The Leading Speakers Bureau

Former Secretary General of the European Parliament

Sir Julian Priestley is currently writing, commenting and speaking on EU affairs, and the politics of the member states of the Union. His book, “Six Battles Which Shaped Europe’s Parliament” will be published in spring 2008. He was Knighted in the Queen’s Birthday honours list, 2007. He has been officially involved with the European Parliament from 1973-2007.

“A proven political visionary”

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International Drummer, Motivator and Educator

Born in L.A, Mark Schulman has developed a career as a successful and multi-faceted musician performing as a drummer for rock, pop and jazz at numerous concerts and for a huge variety of internationally celebrated artistes. His work as a first class motivator is outstanding as he communicates with audiences across the globe who are stunned by his incredible life changing seminars. Mark has gained a reputation as an outstanding keynote speaker and motivator working with a huge variety of top clients including Cisco Systems.

“A unique motivator with a unique style”
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Professor of Economics & Co-Director LSE Global Governance, LSE

Danny T. Quah is a highly respected figure in the world of economics. He is a Council Member on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Abu Dhabi Economics Research Agency (ADERA) and the Editorial Boards of East Asian Policy, Journal of Economic Growth, and the Journal of Global Policy and is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances. At LSE he is also Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and Chair of the China Summer School Board for the LSE-PKU Summer School.

Danny Quah continues to make a significant contribution to the field of Monetary Economics
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Professor of Banking & Financial Institution and Federal Reserve Board Governor, 2006 – 2008

Frederic S. Mishkin, author of ‘The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets’, is the Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He was a member of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve System from 2006-08. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the FDIC Center for Banking Research, and was President of the Eastern Economic Association.

“One of the leading economic voices”
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Founder and CEO of Blogosfere

Marco is the founder and CEO of Blogosfere, Italy’s biggest web log network. He is currently assistant professor at the Cattolica University, Milan and teaches theories and techniques of online communication at the faculty of Arts and Philosophy. Marco also  hosts his own TV show on SkyTG24 Television channel, Reporter Diffuso, which deals with the Internet, blogs and news.

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Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

Rachel Lomax is a British economist who served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 until 2008 and was a top civil servant. Before joining the Bank, Rachel was Permanent Secretary of three government departments between 1996 and 2002, including the Department of Work and Pensions and the Welsh Office as well as the Dept. for Transport. She was a Vice President and Chief of Staff to the President of the World Bank in 1995-6 and Head of the Economic and Domestic Secretariat at the Cabinet Office in 1994. In 2008 Rachel was appointed as a non-executive director of HSBC where she is also a member of several audit and risk committees.

“An incredible role model”
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Former Chancellor of the Exchequer

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson is an internationally esteemed economist and renowned statesman. He is currently Chairman of the Central Europe Trust, an advisory and private equity firm specialising in Central and Eastern Europe. He is also a past President of the British Institute of Energy Economics. Most recently his major focus of interest has been the economics and politics of climate change and the consequences for businesses around the world.

Leading expert on European economics and Chairman of the Central Europe Trust

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During his political career he was a key figure in shaping Britain’s fiscal and economic policies. As Secretary of State for Energy he had responsibility for the privatisation of the energy sector until he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post he held for six years.
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One of the World’s Leading Wine Authors and Oeonologists

Hugh Johnson is considered worldwide as the leading wine author. The two exceptional successes of his amazing career are ‘The World Atlas of Wine’ which is celebrating its quarter century and the annually updated ‘Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine’ now in its second decade.

With his extensive knowledge and his outstanding talent Hugh’s strength is taking the incredibly complex subject of wine and making it accessible to any audience.

International Wine & Spirit Competition 1998 Communicator of the Year.

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Hugh Johnson began acquiring his knowledge of wine as a member of the Wine and Food Society at Cambridge University. In 1963 he succeeded André Simon as editor of ‘Wine and Food’. With the publication of his first book ‘Wine’ he established himself, at the age of 27, as one of the subject’s foremost writers. Hugh regularly publishes articles in the most prestigious magazines worldwide. He was feature writer for Condé Nast Magazines, Editor of the Wine and Food Magazine, Wine Correspondent for the Sunday Times and Wine Editor of the New York Cuisine Magazine. Currently Hugh is President of The Sunday Times Wine Club and The Hugh Johnson Collection Ltd.
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Fund Management Guru

Nicola Horlick is a senior fund manager and the CEO of Bramdean Asset Management LLP. Nicola has worked in the fund management industry for over twenty-five years and has participated in the growth of some of the UK’s premier asset management businesses.

“A leading fund management guru”

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Nicola joined SG Warburg as a graduate trainee in 1983, which became Mercury Asset Management. In 1991, she joined Morgan Grenfell Asset Management as Director and became Managing Director of the fund management division of the UK business in 1992. Over the next four years, funds under her management rose from £4 billion to £22 billion. After leaving Morgan Grenfell, Nicola took six weeks out to write her autobiographical account of her daughter’s traumatic treatment for leukaemia, revealing the real woman behind the headlines. The book was called ‘Can You Have It All?’ and the proceeds went to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1997, Nicola co-founded the UK arm of Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM), pulled in £7 billion worth of investments for SGAM and also took time off to have her sixth child.
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Europe’s Most Experienced Futurologist

Ray Hammond is Europe’s most experienced and most widely published Futurologist. For over 25 years he has researched, written and spoken about how future trends will affect society and business. As Global Warming and the threat to the Environment continues to occupy a priority position in the World’s agenda. Ray is one of a few commentators who are equipped to communicate how these massive challenges will affect our futures, the way we do business and the far reaching implications both socially, economically and politically.

A futurologist proved accurate by a quarter-century of predictions

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efore becoming a futurologist, Ray founded and led highly successful magazine publishing and advertising businesses in the UK, Europe and the USA before selling them advantageously. He is now a globally published novelist (Macmillan) whose three recent high-tech futuristic novels have won world-wide critical acclaim. Ray is a visiting lecturer at the Institute For The Future of Humanity, University of Oxford, a visiting lecturer at the London Business School and a contributing editor to the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, U.S.A. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.).
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