After Dinner Speakers: Tom Brokaw, William Woollard, Robert Gates

Tom Brokaw has been NBC's Nightly News news anchor and Managing Editor since 1983, and is one of the most recognisable names in broadcast journalism. His background as a hard-nosed reporter has helped earn him most of the major broadcasting awards. Tom Brokaw doesn't consider himself a star or a celebrity. Just a regular guy that a lot of people happen to recognise as the face of NBC News for the past 20 years. It is that laid back persona that has helped make NBC the current ratings champion among evening news watchers. Brokaw is distinguished by the number of firsts he was involved in, such as being the first person from the US to have a one-on-one interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, the first anchor to report live from the Berlin Wall when it fell, and interview the Dalai Lama. He offers a unique perspective on recent news events.