Economics & Environment Speakers
This is a very self-explanatory section. Here you will find economist and environment speakers, who regularly give presentations to companies and business organisations.
These two topics are increasingly more popular now given the current background that the business world now finds itself in. Sustainable businesses that once seemed secure, such as high street brands, are more and more finding that the business environment is tougher than in past years.
Social awareness and political pressure, as well as a business's own desires to be profitable, yet as green and environmentally sensitive means that businesses are now stepping down a previously un-trodden path.
Economists and environmental speakers can provide very useful guidance in these matters and maybe reinforce the ideas /plans that you already in place.
Economists can provide micro or macro views of your industry or that of the country, economic region or global market, depending on what is important to you at that moment in time. An external economist should provide a completely fresh and unbiased viewpoint to the issues that you are most interested in.
Andrew Leung
Andrew Leung is an independent and international China specialist. He has over 40 years experience in a variety of senior positions including as Hong Kong's chief official representative for the United Kingdom, all the new EU member states, as well as Russia, Switzerland and Norway.
During a mid-career sabbatical, Andrew helped set up Standard Chartered Asia Ltd, a merchant banking subsidiary in Hong Kong.
Michael Portillo
Michael Portillo was born in North London in 1953 and was educated at Cambridge University.
He left Cambridge in 1975, and for a year worked for a shipping company. He moved to the Conservative Research Department in 1976, where he spent three years. At the General Election in 1979 he was responsible for briefing Margaret Thatcher before her press conferences. For the next two years he was special adviser to the Secretary of State for Energy.


