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Chris is a technology superstar. He is the co-founder of Facebook which he famously began with Mark Zuckerberg from his dorm room at Harvard. Facebook is a powerhouse for networking and now has over a billion active users. Chris was also the force behind My.BarackObama.com, the campaign networking website that helped elect Barak Obama as President of the USA and the innovation of which harnessed the Web as a political tool. He has therefore helped create two of the most successful Web start-ups in modern history.
Technology, Entrepreneur, Innovation/Creativity
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First person to use social media to help elect a president
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Having built up Trendburo, he set up the Zukunftsinstitut (“Future Institute”) which analyses and presents future trends in society, the economy, culture and technology. In his speeches, Matthias approaches themes from the perspective of the long-term-mega trends which change our world. He poses provocative questions, challenges conventional thinking patterns, and entertains with anecdotes, also creating optimism.
With an instinct for building technology that networks the commonality of real people and real communities, he helps organisations understand the limitless power of social networking. Chris is now shaping the future of one of the most influential intellectual news magazines in the USA. As publisher and editorin-chief of The New Republic, he is investing in narrative-driven journalism and setting the standard for high-quality analysis adapted to the new media environment. In his presentations, he’ll teach your organisation how to harness social networking for its own growth and success.
Chad Hurley
Raul Krauthausen Co-Founder of YouTube
A Communication Manager and Design Thinker
Chad Hurley is the co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of YouTube - the world’s largest and most popular video sharing site and the third most visited site globally. Prior to YouTube, Chad worked in eBay’s PayPal division where one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo. He then co-founded YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
Innovation/Creativity, Technology
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/chad_hurley
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In 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0’s “50 People Who Matter Now” list.
He was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube. Chad Hurley stepped down as CEO of YouTube in October 2010 and stated he would stay on as an advisor of YouTube, allowing Google’s Salar Kamangar to take over the CEO position. Soon after selling YouTube, Chad co-founded AVOS Systems, which is committed to creating platforms and building products that enable individuals to utilise their time more efficiently in their everyday life. As a globally sought-after keynote speaker, Chad discusses the rise of YouTube and managing its meteoric growth. He shares the lessons learned from the unique experiences of creating a “game-changer”, “status quo disrupter” and “new standard” in technology and how content is consumed and shared in the modern era. He also speaks about what’s next in the ever-evolving landscape of emerging technology, the shifting paradigm of media production and distribution and how YouTube continues to evolve in order to stay on top.
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Technology, Innovation/Creativity, Entrepreneurship
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/raul_krauthausen
In 2007 he initiated the project Pfandtastisch Helfen and was awarded with the StartSocial prize from the Social Federal Government. The same year he also started working at the youth radio Fritz on RBB. Since 2010 Raul has been involved in the development of the internet platform Wheelmap.org, one of the inspired Wikipedia websites for wheelchair users and people with disabilities. It is the first online map of public places rated on accessibility and accessible design.
Ray Kurzweil Chairman, Kurzweil Technologies and Director of Engineering, Google
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Innovation, Healthcare, Education, Energy, Investing, Forecasting
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/ray_kurzweil
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One of the leading inventors of our time
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Raul worked for more than 10 years in the internet and media business world. Then in 2002 he began studying social and business communication at the University of Arts Berlin. In 2004 he co- founded the action group Sozialhelden eV, an organisation to raise awareness of social issues and its structure. In 2005 Sozialhelden received first prize at the NEON / Smart-Ideas Competition, as well as the German Commitment Prize in 2009 and the German Citizens Inca Award in 2010.
Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has been described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine. Ray’s most popular publication, ‘’The Singularity is Near’’, has been the number one book on Amazon in both science and philosophy. His latest book is ‘’How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed’’. He speaks to diverse audiences around the world and, presenting a provocative, long-term, big picture view of the future of technology and its implications for society. Ray recently took on the role of Director of Engineering for Google, a position that enables him to manage new projects involving machine learning and natural language integration and understanding.
Ken Kutaragi
Ben Legg Former Chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment
COO of Google Europe 2007-9 Ben led a team of 4,000 people across Europe and developed Google’s global online advertising strategy. He previously held a number of positions with Coca-Cola, lastly as Vice President Sales for India. He was responsible for a US$800 million business, and leading a team of 12,000 sales people. Ben is currently CEO of Adknowledge, a digital advertising marketplace that efficiently gets results for a company’s message wherever their audience happens to be: desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile.
Ken was an engineer at Sony when he created the PlayStation video-game console and pushed the company to build it. Introduced in 1994, it rapidly became the bestselling game console on the market.
Leadership, Management, Strategy, Technology
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/ben_legg
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Father of the Playstation
Prior to joining Adknowledge, Ben was COO for European Directories, spearheading the company’s transformation from a traditional print-based directory to digital, which included building 80 online/ mobile local advertising sites, plus becoming the largest provider of small business websites in Europe. Ben has 22 years’ experience in management, engineering, sales and online advertising. Ben is able to give a unique insight into Google, one the world’s most recognised and respected organisations. He is an acknowledged expert in online consumer behaviour, eCommerce, search, analytics, new media sales, local advertising, growth and organisational transformation.
Gerd Leonhard Media Futurist and Author
He was an Honorary Chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.(SCEI) until June, 2011.
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In 1999, Ken was named President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, the subsidiary responsible for the PlayStation. Ken is currently president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment Inc since October 2009. He also serves on the boards of Kadokawa Group Holdings, Inc., Nojima Corporation, and Rakuten, Inc. He is also a visiting professor of Ritsumeikan University since 2009. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Denki Tsushin University, Tokyo.
Gerd is a media and technology futurist and co-author of ‘’The Future of Music’’, as well as ‘’Music 2.0’’, and ‘’Open is King - Stories from the Future of Media’’. Gerd’s background is in music, technology and the internet, and he founded both LicenseMusic and Sonific. His work focuses on the Future of Media, Content, Technology, and Culture. He is considered an expert on Web/Media 2.0, social networking, copyright vs. technology issues, online content commerce models, media convergence, the future of advertising and branding, digital content strategies and next-generation business models. Gerd’s keynotes, speeches, videos and think-tank appearances are renowned for his hard-hitting, provocative yet inspiring and motivational style. Topics:
Future, Technology
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With over 500 engagements in 30+ countries during the past 7 years, Gerd has addressed executive level audiences in the sectors of recorded music & music publishing, radio, TV, film/video and broadcasting, online gaming and virtual worlds, telecom & wireless, and advertising and branding.
Stafford Masie
Simon Moores Former CEO of Google Africa
Technology Commentator and Advisor to the Conservative Party Simon is Managing Director of Zentelligence, and a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Technology Forum. He is also Chairman of the International eCrime Congress and Intellectual Property Risk Conference. A former Chairman of The Research Group, Simon is co-author of the Conservative Party’s “Digital Plan for Britain” and a director of the centre-right open market policy think-tank, Aediles. He advises government, business and the media on the evolution, development and application of eGovernment, internet-related technologies and their impact.
Stafford has been in the IT industry for more than 15 years and has assumed several roles throughout his career. He worked for numerous companies before starting his own consulting and engineering services company. After this was acquired he joined a multinational enterprise software company called Novell, moving to the USA where he spent 6 and a half years working at their head office. Topics:
Entrepreneurship, Technology, Innovation
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He played a significant role in the open source software arena in the USA and later returned to South Africa to assume the role of country manager for Novell South Africa. He went on to become the CEO for Google Africa and Sub Sahara. He focuses on the impact that technology is having in societies and different cultures. He has a thorough understanding of what exactly is happening “out there” and how to take advantage of it. Stafford prefers to tailor his content per client and per vertical business sector; simply to ensure greater relevance and value to the audience, with the most impact.
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Topics:
Technology, Politics
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He is known for his expert work on eGovernment, information economy, online espionage, hi-tech crime and information security issues. Simon’s impressive breadth of knowledge spans from the IT and infrastructure side of technology to the rapidly developing areas of on-line, social and cloud computing. He covers the ‘nuts and bolts’ of acquiring, sorting and storing ever increasing amounts of data through to disruptive technologies and business strategies to deal with them.
Gerry Pennell CIO for the London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics
Topics:
Olympics, Teamwork, Technology
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Gerry delivered the most technologically connected Games ever. One of the challenges he and his team faced was the change in the level of engagement with the digital consumer via Smartphones and other devices. For the first time in any Games results were provided in real time for every Olympic sport both via the web and mobile devices. On the busiest day of the Games there were 13.1 million web users. Gerry’s previous role as Director of Technology for the Commonwealth Games held in 2002 undoubtedly gave him the experience necessary to deliver at such an exacting standard. He has worked with both Barclays Bank and Price Waterhouse Coopers as a Management Consultant. He was appointed an OBE in the 2013 New Years Honours list.
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He has recently been appointed the Director of IT at The University of Manchester. In this role, Gerry will be responsible for leading the University’s IT function to ensure it supports all aspects of the University’s activities and enables the delivery of its ambitious Manchester 2020 Vision.
David Rowan
Topics:
• Ten trends that are transforming your business in the next decade
David Robertson Editor of WIRED Magazine
Innovation Professor at The Wharton School
David Rowan is Editor of WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them.
From 2002-10, David was the LEGO Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Switzerland’s IMD, which received the #1 worldwide ranking by the Financial Times for its executive education programs. At IMD he was Program Director for IMD’s largest program, the Program for Executive Development, and co-Director of the Making Business Sense of IT program, a joint program between IMD and MIT Sloan.
He has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the new iPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He’s also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited The Guardian’s on-line content.
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How LEGO went from near bankruptcy
• How to make your organisation more creative • Why Africa is the world’s greatest entrepreneurial opportunity • How the internet is re-inventing
Innovation, Management, to huge success
He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and The Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ.
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In 2003, LEGO almost went bankrupt, having failed to adapt to the revolutionary changes in children’s lives and began sliding into irrelevance. It was only when LEGO restructured its innovation management system that it re-emerged as a powerful, resilient, and inventive company. Today, LEGO’s sales are growing at 24% and profits at 40% per year every year for the past five years. In his keynotes, David reveals the ideas and techniques that audiences can use to build their own versions of LEGO’s system for continuous innovation.
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David is in touch with many of the world’s leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why ‘social commerce’ is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.
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A man who advocates William Gibson’s quote - the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet
Christopher Sacca Twitter Advisor and Former Google Executive
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platform • The disruptive forces re-shaping
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Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Media, Technology
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Christopher is a venture investor, company advisor, and entrepreneur managing a portfolio of over a dozen consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. Previously, Chris served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, among other responsibilities, he headed up the alternative access division. His most visible projects include Google’s 700MHz and TV white spaces spectrum initiatives, the company’s groundbreaking data centre, and Google’s free citywide WiFi network. Most recently, Chris worked on President Barack Obama’s campaign as a Telecommunications, Media, and Technology advisor. With the series of lessons he learned at Google, on the Obama campaign, and at Twitter as common touch points for understanding the impact that the web’s transformation has on each of us, Chris parlays his unique ability for identifying trends into action. He shares exciting new ways of thinking, organising, and communicating that defined the most powerful movements in technological history and that hold the greatest potential for an organisation.
Biz Stone
Mark Stevenson Co-Founder of Twitter
Author, Ideas Generator and Futurist
Biz is co-founder of Twitter, a real-time, one-to-many network that is changing the way people communicate around the world. Previously, Biz helped build other popular social media services Xanga, Blogger, and Odeo. After launching the journaling service Xanga in 2000, Biz published two books about the origins and social significance of blogging.
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Author, Future, Innovation/Creativity, Science, Technology
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An adamant believer that when we help others, we also help ourselves, Biz Stone supports a new way of doing business with a higher level of ambition, and a better, more altruistic way to measure success. Beyond immediate needs, he advocates selflessness; insisting we follow this path in order to deliver deeper meaning in our work and in so doing, place value before profit.
He is regularly asked to talk to both private and public audiences on matters of future narratives, institutional innovation, complexity, belief systems and learning He also speaks regularly at schools as well as the occasional rock festival. His experience of spending a year as a stand-up comedian gives him the necessary skills to put a wide range of audiences and viewers at ease. A list of recent appearances is appended. “A tremendous speech. A standing ovation. It is not often that you can hear a pin drop in a room that size – but the audience was enthralled. Wonderful!” – Elliot Pullman, CEO, US Space Foundation
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“Mark Stevenson is one of those rare visionaries who fascinates an audience and makes them laugh in equal measure. Stevenson’s talk was a highlight within the London Literature Festival and we expect great things from him… Do not be surprised if he becomes a household name in the not-too-distant future” – Jana Stefanovska, London Literature Festival
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Mark is currently writing a new book with a theme centred around the concept of complexity
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In 2003, Google invited Biz to join a recently acquired Blogger.com team at its Silicon Valley headquarters. Biz helped re-launch the service and grow Blogger significantly worldwide. He left Google in 2005 to rejoin the start-up world.
Mark is a futurist, ideas generator and a writer but is probably best described as an inspirational futurist. His skill is an ability to take complex or abstract concepts and make them understandable by non-specialists without trivialising the subject matter. He is the co-founder of Flow Associates, a learning agency which develops optimum environments for creative innovation tied to critical thinking. He works with cultural institutions, government bodies, corporations and schools all over the world. Mark is also futurologist-in-residence at Primary Energy Research and sits on the advisory boards of Virgin Earth Challenge and Every1Mobile, which builds large-scale social networks on mobile devices in developing economies. He has also written for The Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, and The New Statesman. He is the author of the best-selling book ‘’An Optimist’s Tour of the Future’’, which was described by The Wall Street Journal as “sharp and fascinating”.
Lucian Tarnowski
Entrepreneurship, HR, Social Media, Technology
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Social Recruitment Engineer
Co-Author of “Leveraging the New Infrastructure”
Lucian is the energetic face behind BraveNewTalent.com, the social network platform which has the objective of enabling open access to professional development and education opportunities through mentoring and sharing. He has been honoured as Europe’s youngest “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. He was also winner of the “Global Enterprising Young Brit” of 2009, Finalist for “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” and in the UK’s “Top 10 Young Entrepreneurs to Watch” in 2010.
Peter’s work centres on the role, value and governance of IT in enterprises. Peter joined the Sloan faculty in 2000 to become Director of MIT Sloan’s Centre for Information Systems Research (CISR). MIT CISR is funded by sixty-five corporate sponsors and patrons, and undertakes practical research on how firms generate business value from IT. Peter is now Chairman of MIT CISR and focuses on globalising MIT CISR research and delivery.
He was named as one of “Britain’s rising business stars” by The Spectator Business and is on the UK Trade and Investment’s (UKTI) Global Entrepreneur Program with BraveNewTalent being described by the UK Government as a “Technology Company of Exceptional Potential”.
Topics:
Technology
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Former Vice President of Facebook EMEA
He has published his first book (and the first ever to use Google Wave): ‘’Flipping The Model’’. Lucian has joined the ‘Yunus Brain Pool’, led by Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize winner, this is a group of 30 young leaders who through their ideas and creativity support the development of socially responsible business. Lucian speaks to audiences around the world about the convergence of talent and technology and its impact on the future of the global workforce and education.
In 2008 Ziff-Davis recognised Peter as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in IT”. His award-winning books, journal articles, and case studies have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, and The Wall Street Journal. Weill has co-authored best-selling books published by Harvard Business School Press, including ‘’IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain’’ (2009)
Joanna Shields
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In 2012, Joanna was appointed by Prime Minister, David Cameron, as Chief Executive of Tech City UK and Business Ambassador for Digital Industries. She was most recently Vice President and Managing Director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Facebook. In her role she built EMEA into the company’s largest region, focusing on making Facebook the world’s most valuable marketing, communications and customer services platform and the Facebook platform an engine of growth for some of Europe’s hottest startups.
Leadership, Social Media, Marketing, Branding
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Joanna was ranked #1 in the Wired 100, 2011
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Peter Weill
For over a decade, Joanna has been a driving force in Europe’s internet landscape. Since moving to the UK in 2000 to run RealNetworks International, the company that invented streaming audio and video, she has held key positions at leading companies such as Google and Bebo. During her career Joanna has also served as CEO of Veon (acquired by Philips Electronics), VP and managing director International for Decru, (acquired by Network Appliance) and VP of Production Systems for Electronics for Imaging (Nasdaq:EFII).
Jimmy Wales
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Entrepreneurship , Leadership, Media, Technology
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“100 Most Influential People” -- TIME Magazine
Steve Wozniak Founder of Wikipedia
Co-Founder of Apple Computers
Jimmy is an internet entrepreneur and knowledge sharing pioneer who is best known as the founder of Wikipedia, one of the 10 most visited websites in the world. He is also co-founder of Wikia, a privately owned free web hosting service.
As Co-Founder of Apple, Steve helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products, the Apple I and II, and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honour bestowed on America’s leading innovators.
He has been ranked by Forbes Magazine as a “Web Celeb”. The origins of Wikipedia began as Nupedia, a reference site intended to provide peer-reviewed information. Wikipedia was initially intended to be a wiki-based site for collaboration on early encyclopaedic content for submission to Nupedia, but Wikipedia’s rapid growth quickly overshadowed Nupedia’s necessarily more labour-intenstive development.
He is currently Chief Technology Officer and Chief Visionary Officer for Jazz Technologies, Inc. (formerly Acquicor Technology Inc.), which recently acquired Jazz Semiconductor. This company produces analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices using specialty process technologies, including silicon germanium processes. Steve’s core areas of interest are creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and education and robotics/automation. He takes a customized approach to each presentation, resulting in a highly personalised, unforgettable talk delivered by one of the most influential pioneers of the technology industry.
As Wikipedia expanded and grew, Jimmy took on the role of the project’s spokesperson and promoter through speaking engagements and media appearances. In 2003, Jimmy founded the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organisation dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content to the public free of charge. Jimmy is a regular speaker at The World Economic Forum where he has been recognised as one of the “Young Global Leaders” for his potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.
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Entrepreneurship, Technology, Future
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Mike Walsh Leading Authority on Building Business for the 21st Century Mike helps to prepare business leaders for what’s next. Rather than focusing on the distant future, Mike takes an anthropological approach - scanning the near horizon for disruptive technologies and consumer innovations on the verge of hitting critical mass, and then translating these into usable business strategies.
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Asia/China, Technology,
His expertise is explaining new patterns of consumer behaviour and disruptive technologies in emerging markets. His advisory work and keynote presentations provide unique insights into the growing influence of new markets on breakthrough innovation and business transformation.
Innovation/Creativity, Future WWW:
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He previously ran the market leading consumer insights house Jupiter Research in the Asia Pacific, and held senior strategy roles at News Corporation in both the Australian and Asian markets.
Economics and Finance
In an increasingly connected world where financial markets dominate the news on a daily basis, an understanding of economics and international finance is more relevant and important than ever before. Gaining insight and informed opinion of the factors that drive global market movements which impact both developed economies and emerging markets is no longer an option to ignore. Listening to and learning from an expert and experienced view from a real practitioner or from an intellectual academic perspective, is essential to gaining this insight.
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Jacques Attali
Alexei Kudrin
Jeffrey Sachs
Oliver August
Paul Krugman
John Sfakianakis
John Authers
Richard Koo
Arun Shourie
Leszek Balcerowicz
Justin Lin
Yashwant Sinha
Lionel Barber
Magnus Lindkvist
Hans-Werner Sinn
David Blanchflower
Augusto Lopez Claros
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Timothy Beardson
Rachel Lomax
Jürgen Stark
Ha-Joon Chang
Catherine Lubochinksy
Joseph Stiglitz
Wolfgang Clement
Gerard Lyons
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Meleveetil Damodaran
Pippa Malmgren
Heizo Takenaka
Sir Howard Davies
Thomas Mayer
Jonathan Tepper
Bibek Debroy
Robyn Meredith
Jean-Claude Trichet
Kemal Dervis
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Lord Adair Turner
Gazi Erçel
Mark Mobius
Ruben Vardanian
Marc Faber
Dambisa Moyo
Paul Volcker
Martin Feldstein
Jim O’Neill
Theo Waigel
Niall Ferguson
George A. Papandreou
Beatrice Weder di Mauro
Adam Fergusson
Nenad Pacek
James Wolfensohn
Clemens Fuest
Sir Christopher Pissarides
Andy Xie
Fan Gang
Alex Perry
Linda Yueh
Sir John Gieve
Vladimir Pozner
Joseph Yam
Fred Hu
Nouriel Roubini
Muhammad Yunus
Otmar Issing
Douglas Rediker
Joe DiVanna
Sony Kapoor
Jim Rogers
Parag Khanna
Nasser Saidi
Oliver August
Jacques Attali
Topics:
The Future of Europe, The New World Order, The Economy
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Formerly a special advisor to French President, François Mitterand
French Economist
Africa Editor at The Economist
Jacques is an impressive speaker and intellectual heavy-weight who addresses a wide range of topical issues affecting societies, whether they be economic, political or philosophical. Jacques went on to found and to be the first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is founder and President of PlaNet Finance, a non-profit organisation, which is the leader in supporting the development of microfinance in countries across the world. Jacques is also CEO of AandA, an international strategic consulting firm, based in Paris.
Oliver details the continent’s emergence as an economic success story. He visits Africa monthly, meeting with government officials, business executives and entrepreneurs. He closely monitors foreign investment in Africa, and the China-Africa dimension. During his seven years based in Beijing, Oliver wrote “Inside the Red Mansion”. He was a Middle East correspondent for The Times in Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad, and retains an interest in Arab political and business developments.
He is the author of over fifty books on topics ranging from economics to music, translated into more than twenty languages. His main work in economics and sociology has examined trends in human history and their use to forecast the future. In his influential book “Millenium”, Jacques created the concept of “nomad society” to characterise the nature of future civilisation. This inspired the creation of the Java programming language by Bill Joy and John Gage at Sun Microsystems.
Topics:
Future of Africa, The Middle East, China
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Global Economy
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Oliver regularly appears on major news channels and speaks at conferences in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
John Authers Senior Investment Analyst and Columnist John is responsible for the weekly ‘‘Long View’’ and other columns on markets and investment, and previously the highly respected “Lex” column. He is author of “The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How to Prevent Them in the Future”, (2010) and “Europe’s Financial Crisis: a short guide to how the Euro fell into crisis and the consequences for the World” (2012). He speaks around the world, and appears frequently on television, radio and via the internet commenting on current financial issues.
Jacques also founded the European inter-governmental programme for new technologies Eurêka, which developed, among other things, the MP3. Jacques is in frequent demand as a commentator on current affairs by the French media.
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He started his career writing about American and European capital markets. He has written a book on the reunification of Germany entitled “Along the wall and watchtower: A journey down Germany’s divide”.
Topics:
Europe, Finance, The Global Economy
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He is the recipient of many journalistic awards, including “Senior journalist of the year” by the Wincott Foundation, the premier award for UK financial journalists. He also co-authored “The Victim’s Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust”.
Leszek Balcerowicz
Lionel Barber Deputy Prime Minister of Poland 1989-91
Editor of The Financial Times Since his appointment in November 2005, the FT has been pioneering the concept of the integrated newsroom, where reporters and editors work seamlessly across print and digital formats. During Barber’s tenure, the FT has won numerous global awards for its quality journalism, including three Newspaper of the Year awards, which recognised the FT’s role ‘as a 21st century news organisation’.
Leszek served as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister in the first and second post-communist governments. With his expertise in social sciences, he supported the changes which led to the transformation from command economy to the market and from dictatorship to democracy.
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• Lessons of Catching-up • Opportunities in Expanding Europe • Polish and European Economics • How to launch radical reforms • Economics and Ethics
He is Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics. He is the only Central/ Eastern European member of the Group of Thirty and one of the most respected and internationally acclaimed experts on economic reform and financial crisis.
He has interviewed many of the world’s leaders in business and politics including: President Barack Obama, Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Topics:
Economics, Europe, Finance, Media,
During his career, Lionel has received several distinguished awards including Young Journalist of the Year in the British press awards, and the St George Society medal of honour for his contribution to journalism in the trans-Atlantic community.
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His versatile knowledge and experience as a leading economic practitioner, strategist and author, and courage to be critical of mainstream economics and establishment, offer eye-opening assessment of the issues of stability and economic growth and social development in various countries.
David Blanchflower Economics Professor at Dartmouth College From 2006-8 David was a Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). His time at the Bank of England brought him into the public eye, coinciding with the impending banking crisis. He was the first member of the MPC to recognise the seriousness of the credit crunch and to argue for lower interest rates despite opposition and disagreement from colleagues.
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Global Economy, Finance, Importance of Economic Data, Regulation
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He has the rare ability to translate findings into non-academic language, as befits someone who described his research technique as “the economics of walking about: you ask people what’s going on in their lives and you take seriously what answers they give you”. David was awarded a CBE for services to economics in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2009.
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Ha-Joon Chang Founder of the Largest Independent Investment Bank in the Far East
Topics:
• China’s Future • Russia in the 21st century • China’s Economic and Financial Issues • The Future of Banking • Education in China • China in Africa • China’s Outlook compared to India
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Tim speaks widely on political, economic and strategic issues. He has a particular expertise in relation to Asia and frequently lectures Chinese governmental organisations on economics and finance. Tim founded Crosby, which became the largest independent investment bank in Asia. He was described in the media as “the leading English entrepreneur in Hong Kong during the latter part of the twentieth century”. At its height, Crosby employed 650 staff in 24 offices in 17 cities and was the first international investment bank to open in China, Thailand and Malaysia. It was the only foreign bank invited to participate in the working party to set up the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Economist and Author Ha-Joon is one of the world’s leading economists specialising in development economics and has contributed to The Guardian since the financial collapse in 2008. He is author of several widely discussed books including “23 Things They Don’t Tell you About Capitalism” (2010). An easily accessible read, the book challenges some widely-held assumptions about market economics: There’s no such thing as a “free” market; Globalisation isn’t making the world richer; Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones; Higher-paid managers don’t produce better results. Topics:
Economics, Globalisation
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The washing machine has changed society more than the internet
He is also a fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.
Wolfgang Clement
In addition to speaking at events such as the World Economic Forum at Davos , he lectures at universities and business schools such as Oxford, Yale and Beijing and briefs central banks and corporate boards. His charitable work includes being Chairman of the China Oxford Scholarship Fund. Drawing on his experience of living in Asia for over 35 years, in his book: “Stumbling Giant: The Threats to China’s Future” (2013) he looks at issues affecting China and the threats that will inevitably challenge the popular belief that it will become the world’s “Number One power”.
He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank as well as to Oxfam.
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Timothy Beardson
Renowned German Economist After many years in political leadership roles, covering economics and labour issues, Wolfgang has a modern perspective on labour markets and offers practical observations for business and government leaders globally. Prime Minister of North RhineWestphalia from 1998-2002, he went on to be Minister for Economy and Labour under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, from 2002-5. In the Schröder government, he faced the challenge of implementing the proposals of the Hartz Commission to initiate major employment reforms.
Topics:
Economics, Europe, Politics
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Before entering politics, Wolfgang qualified as a lawyer and then spent nearly 20 years working as a political journalist and editor covering an era of major change in Germany. He has received several awards for his political activities, including the European trade prize in 2001.
Meleveetil Damodaran
Sir Howard Davies Thought Leader and Former Government Official
Topics:
Economics, Finance, India, Politics
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“Change Agent of the Year” Award (2006–7) -- Economic Times’ Award
Meleveetil’s distinguished career in financial services and government in India spans more than 30 years. His leadership has seen groundbreaking progress in the development of banking services in India. He speaks regularly at forums and high-level panels around the world and his areas of expertise include Financial Management, Securities Markets, Corporate Governance, Public Administration and Leadership. Meleveetil was Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) until 2008. As Chairman of SEBI, he brought improved corporate governance practices to India’s securities market. During this period he saw India’s securities markets gain worldwide respectability for its regulatory standards. He was elected Chairman of the 80 member Emerging Markets Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
Chairman of FSA 1997 - 2003 Howard has an extensive background in economics and finance both in the public and private sectors. Under his leadership, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) was established as the UK’s single financial regulator through the merger of multiple regulators across various financial sectors. He previously served for two years as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England after three years as Director General of the Confederation of British Industry.
Topics:
Finance, Economics
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He was also Director of the London School of Economics until 2011. Earlier in his career he was seconded to the Treasury as special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Among his current roles, he is a member of the China Banking Regulatory Commission and chairs the Airports Commission, recently established by the UK Government to look at air traffic development. He has written widely throughout his career reviewing historical and economic books and has lectured extensively around the world. With a wealth of experience in finance, Howard is able to offer decision makers from all over the globe essential information crucial for companies wishing to do business in today’s volatile markets.
Bibek Debroy Renowned Indian Economist
He has been credited with turning around the Industrial Development Bank of India and Unit Trust of India. He has been awarded the “Public Service Excellence Award” (2009) by All India Management Association, and “Finance Man of the year” (2004), among other distinctions. Meleveetil started out in local government in the Indian state of Tripura. He was appointed Tripura’s Chief Secretary in 1992, the youngest person to hold such a position in India’s regional Government.
Bibek is an economist and is Research Professor (Centre of Policy Research) and a columnist with the Economic Times. He has worked in universities, research institutes, industry and for the government. He has published books, papers and popular articles in economics. He has also published ‘’Indology’’ and translated (into English) the Vedas, the Puranas, the Upanishads and the Gita (Penguin India, 2005). His book ‘’Sarama and her Children: The Dog in Indian Myth’’ (Penguin India, 2008) splices his interest in Hinduism with his love for dogs. Topics:
Economics, Finance, Global
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He is currently translating the remaining volumes of the unabridged Mahabharata.
Kemal Derviş
Gazi Erçel Governor of Central Bank of Turkey 1996-2001
A well respected economist and politician, Kemal draws on his many years’ international experience at the World Bank, the United Nations and in Turkish Government and politics to speak on issues connected with globalisation, economics and current affairs.
Gazi provides consultancy services for governments, financial institutions, non-governmental organisations and private clients on the potential of emerging markets, international finance structuring and government debt. Gazi was Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey from 1996-2001 during a period of major political and economic instability. In 2000, he was selected as “Central Banker of the Year” by The Banker magazine. Gazi has also served as the Assistant to the Executive Director for the IMF in Washington, and the Director General of the Turkish Treasury in charge of International Economic Development.
In the course of his 22-year career at the World Bank, Kemal worked on Middle East and North African affairs followed by responsibility for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.
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He was honored by the government of Japan for having “contributed to mainstreaming Japan’s development assistance policy through the United Nations.”
He managed work on the transition of post-Communist Eastern Europe and the reconstruction of Bosnia after the Yugoslavian war. He served as Minister of Economic Affairs and the Treasury of Turkey, where he was responsible for launching Turkey’s successful recovery from a devastating financial crisis.
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Marc Faber Swiss Investor
From the end of 2002 to the summer of 2005, Kemal was a member of the Turkish Parliament representing his native city of Istanbul. During that period he was one of the two Turkish representatives to the Convention of the Future of Europe. After headship of the United Nations Development Programme between 20052009, Kemal is now Director of the Global Economy and Development Program think tank, at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He has published many articles in academic journals and current affairs publications and has co-authored and edited several books.
Following his retirement from the Central Bank of Turkey he established Ercel Global Advisory. He is a regular columnist for the newspaper HaberTurk, and presents a business and economics programme on Bloomberg Television.
Most famous for advising his readers to sell stocks before the 1987 Black Monday market crash, Marc is well known for his “contrarian” approach to investment and his reports on unusual investment opportunities are widely followed in his monthly newsletter “The Gloom Boom & Doom” report. Marc is a Swiss investment analyst, economic historian, and entrepreneur. Having previously worked for White Weld in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong and in Hong Hong for Drexel Burnham Lambert, when the firm was the junk bond king of Wall Street, he set up his own eponymous business in 1990. His company acts as an investment advisor, fund manager and broker/dealer. Topics:
Economics, Entrepreneur, Europe, Finance, Investment
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Marc also serves as director or advisor of a number of investment funds that focus on emerging and frontier markets. He is the author of several books including best-seller “Tomorrow’s Gold - Asia’s Age of Discovery” (2002), now in its 4th edition. In this book Mark predicted the market rises of oil, precious metals, other commodities, the strengthening of emerging markets and especially China.
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Martin Feldstein
Niall Ferguson Oxford Professor of History
The George F. Baker Harvard Professor of Economics
Niall is a highly respected commentator on contemporary politics, economics and finance. In his book and TV series “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World”, he set the current financial crisis in unrivalled historical perspective. Niall was named as one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2004. A prolific author, his most recent books include “Civilization: The West and the Rest “(2012), and “High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg” (2010). He is currently working on a book of the life of Henry Kissinger.
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He served as President of the American Economic Association in 2004. In 2006, President Bush appointed him to be a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. In 2009, President Obama appointed him to be a member of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. He has received honorary doctorates from several universities and is an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. In 1977, he received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and other publications.
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He is a weekly columnist for Newsweek and a contributing editor for Bloomberg TV, and also writes and reviews regularly for the international press.
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Martin served as President and CEO of the NBER from 1977-82 and 1984-2008 and continues as a Research Associate of the NBER. Martin was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Reagan’s Chief Economic Adviser.
Adam Fergusson Author of “When Money Dies” Adam wrote “When Money Dies” in the early 1970s when the global economy was buckling in the wake of the first oil shock – which killed growth and pushed prices up, fuelling inflation. The book tells the story of Germany’s economic collapse after the First World War. In the wake of the banking crisis and the use by governments of quantative easing, “When Money Dies” returned to fashion among financiers and governments all over the world and was republished in 2010 and is a classic social historical study of what can happen when public spending gets out of control.
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He regularly speaks on the lessons to be learned from Germany’s economic history, the unintended consequences of economic policies, living with inflation and fiscal, social and economic behaviour.
Clemens Fuest
Fan Gang Oxford Professor for Business Taxation Clemens is considered one of the most prominent German economists. His fields of research include public economics, corporate taxation and international taxation. He previously held the position of Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance and has continued as a policy advisor on taxation. Clemens’ research on international taxation and economics has been published widely in international academic journals.
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Fan is a respected authority on China’s economic development and currently Director of the National Economic Research Institute (NERI) in Beijing and Chairman of the China Reform Foundation. A close relationship with government lends added weight to his perspective of China’s direction. He is an expert in the macroeconomics of long-term development, international trade and currency, foreign relations and China’s regional integration within Asia. Topics:
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His current research focuses on the debt crisis in the Eurozone
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He also contributes to thinking on economic and fiscal policy though articles in the press including Handelsblatt, Frankurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Wall Street Journal. In March 2013 he became President of The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, one of Germany’s leading independent economic research institutes following five years as Research Director at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. He was previously Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne.
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• Might China Revaluate, and How Would This Effect US Deficits
He speaks on China’s financial risk and financial systems reform, foreign exchange regimes and revaluation, China’s economic reform and globalisation. He holds advisory roles to a number of branches of the Chinese government and has been a proponent of using tight monetary policy coupled with an expansionary fiscal policy to stimulate China’s domestic demand. Fan’s writing is widely published and he is a regular speaker at international events.
John Gieve Deputy Governor of the Bank of England 2006-11 John has spent most of his career in senior positions working with successive UK Governments in treasury and financial roles. He speaks on the future of banking and global financial systems. John spent twenty years at the UK Treasury, involved in banking and City regulation, energy, public services and the Budget. He carried out spending reviews for both Labour and Conservative governments and served as Private Secretary to three Chancellors.
Through his new role, Clemens wants to be more involved in political debates and in shaping a transformation of the economy. His current research focuses on the debt crisis in the eurozone, international fiscal competition, the implications of globalisation, European integration for tax policy, and the impact of taxation on corporate behaviour. Topics:
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John became Permanent Secretary at the Home Office in 2001. He was also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee and a board member of the Financial Services Authority. John was knighted in the New Year’s Honours list 2004 and is now Chairman of VocaLink, the main provider of payment systems to banks in the UK.
Fred Hu
Otmar Issing Former Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Greater China
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Asia/China, Economics, Finance
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Fred is founder of Primavera Capital and prior to this, Chairman of Greater China for Goldman Sachs. He was key to developing Goldmans’ presence in China and led some of the largest and most significant transactions in the firm’s history. He is a respected economist whose main areas of research interest include macroeconomics, international finance and capital markets. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Fred worked in macroeconomic research at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and was involved in policy consultations for a number of member states including China. He has advised the Chinese Government on financial reform, restructuring of state-owned enterprises and macroeconomic policies. Fred sits on the Hong Kong Government’s Strategic Development Committee and the Advisory Committee for the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. In addition to several corporate and charity directorships, Fred is Chairman of the Nature Conservatory’s China Board. He is also Co-Director of the International Centre for Economic Research at Tsinghua University. Fred is a member of the editorial board for various academic journals and is a columnist for leading business publications in China. Fred speaks on the future of China, Asian economies, global finance and economics.
Influential European Central Banker For the past 20 years, Otmar has been one of Europe’s most influential central bankers and he was one of the principal architects of the common European currency.
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Now president of the Centre for Financial Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt), Otmar was formerly a member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank (1990-1998) and of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (1998-2006). His background allows him to speak with high authority on topics including the euro, monetary policy and the global economic outlook. At the European Central Bank, he was responsible for European Monetary Policy. In 2008, he was appointed by Chancellor Merkel as Head of the Advisory Group on the New Financial Order. He also was a member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on EU Financial Supervision chaired by Jacques de LarosiËre, and responsible for the De LarosiËre report. Otmar was the decision-maker on the euro interest rate and was known for being the architect of the “Two Column Strategy” in which economic indicators as well as monetary criteria must be considered for decisions on interest rates. He is the author of several books on economics. His short book “Wie wir den Euro retten und Europa st‰rken” (How do we save the euro and strengthen Europe ) was published in August 2012. Its underlying message is that the euro is worth saving, but this will require reforms and some countries may be forced to leave. Otmar is currently an advisor for Goldman Sachs.
Sony Kapoor
Parag Khanna International Expert in Finance and Development Sony is Managing Director of the independent think tank Re-Define, the current broad focus of which is to advance reform and accountability in the financial sector. Sony advises both governments and non-governmental organisations, including charities, and is a frequent commentator on the Euro crisis and matters of financial reform. He writes for newspapers such as the Financial Times, the Guardian, Le Monde and Handelsblatt, and is in demand for his views on the financial crisis by TV networks including CNBC and the BBC.
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• Challenges and Opportunities of the Euro Crisis • Financial Regulation • International Governance • Development Economics • Taxation – Financial Transaction Tax and Tax Havens • Green Finance and Sustainable Investments • Sovereign Wealth Funds and Pension Funds • Austerity vs. Growth Debate • Risk Management
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Re-Define continues to work with the European Authorities, where we emphasise the quality of regulations over quantity
His key topics include financial and tax reform, the euro crisis, development finance, the environment and international governance in the context of sustainability and accountability. His book, “The Financial Crisis-Causes and Cures” was written for non-specialist policy makers, trade unions, consumer groups, NGOs and members of parliament to grasp the main causes of the financial crisis and key regulatory issues. His background is in banking, in leveraged finance and derivatives. Since 2004 he has focused on his interests in public policy, international governance and financial reforms. His roles include expert consultancies at the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Commission and strategy adviser to several governments and NGOsin the developed and developing worlds. Sony is currently a visiting Professor at The London School of Economics.
Leading Global Strategist
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He is Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Senior Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, Senior Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, and Adjunct Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is co-author of “Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization” (2012), and author of “The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order” (2008) and “How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance” (2011). In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He is regularly featured in media around the world such as the New York Times, TIME, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, and appears regularly on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, PBS, and NPR. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India, Parag grew up in the United Arab Emirates, New York, and Germany. He has travelled to more than 100 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2009, Parag was honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2002 he was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize. He speaks German, Hindi, French, Spanish and basic Arabic.
Paul Krugman
Richard Koo American Economist
Chief Economist of Nomura Research Institute
For more than 20 years, Paul has written extensively for non-economists, including a monthly column, “The Dismal Science,” for the on-line magazine Slate. He has also been a columnist for Fortune and has published articles in The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, and The New York Times Magazine.
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He has served on the faculty of MIT; his last post was Ford International Professor of Economics. He has also taught at Yale and Stanford Universities, and prior to that he was the senior International Economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, under Ronald Reagan. Paul is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Group of Thirty.
In addition to being one of the first non-Japanese to participate in the making of Japan’s 5-year economic plan, Richard is also the only non-Japanese member of the Defence Strategy Study Conference of the Japan Ministry of Defense.
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Before joining Nomura in 1984, Richard was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a Doctoral Fellow of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In addition to conducting financial market research, he has been appointed by several Japanese prime ministers to a number of key committee positions to study the future designs for the Japanese economy. He has also spearheaded the national debate on how best to save Japan’s ailing banking system through his frequent TV and parliamentary appearances.
Alexei Kudrin Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University In 1996 Alexei was appointed Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration and Head of the President’s Chief Audit Department. In 1997 he became First Deputy to the Finance Minister. In 2000-11 Alexei was a Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
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In the early 1990s he joined the Leningrad City Government; he headed the Leningrad Free Trade Zone Committee, the Committee for Economic Development and the Chief Directorate of Finance of the City Council of St. Petersburg. In 1993–6 Alexei was Deputy to the Mayor and Head of the Committee for Economy and Finance.
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Justin Lin
Magnus Lindkvist Former World Bank Chief Economist
Expert on Present and Future Trends
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Before his World Bank role, Justin was Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University for 15 years. He has written many books on China, including “The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform”, “State-owned Enterprise Reform in China” and the highly regarded “Quest for Prosperity” (2012). His latest book “Against the Consensus:Reflections on the Great Recession” (2013) draws on his World Bank experience and offers views on the cause of the crisis, why it is so serious and widespread and its likely evolution. Arguing that conventional theories provide inadequate solutions, he proposes new initiatives for achieving global stability and avoiding the recurrence of similar crises in the future. He is professor and honorary dean at the National School of Development at Peking University. Justin is originally from Taiwan but defected to China in 1979 during his Taiwan military service.
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Justin spent five years as Chief Economist at the World Bank, joining in June 2008 as the international banking crisis gathered momentum. As the World Bank’s first Chief Economist from the developing world, Justin brought his key interests of climate change and the impact of the evolving financial crisis on developing countries.
Magnus founded his company Pattern Recognition in 2005 to help companies make sense out of the future. Previously, Magnus worked as a brand strategist at Differ and as a Planner/Account Director and Management Group Member at brand strategy agency Grow. In 2008, he created the world’s first academically accredited course in Trendspotting and Future Thinking at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. Magnus is a member of renowned conference TED - the congregation and yearly seminar in California featuring some of the world’s foremost innovators, scientists, thinkers and artists. With his talks and his books – “Everything We • The World and Your Industry: Portrait Know Is Wrong”, “The Attack of The Unexpected” and “When of a Bright Future The Future Begins” – Magnus challenges our entire way of • Trendspotting and Future-thinking thinking about and looking towards the future.
Director of Global Indicators, World Bank Augusto speaks on many economic topics including European economic integration, the determinants of competitiveness and the European Monetary System. Previously, Augusto was Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he was the editor of the “Global Competitiveness Report”, as well as a number of regional economic reports.
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He worked for many years as an economist for the IMF in Washington DC, including a posting as resident representative in the Russian Federation. He has been professor of economics at the University of Chile in Santiago. He is the author of numerous articles and papers on international economic issues. His interests include the role of interdependence and cooperation in the emergence of global institutions.
Rachel Lomax
Catherine Lubochinksy Deputy Governor of the Bank of England 2003-8
Managing Director, Research at the Global Risk Institute (GRI)
Rachel’s early career was spent at HM Treasury and her extensive experience of international financial policy making at the highest levels makes her a heavy weight commentator on economic matters today. Before joining the Bank of England, Rachel was Permanent Secretary of three UK Government departments preceded by a period as a Vice President and Chief of Staff to the President of the World Bank from 1995-96. Topics:
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At the UK Government’s Treasury department, Rachel gained wide-ranging experience in macroeconomic , monetary and financial issues. She was Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Nigel Lawson and then Head of the Economic and Domestic Secretariat at the Cabinet Office for the UK Government Rachel is a nonexecutive director of several organisations including HSBC and BAA as well as President of the Institute of Fiscal Studies.
Catherine was previously Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Paris. She taught a variety of courses including financial markets, fixed income, derivatives and interest rates. Her recent research focussed on derivative strategies, credit spreads, credit rating agencies, financial regulation and fund management.
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Gerard Lyons Economic Advisor to the Mayor of London Gerard is an expert on the world economy, the international financial system, macroeconomic policy and global markets. In particular, Gerard is an expert on the growing emerging economies, with excellent contacts and insights. He is widely credited with accurate predictions ahead of the financial crisis. Gerard He stepped down as Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research at Standard Chartered Bank at the end of 2012, after over ten years in key roles, and is now Chief Economic Adviser to the Mayor of London in a role pinpointing the challenges and opportunities to ensure the continued success of London as a major international city.
