Richard Quest
Richard Quest is a British journalist and non-practising barrister who works as a news anchor for CNN International. He presents Quest Means Business, the definitive word on how we earn and spend our money. The show destroys the myth that business is boring, bridging the gap between hard economics and entertaining television. Guests have included world leaders such as David Cameron and Petr Necas of the Czech Republic; the biggest names in banking such as Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase and Robert Zoellick, the former President of the World Bank; and European policy makers including IMF former boss Christine Lagarde.
Quest is a brilliant speaker on business and management issues, full of energy, humour and insights as well as a world class facilitator. His dynamic and distinctive style has made him a unique figure in the field of business broadcasting.
He has regularly reported from the G20 meetings and attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, each year. He has covered every major stock market and financial crisis since Black Monday in 1987 and has reported from key financial centres globally including Wall Street, London, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
He is also the established airline and aviation correspondent at CNN and has interviewed all of the major airline executives. He presents the monthly CNN Business Traveller show, the definitive authority on making the most of doing business on the road.
Richard Quest is also the face of CNN’s coverage of major UK events such as the 2012 the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and the 2011 marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Prior to joining CNN, he worked at the BBC where he was the North American business correspondent based on Wall Street for 12 years.
David McWilliams
David McWilliams is an Irish economist, author, journalist, documentary-maker, and broadcaster. He is Adjunct Professor of Global Economics at the School of Business Trinity College Dublin.
David is ranked 10th most influential economist in the world. He has devoted his entire professional life to the objective of making economics as widely available and easily understandable on as many platforms and to as many people as possible –and is having a laugh doing it.
He co-founded the world’s only economics and stand-up comedy festival Kilkenomics. He also founded Ireland’s leading literary and ideas shindig, the Dalkey Book Festival. In 2007 the World Economic Forum at Davos made David a Young Global Leader.
As well as writing a weekly economics column in The Irish Times, he is active on social media and was named Ireland’s “most influential Twitter user” in 2016.
David has written four bestsellers and one of these, The Pope’s Children, is the best-selling nonfiction ever published in Ireland.
His writing style is described by Bloomberg’s head of economics Stephanie Flanders, as having “a great knack for bringing a complex economics story to life. He is also funny. In economics, that’s a rare and persuasive combination.”
David had previously worked in the public and private sectors. He was an economist in the International Relations Department of the Irish Central Bank; Chief European Economist at UBS, Europe’s largest bank; and Head of Emerging Markets Research at Banque Nationale de Paris.
Once again, PASA is pleased to invite David, along with the smiles he brought us in 2014. We look forward to hearing his singular and reassuring views about the current situation and what we can expect in the future.