NBS welcomes Director General of the IoD

Nottingham Business School was pleased to welcome Simon Walker, Director General of the Institute of Directors, to deliver a Business Leaders Lecture on whether politics is becoming more or less friendly to business.

NBS welcomes IoD Director General

On Thursday 3 March Nottingham Business School was pleased to welcome Simon Walker, Director General of the Institute of Directors, to deliver a Business Leaders Lecture on whether politics is becoming more or less friendly to business.

During the lecture, Simon touched on a variety of topics such as:

Did the recession lead to the success of Corbyn and Sanders?
Lack of wage increases for employers
What needs to be done about the wage divide?
The referendum
Immigration – is it good for the economy?
Key investment areas for Government.

All topics are key within politics today and ever-growing issues which businesses are facing.

Simon Walker has a wealth of experience in business, working with as Communications Secretary to HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace from 2000-2003, Chief Executive of the BVCA, the organisation that represents British private equity and venture capital from 2007-2011 and now the public face of the Institute of Directors (IoD), and the most senior representative of the membership.

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