The Leading Speakers Bureau

Wine Expert, Author and TV Personality

Oz Clarke first became a household name as a presenter of BBC TV’s Food and Drink since then he has appeared on numerous other television shows. As well as his work as a broadcaster Oz hosts many wine tastings throughout the year and each year he makes personal appearances at the BBC Good Food Show at the NEC and BBC Festive Good Food Show in London.

“Oz is a cheery character who makes a great effort to understand the audience – he is superb”

[expand title=”In detail”] Oz Clarke’s wine career began when he captained the wine-tasting team for Oxford University. After graduating, Oz spent a number of years as an actor before turning to writing professionally in 1984, Oz was by then a leading West End actor (playing all the men in the Mitford Girls, Sweeny Todd and Peron in Evita). Nowadays Oz appears frequently on television and his wine books and guides are best-sellers. He has been awarded International Wine Personality of the Year along with James May at the International Wine Challenge Awards 2009. Oz also won the 2009 Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards Oz as the winner of the International Wine Book 2009 for his book Bordeaux.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]A charismatic and popular television personality, Oz adds his own special touch to any event with his affable persona and encyclopaedic knowledge of wines.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Oz is an entertaining speaker and a delightful host. He takes great care preparing for his presentations and ensures that audiences always have a great time.[/expand]
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The CIA’s Former Top China Analyst

Chris Johnson is a senior adviser and holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. An accomplished Asian affairs specialist, Mr. Johnson spent nearly two decades serving in the U.S. government’s intelligence and foreign affairs communities and has extensive experience analyzing and working in Asia on a diverse set of country-specific and transnational issues.

“An accomplished Asian affairs specialist”

[expand title=”In detail”] Chris worked as a Senior China Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he played a key role in the analytic support to policymakers during the 1996 Taiwan Strait missile crisis, the 1999 accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, the downing of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft on Hainan Island in 2001 and the SARS epidemic in 2003. Chris served as an intelligence liaison to two secretaries of state and their deputies on worldwide security issues and in 2011 was awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Superior Honor Award for outstanding support to the secretary and her senior staff. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Chris offers unrivalled expertise in dealing with Asia. His knowledge of China’s internal dynamics helps provide leading analysis to audiences who want to expand into China and Asia.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An informative and direct speaker, Chris Johnson’s presentations are tailored made to suit individuals clients needs and are based on his extensive research and ongoing research.[/expand]
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Editor-at-Large of the Daily Telegraph

Jeff Randall is a Business Journalist, formerly the Business Editor of BBC News and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Telegraph. He joined the Daily Telegraph in 2005 after four years with the BBC. He was previously with the Sunday Business, which he edited from its launch in February 1998.

“He talks and writes about complex financial matters in a language people understand.”
The Daily Telegraph

[expand title=”In detail”] Between 1986 and 1988 he was City Correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, which he joined from the Financial Weekly, where he was Assistant Editor. He spent five years from 1989 to 1994 as City Editor on the Sunday Times. Between 1994 and 1995 he was City and Business Editor on the Sunday Times, as well as a Director of Times Newspapers. From 1995 to 1996 he was Deputy Chairman of Financial Dynamics Ltd, a City PR firm. He then became Assistant Editor and Sports Editor on the Sunday Times and was responsible for launching the Sunday Times’ 20-page colour sports section in 1996. He won the London Press Club’s Business Journalist of the Year Award in 2000 and the FT Analysis’ Financial Journalist of the Year Award in 1991. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]One of the UK’s best known and most influential business commentators, Jeff proves to be an ideal moderator and host at various conferences throughout the country.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Relaxed and highly professional he draws on his extensive media experience to provide audiences with a truly memorable event.[/expand]
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Former Economics Editor at the BBC & Author

Peter Jay is best known as the former Economics Editor at the BBC, a position which put his finger firmly on the pulse of current economic markets and the volatile political factors affecting the world’s businesses.

Peter uses his considerable knowledge of the global and European economic landscape to provide essential information and insights to enable decision makers to plan strategically and gain the all important competitive advantage.

