The Leading Speakers Bureau

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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Pioneering Robot Scientist, Founder & Director of RoMeLa

Dr. Dennis Hong is an Associate Professor and the founder and Director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech, that has pioneered several breakthroughs in robot design and engineering. He has also pioneered various innovations in soft-body robots, using a “whole-skin locomotion” as inspired by amoebae. Marrying robotics with biochemistry, he has been able to generate new types of motion with these ingenious forms.

“An exceptional scientist and speaker”

[expand title=”In detail”] Dennis Hong received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994), his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University (1999, 2002). Dr. Hong also has a number of patents for novel robot locomotion mechanisms and devices for medical applications. TEAM DARwIn for RoboCup 2007 where he served as the advisor, was the first and only team from the US ever to qualify for the RoboCup humanoid division, and TEAM Victor Tango for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge (an autonomous vehicle race in the urban environment) where he served as the co-team leader, won third place with a cash award of $500,000. His senior design teams have been winning top prizes year after year at various design competitions. He is also a serious gourmet chef and a magician performing annual charity magic shows and lectures on the science of magic.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Named as one of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10, Dr. Hong’s research expertise lies in the area of novel robot locomotion mechanisms, design and analysis of mechanical systems, kinematics and robot mechanism design, humanoid robots, and autonomous systems. He expertly guides his audiences through his projects on robot locomotion and mechanism design at prestigious events worldwide including TEDxNASA in 2010.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Dennis Hong is a captivating, engaging and passionate speaker, who enthuses about his pioneering scientific breakthroughs.[/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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Founder & CEO of Ariadne Capital, Online Dragon for the BBC

Julie Meyer is one of the leading champions for entrepreneurship in Europe. With over 20 years investment and advisory experience helping start-up businesses, she is the well known founder & CEO of Ariadne Capital, co- founder and Managing Partner of the Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund, founder of Entrepreneur Country and co-founder of First Tuesday. Julie has added a successful media career to her business commitments, recently joining BBC’s Online Dragon’s Den, in addition to her regular contributions to Business Week, Computing, FT Digital Business, Spectator Business.

“Wall Street Journal’s Top 30 Most Influential Women in Europe”

[expand title=”In detail”] From 1998 to 1999, Julie was part of the team at NewMedia Investors, which became early stage investment firm Spark Ventures in October 1999. At NewMedia Investors, she led deals in key internet success stories like lastminute.com and WGSN. In 1998, she co-founded First Tuesday, the largest global network of entrepreneurs, which many credit for igniting the Internet generation in Europe. It was sold for $50million in cash in and shares in July 2000.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]With 20 years of experience with high growth new technology businesses in Europe and the US, Julie is ideally positioned to advise decision makers from private and public Internet based companies which are currently undergoing significant growth or change. She shares insights into her personal dedication that truly sets her apart. [/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]An inspiring and captivating speaker, straight-talking Julie’s invaluable presentations are filled with useful actionable information, essential for all expanding Internet-orientated companies.[/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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