Date: Wednesday 11 May 2011

Time: 19.00 for 19.30 - 22:30

Venue: Vintners' Hall
Upper Thames Street,
EC4V 3BG
 

The Guest of Honour:
Helen Alexander,
President of the CBI

Helen Alexander, CBE, is president of the CBI and chairman of Incisive Media and of the Port of London Authority (PLA).

She is currently non-executive director and chair of the remuneration committee at Centrica plc (2003) and Rolls-Royce Group plc (2007), and senior adviser to Bain Capital.

Helen is a trustee of the WWW (World Wide Web) Foundation, deputy chair of the Governors and chair of the Education Committee at St Paul's Girls' School, and chair of the Business Advisory Council of the Said Business School, Oxford University.

She was Chief Executive of the Economist Group till 2008, having joined the company in 1985 and been managing director of the Economist Intelligence Unit from 1993 to 1997 .

In addition to her experience at the helm of an international business, Helen also has board experience across a range of sectors. She was a non-executive director at Northern Foods plc (1994-2002) and at BT plc (1998-2002). She has an MBA from INSEAD and is an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.