The Leading Speakers Bureau

Author & Hacker Extraordinaire

Joshua Klein is a fervent hacker of all things – he will hack anything that moves. His list includes “social systems, computer networks, institutions, consumer hardware and animal behavior.” His latest project, though charmingly low-tech, has amazing implications for the human-animal interface. Right now, he is working at Frog Design as a Principle Technologist, while developing mobile / social applications, health care-related systems and other tools that improve people’s lives. When he’s not taking things apart or putting them back together again he speaks, writes, and consults on new and emerging technologies that improve people’s lives – and has tremendous fun doing it.

“Joshua hacks…everything….”

[expand title=”In detail”] Joshua Klein has practiced, both formally and informally, the fine art of hacking across many fields – social systems, computer networks, institutions, consumer hardware, animal behaviour, and, most recently, the publishing industry. The unusual, the unexpected, and the effective pepper Klein’s work. He has come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human. He also spends a significant amount of time consulting to companies large and small, such as Microsoft, Oracle, Frog Design, Nokia, Johns Hopkins, Bankinter, The United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence and others.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Joshua Klein helps his global audiences discover how common opinion has shortsighted the impact and opportunity of the biggest trends we’ve all misunderstood. He has been described as “a cross-disciplinary, pattern recognising polymath who takes his greatest joy from combining the unexpected and seeing the result work in new and better ways”. Most of his time is spent speaking to companies and at conferences such as World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Gadgetoff, TED, SICS, LA-IP, BIF, and Serious Play, and he has appeared on the Sundance Channel, Nova, and other programs.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Joshua Klein is the quintessential hacker – someone who takes his greatest joy from combining the unexpected and seeing the result work in new and better ways. His innovative, entertaining and yet highly informative talks give you an insight into this mentality, from his unique viewpoint.[/expand]
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Author and Expert on Innovation and New Management Thinking

Tom Davenport is a Fellow with the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business and holds the President’s Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College. He is a widely published author and has written more than 100 articles for publications such as Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and the Financial Times amongst others. In 2003 he was named one of the top 25 consultants in the world by Consulting magazine.

One of the most innovative and forward thinking management thinkers

[expand title=”In detail”] Tom has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in organizational behaviour, has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also directed research centres at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company and CSC Index.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Tom shows decision makers from a wide range of businesses exactly how to modify and implement new management ideas resulting in improved performance, bigger profits and greater turn over.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Tom’s presentations are thought-provoking, well-researched, powerful and filled with actionable information and innovative break through thinking.[/expand]
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Award-winning English Film, Television & Stage Actor

Colin Firth is a world renowned star of stage and screen who first gained wide public attention for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 TV adaption of Pride and Prejudice. He subsequently achieved film stardom with the international box-office success of Bridget Jones’s Diary. It was his leading role in fashion designer Tom Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man, that garnered him awards attention like he had never received previously. His next work is in the 2012 adaptation of the John le Carré novel ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’.

“Colin has performed songs in many of his films, including the worldwide hit, Mamma Mia!”

[expand title=”In detail”] Colin Firth’s first acting experience came in infant’s school when he played “Jack Frost” in a Christmas pantomime. He spent two years at the Drama Centre in Chalk Farm where he was “discovered” while playing “Hamlet” during his final term. His first professional role was as “Bennet” in the West End production of Another Country. From this performance, he was chosen to play the character of “Judd” in the movie of the play. He went on to play a variety of character parts in both film and television. He’s had massive successes in Shakespeare in Love, A Christmas Carol, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Love Actually, Blackadder: Back & Forth, Fever Pitch and Conspiracy to name but a few.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Perhaps one of the most recognised English actors today, Colin Firth is a convincing speaker whose strengths lie in his precise thinking, careful craftsmanship and mastery of technical skills. He is a highly talented actor who has carried his adolescent sense of rebellion around with him to great effect.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Well grounded and pragmatic, Colin Firth is an exacting perfectionist with a clear, logical, analytical mind and an aptitude for hard work and an ability to talk candidly about his professional experiences as a globally recognised actor.[/expand]
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American Actor, Film Director & Political Activist

Danny Glover is the dean of African American character actors. He remains one of the top character actors working in cinema, constantly in demand, after almost thirty years since making his movie debut in the 1979 Clint Eastwood Escape from Alcatraz. He is very active in and strongly supports various humanitarian and political causes.

