After Dinner Speakers: Lord Nigel Lawson, Suggs, Adrian Moorhouse

For 10 years Nigel Lawson was a key figure in the shaping of Britain’s fiscal and economic policies. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Exchequer in the last 80 years.He entered Parliament in 1974 and within three years was serving as an Opposition Spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs. In 1979 he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury and, after serving as Secretary of State for Energy where he had responsibility for the privatisation of the nationalised energy sector, he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post he held for six years.He is Chairman of the Central Europe Trust, President of the British Institute of Energy Economics and a member of the International Advisory Board of Total SA. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for International Economics in Washington.Lord Lawson’s widely acclaimed book: "The View From No. 11 - Memoirs of a Tory Radical", shares with the reader his political and economic views, from his early days at Oxford through his career to date. It also addresses the issues of the ERM, the single European currency, unemployment, Europe and the nature of modern democracy.