The Leading Speakers Bureau

Author and Former editor of the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday Express

Eve Pollard is a journalist and media commentator and was only the second woman ever to edit a national newspaper. Eve is a regular reporter on BBC1’s The One Show. She also frequently appears on radio and TV from The News Quiz to You and Yours, This Morning, Have I Got News For You, Loose Women. Eve is also a published novelist and biographer.

“The First Lady of Fleet Street”

[expand title=”In detail”] Starting out in women’s magazines, Eve rose to edit the Sunday Mirror and Sunday Express, as well as magazine supplements for many of the national Sunday papers. Returning to women’s titles she also launched Elle magazine in the US as its first editor-in-chief. Eve has had a varied and colourful career that has seen her rise from junior reporter to editor in the male-dominated world of old-school newspaper journalism. A respected commentator on the media, its future, and its effects, Eve is a member of the Competition Commission’s Newspaper Takeover Panel.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]The all-round talent that is Eve Pollard has a wealth of experience in the corporate field and is especially interesting as an after dinner speaker. Eve is also an experienced and accomplished host and facilitator.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Eve is an extremely funny, interesting and insightful after dinner speaker and always well received by audiences around the country.[/expand]
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Europe’s only Professor for Computer Gaming

Prof. Linda Breitlauch is Europe’s only Professor for Computer Gaming. She is currently the Head of the Game Design Program at the MediaDesign Hochschule, Düsseldorf teaching media theory, design and multimedia dramaturgy. She has helped pioneer work into the combination in a novel way of two gaming traditions, which have been mutual exclusive till now: outdoor games and computer games.

“Linda Breitlauch gives a very realistic overview of modern game development practices”

[expand title=”In detail”] Prof. Linda Breitlauch became a games enthusiast in the days of the early consoles. She has pioneered the framework of her study screenplay and dramaturgy in the Film and Television College in Potsdam. Among other things in the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences she studied “Interactive Storytelling” at great length. [/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Prof. Breitlauch offers insights into the developments in the computer games industry. Her realistic overview opens audience’s minds to realistic conflicts, witty challenges, many-sided strategies and varied game contents.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Linda Breitlauch’s fascinating presentations are filled with ideas on her passions – adventures, strategy games and role plays. She also looks at the new challenges game design is facing and into the role of women in games, their emotional effects and the thought processes behind the active rolls from feminine figures in the games.[/expand]
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The 1st President of the European Parliament & Former French Minister, Holocaust Survivor

Simone Veil is arguably the one person most responsible for advancing women’s legal rights in France. She served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France. Very few figures in French politics enjoy the support of people from all political spectrums. Yet this is certainly the case with Simone Veil, a woman with an unquestionable moral aura. Beyond her political commitment, Simone Veil’s career path is highly symbolic of the complexity of post-war French history.

In 2005 she was awarded with the Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation

[expand title=”In detail”] Having obtained her baccalauréat in 1943 before being deported, Simone Veil began the study of law and political science at Sciences Po. A survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family, she is the Honorary President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the 1979 European election. In its first session, the new Parliament elected Veil as its President, which she served as until 1982. She was elected to the Académie française in 2008. She has received honours from the governments and organizations of France, the Ivory Coast, Spain, Morocco, Germany, Greece, Venezuela, Italy, Belgium, Israel and the United States.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]In France, throughout Europe, as well as the rest of the world, Madame Simone Veil is acknowledged as one of the world’s most courageous, powerful and influential people, admired for her political and personal courage. She owes her popularity to her undeterred resolve, in particular when faced with the horror of the Nazi deportation camps. She has yet again taken up a new challenge: ensuring that the memory of the past and the duty to remember don’t hamper her faith in the future. Her career inspires awe at the extent of her contributions.[/expand]

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[expand title=”How she presents”]Simone Veil is a remarkable woman who has seemed to be “inhabited by the absolute”. Her personal courage served as an example for a country that needed to regain faith in itself and her presentations are unforgettable and very powerful. Her political, legislative and social power is real and honoured. She is remarkable for the openness, modesty and humility with which she fields questions and ponders the future of women in France, in Europe and in the world.[/expand]
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Director of Liberty & One of the UK’s Leading Human Rights Campaigners

With an international reputation as a human rights campaigner, Shami Chakrabarti was appointed director of Liberty, the National Council of Civil Liberties, in 2003. A frequent contributor to radio and The Independent newspaper on civil liberties, she was named the second most inspirational political figure in the 2006 Channel 4 Political Awards, coming second to Jamie Oliver, beating Tony Blair, David Cameron, George Galloway and Bob Geldof. She was also named in the top ten of a poll run by the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme to find out ‘who runs Britain’, and awarded the Lloyds TSB Asian Woman of Achievement Award in 2005.

