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Former Minister of State for Trade & Investment and Former Director-General of the CBI

Lord Digby Jones became Director-General of the CBI in 2000 to serve a five-year non-renewable term of office. In an unprecedented move in 2003 this was extended at the request of CBI members. Having successfully taken the British business message to over 55 different countries he left the CBI in 2006 and joined Deloitte as Chairman of the Deloitte Industries Group and a senior adviser to the CEO. In 2007 he was named by Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Minister for Trade and Investment at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and at the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, a role from which he recently stepped down in 2008 and was appointed the ambassador for the Government’s National Economic Council.

“The voice of British business”

[expand title=”In detail”] It was in corporate finance and client development that Lord Jones made his name and he was also involved in most of the major management buy-outs and merger and acquisition activity in the West Midlands in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1998 he joined KPMG as Vice Chairman of Corporate Finance where he acted as close adviser to many public companies across the United Kingdom. In 2007 he was created a life peer as Lord Jones of Birmingham.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In various roles throughout his distinguished career, he has regularly and repeatedly visited businesses around the UK and across the world, taking their views back to those who make the rules. He has appeared regularly on television, radio and in the newspapers, promoting the interests of wealth and job creation in the UK, the rest of Europe and beyond.[/expand]

What our clients are saying

“Digby was excellent. He was described as inspirational by most delegates. He was relaxed, knowledgeable and engaging-Chamber of Commerce”

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Topics

Mergers and Acquisitions

Promoting UK Business Interests

The Future of Business

The Effects of Globalisation

Wealth and Job Creation in the UK

Knowledge Management

Publications

2002
Effective Knowledge Management: A Best Practice Blueprint

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