London Forum 2024
Wednesday 20th – Friday 22nd November
PROGRAMME
The Programme will begin at 5.30pm on Wednesday 20th November with an evening programme at Forum’s London HQ, 42 Berkeley Square in Mayfair, London.
At 10.30am on Thursday 21st, we will depart from The Mayfair Townhouse to Cliveden, and we expect to arrive at around 11.30am. Once checked in at Cliveden, lunch will be served with the first talk & discussion to take place immediately following.
From mid-afternoon, we will have a ‘free time’ spot for members to talk in the magnificent rooms, or to enjoy the hotel facilities.
Early evening drinks and a talk will be followed by dinner (black tie), with late night drinks to follow.
On the Friday morning, a leisurely start with a mid-morning talk & discussion, will be followed by lunch.
Transfers will then take us back to London. (Alternatively, Cliveden is close to Heathrow so transfers will be arranged there for those who need this). For those who wish to stay the Friday night at Cliveden, a separate dinner may be arranged with a further talk & discussion.
Wednesday 20th November
5.30pm
Welcome Drinks at 42 Berkeley Square
6.15pm – 7.15pm
Alan Hilburg in conversation with Jessica Fellowes
7.15pm – 9.00pm
Buffet Supper
Thursday 21st November
10.00am
Transfers from The Mayfair Townhouse
11.15am
Arrival at Cliveden
12.30pm
Lunch
2.00pm – 3.00pm
Daniel Widdicombe in conversation with Steven Hirth
3.00pm – 6.00pm
Free time or One-to-One meetings
6.00pm
Drinks Reception
6.30pm – 7.30pm
Dylan Jones in conversation with Celia Walden
7.45pm
Dinner (Black Tie)
9.30pm
Late Drinks
Friday 22nd November
8.00am
Breakfast
9.00am – 11.00am
Free time or One-to-One meetings
11.00am – 12 noon
Vanessa Beaumont in conversation with Jessica Fellowes
12.30pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Transfers back to central London or to Heathrow
‘Making Decisions in Uncertain Times’
Alan Hilburg in conversation with Jessica Fellowes
Wednesday 20th November 6.15pm – 7.15pm
Alan Hilburg
Alan is widely recognized as a global pioneer in the disciplines of modern day crisis leadership as an integrated management response to both prevent and contain crises in today’s VUCA environment. As a confidant and senior advisor to a range of international CEOs, country presidents, entrepreneurs and well-known celebrities he has, for 40 years, been the first call by private and public sector leaders as a problem-solver on high-stake issues threatening private and public sector institutional an executive brand trust.
Alan has also written three New York Times national best-selling books on leadership and his expertise includes on guidance of leadership teams in becoming transformation-ready organizations by driving culture and values as the foundation of competitive transformation. He has received an Academy Award nomination for the world’s first environmental film and created three of the top ten brand campaigns of the 20th century including Wendy’s iconic “Where’s the Beef?”. He has been inducted into both the Crisis Management Hall of Fame and Marketing Hall of Fame. He is a lecturer at the University of California and George Mason University in the U.S. as well as a guest lecturer at eight universities globally.
‘China and the Evolving New World Order’
Daniel Widdicombe in conversation with Steven Hirth
Thursday 21st November 2.00pm – 3.00pm
Daniel Widdicombe
Daniel’s entire adult life and career has been intertwined with China. From a Master’s Degree in Chinese and Japanese at Edinburgh and Xi’an North-West University, to meeting the Queen and Prince Philip in Xi’an on their first visit to China in 1987, to personally taking the Chairman of China Construction Bank, the second largest bank in the world by assets, to meet China’s President Xi Jinping at Imperial College, where President Xi and Prime Minister David Cameron witnessed the signing ceremonies of two projects originated by Daniel’s Investment Banking Department of CCB London. In between, he was a China investment analyst at HSBC and Bear Stearns in Hong Kong for a decade – living in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore for 18 years – a CFO of China-facing companies listed on Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange, and a director and officer of several private and public companies with significant or exclusive China exposure. For over a decade he led high-level investment teams from the world’s largest investment firms on deep dive research trips across China, visiting all of China’s provinces and regions and covering over 80 cities. He has been on two China visits since this summer and will provide fresh insights and anecdotes of life on the ground in the world’s second emerging global power.