Arguably, Danny is best known for his role as LA police detective in Lethal Weapon

[expand title=”In detail”] Danny Glover has established a reputation as an outspoken political progressive, appearing in such productions as the stage production of Howard Zinn’s Voices from A People’s History of the United States and lending his voice to the aspirations of black folk in Africa and the Americas. Glover suffered from epilepsy in his second decade and as a young adult. Using his technique, which he describes as “a type of self-hypnosis”, he says he has not suffered a seizure since age 35. He has appeared in productions including Places in the Heart, Silverado, Witness, The Color Purple, Predator 2, Mandela, Bat-21, To Sleep With Anger, Grand Canyon, The Saint of Fort Washington, among others.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Widely respected both inside and outside the United States, both as an actor and as a humanitarian, Danny Glover has been an ambassador for the United Nations Development Program since 1998, has won a host of awards, including the NAACP Image Award five times and he is a four times Emmy nominee. An actor, producer, keynote speaker, and director, a versatile superstar, he has impacted stage, screen, and television during his distinguished career.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A distinguished actor of the stage and screen and one of Hollywood’s most renowned and respected leading men, 6’3″ Danny Glover is a towering and quietly forceful personality.[/expand]
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Award Winning English Actor & Film Producer

Hugh Grant has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César for his work in his movies that have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent, having appeared in box office hits including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary, About A Boy, American Dreamz, Love Actually, Mickey Blue Eyes and Notting Hill.

Hugh Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in the worldwide hit Four Weddings and a Funeral

[expand title=”In detail”] Hugh Grant won a scholarship to Oxford, going up to New College in 1979. He studied English literature and graduated with 2:1 honours. After making his debut in the Oxford-financed Privileged, he dabbled in a variety of jobs, writing book reviews and working as assistant groundsman at Fulham Football Club. He had his own experience as a survivor of an unfortunate episode in his private life, which he managed to overcome thanks to having a pretty damn good outlook on life.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]With a distinguished media career spanning 20 years, Hugh Grant is one of Britain’s best known faces who has been equally entertaining on-screen as well as in real life, and had enough sense of humour to survive a media frenzy. His timing, his way of testing and savouring dialogue, and his obvious good looks, have made him in demand at prestigious international events.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Arguably the most persuasive romantic comedy lead in several decades, Hugh Grant has a mastery of timing and effortless style.[/expand]
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2010 Joint Nobel Prize Winner for Economics

Prof. Christopher Pissarides was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010, for his contributions to the theory of search frictions and macroeconomics. The first Nobel winner with Cypriot citizenship, he is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and holder of the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics. He has served on the European Employment Task Force and 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.

“His book ‘Equilibrium Unemployment Theory’ is a standard reference in the economics of unemployment”

[expand title=”In detail”] Prof. Pissarides served as Vice President of the European Economic Association in 2009, becoming President Elect in 2010 and President in 2011. He has served as Head of the Economics Department at LSE, and he is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association and the Society of Labor Economists. He is also a member of Council of the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He is the chairman of the Economica board, and a member of other editorial boards. He is also a Non-National Senior Associate, Forum for Economic Research in the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey and a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus (2000-2007).[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Prof. Pissarides provides specialist analysis of the economics of unemployment, labour-market theory, labour-market policy and growth and structural change. Through his work as a research fellow of the Centre of Economic Performance at the LSE, of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), and of the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA, Bonn), he explains the importance of structural change and economic performance as indicators of the strategies required to stimulte economic growth.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]One of the pioneers of matching theory approach to unemployment theory and a distinguished speaker, Prof. Pissarides’ explanations are clear, informative and expertly delivered, making him one of the most sought-after Nobel Laureats.[/expand]
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Expert on Macroeconomics, Corporate Strategy & Business Leadership

Margaret Doyle is the Financial Services Columnist for Reuters. She comments regularly on business, the stock market and the economy for a variety of news organisations, including BBC Radio and Television, America’s NBC and NPR networks, Japan’s NHK, Sky News and CNN. She currently advises KPMG International on thought leadership.

“The Economist’s fiendishly intelligent finance correspondent” – David Cox, New Statesman

[expand title=”In detail”] Margaret Doyle earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School (HBS), where she was a Fulbright Scholar and a Baker Scholar. She began her career as a management consultant in the Financial Institutions Group of McKinsey & Company. She covered business and finance for The Economist and The Daily Telegraph for a decade and for two years edited Global Agenda, the magazine of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2003.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]An expert in all things financial including banking, accountancy, regulation, insurance and public finance Margaret has a particular skill for analysis. As a frequent chair of conferences, broadcast commentator and radio presenter, Margaret Doyle is known for her ability to present new insights on complex subjects in a straightforward and engaging way.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Margaret Doyle has charm, intellect and is a powerful communicator. Her superior grasp of current topics and strong skills as a moderator keep sessions engaging and of great interest to worldwide audiences.[/expand]
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President of DT Global Business Consulting

Dr. Daniel Thorniley is a leading authority on global emerging markets. He is the President of DT Global Business Consulting and former Senior Vice President of The Economist Group, a position he held for 19 years. He is Senior Consultant to over 200 companies in East-Central Europe, Russia, The Middle East and Africa. He delivers in-house briefings to the boards of major US and European companies.

