The London Speaker Bureau South East Asia

We are delighted to announce the opening of our South East Asian office. Managed by Harrienath S, our new Kuala Lumpur-based office reflects the growing demand for international speakers in the region.

South East Asian clients aren't simply looking for keynote speakers, according to Harrie, but also for a more in-depth exchange of knowledge and learning through workshops and masterclasses. He has found an increasing requirement for topics such as leadership, strategy and competitiveness amongst clients both in the private sector and government.

Inspire, a collection of Oliver Chittenden's interviews with inspirational figures (with a foreword by Sir Richard Branson) is proving a great success, with strong sales among individuals and to corporations seeking to inspire their own employees. The dynamic individuals profiled include Sahar Hashemi, founder of Coffee Republic; Sir Ranulph Fiennes; Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project; and Sir Clive Woodward.

We Interview Digby Jones

Read the interview with Digby Jones (Lord Jones of Birmingham). The former Director General of the Confederation of British Industry, and UK Minister of State for Trade and Investment talks exclusively to TLSB about surviving the downtown, Britain's place in the global economy, creativity, and the politics of the current economic crisis.

Continuing the credit crunch theme, Adrian Furnham's talk on 'Managing in Troubled Times' has become even more timely. Professor Furnham is renowned for being an extremely approachable and insightful speaker. Currently Professor of Psychology at University College London, he is the author of many books on management, and has advised a wide range of multinational corporations.

New Speakers

The progress of the German football team FC Hoffenheim is a modern-day fairy story. A village of barely 3,000 people, Hoffenheim has produced a football team that has risen from the local league to the top of the German Bundesliga, acquiring a brand-new 40,000 seat stadium on the way. FC Hoffenheim's meteoric rise has been financed by Dietmar Hopp, founder of Europe's largest software enterprise, SAP. Team manager Ralf Ragnick joined when the team was in the second division, He inspires audiences with their remarkable rise to the top.

Ian Goldin is Director of the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford, which has been established to tackle the challenges of the future, from the ageing population to stem cell research, nanoscience to rising sea levels. Ian speaks on future trends in technology, science, climate change, demography and other developments that are likely to have an impact on corporations and government.

Robyn Meredith is Senior Editor, Asia, for Forbes Magazine, based in Hong Kong. She is the author of The Elephant and the Dragon: the rise of India and China and what it means for the rest of us, which has been praised by the International Herald Tribune as 'fast-paced, readable and revealing.'

Gurcharan Das is an Indian author, and management thinker. . He wrote the international bestseller, India Unbound, which has been published in 17 languages and filmed by the BBC. He writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India and periodic guest columns for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.

Recent Events

Sir Tim Berners-Lee recently spoke for us at Campus Party Brazil. This was a four-day event which took place in Sao Paulo, with more than 4,000 attendees from the world of technology from all over South America. Tim spoke at the opening ceremony and then gave a keynote speech the following morning on "15 years of the World Wide Web, Past and Future".

Charles Leadbeater ran the Managing Innovation Masterclass, a one-day seminar for 200 Saudi business executives in Riyadh. Amongst the questions he addressed were:- Why Innovation is Important; Why it is always Misunderstood; Why a Business Downturn is good for Innovation; The Main Sources of Innovation; Creating an Innovation Culture.