PAST SPEAKERS A-Z
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Tom Adeyoola, founder and CEO, Metail.com
Tom Allason, founder and CEO, Shutl
Mohamed Al Fayed
‘Anonymous’, a senior executive with the world’s most valuable company, which may be named after a popular fruit
Lord Archer
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Ken Bates, chairman, Chelsea FC
Camila Batmangelidh, founder, Kids Company
Stephen Bayley, founding Director, The Design Museum
Sinclair Beecham, co-founder, Pret a Manger
Martin Bell, former journalist and MP
Christopher Bland, former BBC and BT chairman
Peter Bonfield, CEO, BT
Karren Brady, vice-chairman, West Ham FC, former CEO, Birmingham City
Russell Buckley, former CMO, AdMob
Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark
C
Simon Calver, CEO Mothercare, former CEO LoveFilm
Gordon Campbell, chairman, British Nuclear Fuels
Bill Cash MP
Barbara Cassani, founding CEO, Go! Airlines, former CEO, London Olympic Bid
Simon Cavill, beekeeper, founding CEO of Bee Good Skincare
Shami Chakrabarti, Director, Liberty
Ian Cheshire, Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher plc
Charles Clarke MP
Terence Conran, designer, retailer, curator, restaurateur, writer
Andrew Copson, Chief Executive, British Humanist Association
Tim Corrie, chairman, BAFTA
Steve Crawshaw, International Advocacy Director, Amnesty
Jimmy Cregan, founder, Jimmy’s Iced Coffee
Bob Crow, General Secretary, RMT trade union
D
Sir Mike Darrington, former CEO, Greggs the Bakers, now boardroom greed campaigner
Paul Deighton, CEO, London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG)
Joanne Denney-Finch, Chief Executive, Institute of Grocery Distribution
Lloyd Dorfman, founder and chairman, Travelex
Mark Driver, Rathfinny Estates, formerly Horseman Hedge Fund
Richard Duvall, co-founder and CEO, ZOPA
Ben Dyson, co-founder, Positive Money
James Dyson, chairman, Dyson
E
Alistair Elliott, Senior Partner and Group Chairman, Knight Frank
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, the ‘Black Farmer’
F
Nigel Farage MEP
Rocco Forte, hotelier
Christopher Frayling, Rector, Royal College of Art
G
Sandy Gall
Jonnie Goodwin, founder, Lepe Capital, Founders Forum, LongAcre Capital
Antony Gormley
Rowan Gormley, founder, Naked Wines and Virgin Money
Lord Grade
Wing Commander Andy Green, World Land Speed Record holder
Andy Green, CEO, Logica
Simon Gulliford, CMO, Standard Life, former CMO, Barclays Group
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Judith Hackitt, chairman, Health and Safety Executive
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder, easyJet
Simon Hart, Chief Executive, the Countryside Alliance
Tony Hayward, former CEO, BP
Barry Hearn, founder and chairman, Matchroom Promotions
Lord Heseltine
J
Michael Jackson, Elderstreet Capital
L
David Landau, founder, Loot
Dr Vanessa Lawrence, former Director General and Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey, now co-Chair, United Nations Committee on Geospatial Information Management
Ruth Lea, director, Centre for Policy Studies
Oliver Letwin MP
Mark Lewis, lawyer acting on behalf of victims of News International phone hacking
Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London, former MP, former leader, GLC
Mike Lynch, founder and CEO, Autonomy
M
Dame Ellen MacArthur
Amanda Mackenzie, CMO, Aviva
Kelvin Mackenzie, former editor, the Sun
Colin Matthews, CEO, BAA
Brian Mattingley, executive chairman, 888 Holdings plc
Charlie Mayfield, chairman, John Lewis Partnership
Jim McCarthy, CEO, Poundland
Lord McLaurin
John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief, the Economist
Sophie Mirman, founder, Sock Shop and Trotters
Jon Moulton, founder, Better Capital, founder, Alchemy Partners
James Murray Wells, founder, Glasses Direct
Steve Murrells, Chief Executive, Co-operative Group Retail
O
Mark Oaten, Chief Executive Officer, International Fur Trade Federation
Frances O’Grady, General Secretary, Trades Union Congress
Lembit Opik MP
P
Brian Paddick, former Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police
Amit Pau, Managing Director, Corporate Finance and Entrepreneur Country, Ariadne Capital
Neil Pearson, Actor, Antiquarian Bookseller
Trevor Phillips, chairman, Commission on Equality and Human Rights
David Potter, CEO, Psion
John Pluthero, CEO, Freeserve
Lord Puttnam
R
Gerald Ratner, retailer
Iain Renwick, former CEO of Liberty of London and now Chairman of Eco-Age
Peter Ridsdale, chairman, Preston North End FC, former chairman, Leeds United FC, Cardiff City FC, Plymouth Argyle FC and Barnsley FC
Stuart Rose, executive chairman, Marks & Spencer
S
Feargal Sharkey, CEO, UK Music, former lead singer, the Undertones
Clive Sinclair, inventor
Paul Sinton-Hewitt, founder and CEO, parkrun
Jim Slater, co-founder, Slater Walker
David Smith, CEO, Jaguar Land Rover
Graham Smith, Chief Executive, Republic
Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP Group
Tim Spicer, CEO, Aegis Defence Services, Lt Col, Irish Guards, retd
Hugo Spowers, CEO, Riversimple
Paul Staines, founder, Guido Fawkes
Lord Stevenson
Anil Stocker, co-founder, MarketInvoice.com
T
Peter Tatchell
Mark Thompson, Director General, BBC
Dennis Turner, Chief Economist, HSBC
W
Willie Walsh, CEO, International Airlines Group
Nick Wheeler, founder and CEO, Charles Tyrwhitt
Andreas Whittam Smith, founding editor, the Independent
Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (and head of Ofsted)
Lord Stewart Wood, Shadow Cabinet Minister without portfolio and Special Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition
Simon Woodroffe, founder, Yo! Sushi
Paul Woolley, chair, Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Dysfunctional Capital Markets, London School of Economics
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David Yelland, former editor, the Sun
Mel Young, founder, Homeless World Cup
Toby Young, writer, journalist and educationalist
