Keynote Speaker: Peter Day
Peter Day was born in Norfolk in 1947 and educated at Lincoln School and St Edmund Hall Oxford, where he took a degree in English. He joined BBC Radio News in London in London, in 1974, soon specialising in business, City and money news.
During three years on Today he became the presenter of the Radio 4 programme IN BUSINESS in 1988 with a mandate to seek out the trends which are about to influence the working world and make them interesting to listeners who may not have realised they cared about the subject.
The Times has called IN BUSINESS “the best business-related programme on either television or radio”. Since 2000 he has presented a BBC World Service programme called GLOBAL BUSINESS, transmitted every weekend of the year.
Peter Day has thrice won the Harold Wincott award for broadcast business journalism, and last year he was given a lifetime achievement award by the Work Foundation.