THE AEA has announced initial details of its speaker line-up for this year's Annual Conference to be held at One Great George Street, Westminster London on Tuesday 14^th April.

With one more speaker to be announced, those confirmed include:

HAMISH TAYLOR:  Former travel and banking CEO. Hamish led brand management at BA before taking over as CEO at Eurostar and Sainsbury’s Bank. In his presentation he will show how the balance has shifted from needing information about customers to fully engaging with them. He believes that the most powerful breakthroughs come by looking outside your own sector to see how others deal with your problem areas.

ANTHONY HILTON:  Broadcaster and Journalist & Evening Standard Financial Editor. Anthony has won the World Economic Forum’s most prestigious press award and he will offer an instant analysis of the indicators, and the challenges facing business leaders. In 2014 he was voted Business Journalist of the Year.

AFTER LUNCH SPEAKER: REVEREND RICHARD COLES: The ex-pop star, parish priest of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, co-host of Radio 4’s Saturday Live and Have I Got New For You panelist, is supposedly the inspiration behind the sitcom Rev. After dinner he confesses to lurid excess as a member of the 1980s pop duo, the Communards, reveals how he got through the interview to train as a vicar and tells the tale of a Fenland undertaker.

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