“Fundamental rights and freedoms belong to all the people”

[expand title=”In detail”] London-born Shami worked as a barrister at the Home Office before joining Liberty in 2001, where she has campaigned against counter-terrorism legislation and spoken out about ID cards, incitement to religious hatred and ASBOs. Recently appointed a governor of the London School of Economics, Shami sits on the Advisory Board of the British Institute of Human Rights and the Executive Committee of the Administrative Law Bar Association. She is the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Shami Chakrabarti seems to be one step ahead of the rest of us and is one of the most important voices for civil liberties today. Since becoming Liberty’s Director she has written, spoken and broadcast widely on the importance of the post-WW2 human rights framework as an essential component of democratic society.[/expand]

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[expand title=”How she presents”]Shami Chakrabarti provides a highly informed view that is both entertaining and effective.[/expand]
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International Economist, Author of Global Bestseller ‘Dead Aid’ and ‘How the West was Lost’

Dambisa Moyo is an international economist who comments on the macro economy and global affairs. In 2009, she was named by Time Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” and was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. Her writing appears regularly in economic and finance-related publications such as Financial Times, the Economist and Wall Street Journal.

Dambisa Moyo’s diagnosis of the recent disasters in financial markets is succinct and sophisticated…. The Observer: Book Review

[expand title=”In detail”] Dambisa Moyo was born in Zambia. She received her doctorate at Oxford University, earned an MPA from Harvard’s University’s Kennedy School of Government, and an MBA from the American University in Washington DC. She worked for the World Bank as a consultant and at Goldman Sachs as an economist in the global macroeconomic team. Her two New York Bestsellers, ‘Dead Aid’ and ‘How the West was Lost’, will be followed by a new book in January 2012 ‘Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and what it Means for the World’.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]She offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth, and shares her account of the recent disasters in global financial markets. Her views on the decline of the economic supremacy of the West over the past 50 years which is now poised to tip in favour of the emerging world, offers a prescription for stopping complacency in the Western world.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Dambisa is an eloquent and well informed speaker, who is in frequent demand at keynote summits and conferences around the globe. She is also part of our Top Women keynote speakers. [/expand]
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Indian-born British TV Chef, Award-winning Author & Food Writer

Manju Malhi is the the UK’s leading spice pundit and expert on Anglo-Indian home cooking. As well as her own Simply Indian series aired on the Taste Network in 2001, she has appeared amongst several programmes, on ITV’s Saturday Cooks and This Morning, Channel 5’s Open House and The Terry and Gaby Show, Sky One’s Taste, UKTV Food’s Great Food Live, Food Uncut and Market Kitchen and BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen. In her cooking, she draws up on her past and combines it with the realities of urban Western life and has come up with her own unique Brit-Indi style of food.

“Manju Malhi won the BBC’s Food and Drink competition in 1999”

[expand title=”In detail”] Manju Malhi was raised in North West London where she grew up surrounded by Indian culture, traditions and lifestyles. She comes from a non-conformist Asian family. Her parents moved to England in the late sixties at a time when things were tough, not only for the host community but for people who were coming from the Indian sub-continent in search of a better life. Her foray into the TV world has taken her to India for a forty part series entitled Cooking Isn’t Rocket Science for one of India’s leading broadcasters NDTV, preparing British cuisine for India. She writes on Indian food for newspapers and magazines, voice overs and television continuity for BBC1 and BBC2 (her favourite channel) and is the voice of BBC Food.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Having spent several years of her childhood in India where she explored and experienced the vast and varied cuisines of the country, Manju Malhi loves hosting cookery theatres around the country promoting the easy ethos of Indian home cooking. Specialising in Anglo-Indian cuisine, she writes on Indian food for newspapers and magazines, voice overs and television continuity for BBC1 and BBC2 (her favourite channel) and is the voice of BBC Food.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Manju Malhi is very much at home in any media situation and is a natural, charismatic personality, very much in demand at prestigious cookery events.[/expand]
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Expert on Social Media, Technology & Digital Strategies

Tiffany St James is a social technologist and digital strategist advising governments and industry on greater digital competency. Her achievements in digital and social media: She launched the world’s first social media monitoring laboratory now used for a global advertising agency. The Former Head of Public Participation (Social Media) for the UK Government, the only role of its kind in the world. She wrote social media policy and guidance for the UK Govt and delivered civil service training.

