Opening General Session
Current Politics & the Media
Keynote Speaker:
Andrew Neil
Former Presenter of This Week on BBC1 and the Daily Politics on BBC2
Well-known anchorman on BBC TV, Andrew Neil was named Journalist of the Year 2013 by Britain’s prestigious Political Studies Association and one of the 500 most influential people in the UK by Debrett’s in 2015. In March 2015, The Times said “the ultimate test for assessing whether a party leader was fit to be Prime Minister is to put them in front of Andrew Neil for 40 minutes, the most forensic interviewer in broadcasting.”
In addition to anchoring Politics Europe and presenting both Daily Politics on BBC2 and This Week on BBC1, Andrew Neil is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publisher of The Spectator, Spectator Australia and Apollo, Chairman of ITP, and Chairman and joint owner of World Media Rights.