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Leading
news presenter and foreign affairs journalist Tim Sebastian (BBC) has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for The Middle East Marketing Forum’s
two-day conference in Doha on January 12 – 14, 2004.
The event, positioned by organisers as the leading forum for marketing in
the region, is tipped to attract more than 200 regional marketeers to the city
to discuss the theme Marketing in a Changing World with a host of international speakers, including the world-renowned marketing guru Philip
Kotler.
Conference organiser Judith Gray said: “Tim Sebastian is one of the most
respected figures in world media, and his bullish style of presenting, as well
as his punchy content, should get The Middle East Marketing Forum off to a
lively start.”
Sebastian is an award-winning former foreign correspondent and has been
based in Warsaw, Moscow and Washington. He is a dual winner Britain’s Royal Television Society award for Interviewer of the Year as well as
Television Journalist of the Year. He is also a recipient of the Richard
Dimbleby Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for the
most important contribution to factual television.
The 51-year-old has travelled all over the world interviewing presidents,
prime ministers and kings, as well as authors, actors and musicians – and
recently came to the Middle East for a series of interviews that included
Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister of Islamic Affairs, Abdul al Matroudi and
Mohamed Alabbar of Dubai’s Department of Economic Development.
Among the other speakers at The Middle East Marketing Forum are: Dr
Henry Azzam, CEO of Jordan Invest in Amman; Dr Zainab Karake Shalhoub, associate dean of the Business School, American University of
Sharjah; Professor Colin Gilligan of the Sheffield Business School in UK; and Trevor
Stokes, president and CEO of American Express Middle East and North Africa.
The three-day forum has already attracted some international sponsors,
including BBC World, Q-Tel, Qatar National Bank, Al Jazeera, The Economist
magazine and Canon. |
