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- Senior Trade Writer at the Financial Times, Based in Brussels, Speaking on Trade and Globalisation. . [More]
Alan Beattie, senior trade writer at the Financial Times, based in Brussels, speaking on trade and globalisation. ...
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- UK Head of Talent Acquisition, Roche
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- Artificial Intelligence Speakers - AI / Cyber Security / Disaster and Crisis Management / Dispute Resolution
Arni Pall Arnason - Iceland Minister of Economic Affairs 2010-11, responsible for co-ordination of IMF plan and a process of financial restructuring dealing successfully with unprecedented levels of corporate debt....
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- Banking & Financial Services
Barbara Cassani is a respected expert on leadership and start-up management. She is best known for founding the low cost airline Go and spearheading the successful London 2012 Olympic bid.
Following her first position as a management consultant for Coopers & Lybrand she moved to work in British Airways' US operation. She worked in sales, marketing and on the team responsible for integrating Dan-Air into BA's business.
In 1997 facing increasing competition from low cost airlines British Airways instigated its own budget offering known as Go. As CEO Cassani was responsible for turning the £25m initial investment into a profitable airline within 3 years. She headed a £110 million management buyout and in 2002 Go was sold to easyJet for £374 million. She co-authored the book Go: An Airline Adventure.
In 2002 Barbara was named as Veuve Clicquot UK Businesswoman of the Year and was voted UK Entrepreneur of the Year by readers of the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs.
The Boston-born entrepreneur was appointed in 2003 to spearhead London's push to host the 2012 Olympics. As Chairman then Vice-Chairman she hired the winning team, created the blueprint for the Games and developed UK public support. She was awarded an honorary CBE by the British Government.
Barbara was awarded an honorary degree from Cranfield University in 2004. She returned to the low cost airline sector in 2007 with her appointment as chairman of the board at Vueling Airlines, the Barcelona based company. In 2008 she was appointed Executive Chairman of Jurys Inns, the budget hotel chain. She is currently a partner in 3x + Y Ventures, established to identify start-up and growth opportunities in the UK travel and retail sectors.
Barbara Cassani has served on a number of corporate (both private and public) and non-profit boards, including Marks & Spencer, a European hotel group and several European airlines. Today she also provides informal mentoring to a number of business people - to both entrepreneurs and to orporate executives.
Ben Hammersley is expert on the digital world, on cybercrime, cyber-security and everything infosec.
He is a contributing editor of Wired Magazine, he has served as the Prime Minister's ambassador to Tech City, and as a presenter of the BBC World News Cybercrimes. He covers cover developments in tech, culture, business and politics, and specialises in demystifying the digital and understanding cyberspace.
Ben is the guy who invented the term ‘podcast' and in 2014 he began to look the dark world of hacking: at darknets and the prospect for cryptocurrencies, for BBC World and the BBC News series Cybercrime With Ben Hammersley. He is a Fellow at The Brookings Institute in Washington DC, a fellow at the Robert Schuman School of Advanced Study at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and Innovator-in-Residence at the Centre for Creative and Social Technologies, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a Member of the High Level Group on Media Freedom at the European Commission.
Ben is the author of five books, including 64 Things You Need To Know Now For Then, a guide to everything you need to know to survive in today's world.
Ben was also previously Head of Digital at SIX Creative responsible for creating, building and managing a team dedicated to bringing internet strategy, design, and production to leading fashion and beauty brands.
Ben Hammersley lives in Brooklyn, New York City, and speaks both in-person and virtually around the world.
Carl Bildt is the former Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister of Sweden....
Charles Arthur - author of "Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the battle for the internet", a former technology editor and expert commentator on the business battles in technology....
Charles Crawford - former Ambassador - worked to end apartheid, dealt with the Soviet Union as communism collapsed & finally as HM Ambassador in Sarajevo after the war.... [more]
Dan Davies is the author of Lying For Money, a study of commercial fraud and its importance to the global economy published by Profile Books. He works as Head of Research for Frontline Analysts, the financial outsourcing firm and provides consulting and idea generation services to a small group of investment bank and hedge fund clients. He also publishes the occasional geopolitical newsletter Predicto, in which he forecast accurately forecast the development of the 2015 Greek crisis as well as the size, shape and narrow margin of Donald Trump's Presidential victory, and edits the Mediobanca Regulatory Observatory, providing detailed weekly research on European banking.