She draws on her extensive experience to speak on macroeconomics, the financial markets, monetary policy, public-private sector issues and global institutional reform.
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She is a member of the “Cercle des Economistes” and the European Shadow Financial Regulation Committee. She has been President of the European Money and Finance Forum (2006-12), an advisor to several private sector financial institutions over the years and a consultant to the Financial Markets and Stability Department of Banque de France. Within Europe, she is widely recognised as an authority in the field of financial risk management and frequently appears as an expert on TV and radio.
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He has published widely on economic and financial affairs and is recognised as an excellent forecaster. His team at Standard Chartered was rated by Bloomberg the number one global forecaster (out of over 360) in 2010 and 2011. He holds a number of expert roles including for including for the WEF. He chairs the City of London’s Independent Economists Group and has presented as an expert to government consultations in the UK, USA and the Middle East. He regularly appears on Sky News and Bloomberg as a commentator. A brilliant speaker and chair, Gerard’s views are widely sought after.
Pippa Malmgren
Thomas Mayer Founder and President, Principalis Asset Management
Renowned German Economics and Finance Expert Thomas divides his time between academic research at the Goethe University and an advisory role to the senior management at Deutsche Bank. Previous roles include Chief Economist at Deutsche Bank and Head of DB Research in Frankfurt, Chief European Economist in London and co-head of the Bank’s Global Economics Group at Deutsche Bank Markets Research. As the financial crisis unfolded, Thomas’ reputation for prediction put him greatly in demand as a commentator in the international media.
Pippa’s focus is on helping fund managers better understand how politics, policy and geopolitics will impact on the financial markets, particularly relevant in the current debt crisis.
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Economics, Finance, Politics, Risk, Strategy
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Pippa is the President of the Canonbury Group and Principalis Asset Management, both financial firms based in London. She has written for several economic and financial publications and is a frequent and expert commentator on the BBC and a regular speaker at international financial and regulatory conferences. Her clients include many investment banks, fund managers and hedge funds as well as Sovereign Wealth Funds, pension funds and corporations. She founded the Canonbury Symposia, which brings together high level experts on strategic security, defence and intelligence matters to meet with experts from the financial markets.
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He has recently published his first book “Europe’s Unfinished Currency: the Political Economics of the Euro”, which looks at the historical background of European monetary union, its current peril and proposes clear strategies for its rescue. Thomas speaks on topics including economic thinking and practice and the sovereign debt crisis.
Robyn Meredith Asia-Pacific Business and Finance Correspondent
She served as Financial Market Advisor to President GW Bush during his 2000 campaign and as Special Assistant to the President on the National Economic Council from 2001-2. She was responsible for financial market issues in the White House and was a member of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, the President’s Working Group on Corporate Governance and the White House Working Group on Terrorism Risks to the Economy.
Robyn has over a decade’s experience reporting on China and global economic trends, and is author of the bestseller, “The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for the Rest of Us”. Prior to joining Bloomberg Television, Robyn was Senior Editor, Asia, for Forbes Magazine, also based in Hong Kong.
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Management, Asia/China, Economics, Globalisation
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Earlier in her career, Robyn’s investigative reporting exposed a pattern of insider deals at US savings and loans associations that led to four Congressional hearings and an overhaul of U.S. banking regulations governing IPOs. Robyn employs her deep knowledge of Asia, and China in particular to impart perspective changing talks on the future of China, Globalisation and how businesses can make the most of the economic rise of Asia.
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Mark Mobius Economics Editor at The Economist
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Chairman of Templeton Asset Management Mark directs a research team spread over 18 emerging market economies around the globe and manages emerging market investment portfolios. After 40 years as a pioneer of emerging markets, Mark continues to command a strong following in the investment world and is influencing the direction of billions of investment dollars. His highly informed views are greatly in demand by the financial media, including Bloomberg and CNBC.
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In 1997, she edited “Emerging Asia”, a book on the future of emerging-markets in Asia, published by the Asian Development Bank. In 1998 she testified before Congress on the introduction of the Euro. Zanny is a regular television and radio commentator on PBS, “Marketplace” on NPR, CNN and CNBC. Zanny writes extensively about international financial issues including enlargement of the European Union, the future of the IMF and economic reform in emerging economies.
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He has won numerous financial awards including “Ten Top Money Managers of the 20th Century”. Mark has written several books, including “Trading with China”, and “Mobius on Emerging Markets”. In 2006, Asiamoney Magazine listed Mark as one of the “Top 100 Most Powerful and Influential People.” Mark is chairman of the Global Corporate Governance Forum Investor Responsibility Taskforce.
Dambisa Moyo International Global Affairs Economist Dambisa has travelled widely in order to underpin her expertise on the political, economic, and financial workings of emerging economies, in particular BRIC countries and frontier economies in Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East.
Zanny speaks on a broad range of topics affecting the global economy.
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Her work examines the interplay between rapidly developing countries, international business and the global economy, while highlighting the key opportunities for investment. Dambisa is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa” (2009) which challenges conventional wisdom on international aid programmes. She has been named by TIME Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders.
George A. Papandreou Creator of the BRICs Acronym
Prime Minister of Greece 2009-11 As Prime Minister of Greece, George has been at the forefront of the global financial crisis. He speaks with authority on the state of the Eurozone and the future of the European Union. In these tumultuous times, few are better placed than George, not only to provide insights into the fiscal crisis, but also to look forward to where we are going.
Jim is an internationally respected economist and commentator with a unique perspective on global markets, currencies and trends. He began his career in finance at a division of Bank of America. From 1988-91, he was in charge of the fixed income research group at Swiss Bank Corporation and served as chief of global research.
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He joined Goldman Sachs in 1995 and was appointed head of Global Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research in 2001. In 2010 he became Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He has published research into other growth markets, including the Next 11 (Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey, South Korea, and Vietnam). Jim published an analysis of the global economy, ‘The Growth Map’ in 2011.
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He is Vice Chairperson of the International Olympic Truce Foundation, an institution he actively promoted when the city of Athens was awarded the 2004 Olympic Games. In 2012 George was named a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and in 2013 he served as a Global Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Named as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in 2010 for “making the best of Greece’s worst year”
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Nenad Pacek Founder and President of Global Success Advisors Nenad is one of the world’s leading authorities on emerging markets, advising business leaders on key opportunities and challenges and helping them to craft successful growth strategies. Nenad has advised some of the world’s largest corporations around the world.
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A former Vice President of The Economist Group where he spent almost two decades advising global companies on economic and business issues, Nenad also managed several business units in Europe, Middle East and Africa and globally. He is the author of ‘’Emerging Markets: Lessons for Business Success and Outlook for Different Markets’’. He looks at how business opportunities in China, Russia, East Asia and Eastern Europe and Turkey can offer increasing rewards if you get it right. He uses real experiences of companies to illustrate his points to open the eyes of those entering or expanding their emerging markets presence.
Sir Christopher Pissarides
Alex Perry Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
Topics:
• The Macroeconomics of Labour Markets • Structural Change • Labour Market • Indicators of Economic Growth
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Christopher is Professor of Economics and holder of the Norman Sosnow Chair at the London School of Economics. His areas of specialisation are the economics of labour markets, the employment implications of economic fluctuations and of growth and structural change as well as monetary and fiscal policy. He won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics (jointly with Peter Diamond of MIT and Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University) for their work on “markets with friction”. His publications on unemployment, including his book “Equilibrium Unemployment Theory”, are standard references in the field and have influenced policy around the world. From 2000-7 Christopher was external member of the Cyprus Monetary Policy Committee, which saw the introduction of the euro to that country. From 2002-3 he was a member of the influential European Commission Employment Taskforce. In 2011 Christopher received the Grand Cross of the Republic of Cyprus, the highest honour of the Republic. He served as the President of the European Economic Association in the same year. Along with his academic posts, Christopher has been a consultant on employment policy and other labour issues for the World Bank, the European Commission, the Bank of England and the OECD. Christopher was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2013, receiving the award for his service to economics.
Africa Correspondent, Author and TIME Contributor
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• The New Africa • Emerging Economies • Global inequality: Growing Up,
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Alex Perry is a veteran foreign correspondent who has worked in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia and the Middle East for 15 years, covering business, economics and politics, as well as the occasional war. His third book, The Rift: the Future of Africa, will be published globally in late 2014. For more than a decade, from postings in Hong Kong, New Delhi and Cape Town, Alex has been a contributor to TIME magazine, for whom he wrote more than 20 cover stories and won numerous awards. He is a frequent guest on the BBC and CNN. Alex’s particular expertise lies in knitting together the diverse issues of Africa and the developing world into a coherent, comprehensive picture. He is at home talking about his encounters with pirates or Islamists as he is relaying insights from conversations with African’s new generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders to figures as diverse as the Dalai Lama, Melinda Gates or Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
Vladimir Pozner Legendary Russian Journalist Vladimir has appeared on a wide range of networks including NBC, CBS, CNN and the BBC. He has worked as a journalist, editor (Soviet Life Magazine and Sputnik Magazine), TV and radio commentator in a long career covering all major events in Russia. He has co-hosted programs with Phil Donahue in New York City and the first, called “A Citizen’s Summit,” was supported by President Gorbachev.
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Media, Presenter, Russia, US
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He is also the celebrated author of “Parting with Illusions”. He was the President of the Academy of Russian Television and is the dean of The Pozner School of Television Journalism. Thanks to his experience, activities, and knowledge of several languages, Pozner has broad contacts in the world of politics, finance, and culture and, of course, communications.
Douglas Rediker Co-Founder and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics
Member of the Executive Board of the IMF 2010-12 He was nominated by President Obama in 2009 and was confirmed by the US Senate in 2010. He served as the Chairman of the World Economic Forum Geopolitical Risk Global Agenda Council in 2012 and currently serves as its Vice Chair. Doug has testified before US Congressional Committees on subjects ranging from the foreign policy implications of the economic crisis to the threats and opportunities posed by Sovereign Wealth Funds and state capitalism.
Nouriel has been named one of the best economics resources by BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist. He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Topics:
• Economic Forecast • Financial Markets • Global Economy • Government • Regulation
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He has served as the Senior Economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise. Nouriel’s views on global economic issues are widely cited by the media, and he is a frequent commentator on various business news programs.
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He has published opinion pieces in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. Doug has significant experience in Economics, Emerging Markets, Europe, global telecommunications and media, a sector he covered as a Finance, Global Senior Investment Banker and Private Equity investor for many years. Doug has received numerous industry awards, including www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ having been named an “Emerging Markets Superstar” by Global speakers/douglas_rediker Finance Magazine and has received both the “EEMEA Equity” and “M&A Deals of the Year” by The International Financing Review.
Jim Rogers International Investment Guru
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Finance, Global
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Jim is the author of “Investment Biker, Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip” and “Hot Commodities”. After leaving Quantum, Jim became visiting Professor of Finance at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. At the same time he laid the groundwork for his lifelong dream, an around-the-world motorcycle trip: more than 100,000 miles across six continents. That journey became the subject of Jim’s first book, “Investment Biker” and was followed by Jim’s three year journey round the world between 1999 and 2002, this time by custom built SUV. His status as a renowned global investor has led to him being chronicled in a number of books including Jon Train’s “Money Masters of Our Time” and Jack Schwager’s “Market Wizards”.
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Nasser Saidi
Jeffrey Sachs Economist and Governance Reform Advocate
Topics:
Economics and Finance in Middle East and North Africa Corporate Governance in Middle East and North Africa
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In 2012, Nasser was named among the ‘’50 Most influential Arabs in the World’’ by The Middle East Magazine, for the fourth consecutive year. He is the former Chief Economist at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Executive Director of the Hawkamah-Institute for Corporate Governance and The Mudara Institute of Directors at the DIFC. He is a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of the Global Corporate Governance Forum, an institution of the World Bank driving global corporate governance reforms. He was the Minister of Economy and Trade and Minister of Industry of Lebanon from 1998-2000. He was the first ViceGovernor of the Central Bank of Lebanon and was a Member of the UN Committee for Development Policy (UNCDP) for two mandates over the period 2000-6, a position to which he was appointed by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. He has written a number of books and numerous publications addressing macroeconomic, capital market development and international economic issues in the Middle East and is author of, “Corporate Governance in the MENA countries: Improving Transparency and Disclosure”. He speaks on economics and finance and corporate governance with reference to the Middle East and North Africa.
Leading International Economic Advisor Jeffrey has pioneered innovative approaches to economic development, poverty alleviation, and enlightened globalization. In 2004 and 2005, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The New York Times Magazine called him “probably the most important economist in the world.” Jeffrey is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.
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Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Globalisation, International Business, Investment
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He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and has held several other highlevel advisory positions in the international sphere. Jeffrey has advised governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa, as well as a host of international development agencies.
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John Sfakianakis Chief Economist, Banque Saudi Fransi Until August 2011 John was Chief Economist of Banque Saudi Fransi and Chief Middle East Economist, Credit Agricole, Corporate Investment Bank. He has also served as Saudi British Bank’s Chief Economist in Riyadh.
Topics:
Economics, Energy, Finance, Global, Middle East
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He publishes frequently on Saudi economic and trade issues and at Banque Saudi Fransi was responsible for issuing the first business confidence index report by a Saudi-based bank. He also worked for the United National Development Program seconded to the Ministry of Economy and Planning of Saudi Arabia where he served as part of the 8th planning team for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. John is a frequent commentator on regional and international news channels such as Al Arabiya, BBC, CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg.
Yashwant Sinha
Arun Shourie
Former Finance Minister of India
India’s Best Known Commentator on Current Affairs
Topics:
Finance, Leadership
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Arun has held several significant ministerial portfolios in India. He was responsible for privatising several public-sector companies and is known as the “privatisation czar” of India. As Minister of Communications and Information Technology, he implemented policies that enabled the Indian telecommunication industry to grow rapidly and quadrupled the use of mobile phones. He has received numerous national and international awards, including the Magsaysay Award and one of India’s highest civilian awards, the Padma Bhushan. He was acclaimed as a “Star of Asia” by Business Week in 2002, and as “Business Leader of the Year” by India’s Economic Times for his pioneering and dogged work on privatisation. In a poll of Indian CEOs, he was acclaimed as “The Most-outstanding Minister” of Prime Minister Vajpayee’s Government in early 2004.
Yashwant is widely credited for pushing through major economic and financial reform measures that were key to placing the Indian economy on a firm growth trajectory. He began his political career as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and elected member of the upper house of India’s parliament, the Rajya Sabha. Following his tenure as Finance Minister, he was appointed External Affairs Minister and is currently the Vice President of the BJP.
Topics:
Government of Policy and Reform: India’s Economy and Its Future
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Hans-Werner Sinn President of the ifo Institute for Economic Research Hans-Werner’s field of expertise covers globalisation, emerging markets and demographic change. He is Chair of Economics at the LMU University in Munich, a position he has held since 1984. His many guest professorships and research posts have gained him international recognition. The ifo-Institute is well known for the publication of the monthly index of the German business climate and under his leadership has become the most highly regarded economic research institute in Germany. Hans-Werner’s advice has been sought for many years at government level and he is one of the most frequently quoted economists in Germany.
Earlier in his career, Arun was an economist with the World Bank, and Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Express. He is widely regarded as the initiator of investigative journalism in India. He has written 25 books on a variety of topics ranging from economic reforms, constitutional law, modern Indian history, religious fundamentalism, governance in India, to national security.
He has written a full account of the twists and turns of his years as Finance Minister, entitled “Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer”. Yashwant was knighted in 2002. Yashwant talks on topics related to democracy, the government and economy of India and India’s future.
Topics:
Economics, Emerging Markets, Demographic Change
He is a regular commentator on radio and television and his thoughts on the “economic failure” of re-unification and the weaknesses of the euro have given him considerable influence on German economic thinking.
Jürgen Stark
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Renowned German Economist
Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank 2005-11
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International and European monetary
At the European Central Bank Executive Board Lorenzo was responsible for international and European relations as well as the legal department of the Bank. He is currently Chairman of SnamReteGas and of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, a mixed private-public institution which promotes cultural initiatives in Florence.
Jürgen is a renowned German economist who was a key member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) from 2006-11. Jürgen draws on his extensive experience in the German Ministries of Finance and Economics and at the ECB to speak on the future of the euro, European finance and economics, financial stability and the global economy. At the ECB he was responsible for economics and monetary analysis and was often referred to as the bank’s “Chief Economist”, although this was not his official title. Jürgen left the ECB because of his fundamental disagreement with the bank’s controversial government bond-buying programme, although the ECB announced his resignation as being for “personal reasons”. Topics:
Economics, Europe, Finance, Future
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From 1978-98 he held senior economic policy positions in the German federal government, and from 1998-2006 he served two consecutive terms as Vice President of Germany’s Bundesbank.
Joseph Stiglitz Professor at Columbia University
He has published extensively in monetary and international economics, and European monetary and financial issues.
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The Price of Inequality, A Guide to the Economics of America, Economics of Information
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Before joining the ECB, Lorenzo was Director General for International Financial Relations of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. His earlier appointments include Deputy Director of General Research of the ECB, Head of the Policy Division of the European Monetary Institute (Frankfurt) and Head of the Exchange Rate and International Trade Division of the Research Department of Banca d’Italia (Rome).
Named by Time Magazine as “One of the most influential people in the World” (2011), Joseph’s research constantly challenges accepted tenets of economics. He has made major contributions to development economics and trade theory and to the theories of welfare economics and of income-and-wealth distribution. His work has helped explain the circumstances in which markets do not work well, and how selective government intervention can improve their performance. He was instrumental in creating a new branch of economics, “The Economics of Information,” exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering new concepts. He is now Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University in New York. His most recent book published in 2012 is titled “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future”.
Nassim Nicolas Taleb
Heizo Takenaka Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University
Global Economics, Psychology, Risk, Decision Making Under Opacity, Mathematical and Philosophical Problems with Probability
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Heizo speaks on the Japanese economy and political situation, dealing with the global financial crisis and economic trends in Asia. He worked closely with Prime Minister Koizumi in instigating a series of reforms they made are known as the Koizumi-Takenaka Reforms. During office he strove to restructure public finances and address the issue of bad debts within the Japanese banking industry. His approach is widely credited with initiating a turn-around in the Japanese economy. He is a Board Member of the World Economic Forum foundation and regularly speaks at the WEF. Topics:
Asia/China, Economics, Finance, Leadership, Politics
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In 2011 he was named one of Bloomberg’s “50 most influential people”.
He is highly respected for his economic analysis, regularly appearing on TV and radio and writes for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and New York Times.
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Jonathan Tepper Economist and Chief Editor of Variant Perception
He specialises in philosophising on uncertainty and errors in human knowledge, teaching us how to deal with, and benefit from, unpredictability. His latest book “Antifragile”(2012) introduces the idea of how to exploit disorder and chaos and benefit from Black Swans. Nassim’s philosophy putshim in high demand in the current era of economic turmoil.
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Nassim is best known for his work on problems of randomness, probability and uncertainty. His first book “Fooled by Randomness” was published in 2001. In 2007 he published the business global bestseller “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”. His books have been published in 31 languages with more than 3 million copies in print. Following a highly successful career as a derivatives trader where over the years he was able to examine the practical outcome of different risk strategies, he has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, randomness, human error, probability and the philosophy of knowledge and has transformed these interests into three successful careers—as a man of letters, a businessman-trader-risk manager and a university professor.
World-Renowned Economist and Japanese Politician
Variant Perception, provides economic and market analyses to hedge funds, banks and high net worth private investors. Jonathan is the co-author of “Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle” (2011), which explores the sovereign debt crisis and looks at the tough choices facing governments around the globe.
Topics:
Economics, Emerging Markets, Entrepreneurship, Europe, Finance
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In addition to the sovereign debt crisis, Jonathan talks on the crisis of the euro, global, European and local economies, financial markets and macroeconomics. His career interests are diverse - he is also the founder of Demotix, a citizen-journalism website and photo agency that takes photographs from freelance journalists and amateurs and markets them to the mainstream media. Jonathan was a finalist for the Wolfson Economics Prize in 2012.
Jean-Claude Trichet
Topics:
World Economy – Stability and Growth, Globalisation, International Monetary and Trade Policies
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Lord Adair Turner President of the European Central Bank 2003-11
Chairman of the Financial Services Authority 2008-13
Jean-Claude was President of the European Central Bank from 2003-11. He was the second president of the ECB after its establishment in 1998. The second four years of his presidency have seen him at the centre of the storm in the political and monetary tussle facing Europe in the economic crisis. Having overseen the progress of European Monetary Union into a critical point in European history, Jean-Claude is now ideally placed to speak on this and related issues.
Adair was Chairman of the UK Government’s Climate Change Committee from 2008-12. In 2009 the FSA produced a report recommending a revamp of global banking regulation in response to the credit crunch and collapse of global banking liquidity. Adair lead the FSA as it wrestled with the challenge of rebuilding a tarnished reputation and negotiated changes to the regulatory regime.
In 2008, Jean-Claude ranked fifth on Newsweek’s list of the World’s most powerful and was named “Person of the Year” by the Financial Times in 2007. Before his Presidency of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude spent 10 years as the Governor of Banque de France. Before this he had a career spanning nearly 30 years as an adviser to the French Government in finance roles. In 2008, Jean-Claude was awarded the Vision for Europe Award for his contributions toward greater European integration. He has been a member of the Group of Thirty (G30) international assembly of financial experts since 1987 and is currently its chairman. He was recently appointed chairman of Brussels-based international think-tank Bruegel. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements. His speaking style coupled with an incisive understanding and enlightened capacity to explain and discuss global issues has contributed to his high popularity and reputation.
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• Global Financial Regulation • Climate Change • Financial Services Industry • Corporate Governance • Lessons from the Global • Financial Crash
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He is currently a Senior Fellow for the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). Until 2008 he was a non-executive Director at Standard Chartered Bank; from 2000-6 he was Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe, and from 1995-99, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry. Prior to that, between 1992-5, he built the McKinsey’s practice in Eastern Europe and Russia as a Director.
Ruben Vardanian
Paul Volcker Renowned US Economist and Chairman of the Federal Reserve 1979-87
CEO of the Troika Dialog Group
Topics:
Global, Psychology, Risk
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Ruben has worked at Troika Dialog since it was founded and has been head of the company since 1992. He is an active member of many business organisations, notably the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. He is a member of the Coordination Board of the Armenia 2020 project, a member of the Russian branch of the Young Presidents’ Organization, and member of the National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia board of trustees. He has been named “Businessperson of the Year” by the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia and“Investment Banker of the Year” in RosBusinessConsulting’s annual “Person of the Year” award, while Fortune magazine, in an article on the next generation of global leaders, named him one of its “205 Rising Stars”.
Paul is widely credited with ending the high levels of inflation seen in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s. His interest rate hikes are now widely viewed as having been necessary to end the cycle of soaring prices and stagflation.
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International Economic and Monetary Affairs
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He served as an economist for the US Federal Government for 30 years followed by a period as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has chaired various high level public interest committees including the investigation of alleged corruption in the UN’s Oil for Food Program in Iraq and the G30. Paul was Chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Obama from 2009-11 and remains a vocal commentator on the subject of banking regulation.
Theo Waigel German Finance Minister 1989-98 Having been a member of parliament since 1973, he joined Chancellor Kohl’s Cabinet as Federal Minister of Finance in 1989. There followed the peaceful revolution in East Germany, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the further steps towards European integration. Both as leader of the CSU party and as a Government Minister, Theo was instrumental in bringing about Germany’s re-unification and in securing Russia’s agreement to re-unified Germany being part of NATO.
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Europe, Politics, Future, Economics
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During the same period, Theo and Foreign Minister Genscher put their signatures to the Maastricht Treaty for European political and monetary union. Theo was the driving force behind the Stability Pact to underpin the Euro and without his determination the single European currency might never have become reality.
Beatrice Weder di Mauro
James Wolfensohn Advisor to the German Government on Economic Policy
President of the World Bank 1995-2005
Beatrice is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mainz and until recently was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts, the group of five experts which advises the German government on economic policy and development. She was the first woman to hold this position.
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Economic Policy, Macroeconomics
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As a result of her work at some of the world’s leading institutions, she is recognised as a global authority on economic policy and is considered one of Germany’s “Wise Men”. Beatrice worked at the IMF, the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. She is a member of the Board of Directors at a number of major corporates including Roche and UBS AG and is on the advisory board of the IMF, the EBRD and Fiscal Crisis Chair at the World Economic Forum. She holds visiting positions at a number of prestigious academic institutions and is widely published in specialist journals. Drawing on her considerable expertise, Beatrice offers decision makers crucial information and insights into European financial policy, current trends in the world’s economy and the ramifications of an expending Europe on financial markets around the globe.
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Economics, Ethics, Finance, Globalisation
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With world poverty reduction as his primary focus, James travelled to more than 120 countries in order better to understand the challenges facing the World Bank in regard to poverty and environmental issues. He led successful initiatives on debt reduction, environmental sustainability, anti-corruption programs and AIDS prevention/treatment. In 2005, James assumed the post of Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement for the Quartet on the Middle East helping to co-ordinate Israel’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and spearheading reconstruction efforts as Palestinians assumed sovereignty over the area. James’ experience in investment banking and at the World Bank makes him a heavyweight speaker on the Global economy, the impact of emerging markets on developed economies, debt reduction, international finance and environmental sustainability.
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Andy Xie Renowned Independent Economist Andy is one of the few economists who accurately recognised economic bubbles including the South East Asian Financial Crisis, the dot-com bubble and the US subprime mortgage bubble which lead to the current financial crisis. Andy joined Morgan Stanley in 1997 and was Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific Economics until 2006. Prior to that he spent two years with Macquarie Bank in Singapore and five years as an economist with the World Bank.
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Economics, Finance
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He was responsible for the World Bank programs in industry and finance in Indonesia and telecom and power programs in several other Asia-Pacific countries. He is currently a columnist for the South China Morning Post, The New Century Weekly and Bloomberg and is a director of Boqi Environmental Sciences.
Joseph Yam Chief Business Correspondent for the BBC
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Asia/China, Economics, Emerging Markets, Finance, Globalisation
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Dr Yueh is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, Adjunct Professor of Economics at the London Business School, and Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. She also directs the China Growth Centre (CGC) at St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and is an associate of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and IDEAS: International Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy research centre, both at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Previously, she was a corporate lawyer at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York, Beijing and Hong Kong, and Economics Editor at Bloomberg TV, where she hosted “Economic Edge”.
She has published widely and is the Series Editor of the Routledge Economic Growth and Development Series. Her books include: “Macroeconomics’’ (co-authored with Graeme Chamberlin) which is a recommended textbook of the UK Government Economic Service, Globalisation and “Economic Growth in China’’ (co-edited with Yang Yao), “The Law and Economics of Globalisation: New Challenges for a World in Flux’’ (editor), “The Future of Asian Trade and Growth: Economic Development with the Emergence of China’’ (editor), “China and Globalisation: Critical Concepts in Economics’’ (editor), “Enterprising China: Business, Economic, and Legal Developments Since 1979’’ (includes 12 business case studies), and the award-winning “The Economy of China’’. “China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower’’ is her latest book. She serves on the Advisory Board of The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), and has advised the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, World Economic Forum, among many others.
Founding Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Economics, Global Financial Crisis
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Joseph is a Hong Kong based economist and statistician. He had a distinguished public service career of over 38 years in Hong Kong. Joseph helped put together Hong Kong’s Linked Exchange Rate system in 1983 and nurtured it successfully for the following 26 years, proactively defending and strengthening the system through the sensitive period before the handover of sovereignty in 1997, through the Asian financial crisis of 1997-8 and the global financial crisis in of 2008. In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded the highest honour of the Grand Bauhinia Medal by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in 2009. He is now Executive Vice President of the China Society for Finance and Banking, and Chairman of Macroprudential Consultancy Limited.
Muhammad Yunus Founder of Grameen Bank
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As founder of Grameen Bank, Muhammed pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides the poor with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. This work is a fundamental rethink on the economic relationship between the rich and the poor, their rights and their obligations. The World Bank recently acknowledged that “this business approach to the alleviation of poverty has allowed millions of individuals to work their way out of poverty with dignity.” Muhammad believes that the right to credit should be recognised as a fundamental human right. He serves on the boards of many national and international organisations. Besides Grameen Bank he has • Creating a World Without Poverty: Social created a number of companies in Bangladesh to address Business and the Future of Capitalism diverse issues of poverty and development. • Microcredit and Empowering the Poorest of the Poor: A Story of Success and Hope
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Joe DiVanna Managing Director of Think-Tank Maris Strategies A strategist for numerous banks, technology companies and multinational businesses, Joe is also a prolific author and regular contributor to global and regional publications on finance.
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His views on economics, banking and emerging markets can be read in The Banker, Financial World, FT, New Horizons, FinWeek Leadership, Technology, Strategy, (South Africa), Malta Business Weekly, Islamic Finance, How to Run a Bank, Business and Finance (Dubai), and Middle East The State of the Islamic Banking Banker (Dubai). A frequent commentator on Industry, CNBC (Europe, Africa, Middle East), Citi7-TV, Channel Management in Financial Dubai One, and Summit-TV he is considered Services, Master Class on Islamic an expert on banking, economics, human Finance: Competitive Strategies for capital management, emerging markets and Shariah-Compliant Banks, Islamic finance. The Socio-Economic Implications of Consumer Credit
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EDUCATION, INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY
Education may be the future, the means through which young people take their place in and maybe then transform society, but it appears to be in a constant state of change as successive governments attempt to stamp their beliefs on how best our children should learn and how they should be measured. Changing standards, adapted examinations and new ways of assessing teacher performance often leaves the education sector confused and with low morale, with exams becoming the only standard by which pupils, schools and teachers are measured, yet this ignores the additional enrichment that education must provide in developing the whole person. In a global context, is enough being done by the developed world to eradicate illiteracy and provide a framework for a basic education for all the children of the world? How can technology assist this process? The education debate is one of the fiercest, possibly because it is the most important, and there is a vast difference in opinion amongst professional educationalists and politicians alike: it is a debate where everyone has a say or a view, partly because we have all, to a degree, been educated ourselves and because many of us have children and want the best for them. Listening to the differing expert opinions of practitioners and theorists alike is the best way to become informed and indeed contribute to this vital debate for the future.
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Dominic Alldis
Fredrik Härén
Geoff Mulgan
Tadao Ando
Bilal Kaafarani
Dan Pink
James Bannerman
Anne Lise Kjaer
Gregory N. Polletta
Alain de Botton
Arzu Kaprol
Naresh Ramchandani
Tony Buzan
Annabel Karmel
Sir Ken Robinson
Troy Carter
Rem Koolhaas
Janjaap Ruijssenaars
Jose Cordeiro
Charles Leadbeater
Sonu Shivdasani
Sebastian Faulks
Sugata Mitra
Hernando de Soto
Christian Gansch
Paul McKenna
Robert Tucker
Michael Gelb
Martha Lane Fox
Prof. Dr. Jens Weidner
Isaac Getz
Mike Lloyd
Benjamin Zander
Rowan Gibson
Frederic Mitterrand
Tadao Ando Japanese Architect
Jazz Musician, Orchestral Conductor and Composer
Mr. Tadao was born in Osaka, Japan in 1941. He founded Tadao Ando Architect & Associates in 1969.
As a jazz pianist and conductor, Dominic has a refreshingly creative approach to corporate learning. He founded Music and Management to create powerful learning experiences that use the metaphor of music to explore a range of key business concerns.
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• Leadership and the orchestral conductor • Teamwork - Collaboration and the jazz musician
He engages his audiences with musical analogies that invite the business world to share his insights and embrace both a classical and jazz metaphor for understanding business organisations. His seminars often involve a live symphony orchestra, or jazz band or a solo piano performance.
He is one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects. Characteristics of his work include large expanses of unadorned architectural concrete walls combined with wooden or stone floors and large windows.
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He describes how the conductor of an orchestra provides an artistic vision, inspirational leadership and a framework in which others can excel. He also examines how the world of jazz mirrors the fast-moving turbulence of today’s business climate, and how the creativity and spontaneity of jazz musicians provide an excellent model for today’s corporate player. Dominic introduces a dynamic vocabulary for discussing leadership, teamwork, creativity and personal development, inviting participants to explore new ways of thinking about business practice. As a musician, Dominic performs regularly in concert halls, festivals and jazz clubs around the world, and has made many acclaimed recordings.
Some of his major works include the Church of the Light, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, the International Library of Children’s Literature, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Chichu Art Museum. From 1997 to 2003, he was a Professor of the University of Tokyo, from 2003 to 2005, an Emeritus Professor, and from 2005, a Special University Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo.
James Bannerman Author of “GENUIS!” James is the author of ‘’GENIUS!’’, the bestselling book which sets out to increase the number of genius moments in your life. James’ book gives simple ways to become instantly smarter.
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Competitiveness, Innovation/ Creativity, Leadership
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It is currently an Amazon Kindle bestseller. He is also a creative change agent who combines creativity with psychology to help businesses innovate. As an Innovation Consultant he has worked with many leading organisations such as Aston Martin, British Airways, Orange, Starbucks, Rolls-Royce, HSBC. James also lectures on business innovation, creativity, and enterprise on the MBA programmes at Warwick Business School, Grenoble Ecole de Management, and Oxford Brookes University.
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Before working with businesses, James was a platinum-selling songwriter
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Dominic Alldis
He regularly speaks and facilitates at conferences and events around the world. His speeches add a ‘creative edge’ and are entertaining, interactive, thought-invoking, inspirational, pertinent and innovative, both in terms of style and delivery.
Alain de Botton
Tony Buzan One of the World’s Leading Thinkers and Communicators
Author and Philosopher
Author, Lifestyle, Psychology
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His most recent book, “Religion for Atheists”, looks at what atheists might learn from religion, focusing not on doctrines, but on ritual, architecture, art, morality, community and pilgrimage. Alain is dedicated to a new vision of education and he founded and helps to run The School of Life in London, which offers a novel and refreshing mix of life-enriching classes and events.
He has also helped to start Living Architecture which builds world-class modern architecture for rental around the UK including A Room for London, a ship currently perched on the roof of London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. In 2009, Alain was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, in recognition of his services to architecture.
Tony is in much demand as a speaker on creativity, the power of the mind, change and learning. Described as the “Swiss Army Knife of the Brain”, harnessing the brain’s natural preference for radiant thinking. From very average academic beginnings, Tony worked on developing his own traditional IQ level, raising it to that of genius and eventually becoming a member of Mensa, the high IQ society. Topics:
Innovation/Creativity, Psychology, Leadership, Celebrity
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The inventor of Mind Maps
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Alain is a writer whose work is best described as contemporary philosophy for everyday life. He has written on diverse themes such as love, travel, architecture and literature. He explores familiar but little discussed concepts such as anxiety, friendship, envy, desire and inadequacy. “Essays in Love” was published when he was just 23 and he went on to achieve global recognition with “How Proust Can Change your Life” a mixture of an ironic ‘self-help’ book and an analysis of one of the most revered but unread books in the Western world.
He is a prolific author whose books include well known titles such as “Use Your Head”; “Use Your Memory”; “Speed Reading”; “Brain Training” and “The Memory Book: How to Remember Anything You Want.’’ His books have been published in over 100 countries and translated into thirty languages. “Use Your Head” is a standard introductory text for staff training within IBM, General Motors, EDS, Fluor Daniel, Digital Equipment Corporation and for students of the Open University.
Troy Carter Founder, Chairman and CEO of Atom Factory, an entertainment management company
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• Entrepreneur • Innovation/Creativity • Marketing
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Troy is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Coalition Media Group, a talent management and full-service film and television production company. He brings a unique perspective and understanding of the changing patterns of consumer behaviour which enables him to speak with authority on brand-building and harnessing technology for brand enhancement. As an artist manager and CEO of Atom Factory, Troy is responsible for establishing the careers of numerous recording artists, including multi-platinum Grammy award winner Lady Gaga. He helped cement the pop star’s formidable online presence and has shown himself to be a visionary in harnessing the power of advancing digital media to connect with fans and to cultivate brand loyalty. Troy’s business interests demonstrate his uncanny knack for identifying tomorrow’s consumer trends today.
Sebastian Faulks Novelist, Journalist and Broadcaster
Venezuelan Scientist, Futurist and Engineer At present, he is Chair of the Venezuelan Node of the Millennium Project, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies in Tokyo, Japan, and Energy Advisor and Faculty at Singularity University in NASA Ames, Silicon Valley, USA.
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Economics, Globalisation, Technology
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He is Founder and President Emeritus of the World Future Society (Venezuela Chapter, Sociedad Mundial del Futuro Venezuela), Director of the Single Global Currency Association and the Lifeboat Foundation and Co-founder of the Venezuelan Transhumanist Association and of the Internet Society.
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Author, Celebrity, Innovation/ Creativity
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Thanks to his extensive work in technological foresight, futures studies, globalization, economic integration, longterm development, energy, education and monetary policy, Jose has authored and co-authored several books. ‘’El Desafío Latinoamericano’’, his first book, is a continental bestseller and is used in more than 100 universities in the hemisphere.
Christian Gansch
Sebastian worked in journalism before starting to write books. He was the first Literary Editor of the Independent and became Deputy Editor of the Independent on Sunday. He is well-known for his French trilogy, “The Girl at the Lion d’Or”, “Birdsong” and “Charlotte Gray”, and the latter was made into a film starring Cate Blanchett in 2001. He is the author of a biography, ‘’The Fatal Englishman’’; ‘’Pistache’’ (2010); and the novels ‘’Engleby’’ (2008) and ‘’A Week in December’’ (2009), which was a number one bestseller. He also wrote the James Bond thriller ‘’Devil May Care’’ (2008) in the style of Ian Fleming. His most recent book ‘’A Possible Life’’, was published in 2012. He is an inspiring speaker who can discuss his own creative process, and how his own extensive research and imagination are harnessed to create novels which are ambitious and original.
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Hailed as one of the best writers of his generation
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Jose Cordeiro
Renowned Conductor and Management Consultant With two distinct perspectives of the musical world, as a musician and as a manager, Christian has created a unique coaching concept which demonstrates the similarities between the orchestra and corporate structures. He compares these similarities and shows what companies can learn from the underlying complex structures in orchestras, which outwardly look like a polished unit to the audience.
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Musician, Motivation, Leadership, Management
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Multi- Grammy Award winner
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At the forefront of learning and the debate on education
He is highly regarded internationally as a co nductor, producer and consultant. During his time as a conductor, Christian has worked with many leading Orchestras. He went on to work in the music industry as a producer, and has produced over 190 recordings worldwide for renowned musicians and conductors. He has written two books including “From Solo to Symphony - What businesses can learn from orchestras”.
Isaac Getz Professor of Involvement and Innovation Management
Author of “How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci” Michael is the world’s leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organisational development. He is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership. In a highly-charged style, Michael guides his audience through the relevance and application of the principles of genius thinking to corporate and everyday life. Topics:
Leadership, Innovation/Creativity
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A former professional juggler who performed with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, Michael introduced the idea of teaching juggling as a means to promote accelerated learning and team-building. His books have been translated into numerous languages and achieved worldwide acclaim. His latest “Brain Power: Improve Your Mind As You Age” focuses on encouraging new skills to increase memory, intelligence, creativity, and concentration. His other works include “How To Think Like Leonardo di Vinci” which has been translated into 25 languages and appeared on The Washington Post, Amazon. com, and The New York Times best seller lists. In 1999, Michael was recipient of the Brain Trust Charity’s “Brain of the Year” award; other honorees include Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Garry Kasparov and Gene Rodenberry.
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With the use of compelling visual analogies and metaphors, Isaac analyses what businesses need to do to increase engagement of employees and empower them with freedom and responsibility. Isaac is the author of “Freedom, Inc.” and ‘’Innovations Power’’ . He is Professor at the top-ranked ESCP Europe Business School with campuses in Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid, and Turin. He was formerly Visiting Professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities and at the University of Massachusetts. The leading French business review l’Expansion named him Innovation/Creativity, Management, Strategy among the best 8 professors of Management in Europe. Isaac’s research on innovation www.londonspeakerbureau.com/speakers/isaac_getz and organisational transformation and energising presentation style puts him in demand globally as a speaker with topics Isaac won the Syntec Award including corporate transformation, vision, for the best academic article in leadership, innovation, and creativity.
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Rowan Gibson Leading Business Innovation Expert Rowan teaches businesses how to seize new growth opportunities, create new markets and even transform entire industries by recalibrating their whole organisational system around the paradigm of innovation. After a successful career in the advertising, branding and marketing business, Rowan became a strategy and innovation consultant to major multi-national companies all over the world. He has worked with many of the world’s largest and most successful organisations.
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Future, Change, Innovation/Creativity
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He has authored dozens of business articles, columns and blogs for widely read publications. His is sought after as a pundit on television and radio, as well as in the international press. He is the author of two bestselling books on strategy and enterprise innovation – ‘“Rethinking The Future’” (1996) and “Innovation to the Core” (2008) each published in over 20 languages. In his presentations explains how to build and sustain a deep, companywide innovation capability that drives continual growth and strategic renewal.
Fredrik Härén
Bilal Kaafarani
Innovation/Creativity
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One of the most talked about names in the field of business creativity and innovation
Trend and Innovation Expert
Fredrik is a Swedish entrepreneur, writer and speaker. Fredrik’s work is underpinned by his wide-ranging field work across continents in developing and developed economies. His research includes interviewing executives in a vast range of enterprises, from cosmetics executives in Russia to government officials in Thailand via IT journalists in Iran. This gives him the tools to draw on relevant case study for any type of business and he is widely in demand internationally as a speaker with inspirational delivery.
Bilal is widely recognised as one of the key innovation executives in the food industry. He has been pivotal in creating new business categories that are driven by consumer demands. He is the Chief Innovation Officer and Group President of Yıldız Holding, the major Turkish food manufacturer.
His highly successful “Idea Book” has been translated into more than 15 languages and was recently included in “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time”. Fredrik’s new book “Oneworld.Onecompany”, draws on international case study research, discussing how and why all businesses need to become global in their outlook.
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As a global innovation executive, Bilal has worked with many of the giants of the food industry including P&G, Kraft, FritoLay, Pepsico International and The Coca-Cola Company.
Customer Service, Innovation/ Creativity, Leadership, Management
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Named by BusinessWeek as one of the world’s “Top 25 Masters of Innovation”
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Business Creativity Expert
Many ground-breaking innovation platforms have been developed under his leadership, such as Coca-Cola’s research and development initiative and market development beyond carbonated drinks and FritoLay’s product shift into healthy snacks. Bilal has co-authored the book “Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation that Drives Sustainable Growth–and Why Others Fail”.
Anne Lise Kjaer
He presents on a range of topics including Business Creativity: why we are less creative than we think - but more creative than we can imagine and ‘’The Developing World’’, (from his book of the same name) exploring the advantages of being a creative person in a developing country and what the developed world can learn from the developing world.
Global Futurist and Change Catalyst Anne Lise is a renowned futurist with an exceptional eye for ‘the next big thing’ in trending and future consumer behaviour. She delivers out-of-the-box thinking and is a sought after inspirational speaker with an original and inspiring way of translating fledgling concepts into viable commercial propositions.
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Future, Management
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Anne Lise speaks on a wide range of future challenging topics including consumerism, sustainability, aging societies, changes in the workplace, issues particular to women and the future of money. Anne Lise herself says: “If the challenge is to create clarity out of complexity then that means getting to know - and identify with - your customers. Only then can you understand what they will want from you.” Anne Lise runs trend forecasting agency Kjaer Global and posts a regular blog on a wide range of future trending topics.
Annabel Karmel Bestselling Author and Expert on Children’s Nutrition
International Fashion Designer
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One of Turkey’s best known fashion designers
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Arzu is actively involved both in the management of her and in the designing of her fashion collections. Arzu speaks about her motivation, the power of creativity and finding inspiration and innovation in fashion. She looks at the factors which affect the luxury fashion industry, the influence of lifestyles and foreseeing the formation of new trends adapting to them. Arzu comes from a maternal line of couturiers. She studied fashion in Istanbul, going on to graduate from the Paris American Academy in 1994. She established her own fashion label the following year. Having opened an atelier in Paris and presenting her collections at Paris Fashion Week since 2011, her international profile is rapidly growing and her business success has led to well-known faces choosing her designs for red-carpet events and her designs being chosen by leading luxury fashion stores around the world.
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Entrepreneur, Health, Innovation/ Creativity, Leadership, Teamwork
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She was awarded an MBE in June 2006 in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition. In 2010 Annabel won the media Annabel is a patron for the charity category of the First Women Awards which Julia’s House, a hospice dedicated to recognise women at the top of their professions children with life limiting conditions who are leading the way for the next generation. speakers/annabel_karmel
Rem Koolhaas Architect and Urbanist Rem is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in the Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA.
Her philosophy is to express her inspiration within a theme for each collection, where many details of her beautifully-crafted, elegant but modern pieces reflect Ottoman culture.