‘London: A Great History with a Great Future’
Dylan Jones in conversation with Celia Walden
Thursday 21st November 6.30 – 7.30pm
Dylan Jones
Dylan is the editor of the London Evening Standard newspaper. Prior, he was the former editor-in-chief of British GQ magazine. He is also the chair of London Fashion Week Men’s. He has won the BSME Editor of the Year Award seven times, including five awards for his work at GQ, and has written several critically acclaimed books, including “Cameron on Cameron” and a biography of Jim Morrison. He was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to publishing.
Celia Walden
Daily Telegraph columnist and author, Celia is known for her wide-ranging articles, opinions and commentaries on everything from Fourth Wave feminism and the horror of ‘wokery’ to health, beauty, fashion and motoring, Aside from the regular column at the Telegraph, she has written for Glamour, GQ, Elle, Porter Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Net-a-Porter’s The Edit, Grazia, Stylist, Standpoint, The Spectator and Russian Vogue.
She is the author of four books, the latest being “The Square”, a thriller based on the intertwined lives of the residents of a London square. Her previous novel, “Payday”, was a UK Top Ten best-seller.
Celia lives between London and Los Angeles.
‘Cliveden: the Americans Take Charge…’
Vanessa Beaumont in conversation with Jessica Fellowes
Friday 22nd November 11.00am – 12 noon
When Waldorf Astor married Nancy Langhorne in 1906, they received Cliveden as a wedding gift. Cliveden entered a new, glittering era as the venue for many parties and one of the centres of European political and literary life. The Americans were in charge …!
Cliveden is the perfect setting for Jessica and Vanessa to delve into the world they know so well, the first half of the twentieth century. They will give an account of Cliveden at this time as well as exploring the changing roles of men and women in these years, the vulnerabilities of the country houses and the families that owned them and how the advance of technology affected the way they lived and worked – not least, they’ll look at parallels with today’s world, a hundred years later.
Vanessa Beaumont
Her debut novel, “The Other Side of Paradise”, is a delicious foray into the tantalising, glamorous world of between-the-wars, upper class England, with the dark undercurrents that threaded through those years. Vanessa studied Classics at Oxford University, before working as an independent publisher at Short Books, and then co-founding the literary agency, Prentice Beaumont. She divides her life between London and Northumberland, where she and her husband took on the family estate, Bywell Hall.
Jessica Fellowes
Jessica is an author, journalist and public speaker. “The Mitford Murders”, her first series of six novels, was nominated for awards in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and sold into eighteen territories. Jessica is also the author of five official companion books to “Downton Abbey”, various of which hit the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller lists. Former columnist for the ‘Mail on Sunday’ and deputy editor of ‘Country Life’, she has written business books with Sophie Cornish MBE, “The Devil You Know” with forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes and short stories for Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue. Jessica makes frequent appearances on radio, podcasts and television, and lives in Oxfordshire with her family.
