Archive of previous lectures

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Record of all previous World Traders' Tacitus lectures since their inception in 1988

1988 I Professor Hugh Murray, Professor of Export Management, City University
What is happening to national and international markets for "Goods & Services"?

24-Jan-89 II Lord Harris of High Cross, Chairman of the Institute of Economic Affairs

23-Jan-90 III Mr David Emms, Director of London House for Overseas Graduates
A View from the Study - Changing a culture

1991 IV Sheikh Salim Al-Sabah, Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait
International Trade from a Kuwaiti and Arab Perspective

1992 V Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO, Warden, Green College, Oxford
Trade and the Environment

20-Jan-93 VI Sir Kit McMahon, Formerly, Deputy Governor Bank of England
Prospects for the UK and International Economy in 1993/Does the Balance of payments matter?

1994 VII Sir Colin Marshal, Chairman, British Airways plc
London as a growing centre of world trade

26-Jan-95 VIII Dame Mary Soames, Chairman, Board of the Royal National Theatre
Theatre - An International Commodity and Means of Communication

22-Feb-96 IX HE Yousef Shirawi, Deputy Prime Minister of the State of Bahrain
A Future for the Arab World

19-Feb-97 X Helmut Sohmen OBE Chairman, World Wide Shipping
Hong Kong Before and After Transition


11-Feb-98 XI Sir Richard Sykes DSc FRS, Chairman, GlaxoSmithKline
Health and Wealth from Molecules


24-Feb-99 XII Mr Peter Job, Chief Executive, Reuters plc
Technology & Global Trade beyond the Millennium


15-Feb-00 XIII Mr Philip Lader, US Ambassador
Reinventing the future: what America has to teach (and learn)


8-Feb-01 XIV Dr David Potter CBE, Chairman, Psion plc
The New Economy: Fact or Fantasy - The future is not what it used to be


12-Feb-02 XV Lord Owen CH PC, Formerly Foreign Secretary
Britain's role in the World - strategic and financial


15-Apr-03 XVI Mr Peter Sutherland SC, Chairman, BP plc
World Trade in the New Millennium


26-Feb-04 XVII Mr Digby Jones, Director-General, Confederation of British Industry
Multi Lateral World Trade - Dead or Just Resting?

24-Feb-05 XVIII Sir Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics
China - its impact on world trade in the 21st Century

23-Feb-06 XIX Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman Anglo American plc
Business and NGOs in sustainable development - wars or common cause?


22-Feb-07 XX Mr Antony Burgmans, Chairman Unilever
The Role of Business in Society

28-Feb-08 XXI Mrs Naina Lal Kidwai, Chief Executive , HSBC India
India's emerging role in the global economy

Note: Titles and honours shown are those held by the Tacitus Lecturer at that time.