As an economist at the Bank of England, he attended some of the most interesting meetings of the 1990s, including the collapse of Barings, the Mexico Crisis and the rescue of Long Term Capital Management. He then spent ten years working through the minor divisions of British stockbroking, arriving at Credit Suisse in 2007, just in time to watch the global banking industry collapse, with a front seat view.
He was a key member of the CS and Exane BNP Paribas research teams which won the Instit utional Investor All-Europe Research polls on three occasions and developed a strong reputation in the market as one of the few people in the City who could make reading about financial regulation bearable.
Dan now comments on financial and markets developments for publications including the FT and New Yorker and provides jaundiced views on the foibles of the investment banking industry to readers of eFinancialcareers.com. He is a familiar voice on Finance Twitter and appears in "Top Markets Tweeter" lists.
As a speaker Dan Davies is expert on financial and economic crises (particularly when one is going on), financial crimes and regulations, and general topics on the near term future of the economic and political world.
Dan Davies speaker on financial and economic crises, financial crime, and regulation.
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- Conference Chairs & Moderator
David Davis served as Secretary of State for Exiting the EU [DexEU] following the UK Brexit Referendum from the inception of the department until his resignation in July 2018.... [more]
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- Expert
- Expert in Brexit Negotiations and Now in the Trade Policy Issues Arising from Brexit. [More]
David is the UK Director at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and a leading expert and writer on Brexit negotiations and the trade policy issues arising from Brexit.
He draws extensively on the experience of three years involvement with US and EU on the ambitious Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks, where he worked with negotiators on both sides, particularly on regulatory issues, at one point becoming a formal intermediary. After the UK Brexit referendum vote in 2016 he helped establish the new UK Department for International Trade, joining many of the UK's first working groups with non-EU countries and developing options for UK trade with the USA. David established the new UK Department for International Trade in 2016, developing options for UK trade with the USA and non-EU countries.
He has also been closely involved in different aspects of investment policy, the international trading-rules system, and UK/EU business policy towards China.
In 2017 he co-founded the UK Trade Forum, which brings together UK trade policy experts to debate and analyse the complex and far-reaching trade issues that Brexit in one version or another creates.
David Henig speaks frankly and with huge authority about the ‘inner' Brexit negotiations and what they mean for businesses and different sectors of the UK economy.
David Henig: expert on trade and policy issues arising from Brexit and the UK's new relationship with the EU.
David Henig - leading expert in Brexit negotiations and now in the trade policy issues arising from Brexit....
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- Current Affairs / Diversity and Inclusion
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- Business Psychologist, Strategic Advisor and Executive Coach
Dr Adrian Atkinson is a business psychologist, strategic advisor and executive coach focussing on developing senior managers, creating or restoring concentration on wealth creation and managing organisational culture as well as identifying and developing key people and high performance teams.... [more]
James Bellini - renowned futurist, analyst, broadcaster, regular consultant to business and governments and an expert in the future outlook for business...
Dr Myriam Francois is a TV presenter, producer and writer with a focus on current affairs, Islam and France.
Myriam completed her PhD (DPhil) at Oxford University, focusing on Islamic movements in Morocco. She also holds an MA from Georgetown University and a BA from Cambridge University.
She presents and produces her own monthly Arts and Culture documentary series Compass on TRT World and is the presenter of the Channel 4 documentary The Truth about Muslim Marriage. She was also Europe Correspondent for TRTWorld from 2015-2017, covering French politics, the migrant issue and Brexit. She has also reported for BBC World News, most recently with her exclusive report on the allegations of sexual assault against Prof Tariq Ramadan (2018).
Myriam has also presented the BBC One documentaries The Muslim Pound and A Deadly Warning: Srebrenica Revisited which was nominated for the Sandford St Martin religious programming award (2016.)
Myriam's writing features widely in the British press, including the Guardian, the New Statesman, Telegraph, CNN online and Middle East Eye. She is a frequent fixture on the BBC Big Questions, Sunday Morning Live and newspaper reviews.
She is a Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies (CIS) at SOAS University, where her research focuses on British Muslim integration issues. She is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Policy (CGP) think tank.
Myriam is immensely knowledgeable about contemporary issues of Islam and Western culture, looking frankly at which policies and attitudes make sense and which are likely to fail.
Born on the island of Jamaica, Dwayne Fields moved to London at the age of six. He grew up in an inner-city part of London where gang-life was rife and he himself was the victim of both gun and knife crime. Dwayne decided to change everything about his life and in 2010 he became the first young black Briton to walk the three hundred and seventy miles across the ice sheet to reach the Magnetic North Pole. Dwayne had become an adventurer and an explorer.
