Kruger Cowne Breakfast Club: BBC World Affairs and MI6

EVENT INFORMATION

Due to the event being in the morning, we regret that the event is not open to Social members.

We are delighted to be working with leading talent management agency, Kruger Cowne to host what has become one of the event industry’s ‘must-attend’ events, The Kruger Cowne Breakfast Club.  The monthly event promises to bring several icons from the company’s portfolio of influential speakers and this month’s guest speakers certainly do not disappoint.  With two 15 minute talks, the events will offer a thought-provoking start to the day.

January’s guest speakers are:

John Simpson CBE

With almost 50 years in the industry, John is celebrated as one of the greatest journalists of our time, devoted to sharing groundbreaking and hard-hitting news. As BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John is recognized as the most senior news correspondent for the BBC, covering some of the globe’s most defining moments in modern history.

He has reported from 140 countries and interviewed around 200 world leaders, including Vladimir Putin, Margaret Thatcher and every other British prime minister since Harold Wilson.  He has also interviewed some of the world’s most notable names such as Mrs Gandhi, Emperor Bokassa, Colonel Gadaffi, Bashir al-Asad, Nelson Mandela, and Robert Mugabe. He has covered forty-six wars on four continents, as well as the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania.

Sir Richard Dearlove

Sir Richard Dearlove was the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, from 1999 to 2004. With a career spanning over thirty-eight years in British Intelligence, Sir Richard rose to Chief, known as “C”, after serving as a frontline case officer behind the Iron Curtain, in Geneva and Paris, in Africa and as station head in Washington D.C. The completion of the Service’s world-renowned HQ building, on the River Thames in London, was overseen by Sir Richard, where he went on to serve as Director of Operations. Including the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the crisis of 9/11 and a terrorist attack on SIS’ headquarters, Sir Richard’s time as Chief of MI6 was marked by dramatic events.

Limited availability, restricted to 2 tickets per member.

Cost: £10 per person including light breakfast bites.

Time/Location: 8.30am until 10.00am (approx), House Lounge in House 21

No refunds.

Ticket sales to our Charity of the Year – The Children’s Intensive Care Appeal at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.