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Her books have sold over 4 million copies worldwide and her range of equipment and baby food, have established her as a household name. Annabel is your classic ‘mumtrepreneur’, someone who has built up a brand from scratch whilst juggling life as a mother of three. She is a hugely inspiring speaker on the topics of Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovation, Teamwork and Work/ Life Balance. Her commitment to her brand enables her to motivate business audiences around the world; and her understanding of business and innovation make her the ideal keynote speaker for many conferences.
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Arzu Kaprol
Rem is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO a think tank focused on social, economic, and technological issues. He has won several International Awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, the Royal Gold Medal in 2004 and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
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Design, Strategy
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In 2005 he co-founded Volume Magazine and in 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of ‘’The World’s Most Influential People’’. In his presentations Rem examines the relationship between built structures, human behaviour, commerce and culture.
Charles Leadbeater
Sugata Mitra Leading Authority on Innovation and Creativity
Global Education Superstar Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another. Sugata’s research in to the application of technology to extend the reach of quality education to children around the world establishes him as an expert on the role of technology in education.
Charlie is a renowned author, thinker and strategic advisor on innovation whose advice is sought by governments, cities and corporations across the world. He has a track record for spotting ideas ahead of time. “The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur” (1997), was one of the first books to predict that social enterprise solutions to public problems would become more compelling. Social entrepreneurship has since become a global movement. • Education • Innovation/Creativity • Leadership • Management WWW:
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• Why good managers hate innovation • What’s Your Innovation Recipe? • Open Innovation • Personalised Learning
His work ranges widely over innovation in the private, public and social sectors. “Learning from the Extremes”, looks at the way social entrepreneurs are using technology to create low cost approaches to learning in the slums and favelas of the developing world. In 2005 Charlie was ranked by Accenture, as one of the “Top 30 global management thinkers”. The Spectator magazine described him as “the wizard of the web” after the publication of his bestseller “We Think: mass innovation not mass production” (2009) which forecast the rise of more collaborative, open forms of innovation made possible by the web. The YouTube animation based on the book has been viewed by more than 200,000 people.
• Personalising Public Services • Open Source Health Care • The Self Organising City • The Open Library
He is currently researching his next book, “The Frugal Innovator”, due to be published in early 2014, which analyses the spread of super-low cost, simple, robust and shared solutions to pressing social challenges. Charlie started out as a journalist holding senior editorial positions at The Financial Times followed by The Independent before becoming a key advisor in the policy unit of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Educational Technology, “Hole in the Wall” experiment, Self organising systems, Primary education
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My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don’t want to be spare parts for a great human computer
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In 1999, Sugata dug a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed an internet-connected PC, and left it there (with a hidden camera filming the area). The project showed slum children playing with the computer and in the process learning to use it and how to go online, then teaching each other. The experiment was replicated in other parts of India, urban and rural, with similar results. The “Hole in the Wall” project demonstrates that, even in the absence of direct input from a teacher, an environment that stimulates curiosity can cause learning through self instruction and peershared knowledge. Sugata is building a stand-alone “Self Organised Learning Environment” where children can learn without teachers present, and that maintains and runs itself with technology. His “Hole in the Wall” discovery is leading to the design of hardware and software to enable children to educate themselves. Sugata’s work inspired the now-famous book and Oscarwinning film, “Slumdog Millionaire”. Sugata is Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University working in the areas of Cognitive Science, Information Science and Educational Technology. Since the 1970s, Sugata’s publications and work has resulted in training and development of perhaps a million young Indians, amongst them some of the poorest children in the world. The results in the lives of people and the economy of the country can only be guessed at.
Paul McKenna
Martha Lane Fox
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Lifestyle, Motivation
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International Bestselling Author and Hypnotist
Internet Entrepreneur, CoFounder of Lastminute.com
His incredibly popular stage shows play at venues usually reserved for rock concerts. Paul’s approach, combining scientific credibility with the mystery of the unknown has given the use of hypnosis a whole new image. He astounds his audiences by showing how small changes in people’s lives can lead to yield major positive results. His 1990s television series ‘The Hypnotic World Of Paul McKenna’ is shown in over 42 countries around the world with over 200 million viewers and he continues to make shows for television.
Martha came to epitomise the new breed of cutting-edge internet entrepreneurs in London at the peak of the dotcom bubble. In 2003 Martha stood down as Managing Director of Lastminute.com but remains a Non-Executive Director of the company. She is a Non-Executive Director at Marks & Spencer and Channel 4 and runs Lucky Voice, an innovative private karaoke business. Government appointed UK Digital Champion, Martha chairs Go ON UK a charity to promote digital skills in the UK. She is a trustee for Reprieve, a prison reform charity, patron of education pressure group CAMFED and her own charity, Antigone, supporting needs in education, health and criminal justice.
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As well as his television projects, Paul is a best-selling author. His many books and DVDs include titles such as “I can make you thin”, “The HypnoticGastric Band”, “Stop Smoking For Good”, “Eliminate Stress”, “Sleep Like a Log”, “Instant Confidence” and “Change Your Life In Seven Days”.
Entrepreneur, Technology, Building On-line Businesses
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The world’s most successful hypnotist
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In 2013, Martha was honoured with a peerage by Queen Elizabeth II , taking the title of Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho and becoming the youngest woman to sit in The House of Lords. Martha is an engaging speaker on entrepreneurship, building on-line businesses and providing service and value to customers.
Mike Lloyd Author of “Schooling at the Speed of Thought”
He now has the largest hypnosis training company in the world, teaching thousands of people every year how to use self-hypnosis for life enhancement and works extensively in the corporate sector training in the realms of influence, stress control and personal power. He also works with individuals and has used his unique brand of personal transformation with gold medal-winning Olympic athletes and high profile individuals with astounding results.
Mike’s great passion is to modernise schooling systems by using technology to its full potential. Mike has worked with governments and agencies across the world advising on how to make schooling systems more effective through the use of technology and modern management methods. He recently wrote “Schooling at the Speed of Thought” based on twenty-three years’ experience in schooling and education technology and this book was recently published in Brazilian Portuguese, with plans for other language editions. Topics:
Education, Innovation/Creativity, Technology
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Previous publications include “National Grid for Learning, a School Plan” and “Fresh Approaches to Funding ICT”, published by Pearson Publishing. Mike has delivered keynote speeches across the world in both highly developed and developing markets - from Finland and Singapore, to Africa, South America and China. Mike’s most recent work has been focused on E-Examination systems, for which he wrote “Assess. Analyse. Intervene”.
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Geoff Mulgan CEO of Nesta
French Minister of Culture and Communication 2009-12
NESTA promotes and funds research and innovation in the UK. Geoff specialises in finding innovation in the field of public and social services. He looks at the impact of changes affecting societies and the needs they generate for innovative solutions. He is also currently chair of the Studio Schools Trust and the Social Innovation Exchange. From 1997-2004 Geoff held various senior roles in the UK government. He was closely involved in many new initiatives in social policy, welfare, health, education, demography and technology.
Born in Paris, he is the nephew of François Mitterrand, who was the President of France from 1981 to 1995. He taught economics, history and geography at EABJM from 1968 to 1971.
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Arts, Author, Innovation/Creativity, Society
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In 1978, he was a film critic at J’informe. From 1971 to 1986, he ran several art film cinemas in Paris (Olympic Palace, Entrepôt and Olympic-Entrepôt). He also had roles in a number of films, and was in the 1980s active as a Producer and Director in TV productions.
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Education, Health, Innovation/ Creativity, Society, Technology
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In June 2008, Mitterrand was appointed as the director of the French Academy in Rome by President Nicolas Sarkozy. A year later, on 23 June 2009, Mitterrand was appointed to the French government as the Minister of Culture and Communications until May 2012.
He began his public service career in local government in London, where he pioneered policies to support creative industries that have been emulated all over the world. His books include ‘’The Art of Public Strategy - Mobilising Power and Knowledge for the Public Good’’, ‘’Good and Bad Power: the ideals and betrayals of government’’ and ‘’Connexity’’. His most recent publication “The Locust and the Bee” argues that the current economic crisis presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different future for capitalism, one that maximizes its creative power and minimizes its destructive force.
Dan Pink Bestselling Author on Business, Work and Management Dan is the author of several thought-provoking books, including the long-running New York Times bestsellers, “A Whole New Mind” and “Drive”.
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Innovation/Creativity, Leadership, Sales
One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections
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His latest book, “To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, has been top of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestseller lists. Dan is widely in demand as a speaker on economic transformation and the new workplace. He examines the changing world of work, motivation, innovation and leadership and persuasive selling. In 2011, Thinkers50 ranked him one of the ‘’50 most influential business thinkers in the world’’. Dan held his last “real” job in the White House, where he served from 1995-7 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He also worked as an aide to U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and in other positions in politics and government.
Gregory N. Polletta
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iGNITIATE is a global innovation strategy and industrial design firm
Consumer Engagement Expert
Gregory speaks on the topics of design innovation, green design, R&D commercialisation, entrepreneurialism, industrial design, strategic management and new product development. Founder of innovation strategy and cultural change design firm, iGNITIATE Gregory is a creative, academic and corporate talent whose work crosses the boundaries of engineering, industrial design, art, R&D, and entrepreneurship. Ranging over a broad field of outputs encompassing the artistic as well as the practical and scientific, Gregory’s innovative design work continually pushes the boundaries.
Over the last two decades Naresh has worked at and run, three of the most creative and innovative communication agencies in London. In 1990 his commercial for Maxell won the prize for best advert in the world at Cannes. In 1995 he co-founded and creative directed London’s only co-operative and highly successful communications agency, St Luke’s. In 1997 he created the “Chuck Out Your Chintz” campaign that put IKEA on the map and contributed to St. Luke’s being voted “Agency of the Year” in 1999. In 2002 he was voted by a Creative Review readers’ poll as half of one of the top five creative teams in London.
He and his team focus on bridging the gap between research and profitability, which involves digging into R&D labs to uncover ideas that can be developed into winning offerings for many clients such as Fujitsu, Louis-Vuitton and Pfizer. iGNITIATE Designs span many fields, including architecture (where Gregory and his team have designed eye-catching facades for buildings under renovation) medical technology, computer memory devices, mobile phone software, furniture design, artificial lighting, object design and consumer product packaging. He is currently writing a book detailing the intersection of design, business, and engineering, and the necessity to embracing all three disciplines to create sustained marketplace breakthroughs.
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Environment,Innovation/Creativity
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Expert in consumer engagement
Sir Ken Robinson
In 2007, Naresh co-founded Green Thing, the creativity-versusclimate-change charity that engages people in 198 countries to live a greener life. Naresh speaks on topics focused on creating effective brands, making sustainability desirable and the impact of product names.
International Advisor on Education
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• Leading a Culture of Innovation • The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything • Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
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Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognised leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He has worked with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the world’s leading cultural organisations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. ‘All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education’ (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, working with the ministers for training, education enterprise and culture. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.
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In 2005 he was named as one of TIME/ Fortune/CNN’s Principal Voices
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Award Winning Designer
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Naresh Ramchandani
Janjaap Ruijssenaars
Sonu Shivdasani Founder and Chief Executive of Six Senses Resorts and Spas
Architect and Inventor
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Design, Innovation/Creativity
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Responsible for the gravity-defying Floating Bed
Janjaap is a young architect and inventor who speaks about architecture, design and discovery. He design approach is a poetical formula for discovery that he considers to have universal application – “Every project starts with a question, Every question leads to an answer, Every answer is the start of a new discovery”. His company Universe Architecture works on urbanism, architecture, design and research and takes a pared-down yet effective approach to projects: His innovative approach was responsible for the gravity-defying Floating Bed, elected Best Invention by TIME Magazine and used in the 2011 remake of the film ‘’Arthur’’. His most recent ground breaking project is for buildings created using an industrial scale 3D printer. His design is for The Landscape House, a 12,000 square foot building with “no beginning or end,” shaped like the Möbius strip continuous loop. It is hoped that the first of these will be completed in 2014.
Sonu is Founder and CEO of Six Senses Resorts & Spas, a worldleader in developing environmentally sustainable luxury resorts. Sonu speaks on leadership, innovation and creativity and how luxury resorts can be compatible with an environmentally conscious objective. Sonu plans to make all his resorts net carbon absorbers by 2020.
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The business has strong community programmes in every location in which Six Senses operates including providing a developing community with a wind turbine to reduce dependence on traditional power sources. In Six Senses and sister brand Evason, Sonu has created a whole new take on high-end luxury resort and spa hospitality. He is constantly innovating with new ideas which are taken up by imitators across the industry. A person of immense energy, vitality and vision, Sonu is creating more niche brands for the future of Six Senses.
Entrepreneur, Environment, Innovation/Creativity, Leisure and Tourism, Lifestyle
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Hernando de Soto Authority on Western and Third World Economies
Among Janjaap’s successes is an innovative urban project in The Netherlands which transformed a no go area into a multi-use public space at the centre of a community. The project was elected Best Urban Public Space of Europe in 2006. Janjaap is Professor at the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Hernando is currently President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) based in Lima, Peru. Currently, Hernando, together with his colleagues at the ILD, is focused on designing and implementing capital formation programs to empower the poor in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and former Soviet Nations. The ILD has been described as one of the most important think-tanks in the World and Hernando as the “World’s Greatest Living Economist”. CSR, Economics, Globalisation, Innovation/
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Creativity, Leadership, Society
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In 2004 he received Cato Institute’s the Milton Friedman Prize. As his principal activity he designs and implements capital formation programmes aimed at strengthening the economy in developing countries in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Hernando is widely regarded as one of the most influential development theoreticians of the last millennium and offers corporations the benefit of his wealth of experience.
Robert B. Tucker
Prof. Dr. Jens Weidner Professor of Education and Criminology
Innovation Expert Robert believes everyone can learn to innovate better by applying the simple, practical principles that he teaches all over the world. Robert is President of The Innovation Resource, an internationally recognised leader in the field of innovation consulting, devoted exclusively to assisting companies seeking to improve top and bottom line performance via systematic innovation.
• Driving Growth Through Innovation: How Leading Firms Are Transforming Their Futures • Innovation is Everybody’s Business • Innovation Master Classes: • Building Innovation Capability for Breakthrough Results
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His pioneering research in interviewing over 50 leading innovators was published in the book “Winning the Innovation Game” in 1986. Since then, he has continued to publish widely on the subject. In “Driving Growth Through Innovation” he identifies the emerging best practices of 23 “innovation vanguard” companies in translating brain storming innovative ideas into systematic innovation. He looks at the difficulties corporate leaders have in implementing systematic innovation across their businesses, despite their acknowledgment that innovation is a key strategic issue. In his book “Innovation Is Everybody’s Business”, he teaches the personal skills necessary to become an innovator in a hyper-competitive world. As a leading thinker and speaker on innovation, Robert has appeared on PBS, CBS News, and CNBC series The Business of Innovation. Robert’s clients include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies and he is widely in demand as an engaging speaker with a strong inspirational message.
From 1987-95, he developed the Anti- Aggression Training ® for violent repeat offenders. From 1993 - 2000 he worked on the development and implementation of the certified training for anti aggressiveness in Frankfurt .
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Education, Mentoring & Coaching, Motivation, Leadership
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Since 1994 he has been a Management Trainer at the Swiss Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for Economic & Society in Zurich, on the subject : Assertiveness for Managers. His business book “The pepperoni strategy: How you use your natural aggression constructively “ was number 1 of the bestseller rankings of the Financial Times Germany for 33 weeks. In 2008, he received the Speakers Excellence Award in Munich.
Benjamin Zander Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Ben is known throughout the USA as one of the most inspiring teachers and trainers of young musicians, as well as a musician at the cutting edge of interpretation of music of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Ben has become a much sought-after speaker to corporations, sharing the skills of leadership, teamwork, creativity and coaching gained in a life-time’s work of conducting and musicianship.
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Leadership, Marketing, Musician, Teamwork
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After studying social sciences with an emphasis in criminology Jens started working with gang members from New York, Washington and Philadelphia in the Glen Mills School, USA .
In honor of his 70th birthday, and 44 years of teaching, he was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the New England Conservatory
The orchestra has often been used as a model to illustrate the dynamics of the corporate world. As traditional styles of conducting, such as insistence on hierarchy, control and right thinking, are giving way to new ways of transferring authority to the players, different skills are required for effective leadership. The art of listening and the ability to provide coaching to remove the hidden barriers to individual self-expression become increasingly crucial. Using the orchestra as a metaphor and drawing on comparisons with classical music, Ben opens up his vision and imparts this innovative style of leadership in his highly-interactive and amusing presentations where participants take away fresh and re-energising perspective.
Environment, Ethics and Science
The environment is the most fundamental aspect affecting the future of our planet. Conservation, sustainability, ecological issues and renewable energy sources are of paramount importance. We all need to consider our use of natural resources and take responsibility for the environmental challenges we face. The implications for industry, business, and politics are huge. As part of our human development, we must also address social and economic justice and human rights issues on a global scale. Interest in our natural environment has never been greater as real threats to the future of our planet increase with the growth in population and the use of natural resources. Conservation, sustainability, ecological issues and renewable energy sources are subjects about which we need to understand a lot more. We all need expert guidance and communication of knowledge in the use of natural resources, the environmental challenges we face and their implications not just for industry and business but also in terms of global justice and human rights.
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Patrick Baudry
Michio Kaku
Bertrand Piccard
Steve Benbow
Claudia Kemfert
Sir Jonathon Porritt
Bashmah Bint Saud
Jeremy Leggett
Frank Poulsen
Emmanuel Bourguignon
Gerd Leipold
Mark Robinson
Julian Caldecott
Parker Liautaud
Hans Rosling
Fritjof Capra
Greg Lindsay
Gerhard Roth
Jean-Michel Cousteau
John Liu
Tiao Santos
Brian Cox
Bjørn Lomborg
Sir Tim Smit
David De Rothschild
Beau Lotto
Manfred Spitzer
Aude de Thuin
Rogoberta Menchú-Tum
Lord Nicholas Stern
Jason Drew
Mohan Munasinghe
Klaus Töpfer
Peter Eigen
Shuji Nakamura
Nontombi Tutu
Joschka Fischer
Chandran Nair
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Bob Geldof
Rainer Nõlvak
Lord Robert Winston
Susan Greenfield
Claire Nouvian
Notker Wolf
Bianca Jagger
Mehmet Öğütçü
Ranga Yogeshwar
Patrick Baudry
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Steve Benbow
Adventurer, Science, Transport, Teamwork, Future, Global
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Second Frenchman in Space and an expert in space activities and aeronautics
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
The Urban Bee Keeper
Patrick was the second French citizen in space when in 1985, he took part in NASA’s Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G, Space Shuttle Discovery’s fifth flight. The key objective of the mission was to deliver three satellites into orbit. A retired Lieutenant Colonel in the French Air Force where he served as a fighter pilot, Patrick had responsibility on the space mission for a scientific and medical programme for French and American research laboratories.
Steve is Director of the London Honey Company, a business that produces artisan honey for Harrods, Harvey Nichols and The Savoy as well as golden treats for small delis across London. In addition Steve provides training for beekeepers and businesses and manages beehives for clients in the capital and across England.
As a fighter pilot, Patrick flew 350 different fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft types including 30 combat types. In 1986 he became advisor to the Chairman of Aerospatiale Company. He was the test pilot for the proposed European space plane Hermes, for which Aerospatiale was the industrial prime contractor. From 1993-2003, he was advisor for manned space flights at EADS and senior test pilot for Airbus. He founded the first European Space training centre in Cannes for preparation for life in space. He has written a number of books about space activities, technology and humanism and speaks on topics such as entrepreneurship, advancing knowledge and technology, space and medical science.
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Environment, Motivation
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Fifteen years ago Steve decided he wanted to keep bees in Central London, but there was a problem: he lived on the 6th story of an ex-council block near Tower Bridge with no garden. The only viable outside space was the flat roof, accessed via a fire escape. Steve located his first hive behind the lift shaft complete with live bee cam and the bees started producing incredible honey. No one else kept bees in such a central location back then and he was able to travel around by bicycle and witness what these amazing critters were foraging on. The bees not only prospered but also produced an incredible honey, which was complex and floral, which started to win awards. Today he now services hives for The National Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern and Britain and a variety of commercial clients and their honey is sold within their stores. He also now manages bees with less intensity – and his bees take small executions throughout the season to gather unusual and often prized honeys from the coast, old fashioned downs or remote heather moors.
Basmah Bint Saud
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Emmanuel Bourguignon
• Education • Middle East • Society
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She is the 115th and youngest of King Saud’s children
Entrepreneur and Journalist
Director of LAMS
Princess Basmah Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz is the granddaughter of King Abdulaziz, founder of modern Saudi Arabia, and the youngest child of his son King Saud who reigned from 1953 to 1964. Her Royal Highness came to the UK with her mother when civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1976.
Emmanuel is a soil scientist and specialist in soil ecology. He is the Director of Development at the Laboratoire d’Analyses Microbiologiques des Sols (LAMS). This independent laboratory was founded in 1990 by his parents, both of whom are recognised authorities on soil health and protection.
She completed both her O and A Level studies at the Oxford International College. In 1983 she and her mother moved to Syria where she studied medicine, psychology and English literature at the Beirut Arab University. Soon after she married and had five children. She says of becoming a mother, “When I became a mother some things, like my responsibilities, became clear but I still had no answers to the many pressing questions that still haunted me. Essentially, I felt I wanted to make a difference but I didn’t know how and where to start.” In 2007 Her Royal Highness divorced and embarked on her business ventures and journalism career. Most recently Her Royal Highness has started developing a project very close to her heart, The Lanterns United Global, a global network of people and organisations working towards a more egalitarian world.
The aim of LAMS is to raise awareness of the soil as a living medium which is being destroyed by human activities, especially intensive agriculture. Motivated by the applications to agriculture of the interactions between plant and soil micro-organisms, Emmanuel studied for a Ph.D. at the Bio-Protection Research Centre (Lincoln University, NZ) after completing his B.Sc. in Soil Science under the guidance of one of UK’s foremost authorities on soil ecology.
In 2012 she opened her media office Ecco in West London and is currently working on expanding her company, Inseed into the UK market. She is also working on establishing her career as an independent television producer as well as preparing to launch an online newspaper.
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• Enviroment • Soil Health and protection • Sustainability
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Since 2008 he has worked as a consultant in soil microbiology, ecology and agronomy for vineyards, farmers, golf course, city councils, and botanic gardens. His aim is to help establish sustainable agricultural practices which respect the critical importance of the soil, its biodiversity and the environment. Emmanuel speaks on the environment and explains his particular area of soil health and protection to a level of technical detail relevant to his audience.
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Julian Caldecott
Environment, Society, Globalisation, Education
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Ecologist and Conservationist
Best-selling Author, Physicist and Environmentalist
Julian is a world-renowned ecologist and conservationist. He has spent more than 20 years promoting biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability around the world, contributing to major conservation programmes in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, China, Sri Lanka and Nigeria. Major themes in his work include integrating development and conservation, promoting sustainable and fair use of biodiversity and ecosystems, and exploring ways to finance conservation sustainably.
Fritjof is the founder of the Centre for Ecoliteracy, which supports and advances education for sustainable living, particularly in schools. He is a best-selling author “The Tao of Physics”; “The Turning Point”; “Uncommon Wisdom” and “The Web of Life”.
He has written several books, including “Water: the Causes, Costs and Future of a Global Crisis” (foreword by Zac Goldsmith). He also co-edited the “World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation” (foreword by Kofi Annan). Julian has led a division at the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) World Conservation Monitoring Centre, as well as UNEP’s Asian Tsunami Disaster Task Force. He has also served as Senior Technical Adviser at the UNEP Post Conflict and Disaster Management Branch.
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Communication, Environment, Psychology, Science, Society
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Explorer, Environmentalist, Educator, Film Producer Jean-Michel is an explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer. He inspires and educates audiences worldwide on the need to act responsibly and preserve the fragile underwater ecosystems that are so intricately tied to all life on Earth. Over the past 40 years Jean Michel has drawn on his vast experiences to communicate his love and concern for our planet and to motivate people of all nations and generations.
In 2009 he joined the advisory board of Our Future Planet, a web-based community where citizens can design a new world sustainably inhabited by all its peoples and species. He speaks with authority on a wide range of environmental topics including the conservation of endangered species, environment and weather related disaster risk and adapting business to recognise consumer demand for sustainability.
His 2009 book “The Science of Leonardo”, which examines littleknown aspects of Leonardo di Vinci’s approach to life and science and their impact on modern day science, has been published in 7 editions and 5 languages. Fritjof has been engaged in a systematic examination of the philosophical and social implications of contemporary science for the past 30 years. His books on this subject have been acclaimed internationally, and he has spoken widely to audiences globally on science, philosophy and sustainability.
Jean-Michel Cousteau
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Motivation, Environment, Media
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The son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau
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Fritjof Capra
In 1999, he founded Ocean Futures Society, a non-profit marine conservation and education organisation serving as a voice for the oceans by showing the critical bond between people and the sea and the importance of wise environmental policy. Jean-Michel is also on the cutting edge of environmentally responsible architecture and more recently has become involved in ecotourism, establishing an environmentally-oriented resort in the Fiji islands as a model to prove the business viability of environmentally sustainable tourism.
Brian Cox
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Science, Technology, Physics
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David De Rothschild Professor of Particle Physics, TV Presenter and Author
British Adventurer, Ecologist and Environmentalist
Brian is probably the most publicly recognised physicist of the current era. He is best known for popularising science through his acclaimed BBC TV programmes such as “Wonders of the Solar System” and “Wonders of the Universe”. His book “Why Does E=mc2?” quickly became a best-seller. In danger of becoming a UK “national treasure” alongside David Attenborough, Brian’s engaging delivery and lucid explanations of difficult concepts make him a favourite with lay audiences.
David is an environmentalist, explorer, and the founder of the Sculpt The Future Foundation, a group that uses exploration and adventure as a way to promote positive environmental change. David is a leading voice in a new generation of dynamic lobbyists for change endeavouring to trigger momentum in populations to adjust the way they live and use resources in order to address environmental change. Driven by his curiosity for the natural world, David has ventured to some of the most remote and fragile ecosystems on Earth to bring widespread attention to urgent global environmental issues. Beyond his adventures, David has a relentless passion for educating others in his light-hearted, humorous manner.
Whilst studying Physics at Manchester University, Brian was also the keyboard player with the successful 1990s band D:Ream. He specialised in High Energy Particle Physics and is now Professor of Particle Physics at Manchester University. He was one of the leaders on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. He describes his work at CERN as “breathtaking”, where teams of scientists provide the infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research - “in the hope of revealing the underlying simplicity of the universe”. Brian’s talks inspire audiences around the globe, from TED in America to the World Economic Forum in Davos and China. He was recently the Scientific Consultant on the Danny Boyle film SUNSHINE. He also writes on scientific issues, most recent credits include the New Statesman and The Times. His ability to present science in an exciting and interesting way has made him a popular television & radio presenter, broadcaster and writer.
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Motivation, Adventurer, Environment, Ethics
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He has taken his call to action to millions of individuals - from children to world leaders, NGOs to NASA, industry to non-profits, Oprah Winfrey to Nickelodeon. With numerous adventures, several books, a Sundance channel TV series and a National Geographic documentary under his belt, David has been recognised by UNEP, National Geographic, Clean up the World, World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative as a ‘Climate Hero, Emerging Explorer, a young Global Leader and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative Lead’.
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Aude de Thuin
Jason Drew
Ethics, Education
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Well known for her commitment to building recognition for the role of women in society
Serial Entrepreneur Turned Environmentalist
Aude is an entrepreneur with a talent for creating business ventures in response to emerging social trends. She was responsible for establishing the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. Internationally renowned, the Women’s Forum brings together influential women from around the world to work towards the better representation of women and greater equality in all society’s influential roles.
Jason is a serial entrepreneur, passionate environmentalist and visionary who argues that industrial revolution is over and the sustainability revolution has begun. Based on this he has developed a clear vision and blueprint for business in the 21st century.
In 2011 Aude founded Thuin et Associés, the organiser of Osons la France. Conceived to encourage society to resist the current economic gloom, it is more a movement than a forum, spotlighting France’s creative and innovative strengths and successes in all fields of industry, business, science, research, education and the arts. She is the author of several books and her latest “Femmes, Si Vous Osiez” (Women, If You Dare) urges women to break free from outdated precepts, pursue their ambitions and show that gender parity is a driver of progress as well as a necessity for the future. She is regularly invited to participate in discussions on women’s issues with governmental groups, private associations and think tanks.
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• Entrepreneur, Environment, Future, Global, Leadership, Strategy
He is and inspirational business leader of this nascent revolution. He has started and invested in some remarkable 21st century business, from the world’s largest insect farms, to an empowering and profitable toilet business in the slums of Africa as well as a company that is likely to replace the pesticide industry.
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Jason is one of the ‘most engaging sustainability speakers’ of his generation
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Founder of The Women’s Forum
He takes business thinking vision and action into the 21st century– he looks for profitable game changing solutions to the new business paradigms we face. Turning accepted business concepts and models upside down as he looks at business today from the perspective of the future. He explores concepts and frameworks that will define business in the 21st century. His closed systems thinking approach to his own business makes his companies profitable yet simple and brilliant. Jason is an outstanding speaker on the future of business, corporate leadership sustainable innovation and creativity in business.
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Joschka Fischer Founder of Transparency International
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• Africa • Environment • Ethics • Global
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Peter is a leading figure in the movement for transparency and accountability in international development and governments. He is one of the founders of Transparency International (TI), a non-governmental organisation which has the objective to stop corruption and the abuse of power and to promote transparency and accountability across all levels of society. A lawyer by training, he provided legal and technical assistance to the governments of Botswana and Namibia.
Former Foreign Minister of Germany Joschka is a renowned and respected global spokesman on the environment. Joschka became a left-wing activist and later spokesperson for the German Green party on its formation in 1982. In 1983 he was elected the first Green Party Member of the German Parliament. Two years later he became the first Green Party politician to take up a government post, as Environment Minister in Hesse. Joschka then became Co-chairman of the Greens’ federal parliamentary division.
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He went on to work in economic development for 25 years, mainly for the World Bank as a Director of Programmes in Africa and Latin America, where he saw at first hand the impact of corruption and the lack of government accountability on societies. Peter is also one of the initiators of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, an international initiative of States, NGOs and companies to provide transparency in contracts and cash flows between firms and States in extractive industries, thereby preventing corruption. He also has a successful academic career and has taught law at several leading universities. Peter is on the Board of The Centre for International Environmental Law. He is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), an independent authority on Africa, founded to focus world leaders’ attention on delivering their commitments to the continent.
Leaders in providing
Politics, Globalisation, Global,
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Bob Geldof Founder of Live Aid and Live8 Bob is a political activist who has led high profile and successful campaigns for Aid to Africa. He is widely recognised for his radical activism against poverty and famine and is renowned for his Live Aid campaign in 1985 and the Live 8 concerts in 2005.
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Management, Celebrity, Future
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During his years as an opposition leader, he leveraged his party’s growing public acceptance into political success and moved the Green Party to the centre of German politics, paving the way for participation in government. In 1998 the Social Democratic Party formed a coalition with the Green Party and Joschka became the German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor from 1998 to 2005. Since leaving politics, Joschka has been a senior fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University.
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He initially rose to prominence as the lead singer of the band The Boomtown Rats and it was as a musician and pop singer that he co-wrote “Do They Know it’s Christmas” in 1984, which became one of the biggest selling singles of all time, raising money for the famine in Ethiopia. Bob is an inspiring and entertaining speaker with great insight into the socio-political agenda as well as offering leadership, communications, motivation and selfdevelopment.
Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and was granted an honorary knighthood by Her Majesty The Queen for his work through Live Aid
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Peter Eigen
Susan Greenfield
Bianca Jagger
Science
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One of the “50 most powerful women” in Europe
Human Rights Advocate and Campaigner
Susan is a leading neuroscientist and was the first female director of the UK’s Royal Institution, the renowned and longest established independent scientific research body in the world.
Bianca is an international human rights and climate change campaigner. She is a Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, Chair of the World Future Council and Founder of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation. During the 1980s, Bianca began her long association with several international human rights organisations, most notably with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Washington Office for Latin America.
She is Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford, heading a unit undertaking groundbreaking research into neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. She is author of several books, including “Tomorrow’s People” and “The Human Brain - A Guided Tour”. Susan is a regular guest on BBC Radio, presenter of “Brain Story” and a columnist on The Times and The Sunday Times. She has led a Government report on “Women in Science” and plays a major role in public life. In 2001 she was made a life peer by HM The Queen. In her illuminating and lively presentations, Susan illustrates how the massive growth of electronic media is fundamentally altering our brains and central nervous system and that while change is inevitable, companies must choose how to respond to that change. She shares invaluable advice on leadership and the human mind and is immensely popular with audiences around the world.
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Politics, Globalisation, Global, Environment, Economics
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For approximately 25 years, Bianca has campaigned for human rights, social and economic justice and environmental protection throughout the world. In 2004, Bianca received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, for “longstanding commitment and dedicated campaigning on human rights, social justice and environmental protection.
Michio Kaku Physicist and authority on the environment
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Science, Environment, Future
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Michio is an internationally recognised authority in theoretical physics and the environment. He holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City College and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. He is the co-founder of string field theory, a major branch of string theory, which is the leading candidate today for the theory of everything. Michio is the author of several international best-sellers including, “Hyperspace and Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”. He has written for Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Discover Magazine and The New Scientist.
Michio specialises in predicting trends affecting business, commerce, and finance, reflecting the latest scientific research.
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Professor, Author and Expert on the Human Mind
Claudia Kemfert
Jeremy Leggett Founder of Solar Energy
Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability Claudia is Professor of Energy Economics at Humboldt University, Berlin and Head of Energy, Transportation, and Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research. She is an expert on energy and climate economics focusing her research on the economic assessment of climate and energy policy strategies. Topics:
Energy, Environment, Global, Science
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She has published numerous articles in high level scientific journals and has authored “The Other Climate Future – Innovation Instead of Depression” which illustrates the economic impact of climate change and energy policy. Claudia is at the forefront of her field and advises EU President José Manuel Barroso on energy matters and acts as an external expert for the World Bank, the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC).
Jeremy is Founder of Solarcentury, the UK’s leading and fastest growing renewable energy company. He is also a Founding Director of the world’s first private equity investment fund for renewables, run by Bank Sarasin (New Energies Invest AG), convenor of the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security.
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Environment, Energy, CSR, Ethics
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Starting as a geologist researching the history of oceans and oil source geology, Jeremy’s concerns regarding global warming led him to change career and become a key Greenpeace campaigner, winning the US Climate Institute’s Award for Advancing Understanding. He established SolarAid, one of Africa’s fastestgrowing poverty-alleviation charities, set up with Solarcentury profits. Jeremy is also Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute. The energy of nations: It tries to sound an alarm about systemic risks in the energy and financial markets, and offer a view of how to abate / escape them.
Gerd Leipold Physicist and Authority on the Environment
She has managed diverse research projects on environmental and energy policy strategies and is engaged in a number of think tanks and consultation groups, including the Energy Modelling Forum (EMF) at Stanford University.
Gerd is an environmental campaigner and International Executive Director of Greenpeace from 2001-9. Gerd has had a long association with Greenpeace, having worked for the organisation in various capacities for over 20 years and with a long history of spectacular Greenpeace initiatives.
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Environment, Energy, Globalisation, Future, Economics
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In 1983 he piloted a hot-air balloon from West Berlin into the former GDR, in protest against the nuclear weapons test being carried out by the four occupying nations. In the same year he became Director of Greenpeace in Germany and, starting with a small group of volunteers, created the largest German environmental organisation an annual income from donations of DM50 million. He ran the international disarmament campaign from 1987-92 and coordinated more than 50 international campaigns at sea. Gerd remains firm in his ideology and speaks passionately on sustainability, climate change and the energy industry.
Parker Liautaud
Greg Lindsay Young Polar Adventurer and Environmental Campaigner
Environmental Journalist and Artist
In 2010, at 15 years old, he attempted to become the youngest to walk to the North Pole. Despite making it to within 15 miles of the pole – closer than any other team on the ice at the time – melting ice and life-threatening conditions prevented Parker from succeeding in reaching the North Pole. He returned the next year at 16 years old to reattempt the expedition, and successfully reached the North Pole on April 10th, 2011.
Greg is a journalist and co-author of the bestselling book “Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next”, which examines how and where we choose to live in an interconnected world. He has written for Fast Company magazine, Fortune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, World Policy Journal, Time, Wired, and Condé Nast Traveller amongst other publications. Greg speaks authoritatively on globalisation, innovation, sustainability, transportation and the future of cities.
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Named a “celebrated world-watcher” by The New York Times, and “the voice of his generation on global environmental issues” by the World Adventure Association
to the North Pole in April 2012, at 17 years old. Through his polar expeditions, Parker launched an organisation called The Last Degree, a campaign advocating a research-based transformation to a sustainable economy. Through Parker’s expeditions, it has carried out new types of polar environmental research in partnership with leading institutions such as the University of Alberta, the European Space Agency and the IAEA. He is also a co-founder of the Polar Orbiter Project, an endeavor to create automatic, fully open-source research stations in Antarctica, using innovative new engineering. The stations will relay a stream of landbased meteorological data important to understanding climate change to an open platform accessible by any scientist.
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Environment, Future, Globalisation, Innovation/Creativity, Society, Strategy
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He has been cited as an expert on airports and aviation by The New York Times, USA Today and Reuters. An exhibition of his work with the architect Jeanne Gang on the future of suburbia was exhibited at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2012. He is a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management and he has been working with UCLA’s cityLAB to re-imagine the economy and urbanism of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
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John Liu
Bjørn Lomborg Environmental Documentary Film Maker and Presenter
The Sceptical Environmentalist Bjørn is an author, academic and environmental writer. He is an adjunct Professor at the Copenhagen Business School and is Head of the Copenhagen Consensus. In 2007 he was named one of the “100 Most Influential People” by TIME magazine after the publication of his controversial book “The Skeptical Environmentalist”, which challenged widely held beliefs that the environment is getting progressively worse.
John is an award winning documentary film maker and has become known as one of the foremost ecological film makers. Through his multi-media presentations and films, John has managed to influence policy on national and regional levels, most recently in Rwanda. He reaches a diverse audience from business leaders and economists, academia, students, policy makers and politicians, leading them towards higher levels of motivation and most importantly, action. Topics:
Education, Environment, Leadership, Strategy
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He is an American, who has been based in China for more than 30 years. He helped establish the CBS News Bureau in Beijing at the time of normalization of relations between the US and China. In his ten years with CBS News as producer/cameraman, an international audience was afforded an early glimpse of China through his eyes and keen sense of curiosity and investigation. He has made films on various ecosystems, urban development, endangered animals and poverty reduction. Many of his films are shown as Earth Report and the Life series on BBC World. He travels the world filming, researching and presenting. John founded the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP) in 1997. Its goal is to assist in the rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems around the world by contributing media skills and knowledge.
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Environment
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Using statistical information from internationally recognised research institutes, Bjorn systematically examines a range of major environmental issues and concludes that the global environment has actually improved. He supports his argument with over 2900 footnotes, allowing discerning readers to check his sources. Bjorn criticises the way many environmental organisations make selective and apparently misleading use of scientific data to influence decisions about the allocation of limited resources. In 2008, he was named one of the “50 people who could save the planet” by the Guardian newspaper. His later book, “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming” further analyses what contemporary science tells us about global warming and its risks.
Beau Lotto Neuroscientist and Perception Researcher Beau is a globally renowned neuroscientist who specialises in perception research, and has for years surprised the scientific community with work that blurs the boundaries between neuroscience and the arts.
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As well as challenging the science of perception, he is aims to transform the way people think not just about themselves but also about the world around them. The focus of Beau’s research is perception, but his interests lie equally in the philosophical as well as the scientific understanding of how humans perceive their environment. Perception underpins creativity and therefore innovation. Even education is, in principle, the moulding of perception. His research encompasses not just human vision, but also bee and robot vision.
• Leadership • Creativity • Innovation • Perception • Science • Environment • Motivation • Risk • Science
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Seeing Differently LABS The primary purpose of the Seeing Differently lab is to foster awareness and understanding that lead to change. Our personal and cultural histories define what we see. This is because our individual and shared experience are - literally - represented in the architecture of our respective brains (and collective brains via social networks). Which means that we never see the ‘information’ presented to us, but only ever see the historical meaning of that information. Understanding the essential (and existential) connection between experience, the brain and perception is core to understanding human behaviour, from our most abstract concepts to our most personal decisions … even to the colours we see. Indeed, without this awareness, living an intentional life is impossible. Without awareness one only ever responds, never purposefully creates. Which is why all creations begin in the same way ... with a shift in perception. But if my perceptions are only ever responses ground in the past, how is it possible to ‘see differently’? The answer resides in understanding how the brain resolves its most basic challenge: UNCERTAINTY. As a neuroscientist who studies how the brain resolves uncertainty at the physiological, personal and social levels, the Seeing Differently Lab are just that … a lab. Labs are spaces of true discovery. By offering you the opportunity to to discover your own mind, you can truly embody the principles that lead to change. ‘How to guides’, because the user of the guide lacks understanding, to not enable resilience. Though embodied understanding you will be able to share and adapt what you experienced to your own social and personal context. In doing so you will learn why creativity is not a mysterious, messy process independent irrelevant to businesses and education, but is grounded in the process of perception itself. You will discover why the biggest obstacle to innovation is not technology or money or even the ‘space to be messy’, but fear! And thus why three most important qualities of leadership are revolve around leadership in the face of uncertainty. ‘Seeing differently’ is essential to all aspects of the contemporary world, especially businesses and education. Rather than focusing on success through answers, we will argue that success if dependent on the questions one asks. While many - if not most questions are rubbish, we will learn why the second barrier to innovation is that good questions are invisible, not they are hard to see, but because they are omnipresent, hidden in the assumptions we live by, the assumptions that define what ‘life really is like’, indeed contained in the very essence of how we define ourselves.
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Play is one of the only human endeavors where uncertainty is actually celebrated. Uncertainty is what makes play fun
He likes to challenge boundaries between different disciplines of science and further into the arts, by collaborating with artists, musicians, fashion designers and others – anyone who has an interest in exploring different ways of seeing (and doing) things.
Beau Lotto Masterclass
General Description of the Day The day will last 5 to 7 hours. I will focus on the experiential, through a combination of formal presentation, open discussion and participatory experimentation. The experiments will be literal; they are not demonstrations. Which means we will discover together. With a renewed sense of wonder, motivation and understanding, I will provide you with tools to see differently. Whether in a business, educational or governmental context, seeing differently is ultimately a personal choice.
Mohan Munasinghe
Rigoberta Menchú-Tum
Vice-Chairman of the UN IPCC
Human Rights Activist and Nobel Laureate
Mohan is recognised as a leading authority on sustainable development, economics, energy and the environment. Mohan was Vice-Chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace with Al Gore, for work on global warming and sustainable development.
Rigoberta has dedicated her life to publicising the plight of Guatemala’s indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War and to promoting indigenous rights in the country. She is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the K’iche’ ethnic group.
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As a young woman, she became involved in social reform activities and women’s rights. In the years that followed, as • Culture of Peace guerrilla activities grew in Guatemala, • Human Rights their involvement in social reform lead • Justice & the Fight Against Impurity to suspicions of Rigoberta’s family being • Identity and the Rights of involved in guerrilla activities. Over Indigenous People the following years her father, mother and brother were tortured and killed. www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ Rigoberta continued to be involved in high speakers/rigoberta_menchu-tum profile activities to promote the rights of farmworkers and to educate the indigenous population against military oppression.
Currently Mohan is Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute of Development in Colombo, Director-General of the Sustainable Consumption Institute and Distinguished Professor at the University of Manchester.
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Climate change, Sustainable Development, Eviroment
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During 35 years of public service, he served as Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka, advisor to the United States President’s Council on Environmental Quality, and senior advisor to the World Bank. He conducts international training seminars on climate change, sustainable development, environment, economics, energy, transport, water resources and information technology.
Shuji Nakamura
She received the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize “in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples” and the Prince of Asturias Award in 1998.
Inventor of the Blue LED Shuji is renowned as the inventor of blue LED and blue LD which are used in Blue Ray Discs and HD DVDs and was the key discovery for white LED light.
She is the subject of the testimonial biography “I, Rigoberta Menchú” and the author of the autobiographical work “Crossing Borders”. She has also become a figure in indigenous people’s politics and ran for President of Guatemala in 2007 and 2011.
In 1993 and 1995 he developed the first group-III nitridebased blue/green LEDs. Shuji’s advances with nitridebased semiconductors represent one of the most important achievements in the materials science of semiconductors in the last 30 years.