Prior to following his passion and raising all of the funds to reach the pole, Dwayne had already achieved an honours degree in psychology, international development and business management and had spent three years serving as an electrical mechanical engineer on the London Underground.
Today Dwayne works with young people in some of the most disadvantaged inner city areas in Britain. He is an ambassador for the Scout Association, Ordnance Survey, National Trust, Woodland Trust, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2013 in recognition of his achievements he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London.
In 2019 Dwayne and his expedition partner, Phoebe Smith, set off on a mission to show to young people the fantastic possibilities of epic adventuring in the UK. They highlighted critical environmental issues close to home and turned a spotlight on vital conservation needs in an expedition from the most northerly to the most southerly points of Great Britain in their Seabirds to South adventure. They walked the same distance that they are going to walk in their planned upcoming 2022 carbon-neutral Antarctica mission. The project will take a group of young people to the southern continent on a chartered expedition ship via their own #WeTwo Foundation.
On television Dwayne has appeared on SpringWatch Unsprung with Chris Packham and the Daily Politics Show. Dwayne is available for booking for webcast, virtual and face-to-face in-person engagements.
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- Executive Director at Stanford University Global Digital Policy Incubator
In her book Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know [Octopus Books 2020] Nina Schick examines the state of play, identifies the bad guys, and tells us what we need to do to try and prepare and protect ourselves from all pervasive misinformation and all-too-plausible propaganda. As an expert advisor, and speaker, Nina specialises in how tech and AI are reshaping not only domestic democracy but also global geopolitics.
Nina's practical experience includes her work during the Brexit referendum campaign, and the on-going evolution of Brexit since then. She worked on Emmanuel Macron's astonishing campaign in 2017, and on the investigation of the allegations of Russian election interference in the US election and around the world since 2016.
During 2018, she advised a group of global leaders including Eileen Donahoe, Executive Director at Stanford University Global Digital Policy Incubator, Joe Biden, now US Presidential Election candidate 2020, and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, 12th Secretary General of NATO, leading research on disinformation via deep fakes.
Nina Schick is a significant and trusted contributor to broadcasters including the BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, and Sky. She speaks seven languages including French, German, Spanish and holds degrees from Cambridge and UCL.
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- Banking & Financial Services
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- Banking & Financial Services
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Gerald Ashley speaker, risk and behaviour expert who learnt his craft in the international banking sector....
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- Banking & Financial Services
- Graham Bishop Is a Leading Technical Analyst and Architect of Economic and Structural Developments in the Financial Markets of Europe. [More]
Graham Bishop is a leading technical analyst and architect of economic and structural developments in the financial markets of Europe....
The rise of Artificial Intelligence presents unprecedented challenges for society, new ethical dilemmas, and a need for innovation in regulatory policy and law. International lawyer, speaker, and writer, Jacob Turner, advises businesses and governments on the regulation and governance of AI. He is the author of Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) - a definitive work on why AI is unique, what problems it can cause, and how we can begin to solve them.
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- Artificial Intelligence Speakers - AI / Big Data / Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
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- Agent for Speaking and Presentation in Both in - Person and Virtual Settings.
- Artificial Intelligence Speakers - AI / Big Data / Blockchain & Cryptocurrency / British Election
- Member of Littleton Chambers
- Speaker
By the age of twenty-one Jamie Susskind had already written speeches for Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons and for United States Senators. As a teenager, Jamie was ranked Best Schools Debater In The World and in 2007 became only the second commoner in history to speak at the opposition despatch box in the British House of Lords.
At Oxford University, where he studied history and politics at Magdalen College graduating first in his year, he was awarded the Edward Tomlinson Memorial Prize for the best speech delivered at the Oxford Union. And whilst qualifying as a barrister he was awarded the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn's most prestigious advocacy prize.
Today he is an author, speaker and he is a practising barrister having been called to the bar in 2013.
His most recent book Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech confronts some of the most important questions of today: how will digital technology - transform politics, power, and society. The Guardian review described the book as ‘crucial reading … superb and necessary'.
As a speaker Jamie speculates on how technology will be used to control individuals and society not only by governments in order to win elections but also by the big Silicon Valley technology companies and what new codes of morality and ethics the future will demand.
Called to the bar in 2013 Jamie Susskind is a member of Littleton Chambers.
