Sep 29 2008
Andrew Gowers
Business Writer & Commentator, Former Financial Times Editor
Andrew Gowers has a lifetime’s experience in newspapers and on the front-line of corporate crises in Britain, Europe and the US. A financial journalist for 25 years, most of them at the Financial Times, as Editor, and Foreign, and Middle East Editor, he went onto work in corporate communications, first at the global investment bank Lehman Brothers and then at BP – closely involved in the two most high-profile corporate crises of recent decades. He was Head of Corporate Communications and Brand at Lehman Brothers when the bank spectacularly collapsed in 2008, triggering the global financial crisis. After a stint at London Business School, he joined the oil giant BP as Head of Group Media, and was part of the company’s communications response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
“A brilliant financial journalist”
A graduate of Cambridge Uni., Andrew worked first with Reuters, then with the FT. He reported from Brussels, Zurich and the Middle East and covered subjects ranging from commodities markets to international politics. He travelled widely and became personally acquainted with many of the world’s most senior political and corporate leaders. He was appointed founding Editor of FT Deutschland until becoming Editor of the English-language FT in 2001. In 2006 he led an independent review for HM Government of the UK’s intellectual property regime and in 2008-9 he served on the advisory board for the Government’s Digital Britain review.[/expand]
Andrew offers the inside track on an unusual range of subjects. As a senior communicator for leading companies, he has a truly unique perspective on the world of business and its relationship with society, the media and public opinion. He offers a broad and expert perspective on a gamut of subjects from the UK’s rapidly changing political scene, the future of the euro, European politics, the prospects for the world economy, the Middle East, to the global financial crisis and how companies manage their reputations. With many years’ experience of commenting on international affairs, he regularly reported from the Middle East during his journalistic career, and met many of the region’s leaders. He can talk with authority and insight about the current political upheavals in the Arab world and their geostrategic and economic implications.[/expand]
Andrew has an informal speaking style and he leavens his talks with entertaining personal anecdotes and humour, while always leaving audiences with intelligent food for thought. He is equally at home speaking at conferences and dinners, small corporate seminars and large public events.[/expand]
Topics
Reputation Management
Preparing for Corporate Crises
Europe and the Future of the Euro
The Middle East
Germany’s New Economic Miracle
The Interface between Business, Media and Politics
The European Union, its Member States and European Business
Globalisation, Trade and Investment
Observations on the Collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Global Financial Crisis in all its Aspects
The World of Banking and especially Investment Banking
The Global Power Shift and Emergence of China and India
Publications
1990
Behind the Myth: Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Revolution (co-authored biography of Yasser Arafat published in 1990 and again in 2004)
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