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Innovation/Creativity, Leadership, Entrepreneur, Motivation
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He has received a number of awards, including: the Nishina Memorial Award (1996), MRS Medal Award (1997), IEEE Jack A. Morton Award, the British Rank Prize (1998) and Benjamin Franklin Medal Award (2002). Shuji is a professor of Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Shuji talks about innovation, R&D leadership, motivation, management and venture capital.
Chandran Nair
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Corporate Culture, Environment, Asia/ China, Competitiveness
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Rainer Nõlvak Founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow
Chairman of the Board of the Estonian Nature Fund
Chandran is founder of the Global Institute For Tomorrow, an organisation focused on the relationship between Asian society and values with those of the rest of the world. His latest book “Consumptionomics” is about Asia’s role in reshaping capitalism and saving the planet. He was formerly Chairman of Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Consultancy in Asia Pacific until 2004. Chandran established ERM as Asia’s leader in environmental consulting.
Rainer is Chairman of the board of the Estonian Nature Fund and has published the “Green Energy” program. He is best known as a nature protector and entrepreneur who has lobbied for the Estonian energy industry to move towards renewable energy systems. He was among the originators of the first “Let’s Do It” in 2008, a civic action with 50,000 volunteers participating in cleaning up the countryside of Estonia in one day.
For more than a decade he has strongly advocated a more sustainable approach to development and has helped the governments of Taiwan and Hong Kong instil these principles into their key decision-making processes. Chandran’s reputation as a provocative speaker has attracted corporations and governments to seek his advice on a variety of leadership, business and development challenges in Asia. He has addressed many of these issues at forums around the world and is a popular panellist on economic policy and sustainability at platforms such as the World Economic Forum, the APEC Summit and the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. A keen sportsman, Chandran managed the Hong Kong hockey team for seven years, taking it to the 2002 Asian Games.
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Environment, Innovation/Creativity
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As a result of this initiative he received the 2008 Estonian Volunteer of the Year national award. He is a key motivator behind the expansion of “Let’s Do It internationally” and the “Clean World Conference”, which has become an annual event. Between March and September 2012 under the umbrella of “World Clean Up 2012”, 96 countries participated in a series of local, national and regional clean-up events an participation continues to grow. The objective is not only to encourage shared responsibility against litter but also to reduce landfill by re-cycling and reuse. He is the founder of Microlink, the largest computer manufacturer in Baltic States and also founded the leading internet service provider Delfi.
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Claire Nouvian
International Authority on Energy Matters
Film-maker and Environmentalist Claire is a French environmentalist who has dedicated her life to raising awareness about the vulnerability of the deep seas. In 2006 Claire published to critical acclaim “The Deep”, the first visual encyclopaedia of the Earth’s deep oceans. The book and travelling exhibition which first opened at the Natural History Museum in Paris have now reached more than a billion people across the world. Topics:
Environment, The Deep Ocean, Science
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In 2007 she was chosen as one of Jacques Cousteau’s heirs by Géo magazine which acknowledged her outstanding passion and motivation to protect the deep sea and named her “the planet’s guardian angel”. Her work in television production and journalism specialising in wildlife documentaries led her to examine deepsea fishing and prompted her to focus on combating destructive fishing practices. She is committed to putting an end to deep-sea bottom trawling and petitions governments and institutions in favour of the protection of the vulnerable ocean’s depths. She founded the non-profit association BLOOM in 2004, which aims to protect the deep sea through public awareness campaigns and education. She has developed a school curriculum to teach an understanding of the vulnerable oceanic ecosystems. Claire speaks on deep-sea fisheries, public fisheries subsidies, conservation and sustainable development.
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Energy, Global, Politics
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Mehmet is an international authority on energy matters related to China, Russia, Central Asia, Turkey and the Middle East. He has more than 30 years’ experience in government, diplomacy, international organisations, banking, and in the energy business. Mehmet is a senior advisor and sits on the board of many large energy companies including British Gas and the European Policy Forum. He was nominated by the Turkish government for the secretary-general position of the world’s largest energy organisation, International Energy Forum, based in Riyadh. He has also worked as a NATO Research Fellow and advisor to the late Prime Minister Turgut Ozal. Mehmet studied international relations at Turkey’s prestigious Political Sciences Faculty and completed his MSc degree in International Economy at London School of Economics (LSE). He teaches occasionally at LSE, University of Dundee and Harvard University on energy geopolitics, competitiveness, and investment for development as well as speaking at many international energy conferences and contributing to various media including CNBC and CNNTurk.
Bertrand Piccard Swiss Psychiatrist and Balloonist Bertrand was born into a dynasty of explorers and scientists who have conquered the heights and depths of our planet. Carrying on the family tradition, in 1999 he made the first ever non-stop round-the-world balloon flight. In 2012 Bertrand made the world’s first solar-powered inter-continental flight and successfully landed in Morocco. In 2013, Bertrand and his co-pilot Andre Borschberg made the first solar-powered flight across the USA.
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Energy, Environment, Motivation, Teamwork
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Setting off from San Francisco with five stop-overs en route, it took over two months to reach New York flying at a top speed of 45 mph and heights of up to 30,000ft. The ultimate objective of the Solar Impulse Project is to circumnavigate the globe and thereby to promote renewable energies and encourage energy savings. Bertrand is an internationally renowned psychiatrist, Chairman of the Winds of Hope charitable foundation and a UN Goodwill Ambassador.
Frank Poulsen
Sir Jonathon Porritt
Environmental Filmmaker
Environmentalist and Writer
Frank is a Director best-known for his documentaries on the environment and social justice. He has made investigative documentaries on issues affecting Africa, including “Blood in the Mobile” which looks at the impact in the Congo of the illegal mining of minerals for the mobile telephone industry used to fund the civil war.
Jonathon is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. He has been a leading voice on environmental issues in the UK for nearly 40 years.
Environment, CSR
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Africa, Environment, Ethics, Health, Society
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Best known for his champoining of green issues
His work is varied and other themes include development, health, democracy and youth issues. His work is influential and in 2012 he co-founded Doctivist, an organisation to develop an international hub of knowledge and inspiration for people engaged in storytelling through documentaries and film making. He has received numerous awards including most recently at the Human Rights Film Festival 2012.
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Mary Robinson
He received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection and has written several books including “Capitalism As If The World Matters”, “Globalism & Regionalism” and “Living Within Our Means”. Jonathon is Chancellor of Keele University. His other roles include co-director of The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme and non-executive director of Wessex Water.
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He is Programme Director of Forum for the Future, which he co-founded in 1996. Forum for the Future is the UK’s leading sustainable development charity with over 100 partner organisations, including some of the world’s leading companies. Jonathon was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth for six years from 1984, Co-chair of the UK Green Party from1980 to 1983 (of which he is still a member) and for ten years, Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission giving independent advice to the UK Government on sustainable development.
President of Ireland (1990-7) and UN Commissioner for Human Rights Mary was the first female President of Ireland (1990-7) and was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is currently US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa. She is a passionate, forceful advocate for gender equality, women’s participation in peace-building and human dignity. She brought the human rights agenda into the core of United Nations activities and now continues her work through the Mary Robinson Foundation.
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Economics, Environment, Future, Politics, Society
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She is also an active member of The Elders, a group of world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel and Archbishop Desmond Tutu who work together for peace and human rights. She co-founded and chaired the Council of Women World Leaders and was President of Realising Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative.
Gerhard Roth
Hans Rosling
Award-Winning Neurobiologist
Professor of Global Health
Having lectured at the University of Bremen in Behavioural Psychology, Gerhard became Director of the newly-created Institute for Brain Research, University of Bremen and is Professor for Behavioural Physiology and Developmental Neurobiology. He is the Founder and CEO of Roth GmbH, a business consultancy with consulting areas underpinned by scientific research including business leadership, selection of personnel, personnel progress, marketing and sales training, psychology for business coaching and developmental diagnostics.
Hans is a medical doctor, academic, statistician and Professor of Global Health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. His current work in statistics looks at the myths surrounding the developing world. He points out that many so called “third world countries” are already moving towards health and prosperity twice as fast as the West ever did. Topics:
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Hans is also an accomplished sword-swallower, a skill he demonstrated at TED 2007
Astonished by our general ignorance of so many facts, he wants to see public data freely available for study. Hans founded the Gapminder Foundation, which strives to make statistical data freely available and easy to understand online. As part of Gapminder´s work, Hans created “Trendalyzer”, a software product which inputs numbers into animations and interactive graphics. His aim is to increase our understanding of social and economic development with the remarkable trendrevealing software he has created.
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Science, Diversity, Innovation/ Creativity
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As a speaker he examines topics such as decision-making, behavioural psychology and human beings’ relationship with technology and adapting to change. In 2011 he was awarded with the Merit Cross 1st class of the Federal Republic of Germany for his achievements as a scientist.
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Tião Santos Humanitarian and Recycling Expert Tião is best known for his humanitarian work amongst the people who survive on landfill sites in Rio de Janeiro. Seeing the lives of “pickers” who sort through garbage, finding recyclable materials as a means of survival, he resolved to do something to help those living in social exclusion.
Narrating the animations with the flair of a sports commentator, he is able to make global trends and statistics clear, intuitive and even fun. Hans began his wide-ranging career as a physician, spending many years in rural Africa researching endemic disease. He co-founded the Swedish branch of Médecins sans Frontièrs (Doctors without Borders). Topics:
Environment, Leadership, Motivation
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He founded the Association of Collectors of the Metropolitan Landfill of Jardim Gramacho. Its members are paid in exchange for the recyclables that they collect, sort and trade. The Jardim Gramacho landfill has one of the highest rates of recycling due to the economy created by the association. Tião rose to prominence in 2007, as a result of the documentary “Waste Land”, which featured a community art project at the Jardim Gramacho landfill led by Brazilian artist Vick Muniz. Tião has highlighted the global issue of the careless disposal of waste and the need for recycling and has used his experience to develop on-going initiatives for change in his native Brazil.
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Sir Tim Smit
German Neuroscientist
Founder of the Eden Project Tim is the Co-Founder of the Eden Project in St Austell, Cornwall. With £40 million of UK lottery money and an iron will, Tim led the campaign to turn an old Cornish mining pit into an ecological paradise.
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Entrepreneurship, Environment, Leadership
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Tim’s remarkable Eden Project consists of hexagonal eco-bubbles and massive greenhouses encapsulating Mediterranean landscapes, tropical rainforests and what he calls “a living theatre of plants”. The project presented huge challenges including complex finances and pioneering drainage systems - just two aspects of turning 900,000 tonnes of clay into fertile earth. The Eden Project now houses well over one million plants and has been a huge success, attracting over 13 million visitors since its launch in 2000 and contributing over £1 billion to the Cornish economy. Before the Eden Project, Tim and his collaborator John Nelson restored The Lost Gardens of Heligan, now one of the most popular botanical gardens in the UK. Tim is an inspirational speaker who shows how he has achieved incredible success against all odds combining vision, leadership, great marketing and brilliant planning to create a unique experience demonstrating sustainability and widening perceptions of the application of science.
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Manfred Spitzer is a renowned neuroscientist, best known for his fascinating and compelling explanations of how the human mind and brain work and more recently for his studies and controversial conclusions on the effects on brain function of the way people use digital media. As well as being a practising psychiatric physician, he was visiting professor at Harvard and Oregon Universities, for teaching and research purposes. His enthusiasm for neuroscience is transferable to a wide audience and he is known for his radio and television documentaries. His most recent work is his widely acclaimed book “Digital Dementia” (2012), which explores the effects of digital media on the learning and development of children.
Lord Nicholas Stern Economist and Expert on Climate Change
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Economics, Environment, Globalisation
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Nicholas is a globally respected economist, academic and one the world’s leading authorities on climate change, international development and economic growth. From 2000-3 he was Chief Economist at the World Bank and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. He was previously Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Following his role at the World Bank, he was adviser to the UK Government on the Economics of Climate Change and Development. In this role, he headed the “Stern Review” on the Economics of Climate Change. In 2009 he was President of the European Economic Association. He has also had an academic career holding teaching and research positions at many of the most prestigious institutions in the world, including the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the author of several books and frequently writes comment articles for the Financial Times and other newspapers. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his work.
Klaus Töpfer
Nontombi Tutu Environmental politics expert
Human Rights and Climate Change Activist
Klaus has earned enormous respect, both as a German Government Minister, handling portfolios such as environmental protection, town planning and construction, and in the international arena as the Executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).
Energy, Environment, Strategy
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From 2001 until 2010 Töpfer was a member of the German Council For Sustainable Development (Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung) and in 2009 he became founding director of the German Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, IASS. For eight years to 2006 Klaus was executive director of the UN Environmental Programme based in Kenya and general director of the UN Nairobi office. After retiring from the UN, Klaus became Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, the German Government appointed Klaus chairman of the newly established Commission for Assured Energy Supply.
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• Ethics • Human Rights • Reconciliation, Building a Better Future for Africa
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She is the third child of Archbishop Desmond and Nomalizo Leah Tutu. Growing up the ‘daughter of...’ has offered Naomi many opportunities and challenges in her life. Most important of these has been the challenge to follow her own path. She has taken up that challenge and channelled the opportunities she has been given to raise her voice as a champion for the dignity of all. Her professional experiences include being a development consultant in West Africa and a Program Coordinator at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town.
Nontombi is an activist for human rights
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He speaks on the environment, sustainability and the future energy supply. He continually warns the business community against devoting too much attention to their share price, while ecological and social costs in developing countries are left for later generations to resolve. In 1999 he stated, “The next century must be the century of the environment, otherwise an uninhabitable Earth is a real threat.”
Her experiences growing up as black and female in apartheid South Africa have driven her to address issues of race and gender, reconciliation, human rights and building a better future for Africa.
She is also a consultant to two organisations which reflect the breadth of her involvement in issues of human rights. The organisations are the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), founded by Riane Eisler and Betty Williams, and the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa (FHSSA). In her talks, she blends the passion for human dignity with humour and her own personal stories and experiences.
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Lord Robert Winston Scientist and Television Presenter
Environment and Energy Expert Ernst is one of the world’s most respected thinkers on resource efficiency. His ground-breaking “Factor Four” concept asserts that by increasing natural resources efficiency it is possible to halve the consumption of resources while doubling living standards. Ernst is founding President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, which conducts applied sustainability research. He is a member of the Club of Rome, an interdisciplinary global think-tank which is recognized for its work on the relationship between economic growth and the environment. Topics:
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In 2008, he was joint winner of the Takeda award for Outstanding Achievement in the Application of New Engineering Intelligence
He is also co-chair of the International Resource Panel, part of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for sustainable resource management. Ernst previously held advisory roles to the German Government on economic globalisation and the environment and was Director of the UN Centre for Science and Technology for Development and of the Institute for European Environmental Policy. His most recent book, “Factor Five” argues that a fivefold increase in resource productivity is achievable and profitable under the right political and economic conditions.
Robert is Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College, London University. Robert is one of the UK’s most recognised public faces of science and a pioneer in the field of fertility and embryology.
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His contributions to clinical medicine include the development of gynaecological microsurgery techniques, leading to major improvements in fertility treatments, subsequently adopted internationally. With his research teams at Hammersmith Hospital, he made major advances in the field of endocrinology, fertility and IVF and reproductive genetics. Robert is committed to scientific education and regularly writes or hosts popular science programmes for the BBC’s main channel, the Discovery and ABC networks. His measured and accessible presentation style has contributed to the success of his many television series on different aspects of science. These have been broadcast in many countries and include “Your Life in Their Hands”; “Making Babies”; “The Human Body”; “Secret Life of Twins”; “The Superhuman”; “Child of our Time”; “Threads of Life” and “Human Instinct”. Robert was made life peer by HM The Queen in 1995. He was voted “Peer of the Year” by his fellow Parliamentarians in June 2008 for his expertise and work on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
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Notker Wolf
Ethics, Globalisation, Management, Religion, Society
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Director of the Benedictine Order
German Physicist and TV Presenter
Notker is worldwide head of the Benedictine Order of monks, an organisation with over 1,000 monasteries and 25,000 employees worldwide.
Ranga is a science writer and physicist and is best known as a TV presenter. He speaks on science generally and the physics behind everyday life.
Notker holds the Benedictine motto “ora et labora” (pray and work) as his guiding principle.
He is well known for his science programmes in Germany and presents shows including “Quarks & Co” and “The Great Show of Natural Wonders”. Between 1987 and 2005 he was science editor at WDR Germany. He began his career in journalism, initially working with various publishing houses and in radio and television. He has over 1000 TV shows and many radio presentations to his credit. He writes newspaper and magazine columns and articles in academic journals and has published a number of science books.
He calls for more personal responsibility from individuals and does not hesitate before making politically sensitive pronouncements. The unconventional cleric is independent, outspoken and expresses his views in seven languages. Notker gives an insight into how to lead a global organisation with business efficiency and according to Christian principles. He talks on leadership and ethical behaviour and is a versatile and entertaining speaker. His strong stand on social and economic policy issues are highly valued in Germany. He studied philosophy at San Anselmo in Rome, the centre of the Benedictine Confederation, where he is now Chancellor and went on to study theology and natural sciences at the Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversity in Munich where he was ordained a priest in 1968. In 1970 he returned to San Anselmo as Professor of the Philosophy of Nature and Scientific Theory. As head of the worldwide order he has responsibility for about 100,000 monks and nuns. Notker is also a musician, playing electric guitar with Christian rock group “Feedback”.
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He is involved in many national and international projects and is a member of boards and committees of institutions in the fields of Innovation, Education and Knowledge Propagation. He is keenly involved in a project for relief of victims of land mines in Cambodia and was active in providing and organising help to Tsunami victims in India.
Government and Politics
The revolution in technology over the last twenty years has made the world a far less stable place, with events and information travelling at a speed unheard of in the last century. This has presented enormous political challenges around the globe with societies more volatile and potentially dangerous than at any time since the Cold War. Our political leaders can no longer promote isolationist policies and need to adapt to many different dimensions from a changing environment to radical extremism. Members of society can no longer opt out of the political debate: listening to former and current politicians who have operated on the global stage is a good way to understand some of the debates and contribute to them.
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Martti Ahtisaari
Lord Digby Jones
Jonathan Powell
Michèle Alliot-Marie
Rami Khouri
Romano Prodi
Sheikh Mohamed Ahmed Jassim Vaclav Klaus
Jorge Quiroga
Al Thani
FW de Klerk
Lord George Robertson
Paddy Ashdown
Wim Kok
Petre Roman
Rafidah Aziz
Bernard Kouchner
Gerhard Schröder
Gordon Brown
Andrey Kozyrev
Gesine Schwan
Gro Brundtland
John Kufuor
Han Seung-Soo
John Bruton
Chandrika Bandaranaike
Javier Solana
Zbigniew Brzenzski
Kumaratunga
Pedro Solbes
Chung Un-Chan
Ruud Lubbers
Jack Straw
Jared Cohen
Lord Peter Mandelson
Tinaz Titiz
Dominique de Villepin
David Miliband
Lord David Trimble
Mohamed ElBaradei
George Mitchell
Guy Verhofstadt
Sir Jonathan Evans
Mahathir bin Mohamad
Lee Kuan Yew
Francois Fillon
Dominic Moisi
Long Yongtu
Roger Fisk
Mike Moore
Youssou N’Dour
César Gaviria
Supachai Panitchpakdi
Li Zhaoxing
Felipe González
Pratibha Devisingh Patil
Yukio Hatoyama
Göran Persson
Martti Ahtisaari
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French Foreign Minister 2010-11
Martti was President of Finland from 1994-2000. Upon leaving office, he undertook several major international assignments, continuing his previous work in international peace-mediation and conflict resolution. These post-presidential activities included acting as the UN Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, facilitating the peace process between the Government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement and for three years Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Kosovo.
She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of defence, The Interior, and Foreign Affairs. She has also been in charge of Youth and Sports and Justice, and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.
In 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The award was “for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts”. Hecontinues to be active in numerous nongovernmental and non-profit organisations. He also regularly speaks at international events about Conflict Resolution, Negotiation & Mediation, Transatlantic Cooperation and Bringing Peace to Our Troubled World.
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Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008
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Politics, Global, Future
President of Finland 1994-2000
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She resigned in 2011 after nine years in government due to her position during the Tunisian revolution, and is currently Deputy MP for Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Deputy Mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, as well as Vice President of the UMP. She was the last President of the Rally for the Republic, the last incarnation of the Gaullist party, and was the first woman to chair a major French political party. She has remained a leading Gaullist after the RPR merged into the UMP and was seen as a rival to Nicolas Sarkozy. She is a law and political science scholar.
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First Woman in France to hold Portfolios of Defence, Interior and Foreign Affairs
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Michèle Alliot-Marie
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Sheikh Mohamed Ahmed Jassim Al Thani
Economy, The Middle East, Trade
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Qatar Minister of Economy and Commerce from 2003-6
Leader of the Liberal Democrats 1988-99
Prior to that, Sheikh Mohamed spent a significant part of his career in the oil and gas industry mainly with Qatar Petroleum, RasGas and QatarGas, during which he occupied several senior posts. Sheikh Mohamed is still an active international consultant, and he has brought a wealth of insight to many oil and gas conferences.
As one of Britain’s most respected politicians and elder Statesmen, Paddy now sits in the House of Lords. He acts as a mentor to Nick Clegg and is a powerful supporter of the Coalition.
During his tenure as Minister, Sheikh Mohamed had an active leading role in several domestic and international issues pertaining to trade liberalization within the WTO and the free trade negotiations with several bilateral Qatari partners. Domestically, he initiated and executed a program of economic and trade reforms that included, amongst others, a revamping of the main Qatari commercial laws. While at the Ministry, Sheikh Mohamed held several positions, including the Chairman of Qatar Financial Centre Authority, Chairman of the Doha Securities Market, Chairman of the Measurement and Specifications Authority, Chairman of Qatar International Exhibitions Centre and board member of the Supreme Council of Economic Affairs and Investments. Sheikh Mohamed is now a successful businessman and also a thought leader of repute, having written two books “The Arab Spring & The Gulf States” and “Jassim the leader: Founder of Qatar”.
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Born in New Delhi, Paddy was in active service as a Royal Marine in Borneo and the Persian Gulf. After transferring to the elite Special Boat Service he was posted in the Far East and Hong Kong, during which time he became fluent in Mandarin. Paddy stood as Liberal Foreign Affairs, British Politics, Current candidate for Yeovil. An incredibly popular politician, he raised the vote to its highest ever level and after only Affairs, Leadership six years in the Commons, he was elected leader of the Liberal Democrats. He held the post for eleven years, www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ and at one stage entered into a Joint Cabinet Committee speakers/paddy_ashdown with Tony Blair’s Labour Party. During the conflict in the Balkans, Paddy was one of the leading advocates for decisive action by the international community. After stepping down as an MP, his detailed understanding of the region led to his appointment as UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina - a role for which he remains widely praised.
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UK President of UNICEF
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Rafidah Aziz
Gordon Brown Malaysia Minister of International Trade and Industry 1987-2008
Prime Minister of the UK 2007-10 As leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister from 2007-10, Gordon is one of the world’s renowned political leaders. He has a deep understanding of the global economy based on 10 years’ experience as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Rafidah is one of South East Asia’s most dynamic and respected women. Until 2008 she was Malaysia’s longest serving Minister of International Trade and Industry, having been in the position for 21 years. Much admired by her peers and colleague, she is regarded as an authority on global trade.
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The ‘Iron Lady’ from Kuala Kangsar
During her tenure, she contributed significantly to the development of Malaysia’s economy. She worked tirelessly to position and to promote Malaysia as the most favoured destination for foreign direct investment. Under her leadership, many multi-national corporations such as Intel set up manufacturing and research and development facilities in Malaysia.
On the domestic front, she strived to create opportunities for local enterprises to excel in their markets and in doing so has helped many businesses to become large corporations with offices around the world. The local media dubbed her as ‘Rapid Fire Rafidah’ and loved her forthright opinion and wit. Her expertise, visionary outlook and confidence have been a source of inspiration to many entrepreneurs. Rafidah is passionate about tackling trade negotiations and promoting the attributes of Malaysia.
His time as Chancellor was marked by major reform of Britain’s monetary and fiscal policy, transferring interest rate setting powers to the Bank of England. He also introduced many controversial moves in fiscal policy. Topics:
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As Prime Minister, he was a key architect of the G8’s agreements on poverty and climate change, and has provided a passionate voice to encourage the developed world to aid struggling African countries. He is an advocate of global solutions for global problems and the advancement of global ethics. He stood down as leader of the labour party in May 2010 following a decline in popularity at the onset of a recession.
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Gro Brundtland
Economics, Global, Health, Leadership, Politics
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Ban Ki-moon named her as a UN Special Envoy for Climate Change
Three Term Norway Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Ireland 1994-7
Dr Gro Brundtland is former Director General of the World Health Organisation and former Prime Minister of Norway.
John was the EU Ambassador to the United States from 2004-9, and previously the Irish Prime Minister, having held a number of the top posts in Irish Government.
During her time at Harvard, working with distinguished medical experts from around the world, her vision of extending health beyond the confines of the medical world into environmental issues and human development began to take shape. She went on to serve at the Ministry of Health in Oslo, focusing on children’s health issues and as Minister of the Environment focusing on the links between public health and the environment.
As a former Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), John helped transform the Irish economy into one of the fastest growing economies in the world. During his time in office (1994-97), the Irish economy grew at an annual average rate of 8.7%, peaking at 11.1 % in 1997. John was also deeply involved in the Northern Irish Peace Process leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
During the 1970s, she lobbied for women’s rights and progressive family policies, and gained international recognition in environmental circles. At age 41, she became the first woman Prime Minister of Norway—and the youngest person ever appointed. She has been quoted as saying: “There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It’s exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society.”
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Politics, Europe, Finance, Economics, Future
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In 2010 John became Chairman of the newly-formed financial services body, IFSC Ireland. His main role was to promote Ireland as a location of choice for financial services. He is currently the director of two public companies and is associated with several European economic think tanks, including the European Institute in the LSE, the Transatlantic Institute in Johns Hopkins University, and the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
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Zbigniew Brzenzski
Chung Un-chan Former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States
Prime Minister of South Korea 2009-10
Zbigniew is a Polish American political scientist and statesman who served as National Security Advisor to the US President under Jimmy Carter from 1977-1981. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalisation of U.S. / Chinese relations, and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States. Topics:
Global, Politics, Strategy
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He has authored many books, including: “The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century”; “Game Plan: How to Conduct the U.S. Soviet Contest”; “Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era” and “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives”: “Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower”. He is currently a Senior Research Professor of international Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C., a CSIS counselor and trustee and Co-Chair of the CSIS Advisory Board. He appears frequently as an expert on the PBS programme The NewsHour, ABC News, and on MSNBC, where his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, is Co-Anchor of Morning Joe.
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He was a professor of Seoul National University from 1978-2009, serving as the President of the university from July 2002-6 until he was designated as Prime Minister. At the parliamentary confirmation hearing, he said outlined a government plan to relocate nine ministries and four major administration bodies to the newly created Sejong City in central South Korea, claiming this would lead to nationwide inefficiency. After assuming office, his Sejong city plan faced an uphill political battle and opposition parties vowed to vote against him. After local elections in 2010, he offered his resignation and stepped down after 10 months of bitter political experience. He acquired his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University; he has had an impressive academic career as well as having written numerous publications in both Korean and English and to conduct research on macroeconomics and financial markets.
Jared Cohen
Dominique de Villepin Director of Google Ideas
Prime Minister of France 2005-7
Jared Cohen is the Director of Google Ideas, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a nonfiction author. Previously, he served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Cohen has conducted research in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and throughout Africa. As part of his research, he has interviewed members of Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and the Taliban. Topics:
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In France, his initiatives lead to a historic reduction of the unemployment rate by nearly 20 percent. Dominique addresses the challenges of our time and he points the way to an international response based on a new state and global governance. He also emphasises the importance of respecting identity and culture in founding a new international order.
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Jared serves on the Director’s Advisory Board at the National Counterterrorism Board (NCTC)
Dominique de Villepin is a career Diplomat and Politician who was Prime Minister of France from 2005-7. A forceful proponent of peace and justice in the world, Dominique was the voice of France and of the dissenting international community during the US-lead invasion of Iraq in 2003. He is one of the foremost advocates of new global governance based on multilateralism and a reformist leader in French, European and global policy. Not without controversy, throughout his career he has worked to formulate strategies and find solutions to deal with problems and conflicts including the racially-fuelled violence in the suburbs of French cities in 2005, which he brought under control by invoking a state of emergency, to the regional conflicts of Africa and the Middle East.
He is the Author of the books “Children of Jihad” and “One Hundred Days of Silence” and is currently co-authoring a book about the future of the world with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, which will be published by Knopf in 2013. He is also Co-Author (with Eric Schmidt) of “The Digital Disruption: Connectivity and the Diffusion of Power”, which appeared in Foreign Affairs just a few months before the Arab Spring.
He speaks on the challenges of international relations, leadership and collective values and the respect of culture in management of conflicts.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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Sir Jonathan Evans
Leadership, Economics, Politics, Environment, Future
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Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2005
Director General IAEA 1997 to 2009
Former Director of the British Security Service (MI5)
Mohamed is former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an intergovernmental organisation that is part of the United Nations and plays a key role in addressing nuclear proliferation.
Jonathan joined the United Kingdom Security Service in 1980 and he first worked on counter-espionage investigations. In 1985, he moved to protective security policy and advised other Government departments on the protection of classified information. Jonathan then worked on implementing policy changes as part of the modernisation of the Service. His subsequent main focus was counter terrorism, both international and domestic.
After 13 years working for the IAEA, Mohamed took over as DG from Swedish Diplomat Hans Blix in 1997. During his tenure his diplomacy skills and strongly neutral stance were key in dealing with nuclear rows over Iraq, North Korea and Iran. He earned credibility in the Middle East by questioning the claims of the US regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and insists that even in the most difficult situations, a combination of verification and negotiation can lead to progress. Mohamed and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 “for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.” He writes and speaks on the fields of international law, international relations, arms control and the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Mohamed has received many global awards for his work as a public servant and as an advocate of tolerance, humanity and freedom.
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“As cyber-threats become more sophisticated and better-resourced, we urgently require a new approach founded on unique cyber expertise and pioneering technology”
During the late 1980s and 1990s, he had various postings in Irish-related counter terrorism. He also had a spell as head of the Security Service’s secretariat and two years in the Home Office. During this secondment, Sir Jonathan was closely involved in the development and implementation of VIP security policy. From 1999 onwards, Sir Jonathan was directly involved in countering the threat from international terrorism and became an expert on Islamic terrorism.
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In 2001, he was appointed to the Security Service’s Management Board as Director of International Counter Terrorism - ten days before the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre. Jonathan succeeded Dame Eliza ManninghamBuller as Director General in April 2007. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2013 New Year’s Honours List and retired from the Service in April 2013.
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Roger Fisk Former National Director of Special Events for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign
Prime Minister of France 2007-12 François Fillon was Prime Minister of France from 200712. As a member of the UMP, Francois Fillon became Jean-Pierre Raffarin’s Minister of Labour in 2002 and undertook controversial reforms of the 35-hour working week law and of the French retirement system. He became Minister of National Education in 2004 and proposed the much debated Fillon law on Education.
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In 2005, he was not included in the new government headed by Dominique de Villepin, but was elected Senator for the Sarthe Département.
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His role as a Political Advisor in Nicolas Sarkozy’s successful race for President led to his becoming Prime Minister. Francois resigned upon Sarkozy’s defeat to François Hollande in the 2012 presidential elections.
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Roger had a key behind-the-scenes role in both presidential elections of Barak Obama. He oversaw the development of cutting-edge organising strategies, the harnessing of new technology to apply agile on-line organising tools and a truly innovative, thoroughly modern mobilisation of social media. All of these were instrumental in reaching voters and engaging them in the political campaign across the USA. Obama’s election campaigns are widely regarded as the best run Presidential campaigns ever. Roger started working for the campaign in January 2007. For the next 22 months he travelled through 30 US states with Obama on the campaign trail managing promotion and social media as well as logistics. Initially hired by Team Obama as the National Director of Special Events, Roger developed and managed a nationwide grassroots fundraising team that revolutionised modern political fundraising, totalling US$100 million in 11 months while building the largest donor base in American history. He uses his expert knowledge and experience to speak about election fundraising and campaign management, engaging voters and consumers, the use of technology in election campaigns and how all these tools can be applied more widely Roger has published articles on politics and travel and is an award winning guitarist and singer.
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Currently working on “America Was My Office”, a book that shares the stories and lessons of travelling the country across three presidential campaigns
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César Gaviria
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Felipe González President of Colombia 1990-94
President of Spain 1982-96
Known worldwide as a conflict mediator, an advocate for peace, and a defender of human rights, César is credited with having played a pivotal role in reform in Latin America and still remains at the centre of the region’s evolution.
Felipe is a sought-after speaker worldwide. His time in office was defined by very significant reforms such as the instalment of free public education; making a university education more accessible to all and the establishment of a wide-ranging social security system including universal healthcare. He also carried out a major industrial refurbishment plan as well as the army reform towards fully professional corps. As far as foreign affairs, the cornerstone of his policy was the integration of Spain in the European Union.
Elected Colombia’s President in 1989 following the assassination of his Liberal colleague Galán by drug barons, César’s term was marked by reforms which built a dynamic economy, encouraged foreign trade and investment, strengthened democracy, and promoted peace while fighting against the powerful drug cartels of the region led famously by Pablo Escobar. His courage and vision not The War on Drugs only as President, but during his ten year term as Secretary Doing Business in Latin America: General for the Organisation of American States (OAS), Understanding the Economic and reinvigorated co-operation between the countries of North Political Climate and South America and prepared the region to meet the Conflict Resolution challenges it faces today. During Gaviria’s tenure, the OAS Challenges Faced by China, India, & intensified efforts to improve regional security and to Latin America combat terrorism, drugs and corruption.
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He offers an informed, thoughtful perspective on the role of Latin America in key global challenges including the economy, the environment and social issues as well as sharing his views on the transformation of the OAS, the modernisation of Colombia and on-going efforts to protect our world’s oceans.
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He is also a member of the Orientation European Committee Our Europe, the International Council of the Simon Peres Centre for Peace, the Interaction Council, the Madrid Club and the Montevideo Circle. He has published books featuring conversations such as Un estilo ético (An Ethic Style) in 1982, and El futuro no es lo que era (The Future Is Not What it Used To Be) in 2001. He has also written the essays El socialismo (1997) and Memorias del futuro (2003).
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In 2007, the Minister’s Council named him plenipotentiary Extraordinary Ambassador for the celebration of America’s Independence bicentenary, which will begin in 2010. Also in 2007, the Heads of State and Government of the European Union, brought together in the European Council, designated Felipe González President of the Group for Reflection on the Future of Europe, known as the Think Tank Committee of the Wise that was dissolved in 2010.
Felipe was a key figure on the political transition in Spain, from dictatorship to democracy. The strong cohesion of his party in the 80s and his undoubted positive disposition facilitated his party’s triumph in the 1982 elections, obtaining the majority of the votes.
Lord Digby Jones
Yukio Hatoyama
Former Government Minister
Prime Minister of Japan 2009-10
Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham, is widely known as a dynamic and clear-thinking advocate for British business. Starting as a lawyer in the Midlands, Digby played a key role in business and corporate deals in the region.
Mr. Hatoyama is the first ever Prime Minister from the modern Democratic Party of Japan.
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In moving towards a more Asia-centred foreign policy, Yukio worked towards making better relations with nearby East Asian countries. He worked to deepen economic integration with the East Asian region, pushing for a free trade zone in Asia by 2020 and proposing Haneda airport as a 24-hour hub for international flights. Mr. Hatoyama promised big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, saying he would aim for a 25% reduction by 2020 compared with 1990 levels. The targets were more ambitious than those of any other industrialised nations. Over the course of his political career, Mr. Hatoyama has served in a wide range of roles including as Member of the Standing Officers Council, Next Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Democratic Party of Japan’s Shadow Cabinet, and Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Japan.
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As Director of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), he established himself as an impressive force for British business. In 2007, he was appointed UK Minister of State for Trade & Investment accepting a lifetime peerage in the House of Lords. Forthright and as ever loyal to British business he spent 15 months promoting Britain across the world, travelling to 31 different countries and meeting with the world’s top business leaders and politicians. Digby continues to hold many senior advisory positions to major UK corporates and is patron to several charities. In 2011, he published his first book “Fixing Britain - the business of reshaping our nation”.
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Rami Khouri Editor-at-Large of the Beirutbased Daily Star Rami is a political columnist, author and commentator on Middle East affairs. His work has been published in leading international publications, including the Financial Times, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. He is Editor at large, and former Executive Editor, of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper and former Editorin-Chief of the Jordan Times. He is the first Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut and is a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on US Relations with the Islamic World. Topics:
Environment, Leadership, Motivation
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He talks widely on contemporary issues facing the Middle East, including the future following the Arab Spring, the Israeli-Palestine conflict, the role of the media in promoting peace. He often comments on Middle Eastern issues for the BBC and CNN.
FW de Klerk
Václav Klaus
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President of the Czech Republic 2003 - 13
President of South Africa 1989-1994
Václav was President of the Czech Republic from 2003 - 13. He began his political career in 1989 during the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, offering his skills as an Economist to Civic Forum. He became Finance Minister in the democratic coalition government.
FW de Klerk was the last President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from 1989-1994. Following his appointment, FW pushed forward with political reforms leading to the release of important political prisoners including Nelson Mandela and lifting the ban on black activist political organisations including the African National Congress.
After the demise of Civic Forum in 1991, he co-founded the Civic Democratic Party and won the parliamentary elections in 1992, becoming the Prime Minister of the new Czech Republic. It was in this position that he took part in the peaceful division of Czechoslovakia and the foundation of an independent Czech Republic. In 1997, he resigned after the break-up of the government coalition. After the early elections of 1998, he became the Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Leadership, Change, Transformation, Conflict Management
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He is best known for engineering the end of apartheid, and facilitating the transformation of South Africa into a multi-racial democracy. He has won numerous awards and prizes including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with Nelson Mandela for his role in the ending of apartheid. In 1997 he retired from politics. He continues actively to participate as an elder statesman on the promotion of harmonious relations, the future of Africa and South Africa and the challenges facing the world.
Wim Kok Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1994-2002
He was elected as President of the Czech Republic in February 2003 and re-elected for a second five-year term. He is known for his Euroscepticism.
Willem “Wim” is an elder statesman of European politics. He is an engaging speaker with a heavyweight European political background and strong insight into future issues affecting European and global financial markets. Wim served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994-2002. A Labour Party politician, he was Minister of Finance and deputy Prime Minister in Ruud Lubbers third government from 1989 to 1994.
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Economics, Europe, Finance,
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Since stepping down as Prime Minister, Wim has advised the European Commission on the consequences of the enlargement of the European Union with ten new members in 2004. He chaired the European Employment Taskforce and the High Level Group on the Lisbon Strategy (European economic growth plan) with the remit to carry out an independent analysis of European growth and employment on behalf of the European Commission and European Council. He continues to hold numerous roles on advisory boards and is a Director of the International Crisis Group.
Bernard Kouchner
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Health, Europe, Middle East, Globalisation, Future, Global, Customer Service
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Andrey Kozyrev French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs 2007-10
Foreign Minister of Russia 1991-96
A politician and lobbyist for humanitarian causes, Bernard is well known as the Co-Founder of Médecins Sans Frontières. He has played an important role in European politics for many decades, having been either a Minister in different French governments or Euro MP for a total of eighteen years and France’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs from 2007 until 2010. A medical doctor by training, Bernard has played an important role in international humanitarian efforts.
Andrey Vladimirovich Kozyrev was the Foreign Minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from October 1991 to January 1996. Andrey joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1978 and held various posts, including the Head of the Department of International Organizations.
Following his experience working as a volunteer medic in Biafra in the late 1960s, he co-founded Médecins sans Frontiers asserting the moral right to interfere for humanitarian reasons in a foreign territory and challenging the Red Cross’s stance of neutrality and silence in wars and massacres. As France’s Minister of Health and Humanitarian affairs, he convinced the U.N. to accept “the right to interfere” resolution, and after the devastating civil wars in the Balkans, served as U.N. Special Representative in Kosovo. Bernard continues to promote universal access to medical care, and to take part in international efforts to fight AIDS. He has lead humanitarian efforts in countries across the globe. He speaks on politics, conflict resolution and Europe’s future as well as the responsibility of nations for humanitarian crises.
“To manage a non-governmental organization is certainly worse than managing a firm” -- Bernard Kouchner
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Globalisation, Management, Politics, Strategy
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Taking advantage of Gorbachev’s glasnost, a partial liberalisation of the press, Andrey published articles advocating not only the end of the Cold War, but fullscale partnership for the Soviet Union with the West. He took part in the December 1991 meetings of the leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, where the decision to dissolve the Soviet Union was taken. As Foreign Minister, he pursued policy of equal cooperation with the newly independent states as well as strategic partnerships with the USA and other Western countries; and goodneighbour relations with China, South Korea, and Japan. As politics in Russia shifted away from openness to the West, Andrey moved on to become an entrepreneur. He is now Chairman of a number of Russian and international companies. Andrey’s combination of political and business experience allows him to speak informatively business and investment risks and opportunities in Russia, East/West relations and the politics of Russia.
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John Kufuor
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga President of Ghana 2001-9
First Woman President of Sri Lanka 1994-2005
John was President of Ghana from 2001-9. He was instrumental in re-establishing democracy in Ghana after a long line of coups and military dictators. He was democratically elected defeating Jerry Rawlings, who had been in office for 20 years.
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Politics, Leadership
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He has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Face-of-GoodGovernance Award, Chatham House Prize, the Climate Change Award, and the World Food Program’s Global Ambassador Against Hunger
During his presidency, John implemented major initiatives in education, welfare and infrastructure development and economic growth far overtook established UN goals. As President, John was Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) from 2003-5 and Chairperson of the 53 nation African Union from 2007-8. He has carved out a reputation for peacemaking in the region. In Sierra Leone, in the Ivory Coast and in Liberia, where he ensured the exile of President Charles Taylor to Nigeria thus preventing the country from plunging into a deeper civil war. In Kenya, he led a commission which finally resolved Kenya’s post-election crisis. Since leaving office, he joined the Club of Madrid of former world leaders and has taken on a number of other international roles including President of Alliance for Africa working in health and education sectors on the continent and Chair of the Governing Council of Interpeace, a UN supported but Geneva based alliance organization for peace operating in 17 countries around the world.
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President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was the first woman President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005 elected with a record 62% of the vote. Born into one of Sri Lanka’s most distinguished families, her father, SWRD Bandaranaike, was a Senior Minister of the Government and later became the Prime Minister, while her mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, became the world’s first woman Prime Minister in 1961. Topics:
Government, Politics, Women’s Rights
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Educated in Paris, and a political activist from an early age, Chandrika was greatly influenced by the global radical student movement of the 1960s. She has always been strongly committed to the welfare of the disadvantaged. She also has the strongest belief in the importance of racial and ethnic tolerance and cooperation, a theme which has appeared consistently during her political career. During her 1994 election campaign, President Kumaratunga fought hard to speed up the process of economic liberalisation in Sri Lanka and worked to find a solution to the long and bloody war with the Tamils. As an Economist, Chandrika has authored a number of research papers directed at improving quality of life for Sri Lankans including constitutional, political and agricultural reforms. Chandrika speaks on conflict resolution and the building of peace.
Ruud Lubbers
Lord Peter Mandelson Prime Minister of The Netherlands 1982-1994
Former UK and EU Politician
Ruud was Prime Minister of The Netherlands from 1982-1994 and is a former UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Along with the political leaders of France and Germany, Ruud was one of the Chief Architects of the 1991 Maastricht Treaty for European economic, monetary and political union.
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Economics, Energy, Environment, Global
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He is currently a member of the Club de Madrid, an organization of former democratic statesmen that works to strengthen democratic governance and leadership
Before he was Prime Minister Ruud was Minister of Economic Affairs. He became a Member of the Netherlands House of Representatives from 19771982. Ruud was regarded by many during his time in office as an ideological heir to Margaret Thatcher. One of his campaign slogans was: “meer markt, minder overheid”: “more market, less government” but his ideology has always included the need to balance environmental concerns. After his premiership, Ruud became a Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and Tilburg University from 1995 until 2001. He was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 until 2005. He holds the record of being the youngest person to take this role, at the age of 43, and was the longest serving Prime Minister of the Netherlands. He now devotes time to chairing the Energy Research Centre in The Netherlands. An eloquent speaker, Rudd talks on world affairs, globalisation and climate change.