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- Chairman of the Coalition for a Digital Economy
- Executive Chairman & Co - Founder of Seedrs
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Jeff Lynn is Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Seedrs, the leading European marketplace for private equity investment and currently the UK's most active investor in private companies. He co-founded the business in 2009, initially as part of an MBA project at Oxford, and led it as CEO until 2017 when he shifted his focus to the long-term strategy of the business, thought leadership and major initiatives.
For speaking enquiries or to book Jeff Lynn please call Specialist Speakers on +44 (0)203 002 4125 or use our contact form
For speaking enquiries or to book Jerry Smith please call Specialist Speakers on +44 (0)203 002 4125 or use our contact form
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- Artificial Intelligence Speakers - AI / Blockchain & Cryptocurrency / Currency & Forex / Cyber Security
Jon Craig reporting from Westminster for over three decades, a highly experienced print journalist and broadcaster with tremendous insider knowledge on recent Governments and Parliament....
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- Coaching Speakers and Development
Jonny Dymond is a reporter of enormous experience. Now BBC Royal Correspondent and presenter on BBC Radio 4's excellent Broadcasting House and on the BBC World Service as a political reporter.... [more]
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- Brands & Marketing
- Business Leader
- CEO of Group M
- Non - Executive Board Member for Creative England
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Karen Blackett is the CEO of Group M and UK Country Manager of global advertising and marketing group, WPP. Europe is the second largest market in the world for WPP and Karen oversees more than fourteen thousand staff across all of the group brands. She has twenty-five years of experience in marketing and communications but in her early working career was a life coach.
Karen has served as Business Ambassador for the Prime Minister's Office and as an external advisor helping to diversify the make up of the Civil Service. She was appointed as Race Equality Business Champion by the then Prime Minister as part of the Race at Work Charter in 2018 helping UK businesses to address inequalities at every level.
Karen is also a non-executive board member for Creative England, the MOBO Trust, and The Creative Industry Federation. In 2018 she was appointed as Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth.
Karen is a great business leader with a superb track record in creating creative working cultures, energising teams, and delivering profitable business growth. With a quarter of a century of success in the media industry Karen Blackett speaks with a wealth of ideas, authority, and experience.
Kate Ancketill - with enormous shifts in consumer expectations, retail and technology, Kate Ancketill shows businesses how to adapt, innovate and where to best invest resources. ...
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- Conference Chairs & Moderator
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- Mark Adams Vice President and Head of Innovation at VICE Media, Keynote Speaker on Digital Inclusion and Expertise
- Senior Vice President and Head of Innovation
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Mark created the very first digital consultancy for celebrities and for people in the public eye in 2003. He quickly became known as the go-to digital guy for many Hollywood A-listers. When the business was acquired by William Morris Endeavor, the world's biggest talent agency, Mark was appointed as the very first Chief Digital Officer in the entire entertainment industry.
Mark Adams Vice President and Head of Innovation at VICE Media, keynote speaker on digital inclusion and expertise.
Mark Adams speaker is available for both live, face-to-face events and virtual webcast presentations.
Matthew Goodwin - leading authority on extremism, the Eurozone and EU, Brexit and how it may succeed, how we might fight terrorism and what the electorate really think about these issues....
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- President of Boeing Europe
Michael Arthur - President of Boeing Europe, and MD, UK and Ireland. A former top diplomat. Led the Maastricht Treaty negotiating team. Ambassador postings included Africa, Paris, Washington, India, Germany and as DG for Europe and Economic issues.... [more]
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- Cyber Security / Global Politics / Greece - Politics & Economics
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- Artificial Intelligence Speakers - AI / Banking & Financial Services / Blockchain & Cryptocurrency / Consulting
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- Conference Chairs & Moderator / Consulting
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- Artificial Intelligence Speakers - AI / Brexit / Culture and Society / Cyber Security
- Contributor
- Expert
Nina is a expert political advisor and technical consultant to technology firms, including Dalia Research of Berlin, a business reshaping the global insight industry via the app economy and data science to gather and analyse real-time data on worldwide public opinion.
Peter Frankopan speaker, one of the world's leading historians, author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World explaining the importance of Asia, and China's One Belt One Road....
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- Author, Entrepreneur, Football Club Director, and Advisor on High - Performance Development. [More]
Rasmus Ankersen - author, entrepreneur, football club director, and advisor on high-performance development....
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- Banking & Financial Services
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- Editor of Gethin 's Inflight News
Sally Gethin is the Editor of Gethin's Inflight News and a highly experienced journalist working in the airline and aviation media. She is a guest news commentator for broadcast media (BBC News, BBC Business Live, BBC Radio London, BBC Three Counties Radio, BBC5live) commenting on airline strategy, airport management and the passenger experience.
