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Nigel Roberts
Nigel Roberts had a distinguished career as a business journalist and broadcaster. He anchored and edited business programmes for CNBC Europe, the BBC and CNN. He has also written extensively about business and finance for publications like the Wall Street Journal Europe and the Independent. He is a Media Fellow of the World Economic Forum and has worked extensively with Social Entrepreneurs and not for profit organisations. He has moderated and chaired WEF events in Europe, America and the Middle East.
He now provides high level strategic counsel, communication consultancy and media coaching to senior executives in Europe, the Middle East and the US. He has particular expertise in financial services, food and retail, insurance, chemicals, technology and the credit card sector. He was head of the strategic media group at PR agency Weber Shandwick and was also worked as a corporate MD for Burson Marsteller where he advised clients like DeBeers, Doha 2016 Olympic bid, Hewlett Packard, Bacardi and Philip Morris.
He teaches communications skills with iOpener at London Business School and has media trained CEO’s and senior board members at companies in Europe and the US. These include: MasterCard, Kraft, Microsoft, Oracle, Dow Chemical, Royal bank of Canada, Unilever and XL Capital. He also has extensive experience in crisis management.