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Economics, Globalisation, Politics
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Peter is a UK socialist politician who held major roles in the Labour Governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was one of the founder architects of “New Labour” in the UK and his political career is founded in public relations for the Labour Party. His government offices included Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, where he was responsible for the introduction of a national minimum wage and overseeing new measures to strengthen regional development and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland where he negotiated the creation of Northern Ireland’s power sharing government and the IRA’s weapons decommissioning. Between 2004 and 2008 Peter was EU Commissioner for Trade. In 2008 he was made a member of the House of Lords following which he was UK Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform and Deputy Prime Minister to Gordon Brown In 2010, he became chairman of the consultancy firm Global Counsel, in 2011 he was appointed a Senior Adviser to the advisory investment banking firm, Lazard, which he now chairs. He is also president of Policy Network, an international think tank. He speaks on engendering dynamic political leadership and transforming government, global trade and the future of Europe.
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David Miliband
Leadership, Politics, Education, Society
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UK Foreign Secretary 2007-10
American Lobbyist, Businessman and Politician
David was the UK’s Foreign Secretary from 2007-10. Aged 41, he became the youngest person in 30 years to hold the position. He established a distinctive and respected voice for an internationalist Britain, from the war in Afghanistan to the Iranian nuclear programme to engagement with the world’s emerging powers.
George is a highly regarded US politician. His widely acknowledged integrity as majority leader of the US Senate led to his selection by the governments of the UK and Ireland to chair the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland which led to the Good Friday Agreement. George was elected to the US Senate in 1980 and was Majority Leader from 1989-95.
His advocacy of a global role for a strong European foreign policy led to him being widely supported for the new job of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs – a position he declined to continue his work in the UK. As Minister for Schools from 2002 to 2004 he was regarded as a leader of reform. As Secretary of State for the Environment, he pioneered the world’s first legally binding emissions reductions bill. David recently set up “Movement for Change”, which is training 10,000 community organisers in the UK over the next few years to make changes in their own communities.
For six consecutive years he was voted “the most respected member” of the Senate by a bipartisan group of senior congressional aides. From 1996 he chaired two years of negotiations, which resulted in a historic accord ending decades of conflict and violence.
He is Co-Chair of the Global Ocean Commission with the objective to identify the main threats to the high seas and to develop recommendations for addressing them. David left UK politics in 2013 to become President and Chief Executive of International Rescue Committee (IRC), the renowned New York-based nonprofit humanitarian organisation.
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The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
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Politics, Middle East, US
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Chaired the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland; Listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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George Mitchell
At the request of President Clinton and Israeli and Palestinian leaders, George led an international factfinding committee on violence in the Middle East in 2001. Following on from this experience, he served as US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from 2009-11. After retiring from the US Senate, he went back to practising law and became Chairman of the international law firm DLA Piper. He was also Chairman of The Walt Disney Company from 2004-7 and board member of several other major corporations. From 2006-7, he chaired an independent investigation into the illegal use of performance enhancing substances in Major League Baseball.
Mahathir bin Mohamad
Dominic Moisi Prime Minister of Malaysia 1981 - 2003
French Political Scientist Dominic is the Founder and Senior Advisor at the IFRI (the French Institute for International Relations), is currently a professor at Harvard University and is the holder of the European Geopolitics Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw). Dominic specialises in geopolitics and international relations and addresses audiences on these topics at conferences worldwide.
Mahathir was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003. He is credited with engineering Malaysia’s rapid modernisation and is considered to have been one of Asia’s most influential leaders.
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Finance, Leadership, Politics
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Before becoming Prime Minister, Mahathir served as a Minister for Education and then trade and industry. As Prime Minister, he was active in international affairs, especially in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. During his tenure, Malaysia’s economy grew substantially. He began privatizing government enterprises, including airlines, utilities and telecommunications and rolled out infrastructure projects including the North-South Expressway from the Thai Border to Singapore. Upon his retirement, Mahathir left the legacy of a peaceful, prosperous and autonomous Malaysia. He is regarded as a role model for many developing nations and Islamic countries. He is dedicated to the growth of developing countries and his successful economic policies continue to bring hope to the region. He speaks on development and growth in Asian economies, Islamic finance and political leadership.
His key speaker areas include The Future of Europe, Future Geopolitical Trends in World Affairs, The Geopolitics of Emotions and International Relations and Politics. Topics:
Diversity, Europe, Globalisation, Politics
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He is a member of the International Advisory Council of the Moscow School of Political Studies and of the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a special member of the Bilderberg Group. He is the Author of the renowned book, ‘’The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are reshaping the World’’, which has been translated into 15 languages.
Mike Moore
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Economics, Politics, Globalisation, Asia/China
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Supachai Panitchpakdi Director-General of the World Trade Organisation 1999-2002
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand 1992-95
Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1990 and DirectorGeneral of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from 1999-2002, Mike has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in politics and acted as the driving force behind important changes within the WTO.
Supachai speaks on international trade and developing global markets. He was Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 2005-13 and previously served as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation from 2002-5.
Currently New Zealand’s Ambassador to the United States, Mike had a distinguished career in politics before becoming the driving force behind important changes in the WTO. His term at the WTO coincided with significant changes in the global economy and multilateral trading system. He is widely credited with restoring confidence in the system Mike gave particular attention to helping poor countries participate effectively in the multilateral trading system. He introduced initiatives to enhance the WTO’s image and to deepen its relations with civil society, resulting in 10 new members joining the WTO during his tenure, including China. A distinguished Author, Moore’s latest book is “Saving Globalization”, which describes how influential antiglobalisation and isolationist factions have been strengthened due to worldwide economic crises, as well as the environmental, social and political inequalities in developing nations. Widely respected for his leadership, experience and decision-making skills in launching multilateral trade negotiations, Moore is a speaker who brings a wealth of insights to any conference concerned with trans-global business.
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Economics, Global
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Supachai spent many years in public service in Thailand, serving as as Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister from 1992-1995. He was responsible for the country’s economic and trade policymaking. Supachai began his professional career at the Bank of Thailand in 1974 where his economic and financial expertise was widely recognised and he devised measures for restructuring troubled financial institutions. He left the Bank of Thailand in 1986 to be elected a member of the Thai Parliament. Appointed Deputy Minister of Finance he introduced strong fiscal disciplines and laid the foundations for Thailand’s Export-Import Bank. In 1988 he became Director and Advisor and subsequently President of the Thai Military Bank, promoting its overseas expansion. Supachai explains in his seminars the importance of international co-operation through sub-regional, regional and global frameworks. He gives insight into how to conduct international trade negotiations successfully and the development of new markets. A balanced and informative speaker, his presentations are filled with key facts and case studies presented clearly and concisely.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil
Göran Persson President of India 2007-12
Prime Minister of Sweden 1996-2006
Pratibha was the first female President of India. She served as the 12th President since independence from colonial rule and was sworn in in July 2007and retired in 2012.
Göran was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996-2006. Before becoming Prime Minister and Party Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, he served as Minister of Finance, during which time he lead a sustained economic recovery of Sweden, and Minister of Schools.
Prior to taking office as President, her political career was “long and low key”, as described by the BBC. She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly at the age of just 27. Pratibha is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and was nominated for the presidency by the governing United Progressive Alliance and Indian Left.
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She has founded several philanthropic and charitable organisations. She has studied Political Science and Economics and has a Law Degree. Along with her husband, she set up Vidya Bharati Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, an educational institute which runs a chain of schools and colleges in Amravati, Jalgaon and Mumbai. She also set up Shram Sadhana Trust, which runs hostels for working women in New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune; and an engineering college in Jalgaon.
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First Female President of India
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Politics, India
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Economics, Europe, Environment, Crisis Management
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In March 2010, Persson was elected to the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute
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Under his leadership, the Swedish Government pursued an active foreign policy aiming at promoting international peace and development. He was Prime Minister during Sweden’s presidency of the EU during which important decisions were made on the EU’s enlargement. Göran remains strongly committed to, among other things, reducing unemployment, securing the quality of education, improving the integration of immigrants, protecting the environment and contributing to a world in peace and freedom. In 2005 he set up a commission to reduce Sweden’s dependence on oil. He is known for his broad personal knowledge of issues such as climate change, European relations with Russia, and challenges facing the Swedish welfare state. He speaks on sustainable development, the Swedish welfare model, EU development and enlargement, Sweden’s financial turnaround, leadership and negotiation. Since leaving the political arena, Göran is Chairman of Sveaskog, a leading Swedish forestry business and of the World Resources Institute.
Romano Prodi
Jonathan Powell
Two Term Prime Minister of Italy
UK Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff 1997-2007
He served as the Prime Minister of Italy, from 17 May 1996 to 21 October 1998 and from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008. He was also the tenth President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. On 14 October 2007, Prodi became the first President of the Democratic Party upon foundation of the party.
Jonathan is a British diplomat who served as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997-2007. Responsible for coordinating all political and non-political work in the Prime Minister’s office, he was the only senior member of staff to serve with Tony Blair from the beginning to the end of his time as leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister. Topics:
Leadership, Corporate Culture, Europe, Politics
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He was the principal negotiator in the Northern Ireland peace process from 19972007 and was instrumental in bringing about a lasting peace after years of conflict. Before joining Tony Blair, Jonathan was a British diplomat and played a role in the Zimbabwe independence negotiations, the accession of Portugal to the EU, the negotiations with China on the return of Hong Kong, the CDE arms control negotiations in Stockholm, the CSCE human rights negotiations with Russia in Vienna and the negotiations on German re-unification. Jonathan has published two books drawing from his diplomatic career: “Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland” (2008) and “The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World” (2010). He draws on his experience to speak on negotiation and conflict resolution, leadership and transformation in government and media and political strategy.
On 12 September 2008, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon selected Prodi as President of the African Union-UN peacekeeping panel. He is currently serving as the UN Special Envoy for the Sahel.
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Globalisation, Italian Politics, The Future of Europe, Times of Change in
He is also a member of the Club de Madrid, an international organisation of former democratic statesmen, which works to strengthen democratic governance and leadership.
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Jorge Quiroga President of Bolivia 2001-2 Jorge was President of Bolivia from August 7, 2001 to August 6, 2002. He went on to be a self-declared “corporate yuppie” working for IBM in Austin, Texas while earning a master’s degree in business administration. He then moved back to Bolivia and in 1997 he was elected as Vice President of Bolivia. At 41, he was the youngest Vice President in Bolivia’s history.
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Finance, Leadership, Politics
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He became Presidentwhen Hugo Banzer resigned because of aggravated healthproblems. Jorge assumed office as acting president on July 1, 2001 and was sworn-in on August 7, to complete Banzer’s five-year mandate. He has received the World Leader of Tomorrow Award from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He has also worked as a Consultant for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He is also a member of the Club de Madrid, which works to promote democratic leadership and governance. Jorge speaks on leadership, government, politics and finance.
Lord George Robertson
Petre Roman Prime Minister of Romania 1989-1991
Secretary-General of NATO 1999-2004
Petre Roman has tirelessly served the country of Romania in a variety of political roles. He was a founding member of the National Salvation Front and in 1989 became the first Prime Minister of the post-communist government, serving until 1991.
George is a politician who took key roles in the UK government during the prime ministership of Tony Blair. A Labour MP from 1978, he held senior positions on behalf of the opposition in Parliament during successive Conservative governments, including foreign affairs and Europe.
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Energy, Europe, Politics
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Lord Robertson is a Senior Counsellor at The Cohen Group, a consulting firm in Washington D.C. that provides advice and assistance in marketing and regulatory affairs
He was appointed Defence Secretary after Labour won the general election in 1997 and was responsible for carrying through the large scale review of the UK’s defence strategy and for the UK/US joint air strikes against weapons installations in Iraq in 1998 and the intervention in Kosovo in 1999. In 1999 he resigned to become Secretary General of NATO, a position he held until 2003. His time at NATO saw the 9/11 attacks on the USA and NATO’s intervention in the military crisis in Macedonia. George is a non-executive director of a number of major corporate groups and a strategic advisor to the Royal Bank of Canada Europe. He is joint President of the Royal Institute of Institutional Affairs (Chatham House).
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Europe, Leadership, Politics
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In 1992 he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies where he chaired the Defence Committee. Subsequently, he served as a Senator and as Chairman of the Defence Committee from 1996 to 1999 and as the Minister of State and Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000. He also served as the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Romania from 1993 to 2001. He was re-elected Senator in November of 2000 and continues to serve today. Roman also served as Special Rapporteur to the North Atlantic Assembly from 1993 to 1996, and as the Acting President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation from 1997 to 1998.
Gerhard Schröder Chancellor of Germany 1998-2005 A charismatic and powerful national figure, Gerhard is a socialist politician who was elected Chancellor of Germany in 1998 and served two terms. Gerhard was first elected to the federal parliament in 1980 where he took charge of the newly reunited Germany after 16 years of conservative government and took steps to propel the world’s third largest economy into the 21st century.
He believes that greater cooperation is needed between EU states, particularly on security and defence issues. He also argues for collaboration to counter several other threats, from global pandemics to organised crime and climate change.
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Economics, Europe, Global, Management, Politics, Strategy
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Elected to a second term in 2002, he increased his country’s influence around the world by taking strong stands on global issues including for the first time since World War II mobilising German troops to participate in NATO operations around the world. He remains popular as a key player in the global energy sector, and is the, Chairman of the shareholders’ committee for the EuropeanRussian pipeline company Nord Stream AG, a member of the European Advisory Council of the Rothschild Group and an Advisor to Swiss publishing company Ringier. Gerhard speaks on multilateralism, confronting global inequality, Europe and leadership.
Gesine Schwan
Topics:
Globalisation, Politics
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Han Seung-Soo Politics Professor and Former German Presidential candidate
Prime Minister of South Korea 2008-9
Gesine is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She was a candidate for the German Presidency in 2004 and again in 2009.
Han is a South Korean Politician and Diplomat. Prime Minister of South Korea from 2008 to 2009, he was first elected to the National Assembly in 1988. He was ambassador to the United States from 1993-1994, Chief of Staff to President Kim Young Sam from 1994-1995, and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister from 1996 to 1997.
She has conducted extensive research in international politics in Poland, the UK and the USA. She frequently publishes articles on democracy, political engagement and extremism in German society and is strongly proEuropean. Gesine speaks informatively on topics such as changes in parliamentary democracies, changing values and trust in Germany, friction between generations in their outlook towards globalisation. She was Professor of Political Sciences at the Free University Berlin and then Dean of the Europa-University Viadrina in Frankfurt.
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Asia/China, Politics
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Since 2002, she has presided over the German-Polish Forum together with Janusz Reiter. In November 2004, the German government under Gerhard Schrรถder appointed her to the newly-created office of the Coordinator for Cooperation with Poland (her counterpart on the Polish side was then Irena Lipowicz). She retained this position following the change of government and election of Christian Democrat Angela Merkel as Chancellor.
Han has taken many roles at the United Nations including the Presidency of the 56th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 2001-2002 and Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Climate Change. He was Chair of the 2009 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris, playing a pivotal role in unanimously adopting the OECD Declaration on Green Growth on June 25th. He is Chairman of the UN High-level Expert Panel on Water and Disaster/UNSGAB and Chairman of the Global Green Growth Institute. He is a member of the Club de Madrid. Han has held various professorial positions in the United Kingdom and South Korea. In 2004, he was honoured as an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). Dr Han Seung-Soo joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 January 2010.
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Javier Solana
Topics:
Crisis Management, Europe, Global, Politics, Security
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Pedro Solbes Secretary General of NATO 1999-2009
Deputy Prime Minister of Spain 2004-9
Javier is socialist politician who has been Secretary General of NATO, the European Union’s High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy and Secretary General of the Council of the European Union. He served in the Spanish government under Felipe González before taking key roles internationally, playing a vital role in the development of international relations in Europe and the world for over two decades.
A highly respected and pivotal figure in European politics, Pedro served as the European Commissioner of Economic and Monetary Affairs-overseeing the implementation of the euro across participating members of the European Union. Pedro began his political career at the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Spain in 1968, followed by roles at the Spanish Mission to the European Community and the Ministry for Relations with the European Community.
At NATO, Javier steered the member countries through difficult decisions on intervention in the former Yugoslavia including the deployment of peacekeeping troops in Bosnia and NATO airstrikes in the Kosovo conflict and saw through the enlargement of the alliance with the addition of countries from the former Communist Bloc. As first High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy at the EU, Javier was tasked with finding ways to help EU leaders agree on foreign and security policy issues in order to present a united and politically strong front in international affairs. He is now a member of a number of high level international bodies concerning human rights and international cooperation and is a senior visiting professor at the London School of Economics. Javier offers a unique perspective on security, defence and international relations.
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Europe, Economics, Energy, Politics
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In 1979 Pedro was appointed General Director of Commercial Policy at the Ministry of Economics and Trade. In 1985, he became Secretary of State for European Community Relations and chaired the Internal Market Council during the first Spanish Presidency of the European Community (1989) followed by Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. From 1993 to 1996 he was Spain’s Finance Minister, establishing the foundations for the adoption of the euro and overseeing three consecutive years of public surplus. During this time helped negotiate Spain’s membership of the European Community completed in 1986. Pedro is now a member of the Regional Advisory Group for Europe at the International Monetary Fund and President of the Executive Committee at FRIDE, a think tank that aims to provide the best and most innovative thinking on Europe’s role in the international arena. A respected political and financial voice, Pedro speaks on integration, change management and the global economy from his unique and experienced perspective.
Jack Straw
Tinaz Titiz UK Foreign Secretary 2001-6
Turkey Minister of Culture and Tourism 1985-9
After three decades in Parliament and successive Cabinet positions, Jack Straw is one of the most experienced and insightful British and international political figures. His time as Home Secretary had its fair share of controversies (including new measures to increase police powers to deal with suspected terrorists) and saw the European Convention in Human Rights incorporated into British law.
Europe, Global, Middle East, Politics, Security, US
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In 2012 his autobiography “Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor” was published and has been described by the Guardian as ‘a tour de force through the fluctuating fortunes of the labour party from the mid1960s to the 2010 election defeat’.
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Appointed Foreign Secretary in 2001, he played a leading role in the dramatic foreign policy problems arising from the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and then the interventions in Afghanistan and then Iraq. He publicly defended these decisions, but in 2010 he told the Iraq Inquiry in London that the 2003 decision to go to war “had haunted him”. Often criticised for his firm approach to civil liberties questions concerning suspected terrorists and his high-profile role in supporting the Iraq intervention, Jack remains a popular figure in the UK and Europe, not least for his deft self-deprecating humour: as Home Secretary he joked that his large department was “full of civil servants working diligently on projects that might ruin my career”.
Tinaz was Minister of Culture and Tourism in Turkey and is now Chairman of White Point Development Foundation, which helps develop problem solving skills. Tinaz was a top level Executive in the public and private sector for many years. He was an MP three times, as a representative from Istanbul, Zonguldak, and Ankara, and was appointed State Minister and Minister of Culture and Tourism from 1985-9. After leaving politics, he dedicated himself to the advancement of Turkish society. Topics:
Europe, Politics
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He is a published author, including “Sorun Nasil Cozulmez: How Not to Resolve a Problem”, and “Farzedin ki Hindiyiz! : Just Assume we are a Turkey!”
Lord David Trimble
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First Minister of Northern Ireland 1998 - 2002
Prime Minister of Belgium 1999 - 2008
David was the First Minister of Northern Ireland and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for helping to bring peace to Northern Ireland.
Guy is a Belgian politician who was Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. On winning the 1999 Belgian election, Guy became the first liberal Prime Minister of Belgium in more than 60 years, forming the first government without Christian-Democrats in 40 years. He presided over two governments and an interim third government in the early months of 2008, following the longest government formation crisis in Belgium’s political history.
David’s role in the negotiation of the landmark Good Friday Agreement (Belfast Agreement) concluded in 1998 set civil war-torn Northern Ireland on the path toward peace, providing a framework for a stable and representative devolved government in Northern Ireland and addressed issues such as early release of terrorist prisoners, the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons and reforms of criminal justice and policing. His courageous decision to engage in dialogue with his nationalist counterpart, John Hume (with whom he shared the Nobel Peace Prize), was a visionary step in resolving Ireland’s seemingly unsolvable situation. He had to convince his own party, as well as the loyalist citizens of Northern Ireland to accept the opportunity for peace through negotiation. He was named Parliamentarian of the Year by his peers in the UK House of Commons in The House Magazine awards of 2000 and in the Spectator Magazine Parliamentary awards the subsequent year. David became Lord Trimble in 2006 and sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative peer.
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Winner of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize
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Guy Verhofstadt
He talks about leading in tough situations and bringing about change in the face of adversity.
Topics:
Europe, Leadership, Economics, Politics
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In 2007, his party had lost the federal elections and following the resolution of the power sharing crisis, Guy steped down from the Belgian political scene after 25 years. Affirming his European beliefs, he wrote “The United States of Europe” which won the 2007 European Book of The Year Award and was translated into 12 languages of the EU. Since 2009 he has served as a Member of the European Parliament where he is the leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and founded the inter-parliamentarian federalist Spinelli Group. Guy has been a Non-Executive Director of Brussels-quoted investment company Sofina SA and is a member of the Club de Madrid since 2012.
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Lee Kuan Yew
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Long Yongtu
Globalisation, Asia/China, Leadership, Economics
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Prime Minister of Singapore 1959 - 1990
China’s Former Vice Minister of Trade
Lee is a Singaporean politician and was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, governing for three decades. He is widely recognised as the founding father of modern Singapore.
Long has taken a key role in integrating China into multilateral and global trading arrangements and is an active player in promoting regional economic cooperation. He dedicated over 10 years to bringing China into the global trading system as Chinese Vice Minister of Trade responsible for trade negotiations, multilateral economic and legal affairs.
As the Co-Founder and first General Secretary of the People’s Action Party (PAP), he lobbied for independence from British colonial rule. He led the party to eight parliamentary victories from 1959 to 1990, and oversaw the separation of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965 and its subsequent transformation from a relatively underdeveloped colonial outpost into a regional financial and economic hub, despite its lack of natural resources and small population.
Topics:
Asia/China, Globalisation
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He was the Chief Chinese negotiator on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation. He led the first Chinese delegation to the OECD in Paris in January 1995 and established the relationship of dialogue partner with the organisation and participates in APEC.
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Received a standing ovation from Members of Parliament and Cabinet Ministers in Parliament’s Chamber in 2013 on the occasion of his 90th birthday
He is one of the most influential political figures in Asia. Singapore’s second Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong appointed him Senior Minister in 1990. His son, Lee Hsien Loong, became the nation’s third Prime Minister in 2004 and he appointed Lee in an advisory post of “Minister Mentor”. With his successive ministerial positions spanning over 50 years, Lee is also one of history’s longest-serving Ministers. In May 2011, he announced his retirement from the cabinet after the general election. He has written several books including an account of Singapore’s transformation from a third-world country to a prosperous nation today.
He is currently the General Secretary of the BOAO Forum for Asia (BFA) which he hopes will cultivate entrepreneurship among Chinese businessmen and help China further integrate itself with the world economy. He frequently attends and addresses high level seminars on economic and trade policies, such as the Global Panel in the Netherlands, the Awashima Forum in Japan and the Pacific Economic Forum the British Royal Institute and Harvard University. Earlier in his career, Long studied economics at the London School of Economics and worked for the UN in New York.
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Youssou N’Dour
Africa, Celebrity, Ethics, Leadership, Leisure and Tourism, Musician, Politics, Society
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Senegal Minister of Tourism, Celebrated Musician
Chinese Foreign Minister 2003-7
Youssou is the Senegal Minister of Tourism and Culture since April 2012. He is also one of the most celebrated African musicians in history, an actor and businessman. In early 2012, civil unrest broke out in Senegal when an opposition campaign set out to unseat Abdoulaye Wade, the serving President of two terms with plans to rule for a third seven year term. Youssou decided to use his background and popularity in support of the opposition to defend democracy, freedom and young people, and took to the streets, addressing the crowd at protests. He attempted to run for the presidency of Senegal, but was disqualified for lacking the required number of signatures. He later supported Macky Sall, now president of Senegal, and in April 2012, was named as Senegal Minister of Tourism and Culture in Mr. Sall’s cabinet.
Since 2013, he has been Chairman of the Research Center for National Soft Power at China’s Foreign Affairs University and President of China’s Public Diplomacy Association.
Named as “one of the most beloved musicians on the continent” by Rolling Stone, he was also described by The Guardian as “arguably the most important figure in world music”. Recently awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2013, he also received a Grammy Award in 2005, among other recognitions.
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Asia/China, Politics, Globalisation, Strategy
From 2008-13, Li Zhaoxing was Chairman of China’s Foreign Affairs Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress. In 2003-07, he was Foreign Affairs Minister, prior to which he was Vice Foreign Affairs Minister in 1995-98 and again 2001-03. Over 1998-2001, Li Zhaoxing was Ambassador at the Chinese Embassy to the US, in Washington, DC. Prior to that, in 1993-95 he was Ambassador at China’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. He graduated from Peking University in 1964 and has been honored as the “Poetic Diplomat”.
He is an ambassador for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation since 2000 and owns an influential media group, a night club and a music studio in Senegal.
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Hailed as the “voice of protest” by Time magazine
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Li Zhaoxing
Thought leaders and opinion makers in a fast-changing world londonspeakerbureau.com
MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY
A true leader cannot operate without the ability to manage and communicate effectively with people and organisations. Innovative ideas and a thought-through strategy are not enough in themselves to create success. What global business leaders recognise is that it is the capability of the management to implement these ideas that drives the performance of the business and that capable, committed teams usually best understand and deal with the needs of customers . A clear, often imitable style of management is what defines the most successful CEOs and Chairmen of large organisations: these people are clear as to where their business is heading and are adept at communicating this to their organisation as a whole. By adopting a strategic approach to business alongside the necessary planning and communication, the best managers are able to maintain their companies’ position in the market, motivate their teams and establish an advantage over their competitors. Today’s most successful and strategic business leaders are inspiring the next generation of great managers and entrepreneurs to take the risks and responsibilities commensurate with driving business success. Having access to and learning from these leaders and thought provokers is the intelligent way to get ahead in business.
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Dame Helen Alexander
Hans-Olaf Henkel
Renee Mauborgne
Sir John Armitt
Gordon Hewitt
Henry Mintzberg
Scott Bayman
Jonny Hewlett
Saeed Al Muntafiq
Howard Behar
Rene Jaeggi
Betsy Myers
Rick Belluzzo
Mats Jansson
Kenichi Ohmae
Marcus Buckingham
Michael Jordaan
Azran Osman-Rani
Sir Richard Branson
Luke Johnson
Tom Purves
Ram Charan
Mishal Kanoo
Ravi Ramu
Utz Claassen
Roland Koch
Sir David Reid
Dee Cooper
Anders Knutsen
Simon Sinek
Gurcharan Das
Béatrice Kronig
Tim Steiner
Rolf Dobelli
Walter Kohl
Hamish Taylor
Tony Fernandes
Joan Laporta
Pelle Tornberg
Fadi Gandhour
Sir Terry Leahy
Jeroan van der Veer
Kevin Gaskell
Maurice Lévy
Ruby Wax
R Gopalakrishnan
Wendy Luhabe
Haiyan Wang
Anil Gupta
Roger Mavity
Jack Welch
Lynda Gratton
Andrew McMillan
Nick Wheeler
Gary Hamel
Padraig McManus
Mark Wilcox
Sir John Armitt Chairman of United Business Media
Chairman of National Express John was Chairman of the London Olympic Delivery Authority and successfully led the team that spent over six years designing and building the stadium and venues for the London 2012 Olympic Games. John has extensive experience in the building, civil engineering and industrial construction markets.
Helen was President of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) until June 2011. She had a varied and successful business career at The Economist, rising to Chief Executive of the Economist Group from 1997 to 2008 during which time The Economist had record circulation growth worldwide.
Topics:
Globalisation, Leadership, Media, Strategy
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Now Chancellor of the University of Southampton, Helen holds many other senior level positions. Her roles include Chair of the Advisory Council at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, Chairman of the Port of London Authority (PLA) and of Incisive Media. She is a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the remuneration committee at Centrica plc and Rolls-Royce Group plc and senior adviser to Bain Capital. She is also a trustee of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation.
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He was awarded the CBE in 1996 for his contribution to the rail industry and received a Knighthood in the New Year Honours List 2012 for his services to engineering and construction. John is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Civil Engineers.
At The Economist, Helen was Managing Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit, where she turned the business round and set the path for digital transformation. Prior to that, she was Marketing Manager and then Circulation Director of The Economist. Her varied and successful business career enables her to speak with authority on a range of business topics; leadership, change, strategy, globalisation and media.
At the top table with business leaders
Design, Innovation/Creativity,
He is currently Chairman of National Express and was previously Chief Executive of Network Rail from 2002 and Chief Executive of Railtrack plc from December 2001. He was Chairman of the Laing International and Civil Engineering Divisions, a company he joined as a graduate in 1966. Until 1997 he was Chief Executive of Union Railways, the company responsible for development of the high speed Channel Tunnel Rail Link. John is also a Non-Executive Director of the Berkeley Group.
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He has been hailed as hero of the Olympic Games, for his management and delivery on time and under-budget before the start of the Olympic Games.
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Dame Helen Alexander
Howard Behar CEO of GE India 1993-2007
Founding President of Starbucks International
Scott was President and CEO of GE India from 1993 to 2007. During his 14 years in India he led GE to a position as one of the leading multinational companies in the country.
Topics:
Globalisation, India, Leadership, Management, Strategy,
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Scott’s experience includes a wide range of business enterprises. He has worked for AT&T, General Motors and United Technologies Corporation. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Lumis Partners, a private equity fund focused on investing in technology leveraged and growth oriented companies. He sits on the corporate boards of several companies and he is a Senior Director of The Albright Stonebridge Group, and a member of the Rio Tinto India Panel, an advisory group to the company’s senior management.
Topics:
CRM, Food & Drink, Leadership, Management
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In addition, Scott has also served on the International Advisory Boards of the Indian School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania’s Centre for the Advanced Study of India. He is an adviser to both the Board and the Executive Committee of the US India Business Council and is past Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce India. Scott has specialist knowledge of doing business in India but also speaks more generally on leadership and building a worldclass business organisation.
Howard’s career in business spans over 50 years, all in consumer oriented businesses covering several industries. He retired from Starbucks Coffee after 21 years where he led both the domestic business, as President of North America, and was the founding President of Starbucks International. During his tenure, he participated in the growth of the company from only 28 stores to over 15,000 stores spanning five continents. He served on the Starbucks Board of Directors for twelve years before retiring. He now brings his experience to several boards of directors including both for-profit and non-profit organisations. Howard is committed to the development and education of our future leaders through exchanging ideas and creating dialogue around the ways we lead ourselves and others in organisations today. He also addresses the role personal leadership plays in our individual lives. He speaks to corporate audiences, educational institutions, boards and governance groups and to non-profit organisations seeking to challenge and inspire themselves.
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He is the author of a book on leadership titled “It’s Not About the Coffee”
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Scott Bayman
Rick Belluzzo
Innovation/Creativity WWW:
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Author of “The One Thing You Need To Know”
Rick is the Executive Chairman of Quantum Corporation and was formerly President and COO of Microsoft. He has spent his 36-year career leading companies through transformative change in order to allow for sustainable success.
Marcus has dedicated his career to addressing the complex issue of where personal strengths fit in to a world where efficiency and competency rule the workplace. He applies nearly two decades of experience as a Senior Researcher at Gallup Organisation to challenge entrenched preconceptions about achievement to find the essence of what drives success. The definitive guide to optimising strengths in the workplace can be found in Marcus’s best-selling books, such as “First, Break All the Rules; Now, Discover Your Strengths”, “The One Thing You Need to Know” and “Find Your Strongest Life”. Marcus’s work provides important insights into maximising strengths and understanding the crucial differences between leadership and management. By focusing on cultivating employees’ strengths instead of their weaknesses, companies can move toward greater success, increasing efficiency while allowing for maximum personal growth.
He is often called upon to advise companies and leadership teams on responding to challenges and driving change. At Quantum Corporation, he led a complete transformation of the data storage company away from a declining business into one that delivers consistent profitability, growth, and innovation in one of the most rapidly changing areas of technology delivery. At Microsoft Corporation, he was responsible for guiding the company’s business strategy and directing business operations; managing sales, marketing, and business development; and directing several of Microsoft’s emerging businesses. Earlier in his career, Rick spent 23 years at Hewlett Packard. His most notable achievement there was building the HP printer and imaging business into a multi-billion dollar operation built around innovative technology, which transformed the printer industry. Rick’s industry experience, coupled with a collaborative, interactive style, makes him a highly engaging speaker.
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Built HP into a multi-billion dollar operation
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Management, Technology,
Former President and COO of Microsoft
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Leadership, Management, Author
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He challenges conventional wisdom and shows the correlation between engaged employees and business fundamentals such as turnover rates, customer satisfaction, profits and productivity. He has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
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Personal strengths are the key to unlocking potential
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Marcus Buckingham
Sir Richard Branson
Ram Charan Founder of the Virgin Group
Leading Expert in Corporate Governance
Starting off in mail order music retail, his Virgin Group has expanded to include around 400 companies worldwide including, air travel, mobile communication, financial services, retail, music, internet, drinks, rail, hotels and leisure.
Corporate Culture, CRM, Customer Service, Entrepreneurship, Future, Innovation/Creativity, Leadership, Marketing
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Richard is known as one of the great entrepreneurs of the 20th Century
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He made a bet with Tony Fernandes at the launch of Virgin Racing - now Marussia - agreeing that whoever’s team finished the 2010 F1 season lower in the constructors’ standings would serve as a stewardess on the other’s airline. Branson lost as Lotus - now Caterham - finished 10th and Virgin 12th, but the trip was postponed in early 2011 after he injured himself while skiing. In 2010, Branson honoured the bet made with Fernandes by dressing up as an air stewardess on an AirAsia flight.
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Leadership, Strategy, Innovation/ Creativity, Management
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Virgin Atlantic Airways, formed in 1984, is now the second largest British long haul international airline. Richard’s entrepreneurship and vision succeeded in establishing a trusted brand in a highly challenging market. The airline has won many major awards, including “Airline of the Year Award” several times. His latest pipeline venture, Virgin Galactic, is an airline offering sub-orbital space flights with plans to build an orbital space launch system offering commercial flights. Richard is a trustee of several charities including the Virgin Healthcare Foundation. His help in the initial funding of charity projects helped that organisation to raise over £100 million, through campaigns such as Comic Relief. Richard has been involved in a number of world record-breaking attempts including the fastest ever crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in “Virgin Atlantic Challenger II” and his epic hot air balloon crossings of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in “Virgin Atlantic Flyer”.
Ram is a sought-after business adviser renowned among Senior Executives for his ability to solve difficult business problems. For more than 35 years, Ram has worked behind the scenes with Senior Executives at some of the world’s most successful companies, including GE, Verizon, Novartis, Dupont, Alcatel, and Bank of America.
Coach to some of the world’s most successful CEOs
Identified by Fortune as a leading expert in corporate governance, Ram helps boards go beyond the requirements of the regulatory authorities by providing practical ways to improve their group dynamics. He is known for providing advice that is focused and takes into account the realworld complexities of business. He was rated by BusinessWeek as one of the world’s top ten resources for in-house executive-development programmes. In the past five years, Ram’s books have sold more than 2 million copies. These include the bestseller “Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done” and “Confronting Reality”, both co-authored with Larry Bossidy. His latest book “Global Tilt” is a guide to leading businesses through the radical shift in global economic power currently underway. A frequent contributor to Fortune, Ram has written two cover stories, ‘Why CEOs Fail’ and ‘Why Companies Fail.’
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Utz Claassen
Innovation/Creativity, Management, Technology
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Transformed Germany’s third largest energy group to profit
Business Transformation Expert
Customer Experience Expert
Utz is one of Germany’s most charismatic business leaders. After periods with McKinsey consultancy and Ford Europe, he was Director of Research and Development at VW, before becoming a Director at SEAT (part of the VW Group). Utz then oversaw a major and successful restructuring of the publicly quoted Sartorius AG.
As a Creative Consultant Dee aims to develop businesses and their brands into more successful organisations. She creates the vision, inspiration and understanding of brand, design and service to offer business teams the focus which sets their product above the competition and delivers the most from their experience and creative teams.
Moving to EnBW AG, the third largest energy group in Germany, he instigated substantial restructuring measures and transformed the company to profit. He sold off a number of businesses and built an annual turnover of EUR 18bn with a workforce of 18,000 employees. Utz has held many other senior roles in the energy sector including a period on the board of Germany’s electricity industry federation (VDEW) and he was briefly Chairman of Solar Millennium AG in 2010. He was also Chair of the German Federation of Industries.
Dee has a wealth of experience from 16 years at Virgin Atlantic. As Director of Product and Service, Dee was responsible for managing the entire customer experience, ensuring it was the best in the industry. Dee led many of the airline’s innovative successes, including the Upper Class Wing, overseas Clubhouses, the £105 million Upper Class Cabin and pioneering the Drive-Thru check-in.
Since 2001 he has been a Professor at the University of Hanover and was invited by the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to advise him on innovation in Germany industry. Utz talks about business transformation and leadership, developing successful business strategies and managing complex utilities businesses.
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Customer Service,Innovation/ Creativity,Design,Marketing
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Lead “spectator” expert at the London Olympics, ensuring the best spectator experience ever!
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Dee Cooper
She joined Virgin Atlantic in 1995, as its only Product Designer. She grew the design team, winning awards for San Francisco Clubhouse, Economy Meal Service and Upper Class. Establishing a Product Team, she brought commercial analysis and competitive appraisal of Virgin Atlantic’s products. Her key demand was to ensure that new services offered great value to both the customer and the business. Dee’s initiatives played an instrumental role to Virgin Atlantic’s sustained commercial success. She now runs an independent creative consultancy, Decide Limited.
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Gurcharan Das
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Economics, Global, Management, Marketing, Strategy
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Rolf Dobelli Management Guru
Swiss Author and Businessman
Gurcharan is an author, management consultant and public intellectual. He is the author of the international bestseller, “India Unbound”, which has been published in 17 languages and filmed by the BBC.
Rolf Dobelli founded ZURICH.MINDS, a community of the world’s most famous and distinguished thinkers, scientists, artists and entrepreneurs including Nobel prize winner Kurt Wuthrich, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (“The Black Swan”), Matt Ridley (“The Rational Optimist”), philosopher Daniel Dennet and many others. It was not until his 35th Birthday that Rolf started writing, with great success. Now a successful author, Rolf was a commercial pilot and manager for Swissair before he discovered his passion for writing.
He writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India and periodic guest columns for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Time and Newsweek magazines. He is a regular speaker to the top managements of the world’s largest corporations. Gurcharan graduated with honors from Harvard University in Philosophy and Politics. He later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. He was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and Vice President, Procter & Gamble Far East between 1985 and 1992, and later Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). He currently consults with a number of companies on global corporate strategy, and is associated with a private equity fund. He has served on the juries of the McKinsey award for the best Harvard Review Article (2005) and $500,000 Milton Friedman prize (2004). He is now mainly known for his two best-selling books, ‘’India Unbound’’ and ‘’The Difficulty of Being Good’’.
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Management, Strategy
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These experiences are reflected in his best-selling books, where he advises his readers to keep a healthy scepticism about mass opinions, illusions and false starts. His most famous work, now available in English, ”The Art of Thinking Clearly”, led the bestseller list of Der Spiegel for more than six months, with his following book ”The Art of Intelligent Action” becoming another success. In 1999 he founded his own company Get Abstract, which has become the largest provider of compressed economic literature worldwide. Rolf regularly writes for The Washington Post and his comments appear in publications such as The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, BBC, and CNN. He discusses vision, strategy, decision making and transforming how we think.
Tony Fernandes
Entrepreneurship WWW:
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Believe the unbelievable. Dream the impossible. Never take no for an answer
Founder and Vice Chairman of Aramax
Tony is the CEO of Air Asia, Asia’s leading low fare, no frills airline, flying to destinations across the world.
Fadi is the Founder and Vice Chairman of Aramex, one of the leading global logistics and transportation companies publicly listed on the Dubai Financial Market.
Starting out as an Accountant for Virgin Records, he went on to Warner Music in Southeast Asia. In a dramatic change of direction, Tony left the music industry to buy Air Asia, a bankrupt carrier. The purchase cost him a token fee of 26 cents and he took on debts of US$11 million. Since taking over Air Asia, he has become known as the “Richard Branson of Asian air travel.” Introducing AirAsia to Malaysians with the tagline “Now everyone can fly”, Tony estimates that before AirAsia only six per cent of Malaysians had ever travelled in a plane. He was instrumental in lobbying the then-Malaysian Prime Minister to negotiate open skies agreements with neighbouring Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore. As a result, these nations have granted landing rights to AirAsia and other discount carriers. In 2011 he was named Panglima Setia Mahkota (Commander of the Order of the Crown of Malaysia), which carries the title “Tan Sri”, one of Malaysia’s highest honours and was awarded a CBE for his services in promoting commercial and educational links between the UK and Malaysia.
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Global logistics, Transportation, Leadership, Investment
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Founder of Aramax, a leading global provider of logistics and transportation solutions
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Leadership, Customer Service, HR,
Entrepreneur and Founder of Air Asia
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Fadi Gandhour
Aramex is one of the Middle East’s major entrepreneurial success stories. Founded in 1982 as a package courier service, Fadi grew it through strategic partnerships into a major competitor in the industry and the global success it is today. He served as CEO for 30 years and has recently reduced this role as he focuses on other projects. Fadi is Co-Founder and Director of MENA Venture Investments, a seed capital fund that provides capital, access to networks, mentorship and technical expertise to startup businesses. He is a member of the Board of Abraaj Capital, and the Chairman of WAMDA, the association which supports MENA entrepreneurs. He is passionate about social entrepreneurship. He is the Founder and Chairman of Ruwwad for Development, an Arab region private sector-led community empowerment initiative that helps disadvantaged communities overcome marginalisation through youth activism, civic engagement, and education and a number of other organisations in the region which promote education and entrepreneurship.
Kevin Gaskell
R Gopalakrishnan
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Kevin has led some of the world’s iconic brands to new levels of success and managed successful turnarounds of failing international companies. Appointed Managing Director of Porsche Cars (GB), aged 32, Kevin built a world class team to bring the business back from the brink of insolvency. Within 5 years Porsche was transformed from a struggling business into the UK’s most profitable car company. In 1997 he joined BMW (GB) as Managing Director where he formed a team to drive a shift to a more agile, creative and entrepreneurial culture. The team achieved four years of record growth with sales improving by 70% and profitability increasing by 500%.
Gopal, as he is best known, is one of India’s most wellknown and experienced business leaders. Executive Director of Indian conglomerate Tata for 14 years, he was responsible for managing and leading the global business. Tata is the most multi-national Indian conglomerate and the largest privately held corporate group in India. After recently stepping down, Gopal remains an Adviser on the Board of the group holding company, Tata and Sons and a Director of a number of group companies.
In 2000 Kevin became European CEO of CarsDirect. com. Within months the US owners withdrew from the European market, leaving Kevin and his team the opportunity to raise new funding and create epyx, which within 5 years became the UK’s leading provider of e-commerce solutions to the automotive fleet sector.
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Leadership, Management, Teamwork
Executive Director of Tata, India
Led world iconic brands, Porsche, BMW & Cars Direct. com to new levels of success
In 2001 Kevin became CEO of EurotaxGlass’s AG, the leading European supplier of automotive information across 30 countries. Kevin led the transformation of the company from a print based product company to an online data and intelligence provider increasing operating profit by 300%.
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Global, India, Innovation/Creativity, Leadership, Management, Strategy
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Before Tata, he spent 30 years of his career at Hindustan Unilever, eventually becoming Vice Chairman. At Hindustan Unilever, he was involved with operations of a number of businesses including Unilever Arabia and Brooke Bond Lipton. He is also a non-executive director of the Indian subsidiaries of Akzo Nobel and BP Castrol. In recent years Gopal has written three books drawing on his extensive management experience. His first book ”The Case of the Bonsai Manager” was published in 2007 and uses case studies from Indian businesses and analogies with the natural world to demonstrate his philosophies. In 2010, his second book, called “When The Penny Drops: Learning What Is Not Taught” and was followed with “What The CEO Really Wants From You” in 2012.
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Renowned Indian business leader
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Turnaround Specialist, Coach and Adventurer
Lynda Gratton World-Renowned Thought Leader on Strategy and Globalisation
Global Authority on HR Lynda is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and founder of the Hot Spots Movement. She is considered one of the world’s authorities on people in organisations and advises companies across the world and sits on a number of advisory boards.
Anil is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading thinkers and consultants on strategy and globalisation. He is a regular columnist for Bloomberg Business Week and has written opinion pieces for The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Chief Executive Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, China Daily, and Economic Times.
