After Dinner Speakers: Roger Harrabin, Stacey Young, Eddie Irvine

Award-winning broadcaster specialising in environment, transport, energy, development, public health, and risk. Currently a senior correspondent for BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. A clear and direct communicator who has a reputation for making complex issues accessible to a mass audience. He has presented conferences, facilitated seminars, and given keynote addresses on subjects of special interest. Roger has been broadcasting for the BBC since 1984, when he began reporting on environmentally-related issues for The World at One Programme. He became founder-presenter of Radio 4’s Costing the Earth Programme, where he won applause for explaining difficult topics, and for using a light touch to enliven potentially turgid discussions. He has reported for Panorama, File on Four, and From our Own Correspondent. He has been praised for facilitating conferences on the issues in his wide portfolio. Most recently he chaired the launch at Bafta of a report to the dti on the environment technology and services sector. The organiser commented: “Feedback from all sides has been very positive and one member of the Press said what a good job you did in managing the show. The dti were very happy, particularly with how effectively you managed the Q&A. I hope we have the opportunity to work with you again.” Roger is an Associate Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has a strong academic interest in monitoring the effects of media reporting on government and society. Until April 2003 he is on a Reuters Fellowship at Green College, Oxford, reporting on media reporting of public health and risk. He has won five national awards for his work. He is married with three children, and lives in North London.