BusinessWeek’s Ninth Annual European Leadership Forum brought together over 200 influential business leaders and policymakers to provide unrivalled insight into the latest issues, trends and strategies dominating the European and Global business agenda. This flagship, thought leadership event was designed to highlight the experience and insight of business leaders from Europe’s best performing companies to generate ideas and drive business forward
Download the 2009 ELF agenda in pdf format.
In the afternoon of the forum
there were 6 sector specific roundtable discussion groups. To see the
reports from these sessions click below. (the digital / IT and energy
& sustainabilty reports will be available shortly)
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Christopher Power, Sir Roger Bone, Sir Stephen
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This year for the first time we held a live webcast which
was watched live by almost 400 people in 30 different countries. You can
now view the video footage from the event on this website - click here
There are also some interviews with some of the ELF 09 speakers in which
they give insights into what they feel makes a good leader - click here
This is what some of the participants had to say about the 2009 Forum:
“Excellent pace and interest. I did not touch my
Blackberry in any of the sessions” Fernando
Naredo, Westinghouse
“I go to many conferences and this one was superbly organized!” Jean‐Claude
Larreche, INSEAD
“The event continues to be one of the best events in London and attracts
an exceptional level
of participants.” Thomas Butler, Anglo‐Romanian Bank Ltd
“High-level and engaging” Daniela Karthaus, Hitachi Europe
“It was professionally organized from start to finish and I was very impressed
with the
support I received on the run up to the event” Stuart Hanna Genpact (ELF
‘09 corporate
Sponsors)
“Your team is a dream to work with” John Defterios, FBC Media
“I really enjoyed the event. Great content, great level of speakers. Lots
of good insight to
get my brain fizzing” Ellen Ferrara, BT
“Once again these meetings see to be getting better every year” – Ravindra
Rao, Honeywell
“Thanks for a well planned and executed event. I found it interesting,
insightful, and a very
good use of time.” Stephen Kunz, GSK
“Congratulations for a wonderful event” Al Costa, Alkol Inc
Speakers
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Charles Alexander Board Director, Genpact Global |
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Richard Aylard Director and Special Advisor to the CEO, Thames Water |
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Sir Roger Bone President, Boeing UK |
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Dr Simona Botti Assistant Professor of Marketing at the London Business School |
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Kerry Capell Senior Correspondent, London Bureau, BusinessWeek |
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John Clarke Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Nokia |
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Simon Collingridge Managing Director, Structured Finance Ratings, Standard & Poors |
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Dr Gordon Coutts Vice President and General Manager, Schering Plough UK |
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Guy Daniels Director of Content, Telecom TV |
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John Defterios President, FBC Media and Chairman, BusinessWeek European Leadership Forum |
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Prof. Javier Diaz-Gimenez Visiting Professor of Economics at IESE Business School |
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Soumitra Dutta The Roland Berger Chaired Professor in Business and Technology, INSEAD |
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Dr Florence Eid Managing Director Middle East & North Africa, Passport Capital LLC |
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Sir Stephen Gomersall Chief Executive for Europe, Hitachi |
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Gavin Grant UK Chairman, Burson-Marsteller UK |
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Andy Green Chief Executive Officer, Logica |
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Stephen Green Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings Plc |
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Richard Holmes CEO Europe, Standard Chartered Bank |
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David Kester Chief Executive, Design Council |
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Professor J.C. Larreche The Alfred H. Heineken Chair, INSEAD France |
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Julie Meyer Chief Executive and Founder, Ariadne Capital |
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Julie Meyer Chief Executive and Founder, Ariadne Capital |
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Urs Muller Managing Director and Chief Economist, BAK Basel Economics |
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Amanda Pierce Director, Brand Issues, Burson-Marsteller |
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Christopher Power Assistant Managing Editor, BusinessWeek |
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Andy Reinhardt Europe Editor, BusinessWeek.com |
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Barbara Ridpath Chief Executive, International Centre for Financial Regulation |
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Alan Sheppard Global Head of Generics, Thought Leadership, IMS
Health |
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Mr Rajeev Singh-Molares Chief Strategy Officer for Alcatel-Lucent |
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Simon H Taylor Corporate Affairs Director, Britain & Ireland, Cadbury plc |
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Sophia Tickell Executive Director, SustainAbility |
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Dr. Richard Ward CEO, Lloyd’s of London |
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Mark Williams Downstream Director, Royal Dutch Shell |
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Walter A Yosafat CIO & SVP, Genpact Americas |
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Niklas Zennström Co-founder, Atomico Ventures |
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If you are interested in information about the
2010 European Leadership Forum which will be out 10th anniversary event
then click here