In 2016 she was declared ‘Best CEO' at the Europas Awards and City AM's Entrepreneur of the Year. And she was awarded the OBE in 2015. As CEO of Unruly, the Ad tech company she founded in 2006. Unruly works to get videos seen and shared across the web, ‘working for brands that want to move people, not just reach them, bringing emotional intelligence to digital advertising'. Sarah led the business to its acquisition by News Corporation in 2015 for £114 million.
Sarah studied at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sussex, where she lectured in American Studies. She is currently an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge, teaching a course in Online Video Culture and the Screen Media Revolution.
Sarah speaks on advertising, digital, business, women in technology, and on her own story of success.
Her book Stepping Up: A leadership handbook for the generation that wants to rip up the rule book is published in the Autumn.
Sinclair Beecham speaker on food, staff motivation, and customer service, founder of Pret a Manger....
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- Chairman of Kingfisher Group
Sir John Banham - former Director General of the CBI, Chairman of Kingfisher Group, National Power, NatWest Bank, Whitbread and Johnson Matthey Plc among others....
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- News Journalist
- Specialist
News journalist Sue Saville specialises in medical and health coverage, with more than twenty years of broadcast experience.
After working for RHK, Radio Hong Kong, she became a regular for BBC Breakfast News before moving to ITV. With ITV News Sue was Chief Medical Correspondent, spending fifteen years covering national and international news. Her work at the forefront of investigative journalism uncovering the hospital infections scandal and the rise of MRSA saw her achieve numerous awards. At international level she conducted interviews with President Nelson Mandela and covered of the handover of Hong Kong to China.
Sue Saville is a Specialist Speakers/KMM speaker presented in partnership with Kate Moon Management.
Susan Zanny Minton Beddoes is the seventeenth editor and first female Editor-in-Chief of The Economist in its 170 year history. ... [more]
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- for Speaking and Presentation in Both in - Person and Virtual Settings.
- Senior Investment and Markets Analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown
Susannah Streeter is senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, the FTSE 100 financial services firm headquartered in Bristol. She provides analysis for both investors and for the media at the firm - the largest direct to investor investment platform in the UK.
The public knows Susannah for her work reporting for BBC One's Breakfast, for BBC Two's consumer programme Working Lunch, and for her delivery of expert commentary during the annual BBC Budget coverage.
In business television Susannah has served as the anchor for World Business Report on the BBC World Service and on BBC World TV. She is a highly experienced bilingual broadcaster working in both English and French. Her experience and know-how as an anchor of flagship news shows has created a demand for Susannah's hosting and moderating skills in conference settings around the world. She has hosted global conferences and interviewed world leaders and central bankers on economic and political issues and their approach to environmental policies. Susannah hosted the World Green Economy Summit in Dubai, the International Banking Forum in Kuwait, the Sustainable Finance Forum in Abu Dhabi, and the Our Ocean conference in Oslo.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic Susannah's combination of live event and televisual skills have been in demand for virtual conference hosting and keynote address. In 2020 these included the BMW Future Forum, Radiocentre, and UNPRI - United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.
Susannah is also a former Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force Reserves. Serving with 7644 Squadron, media operations unit, she led the mobile news team on operations around the world. And she was the obvious choice to represent the UK at NATO, serving with the Inter-allied Confederation of Reserve Officers.
Susannah is a supremely capable host and speaker, an ideal candidate to moderate on AI, Automation, business, cybersecurity, defence, digital transformation, environment, finance, pharma and health, retail, technology, and, of course, the role of women in the business and the media.
For CIPR Awards Specialist Speakers has worked with Susannah in her home town of Bristol and she is always a pleasure to work with!
Susannah did a superb job of driving the discussions forward creating an energetic yet unhurried atmosphere and bringing out the relevant viewpoints from each person. Her style is effective, warm and engaging and at the same time unobtrusive. We have had only positive feedback on Susannah's performance from the participants at the conference, who point out her enthusiasm, energy and humour, as well as her professionalism.
Tanya Beckett - former materials scientist and investment banker -presents BBC World News' Business Live and the business news on Radio 4's Today....
Tony Anderson - former Marketing Director of easyJet, helping to launch what has become one of Europe's most successful brands and popular speaker on branding and marketing.... [more]
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- Religion and Ethics / Women