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07/10/2005
CBI Director-General to address Queen's Club
Sir Digby Jones, the Director-General of the CBI, is to address the Chief Executives' Club at Queen's University next week.
Sir Digby will be the guest speaker at the joint event entitled "The Business of a University and a University's Business", organised by the Club and CBI Northern Ireland on Tuesday.
Commenting on the visit, Queen's Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Gregson said: "We are delighted to have joined forces with CBI Northern Ireland in attracting a speaker of Sir Digby Jones' calibre to Queen's and we very much look forward to his address.
"He is the latest in a list of distinguished speakers to have addressed our Chief Executives' Club which is an important element of our ongoing commitment to the economic development of Northern Ireland."
As the Chief Executive of the United Kingdom's 'voice of business', Sir Digby regularly and repeatedly visits businesses around the UK and across the world, taking their views back to those who make the rules. He also appears frequently in the media, promoting the interests of wealth and job creation in the UK, the rest of Europe and beyond.
Previous speakers at Queen's Chief Executives' Club have included Mervyn King, Governor, Bank of England; Mary Davis, National Director, Special Olympics Ireland and Professor Patrick Johnston, Director of the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology at Queen's.
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Sir Digby will be the guest speaker at the joint event entitled "The Business of a University and a University's Business", organised by the Club and CBI Northern Ireland on Tuesday.
Commenting on the visit, Queen's Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Gregson said: "We are delighted to have joined forces with CBI Northern Ireland in attracting a speaker of Sir Digby Jones' calibre to Queen's and we very much look forward to his address.
"He is the latest in a list of distinguished speakers to have addressed our Chief Executives' Club which is an important element of our ongoing commitment to the economic development of Northern Ireland."
As the Chief Executive of the United Kingdom's 'voice of business', Sir Digby regularly and repeatedly visits businesses around the UK and across the world, taking their views back to those who make the rules. He also appears frequently in the media, promoting the interests of wealth and job creation in the UK, the rest of Europe and beyond.
Previous speakers at Queen's Chief Executives' Club have included Mervyn King, Governor, Bank of England; Mary Davis, National Director, Special Olympics Ireland and Professor Patrick Johnston, Director of the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology at Queen's.
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