The Leading Speakers Bureau

Founding Dean of College of Environmental Science Peking University

C.S. Kiang is the Founding Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences at Peking University. Currently, he is the CEO of Sustainable Development Technologies and Vice Chairman of Global Urban Development. He is a Councilor of the World Future Council, a member of the Advisory Board of the Climate Change Capital, a member of International Council of Asia Society and a member of the Global Agenda Council of Climate Change of the World Economic Forum among other roles.

“Climate change is an unprecedented crisis for humanity”

[expand title=”In detail”] Professor C. S. Kiang received a B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University and PhD in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He spent more than 30 years in the United States, where he worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the School of Geophysical Sciences, Georgia Tech, and other institutions. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Kiang has played a very active role in assisting China in the development of a modern and sustainable economy.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Prof. Kiang explains to his audiences around the world how his vision is to set up the basic infrastructure for the development of leadership in sustainable development, exploring the world impact of what China can do for the world in the 21st century.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]His speaking style coupled with an incisive understanding and enlightened capacity to explain and discuss global issues has contributed to his high popularity and reputation.[/expand]
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Multi-Award Winning Violinist

Nigel Kennedy is a multi-award winning and world-wide renowned skilful violinist. For over twenty-five years, he has been acknowledged as one of the world’s leading violin virtuosos and is, without doubt, one of the most important violinists Britain has ever produced. He made his reputation with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. More recently he has concentrated on composing and more pop influenced work.

“He is the best selling classical violinist of all time”

[expand title=”In detail”] During his career Nigel Kennedy has undertaken countless international tours, performing with the world’s major orchestras and conductors, from Europe to the United States to Australia. Major debuts have included London’s Royal Festival Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic, his New York orchestral debut in 1987 and his 2004 French debut. His passion is jazz. He has a jazz quintet in Krakow, Poland, where he lives forpart of the year. He has attracted an enormous amount of worldwide media attention throughout his extraordinary career. His television appearances have been wide and varied and he has given numerous public and private performances for members of the British royal family.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Nigel’s virtuoso technique, unique talent and mass appeal have brought fresh perspectives to both the classical and contemporary repertoire. His strength is his remarkable sensitivity in caressing a melody to life.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Nigel is almost as well known for shunning classical-music traditions, his expletive-strewn “mockney” language and his shambolic attire, as he is for his fabulous, if sometimes controversial, interpretations of classical music.[/expand]
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Innovative Management Expert and CEO of Semco SA

Ricardo Semler is the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. Mr Semler has been Vice President of the Federation of Industries of Brazil and a member of SOS Atlantic Forest, Brazil’s leading environmental defence organisation. In 2003, he founded the Lumiar School, a democratic school where children aged from 2-10 learn only about things that interest them.

“Global Leader of Tomorrow” – World Economic Forum

[expand title=”In detail”] Mr Semler’s innovative business management policies have attracted widespread interest around the world. TIME featured him among its Global 100 young leaders profile series published in 1994 while the World Economic Forum also nominated him. The Wall Street Journal America Economia, the Wall Street Journal’s Latin American magazine, named him Latin American Businessman of the Year in 1990 and he was named Brazilian Businessman of the Year in 1990 and 1992.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Known around the globe for his innovative, employee-centric management style, Ricardo Semler is a true visionary who advises businesses on how they can significantly improve performance by restructuring relationships with their people. He has been profiled in more than 200 magazines and newspapers, including a special edition of Time highlighting future world leaders and speaks regularly to business schools, businesses and groups to promote his philosophy of industrial democracy. He talks in depth about his innovative, employee-centric management style, and offers organisations practical advice on how they can significantly improve performance by restructuring relationships with their people. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A brilliant communicator and inspirational individual, his presentations invariably spark creative and productive thinking about how to lead and manage.[/expand]
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Former CEO of Tesco, and One of the Most Respected Business Leaders in Europe

Sir Terry Leahy was the Chief Executive of Tesco PLC from 1997 until his retirement from the position in March 2011. Sir Terry transformed Tesco from a follower into the number one supermarket in the UK and the third biggest in the world. A creative leader, he has developed a reputation for his willingness to take risks on new products, store formats and lines of business. Sir Terry now works in Private Equity and invests in entrepreneurial businesses, and has taken the first role of his post-Tesco working as a part-time ‘senior adviser’ to US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice, helping them out with their investments.

“The Customer Must Come First”

[expand title=”In detail”] Sir Terry joined Tesco in 1979 as a Marketing Executive, was appointed to the Board of Directors in 1992 and by the time he was 40 he had worked his way up to become Chief Executive in 1997. In March 2008 he was nominated by Retail Week as Retail Leader of the Year. From 2005 to 2010 he was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader by Management Today and in 2004 he was named European Businessman of the year by Fortune Magazine. In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine and was voted Business person of the Year by the Sunday Times.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Sir Terry explains to audiences the importance of knowing what the different jobs entail, what consumers are buying and what people want. He shows how through creative leadership he enabled Tesco to successfully take risks on new products, store formats and lines of business, including expanding the company’s non-food product line.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Highly modest and intensely private, Sir Terry Leahy provides fascinating insights and shows why he is Britain’s most admired business leader and retail expert.[/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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President and Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute; Guru of the Global Environment Movement; International Agricultural Analyst

A graduate in agricultural science from Rutgers University Lester Brown has, over the years, become the guru of the world environmental movement. Following a career as an international analyst with the US department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service Lester Brown joined forces with former head of UNICEF James Grant to found the Overseas Development Council. With the help of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund he founded in 1974 the Worldwatch Institute, a private non-profit making institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues.

