The Leading Speakers Bureau

Foremost Global Economist

Dr. Ian C. Shepherdson is a foremost global economist who has been described by the London Times as one of “the best economists in the City”. His publication, Daily Notes in the United States, is widely read by investors, policymakers and dealers in 20 countries. Dr. Shepherdson was named top U.S. forecaster of 2003 by the Wall Street Journal. He is frequently quoted in the U.S. and international press and he is a regular guest on U.S. national public radio’s Marketplace.

“His expert analysis is a focal point for investor policy notes and dealers”
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Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer

Stuart Rose is the Chief Executive of the leading British retailer Marks & Spencer. Since his appointment in 2004 profits have most certainly risen and they are a direct reflection of his ideas and sales lines. He has a track record for turning around struggling retailers and is credited with reviving the fortunes of fashion group Arcadia.

“My task… is to bring this business back to regain some of its former glory”
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The Leading Authority on What People are Really Doing Online

Bill Tancer is the world’s preeminent expert on online behaviour and author of the New York Times bestseller, ‘Click’. He is the general manager of global research at Hitwise, the world’s leading online competitive intelligence services. As well as writing weekly columns for Time and The Wall Street Journal, he is widely quoted and is a frequent media guest. He is brilliantly adept at understanding the patterns in his company’s database of more than 10 million Internet users every day.

“For his presentations, Bill customizes his research to address an audience’s specific interests”

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Financial Analyst, Author of Bestselling ‘The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures’

Richard Duncan is the author of ‘The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures’, an international bestseller that predicted the current global economic disaster with extraordinary accuracy. He is now chief economist at Blackhorse Asset Management in Singapore. A formidable speaker he has addressed audiences such as The World Economic Forum’s East Asia Economic Summit in Singapore, The EuroFinance Conference in Copenhagen, The Chief Financial Officers’ Roundtable in Shanghai, and The World Knowledge Forum in Seoul.

“A truly great speaker”
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Executive Chairman of Templeton Asset Management, LLC, Global Investor & Emerging Markets Fund Manager

Mark Mobius directs the Templeton research team based in 15 global emerging markets offices and manages emerging markets portfolios. He joined Templeton in 1987 as president and portfolio manager of the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. After more than 30 years in global emerging markets, he has received numerous industry awards and accolades. The World Bank and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development appointed Dr. Mobius joint chairman of the Global Corporate Governance Forum Investor Responsibility Taskforce.

Regarded by many in the financial industry as one of the most successful emerging markets investors over the last 20 years
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Expert on Cloning

Ian Wilmut is an English embryologist and is currently one of the leaders of the Queen’s Medical Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the man who played a supervisory role in the team that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finn Dorset lamb named “Dolly”. Dolly was the first clone derived from adult cells. She died early, in 2003, at 6 years old. In 2005, Ian received the licence to clone human embryos for research that may one day help find a cure for motor neuron disease. In 2008 he received the Honour of Knighthood for his services to science.

“Dr Wilmut offers his audiences an insight into a future that only a short while ago was considered science-fiction.”
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Co-founder of Red or Dead and HemingwayDesign

Wayne Hemingway is co-founder of fashion label Red or Dead and HemingwayDesign. After 21 consecutive seasons on the catwalk at London Fashion Week, he and his wife sold Red or Dead in a multi million cash sale in 1999. He then set up HemingwayDesign, joining forces with building firm Wimpey to work on various housing projects specialising in affordable and social design. Wayne is the Chairman of Building for Life, CABE (Commission for Architecture and The Built Environment) a funded organisation that promotes excellence in the quality of design of new housing. He is a Professor in the Built Environment department of Northumbria University, a writer for architectural and housing publications as well as a judge of international design competitions including the regeneration of Byker in Newcastle and Salford in Greater Manchester.

“I use technology to work more professionally, but especially to finish work quickly.”
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2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine

John Sulston is currently Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI) at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 2002 (jointly with Sydney Brenner and Bob Horvitz), for the work they had done in understanding the development of the nematode (worm) Caenorhabditis elegans. He was listed among the UK’s 100 most powerful people by the Observer newspaper and received his knighthood for services to genome research in the 2001 New Year’s Honours.

“John Sulston’s achievements rank alongside our greatest biological & medical discoveries”
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Professor of Sociology, University of Canterbury

David C. Thorns, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Science Research Centre at the University of Canterbury is a distinguished sociologist and one of New Zealand’s leading social scientists. His major research projects have addressed a number of themes: housing, tourism, suburban and community research; the sociology of housing and residential mobility; social inequality and class formation; comparative urban research; restructuring and change within advanced capitalist societies; urban sustainability; comparative welfare state policy analysis and globalisation and urban change.

In 2002 he was awarded the University of Canterbury Research Medal
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Former Executive Editor of the Harvard Business Review

A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr is an acclaimed business writer and speaker on technology, business, and culture. In addition to writing more than a dozen articles and interviews for HBR, he is also the author of the much-discussed “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” the cover article in The Atlantic’s 2008 Ideas issue. He writes regularly for the Financial Times and The Guardian, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Business 2.0, The Banker, and Advertising Age as well as on his blog Rough Type. He is a member of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s editorial board of advisors. He writes a column on innovation for Strategy & Business, where he’s a contributing editor, and writes a technology column for Business Week Online.

“His argument is simple, powerful and yet also subtle” The Economist
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