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President of the Deutsche Bundesbank 1993-1999

Until August 1999 Dr Hans Tietmeyer was the President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and remains one of the most important figures in European finance.

Dr Hans Tietmeyer is uniquely qualified and decision makers from businesses around the world will benefit from his insight into the history and future prospects of economic and monetary policy in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

Dr Tietmeyer was born in 1931 and was educated at the Universities of Münster, Bonn and Cologne. Following an academic background in which his thinking was influenced by Alfred Muller-Armack and Ludwig Erhard he moved into international economics and banking.
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Top 10 selection of the most shought speakers for the month of April 2008.

And here is the top 10 selection of the most shought speakers for the month of April 2008.

1. Karan Bilimoria

2. Martha Lane Fox

3. Peter Senge

4. Jeremy Rifkin

5. Steven Covey

6. Tony Visconti

7. Todd Benjamin

8. Hernando de Soto

9. Luc Besson

10. Lynda Gratton

Former Vice-President of the European Commission, Competition Commissioner and Transport Commissioner

Karel van Miert played a key role in the modernisation of European competition and deregulation policy in the 1990s. While he was European Competition Commissioner, the media dubbed him ‘The most powerful man in Europe’. His responsibilities spanned across shaping policy for transport, credit, investment and consumers, as well as competition policy. Mr. Van Miert was President of Universiteit Nyenrode from 2000 to 2003 and most recently chaired a high level group looking into the transport infrastructure for the enlarged European Union.

“A remarkable interpreter of the European economy’s competitive position.”

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A proponent of the benefits of competition, he is highly respected for his work regulating mergers and acquisitions, and for implementing a Europe wide competition policy. Currently he is member of the Supervisory Boards of Royal Philips Electronics NV, Wolters Kluwer NV, RWE AG, Fraport and DHV and member of the Board of Agfa Gevaert and de Persgroep. He further is member of the Advisory Board of Guidant Europe NV, Eli Lilly Holdings Ltd., Fitch, Rabobank, Boer & Croon and Goldman Sachs International.
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Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Intel Corporation

Bruce Sewell is senior vice president and general counsel of Intel Corporation. His management responsibilities include legal, corporate affairs, and Intel’s corporate social responsibility programs. As general counsel, he supervises a team of roughly 600 attorneys and policy professionals located in over 30 countries around the world. Sewell also represents Intel on several professional, legislative and policy boards in the United States and abroad. He was recently profiled in Fortune and is also a regular contributor for the Wall Street Journal.

“One of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers” California Lawyer magazine and the legal Daily Journal (2006)

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Mr Sewell joined Intel in 1995 as a senior attorney assigned to counsel various business groups in areas such as antitrust compliance, licensing, and intellectual property. In 2001, he was promoted to vice president and deputy general counsel. In that role he managed Intel’s litigation portfolio, and handled corporate transactions, including M&A activities. He took over as only the third general counsel in Intel’s history in November 2004.
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The Former Chairman of Granada and Allied Domecq

Sir Gerry Robinson is a British businessman and is the former (non-executive) Chairman of Allied Domecq and the ex-Chairman/Chief Executive of Granada. He also served as chairman of the Arts Council England for several years. In January 2007 he presented a three part series Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS? following on from the acclaimed BBC series I’ll Show Them Who’s Boss.

“Top Management Guru” The Telegraph

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Sir Gerry began a career in accounting aged 17 in 1965, and climbed the ranks to become the head of Granada. He steered the company through various mergers, and hostile takeovers including London Weekend Television (1993), the Forte Hotels chain (1996) and an unsuccessful attempt at acquiring Rentokil Initial in 2005.
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Professor at the IESE Business School

Luis Maria Huete is a leading authority on management issues and is a specialist in the creation and development of profit enhancing business strategies. He is a best-selling author and has been a visiting professor at a number of prestigious universities and business schools throughout the world. In his most recent book, ’Clienting’, Luis explores low cost systematic processes aimed at gaining the loyalty of customers.

Leading Expert in Customer Value Management Strategies

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With a Degree in Law (1978), Master in Business Administration (IESE, 1982) and Doctor in Business Administration (Boston University, 1988); his doctoral thesis was given an academy prize by the Decision Sciences Institute of Atlanta, Georgia, as the best doctoral thesis completed in the year 1988 in the United States.
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World’s Leading Futurist

John Naisbitt is widely acknowledged as the World’s Leading Futurist.

He served as a presidential appointee in the John F. Kennedy administration and as a special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson.

A pioneer in the content analysis field, he founded the Urban Research Corporation, which provided social and cultural forecasts for leading US organisations.

A proven and powerful forecaster on the global economy

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He has become the global philosopher among futurists, as much in the limelight with worldwide corporations as he is a calming influence among leading politicians.

A visiting professor at Harvard and Moscow State Universities, he is also a Faculty Member at the Nanjing University in China.

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Foremost Futurist

Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Centre of the
City University of New York. His goal is to complete Einstein’s dream of a “theory of everything”, a single equation that unifies the 4 fundamental forces of the universe. From interviews to documentaries, Dr. Kaku has explained the most fascinating and complex ideas in science today, in ways so elegant and easy to understand, much like the late Carl Sagan. On television he has been featured on the PBS documentaries: Einstein Revealed, Stephen Hawking’s Universe, and Science Odyssey. Michio is currently presenting a three part TV series on BBC4 Visions of the Future, which explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond.

‘You have to realise that most of science is not done by direct experiment at all.’ Michio Kaku

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His technical books are required reading for scores of Ph.D. graduate students in major physics laboratories around the world.

His weekly radio programme Explorations in Science focusses on topics such as frontiers in physics, black holes, time machines, hyperspace, the human genome project and genetic engineering.
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Former German Chancellor

With 16 years in power, a post-war political record, and having won four consecutive general elections Helmut Kohl is arguably Germany’s most successful Chancellor. He played a significant role in European integration and was a key player in ending the Cold War and manifesting the Reunification of Germany. Undoubtedly, his finest hour came, when Germany was re-unified in 1990. Most recently Dr Kohl received the 2005 International Leadership Award for contributions to global peace and security from the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

A proven political visionary
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He studied history in Heidelberg and in 1966 he became Minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate.
In 1973 he was elected as Chairman of the German Christian Democratic Union, CDU. He was elected German Chancellor in 1982.

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Author and Acclaimed Contemporary Historian

Professor Timothy Garton Ash is an internationally acclaimed historian, commentator and best-selling author. Having charted the spectacular transformation of Europe over the last quarter century, his current work focuses on the emerging geopolitical triangle between Europe, the United States and Asia, and on how we can avoid a “Clash of Civilizations” with Islam. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Timothy features in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people

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Prof. Garton Ash’s honours include the David Watt Memorial Prize, Commentator of the Year in the ‘What the Papers Say’ annual awards for 1989, the Premio Napoli, the Imre Nagy Memorial Plaque, the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize for political writing, the Order of Merit from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, and the British CMG. In 2005, he featured in a list of 100 top global public intellectuals chosen by the journals Prospect and Foreign Policy, and in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
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