Past Speakers
Areté Club has been honoured to host many notable speakers, some of whom are listed below:
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Nick Fry - “Courage in the 21st Century”
Managing Director at Aston Martin, Managing Director at Prodrive, Managing Director of the BAR Honda Formula One Team, CEO of the Honda Racing F1 Team, CEO for Mercedes GP Petronas...
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David Loyn - “Friend or Foe? Can we make Iran a reasonable ally?”
Foreign correspondent for the BBC, TV News Reporter, Author...
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Peter Apps - “Courage in the 21st Century”
Political risk correspondent for Reuters news agency, Paralysed from the shoulders down in a car accident, Still paralysed he returned to work at Reuters and has now reported from 14 countries...
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John Mitchinson - “What makes us laugh?”
Chief writer and head of research for BBC1's QI, Co-author of the QI books, Director of the QI Club in Oxford, Vice-President of the Hay Festival, Chair of the London Centre for International Storytelling...
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Professor David Keen - “Feasts and Famines: how do we understand food?”
Consulted for NGOs and development agencies, Journalist, Political Economist, Professor of Complex Emergencies, Author...
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Sir Gordon Langley - “The Changing Face or Decline of Financial Regulation”
Chairman of the Takeover Panel, Judge sitting in the Commercial Court and at the Bar, Queen’s Counsel, High Court Judge in 1995, Neutral Evaluator and Arbitrator...
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Paddy Ashdown - “Why the world will never be the same again and what we have to do about it”
Royal Marines Officer, Foreign Office, British Mission to the United Nations, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, High Representative and European Union Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
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Rowan Pelling - “Erotica as Art or Erotica as a Sales Tool?”
Journalist, Broadcaster, Established Erotic Review, “Editrice” the Erotic Review, Columnist for the Independent on Sunday, The Mail on Sunday, The Spectator, GQ, Jack, and Daily Telegraph...
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Doug Richard - “Entrepreneurial Culture in the Middle East: is it compatible and what is the future for youth employment?”
Dragon from Dragon's Den, Founder of School for Startups, Chairman and CEO of Trutap, Founder and member of Cambridge Angels, Chairman...
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Jeffrey Currie - “Feasts and Famines: how do we understand food?”
Associate editor of Resource and Energy Economic, Ernst and Young, LLP, Economic Insight, Global head of Commodities Research in the Global Investment Research division at Goldman Sachs...
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