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Our production management team are experienced in dealing with speakers from the highest levels of public service all of whom expect to receive attention and support of the highest standard. A selection a listed below. (All positions listed were those held at the time of the conference)
Heads of State
HRH Princess Anne, The Princess Royal
HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales
His Excellency Dr Bingu wa Mutharika, President of the Republic of Malawi
UK Government Ministers
Maria Eagle MP, Minister for Disabled People
Stephen Timms MP, Minister for e-Commerce and Competitiveness
Anne McGuire MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Scotland Office
Jim Murphy MP, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform
UK Officials
Sir William McKay, Clerk of the House of Commons
Jonathon Porritt CBE, Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission
Jill Rutter, Director for Strategy and Sustainable Development, DEFRA
Hugo Deadman, Head of Constitutional Policy Branch, Scotland Office
Robert Turnbull, UK Assistant Commissioner (Scotland)
Peter Clark, Welsh Children's Commissioner
Stephen Peover, Permanent Secretary, Northern Ireland Department of the Environment
Gerrard Tracey, Assistant UK Information Commissioner
Chris Jenkins, Head of Supermarkets, Office of Fair Trading
Greg Chammings, Project Director for Incapacity Benefit Reform, Department of Work & Pensions
Scottish Executive Ministers
Rt Hon Jack McConnell MSP, First Minister of Scotland
Rt Hon Jim Wallace QC MSP, Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning
Cathy Jamieson MSP, Minister for Justice
Malcolm Chisholm MSP, Minister for Health and Community Care
Peter Peacock MSP, Minister for Education and Young People
Euan Robson MSP, Deputy Minister for Education and Young People
Tom McCabe MSP, Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care
Lewis MacDonald, Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care
Tavish Scott MSP, Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Services
Ross Finnie MSP, Minister for Environment and Rural Development
Wendy Alexander MSP, Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning
Allan Wilson MSP, Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development
Nicol Stephen MSP, Minister for Transport
Patricia Ferguson MSP, Minster for Tourism, Culture and Sport
Andy Kerr MSP, Minister for Health and Community Care
Robert Brown MSP, Deputy Minister for Education and Young People
Margaret Curran MSP, Minister for Parliamentary Business
Hugh Henry MSP, Deputy Minister for Justice and then Minister for Education and Young People
Johann Lamont MSP, Deputy Minister for Communities
Scottish Officials
Professor Peter Donnelly, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
Jim Mackinnon, Chief Planner, Scottish Executive
Robert Black, Auditor-General for Scotland
Jacqui Roberts, Chief Executive, Care Commission
Jane Ryder, Chief Executive, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
Kathleen Marshall, Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People
Kevin Dunion, Scottish Information Commissioner
Anton Colella, Chief Executive, Scottish Qualifications Authority
Sir Ken Collins, Chair, Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Joanna Young, Director of the Sustainable Development Directorate, Scottish Executive
Gillian Kynoch, Scottish Food and Health Co-ordinator, Scottish Executive
Jane Morgan, Head of Enterprise Networks Division, Scottish Executive
Dr Malcolm Reed, Chief Executive, Transport Scotland
Charles Milne, Chief Veterinary Officer, Scotland
Rachel Edgar, Head of Looked After Children and Youth Work, Scottish Executive
Brian Gorman, Head of Disclosure Scotland
Stella Perrott, Head of Youth Justice and Children's Hearings, Scottish Executive
Val Cox, Head of Children, Young People and Social Care Group, Scottish Executive
International Speakers
Bob Geldof KBE, Commissioner, Commission for Africa
Salil Shetty, Director, UN Millennium Campaign
Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General and CEO, CIVICUS
Thandika Mkandawire, Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Bertrand Ramcharan, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
Rosslyn Noonan, Chief Commissioner, New Zealand Human Rights Commission
Professor Jacob Doek, United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
Dr Maurice Manning, President of the Irish Human Rights Commission
Lena Nyberg, Swedish Children's Ombudsman
Helena Jäderblom, Director, Swedish Ministry of Justice, and later Chief Judge, Stockholm County Administrative Court
Shuhei Takahashi, Consul General of Japan in Scotland and North East England
Cyril Ndaba, Deputy South African High Commissioner in the UK
MJ Abubakar Waziri, Minister Counsellor, Nigerian High Commission in the UK
HE Mr Fisseha Adugna, Ethiopian Ambassador to the UK
Dr Marjaana Lahti-Koski, Vice President of the Finish Association for the Study of Obesity
Tony Brady, CEO, TAFE Global, New South Wales, Australia
Others
Sir David Steel (Lord Steel of Aikwood), former Presiding Officer, The Scottish Parliament
George Reid MSP, Presiding Officer, The Scottish Parliament
The Rt Hon Henry McLeish, former First Minister of Scotland
Eddie Frizzell, former Head, Enterprise Transport and Lifelong Learning Department, Scottish Executive
Professor David Kerr, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford and author of the Kerr Report
Lord Hogg of Cumbernauld, Peer, House of Lords
Carwyn Jones AM, Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside, Welsh Assembly Government
Tim Yeo MP, Chair, House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee
Councillor Steven Purcell, Leader, Glasgow City Council
Karen Whitefield MSP, Convener, Scottish Parliament Communities Committee
Roseanna Cunningham MSP, Convener, Scottish Parliament Health Committee
Professor Lorne Crerar, Chair, Independent Review of Scrutiny in Scotland
John McClelland, Chair, Independent Review of Procurement in Scotland
Colin Mair, Chief Executive, Local Government Improvement Service
Melanie Leech, Director General, Food and Drink Federation
Kevin Hawkins, Director General, British Retail Consortium
Nick Nairn, restaurateur and celebrity chef
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