IOD Debate extends invitation to local Directors of the Future
Three Sixth Form students will get the chance to rub shoulders with the most influential business leaders and politicians in Europe at the Royal Albert Hall next year.
De Putron Fund Management (Guernsey) Limited has sponsored a table at the Guernsey Institute of Directors Debate next week for ten specially selected sixth form students with a keen interest in finance, economics and politics.
Each attendee, selected for the opportunity by their teachers, will be asked write a blog giving an account of the evening which will be posted on the Airtel Vodafone website in the company’s role as technical partner at the IoD Debate.
The three students judged to have written the best account of the evening by sponsors De Putron and the local IoD Committee will win an all expense paid trip to the National IoD Annual Convention in London.
More than 2,000 of the most senior business leaders in Europe are scheduled to attend the event, and last year special guests included the Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP, and the leader of the opposition David Cameron MP, as well as worldwide CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, Kevin Roberts, and CEO of British Airways, Willie Walsh among other blue chip leaders.
Hayley De Putron, head of investor relations at De Putron Fund Management (Guernsey) Limited, hopes that the students take inspiration from the National Conference and that one day they too might become the leaders of the future.
‘This is a rare opportunity as there are only a limited number of places available at what is the most prestigious date in the annual business calendar. We have been able to open the door for three keen students, and give them an opportunity that very few get, and we hope they draw experience from the occasion and enjoy themselves,’ she said.
The ten students in attendance at the Guernsey IoD Debate, moderated by ITV News anchor Alistair Stewart OBE, will each get the chance to meet some of the island’s most influential business leaders.
Anne Ewing, Vice Chairman of the IoD in Guernsey, said the Debate’s theme of ‘2020 – where will we be?’ should be of specific interest to the students.
‘It is likely that the very students who will attend the IoD debate will be part of the business community in eleven years time participating and influencing the business landscape then.
‘We hope that attending this event will give the students the best possible understanding of the current business climate in the Channel Islands, the UK, and the world, and an understanding of the direction in which the business leaders of today are moving,’ she said.
The IoD debate, sponsored by Carey Olsen, takes place on 1 October and the three winning student blogs will be selected following the event.