“One of the UK’s leading Social Media experts”

[expand title=”In detail”] Now a social media digital strategist for leading technology companies and projects Tiffany works for The Guardian, Microsoft, Channel4 and Euro RSCG London. She also advises the Speaker of the House of Commons on Public Engagement and is Special Advisor to The British Interactive Media Association. Tiffany launched data.gov.uk the UK Government’s data repository and the largest in the world working with Sir Tim Berners-Lee[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Tiffany works with sponsors, producers and corporate clients to ensure her presentations take them on an interesting journey of discovery in digital and social media. She bringing campaigns to life, finds useful, entertaining and relevant examples, grounds technology and its application and inspires use through practical and useful strategy and guidance.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Tiffany is renowned for her clear and fluent speaking style and abundance of practical examples. She continues to be in great demand by corporate clients the world over.[/expand]
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Leading UAE Media Personality, Former Member of the UAE Federal National Council

Najla Al Awadhi is a former Member of Parliament of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and a distinguished media leader in the Middle East. Her Excellency is also the first woman from a Gulf Cooperation Country to hold a chief executive post in a state run media organization. For over a decade Her Excellency served as CEO of Channels at Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI), previously serving as General Manager of Dubai One and Deputy CEO of Dubai Media Inc.

“Few can deny the force that is Najla Al Awadhi”

[expand title=”In detail”] Her Excellency is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and also the Global Agenda Councils of the WEF. She is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Middle East Leadership Initiative and acting Chairperson of the regional board of Young Arab Leaders. Her Excellency graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of New Hampshire where she was President of both the Muslim Student Association and the Human Rights Committee. Her Excellency is currently completing her graduate studies at Harvard University.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]One of the first women in the history of the UAE to become a member of the UAE’s Parliament, its youngest parliamentarian and the youngest female member of any Arab legislation body in Khaleeji history, Najla Al Awadhi covers a range of socio-political topics, broadly speaking about anything that falls under media, government, or the role and rights of women, in the context of the Arab and Muslim world. She is brimming with dreams to initiate positive change in society through the development of women’s rights in the region.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Energetic and dynamic, Najla represents the up-and-coming generation of passionately fired-up Arab women who take their role as enterprising and productive members of society very seriously. [/expand]
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Internationally Renowned Speaker on Consumer Trends, Chairman of BrainReserve

Faith Popcorn is a futurist, author and founder and CEO of marketing consulting firm, BrainReserve, an innovative consultancy firm she established over 30 years ago. Prior to founding her consultancy, she was an advertising agency creative director. Her best selling book is ‘The Popcorn Report’. Leading companies in a wide array of industries employ her actionable advice to advantageously position brands.

“With a 95 percent accuracy rate in her predictions of social, economic & political trends, she certainly is one of the most impressive futurists”

[expand title=”In detail”] Faith Popcorn is a graduate of New York University and New York’s High School of Performing Arts. Hailed as the “the trend oracle” and the “Nostradamus of marketing”, major media sources including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, BusinessWeek, Fortune and CNN.com have run prominently placed features highlighting her capabilities. She also produces the Popcorn Report Live!, an informative, in-person presentation that illuminates the connection between timely cultural shifts and global branding initiatives.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Faith Popcorn is an expert in cultural trend prediction offering corporate client’s deep insight into consumer desires, allowing for long-term, sustainable growth. Harnessing the technology of the information age, she gleans highly pertinent data from numerous sources, translating seemingly disparate facts into pointed trending strategy directives.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]A firm believer in the power of reinvention, Faith Popcorn is not one to stand still and her insightful and innovative presentations are memorable and accurate.[/expand]
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Inspirational Model, Global Fashion Icon, UNICEF UK Ambassador & Businesswoman

Claudia Schiffer is recognised throughout the world as a model, icon and businesswoman. She has established herself as one of the biggest names in fashion and beauty in the world. She continues to be photographed today by the worlds leading photographers, has appeared in numerous campaigns and is currently developing her ‘brand business’

“The first model ever to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the New York Times & People”

[expand title=”In detail”] Claudia Schiffer has cemented her position as one of the worlds leading supermodels. Discovered in a disco in Hamburg at 17, she shot to success almost immediately as the face of the highly published and iconic Guess? Jeans campaigns of the early 90’s. The Guess name became known around the world because of Claudia. Shortly after, she was selected by Karl Lagerfeld to become the new face of Chanel and remained as his muse for many years. She has appeared in a number of films and music videos including West life’s cover of Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl as the iconic uptown girl.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]One of the most beautiful women in the world who has graced the cover of over a 1,000 magazines setting a world record, Claudia Schiffer’s ability to appeal to a global audience has ensured an internationally successful career spanning over two decades. The demand for her endorsement is as strong today as it has ever been.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Claudia Schiffer has a natural style and presence that adds prestige and glamour to any event.[/expand]
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