The London Speaker Bureau France

We are delighted to announce the opening of the London Speaker Bureau in Paris, managed by Oliver Chittenden.

TLSB France represents many high profile speakers, including Maurice Levy, CEO of Publicis the global advertising and marketing group; Remy Krug, former President of Krug champagne; and Marcel Desailly, World Cup winner with France and former AC Milan and Chelsea footballer.

Nobel Prize winners speak
for The London Speaker Bureau

Two Nobel Prize winners spoke for The London Speaker Bureau at the first International Communications and Sustainability Forum in Brazil.

Mohammed Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, talked about the work of his Grameen Bank and its role in developing micro-credit and social businesses.
Rajendra Pachauri, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (on behalf of the IPCC, joint winner with Al Gore) and chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, spoke about the ways in which climate change most affects the disenfranchised. Following the Forum, Professor Yunus and Dr Pachauri addressed the Brazilian Senate and met President Lula. The meeting was coordinated by Regina Gingell, who manages our office in Rio de Janeiro.

Dr Pachauri also recently gave a keynote speech at the 1st International Women's Forum in Shanghai, sponsored by JP Morgan.

Top Thinkers In
Human Resource Management

HR Magazine recently published a list of the top 25 thinkers in HR, which included six of our speakers: Dave Ulrich, Lynda Gratton, Will Hutton, David Clutterbuck, Fons Trompenaars, and Professor Adrian Furnham. As top corporations become increasingly aware of the vital importance of attracting and retaining staff at all levels of the company, we are delighted to be able to offer our clients recognised leaders in this field.

And The Most Influential People In The World

Time magazine published a list of the 100 Most Influential People across the globe. Again, a number of our speakers were included, among them Anwar Ibrahim, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; Lance Armstrong, seven times winner of the Tour de France and founder of the Lance Armstrong Cancer Foundation; Senator George Mitchell, chair of the negotiations that led to the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement, and former Chairman of the Walt Disney Company; Rem Koolhaas, Pritzker prizewinning architect; and Paul Rusesabagina, who saved the lives of 1,268 people during the Rwandan genocide and whose life was the basis for the film Hotel Rwanda.

Leadership Speakers

As corporations and governments recognise the need to have strong leadership at all levels, they understand that they can benefit from the experience of renowned leaders in a variety of fields. Among our outstanding leadership speakers are the polar explorer and environmental campaigner Robert Swan; John Pearson, co-founder and former CEO of Virgin Radio, working with Sir Richard Branson; Sir Gerry Robinson, former chairman of Granada, BskyB, ITN, presenter of I'll Show Them Who's Boss on BBC TV; Sir Christopher Bland, former Chariman of BT; Greg Dyke, former director general of the BBC; Ulf Merbold, the first German astronaut; Jonathan Powell, former chief of staff to Tony Blair; Sahar Hashemi, co-founder of Coffee Republic; Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon; and Ram Charam, CEO coach and author of a number of leadership bestsellers.

Global Economists for Challenging Times

The sudden rise in the price of oil, commodities and basic foodstuffs has created uncertainty for economies all over the world. The London Speaker Bureau represents a number of leading economists who can unravel the challenges and opportunities, including Dr Linda Yueh of Oxford University and the London Business School, an expert on China and globalisation; Hamish McRae, Economics Editor of the Independent and author of The World In 2020; Rodrigo de Rato, former managing director of the IMF; Frank-Jurgen Richter, former director of the World Economic Forum in charge of Asian affairs; Thierry Malleret, former senior director responsible for the Global Risk Network of the World Economic Forum; Patrick Artus, Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique and the Sorbonne, Paris, economics adviser to the Chinese government; Augusto Lopez-Claros, former chief economist at the World Economic Forum and the director of the Global Competitiveness Report 2006/7; Ottmar Issing, the former Chief Economist of the European Central Bank; Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University; and Fan Gang, director of the National Economics Institute at the China Reform Foundation and Professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.