[expand title=”In detail”] Lester Brown is author and co-author of many books and papers dedicated to alerting the world to future problems resulting from the non-rational exploitation of natural resources and the disregard to sustainable growth. He has been internationally recognised for his work with honorary degrees from a string of universities and in 1995 was named as one of the 50 Great Americans by Marquis Who’s Who. He has received the MacArthur Fellow Award (1986), the United Nations Environment Prize (1987) The World Wildlife Fund for Nature Gold Medal (1989) and the Blue Planet Prize (1994). [/expand]

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Human Capital Management Expert

Rajeev Peshawaria is the CEO of the ICLIF Leadership & Governance Centre which provides executive education, advisory services and executive coaching to professionals and board directors in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining ICLIF in April 2010, Rajeev spent twenty-two years at blue chip corporations and in his two most recent corporate positions he was the Global Chief Learning Officer at Morgan Stanley and The Coca-Cola Company. He was awarded Asia’s Emerging CEO of the Year at the 2nd Middle East Business Leaders Summit in association with the Federation of GCC Chambers in 2011.

“Leadership is a Special talent that goes far beyond just being a boss”

[expand title=”In detail”] Before joining Coca-Cola, Rajeev was the head of Asia and Europe of the Pine Street Group, Goldman Sachs’s famed leadership development institute. For twelve years before Goldman, Rajeev held several positions at American Express finally ending his tenure there as the global director of Leadership Development programs. In the early years of his career, Rajeev was a currency trader with American Express and HSBC. Rajeev earned an MBA from Webster University, Vienna, Austria, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Bombay, India. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Rajeev Peshawaria provides simple but powerful insights about the difference between leading and managing while becoming a highly-effective leader and peak performer. He has extensive global experience in leadership development and coaching senior management teams in their efforts to streamline business strategy, organisational architecture and culture. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Rajeev’s presentations are powerful and effective, delivered in a personal, yet highly professional style.[/expand]
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Everest Expedition Leader, Author & President of One Step Beyond WorldWide

John Amatt is an expert on change management, motivation and teamwork. He is Founder & President of One Step Beyond WorldWide, an innovative educational and motivational company. He was leader of an early climbing expedition to Western China, perhaps the highest peak in the world to have been ascended and descended entirely on skis.

Described as “The World’s Best Adventure Speaker”

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A native of Great Britain, for the past 35 years John has been a resident of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He is the Founder of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, widely recognized as the world’s premiere showcase of adventure documentary films and member of the Advisory Board of the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture. He is renowned in the international mountaineering community for making the first ever climb of Europe’s highest and steepest mountain face – the 5000 foot “Vertical Mile” Troll Wall in Norway. More recently, he was the principal organizer and a leader of Canada’s first successful expedition to reach the top of the world – the 29,035 foot summit of Mount Everest – a climb that was televised live throughout Canada and on ABC Nightline in the United States.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]John Amatt is the perfect speaker to assist your team in navigating through the turmoil of today’s global economic crisis. His mission is to encourage people to push beyond self-imposed limitations, to be more personally accountable for the results of their own actions, and to embrace effective teamwork by valuing the contributions of others. He has spoken to over 1,800 corporate and professional organizations representing audiences of nearly a million people in 46 countries world wide.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]John Amatt is a team player with a reputation for professionalism and cooperation, consistently delivering ‘the goods’. He motivates and inspires using anecdotes from his expeditions to remote regions and previously unclimbed peaks.[/expand]
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Professional Tennis Player

Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks, and 285 weeks overall. As of July 2011, he is ranked World No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has won a men’s record 16 Grand Slam singles titles. He is one of seven male players to capture the career Grand Slam and one of three (with Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal) to do so on three different surfaces (clay, grass and hard courts).

“Federer is considered to be the greatest tennis player of all time”

[expand title=”In detail”] As a result of Federer’s successes in tennis, he was named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for a record four consecutive years (2005–2008). He was named as a 2010 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in recognition of his leadership, accomplishments and contributions to society. He supports a number of charities. He established the Roger Federer Foundation in 2003 to help disadvantaged people and to promote sports. Federer is currently number 25 on Forbes top 100 celebrities.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Roger addresses conferences and thrills and motivates his audience with his great success story. He explains how he managed to reach the top of the professional; tennis circuit and how we can achieve our own personal and professional goals.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Roger’s relaxed presentation style and professionalism make him highly sought-after as a conference and after dinner speaker[/expand]
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Former Tennis Champion & Sports Commentator

Vijay Amritraj is a former tennis player and sports commentator.

He was, for over two decades, one of the most illustrious tennis players in India and topped the Asian charts for 14 consecutive years. He is known today for his exceptional sports commentary and for developing a successful multimedia business.

“Tennis gave me my greatest education”

[expand title=”In detail”] He played at Wimbledon for 17 straight years and made it to the quarterfinals in 1973 and 1981. He was again a quarter finalist in the 1973 and 1974 U.S. Open Tournaments. He has also led India to the 1974 and 1987 Davis Cup Finals. To nurture and develop young talent in tennis, he founded the Britannia Amritraj Tennis Academy in Chennai. He has been five-time President of the ATP Tour Players Council. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]One of the greatest tennis legends in India, Vijay demonstrates how you can achieve success through determination and will power. Audiences can benefit from his remarkable experience as both a professional tennis player and successful entrepreneur and businessman. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Charming and professional Vijay is a thorough public speaker, a diplomat nonpareil, and a smart multi-media entrepreneur.[/expand]
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