[expand title=”In detail”] Educated at Oxford and a veteran of the Royal Navy, Peter served for six years in the British Treasury Department before joining the Times as Economics Editor. After a decade at the paper, he was appointed UK Ambassador to the United States.

At the Treasury Department Peter gained useful insight into the political and economical decision making processes of the UK Government, and he gained further insight in to the US political processes during his short but successful tenure as UK Ambassador to the US. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Peter’s book the ‘Wealth of Man’ is an insightful, stirring account of man’s pursuit of wealth from caveman to cyberspace and spans the entire globe. It has received recognition as a masterpiece of historical, economic, scientific and cultural synthesis, the sort of re-reading of history that makes a reader’s eyes pop open with wonder and delight.

Peter brings depth and perception to his entertaining presentations. He is an excellent communicator and a true professional. Undoubtedly of the highest economic pedigree, he is in frequent demand to keynote summits and conferences around the globe. [/expand]
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Financial Journalist and Founder of Reuters Breaking views

Hugo Dixon is the founder, Editor-in-Chief and the Chairman at Reuters Breakingviews, the leading international source of online financial commentary. Before founding breakingviews, Hugo spent 13 years at the Financial Times, the last five as head of Lex. He began his journalistic career at the Economist.

“A Leading Financial Journalist”

[expand title=”In detail”] Hugo was a Brackenbury Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Before that, he was a King’s Scholar at Eton College. Breakingviews is now read daily by the world’s leading investment banks, institutional investors, hedge fund managers, corporations, law firms, public relations advisors and media outlets. He is a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation. In 2008, he won the Decade of Excellence Award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Hugo offers audiences his views on companies, markets and trends, giving clients clear insight into what’s happening in business and finance. From punchy opinion on company events to analysis of big deals Hugo has the information clients need.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An experienced journalist and commentator with superb analytical skills, Hugo’s fact filled presentations are tailored to exactly match clients requirements.[/expand]
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Expert on Behavioural & Brain Science of information decision-making and consumer behaviour

Olivier Oullier PhD is a renowned expert on the behavioural and brain sciences of information decision-making and consumer behaviour. He builds on the leading theoretical, lab and field research he conducts to advise governments, NGO’s and corporations. In 2012, he participated in the WEF’s Global Risk Report and was granted him the honour to be the only French academic to be invited at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. In 2011, he was appointed a professor of psychology and neuroscience of individual differences at Aix-Marseille University. That same year, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader.

“A leading expert on decision-making and consumer behaviour”

[expand title=”In detail”] Since 2009, Professor Oullier has been a scientific adviser to the Center for Strategic Analysis of the Prime Minister of France – a consulting and research institution in charge of advising the French Government – where he has been heading the “Neuroscience and public policy” program, a world premiere initiative investigating how a better understanding of human behaviour and brain dynamics could help develop more efficient policies in health prevention, sustainable development, economics, finance, education, law, ethics and improve well-being. This appointment made him the first neuroscientist ever to be hired by a government to lead work on policy-making.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Olivier’s unique field, consulting and academic experience allows him to introduce the concepts of ‘social neuromarketing’ and ‘embodied economics’ as new ways to consider insights from the real life of human beings to design realistic strategies and nudges to improve people’s life and the functioning of corporations.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Olivier’s presentations are customised to fit the needs of the clients to whom he is speaking. His messages are powerful and effective, delivered in his personal, yet highly professional style.[/expand]
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Human Resource Development Specialist, Mountaineer

Lene Gammelgaard is a psychotherapist and a lawyer. She was the first Scandinavian woman to climb Everest, a success overshadowed by eight team members’ deaths, yet her story of survival and accomplishment is riveting. Cofounder of several drug treatment centres; she also founded a consulting business, focusing on human resource development.

