Patrick Barwise |
Professor of Management and Marketing at the London Business School |
Charles Bean |
Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and previously its Chief Economist |
| Dr. Eamon Butler |
Director of the Adam Smith Institute |
Paolo Cesarini |
Head of Manufacturing Industries in the Competition Directorate, Eurpoean Commission |
Professor Peter Cooke |
KPMG Professor of Automotive Management at the University of Buckingham Business School |
| Sir John Egan |
Former Chairman of Jaguar, BAA and currently Chairman of Severn Trent |
| Sir Tom Farmer CBE KCSG |
Former Chairman Kwik-Fit Holdings |
| Sir Christopher Gent |
Former CEO of Vodafone, currently Non-executive Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the independent think tank, Reform |
| Sir Ian Gibson CBE |
Former Chief Executive Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd |
| Professor Stephen Glaister CBE |
Director, RAC Foundation and formerly Professor of Transport and Infrastructure at Imperial College, London |
| Sir Alan Jones |
Former Managing Director Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd |
| Professor Dan Jones |
Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy and co-author of "The Machine That Changed the World" |
| Lord Digby Jones |
Former Director General CBI and Former Government Minister |
| Richard Parry Jones |
Formerly Group Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Ford |
| Sir Mervyn King |
Govemor of the Bank of England |
| Ralf Landmann |
Partner, Roland Berger |
| Lord Lawson |
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| Austin Ligon |
Founder and former CEO of CarMax, the leading speciality used car retailer in the United States and one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" |
| Tim Melville-Ross CBE |
Former Director General of the Institute of Directors and currently Chair of the Higher Education Funding Council, Chairman of Manganese Bronze and several other organisations |
| Ernst Piёch |
Member of the Porsche family and an investor in Riversimple (hydrogen powered car) |
| Bernd Pischetsrieder |
Former Chairman and CEO BMW AG |
| Rt Hon Michael Portillo |
Broadcaster & Political Commentator |
| Roger Putnam CBE |
Past Chairman Ford Motor Company |
| Ian Robertson |
Board Member for Sales & Marketing, BMW AG |
| Professor Jim Saker |
Ford Professor, Centre for Automotive Management, Business School, Loughborough University |
| Sir Nick Scheele |
Former President Ford Motor Company |
| One Speaker wrote: |
"I received your as-usual-excellent write-up of the March meeting, only confirming my view that AFl is the best run automotive conference in the English-speaking world (unless there is something in Australia I have missed)" Glenn Mercer, Automotive Consultant with the International Vehicle Programme, also with Green Briar Equity Group in the US and formerly with McKinsey & Company. |
