Media/Politics Speakers

Rod Liddle is a journalist and broadcaster. He writes for numerous papers and magazines and was the Editor of BBC Radio 4 Today programme. Always outspoken and lively, he is a popular panelist.

Rod Liddle

QI Creator. John Lloyd created and produced the television programmes Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder among many others.

John Lloyd

Gerard, a regular speaker at Davos, is the Chief Economic Strategist for a major UK wealth management company whose expertise is sought by private and public bodies worldwide.

Gerard Lyons

Renowned Investigative Journalist, Broadcaster and Criminologist. He is Europe's best known reporter, and has worked for all the UK broadcasters, most famously ITV and the BBC where he has won awards for his outstanding and often dangerous work. He has many stories of working undercover and tales of death threats.

Donal MacIntyre

Sally Magnusson is a journalist, broadcaster and writer, much in demand as an after-dinner speaker and conference and award ceremony host. She presents a range of programmes for the BBC in Scotland and UK wide.

Sally Magnusson

Sir John Major - Former prime minister and international keynote speaker on globalisation and the changing world.

John Major

Lord Peter Mandelson Former Labour Party's Director of Campaigns & Communications. He served in a number of Cabinet positions under Tony Blair playing a leading role in his leadership campaign and was the UK's Deputy Prime Minister under Gordon Brown.

Peter Mandelson

Presented The World This Weekend on R4 alongside other things. Prior to this he was BBC North America Editor having previously been Europe editor. Very comfortable doing geo/political round ups.

Mark Mardell

Maxine Mawhinney broke through into the predominantly male dominated Northern Ireland media and rose to become one of the BBC’s top news anchors.In a career that has taken her around the world, in the last 40 years she has worked for BBC, UTV, SKY, ITN, GMTV and Reuters TV. She has many keynote speeches.

Maxine Mawhinney

He was a semi-finalist in the first series of The Apprentice. With a background in business, property and finance, James presents Early Breakfast on Talk Radio every morning and is a columnist for The Financial Times. He regularly appears on Channel 4, Sky News and ITV's This Morning. An accomplished interviewer, after dinner speaker, presenter and awards host.

James Max

Journalist, writer and co-founder with Sandi Toksvig) of the UK's fastest-growing new political party, the Women's Equality Party. Speaks on politics, feminist issues, and age - why we don't grow old as we used to and the benefits of age diverse work forces.

Catherine Mayer

Daisy is a radio and TV presenter, reporter and writer with 30 years' experience centred around UK politics, economics and business as well as the British Royal Family; an authoritative voice in a hugely competitive field.

Daisy McAndrew

Former hostage turned author. He spent 5 years in captivity in the Lebanon. John presents a variety of radio programmes on R4 often with a travel theme.

John McCarthy CBE

was Minister for Sport in Margaret Thatcher’s Government since when he has built an unrivalled reputation for his knowledge of sports administration having been an elite sportsman himself as well as a successful businessman.

Lord Colin Moynihan

Author, journalist and politician - an MP for 23 years. Chris was a minister in three Government departments, Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, a judge of the 2011 Man Booker Prize and he is author of three acclaimed volumes of diaries.

Chris Mullin