‘We must adjust to life as life will not adjust to us.’
Lene Gammelgaard

[expand title=”In detail”] A writer and therapist, she uses the outdoors as a learning environment for her human resource development studies. Based in Denmark, she also pursues her HR studies as a PhD researcher for the University of Edinburgh.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]A truth seeking person, she reveals how to improve your success rate by looking at the interrelationship between success and failure. Although driven by discovery in a much explored world she shows you the benefits of any discovery being new to you.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]With a balance of passion and realism she animates her adventures and subsequent studies.[/expand]
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Director and Chief Economist Centre for Global Energy Studies

Dr Leo Drollas is currently the Director and Chief Economist at the CGES. He has dealt with subjects as diverse as oil’s shipping needs, oil prices in the long run, oil speculation versus fundamentals, the demand for aviation fuel, US gasoline demand, oil inventories and prices, oil export tariffs, oil prices and production, oil capacity utilisation, oil-quota policies, the connection between desired oil stock cover and oil futures prices, and many more.

“One of the world’s leading experts on oil price trends and price forecasting”

[expand title=”In detail”] Leo Drollas joined British Petroleum in 1977. At BP he managed the energy and economic modelling team in the company’s Corporate Planning Department and was responsible for many studies on various aspects of the oil market. Whilst at BP, he was seconded for two years to the Confederation of British Industry, where he held the post of Deputy Director of Economics and completed two major studies. He has written many articles and studies on oil, energy and the economy in general. He has also spoken at numerous conferences on diverse oil-related subjects. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Dr Drollas is highly qualified to offer audiences detailed insights into the current state of oil prices, what the future holds for the oil industry and what the current escalating oil prices will mean for businesses around the globe over the next 20 years.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Highly sought-after at leading energy conferences Dr Drollas‘ presentations are based on his extensive and ongoing research at the Centre for Global Energy Studies and offer the most comprehensive and up to date information available. [/expand]
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Co-Founder of Pret a Manger

Sinclair Beecham founded Pret A Manger with his business partner Julian Metcalfe in 1986. Following that his latest venture is the founding of the Hoxton Hotel, in Shoreditch.It opened in September 2006 and has been virtually full ever since. He continues to act as Non-Executive Director at Pret A Manger and remains a shareholder.Pret A Manger is recognised as a leader in customer service and staff motivation.

“We have demonstrated that quality does not need to be expensive and can also behighly profitable”

[expand title=”In detail”] Sinclair graduated from the Polytechnic of Central London in 1983 after studying Urban Estate Management, where he met Julian Metcalfe. He then joined Crest Estates, a property developer as development and marketing executive. Since opening the first Pret A Manger in 1986, he has been obsessed with selling good natural food to people who are in a rush at lunchtime. After 14 years, he is fortunate to have thousands of loyal customers in the U.K. He was also a Non Executive Director of Virgin Active and Molton Brown until 2005.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]As one of the Britain’s leading business entrepreneurs, Sinclair shares his insights and perspectives about what it takes to be successful in business. He genially believes in helping business and specially in advising the entrepreneurial spirit.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Sinclair is a powerful speaker on the factors behind the success of all his business ventures. His speaking style coupled with an incisive understanding on how to build a new business have made him a highly sought after speaker. [/expand]
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Chief Executive Officer, BRAND Sense Agency

Simon Harrop is the CEO of Brand Sense – global experts in sensory marketing, specialising in sensory retail, space consultancy and product development. In his role as a sensory expert, Simon has enjoyed extensive public profiling through media. He is also a regular speaker, panel guest and contributor on the international marketing conference circuit.

“A Brand Sense expert”

[expand title=”In detail”] Before establishing BRAND Sense Simon worked in a variety of marketing roles. A strong belief in the power of the sense of smell led him to form The Aroma Company in 1993. The Aroma Company provided strategic brand development and promotion through the sense of smell. Simon launched Brand Sense in 2006 with business partner John Phillips to help carry the message of sensory marketing out to a wider audience. Simon has created sensory strategies for brands such as British Airways, P&G and General Motors. Sensory Branding is now used across the globe by companies such as Nestle, McDonalds, Unilever, and Glaxo Smith Kline.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Simon shows audiences how they can use multi-sensory branding to develop products, services and communications that express their brands personality in new ways and helps them to develop deeper emotional connections with customers.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Simon’s entertaining, high-energy style and power-packed presentations have built his reputation as a speaker who really delivers.[/expand]
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