In the Room…
Alan Hilburg Washington DC • Founder & CEO • Hilburg Associates • Crisis Leadership
Amy Taylor New York • Guest of Micah Taylor
Benjamin Abbott Lisbon • Managing Partner • Howdy Ventures • Venture Capital; Tech, F&B
Betsy Pearce New York • Founder • Pearce LLP • Fashion and Luxury Brand Law
Celia Walden London • Columnist • Daily Telegraph • Journalist/Author
Clive Zietman London • Commercial Litigator
Daniel Widdicombe London • CFO • Devolver Digital • Video Game Publisher
David Lewis London • Co-Founder • Touchlight Genetics • DNA Vaccines / Private Investor
Dylan Jones London • Editor-in-Chief • The Standard • Media
Efraim Chalamish (Dr) New York • Professor of Law • New York University • Academia
Eloise Mathieu London • Strategist • EMC2 Consulting Solutions • Business Advisory
Inbar Maymon Pomeranchik Tel Aviv • Co Founder & CEO • AgChimedes • Scientist and Biotech Investment Consultant
Jack Calaman New York • Senior VP / Investments • Stifel Private Client Group • Investment Advisor
Jeremy Smouha London • Chief Executive Officer • Atlanticomnium UK • Bond Fund Management
Jerome Rubin-Delanchy Zurich • CEO • ATU Advisory Services AG • Wealth Advisors
Jessica Fellowes London • Author, Journalist & Public Speaker
Jonathan Aeberhard London • Founder • Buro Aeberhard • Advisory: Luxury Residential & Hospitality
Lara Holliday London • President & Founder • Tide Risers • Women Leaders Community
Joanna Hood London • Guest of Lee Thistlethwaite
Kevin Greenleaves London • Founder & Chief Executive • Virgo Stone • Global Leadership Advisory
Lee Thistlethwaite London • Founder • Thistlethwaite Associates • Family Office Advisory
Lindsay Fasano New York • Artist & Teacher
Luca Rubinelli London • Managing Partner • Folios Invest (London) • Investment
Magid ArslanLondon • PHD • Governance • King’s College
Marjorie Nesbitt New York • President & Founder • Eight Points • Asset Management • Real Estate Asset Management
Matt Komorowski Lisbon • Chief Revenue Officer • myPOS • Card Machine Terminals
Melanie Levensohn Geneva • Author
Micah Taylor New York • Co-Founder • Taylor & Gray • Financial Services Regulatory Consultancy
Michael Quinn New York • Brand Marketing and Accountable AI
Mike Delmas Zurich • Guest of Jerome Rubin-Delanchy
Nicola Medrano New York • Physician • Bellevue Hospital • Infectious Diseases
Niki Gifford London • Founder • Gifford Marketing • Specialist: Arts & Culture
Nikki McCullagh London • Inceptive Films • Producer / Designer
Nino Zaridze New York • Founder and Creative Director • NZR Jewellery LLC • Custom Jewelry Design
Noreen Weiss New York • Chair-US, Managing Partner • gunnercooke US LLP • Law Firm
Pascal Levensohn Geneva • Managing Member • Levensohn Venture Partners LLC • Private Investor/Family Office Advisory
Patricia Caporaso Washington DC • Founder • Food for Development • Agri-Business Projects
Radek Pokorny Prague • Principal • Family Office
Radu Piturlea Bucharest • Entrepreneur & Investor
Rakesh Chand Zürich • Chairman • Kaura Foundation • Foundation
Robert Cohen Tel Aviv • Managing Partner • Benson Oak • Venture Capital
Robert Griffitts New York • Managing Partner • Griffitts LLP • Law Firm
Simon Jacot de Boinod London • Founder • Forum • Global Network
Simon Knecht Zurich • Senior Relationship Manager • LGT Bank Private Bank
Stephen Vann New York • Founder & CEO • Stephen Vann Consulting • Entrepreneur& Investor & Musician
Steven Hirth New York • Founder & Principal • S.H. Hirth and Associates • International Merchant Banking
Suzy Lewis London • Psychotherapist
Tanja Cukon Vienna • Attorney • Cukon • Croatian Austrian Law Firm
Toby Crooks London • Partner • Rawlinson & Hunter LLP • Chartered Accountants & Tax Advisors
Vanessa Beaumont London • Author
Yvonne Lemus-Bosu Los Angeles • CEO & Founder • Six Dragonflies • Angel Investment
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charlotte@forumclubhouse.com