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• Global Strategy in the Age of China and India The rise of China and India is a game-changing phenomenon. • Changing the Rules of the Global Game Is Your Company A Rule Maker or A Rule Taker? • Building and Exploiting Global Presence The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence Into Global Competitive Advantage • Cultivating A Global Mindset
The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research and teaching, Anil has also been recognised by Management International Review as one of the “Top 20 North American Superstars” for research in strategy and organisation. His latest book, “Global Strategies for Emerging Asia” was published in 2012. His earlier book, “Getting China and India Right” (2009) co-authored with Haiyan Wang, received the 2009 Axiom Book Awards’ Silver Prize as one of the world’s best books on globalisation and international business. He is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and is Visiting Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, where he was Chair Professor of Strategy until December 2010. Anil is also Chief Advisor for The China India Institute, a Washington DC-based research and consulting organisation.
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One of the world’s “rising superstars” -- The Economist
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HR, Management, Corporate Culture
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A trained Psychologist, she worked for British Airways as an occupational psychologist and then was Director of HR strategy at PA Consulting. Her first book “Living Strategy” has been translated into more than 15 languages and was highly rated by US CEOs. “The Democratic Enterprise” provides a fascinating insight into how companies will change over the coming decades. Her 2007 book “Hot Spots” focuses on bringing energy and innovation to organisations. Her most recent book, “The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here” looks at the future of employment. In 2008 the Financial Times selected her as the business thinker most likely to make a real difference over the next decade and she was number one of Human Resources Magazine’s “Top 25 HR Most Influential UK Thinkers 2011” poll.
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“One of the top 15 Business Thinkers in the world” The Times
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Hans-Olaf Henkel
Gary Hamel
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Strategy, Management
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His pioneering concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation” have changed the practice of management in companies around the world.
American Management Expert
President of the Federation of German Industries 1995-2000
The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary as the world’s most influential business thinker and Fortune magazine picked him out as “the world’s leading expert on business strategy”. The Journal of Business Strategy listed Gary as “One of the 20th century’s 25 most influential business thinkers”, along with business pioneers such as Henry Ford and Bill Gates. Gary’s landmark books, which have been translated into more than 20 languages, include “Competing for the Future”, “Leading the Revolution” and “The Future of Management” (selected by Amazon. com as the best business book of the year). His latest book, “What Matters Now” was published in 2012.
Hans-Olaf is Professor of International Management at the Universivty of Mannheim. Hans-Olaf spent many years in industry, principally for IBM and is considered one of Germany’s top captains of industry. He became CEO of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa in 1993. He was President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) from 1995 until 2000. Between 2001 and 2005 he was President of the LeibnizAssociation which comprises of 84 state-funded research institutions.
He speaks frequently at the world’s most prestigious management conferences, and is a regular contributor to CNBC, CNN, and other major media outlets. He has also advised government leaders on matters of innovation policy, entrepreneurship and industrial competitiveness.
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Management,Globalisation,Economics
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To honour him as a President of the Leibniz-Association, a newly discovered butterfly species was named after him. For his regular Broadcasting on Berlin’s Jazz-Radio-Station he received the “New York Programming Award”. He has received the French Legion d’Honneur, Japanese Order of the Holy Treasure and Brazil’s Southern Cross. He speaks on a wide range of business topics particularly ethics, globalisation and competition.
Gordon Hewitt Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan His interests cover the fields of global competition, corporate strategy and innovation, and the value added of executive leadership. His work over the last two decades, often in partnership with the late CK Prahalad, has been at the leading edge of thinking about corporate competitiveness and corporate governance.
Currently, Gary is leading a pioneering effort to reinvent management by harnessing the power of open innovation. The Management Innovation Exchange (MIX) is an online community where the world’s most progressive business leaders share ideas on how to build business organisations fit for the future. Topics:
Economics, Europe, Global, Management, Politics, Strategy
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As a consultant, he has extensive experience for over 25 years of working at CEO and Board level with many major corporations. Gordon is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on the challenge facing business leaders of competing and creating value in dynamic, complex markets. Recently he chaired meetings of European and American CEOs and Board Directors to discuss the future of corporate strategy and corporate governance.
Rene Jaeggi
Jonny Hewlett
Turnaround Specialist
UK Managing Director of Diesel
Rene is recognised as a highly effective CEO, having turned round sports brands Adidas and Head and rescued two German football clubs. He began his career in FMCG before becoming Vice-President of Marketing for Adidas and then CEO. At Adidas he oversaw a five-year restructuring programme, moving production to low-cost countries, and repositioning the brand.
Jonny is UK Managing Director of the Italian fashion company Diesel. He is known for his focus on driving organisational change, integrating different cultures and re-applying proven approaches from other industries to achieve breakthrough results.
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Leadership, Change, Retail, Fashion
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Expert on market strategy and driving organisational change
He began his career with Procter and Gamble in the Fine Fragrance Division, where his initial brief was to create a Global Trade Marketing department from recently acquired US and German fragrance businesses, merging two very disparate organisations both culturally and geographically. He went on to become Global Market Strategy and Planning Director for P&G Fragrances. After 16 years at P&G, Jonny left to join Diesel as Managing Director for the UK and Ireland. His challenges with Diesel have been to turn the UK affiliate around in sales and profit, re-structure the wholesale team to drive key account management and joint business planning partnerships, re-evaluate the retail strategy and drive organisational change to embrace career development and a coaching culture across the business.
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Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Marketing
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Mats Jansson Former CEO of SAS
He speaks on leadership, change management, branding, retail (including concession retailing) and key account management.
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After leaving Adidas he became an active investor in a range of companies helping to restore them to profitability. He was Chairman of the Swiss football club FC Basel for five years. Under his leadership they became Swiss champions for the first time in 22 years and took part in the European Champions League for the first time. He then moved to the beleaguered German club FC Kaiserslautern. He is widely credited with saving the club from bankruptcy. Rene is now active in the bio-diesel sector, and is a director of several companies.
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Mats was President and CEO of the SAS Group, the holding company of Scandinavian Airlines System until September 2010. He managed a cultural turnaround of the company transforming SAS from a complex conglomerate of various business units, to a streamlined and significantly more efficient operation, while at the same time maintaining good relations with numerous unions and improving customer confidence and satisfaction. With his leadership style based on the principles of always being consistent, straightforward and reliable he gained the respect and confidence of governments, owners, financial institutions, corporate customers and staff. Prior to SAS, Mats built a background in the field of consumer and business-tobusiness sectors including retailing. He has been instrumental in restructuring and turning around major businesses in the Nordic region and in Europe.
Michael Jordaan
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Change, Innovation/Creativity, Leadership, Management
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Luke Johnson CEO of First National Bank, South Africa 2004 -13
Chairman of Private Equity House Risk Capital Partners LLP
Michael Jordan was the CEO of First National Bank (FNB) one of the largest banks in South Africa with a customer base of nearly nine million. He stepped down from this position in August 2013.
Luke Johnson made his name by growing Pizza Express from 12 to 250 outlets. He now chairs numerous businesses - from Giraffe restaurants to DWS vehicle repair, via fashion and parking equipment. He’s also co-founder of the think tank, The Institute of Entrepreneurs.
With more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services sector and nearly a decade at the helm of the Bank, combined with his love for technology and his passion for banking. Over the last decade as CEO, Michael has dedicated a significant amount of his time, focus and energy toward growing and supporting the innovation culture within FNB and embracing new innovative possibilities for the Bank. Under his guidance, the FNB Innovators’ Programme was launched in 2004 and to date more than 5,585 innovations (aligned to the FNB strategy) have been implemented. Encouraging and supporting self-generated innovation has improved FNB’s ability to respond to the exponential rate of business change in the global banking market. He is known and celebrated within the South African context as being on the forefront of leadership, innovation and technology.
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Led FNB to be named the “World’s Most Innovative Bank” in the 2012 BAI-Finacle Global Banking Innovation Awards held in Washington, DC.
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Entrepreneurship, Management
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He first showed an aptitude for business when he started running nightclubs while studying medicine at Oxford. After a spell as an analyst with the investment bank Kleinwort Benson, he acquired, expanded and floated Pizza Express - increasing its market capitalisation to £500m. He went on chair Signature, which owned famous establishments like Belgo and The Ivy, and more recently Borders, Channel 4 Television and the RSA. ‘Cool Hand Luke’ brings this experience to bear in presentations. He debunks investment myths, upholds the basic tenets of capitalism, owns up to mistakes (including Borders) and shows his fighting mentality. He believes there’s no magic formula for leadership: “It’s about domain knowledge, hard work, charm, judgement and having the ability to motivate and delegate.” He is the author of several books, his most recent work is “Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business Is Easier Than You Think”, published in 2011. In 2011 Luke co-produced The Flaw, a documentary feature film detailing the events leading up to the financial crash of 2008.
Mishal Kanoo
Roland Koch Deputy Chairman Kanoo Group, Large Family Business in Middle East
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Management, Middle East, Strategy, Leadership, Future, Europe
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Mishal is Deputy Chairman of The Kanoo Group, one of the largest and most diverse family-owned group of companies in the Middle East. Mishal has a reputation as a futurist and strategist with a strong track record of forecasting economic developments in and around the Middle East. He is a powerful advocate of education and believes that it allows people to take responsibility and control of their lives. The House of Kanoo, which celebrated over 120 years as a family business in 2010, has diversified interests including financial services, shipping, travel, machinery, logistics, oil and gas, ports, power, and chemicals. Mishal is the fourth generation to run the vast organisation.
German Jurist and Former Conservative Politician Roland is CEO of Bilfinger Berger, Germany’s secondlargest building company. A former lawyer and conservative politician Roland began his career in politics and in 1979 became the youngest person to hold the office of Chairman of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union).
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Management, Politics, Finance, Economics
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After various political roles, he became MinisterPresident of Hesse in 1999, immediately becoming President of the Bundesrat after defeating his predecessor, Hans Eichel. He resigned in 2010 to focus on business affairs and joined Bilfinger Berger where he is leading a major restructuring of the business portfolio.
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Today, he sits on the boards of over 15 companies ranging in sizes from US$10 million to over US$1 billion, chairing and vice chairing some while being a Director of others. Most notably, he is currently the Chairman of Freightworks, Johnson Arabia, and BRC, Vice Chair of UACC as well as his own family business. He is also a Professor at the American University of Sharjah School of Business Administration and writes regularly for the regional media. Mishal talks about strategy, leadership, trends in the Middle East, globalisation and running a family business.
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Anders Knutsen
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Béatrice Kronig
Change, Leadership, Communication, Marketing
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His main achievement has been to help turn Bang and Olufsen into a thriving business ‘without destroying its heart and soul’
Former President, Bang and Olufsen
Senior Vice President of HR - Louis Vuitton
Anders is the former President of Bang & Olufsen. He assumed the leadership of the Danish audiovisual business, at a time of severe crisis. He rescued a business which had established a tradition of immaculate design and engineering, so “perfect” that fewer and fewer could afford it. He is credited with turning the company around and creating a luxury brand and thriving business without destroying the “heart and soul” of the business.
Béatrice is Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Louis Vuitton Worldwide. After graduating in Law, she began her career as an international lawyer, working in Berlin at the Treuhandanstalt, the agency for restructuring East German enterprises after German reunification.
Under his leadership, Bang & Olufsen went through a radical period of change. The company moved from a product-driven to a vision-driven company with the realisation that communication is just as important as products and that customers share values across national borders. This had a major impact on the quality of customer service. The company developed a division called StoryLab, where messages are developed conceptually in the same way as new products. Anders spent 29 years with Bang & Olufsen, 15 years in top management as CEO and president.
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Leadership, Fashion
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In 1994 Béatrice joined the LVMH Group as Human Resources Director and HR Coordinator for Parfums Christian Dior based in Düsseldorf where she implemented and coordinated the pilot scheme for a shared service centre for the cosmetic brands. Béatrice rolled out this programme for LMVH worldwide in 2001 before moving to Louis Vuitton human resources department and a member of the Louis Vuitton Executive Committee in 2002. Now based in Paris, Béatrice has presided over a growing number of employees, the number of Louis Vuitton stores and employees having nearly doubled during that time. She has implemented High Potential development and Leadership programmes across the Louis Vuitton network, played a major role in the creation of the China Zone and the instigation of cutting edge retail training programmes. These are major contributing factors to Louis Vuitton’s continuing success as a top luxury brand.
Joan Laporta
Walter Kohl
President of Barcelona Football Club 2003-10
German Entrepreneur and Author
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Society, Change, Management, Investment
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Walter stepped out of the shadow of his father - the former Chancellor Helmut Kohl with his own business interests and with his autobiography “Leben oder gelebt werden” (Live or be Lived). In his book, he describes his personal career and how, through a process of conscious reconciliation, he makes peace with his own past as “son of Kohl”, and is able to break free of the emotional and political baggage to tread his own path. The book evoked extensive media coverage, occupied Der Spiegel bestseller list for weeks and became the second best-selling nonfiction book of 2011. He worked for 2 years at Morgan Stanley, New York in corporate finance (oil and gas sector) and in the capital markets before finishing his postgraduate studies in Vienna with a German Diploma in economics.
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Leadership, Sports, Politics, Management
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Joan was President of Barcelona Football Club from 2003-10. In 2003 he was leader of a new generation of management who generated new momentum for Barcelona FC. The following season, 2004- 5, featured the signings of Eto’o and Deco, key elements in Barça winning the league title for the first time in six years. The expectations raised by that team were confirmed the following season when, as well as retaining their league title, they also won the Champions League, only the second European Cup in the Club’s history. The 2006-7 season started with an agreement with UNICEF, whereby the Club committed itself to collaborate with UNICEF. This was an innovative move designed to strengthen the strategy of converting Barcelona into ’’more than a club” throughout the world. After time as Barca President, Joan decided to step into the political world. He’s President of Democràcia Catalana, political party founded in July 2010 and has been one of the promoters of Catalan Solidarity for Independence (SI), political coalition that stood for election to Parliament of Catalonia 2010.
Sir Terry Leahy Former Chief Executive of Tesco
He moved on to work in management positions at a number of German companies before setting up his own company with his wife, Kohl & Hwang; a supplier of stamping and forming tools from Korea for the European automotive industry. Its customers include BMW amongst others.
Terry was CEO at Tesco from 1997 until 2011. His management philosophy is that a good company should make sure employees can work their way up through the organisation. Terry is his own best example. He began work with the retailer stacking shelves during school holidays as a young adult. In 1979 he became a Marketing Executive.
Walter speaks on intercultural exchanges, entrepreneurship, strategy and management.
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Competitiveness, Leadership, Management, Strategy
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He became Commercial Director of Fresh Foods and was appointed to the Board of Tesco PLC as Marketing Director in 1992. After a stint as Deputy Managing Director, he became CEO. Initiatives during his tenure include the Clubcard loyalty scheme giving the supermarket access to valuable information on customer preferences and Tesco’s expansion into services including insurance, banking and telecoms. He is widely credited with transforming the supermarket industry in Britain, growing Tesco to the largest chain in the country and disrupting the businesses of its competitors. Since his retirement he has focused on investing in start-up businesses.
Wendy Luhabe CEO of Publicis
African Businesswoman, Social Entrepreneur and Author
Maurice is Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s four leading communications organisations. Under his stewardship, Publicis Groupe has been transformed into a global powerhouse of top creative advertising and marketing agencies and is today a pioneer in digital and online communications. It includes three of the world’s top advertising networks - Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and Publicis; two leading global media buying and consulting groups - Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia and a host of world-class marketing services companies. Publicis Groupe has a presence in 107 countries with a full range of services. Topics:
Marketing, Management, Communication
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He received the Benjamin Franklin Award from the French American Foundation in 2004 in New York and in the same year the Scopus Award from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2006, Maurice was asked by French Finance Minister, Thierry Breton, to chair the Commission on Intangible Assets, which delivered its findings and recommendations in the same year. He is a past President of the Jury of the Cannes Advertising Film Festival, served on the French Government Commission to combat Drug Addiction and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Banque de France. He has been awarded “Commandeur” of the French Légion d’Honneur.
Wendy is a social entrepreneur who is regarded as one of South Africa’s most prominent, visionary and pioneering women. She focuses on initiatives to facilitate the economic empowerment of women and education. After 10 years working in luxury brand marketing she established her first social enterprise in South Africa, Bridge the Gap, to prepare young graduates for employment. Wendy is most well known for her vision in founding Women Investment Portfolio Holdings (WIPHOLD) in 1993, an initiative revolutionising participation of women in the South African economy.
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CSR, Leadership
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In 2002 she launched a venture capital fund for women’s enterprises. From the profits of her 202 book, “Defining Moments” she established the Wendy Luhabe Foundation, to educate young disadvantaged black women, particularly from the rural areas of South Africa. Wendy is involved in many business and philanthropic institutions both in South Africa and internationally. She is a Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award International Foundation, Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, on the board of the International Institute of Management Development Business School (IMD) in Switzerland.
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She is a member of International Council of Women Business Leaders, at the invitation of Hilary Clinton, an initiative by the U S State Department.
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Roger Mavity
Andrew McMillan CEO of the Conran Group 2006-13
Customer Service Strategist Andrew is responsible for the legendary John Lewis customer service which defines the success of the retail brand. His retail philosophy is that the whole team has to be brilliant with the customer at all times in order to give a consistent customer experience. His passion for delivering unbeatable service to the customer is reflected in all his business interactions.
Roger started his career in advertising. He launched his own agency, Mavity Gilmore and his clients included Minolta, Burberry, Nestlé and Honda. He sold to a French group in 1991 and joined Granada where he was Chief Executive of the Leisure Division and then the Technology Division. He also handled PR and communications for Granada’s bid for the Forte Group, the largest successful hostile takeover in UK commercial history. Topics:
Communication, Innovation/Creativity, Leadership
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In 2003 he joined communication consultancy Citigate Dewe Rogerson as Chairman, and in 2006 he became Chief Executive of Conran Holdings, the parent company of Terence Conran’s business. He is also Chairman of Hudson Sandler, a specialist financial PR company. He co-authored, with Stephen Bayley, ‘’Life’s a Pitch’’, a bestselling guide to presentation skills. He also wrote, ‘’The Rule Breaker’s Book of Business’’, in which Roger provides clear advice and guidance for anybody ambitious about work, yet uncertain of their route to success. He is a regular speaker on leadership, communication and how to nurture creativity and innovation within a corporate environment. He is able to advise on effective communication and pitching for new business.
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Communication, Customer Service, Management
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His career began as a management trainee with the John Lewis Partnership. He quickly moved up through the management ranks, being asked to lead on customer service for the department store division. During his tenure, John Lewis won awards for customer service from Which?, Verdict and Retail Week and were frequently cited in the media as a leading customer oriented organisation.
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In addition to retail and finance, much of Andrew’s work has been in the public sector and he has helped a number of local authorities and NHS Trusts to develop their strategy to deliver a distinct and differentiated customer experience. Andrew speaks on delivering the best customer experience, engaging the team to implement change and cutting costs while improving service.
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Padraig McManus
Renée Mauborgne Chairman of Eircom
INSEAD Professor of Strategy; Co-Author of “Blue Ocean Strategy”
Padraig is Chairman of Eircom and was Chief Executive of Ireland’s leading energy company, ESB, for 10 years. A qualified Electrical Engineer, he spent the first 15 years of his career at ESB leading international projects in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam. He worked his way up through the ranks becoming CEO in 2002. In 2010 he led the £1bn-plus acquisition of NIE Networks from the Bahrain-based Arcapita Bank and dealt with the financial, political and general stakeholder issues inherent in integrating the business into the ESB Group. Topics:
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Padraig has led Volunteer Groups to Ghana to rebuild Primary and Secondary Level Schools catering for 6,000 students.
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Energy, Leadership, Management,
He is a fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland and the Institute of Electrical Engineers. He is board member of IBEC’s National Executive, and is trustee of The Conference Board. Padraig is also on the Council of the Irish Management Institute and a board member of Business in the Community. He was previously on the board of the Economic and Social Research Institute of Ireland (ESRI) and The Conference Board of the US.
Management, Strategy, Innovation, Wealth Creation
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Renée is Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, a fellow of the World Economic Forum and co-author of “Blue Ocean Strategy - How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant” with Chan Kim. Her Harvard Business Review articles, also co-authored with Chan Kim, are worldwide bestsellers and have sold over a half a million reprints. Their “Value Innovation” and “Fair Process” articles were selected as among the best classic articles ever published in Harvard Business Review. They have coauthored numerous articles in The Wall Street Journal; The Wall Street Journal Europe; The New York Times; The Financial Times; The Asian Wall Street Journal. Renée is one of the world’s preeminent experts on business strategy, innovation and wealth creation in the knowledge economy. She was ranked No. 2 on The Thinkers50 2011 list of the world’s top management gurus. She is the highest placed woman ever on Thinkers 50. She also won the 2011 Thinkers50 Strategy Award for her research on blue ocean strategy. She is Fellow of the World Economic Forum and a member of President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Henry Mintzberg
Saeed Al Muntafiq Internationally Renowned Academic
Co-Responsible for Dubai’s Extraordinary Development over the Past 20 Years
Henry is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He specialises in researching managerial work, strategy formation, and forms of organising.
Management,Strategy
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He has published over 150 articles and 15 books. His books include “Managers not MBAs”, “Tracking Strategies” and “Managing”. He also writes newspaper commentaries and short stories, one of which has been published in paperback as “The Flying Circus” a comedic commentary on the foibles of flying. He has received many honours including election as an Officer of the Order of Canada and of l’Ordre national du Quebec. He has also received two McKinsey prizes for articles in the Harvard Business Review.
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Economics, Ethics, Leadership, Middle East
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He has been Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Jordan since 2007.
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Over the past twenty years, Henry has worked in collaboration with colleagues from all over the world to develop new approaches to management education. He co-founded several Masters Programmes, designed to help managers learn from their own experience. Henry teaches in these programs and also supervises doctoral students. He has also founded an international forum at McGill to address management in healthcare.
Saeed is a versatile business leader in the Arabian Gulf who has been involved in a wide range of business ventures, most recently, instrumental in the development and continued success of Dubai. Until 2010, Saeed was the Executive Chairman of Tatweer, a multinational group within Dubai Holding formed to drive the city’s large-scale infrastructure and investment projects including healthcare, energy, tourism, entertainment and industrial sectors. Saeed negotiated partnerships projects with Tiger Woods, Universal Studios, Dreamworks, Marvel and multiple regional and international investors. He has coordinated multiple projects including the Dubai Mercantile Exchange Dubai Health Care City and Dubailand, one of the largest projects in Dubai in terms of capital investment and size of aspiration. He began his career in the petroleum industry before becoming involved in the development of Dubai in 1999. In December 1999, he joined the Dubai Technology, E-Commerce and Media Free Zone as a member of the founding team. From 2002-6, he led the Dubai Development and Investment Authority (DDIA) as the Director General. From 2006-7, Saeed was Chairman of the Board of the Young Arab Leaders (YAL).
Betsy Myers
Leadership, Politics
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Authority on Leadership and Empowerment
Management Guru and Advisor on Global Strategy
Betsy is an authority on leadership and empowerment. She served as a senior adviser to Barack Obama’s first Presidential Campaign, joining the team as Chief Operating Officer tasked with establishing the campaign on a business operational model and with customer service mentality. She was able to draw on her vast experience in the corporate, political and higher education arenas.
Kenichi has earned an unsurpassed reputation as an advisor on global strategy to foreign governments and scores of multinational corporations. He has been selected by The Economist as one of five management gurus in the world.
She travelled extensively speaking to undecided voters and particularly on women’s outreach including partnership with Women for Obama and the DNC’s Women’s Leadership Forum. Prior working on the campaign trail she was the Executive Director of the Centre for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, having established a track record for strategically building and realigning organisations. She was a senior official in the Clinton Administration and the President’s Senior Adviser on women’s issues. Betsy played a critical role in Clinton’s re-election campaign in 1996 and figured prominently in shaping the Administration’s legislative agenda on issues such as domestic violence, reproductive choice, breast cancer and women in business.
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Global, Management, Strategy
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He has written over 100 books, including the seminal work, “The Mind of the Strategist”. This landmark book provided both a conceptual framework and practical advice on integrating the “three C’s”—Customer, Competitor, and Company—in a strategic triangle that can sustain competitive advantage. He was a Partner at McKinsey for 23 years where he cofounded their strategic management practice and directed McKinsey’s Japan and Asia Pacific operations. Kenichi is also the Founder and Managing Director of Ohmae & Associates and has started several other businesses. He has held a number of prestigious positions at universities around the world.
Betsy’s book “Take the Lead” was voted top leadership book of 2011 by The Washington Post.
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Azran Osman-Rani
Tom Purves CEO of AirAsia X
Former CEO at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Azran is CEO of AirAsia X, sister operation to AirAsia and the world’s first low-cost long-haul airline. He led the start-up team that developed the business plan, raised capital, secured relevant licenses and approvals, acquired aircraft and launched AirAsia X’s inaugural flight to the Gold Coast, Australia in November 2007.
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Competitiveness, Globalisation, Entrepreneur
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AirAsia X launched with just one aircraft and now flies to fifteen destinations, breaking many long-haul airline conventions and pioneering various innovative services. Despite industry scepticism, after launching in 2007 AirAsia X began operating with positive net profitability by the end of 2008. In 2013, AirAsia X was listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in conjunction with an IPO to finance its further expansion. Prior to AirAsia X, Azran was the Senior Director of Business Development for Astro All Asia Networks plc, a leading Asian digital satellite television and radio broadcaster, where he led the start-up and operational launch of Astro’s international investments and joint ventures. He was also an Associate Partner of McKinsey , where he co-led its Southeast Asia Corporate Finance and Strategy practice.
Tom was CEO at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars until 2010 and previously Chairman and CEO of BMW for North America from 1999 to 2008. He was also BMW Chairman and Regional Manager for the Americas.
Topics:
Leadership, Management
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Earlier in his career, Tom was Managing Director, BMW (GB) and Sales Director for the Rover Group. Tom’s extensive sales background has enabled him to lead famous global brands to post significant profits through periods of substantial economic growth and through deep recession, repeatedly exceeding corporate expectations. From 1999 to 2008, BMW sales in the USA grew 96% from 154,968 to 303,190 of which Mini sales grew from 0 to 54,000 in 7 years. In Canada, Mexico and Latin America, sales grew fourfold. He has created innovative marketing strategies and identified profitable new markets for growth. Tom’s notable innovations included the early use of sales promotions through event marketing and wholesales sales incentives in Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf in the mid to late 1970s. He was the first in the automotive industry to use internet communications on a substantially creative scale. In 2011, Tom became Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Canterbury and Christchurch University in Kent. He has vast experience both about the automobile industry, brands and sales management.
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Ravi Ramu
Topics:
Entrepreneurship, Finance, India, Management, Outsourcing
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Sir David Reid Founder of KPMG India, Author, Consultant
Chairman of Intertek, Former Chairman of Tesco
Ravi has the unique experience of working for more than three decades across a gamut of industries and varied geographies - banking, consulting, audit, internet and e-commerce, real estate, technology, business process outsourcing, and iron and steel in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, the US and India. Giving up a career in the corporate world, he is now an entrepreneur, soon to open and operate a luxury retreat in the mountains of the Western Ghats in India. Ravi spent the first seven years of his career training and working in London and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, London.
David was appointed Finance Director of Tesco in 1985. Tesco is the UK’s biggest supermarket chain and one of the largest in the world. He subsequently also took responsibility for IT and Distribution before being appointed Deputy Chairman with responsibility for Business Development, Strategic Planning and the International Operations in Central Europe, Asia and the Republic of Ireland. From 2004 to 2011, David was NonExecutive Chairman of Tesco, retiring at the same time as Terry Leahy. He remains a Director of the Tesco Charity Trust which spends circa GBP 5 million per annum on good causes.
He then moved to the KPMG International Headquarters in Amsterdam as Manager Professional Practice and also worked in the KPMG Banking Group in Holland. Ravi enjoys public speaking and speaks at seminars and conferences on topics relating to finance, taxation, management, Indian economy, real estate, software, BPO, etc. He is regularly interviewed by business TV channels.
Topics:
Retail, Strategy, Global, Management
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He is also Chairman of Whizz-Kidz, a significant charity which seeks to help disabled children. David was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to business and charity. David is now Non-Executive Chairman of Intertek Group plc, a global quality and safety services. Intertek helps many of the world’s most well-known brands and companies in a wide range of industries to develop the quality, safety, environmental and social impact of their products and processes. In 2012 he was appointed to the Global Senior Advisory Board of Jefferies International, a global securities and investment banking group and he is Chairman of London Scottish Rugby Club.
Tim Steiner
Simon Sinek
Founding Director and CEO of Ocado Group
Author best known for popularising the concept of “the Golden Circle“
Topics:
Entrepreneurship , Leadership,
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He has presented his ideas at the United Nations, to the United States Air Force and NASA
Simon is an inspiring speaker on leadership and innovation. The basis of his work is the concept of “Why”, the purpose, cause or belief that drives every one of us. His first book, “Start With Why, How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” was voted one of the best leadership books of 2009. His follow-up “Then Decide Who” is in the pipeline for 2013. A trained ethnographer, Simon’s thinking is based around why people and organisations do the things they do. Looking at many of the greatest leaders and successful businesses, he has discovered a formula which explains how some leaders and businesses achieve a more lasting success than others. This simple but novel idea, the Golden Circle, is grounded in the biology of human decision-making and explains why we are inspired by some people, leaders, messages and organisations but not others. This theory is influencing how many leaders and companies think and act. Simon’s views have have earned him invitations to meet with leaders and organisations in a wide array of industries as well as government agencies and entrepreneurs.
Tim is a founding Director and the CEO of Ocado – the online grocery retail store. Ocado was established with the mission to revolutionise the way people shop forever, by giving them a uniquely innovative and greener alternative to traditional grocery shopping. The launch of Ocado was a wake-up call to the on-line grocery delivery services offered by supermarkets in the UK.
Topics:
Entrepreneurship, Retail
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When the company was founded in 2002, Tim, together with his two fellow Directors ran every part of the business themselves. The IT, logistics engineering, warehouse, operations, business planning and retail divisions of Ocado report directly to them. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2010. Prior to Ocado, Tim spent eight years as a banker at Goldman Sachs.
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Hamish Taylor Renowned Expert on Leadership, Innovation and Branding Hamish is notable for his very fast track career through a number of high profile and diverse business roles and his skill in transferring ideas between business sectors including Procter & Gamble and PriceWaterhouse before going on to be appointed head of brand management at British Airways.
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After five years he moved to Eurostar as Managing Director of Eurostar (UK) Ltd at the age of 36. His remit was to reduce the major losses the operation was suffering. After two successful years in this role he was appointed as CEO of Eurostar Group, then Change, Customer Service, Leadership, moved on to become CEO of Sainsbury’s Bank with the objective to build this relatively new brand to profit. Hamish’s innovation Management skills in moving away from traditional banking approaches and applying an approach more akin to a retailer proved the key to the www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ significant resulting growth. He then established his own company speakers/hamish_taylor and gained a reputation for enabling organisations to achieve breakthroughs by looking outside their current environment.
Jeroen van der Veer
Pelle Tornberg
Topics:
Media, Communication, Globalisation, Leadership
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Former CEO of Metro
CEO of Shell 2004-9
Pelle is an innovative and dynamic CEO, who has founded two successful international media businesses with a current combined market capitalisation of approx US$ 4.5 billion. His businesses include Metro International, the world’s largest international newspaper, and Modern Times Group (MTG), Northern Europe’s largest broadcaster. He was profiled as one of the 25 “Stars of Europe” by BusinessWeek.
Jeroen’s career at Shell spanned 38 years culminating in the post of CEO from 2004-9. He led major reorganisations and a major upgrade of the Pernis refinery in Rotterdam. In 1995, Jeroen moved to the United States as President and CEO of Shell Chemical Company, and was appointed a Group Managing Director in 1997. Chemicals remained one of his areas of responsibility and he oversaw the worldwide restructuring of the business.
Metro International produces the world’s largest and fastest growing free international newspaper, published in over 100 major cities in 20 countries across Europe, North and South America and Asia. Starting with one free daily newspaper in Stockholm, Pelle extended the circulation to achieve unique global reach, attracting an audience of over 22 million daily readers. Modern Times Group is an international entertainment broadcasting group with operations in more than 30 countries. MTG is the largest free-to-air and pay-TV operator in Scandinavia and the Baltic region, the largest shareholder in Russia’s largest independent television network, and the number one commercial radio operator in the Nordic region.
Topics:
Management, Strategy, Leadership
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As CEO, he led Shell through major change, simplifying governance and organisation, while clarifying accountabilities. He was World President of the Society of Chemical Industry from 2002-4 and between 2009-10, Vice-Chairman of a group of experts mandated to draw up recommendations for a new Strategic Concept for NATO. Jeroen remains a Non-Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell plc alongside other non-executive and supervisory directorships of blue-chip corporates and Chair of new energy architecture at the World Economic Forum and member of the executive board of European Institute of Technology.
Ruby Wax TV Personality and Leadership Facilitator After three decades working on stage, TV and radio, Ruby Wax has changed direction. Having completed an MSc in Psychotherapy, Ruby now provides workshops to corporate leaders enabling them to come to a deeper and more direct level of communication with their clients and colleagues. The workshops combine humour with scientific and theoretical learning and practical exercises. Participants leave with a set of tools to help create a climate of positivity, creating more effective teams of people, directly impacting their organisation. Topics:
Communication, Corporate Culture, Comedian, After Dinner
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Ruby is upfront, sassy and with a reputation for posing questions no one else would think to ask. Having performed stand-up comedy and toured extensively, her TV shows get under the skin of celebrity and seek out the wackier side of life.
Haiyan Wang
Topics:
Jack Welch
Strategy, Asia/China, Change, Globalisation, Future, Leadership
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Haiyan is also Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD and has been listed by Thinkers 50 in “On the Guru Radar”
Authority on Developing Business in China
The World’s Most Admired CEO
Haiyan is Managing Partner of the China India Institute, a research and consulting organisation based in Washington DC with a focus on creating winning global strategies to leverage the transformational rise of China and India.
Jack is the author of “Winning”, a Wall Street Journal and international bestseller. He has been named “Manager of the Century” by Fortune magazine.
She is a highly focused speaker on smart globalisation in the era of the rise of China and India. She is the coauthor of two highly acclaimed books: “Getting China and India Right” and “The Quest for Global Dominance”. A native of China, Haiyan has spent the last twenty years consulting for and managing multinational business operations in China and the United States in several different industry sectors. Her industry experience includes managing steel imports for one of China’s largest conglomerates, leading international partnering efforts of a prominent New York based business to business online exchange, working as a Senior Executive with a US headquartered global manufacturer of home decoration products. Drawing on her broad international experience, she consults with clients and speaks at conferences on building and exploiting global presence with a particular focus on leveraging the rise of China.
Topics:
Management, Leadership, Celebrity
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He began his career as an engineer with the General Electric Company in 1960 and went on to become the CEO in 1981 at the relatively young age of 45. During his 20 years as CEO , GE’s market capitalization rose from US $13 billion to US $400 billion. In his first years, Jack anticipated the restructuring of American manufacturing that would be necessitated by Japan’s growing presence in world markets. His strategy involved controversial staff-cuts, resulting in a total 25 per cent reduction in the payroll. GE became, in Jack’s words, “the first big healthy and profitable company in the mainstream that took the actions to get more competitive.” Between 2005-2009, , he wrote a widely read weekly column with his wife, journalist Suzy Welch, “The Welch Way”, which appeared in BusinessWeek and was internationally syndicated in more than 45 major newspapers around the world. He founded the “Jack Welch Management Institute,” a unique online MBA program to giving students around the world and at every career level the tools to transform their lives and the organisations of the future.
Nick Wheeler
Mark Wilcox Founder of Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts
Topics:
Entrepreneurship, Retail, Marketing
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Nick founded Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts in 1986 at the age of 21, while in his second year studying geography at Bristol University. After two years with Bain & Co, strategy consultants, he went “full time” in November 1989. In 1997 he opened his first store in Jermyn Street, a location synonymous with offering the finest quality menswear, and number 98-100 is now the home of its flagship store. The company philosophy has always been to “surprise, delight and excite colleagues and customers” and to make it impossible to buy a better shirt. The company has grown rapidly in the UK, the USA and Germany and is gaining a reputation as one of the fasted growing UK retailers in terms of annual profits. The brand has seen sales rise from £60 million in 2008 to £129 million – with half of revenues now from overseas. In 2012 Nick opened his 21st store in Glasgow and was named consumer entrepreneur of the year by Ernst & Young.
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Former Director of People and Organisational Development, Sony Europe Mark runs Change Capability Consulting Ltd, a niche management consultancy created in 2010 that works with leading organisations on developing a clear line of sight between the strategic goals of the business and the skills of the people and the activities the organisation pursues. Marks speaks on leadership, human resources strategy, talent management and organisational change. Topics:
Leadership, HR, Change, Management
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Before becoming a Consultant, Mark was Director of People and Organisational Development at Sony Europe where he was responsible for European organisational change. He continues to work with Sony across Europe on a number of projects as well as working with clients such as Sony Ericsson, Hilton and HSBC. Mark has contributed to the MBA teaching at Bradford School of Management, Manchester Business School, Warwick Business School, Cranfield Business School and the International Masters in HR leadership at Bocconi Milan. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and a member of the British Psychological Society.
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MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION
We live in a world increasingly defined by marketing and communication and as consumers, we identify with brands that speak directly to us. How a brand chooses to “speak� to or market itself to customers is often what defines its success. Indeed, the most well-known and recognisable global brands have usually been built on powerful marketing strategies. With the advent of digital channels, the way we communicate has changed immeasurably, and any business competing in a crowded market space has had to adapt quickly to new marketing and communication techniques. The leading industry experts understand the changing face of communication and have almost re-defined the rules of marketing. We can learn much from hearing about their thought process and experience.
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Kevin Allen
Nik Gowing
Mary Portas
Scott Bedbury
Lorraine Heggessey
Paddy Power
Bob Borchers
Ken Hughes
Richard Reed
Alastair Campbell
Richard Huntingford
Jagdish Sheth
Rita Clifton
Thebe Ikalafeng
Josh Spear
Peter Cross
Philip Kotler
Allyson Stewart-Allen
Clyde Fessler
Martin Lindstrom
Nadja Swarovksi
Jez Frampton
David Magliano
Randi Zuckerberg
Thomas Gad
Christian Majgaard
Scott Goodstein
Nicola Mendelsohn
Kevin Allen
Scott Bedbury Business Development Expert and Author
Brand Development Consultant He has a talent for unleashing brand potential through innovative products, creative positioning, careful distribution and strategic partnerships.
Kevin is a highly renowned US advertising and marketing figure one of the advertising industry’s most accomplished growth professionals, having spent two decades at the top of advertising giants McCannErickson, the Interpublic Group and Lowe Worldwide.
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A New Yorker at heart, Kevin is true globalist. He was one of the founding members of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s team and advisory group that developed the platform for his successful mayoral election and turnaround strategies for the City of New York.
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Kevin is a highly skilled growth professional and is uniquely positioned to teach companies how to “win”
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Marketing, Branding
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His book, ‘“New Brand World: 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century”, explains how to apply the principles which grew both Nike and Starbucks more than fivefold and established their trademarks as leaders in their industries. Scott looks at the factors driving potential for strong and lasting brands. He has practical and tested advice based on his experiences inside Nike and Starbucks and as an advertising executive and brand development consultant. Building on the fundamental tenet that brands define a business and yet they are not completely controlled by the companies that create them, Scott provides the indispensable guide to transcending the tangible aspects of a product or service and creating a deeper, more enduring relationship with customers.
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He is CEO and founder of London based business transformation company re:kap, that counts Burberry, M&C Saatchi, Nokia, and Rolls-Royce, among its global clients. He is the author of “The Hidden Agenda, A Proven Way to Win Business and Create a Following”, an instructive story of his successful brand and advertising exploits.
As one of the world’s leading brand architects, he has honed and proven his methods for building truly successful brands. His marketing expertise is responsible for two of the most successful branding strategies in business history: Nike’s “Just do it!” campaign and Starbucks’ reinvention of coffee in the consumer’s eye.
Bob Borchers
Topics:
Innovation/Creativity, Change
WWW:
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Alastair Campbell Senior Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for the iPhone
Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister 1997 - 2003
Bob worked at Apple as Senior Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for the iPhone. As part of the original iPhone team, Bob was instrumental in the development, launch and global expansion of the revolutionary iPhone, OS, and App.
Alastair is a media communicator and strategist best known for his role as former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy. He played a key role the creation of New Labour and returning the Labour Party to Government in 1997. After the election he became the Prime Minister’s Chief Press Secretary and Official Spokesman, which entailed the co-ordination of Government communications and twice daily briefings of the press.
While at Apple he also led the Nike+iPod partnership, expanded the iPod accessory ecosystem, and forged relationships with every major auto company to provide iPod integration. Prior to Apple, Bob was Vice President of Marketing at FusionOne, a pioneer in creating and marketing mobility solutions. Bob also spent six years at Nokia where he co-founded and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Vertu business unit. He is currently at Opus Capital where he focuses on investments in mobile applications and services as well as adjacent opportunities in both hardware and software.
Topics:
Politics, Communication, Media
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/alastair_campbell
After Labour’s second election victory under Tony Blair in 2001, he became Director of Communications and Strategy until he resigned in 2003. His first book on his time with Tony Blair, “The Blair Years”, was an instant best-seller and his fourth volume was published in 2012. Drawing on his experience of 10 years with Tony Blair and his in-depth understanding of the modern media, Alastair is a specialist in strategy, change, dealing with the media and crisis management. He has written a number of novels including “Maya” looking at fame and obsession and “All in the Mind” based around mental health and his factual look at depression in “The Happy Depressive”. His latest book, “My Name Is...” tells the stroy of a teenage girl’s descent into alcoholism. Still active in Labour politics, he splits his time between writing, speaking, charitable fundraising, politics and campaigning.
Rita Clifton
Marketing, Management, Leadership
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International Branding Expert
Brand Strategist
Rita’s clients have included most of the world’s leading businesses – and just about every type of organisation and sector, whether large, small or not for profit. Rita was Chairman of Interbrand, the world’s leading brand consultancy for 10 years until 2012.
Recognised as one of the UK’s leading brand strategists, Peter was Managing Partner of Yellowdoor, recently rebranded Portas Agency where he was business partner of Mary Portas. Together, they built one of London’s best respected retail and brand marketing agencies with clients ranging from Louis Vuitton and Mercedes Benz to Westfield and Clark’s shoes.
She began her career in advertising working at DMB&B and later at J Walter Thompson before joining Saatchi & Saatchi in 1986 where she was promoted to Director of Strategic Planning in 1992 and to Vice-Chairman & Executive Planning Director in 1995. In 1997, Rita joined Interbrand as Chief Executive, and in 2002 became Chairman. At Interbrand, Rita introduced a range of new services, including internal brand management, digital branding and brand futures. Interbrand publishes the definitive, widely quoted annual league table of the world’s 100 most valuable brands. She features regularly on a wide variety of TV and radio programmes on business, brand, marketing and communication issues, including CNN, BBC, Channel 4, and Sky News. She speaks on leadership, corporate reputation, innovation and communicating sustainability, as well as all aspects of branding and marketing, including personal and nation branding and how to build a world class brand.
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Customer Service, Marketing, Retail, Strategy
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He has recently left Portas to take on the role of Director of Communication at John Lewis. He is a regular commentator on TV Radio and the national press on the subjects of retail, branding and consumer trends. Peter has worked in marketing communications for over 20 years, starting his career at Burberry followed by 11 years with L’Oreal followed by global communications direction for Dunhill before joining forces with Mary Portas at Yellowdoor as Managing Partner in 2004. His ventures with Mary include the Mary Queen of Shops series for BBC which has now moved to Channel 4 with a new format ‘Mary Portas: Secret Shopper’ as well as a chain of Mary’s “Living and Giving” shops with Save the Children, widely respected as the most innovative and profitable charity shops in the UK.
Rita has been coined the “doyenne of branding” and a “brand guru” by the media.
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Jez Frampton
Clyde Fessler
Global Chairman and CEO of Interbrand
Vice President of Business Development, “Harley-Davidson”
Topics:
Change, Marketing, Leadership, Management
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Clyde played an integral part in HarleyDavidson’s dramatic business turnaround over 24 years. Joining the heritage brand as advertising and promotions manager in 1977, he quickly moved up to Director of Marketing Services. Here he led the establishment of Harley Owners Group, which now has around 1.4 million members and is the largest enthusiast club in the world. As head of General Merchandise, he repositioned rider accessories and led the MotorClothes team from $20 million in annual sales to over $100,000 million over five years. In the role as Vice President of Business Development, Clyde played a key role in developing strategic direction for the company, to revitalise the brand without diminishing its iconic status. His book “Rebuilding the Brand” (2012) outlines the ways in which he led Harley-Davidson away from the verge of bankruptcy through the power of branding. He served as an active liaison between the Muscular Dystrophy Association and HarleyDavidson - a relationship that has generated over US $71 million in donations since 1981. Clyde retired from HarleyDavidson in 2002 and works as a consultant whilst exploring the world on one of his five Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Jez is Global Chairman & Chief Executive at Interbrand. He leads the Interbrand network, shaping strategy and growth for its 38 worldwide offices and enhancing its brand value generating services to a prestigious roster of clients. Jez was named the Global head of Interbrand in 2006, having previously been the CEO of Interbrand in the UK. In thirteen years with Interbrand, Jez has worked alongside clients all across the world, and in virtually every sector, to create and manage brands.