“Danny Thorniley is a remarkable public speaker. Knowledgeable, insightful, provocative and very funny.” Rt Hon John Major

[expand title=”In detail”] Educated at Oxford University, Dr Thorniley also holds a Doctorate from the Centre for Russian and European Studies and contributes to several journals including The Economist and Time magazine. He makes frequent appearances on BBC and Channel 4 Television, CNN, CNBC as well as occasional radio interviews around the world. Previously Dr Thorniley worked at the United Nations as the United Kingdom representative at the Vienna Centre, a United Nations office for political and economic research, based in Vienna, Austria.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Daniel offers decision makers a wealth of useful actionable information, focusing on the business environment, market entry and development, banking, financing, politics and economic situation. Daniel speaks about all major markets of the world (USA, Europe, the UK) specialising in emerging markets such as China, Russia, India, the Middle East and Central Europe.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A challenging, informative and well balanced speaker, Daniel’s scintillating presentations are both high content and factual and delivered with his trademark sense of humour. He is able to entertain the audience through a two-fold approach combining insight and provocative commentary.[/expand]
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Rock-star Physicist

Prof. Brian Cox has two jobs: working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and explaining big science to the general public. He is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester. He is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC.

“Prof. Brian Cox has become a vital voice in the UK media for explaining physics to the public”

[expand title=”In detail”] Prof. Brian Cox gained a First Class Honours degree in Physics from Manchester University and a PhD in High Energy Particle Physics at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg. He also had some fame in the early 1990s as keyboard player in the UK pop band D:Ream. He recently worked as the scientific consultant for the film Sunshine. He was elected a fellow of The Explorers Club in 2002 and in 2006; he received the prestigious British Association Lord Kelvin award for his work in promoting science to the public.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]With his rockstar hair and accessible manner, Prof. Brian Cox is the go-to physicist for explaining heady concepts on British TV and radio. Brian, television presenter & radio broadcaster, has received many awards for his work in publicising science. He has given talks for varied organizations including TED (USA 2008 & 2009), World Economic Forum, Cisco Networkers among many others.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Brian’s ability to present science in an engaging, exciting and interesting way makes him a highly popular speaker.[/expand]
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Renowned Expert on Communication & Collaborative Technologies

Mark Turrell is the the founder and CEO of Orcasci and former CEO & Co-founder of Imaginatik. His two major achievements to date include Imaginatik’s award of Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2008, and taking Imaginatik public on the London Stock Exchange. In 1998, he was the first to recognize the potential for idea management technology, then defined by Post-it® Notes brainstorms and suggestion boxes. He was the first to incorporate human and management factors into innovation management technology.

“Mark taps into the collective genius that exists when we combine many brains together and focus the brainpower, like a human laser beam, on a problem”

[expand title=”In detail”] Mark graduated in Business Studies from Cass Business School in London, with a specialization in marketing. He conducted post-graduate studies at the ESCP in Paris, specializing in International Business & Finance, and then at the TU-Berlin where he studied Production, Controlling & Logistics. He worked on his doctorate at Cass Business School on the topic of critical mass and diffusion of collaborative technologies – and used his uncompleted thesis as the conceptual foundation of the company that was to become Imaginatik plc. Prior to founding Imaginatik, Mark worked at General Motors and Intel.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]A World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer & Young Global Leader, Mark Turrell advises major global firms on leveraging the ‘collective genius’ of a workforce to solve large-scale problems – his goal is to give a voice to all those invisible employees sitting on great ideas. He is committed to making change on a global scale, and is driving work on world problems, such as water, energy, poverty and waste. His fascinating presentations provide insights into how he has designed leading-edge innovation management programs for over 300 companies. His current work in the mobile space is focused on mobile applications, App Stores, and in the non-profit world, the use of mobile telephony to support citizen engagement and democracy.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A student of collaboration, Mark Turrell is a pioneer and thought leader on innovation. He is passionate about helping people change the world for better and is keen on finding ways to spread and scale good things faster.[/expand]
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