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Management, Strategy, Leadership
WWW:
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/jez_frampton
He is frequently invited to comment by the BBC, CNN, Fox, CNBC and Bloomberg, on the importance of brands as business assets. Jez is a member of the Marketing Society, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Market Research Society, the Design Business Association and the Institute of Directors. Prior to Interbrand Jez worked in both the United States and UK for the notable agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and DMB&B.
Thomas Gad Brand Strategist Thomas is an experienced and inspirational branding authority with more than 20 years’ experience. He has worked on brand development, communication and advertising for some of the best known companies in the world, including, Nokia, Scandinavian Airlines, Procter & Gamble, Compaq and Microsoft. As the founder of brand consultancy, Brandflight, he specialises in strategic brand development, brand innovation, mergers and acquisitions and transformation of established brands, applying a hands-on, creative and inspirational approach involving management and staff in creating a differentiating branding idea.
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Marketing, Communication
Website
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He has developed a unique 4-dimensional method of creating, transforming and maintaining brands explained in his book “4-D Branding”. This valuable book, with a foreword by Sir Richard Branson, has been translated into nine languages including Russian and Cantonese. His other publications include “Managing Brand Me” written with his partner, Anette Rosencreutz.
Scott Goodstein
Topics:
Communication, Technology, Politics, Innovation/Creativity, Future
WWW:
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/scott_goodstein
Nik Gowing Social Networking Specialist
BBC World News Presenter
Scott was External Online Director for “Obama for America”. He was responsible for developing the 2008 Obama campaign’s revolutionary social networking platforms. His pioneering work included running the first political campaign to launch niche based social networks. He built the campaign’s lifestyle marketing strategy and developed the “street team” materials used in battleground states. Scott also created and implemented Obama Mobile, an advanced communication strategy that included text messaging, downloads, interactive voice response communication, a mobile website, and even an iPhone application.
Nik Gowing has been a main presenter for the BBC since 1996. He was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw for 18 years for ITN. Nik has a much sought-after analytical expertise on the management of information in the newly transparent environments of conflicts, crises, emergencies and times of tension. His published Harvard study challenged conventional wisdom of an automatic cause and effect relationship between realtime television coverage of conflicts (the ‘CNN factor’) and the making of foreign policy.
He has managed over a dozen political campaigns and has conducted political training for the National Democratic Institute, UNICEF, Democracy for America, the Campaign Management Institute, and the New Organising Institute. He was the co-founder of Punkvoter.com and Rock Against Bush efforts in 2004 which became a US $4 million young voter mobilisation effort. He loves mixing music, culture and politics. Scott speaks on harnessing online media and social networking, mobile technology and communication and political campaigning.
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Politics, Current Affairs, Technology
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/nik_gowing
His study for the Carnegie Commission on “Preventing Deadly Conflict” in Washington DC similarly challenged conventional wisdom on assumptions about a role for the media in preventing conflict. Like the Harvard study it received wide attention and stirred new international debate. His most recent peer-reviewed study is “Skyful of Lies’ and Black Swans: the New Tyranny of Shifting Information Power in Crises” published in 2009 which made a significant impact world-wide because of its uncomfortable challenge to conventional assumptions of the nature of power in major, unexpected crises. It reveals how in such moments the institutions of power – whether political, governmental, military or corporate – face a new, acute vulnerability of both their influence and effectiveness.
Lorraine Heggessey
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Change, Innovation/Creativity, Leadership, Management, Media
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Ken Hughes British Television Producer and Executive
Expert on Retail and Consumer Trends
Lorraine is a renowned media figure with huge experience of broadcasting and production in both the private and public sectors. She was appointed as the first female Controller of BBC1 in 2000 and became the first female CEO of a major independent production company when she joined talkbackThames in 2005.
Ken is Ireland’s leading retail shopper and consumer behaviouralist. Over the past 12 years, as the founding Director of Glacier Consulting, he has pioneered developments in shopper behaviour insight, particularly in the fields of ethnography and biometric shopper research. His expertise in these fields, together with strong knowledge from his consultancy experience in Category Management and Shopper Marketing, results in a strong blue-chip client base across retailers, suppliers and third party agencies in Ireland and internationally.
Lorraine has an instinct for popular programming and has been directly associated with many of the biggest television hits of the past decade. She has a reputation as a dynamic leader with a strong track record of spearheading radical change.
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As the first female controller of BBC1, Lorraine re-commissioned the science fiction drama series Doctor Who
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He is a part-time lecturer in Consumer Behaviour in University College Cork, and a regular invited speaker at national and international industry conferences. His interests extend to neuromarketing and behavioural economics, with particular focus on their application to shopper motivation theory and demand management. As current retail environments experience significant challenges and change, his focus is on harnessing unique shopper behaviour insight and coupling these with significant advances in technology innovation to drive growth within the retail sector.
At BBC1 she led a comprehensive shake up of the channel’s schedule and branding that turned it into the most watched channel in the UK. At talkbackThames she was responsible for around 800 hours of television a year, including the UK’s two most popular shows X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent and other hits such as The Apprentice. Under Lorraine’s leadership, the company trebled its entertainment output, set up a digital division, launched dozens of new titles and won numerous Bafta and Royal Television Society awards. Lorraine is now Executive Chair of Boom Pictures, formed in July 2012 following the management buyout of media group, Boomerang Plus.
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Thebe Ikalafeng Former CEO of Chrysalis PLC and Executive Chairman of Virgin Radio
Africa’s Foremost Brand Authority Thebe is arguably one of Africa’s foremost brand authorities. He has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Thinkers in Marketing in an Ipsos survey amongst business decision makers in Southern Africa. He is Founder of the award winning Brand Leadership Group, Brand Leadership Academy, Brand Africa™ and Public Sector Excellence™ initiatives.
Richard was CEO of Chrysalis plc, the global music and media group, and Executive Chairman of Virgin Radio. At Chrysalis, Richard was instrumental in the development of the company from its origins as a cutting-edge indie record label to a global media and entertainment group including HEART FM.
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Leadership, Change, Corporate Culture, Management
WWW:
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/richard_huntingford
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Founder of HEART FM, the UK’s leading commercial radio brand.
In 2007, Richard moved to Virgin as Executive Chairman of Virgin Radio with a brief to develop a new business plan to enable the speedy sale of the business for its owner. Richard’s business savvy and people skills led to the successful sale of the business in 2008 to Times of India. Richard is Chairman of UTV Media plc, the TV, radio and broadband. A natural communicator and storyteller, his talks are full of highly practical insights and a wealth of anecdotes to illustrate the management and leadership challenges he has faced during his successful career. His particular areas of expertise are entrepreneurial leadership, building new businesses, creating a company culture, motivating staff and management communication.
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Management, Marketing
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His distinguished career is highlighted by his brand leadership of Nike Africa to over 75 local and global awards. He has won many local and global awards for his work in Marketing and has served on leading corporate boards and all notable industry bodies in the region. He advises, teaches and speaks globally on commercial, political, national and personal branding and related matters. His wide corporate, advisory and board experience in national, corporate and personal branding, makes him a knowledgeable authority at the cutting edge of the latest thinking and practice in all branding related matters.
Philip Kotler
Martin Lindstrom One of the World’s Leading Authorities on Marketing
Danish Branding Expert Martin’s interest in branding began when he built his own Lego village in his backyard in Denmark age 12, and found representatives of Lego to be amongst his visitors. He became a consultant to Lego and was the recipient of their first green brick. Now he is one of the most respected branding gurus in the world, to businesses and consumers alike.
Philip is the Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Illinois. Kellogg has been voted “Best Business School” for six years in Business Week’s survey of U.S. business schools and has also been rated as the “Best Business School for the Teaching of Marketing”.
Topics:
• The Strategy of Marketing • Tapping Your Creativity • Gears in Motion: Strategic Planning • Economic Issues: Taming the Beast
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He has significantly contributed to Kellogg’s success through his many years of research and teaching there. He is recognised as a key influence since the 1960s in promoting the central importance of effective marketing to an organisation’s success, whether or not it is a commercial enterprise, and contributing to the recognition that marketing is not only about sales. His book “Marketing Management” is widely recognised as the authoritative text for graduate study and he has authored or co-authored many other popular books on marketing. As well as his academic positions, Philip works in consulting and training, advising companies including IBM, General Electric, AT&T, Bank of America, and many others across a wide range of sectors, on applying sound economic and marketing science principles in order to increase competitiveness. He also advises governments on how to develop and position the skill sets and resources of their companies for global competition.
Topics:
Branding, Marketing
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He is a popular columnist on branding insights and contributes widely in the press and TV media. He has written 6 bestsellers on branding including “Brand Sense”, “buy.ology” and “Brandwashed” and co-authored several books with industry icons such as Don Peppers, Martha Rogers, Patricia Seybold and Philip Kotler. Martin’s clients include Disney, Mars, Pepsi, American Express, Mercedes-Benz, Reuters, McDonald’s, Kellogg’s, Yellow Pages and Microsoft. Over the course of twenty years of hands-on experience, Lindstrom has conceived an innovative set of principles that transform marketing strategies into positive business results. He rejects old industry practices that conceptualised branding as an art form composed of vague commercials and awareness messages. Instead, his unique vision is scientific and process-based. It makes branding the driver of sales and profits and consequently the centrepiece of business.
David Magliano
Christian Majgaard Marketing Director of the London 2012 Olympic bid team
Creativity and Branding Guru
David was Director of Marketing for London 2012, the organisation which successfully bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. He worked with Sebastian Coe to build UK public support for the bid, and sell London’s proposals to the International Olympic Committee around the world. He devised and directed the crucial final presentation to the Olympic Committee in Singapore described as the fiercest competitive pitch of all time.
Marketing, Management, Competitiveness
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Before London 2012, David was Sales and Marketing Director of low cost airlines Go and easyJet. He was a Founder Director of Go along with Barbara Cassani, in the management buyout from British Airways, following which his marketing strategies increased Go’s value from £100m to £400m in nine months, despite the impact of 9/11. David helped lead the sale of Go to easyJet, and managed the integration of commercial activities during which time the company grew an additional 40%. Since May 2012, David has been Director of Brand for the Co-operative Group. David has a vast breadth of knowledge and hands on experience of branding and marketing, strategy and use of media. He is the only person to be voted “UK Marketer of the Year” twice (1999 and 2005).
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In 2006 he was awarded an MBE
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Innovation/Creativity, Marketing, Strategy
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He is an entertaining and provocative speaker, acknowledged for being able to turn deep thought concepts into clear messages using compelling examples. He has written a book, “13 hints for tomorrow’s brand builders” as well as numerous articles. Recently he starred in a Danish television series on how consultants help threatened corporations and he speaks on national radio as an expert on strategic issues.
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Christian is a consultant on branding, marketing, innovation and communication, focusing on assisting international companies develop and implement strategies for customer focused growth. He was formerly a senior director at LEGO, responsible for their worldwide branding, marketing and business innovation including product and campaign development of their core business (toys) as well as their Legoland Parks and media divisions. He was recognised by Fons Trompenaars, the culture expert, in his book “21 Leaders for the 21st Century“ as the man who recaptured the true mission of LEGO. He has maintained close relations to LEGO and their CEO is Chairman of his consultancy business.
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Mary Portas
Nicola Mendelsohn
Branding and Retail Expert
Vice President of Facebook EMEA
Best known for her retail and business related television shows, and most recently for her appointment by the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, to lead a review into the future of Britain’s high streets, she is the founder of respected retail and brand communication agency, Yellowdoor, now Portas Agency.
Previously she was Executive Chairman at Karmarama, Deputy Chairman of Grey London and a Board Director at BBH. Nicola was the first woman President for the IPA (the advertising industry trade body) in its 96 year history.
Social Media, Advertising, Marketing
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Her other responsibilities include being the Chair of the Corporate Board of Women’s Aid, Trustee of The White Ribbon Alliance and a Director of The Fragrance Foundation.
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Management, Marketing, Retail
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She began her retail career as a Saturday girl in John Lewis, later becoming responsible for window displays at Harrods and then Topshop. Mary went on to join Harvey Nichols as Creative Director and is credited with transforming it into a world renowned brand. She launched the series “Mary Queen of Charity Shops” in conjunction with her high street joint venture with Save the Children and has since become the Global Retail Ambassador for Save the Children.
Paddy Power Director of Communications for Ireland’s Largest Bookmaker They operate 160 shops in Ireland and 60 in London along with the country’s largest online and phone betting operations. Paddy is the latest in a long line of bookmakers carrying the Power name which can be traced back to Paddy’s great grandfather who became a bookmaker in the 1860s. In 2009, the company turned over EUR 1.3 billion and continues to go from strength to strength.
Named ‘International Woman to Watch’ by Advertising Age
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Late in 2012 she was appointed Industry Chair of the Creative Industries Council a joint forum between the creative industries (including TV, computer games, fashion, music, arts, publishing, film and advertising) and Government. Nicola has featured in Management Today’s “Top 35 Women Under 35” and was named an “International Woman to Watch” by Advertising Age.
Her foresight and unique knowledge of brands, retail trends and consumer insights prompted her to launch her own agency as she saw a need for integrated and creative brand communication.
Topics:
Branding, Leadership, Customer Service, Entertainment
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The Paddy Power brand is unique within the betting industry and promotes the message of betting as entertainment and fun rather than a means of becoming wealthy. Through this unique positioning the company is regarded as the most customer orientated and “friendly” bookmaker in the sector. Paddy has had experience of all facets of the Paddy Power business including risk, operations and marketing.
Richard Reed
Topics:
Entrepreneur, Management, Marketing
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Jagdish Sheth Co-Founder of Innocent, smoothie brand
Award Winning Professor of Marketing
Richard is behind one of the great British business success stories of the current era. In 1999 he co-founded fruit smoothies business, innocent, with two friends. Innocent has gone on to become the leading smoothie brand in Europe with a turnover of over GBP 100 million. Innocent has been recognised for its innovative and enlightened approach to business. One of the main tenets of innocent is to conduct business within environmentally sustainable and socially conscious parameters. All employees receive equity in the company and a share in the profits. The company gives 10% of its profits to charity and funds a separate charity called The Innocent Foundation that invests in rural development in the countries where the innocent fruit is sourced.
Jagdish is a renowned scholar and world authority in the field of marketing. His insights on global competition, strategic thinking and customer relationship management are considered revolutionary. Jagdish is the Charles H. Kellstadt Chair of Marketing in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Atlanta and visiting professor at Cranfield University School of Management.
He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Department of Energy and Climate Change and sits on the Development Board of Oxfam. He is also a government advisor on entrepreneurship and has sat on the Small Business Council. He and innocent have won many awards including: Britain’s Greatest Business; E&Y “Young Entrepreneur of the Year”; “Most Admired Business Leader”; National Business Awards’ “Small/Medium Business of the Year” and Orange Innovative “Company of the Year”.
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Topics:
Marketing, Strategy
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Prior to this, he was a distinguished faculty member at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois, Columbia University and MIT. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 books and research papers in different areas of marketing and business strategy including consumer behaviour, relationship marketing, competitive strategy and geopolitical analysis. Many of these are considered classic references. His latest book “The 4 A’s of Marketing: Creating Value for Customer, Company and Society” was published in 2009. His clients include AT&T, BellSouth, Cox Communications, Ernst & Young, Ford, GE, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel, Pillsbury and 3M. His advice is valuable in helping business leaders looking to develop immediate and long term strategies for improving their competitive position.
Josh Spear
Topics:
Innovation/Creativity, Marketing, Media, Technology
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Allyson Stewart-Allen Trend Spotter, Blogger and Brand Strategist
Expert in International Marketing
As one of the youngest and most influential marketing strategists in the world, Josh is sought after for his intelligent insight on everything from design to authenticity and ‘word-of-mouth.’ His blog, joshspear. com, uses a network of writers across the globe to unearth trends in art, design, mobile and the future of digital media itself. Josh’s New York-based consultancy applies a digital worldview to the challenges and ambitions of complex corporate organisations.
Allyson is a guru in the fields of international marketing, business development strategy and in particular, crosscultural working. She is particularly sought by US and European organisations looking to grow their markets on both sides of the Atlantic.
As well as advising some of the world’s biggest brands, it also works as a think-tank on the influence of technology on all aspects of human behaviour. Josh suggests new ways for organisations to harness the internet. He analyses what makes certain things catch on and explains how to position products and services to capitalise on fast-moving trends. With a billion people online at any one moment, Josh’s work aims to get the attention of the digital generation. He also explores the social power of technology and the opportunity it offers to change behaviours both within organisations and externally. He has been a keynote speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos and has been nominated a Young Global Leader.
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Business Growth, Talent Management, Leadership Development, International Marketing, Culture
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US born, but having spent 20 years working in management consultancy in Europe, Allyson is fluent in French and German and well-equipped for cross-cultural insight. She applies her expertise for clients from a broad range of business sectors. She co-authored bestseller, “Working with Americans” providing a comprehensive insight into American business culture to help nonAmericans better understand and manage their relations with American colleagues and business partners and the first of its kind. Her views are frequently sought by the media such as CNN, BBC, CNBC, Sky News, Bloomberg, as well as a number of newspapers and magazines. She recently spent four years on Sky News Business Report as “Muse of Marketing”. Allyson is Programme Director at Said Business School, Oxford University and HEC Paris. She serves on several boards and is a judge for the UK Women in Marketing Awards.
Nadja Swarovski
Founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media
Nadja is a Member of the Swarovski Executive Board, at the world’s leading crystal manufacturer founded by her great-great-grandfather Daniel Swarovski in 1895 in Austria. As a global patron of design for the company, Nadja is committed to forging ongoing relationships in the fashion, jewellery, architecture, design, film and art industries in order to create new and relevant products celebrating crystal, while continually positioning Swarovski at the forefront of design and consumer trends.
Randi was Head of Marketing at Facebook and is the founder and Creative Director of Zuckerberg Media. As one of the early employees of Facebook, Randi created and ran the social media pioneer’s marketing program. She led the company’s US election and international politics strategy and created Facebook’s live-streaming capability through media partnerships during the 2008 Presidential Inauguration.
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Arts, Branding, Design, Global, Innovation/Creativity
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Member of the Swarovski Executive Board
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Born in Germany, Nadja is an Austrian citizen educated in Europe and the US. Obtaining degrees in Art History, Foreign Languages and Latin American studies from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1992, she completed a graduate course in Fine and Deconstructive Arts at Sotheby’s in New York, and in Gemology at Gemological Institute of America in New York. She is currently based in London. Nadja is also Chairwoman of Swarovski Entertainment Ltd, a division that invests in the production of movies. Swarovski Entertainment was formed to produce theatrical, story- and director-driven feature films with equal focus on entertainment, originality, style and substance. She is dedicated to charitable activities, and since 2012 has overseen Swarovski’s Global Corporate Responsibility efforts.
Branding, Entrepreneur, Marketing, Media, Social Media
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She was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2011 for her innovative coverage of the 2010 mid-term elections that integrated online and TV coverage in unique formats. Randi regularly speaks about the future of social media at conferences worldwide and was recently appointed to the United Nations Global Entrepreneurs Council, the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Social Media and the US Broadcasting Board of Governors Commission on Innovation. Since establishing Zuckerberg Media, Randi has produced shows and digital content for BeachMint, The Clinton Global Initiative, Cirque du Soleil, the United Nations, Conde Nast and Bravo.
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Sister of Facebook’s CoFounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg
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provides CEOs and Chairmen to advise Boards of Directors prides itself on the knowledge and experience of its consultants helps finds solutions to corporate and government issues supports a range of projects in the community makes holding events a pleasure
Masterclasses
Our Executive Workshops, normally led by an experienced CEO or Chairman level person, have flexibility over length and frequency of sessions. We can offer a series of workshops that build on one another so ideal for Management Development Programmes. The sessions tend to promote co-operation among the participants because each participant has an opportunity to provide input and hear input from other participants. Workshops promote creativity and innovation. This results in the development of new ideas that would not have occurred had the participants been involved in a more formal conference environment. Workshops work well when new ideas are needed or need to be combined in new ways; they are also ideal for senior management learning as the groups tend to be smaller.
Speakers
Marshall Goldsmith
Roger Fisk
Mark Wilcox
Roger Mavity
R Gopalakrishnan
Mike Harris
Ben Hammersley
Andrew Keen
Mark Gallagher
Jeremy Leggitt
Sugata Mitra
Beau Lotto
Marshall Goldsmith
Jeremy Leggett No #1 ranked leadership thinker in the world
Chairman, Solarcentury and SolarAid
Developing Leaders: Developing Ourselves, Our People and Our Teams
How business and society are handling global systemic risks: the case of the energy sector
Roger Mavity
Roger Fisk CEO Conran Group 2007-2013
Team Obama
1) How to get business journalists to write the stories you want your shareholders to read
Leadership, Data and Social Media as Engines of Change
2) Maximising profit in a competitive environment
Ben Hammersley
R Gopalakrishnan Author, Writer and Adviser to UK Prime Minister on Technology
Executive Director Tata 1998-2012
Evaluating The Effects of New Technology
From Leaders to Transformers
Andrew Keen
Mike Harris Author “Digital Vertigo’’, Entrepreneur and TV Presenter
Creator of three £1 billion plus organisations – First Direct, Egg and Mercury
How Corporations, Governments and Schools can Survive and Win in Today’s Social Media Age
Sugata Mitra
Creating a High Performance Environment
Mark Gallagher Founder “Hole in the Wall” Experiment and Winner 2013 TED Global
Worked in Formula 1 for over 30 years and held jobs in Marketing and Management at Jordan and Red Bull to CEO Cosworth
Self Organised Learning Environments and the Future of Learning
Mark Wilcox
The Business of Winning: Business Lessons from Formula 1
Beau Lotto 25 years’ experience in leadership development for Nestlé and Sony where he was HR Director Europe Making Change Happen: Energising the Corporation
Founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab Seeing Differently LABS Deepening both our scientific and philosophical understanding of human perception; fostering awareness that leads to change
Motivation and Performance
What makes the difference between the average and the exceptional? Why is it that on some days we can perform to the best of our ability and then on others, we fail to deliver? Far from offering a complex and lengthy answer to these philosophical questions, some of the answers lie more simply by studying and listening to some of the people that inspire us such as great sportspeople and athletes, who can deliver exceptional performances often in difficult circumstances; or explorers with their utter determination to discover new lands or experiences fighting against appalling natural conditions to set new boundaries; innovators with their imagination, foresight and preparedness to be laughed at as they break out of conventional thinking; and other pioneers in their respective fields, breaking new ground and redefining the rules. The one thing that all these people have in common is their motivation to succeed and through their drive, determination and achievements they inspire and motivate us. But what makes them different? Is it their backgrounds, their families or is it a God-given gift? What drives them even in the face of disappointment and failure? To hear from these people about their experiences and beliefs, what drives them and keeps them focused and determined and how we can emulate them is the best way to learn about how we improve our own performances.
Speakers
Tom Avery
Lewis Gordon Pugh
Bruce Parry
Kayla Al Khaja
Katherine Grainger
Loïck Peyron
Felicity Aston
Dame Tanni Grey-Thomson
Sir Matthew Pinsent
Kiran Bedi
Bear Grylls
Francois Pienaar
Casper Berry
Sahar Hashemi
Alain Robert
Ed Butler
Hans-Dieter Hermann
Paul Rusesabagina
Lord Sebastian Coe
Olly Hicks
Jo Salter
Andy Cohen
Miles Hilton-Barber
Soraya Salti
Robin Chase
Gerard Houllier
Ben Saunders
David Coulthard
Michael Johnson
Mark Spitz
Catherine Destivelle
Carl Lewis
Robert Swan
Stephane Diagana
David Lim
Mark C. Thompson
Gerry Duffy
Jörg Löhr
David Taylor
Erden Eruç
Jonas Kjellberg
Terry Waite
Mike Forde
Nasuh Mahruki
Jacques Villeneuve
Mark Gallagher
Paul McNeive
Martine Wright
Scott Gardner
Urs Meier
Alex Zanardi
Soiya Gecaga
Michelle Mone
Marshall Goldsmith
Nando Parrado
Nayla Al Khaja
Tom Avery
First Female Independent Film Producer in the United Arab Emirates
Record-Breaking Polar Explorer and Mountaineer
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Motivation, Creative Thinking, Risk Analysis
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In 2002, just days after his 27th birthday, Tom walked into the record books by becoming the youngest Briton to complete the perilous journey to the South Pole. Over 20% of the 23 Britons who have attempted to reach the Pole on foot from the edge of the Antarctic continent have perished. Tom’s youthful enthusiasm and passion have captured the imagination of many. Tom brings the raw beauty of Antarctica into the conference room and describes how his team battled with the elements during their record-breaking journey. He is best known for leading the 2005 expedition described by the Guinness Book of Records as “the fastest surface journey to the North Pole”, retracing Robert Peary and Matthew Henson’s disputed journey to the North Pole using period equipment. A born leader, Tom runs every expedition himself, organising everything from the fundraising to the training to the logistics and the selection of his teams. Tom has written two books “Pole Dance” and “To the End of the Earth”. Tom worked as an ambassador for both the London 2012 Olympics and The Prince’s Trust and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Explorers Club of New York.
Nayla produced her first documentary film in 2004 – “Unveiling Dubai”, receiving huge media attention including reports in the Washington Post and the BBC. In 2006, she produced and directed a 6 minute movie called “Arabana”, which deals with the disturbing issue of child abuse, a subject which is taboo in the Middle East.
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Felicity Aston First Woman To Ski Across Antarctica Alone The 1744km, 59-day journey completed in January 2012 made Felicity the first person in the world to do so purely by muscle power without the aid of kites or machines. In 2009 Felicity led the 38-day, 911km Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, the largest and most international women’s team ever to ski to the South Pole. Felicity was responsible for selecting and training a diverse, multicultural team of ‘ordinary’ women for one of the most arduous journeys on Earth.
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Motivating and inspiring
innovation/Creativity,
Adventurer, After Dinner, Leadership, Motivation, Teamwork
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It premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival and Nayla was awarded the prize of best Emirati film-maker. A year later, in her film “Once”, she tackled the topic of Emirati women dating. She has won many awards including Young Woman Entrepreneur of the Year, winner of the Lloyds TSB Bank Inspirational Leader Prize and winner of the Woman of the Year in the UAE.
Her book about the expedition, “Call of the White: Taking the World to the South Pole” was published in 2011. Trained as a Physicist and Meteorologist, Felicity’s first polar experience was as a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey.
Caspar Berry
Kiran Bedi
Risk, Decision Making and Leadership Specialist
Social Activist and India’s First and Highest ranking Woman Officer in the Indian Police Service
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Motivation, Leadership
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/kiran_bedi
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Kiran has been voted India’s most admired woman
Kiran was India’s highest ranking female police officer. Her experience and expertise in the Indian Police Service includes more than 35 years of creative and reformative policing and prison management. Tough assignments include the insurgency-prone district of Mizoram and narcotics control. Kiran represented India at the UN in relation to crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and women’s issues. She spent a period as Inspector of Prisons in Delhi during which she implemented significant reforms for the welfare of prisoners. She is the founder of two NGOs, Navjyoti and India Vision Foundation, which reaches out to over 10,000 underprivileged people daily, principally in the areas of education and healthcare. Kiran is a recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award (also called the Asian Nobel Prize). More recently, she has been in the vanguard of a nationwide campaign, India Against Corruption, a movement led by Shri Anna Hazare which persuaded the Indian Parliament to pass a unanimous resolution accepting three key demands of the citizens’ anti-corruption bill (Janlokpal Bill). In the 1970s, Kiran won the Asian Lawn Tennis Championship and the All-India Interstate Women’s Lawn Tennis Championship.
Caspar began his career in the film industry with his first screenplay produced by Film Four whilst in his final year at Cambridge University. At 25 he decided to move to Las Vegas and become a professional poker player. He returned to the UK to co-founded Twenty First Century Media and built it into one of the fastest growing audio visual media companies.
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He is well placed to advise on risk-taking and decision-making. He gives people a better understanding of what “risk” is and how it is calculated. This calibrated mathematical language allows Innovation/Creativity, Motivation, Risk people to understand, view and critically evaluate their decisions all done using poker as a fun and engaging but completely relevant www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ metaphor throughout. speakers/caspar_berry
Ed Butler Expert in Risk and Crisis Management As Executive Chairman of Salamanca Risk Management, Ed provides specialist risk management focusing on corporate and private security and risk management solutions. From 2008-10, Ed was Managing Director of Corporates for Crisis where he advised companies on the political, social and community risks surrounding their investments and operations in emerging markets.
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Change, Risk, Leadership, Teamwork
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/ed_butler
He spent 24 years in the British Army where he spent the majority of his time on active service with 22 Special Air Service. He left as one of the youngest and most respected officers of his generation. His military background gives him unique tactical and strategic level experience of counterinsurgency, crisis management and peace-building campaigns with the objective of improving our quality of life and increasing community cooperation.
Andy Cohen
Lord Sebastian Coe
Entrepreneur and Bestselling Author
Inspirational World Record Holder, Olympic Champion and Chairman of LOCOG
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Motivation, Olympics, Sports, Teamwork
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As chairman of the London Olympic Organising Committee, Seb is widely credited with not just winning the bid to host the Games but also ensuring the London 2012 Olympics were amongst the most successful of modern times. PM David Cameron thanked him for “lifting the hearts of a nation”. A former athlete and middle distance runner, he won four Olympic medals becoming a national athletics hero, before moving into politics. Elected as a Member of Parliament, he also served as a Government Whip and Private Secretary to then Conservative leader, William Hague. Seb accepted a Life Peerage in 2002, becoming Lord Coe of Ranmore. He has since been appointed a KBE. He talks candidly about the lessons learned from London 2012 - overseeing an enormous infrastructure and logistical exercise in one of the world’s great cities. He highlights the need to build a resilient and dependable team; to be seen to deliver on your vision; and to communicate pre-emptively and leave nothing to chance. Above all, and drawing on his own experience as a competitive athlete, he underlines the age-old proposition that no amount of theorising replaces ‘the genius of hard work.’
Andy Cohen is a respected speaker on leadership and motivation. Using magic as a metaphor and with practical demonstration, he reveals key concepts that empower new thinking and drive innovative business solutions and change. He has developed keen insights into what drives highperforming companies and what distinguishes their approaches to customers, employees and leadership. Andy is the founder of a global leadership and innovation advisory network. His client list includes many top-ranking global brands. Topics:
Branding, Change, Innovation/ Creativity, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Sales
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He is an adjunct professor at New York University, faculty member at Duke Corporate Education, and guest lecturer at Sterns and other business schools. Prior to his role as an innovation speaker, he founded Exposed Brick, an awardwinning advertising agency that pioneers relationship marketing through electronic and digital media.
Robin Chase Transportation Entrepreneur
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Transportation, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Design
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She is Founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest car sharing company in the world and of Buzzcar, a service that brings together car owners and drivers in a car sharing marketplace in France; and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce, and the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group, and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force. She lectures widely, has been frequently featured in the major media, and has received many awards in the areas of innovation, design, and environment, including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers.
Catherine Destivelle
David Coulthard
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Celebrity, Competitiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Sports
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Former Formula One Racing Driver
Accomplished Solo Female Climber
David is one of the most high profile British drivers in the history of Formula One racing. He made his Formula One debut in 1994 and won 13 Grands Prix in a career spanning 15 seasons. Twice a winner in the Monaco GP, David was team-mate to Mika Häkkinen in the Finn’s two Drivers’ Championship winning seasons for McLaren Mercedes, before helping establish the Red Bull team. David amassed a notable points haul placing him seventh on the all-time scorers list, being the top British scorer. His best Drivers’ Championship finish was second in 2001, runner-up to Michael Schumacher.
Catherine often climbs without a rope or any back-up support, making her one of the most daring climbers in the world. She has completed a number of solo climbs never accomplished before by a female climber, such as a winter climb up the north face of the Eiger and the south face of Xixapangma.
Following his retirement from Formula One, David raced for three seasons as one of the AMG Mercedes “C-Class drivers” for DTM, the German Touring Car Championship with his last race at Hockenheim, October 2012. David is now a BBC F1 TV commentator while also being a team consultant for Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso. Drawing upon his successful career as one of Britain’s top F1 drivers, David offers audiences great insights into the strengths and challenges of an F1 driver. Using parallels from his time spent on and off the track working with prestigious teams, he offers invaluable lessons in teamwork and leadership.
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Challenges, Re-focusing on Goals
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She began climbing at the age of 13, by the age of 16 she had begun conquering the French Alps climbing the Couzy-Desmaison route on the Olan and the Devies-Gervasutti route on the Ailefroide. Catherine is an accomplished speaker in both English and French. She gives inspirational presentations where she challenges and inspires her audience to re-focus their goals to achieve success by sharing her visions and startling achievements.
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Stéphane Diagana World Championship Gold Medallist Stéphane was the first Frenchman to win the 400m hurdles gold medal in 1997 and won again at the 2002 European Championships in Munich. He has also held the European record in the event of 47.37 seconds since 1995. He retired from competition in 2004 and became a television commentator and advisor to the French Athletics Federation. At 29, Stéphane studies for a Masters in Management, his main motivation being the ambition to start a business after his athletics career was over.
Topics:
Motivation, Sports, After Dinner
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Aware that his status as a household name was very marketable in France, he created business opportunities and is now an ambassador for a national programme promoting nutrition and physical activity.
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Gerry Duffy
Turkish Adventurer
Author and Endurance Athlete
Topics:
After Dinner, Leadership, Motivation
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From running 32 marathons in 32 days to completing and winning the 2011 UK Deca Enduroman Ironman distance challenge, an event dubbed ‘the toughest 10 day endurance challenge in the World’ Gerry Duffy loves to challenge himself as well as conventional wisdom and is keen on leading by example. Companies who have invited Gerry to address their workforces and clients include Facebook, Google, AXA, United Drug, Standard Life and Coca Cola. His presentations are packed with strategies and tactics to help any company or individual achieve whatever goal they wish.
Erden shares lessons from his epic and record-breaking journey walking, cycling and rowing around the globe, considering how to set goals and achieve them. As part of his challenge he rowed singlehandedly from California to Papua New Guinea, setting a new Guinness World Record for the longest time spent at sea by a solo ocean rower and he is the first person to row three of the world’s oceans He has climbed technical rock, alpine routes, big walls, water ice and many other challenges including a best marathon time of 2 hours and 49 minutes.
Topics:
Adventurer, Leadership, Motivation,
Erden is the founder of Around-n-Over, a charity with the mission to educate and to inspire, especially children, through humanpowered journeys.
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Formerly a man whose biggest fear was public speaking, Gerry’s work has brought him throughout Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. He inspires audiences with his own personal story and shares with them the belief systems and techniques he uses to achieve peak personal performance. He shows them how to set demanding personal goals and overcome challenges.
Mike Forde Director of Football Operations at Chelsea Football Club 2007-13 With a background in sports science and psychology Mike was responsible for all areas of performance and team operations relating to the first team, including player recruitment, medical, sport science, and psychology and performance analysis.
Leading multinationals, small and medium size businesses and a diverse range of organisations have all asked Gerry to address their teams. Every presentation is individually tailored so that those attending are left with strategies to reach their particular goals.
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Topics:
Competitiveness, Leadership,
He is widely recognised as a leading figure in the English Premier League and European soccer. He is particularly known for innovative methods to create a sustained business model for elite player performance, in the most widely watched and competitive football league in the world. Mike continues to serve as a non-executive director at the Lawn Tennis Association.
Motivation, Teamwork WWW:
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He has advised on High Performance Cultures and Talent Management for American football, basketball and baseball teams in the US, international rugby union, international cricket and Formula One.
Mark Gallagher Formula One Industry Expert Mark has worked in Formula One for almost 30 years and has spent the last 15 working as senior executive within the management of Jordan Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing and Cosworth. While operating at the centre of this fascinating sports business, Mark has worked directly with the world’s top drivers and team owners, giving him a privileged understanding of what it takes to be a world class competitor.
Topics:
• Teamwork, Motivation and Leadership • Customer Service - the clientcentric organisation • Partnerships and Sponsorship • Quality control systems and their
Credible when it comes to speech content and charismatic in delivery, Mark is an excellent public speaker with a 14 year track record. His insight into motorsport’s ‘winning ways’ will resonate with performance-driven organisations. Currently providing expert opinion and commentary on ESPN Star Sports F1 coverage, Mark also runs his own team, Status GP, which competes in GP3 and in Le Mans 24 Hours.
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His expertise has also been called upon by Disney Pixar for whom he acted as an industry consultant on the animated films Cars The Movie and Cars 2. Mark coordinated an agreement with Formula One CEO Bernie Ecclestone, which enabled Disney Pixar to host its European media launch of Cars The Movie at the Spanish Grand Prix, and enjoys first-hand experience of working with the man who created the global sport of F1.
A unique opportunity offers Mark teaming up with David Coulthard, former F1 Driver, to duet in bespoke high-octane Q&A sessions framing clients’ business messages and objectives, offering their sharp business insights all set against a background of exhilarating visuals
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Teamwork, Leadership and Motivation from the World of Formula One by Mark Gallagher Managing people is one of the most difficult aspects of running a business, and for many organisations the task of harnessing and combining the abilities of a workforce, unleashing its potential and ensuring it works constructively towards the key goals is no easy task. In Formula One the teams - high end engineering businesses - have a formidable set of challenges including to produce a high technology engineering product which is subject to continuous improvement in the face of a determined opposition, and provide a comprehensive service to customers who demand world-class delivery. Operating in a demanding, intense and high profile environment, successes and failures are visible and measurable. Effective leadership, excellence in team work and a consistently high level of motivation are key attributes among successful Formula One teams. Working to a set of immoveable deadlines, namely the 20 Grands Prix which comprise the FIA Formula One World Championship, the teams have mere months to design, develop, manufacture and prepare their Formula One cars for competition cars which have more in common with aircraft, with the corresponding demands on safety, quality and reliability. Once produced, these cars undergo continuous improvement and development, innovating for performance whilst never compromising on the security required to protect a driver competing wheel-to-wheel with the opposition at speeds of 320kph/200mph. The top Formula One teams consist of several hundred full-time staff supported by many dozens of key suppliers, all working towards the goal of producing a pair of cars with which the drivers compete for the World Championship title. Whether a driver, a technician, a marketing executive or stores manager, every person within a Formula One team has a key role to play in ensuring delivery,and for the team leaders the demands are extreme; running a complex business with both manufacturing and service sector requirements, keeping a multi-national team utterly focused on the organisations goals, and creating the cultural environment within which the technical and sporting goals can be achieved.
Soiya Gecaga
Scott Gardner
Founder and Executive Director of “We the Change” Foundation
Performance Scientist Scott has played an influential role in the careers of several well-known Olympic and World cycling champions, most notably Victoria Pendleton and Chris Hoy. He is described in Bradley Wiggins biography following his Athens gold medal success as likely “the best cycling number cruncher in the world”.
Topics:
Performance Planning; Strategy; Goal Setting
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His talks focus on his experiences of implementing a performance planning process to deliver enhanced strategies for winning Olympic gold medals. He highlights the need for a sophisticated understanding of a successful performance model before goal setting or performance planning strategy. Scott has spent the last 13 years delivering performance-focused science and coaching support to medal winning coaches and athletes in Australia and Great Britain. He has contributed to a number of published books and written over a dozen peer reviewed publications in areas as diverse as development of maximal power output, quantification of velocity specific fatigue and practical pre-cooling prior to competition through to the fitness requirements of Australian Rules football. He has been invited to speak to symposia at major sport science and coaching conferences including the American college of Sports medicine and the World Rowing Coaches conference. His elite sporting experiences are both valuable to business and insightful to managers.
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Soiya inspires people to be the change they want to see in the world. The foundation’s key area of focus is the development and creation of a centre for excellence in the field of early childhood education and care in Kenya. Soiya has worked as solicitor specialising in both charity law and corporate law.
Topics:
Communication, Motivation, Africa, Environment
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She has worked for The UN High Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, Nyumbani and Mother Teresa’s home for the destitute and dying in Calcutta. Soiya’s grandfather was Jomo Kenyatta, the first President of Kenya after independence and considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation. Soiya speaks on topics including taking responsibility for your life, encouraging youth to prosper and develop, leadership, teamwork, motivation and building a sustainable society.
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Marshall Goldsmith One of the Leading Business Thinkers in the World Marshall is the multi-million best-selling author and editor of over 30 books, including bestsellers, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” and follow-up “MOJO”. Marshall’s books have been translated into 28 languages and have become bestsellers in numerous countries. Visitors to his website are spread across nearly all countries of the world and they have viewed, read, listened to, downloaded or shared resources over 7.1 million times.
Topics:
Leadership, Management
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speaker/dr_marshall_goldsmith
He has many professional acknowledgments and his work has been recognised by almost every professional organisation in his field including the Institute for Management Studies; American Management Association; BusinessWeek and Forbes. He frequently speaks at leading business schools and has worked with over 120 major CEOs and their management teams.
Katherine Grainger
Lewis Gordon Pugh
Britain’s Most Successful Female Rower and a 2012 Olympic Gold Medallist
British Environmental Campaigner, Maritime Lawyer and Pioneer Swimmer
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Motivation, Strategy, Teamwork www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/lewis_pugh
Lewis Pugh is one of the world’s leading inspirational speakers. A pioneer swimmer and explorer, Lewis uses his amazing feats of endurance to draw attention to environmental change. His talks have captured the imagination of world leaders like Bill Clinton, Ted Turner and Desmond Tutu. Lewis is the first swimmer to complete a long distance swim in all 5 oceans of the world, a feat considered by many to be the “holy grail” of swimming. The following year he became the first person to complete a long distance swim across the North Pole. He has put his body through unimaginably difficult conditions and apparently developed a response whereby his body raises its temperature by 2C in preparation for freezing conditions.
At the London Olympics Katherine inspired the nation with her partner Anna Watkins as they broke the Olympic record in qualifying for the Double Sculls final before going on to win the gold medal. Katherine is also a three time Olympic silver medallist from the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympics and following her success at London 2012, she became the first British female athlete in any sport to win medals at four consecutive Olympics. Topics:
Competitiveness, Motivation, Olympics
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Tanni Grey-Thomson Britain’s Most Successful Paralympic Athlete
In a career spanning 21 years he has pioneered more swims around famous landmarks than any other swimmer and is widely regarded as the greatest cold-water swimmer in history. Lewis has uniquely used swimming to draw attention to the degradation of the marine environment, with the press calling him the “Aqua Al Gore” and the “Voice of the Arctic”.
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When you see glaciers retreating, sea ice melting, coral reefs dying and the flooding of low lying islands, it’s impossible to ignore it”, says Lewis
She is also the six-time World Champion and has won eight medals at the World Championships between 1997 and 2012. Uniquely in Britain, she has won medals at world championship level in all possible boat classes. A true inspiration to all, Katherine is a figurehead for women’s rowing worldwide.
Tanni was selected for her first World Wheelchair Games at the age of 18. She won her first Paralympic medal at Seoul, before spinal surgery forced her to take a year away from the track. She stormed back to victory at Barcelona, taking gold at 100, 200, 400 and 800 metres. In her presentations, Tanni talks about growing up with spina bifida and her decision to become an athlete. She describes how, as with any endeavour, her success was down to a mixture of planning, teamwork, determination and ambition.
Topics:
Motivation, Sports, Celebrity
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She is a member of the Sports Council, UK Athletics and the Youth Sports Trust. Appointed to the House of Lords as a “people’s peer” in 2010, she has become an active non-political crossbencher.
Sahar Hashemi
Bear Grylls
Topics:
Motivation, Adventuring, Teamwork, Leadership
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The Youngest Briton to Climb Mount Everest
Co-Founder of Coffee Republic, the UK’s First US Style Coffee Bar Chain
Bear is one of the most recognised faces of endurance expeditions. His passion and enthusiasm for the outdoors are shared and enjoyed through his TV programmes in over 150 different countries, reaching over one billion people world-wide. Bear served in the British Special Forces, but his military career was cut short in a parachuting accident. Breaking his back in three places, he fought his way to recovery and two years later entered the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, aged only 23. Bear has since led ground-breaking expeditions across the world.
Giving up her career as a lawyer, Sahar made Coffee Republic one of the main players in the ‘coffee revolution’ that transformed a nation of tea drinkers into one obsessed with ‘triple decaf half-caf lattes’.
Topics:
Change, Marketing, Management Leadership, Innovation/Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Customer Service, Corporate Culture, Motivation
Sahar left Coffee Republic in 2001 and published a book called “Anyone Can Do It”, which answers some of the elusive questions about what it takes to become an entrepreneur. In 2005 Sahar launched Skinny Candy, a high profile brand of sugar free sweets. Her latest book “Switched On: 10 Habits to Being Highly Effective in Your Job, and Loving it” is about creating an entrepreneurial mind-set for employees. In 2011 she joined the Entrepreneurs Forum which gives informal advice to the government on enterprise policies.
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As well as pushing his limits, Bear’s focus is overcoming challenges and having the courage to living the dream. Bear’s gift for communication has contributed to his popularity and success as a television presenter. Off screen, Bear has lead recordbreaking expeditions, from Antarctica to the Arctic, which in turn have raised over US$2.5million for children around the world.
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Hans-Dieter Hermann Acclaimed Sports Psychologist and Author Hans-Dieter was chosen by Juergen Klinsmann, former coach of the German national football team, to take charge of the team’s mental preparation for the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Championships. Having studied psychology, Hans-Dieter then specialised in sports psychology and worked in various sports with national teams, including football teams, gymnasts and the Austrian skiing team.
In recognition for his expertise and service, Bear was appointed as the youngest ever Chief Scout to 28 million Scouts worldwide, was awarded an honorary commission as a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy. Bear has authored 11 books, including the No 1 bestseller “Mud, Sweat & Tears”.
Topics:
Leadership, Sports Psychology, Motivation
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He lectures at the University of Heidelberg Institute for Sport Science and at the Erding Institute for Applied Management and is also the Olympic moderator for ZDF, the German news television programme. In 2013, he published his latest book “Führungsspiel” (The Game of Leadership), which covers topics such as teambuilding and motivation and shows how business executives can learn the secrets of success from high-performance athletes.
Miles Hilton-Barber
Olly Hicks Round the World Rower
Overcame Blindness to Achieve Astonishing Personal Feats
Olly is one of only five people to row single handed across the Atlantic, West to East.
Topics:
Crisis Management, Motivation
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In October 2014, Olly leaves Tasmania to row around the world, unsupported.
In 2005 after 124 days alone at sea he completed his adventure during which time he had encountered a great white shark which he fought off by hitting it with one of his oars. The trip was both inspiring and eventful: he capsized twice and ran out of food half way across. Olly’s next mission was to row singlehanded around the world. It was a mission that has been described as “at best perilous and at worst suicidal” and it was a mission that gave him his first taste of failure. After three years of planning and fund raising he set off with the backing of Virgin and Google. Disappointingly, after “only” 96 days, he had to abandon the voyage. His principal focus now is to try again, in the Global Row 2014. Before then, he will take part in an epic kayak voyage from Iceland to Scotland following the migratory route of the Atlantic salmon. Olly’s experiences have taught him many lessons about project management, team work and dealing with fear and loneliness, success and failure.
Although Miles has been blind since his early twenties, it has not let that stop him from challenging barriers. He has also completed the Marathon des Sables “The Toughest Foot-race on Earth” - 150 miles across the Sahara Desert, climbed the Himalayas, Mt Kilimanjaro – Africa’s highest mountain and Mt. Blanc - Europe’s highest mountain, ran the 11-day UltraMarathon race across China from the Gobi Desert to the Great Wall, completed the Siberian Ice Marathon “Coldest Marathon on Earth” and competing in the hottest ultra-marathon on earth across Death Valley California. Topics:
Motivation, Adventuring
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In 2003, he was voted BBC Radio 5 Live’s ”Alternative Sports personality of the Year” and featured in the latest edition of Debrett’s ”People of Today”.
Gerard Houllier Football Manager Gerard has managed leading clubs in Europe as well as his native France, securing the French title for Paris St. Germain in 1986. He is well known to British fans due to his successes at Liverpool FC. In 2001 Gerard’s Liverpool won the unique treble, still considered the finest moment in the club’s illustrious history.
Topics:
Motivation, Leadership, Teamwork, Sports
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/gerard_houllier
He is known for his resilience and determination. Given his wealth of experience as a manager, a motivator, a planner and a communicator, Gerard is in high demand on the speaking circuit. Gerard was appointed Head of Global Soccer for Red Bull in 2012. He is responsible for the development and sporting performance of the New York Red Bulls and clubs in Switzerland, Brazil and other countries.
Carl Lewis
Michael Johnson
Topics:
Celebrity, Motivation, Olympics, Sports
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/michael__johnson
One of the Greatest Athletes in Olympic History
American Former Track and Field Athlete and UN Goodwill Ambassador
With his trademark gold shoes and remarkable combination of endurance and speed on the track, Michael is a world-class sprinter and track legend, who broke record after record.
Carl has won a place in history as one of the greatest athletes of all time. He achieved World records or Olympic records in many of his Olympic performances including the 100 metres; 4 x 100 metres and 4 x 200 metres.
He continues to hold the world record for the 400 metres despite ending his career in 2001 and he held on to the world record in the 200 metres until it was broken by Usain Bolt in 2009. He won gold for both the 200 metre and 400 metre events at the same Olympic Games, a feat never accomplished by any other sprinter. He is also the only man to win the 400 metre title at successive Olympics. He has won an unprecedented nine world titles and retired with a glittering collection of 19 gold medals.
Topics:
Leadership, Motivation, Olympics, Philanthropy, Sports
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/carl_lewis
Since his retirement from active competition in 1997, Carl has devoted a great deal of his time and energy to charity, founding “The Carl Lewis Foundation”. An activist for family, youth, education, wellness and fitness, Carl brings his international celebrity to attract awareness for the challenges and opportunities surrounding these issues around the world. He recently launched a company dedicated to empowering youths and adults and to improving their life conditions through physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.
David Lim Singaporean Mountaineer
Michael humbly attributes his success to “a combination of God-given talent and hard work”. He epitomises the true meaning of what winning and being a champion is all about. He is an uplifting speaker with a great sense of humour. He charms TV audiences with his lively commentary at major athletics events including his work for the BBC at the London Olympics.
Partially disabled from a devastating rare nerve disorder which struck in 1998, immediately following his return from Everest, David’s comeback story of overcoming the odds made the cover of the Reader’s Digest magazine in 2001. Since 1998 he has led more than 70 expeditions, including the first all-Singapore ascent of Argentina’s Aconcagua (6962m), and the world’s third solo of Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world (6893m). In 2005, he led the first Southeast Asian team to climb virgin peaks in the Tien Shan mountain range on the Kazakh-Kyrgyz border.
Topics:
Motivation
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/david_lim
David has carved a career as a sought-after leadership coach, with expertise in negotiation skills, facilitating change, building high performing teams, and creating experiential learning programmes.
Jonas Kjellberg
Jörg Löhr
One of the Creators of SKYPE
Former German Handball International
Jonas is a much appreciated lecturer at Stanford University and Stockholm School of Economics where he lectures on entrepreneurship and how to create a winning sales culture. He is also one of the authors of the book, “Gear up”, written together with Harvard and Stanford professors.
Jörg is Germany’s best known motivational speaker and a renowned management coach.
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Following a successful career as an international handball player, Jörg became a motivator for a number of German sport teams including the 2007 World Cup-winning German handball team. Jörg’s own sporting achievements include playing 94 times for the German national team, recording numerous victories in the Europa Cup, German Cup games and becoming German champion on a number of occasions. His books on strategy, personal motivation and success continually come top on Amazon’s bestseller lists. As well as advising top sports people, he has a list of corporate clients that includes IBM, Oracle, Allianz, SAP, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom, GlaxoSmithKline, L’Oréal and BMW. Jörg was described by the SAT1 TV network as “Europe’s No.1 personal trainer”, while Die Zeit described him as “the most successful motivational trainer in the world”. His own personal success demonstrates the effectiveness of his methods, which are the basis of his own motivation and enthusiasm.
He focuses on what needs to be done to secure the innovation intent, but even more fundamental: How can sales be built into the product, so that your customers will be part of your sales force by sharing their stories of delight. How can you as organization increase the frequency of that message, to create that friction free story? Topics:
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Jonas specialises in developing a fundamental understanding for how product, sales and profitability must interact in order to create successful business. He supports management teams in developing their overall sales strategy. Organisations today face new demands as customer satisfaction is becoming more and more transparent with users increasingly sharing their experiences.
Nasuh Mahruki Writer, Photographer and Documentary Film Producer
Topics:
We operate in all sectors and in all markets
Entrepreneurship, Creating a winning
Leadership, Team building, Motivation and Perseverance, Risk management
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Nasuh founded AKUT in 1996 with a group of his mountain climber friends, initially to deliver emergency aid to climbers in distress. It became the one and only NGO in Turkey with an organised search and rescue capability prior to the Marmara Earthquake which hit Golcuk, Turkey in 1999. AKUT rescued 220 people under collapsed structures and has since been involved in international disaster recovery missions. There are now about 30 AKUT units and more than 1200 volunteers all over Turkey. At 28, Nasuh became the youngest climber in the world to scale the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peaks of each continent. He has published several books in Turkish including “Kendi Everest’inize Tırmanın – Climb Your Own Everest”.
Urs Meier
Paul McNeive
Swiss Football Referee
Author and Business Development Specialist
Urs considers the high point of his sporting career to be the refereeing the Champions League final of 2002 between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen, in which Zinedine Zidane scored a brilliant winning goal. His handling of the politically charged match between USA and Iran brought him international renown.
Paul is a Chartered Surveyor, and was Managing Director of Hamilton Osborne King when the firm was sold to Savills for €50m euro. Paul started his career as a trainee in the basement of the firm and not even the loss of his legs in a fire prevented him from rising to the top position to lead 250 staff.
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After Dinner, Customer Service,
He works now as a Motivational Speaker and as a Consultant on business development with several leading companies.
Topics:
Sports, Motivation, Communication
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His autobiographical book on Business and Motivation, “Small Steps”, is a bestseller in Ireland. In “Small Steps” Paul passes on the lessons in positivity, motivation and goalsetting which he learned in Rehabilitation Hospital and which he has used to prove that “Everything is Possible”- for example becoming the first double amputee in the world to gain a helicopter pilots license. Paul writes a weekly Opinion Column in The Irish Independent on property and business and he is interviewed regularly on t.v. and radio. He serves on the board of The National Rehabilitation Hospital.
Following his retirement, he was a commentator for several years on German international football matches with ZDF, Germany’s largest TV station. He commentated on ZDF, with Johannes B. Kerner and Jürgen Klopp, at the 2006 World Cup and at Euro 2008. Urs received the “German TV Award” in 2006 for the best sports broadcast. In 2008 he published his best-selling book “Du bist die Entscheidung” (You are the decision).
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Michelle Mone Entrepreneur and CEO of MJM International Ltd Michelle was recognised for her outstanding contribution to the business world by being awarded an OBE. Since starting her own business and launching her Ultimo Gel Bra invention in 1999, Michelle has built up the UK’s leading designer lingerie brand, Ultimo. Michelle’s lingerie designs can be found across the UK’s high-street, as she has since developed seven further brands for Debenhams, Asda and Tesco amongst others.
Topics:
Entrepreneurship, Management, Leadership
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/michelle__mone
Her business boasts eleven worldwide patented lingerie inventions. Michelle has diversified into women’s wear with the launch of Ultimo Couture, a range of glamorous ready-to-wear red carpet dresses, and Ultimo Beauty. She is a regular panellist on BBC’s “The Apprentice” and recently appeared in ITV1’s “71 Degrees North”, has won a number of prestigious awards over the years.
Bruce Parry
Nando Parrado
Topics:
Motivation, Unlocking potential, Strategy
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Former Royal Marine and presenter of TV Series “Tribe” and “Arctic”
In 1972 Nando flew to Chile to play an international rugby match. Tragically, the flight never arrived at its destination; the plane crashed at 18,000 feet in the Andes mountain range.
Bruce became the Royal Marines’ youngest ever Physical Training and Sports Officer and he became head, at just 23, of all physical aspects of British Commando Training. However, it was making expedition and conservation trips that satisfied Bruce most. His adventures included journeys to Borneo, Surinam and Sumatra.
The two and a half months that followed changed Nando’s life completely. His mother and younger sister were killed in the accident. Nando survived for 72 days, finding his way out of the Andes, after 11 days of a snowy dangerous marathon trek with friend Roberto Canessa to seek help for the other 14 survivors.
He also climbed Mont Blanc. Bruce made his television breakthrough with “Cannibals and Crampons”, where he climbed a remote peak in Papua New Guinea with colleague Mark Anstice and spent three months kayaking through swamps and trekking through jungles to get to the mountain. Bruce is an inspiring speaker and is passionate about the environment and the need for more ethical forms of development and business. He is an avid supporter of Survival International.
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In 2010, Nando was selected as the “Best Speaker in the World” in the World Business Forum held in New York
Environment, Ethics, Education, Motivation, Adventurer
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/bruce_parry
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Survivor of the Andes Air Disaster
After his rescue, Nando worked with Piers Paul Read to write the best-selling book “Alive”, and 20 years later was the technical advisor in the production of the film “Alive” where he was played by Ethan Hawke. Nando went on to become a successful businessman but he has never forgotten the lessons he learned from the tragedy in the Andes. He is an internationally known speaker who has developed successful strategies for unlocking potential and excellence in the workplace and everyday life. He is also the author of the best seller book “Miracle in the Andes”.
Loïck Peyron Celebrated French Yachtsman Loïck started racing in La Baule bay and when he reached 18, he took part in his first Transatlantic race: the singlehanded Mini-Transat race for 6.5m (21ft) boats. Behind the helm, he is unmistakably one of the most brilliant French sailors and is always thirsty for new adventures and challenges.
Topics:
Leadership, Motivation, Teamwork
WWW:
www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/loick_peyron
He is a passionate person, meticulous, innovative and endowed with an exceptional talent recognised by his peers. At the cutting edge of sailing technology and a highly effective manager, Loïck has a real desire to pass on his knowledge and passion for sailing. He has taken part in all major races in the world and in 2013 will take part in the 34th America’s Cup, together with his brother Bruno Peyron and the project ‘Energy Team’.
Francois Pienaar
Sir Matthew Pinsent
Topics:
Leadership, Olympics, Sports
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www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ speakers/sir_matthew_pinsent_
Olympic and World Rowing Champion, Broadcaster
Led South Africa to their historic victory at the 1995 Rugby World Cup
Four times Olympic gold medallist, Matthew has sealed his name as one of the all-time great British Olympians. In 1992 he took gold at the Barcelona Olympics in a coxless pair with Steve Redgrave. He and Steve went on to win a further gold at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and their unbroken run of successes continued throughout the nineties to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney when they joined James Cracknell and Tim Foster in a coxless four. Again they triumphed earning Matthew his third Olympic gold medal. This legendary race has been voted ”Britain’s Greatest Sporting Moment”.
Francois captained the Springboks in his first match and in every one of his 29 appearances, culminating in the famous victory at the World Cup in 1995.
After Sydney, Matthew formed a seemingly invincible Coxless Pair partnership with James Cracknell. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, he entered Olympic history by becoming one of only five athletes to win four consecutive gold medals. Matthew’s autobiography, “A lifetime in a race”, was published in 2004.
Topics:
Africa, Leadership, Sports, Teamwork
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Alain Robert Urban solo climber Alain has climbed the four tallest buildings in the world including the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. In 1997 and again in 2007, he attempted to free-climb what was then the world’s tallest skyscraper, Petronas Towers, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia without authorisation. He eventually succeeded in 2009. The media impact was so great that the Sabah Foundation asked him to climb its building in Borneo.
He was awarded the MBE in 1993, the CBE in 2001 and in 2005 he was awarded a knighthood. An outstanding motivational and after dinner speaker, Matthew currently writes for The Times as well as working for the BBC as a broadcaster. During the London 2012 Olympics, Matthew was one of the leading presenters and fronted the “BBC World Olympic Dreams” series.
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Francois was acknowledged at that time as an inspiring leader, with an uncompromising approach to commitment. Nelson Mandela said of Francois “it was under his inspiring leadership that rugby became the pride of the entire county, his leadership extended beyond the field of rugby and he truly represents all South Africans...a nation was brought together.” Francois joined the Saracens in Britain in 1996 and later became CEO, helping transform the side from an amateur to a professional club. Under Francois’ leadership Saracens won their first trophy in 127 years.
Topics:
Motivation, Leadership
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The event drew a crowd of 15,000 people and raised over US$150k for charity. His greatest success was his ascent of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi with over 100,000 spectators. During his climbing career, Alain has suffered severe accidents including head injuries which have left him coping with epilepsy, vertigo and nerve damage.
Jo Salter The real life hero of the acclaimed film Hotel Rwanda
The UK’s first female fast jet pilot Jo’s military experience is multifaceted: technical; professional; managerial; political. Her experiences give fresh insights into personal development, stepping up to challenges and operating in the face of adversity.
Paul is the real life hero of the acclaimed film Hotel Rwanda which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004.
Topics:
Ethics, Society, Humanity
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In 2005 he received the highest civilian award in the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President George W. Bush.
He was a hotel manager in Kigali, Rwanda who hid and protected 1,268 Tutsi and Hutu refugees during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. None of those refugees were hurt or killed during the attacks. During the genocide, he used his influence and connections as temporary manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines to shelter Tutsis and moderate Hutus from being slaughtered by the interahamwe militia. His humanitarian efforts have been widely praised and recognised. He is President and Founder of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation. Now based in exile as his continued vocalism became unpopular with the Rwandan Government, he tours the world speaking about social justice, human rights activism and the lessons to be passed on from the Rwandan genocide. Paul describes his experiences during that time, the terror and the helplessness of the people he sheltered, and the ways in which governments, non-governmental organisations and ordinary people can work together to prevent genocide throughout the world.
Topics:
Teamwork, Motivation, Adventuring Leadership
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Soraya Salti
She has experience in e-commerce and management consultancy in both the public and private sector, writing books, and flying air cadets as a volunteer pilot for the RAF at weekends. As a combat ready pilot with 617 Squadron, Jo experienced operational tours of duty and took part in large international NATO exercises around the world and later became a fast jet instructor. Jo has extensive experience of working with in television, including several documentaries and the BBC programme “Record Breakers”. Jo uses her boundless energy and advanced skills, to enable individuals and organisations to solve problems.
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Paul Rusesabagina
Regional Director of INJAZ al Arab As Regional Director of INJAZ al Arab, Soraya mobilised the private sector and Ministries of Education across the Arab World to join forces with the objective to create a new generation of business-oriented entrepreneurial youth. Her efforts have led to the expansion of INJAZ into 13 Arab and North African countries reaching more than 700,000 people in the global region with the highest youth unemployment.
Topics:
Change, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
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She was winner of the 2006 “Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year” for Jordan. She is a “Young Global Leader” of the World Economic Forum and co-chair of the WEF 2010 Education Summit. She was the first Arab to win the global award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation, in 2009.
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Mark Spitz
Topics:
Adventuring, Leadership, Motivation
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Ben is an Ambassador for the Prince’s Trust
Inspirational Young Polar Explorer
One of the Greatest Living Olympians
Ben is a polar explorer and a record-breaking longdistance skier, with five North Pole expeditions under his belt. He is the youngest to ski solo to the North Pole and holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton. Since 2001, Ben has skied more than 3,000km in the high Arctic.
Mark is one of the greatest living sports legends – best known for his astonishing win of seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. His powerful swimming career launched him to fame and gained him fans world-wide.
He is currently preparing for one of the most ambitious polar expeditions in a century. Between October 2013 and February 2014 he leads a two-man team setting out on foot to retrace Captain Scott’s ill-fated return journey to the South Pole. More than 100 years after Scott’s last expedition, this four-month, 1,800 mile expedition will be the longest unsupported polar journey in history, and the first completion of Scott’s famous journey. “Just the sheer scale of it from a physiological and psychological point of view is a massive challenge. It’s still uncharted territory: no one has walked that far in those conditions. We’re several hundred miles further than the current record. Even though we know so much more about Antarctica than Scott ever did, from a human point of view it’s still unprecedented and that’s part of the excitement.”
Topics:
Leadership, Motivation, Olympics, Sports
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During his career, Mark’s unparalleled abilities set him apart from the competition. Until the 2008 Games, Mark held the record for the most Olympic gold medals during one Olympics by a single Olympian. Between 1965 and 1972, he won a total of 11 Olympic medals: nine gold, one silver and one bronze. During those years, he set 33 World records.
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He was voted one of six “Greatest Olympians” by Sports Illustrated in 2000. After his retirement from professional competition, he became an entrepreneur and has worked in real estate, then moving into stockbroking and private equity. Mark self-published “The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion”, which charts his journey from his early years to his rewarding Olympic career.
Mark C. Thompson First Person to Walk to Both Poles
CEO and Co-Founder of Virgin Unite
Robert is a polar explorer and an environmental leader. He earned his place in history alongside the great explorers and adventurers by becoming the first person in history to walk unsupported to the North and South Poles.
Topics:
Teamwork, Environment, Leadership, Motivation
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He was awarded an OBE, as well as the Polar Medal by Her Majesty the Queen
During his expeditions, he experienced first-hand the effects of global warming at both Poles. He has dedicated his life to the preservation of Antarctica by the promotion of recycling, renewable energy and sustainability to combat the effects of climate change. Robert’s unique insights and lessons learned have enabled him to educate and stimulate young people and business leaders all around the world. He compares his icy experiences to boardroom manoeuvres and his inspirational addresses on leadership and teamwork have received acclaim from discerning audiences worldwide. He now leads annual expeditions to Antarctica with students and business executives to focus on leadership, environmental cleanup and education initiatives. These teams helped design and build the world’s first renewable energy Education Station in Antarctica, called the E-Base. Robert’s work has been recognised through his appointment as UN Goodwill Ambassador for Youth and Special Envoy to the Director General of UNESCO.
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Mark was Chairman of Rioport, which popularised the MP3 player prior to iTunes, and was Chairman of Integration, which was acquired by Silicon Labs. Mark is a founding advisor of the Stanford Realtime Venture Design Lab, and is a visiting scholar at his alma mater, Stanford University. He has served as faculty at the World Economic Forum and World Business Forum. He is a member of the Clinton Initiative and an Executive Coach for TED. Mark is an investor in entertainment software and health care companies. He is Charles 1) How to be the most admired leader Schwab’s former Chief Customer Experience Officer and Chief Communications Officer, and co-founder of the in your business Schwab Foundation. Forbes Magazine called Mark one of Boost Employee Engagement & America’s top investors with the ‘Midas’ touch. Double Your Value to Clients 2) Make change happen How Great Teams LEAD Change 3) Now, build a great business Seven Ways to Grow Sales & Profits
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In 2004, Forbes included Thompson on its list of America’s leading venture investors with the “Midas” touch for his work with many technology and media startups
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Terry Waite Author and Business Coach
Former Envoy, Held Hostage in the Lebanon for Four Years
Unlike many so-called “gurus” David has real experience with real leaders, in real companies, with a 25 year track record of delivery with hundreds of companies, and thousands of leaders around the world. David Taylor ensures people and organisations to make lasting change, very fast, by unleashing the strengths, ideas and passions that they already have.
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“European Business Speaker” award, has keynoted in 40 different countries – over 300,000 people have attended a David Taylor event, Venues include the Acropolis in Athens, San Francisco 49’ers stadium, Comedy Store London and the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi
He is the Professor of Leadership at Warwick University Business School, the Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ulster Business School and Business Ambassador for The Princes Trust.
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His client list includes many of the most successful companies and leaders in the world. As a speaker, David has keynoted in 74 countries – he has shared platforms with the likes of Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Michael Leadership, Motivation, Mentoring and Gorbachev, and he has featured in three TV series. He Coaching, Celebrity is the winner of the prestigious “European Business Speaker” award. On television, David has transformed www.londonspeakerbureau.com/ teams in Working Wonders (ITV), removed phobias on speakers/david_taylor live television in The Salon (Channel 4) and most recently turned around a small company in decline to treble their profits in The Naked Office (Virgin 1) which was nominated for a Royal Television Society award. He is now working on an under wraps project that will prove David is the winner forever that anyone can literally achieve anything they of the prestigious choose, no matter what their background.
Humanitarian, hostage negotiator and author of several books including the international bestseller “Taken on Trust”, Terry has led a remarkable life as a diplomat and a humanitarian.
Topics:
Negotiation, Diplomacy, Communication
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A world-renowned agent of peace, he is a testament to the power and resilience of the human spirit. In his capacity as advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Terry travelled extensively throughout the world. In the early 1980s he successfully negotiated the release of several hostages from Iran and this event brought him to public attention. In 1983 he negotiated with Colonel Gadaffi for the release of British hostages held in Libya and again was successful. In 1987 while negotiating for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon he himself was taken captive and remained in captivity for 1,763 days, the first four years of which were spent in total solitary confinement. In his speeches, Terry gives audiences a perspective of world affairs founded on open communication, cooperation and a deep understanding of diverse cultures. There has been a particular interest in the lectures he has delivered relating his experiences as a negotiator and as a hostage to the pressures faced by executives and managers.
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At the end of the day, love and compassion will win
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David Taylor
Martine Wright
Jacques Villeneuve
7/7 Terrorist Attack Survivor and Member of the British 2012 Paralympic Volleyball Team
Canadian Formula One Champion 1997 Jacques is a Canadian Formula One champion and second generation Grand Prix legend. Despite losing his father Gilles, who was tragically killed in 1982 at the wheel of his Formula One Ferrari, Jacques was determined to pursue a professional racing career in motorsport.
Topics:
Motivation, Leadership, Teamwork, Achieving Goals
At the age of 15, Jacques enrolled at the Jim Russell Racing Driver’s School in Quebec. This was the same school that his late father Gilles Villeneuve had attended and, under the direction of his uncle Jacques Villeneuve Sr., the young Canadian began to learn his craft. It was evident from the very beginning that his talent and potential would carry him through to the highest levels of competitive racing.
Martine lost both legs in the 7/7 terrorist attacks on the London underground. Martine was trapped for over an hour having lost 80% of her blood supply as well as both legs above the knees. There followed a painful year of rehabilitation including learning to walk again on prosthetics and rebuilding her life.
Topics:
Teamwork, Empowerment, Overcoming Adversity, Diversity
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Alex Zanardi Former Italian Racing Driver and Paracyclist
Jacques won the 1995 CART Championship, the 1995 Indianapolis 500 and the 1997 Formula One World Championship, making him only the third driver after Mario Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi to achieve such a feat. To date, no other Canadian has won the Indianapolis 500 or the F1 Drivers’ title.
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Since her injury, Martine has not just qualified for the 2012 Paralympics with the British volleyball team, but also learned to fly a light aircraft, skydived from 10,000 feet, and learned to ski. Martine’s is a remarkable story of suffering and recovery, determination and self-belief. She shares her story, her experiences and what she has taken out of her journey to become a Paralympian.
Alex won the CART championship twice during the late 1990s and had a career as a Formula One driver. After a crash in 2001 that resulted in the amputation of both legs, Alex returned to racing less than two years later, competing in the FIA World Touring Car Championship for BMW Team Italy-Spain between 2003 and 2009.
Topics:
Motivation, Sports
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In September 2012 he won gold medals at the London Paralympics in the Individual H4 time trial and the Individual H4 road race, followed by a silver medal in the Mixed H1-4 Team Relay. He was included by the International Paralympic Committee in the London 2012: Top 12 performances list. He is one of the ultimate examples of someone who made the best of his situation and thrived.
PRESENTERS
In our media age, we are all accustomed to the familiar faces we see on TV presenting the daily news, documentaries and reports. However, the most celebrated presenters across the globe are much more than just a face and a voice. Many have had successful careers in journalism, politics and academia and their ability to present is testament to the depth of their knowledge. Often they have an ability to simplify complex issues and explain them in a way that is easy to understand, enabling us – the audience – to learn. More often than not, however, it is their unique charisma and charm that defines a presenter’s success and has created a generation of media icons.
Speakers
Clarissa Ahlers
Barkha Dutt
Christine Ockrent
Nima Abu Wardeh
David Eades
Sarah Montague
Anne de Baetzelier
Stephanie Flanders
Robert Peston
James Bellini
Richard Quest
James Pearce
Todd Benjamin
Teena Gates
Shereen Mitwalli
Jeremy Bowen
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Vladimir Pozner
Tim Butcher
Lorraine Hahn
John Simpson
Claire Byrne
Nadine Hani
Tim Sebastian
Reeta Chakrabarti
Patricia Hizon
Linda Yueh
Sabine Christiansen
Susanne Kronzucker
Corinna Wohlfeil
Emma Crosby
Larry King
Stephen Sackur
Conny Czymoch
Andrew Marr
Clarissa Ahlers
Nima Abu Wardeh One of Germany’s best-known business and economics TV presenters
Presenter BBC World’s weekly business and finance programme, Middle East Business Report
Location: Germany Location: UAE
Anne de Baetzelier
James Bellini Belgian’s best known television and awards presenter
Experienced conference facilitator and former presenter Money Programme, Newsnight and Panorama
Location: Belgium
Location: UK
Todd Benjamin
Jeremy Bowen For over twenty five years, anchor, correspondent, and financial editor for CNN
BBC’s Middle East Editor since 2005 Location: UK
Location: UK
Tim Butcher
Claire Byrne English journalist, broadcaster and author
Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader, best known for co-presenting RTÉ’s The Daily Show
Location: UK
Location: Ireland
Reeta Chakrabarti
Sabine Christiansen Education correspondent for BBC News
German journalist and television presenter
Location: UK
Location: Germany
Emma Crosby
Conny Czymoch Presenter 5 News on Channel 5 Location: UK
German journalist, television moderator, media coach and conference facilitator Location: Germany
Barkha Dutt
David Eades Indian television journalist, columnist and group editor with NDTV
Presenter working for BBC News. He presents the news on BBC World News
Location: India
Location: UK
Stephanie Flanders
Richard Quest CNN’s Foremost International Business Correspondent and Presenter of Quest Means Business
BBC economics editor Location: UK
Location: UK/USA
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Teena Gates Irish broadcast journalist and media personality
British television presenter who presents the Channel 4 Evening News
Location: Ireland Location: UK
Lorraine Hahn
Nadine Hani Senior Business News presenter on Al Arabiya News Channel
Former CNN Asia TV presenter, focused on Asian business issues
Location: UAE Location: Hong Kong
Patricia Hizon
Susanne Kronzucker Sportscaster and television host in the Philippines. First ever female basketball television and radio anchor in the count
Best known for presenting the weekly TV show Mona Lisa on the ZDF Channel in Germany Location: Germany
Location: Philippines
Larry King
Andrew Marr Renowned American television and radio host whose work has been recognised with many awards
Political Editor BBC News (2000–2005). Hosts The BBC’s Andrew Marr Show Location: UK
Location: USA
Christine Ockrent
Sarah Montague Belgian journalist whose career has principally centred on French television
BBC Radio 4 Presenter and one of the regulars on the Today programme
Location: France
Location: UK
Robert Peston
James Pearce Business Editor for BBC News
BBC Sports News and Olympics Correspondent
Location: UK Location: UK
Shereen Mitwalli
Vladimir Pozner Egyptian born TV and international events presenter Location: UAE
Russian journalist best known for appearing on television to explain the views of the Soviet Union during the Cold War Location: Russia
John Simpson
Tim Sebastian Author, Journalist and BBC’s World Affairs Editor
Moderator of the Doha Debates and was the first presenter of BBC’s HARDtalk
Location: UK Location: UK
Linda Yueh
Corinna Wohlfeil BBC’s Global Chief Business Correspondent Location: Singapore
Expert on stock exchange and finance, which she demonstrates on German TV-newscasts “Maerkte am Morgen” (Markets in the Morning) Location: Germany
Stephen Sackur Presenter BBC’s HARDtalk, a current affairs interview programme Location: UK
Celebrities
Celebrities add value most of the time. Using a celebrity at your event can make a real difference in terms of anticipation, excitement, reputation and media coverage. Star power generates significant interest at what perhaps is otherwise a plain event. Do always connect your event to a celebrity who is relevant to your organisation, theme or audience.
Speakers
Stephen Amos
George Foreman
Jamie Oliver
Felix Baumgartner
Stephen Fry
Al Pacino
Boris Becker
Bob Geldof
Tom Parker Bowles
David Beckham
Geri Halliwell
Pelé
Luc Besson
Tony Hawks
Sean Penn
James Blunt
Goldie Hawn
Arnold Schwarzenegger
James Cameron
Bianca Jagger
Kevin Spacey
Jung Chang
Gary Kasparov
Charles Spencer
Jimmy Choo
Nikki Lauda
Tanya Streeter
Nicky Clarke
Elle Macpherson
Nontombi Tuti
John Cleese
John Malkovich
Donald Trump
Pierluigi Collina
Brian May
Zico
Michael Douglas
Martina Navratilova
Sir Alex Ferguson
Youssou N’Dour
Stephen Amos
Felix Baumgartner British stand-up comedian of Nigerian background and regular on the international circuit
Boris Becker
Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres, reaching an estimated speed of 1357.64 km/h
David Beckham Footballer who played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Los Angeles Galaxy, Paris Saint-Germain, and England for which he holds the appearance record for an outfield player. He was the first English player to win league titles in four countries
Former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist in doubles, and the youngest-ever winner of the men’s singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17
Luc Besson
James Blunt French film director, writer, and producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company and has been involved with more than 50 films, spanning 26 years, as writer, director, and producer
English singer-songwriter, whose debut album, Back to Bedlam and single releases, including “You’re Beautiful” and “Goodbye My Lover”, brought him to global fame
James Cameron
Jung Chang Chinese-born British writer, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in China
Academy Award-winning Director of Avatar, Titanic, Terminator, The Abyss and many other blockbusters
Jimmy Choo
Nicky Clarke English hair stylist and media personality, who owns well known hair salons
Couture shoe designer and cofounder of the Jimmy Choo high fashion house specialising in luxury shoes, designer bags, and accessories
John Cleese
Pierluigi Collina English actor, comedian, writer and film producer
Former Italian football referee
Michael Douglas
Sir Alex Ferguson American actor and producer
George Foreman
Scottish football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013
Stephen Fry English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television, radio presenter and film director
Retired American professional boxer, former two-time World Heavyweight Champion, and Olympic gold medallist
Bob Geldof
Geri Halliwell Irish singer, songwriter, author and political activist
Spice Girl, songwriter, clothes designer, author and actress
Tony Hawks
Goldie Hawn Nicknamed “The Birdman”, American former professional skateboarder
Bianca Jagger
American actress, film director, and producer
Gary Kasparov Nicaraguan-born human rights advocate. She currently serves as Member of the Executive Director’s Council of Amnesty International and Trustee of the Amazon Trust
Nikki Lauda
Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer and political activist, considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time
Elle Macpherson Austrian entrepreneur, former Formula One racing driver and threetime F1 World Champion
Australian businesswoman, television host, model, and actress
John Malkovich
Brian May American actor, producer, director, and fashion designer
Martina Navratilova
English musician, singer, songwriter and astrophysicist who achieved international fame as the guitarist of Queen
Youssou N’Dour Senegalese singer, percussionist, songwriter, composer and politician
Czech American tennis player and former World No 1. Probably the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who’s ever lived
Jamie Oliver
Al Pacino British chef and restaurateur, known for his food-focused TV shows, cookbooks and more recently his campaign against the use of processed foods in national schools
American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters!
Tom Parker Bowles
Pelé Brazilian superstar who was the world’s most famous and highestpaid athlete when he joined a North American team in 1975
Son of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and author of several acclaimed food books
Sean Penn
Arnold Schwarzenegger Austrian-born American former bodybuilder, actor, businessman and politician. He served two terms as the Governor of California from 2003-11
American actor, screenwriter, and film director, also known for his social activism
Kevin Spacey
Charles Spencer American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
Brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales
Tanya Streeter
Nontombi Tuti British/Caymanian world champion free-diver
Donald Trump
Human rights lawyer and activist
Zico American entrepreneur and TV presenter
Legendary Brazilian footballer
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Charities
We seek to involve ourselves in projects that are socially responsible, ethical and occasionally out of the ordinary! We are proud of our track record in this area, having contributed both financially and in kind, to many worthy causes over the years. We are particularly pleased to currently support the following projects:-
BLOOM
Grenadier Guards
BLOOM works to protect the oceans, particularly deep sea, through a process of raising awareness and explaining environmental problems using scientific evidence. It produces independent studies, as well as participating in public consultations and institutional processes.
There is an urgent need to deal with the multitude of seriously wounded and psychologically damaged soldiers which the Regiment is facing.
www.bloomassociation.org
www.thecolonelsfund.com
Meetings Industry Meetings Need
National Forest
MIMN was founded by leading figures in the conference and events Industry. It raises funds for worthy causes relevant to the events industry which may not have the resources to raise sufficient funds without additional contributions.
The National Forest is one of the UK’s boldest environmental projects, transforming 200 square miles in the centre of England.
www.meetingneeds.org.uk
www.nationalforest.org
Royal Shakespeare Company
Save The Rhino
The RSC is one of the world’s best known theatre companies connecting people with Shakespeare and producing bold, ambitious work with living writers, actors and artists.
Save the Rhino International works to conserve viable populations of critically endangered rhinos in Africa and Asia.
www.rsc.org.uk
www.savetherhino.org
School in the Clouds
St Mungo’s Charity
Sugata Mitra’s plan is to deliver education to the most remote areas of India. The teachers will be drawn from his “cloud granny” programme. Retired people connect via Skype to a variety of community-run schools and clubs, offering a range of activities.
St Mungo’s began helping people sleeping rough off the streets in 1969. Now it is one of the UK’s largest charities supporting people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
www.ted.com/prize
www.mungos.org
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184
Besson, Luc
192
Cordeiro, Jose
52
Fessler, Clyde
145
Grey-Thomson, Dame Tanni
169
Jones, Lord Digby
95
Ahlers, Clarissa
184
Bint Saud, Bashmah
65
Coulthard, David
165
Fillon, Francois
93
Grylls, Bear
170
Jordaan, Michael
125
Ahmed, Sheikh Mohamed
87
Blanchflower, David
23
Cousteau, Jean-Michel
66
Fischer, Joschka
69
Gupta, Anil
122
Kaafarani, Bilal
54
Ahtisaari, Martti
86
Blunt, James
192
Cox, Brian
67
Fisk, Roger
Guru-Murthy, Krishnan
186
Kaku, Michio
70
Al Khaja, Nayla
162
Borchers, Bob
143
Crosby, Emma
185
Government 93
Hahn, Lorraine
187
Kanoo, Mishal
126
Alexander, Dame Helen
114
Bosshart, David
8
Cross, Peter
144
Masterclass 158
Halliwell, Geri
194
Kapoor, Sony
30
Alexander, James
6
Bourguignon, Emmanuel
65
Czymoch, Conny
185
Flanders, Stephanie
186
Hamel, Gary
123
Kaprol, Arzu
55
Alldis, Dominic
50
Bowen, Jeremy
184
Damodaran, Meleveetil
25
Forde, Mike
166
Hammersley, Ben
Karmel, Annabel
55
Allen, Kevin
142
Branson, Sir Richard
117
Das, Gurcharan
119
Foreman, George
194
Digital 11
Kasparov, Gary
195
Alliot-Marie, Michèle
86
Brody, Leonard
8
Davies, Sir Howard
25
Frampton, Jez
145
Masterclass 158
Keen, Andrew
Amos, Stephen
192
Brown, Gordon
88
de Baetzelier, Anne
184
Fry, Stephen
194
Hani, Nadine
187
Ando, Tadao
50
Brundtland, Gro
89
de Botton, Alain
51
Fuest, Clemens
28
Härén, Fredrik
54
Armitt, Sir John
114
Bruton, John
89
de Klerk, FW
96
Gad, Thomas
145
Harkin, James
10
Kemfert, Claudia
71
Arora, Nikesh
6
Brzenzski, Zbigniew
90
De Rothschild, David
67
Gallagher, Mark
Harris, Mike
159
Khanna, Parag
30
Ashdown, Paddy
87
Buckingham, Marcus
116
de Soto, Hernando
60
Masterclass 159
Hashemi, Sahar
170
Khouri, Rami
95
Aston, Felicity
162
Butcher, Tim
185
de Thuin, Aude
68
Motivation 167
Hatoyama, Yukio
95
King, Larry
187
Attali, Jacques
22
Butler, Ed
163
de Villepin, Dominique
91
Gandhour, Fadi
120
Hawks, Tony
195
Kjaer, Anne Lise
54
August, Oliver
22
Buzan, Tony
51
Debroy, Bibek
25
Gang, Fan
28
Hawn, Goldie
195
Kjellberg, Jonas
173
Authers, John
22
Byrne, Claire
185
Dervis, Kemal
26
Gansch, Christian
52
Heggessey, Lorraine
147
Klaus, Vaclav
96
Avery, Tom
162
Caldecott, Julian
66
Destivelle, Catherine
165
Gardner, Scott
168
Henkel, Hans-Olaf
123
Knutsen, Anders
127
Aziz, Rafidah
88
Cameron, James
193
di Bari, Vito
9
Gaskell, Kevin
121
Hermann, Hans-Dieter
170
Koch, Roland
126
Balcerowicz, Leszek
23
Campbell, Alastair
143
Diagana, Stephane
165
Gates, Teena
186
Hewitt, Gordon
123
Kohl, Walter
128
Balfour, Alex
6
Capra, Fritjof
66
DiVanna, Joe
47
Gaviria, César
94
Hewlett, Jonny
124
Kok, Wim
96
Bandaranaike, Chandrika
98
Carter, Troy
51
Dobelli, Rolf
119
Gecaga, Soiya
168
Hicks, Olly
171
Koo, Richard
31
Bannerman, James
50
Casnocha, Ben
9
Douglas, Michael
194
Gelb, Michael
53
Hilton-Barber, Miles
171
Koolhaas, Rem
55
Barber, Lionel
23
Chakrabarti, Reeta
185
Drew, Jason
68
Geldof, Bob
Hizon, Patricia
187
Kotler, Philip
149
Baudis, Christian
7
Chang, Ha-Joon
24
Dueck, Gunter
10
Celebrity 194
Hoberman, Brent
12
Kouchner, Bernard
97
Baudry, Patrick
64
Chang, Jung
193
Duffy, Gerry
166
Environment 69
Horx, Matthias
12
Kozyrev, Andrey
97
Baumgartner, Felix
192
Charan, Ram
117
Dutt, Barkha
186
Getz, Isaac
53
Houllier, Gerard
171
Krauthausen, Raul
13
Bayman, Scott
115
Chase, Robin
164
Eades, David
186
Gibson, Rowan
53
Hu, Fred
29
Kronig, Béatrice
127
Beardson, Timothy
24
Choo, Jimmy
193
Eigen, Peter
69
Gieve, Sir John
28
Hughes, Chris
12
Kronzucker, Susanne
187
Becker, Boris
192
Christiansen, Sabine
185
ElBaradei, Mohamed
92
Goldsmith, Marshall
Hughes, Ken
147
Krugman, Paul
31
Beckham, David
192
Claassen, Utz
118
Erçel, Gazi
26
Masterclass 158
Huntingford, Richard
148
Kuan Yew, Lee
110
Bedbury, Scott
142
Clarke, Nicky
193
Eruç, Erden
166
Motivation 168
Hurley, Chad
13
Kudrin, Alexei
31
Bedi, Kiran
163
Cleese, John
193
Evans, Sir Jonathan
92
González, Felipe
94
Ikalafeng, Thebe
148
Kufuor, John
98
Behar, Howard
115
Clement, Wolfgang
24
Eyres, Kevin
10
Goodstein, Scott
146
Issing, Otmar
29
Kurzweil, Ray
13
Behnke, Till
7
Clifton, Rita
144
Faber, Marc
26
Gopalakrishnan, R
Jaeggi, Rene
124
Kutaragi, Ken
14
Bellini, James
184
Cochrane, Peter
9
Faulks, Sebastian
52
Management 121
Lane Fox, Martha
57
Belluzzo, Rick
116
Coe, Lord Sebastian
164
Feldstein, Martin
27
Masterclass 158
Celebrity 195
Laporta, Joan
128
Benbow, Steve
64
Cohen, Andy
164
Ferguson, Niall
27
Gowing, Nik
146
Environment 70
Lauda, Nikki
195
Benjamin, Todd
184
Cohen, Jared
91
Ferguson, Sir Alex
194
Grainger, Katherine
169
Jansson, Mats
124
Leadbeater, Charles
56
Berners-Lee, Sir Tim
7
Collina, Pierluigi
193
Fergusson, Adam
27
Gratton, Lynda
122
Johnson, Luke
125
Leahy, Sir Terry
128
Berry, Caspar
163
Cooper, Dee
118
Fernandes, Tony
120
Greenfield, Susan
70
Johnson, Michael
172
Legg, Ben
14
Jagger, Bianca
Digital 11 Masterclass 159