2011
Dealing With a Changing World
- Germany's Role In the Global Economy
His Excellency Mr Georg Boomgaarden
the German Ambassador
2010
Threats from a breakdown in trust
Mr Donald Brydon CBE
2009
After the financial crash what next?
Dr Vincent Cable MP, Deputy Leader, Liberal Democrat Party
2008
India's emerging role in the global economy
Mrs Naina Lal Kidwai, Chief Executive , HSBC India
2007
The Role of Business in Society
Mr Antony Burgmans, Chairman Unilever
2006
Business and NGOs in sustainable development
- wars or common cause?
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman Anglo American plc
2005
China - its impact on world trade in the 21st Century
Sir Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics
2004
Multi Lateral World Trade - Dead or Just Resting?
Mr Digby Jones, Director-General, Confederation of British Industry
2003
World Trade in the New Millennium
Mr Peter Sutherland SC, Chairman, BP plc
2002
Britain's role in the World - strategic and financial
Lord Owen CH PC, Formerly Foreign Secretary
2001
The New Economy: Fact or Fantasy
- The future is not what it used to be
Dr David Potter CBE, Chairman, Psion plc
2000
Reinventing the future: what America has to teach (and learn)
Mr Philip Lader, US Ambassador
1999
Technology & Global Trade beyond the Millennium
Mr Peter Job, Chief Executive, Reuters plc
1998
Health and Wealth from Molecules
Sir Richard Sykes DSc FRS, Chairman, GlaxoSmithKline
1997
Hong Kong Before and After Transition
Helmut Sohmen OBE Chairman, World Wide Shipping
1996
A Future for the Arab World
HE Yousef Shirawi, Deputy Prime Minister of the State of Bahrain
1995
Theatre - An International Commodity and Means of Communication
Dame Mary Soames, Chairman, Board of the Royal National Theatre
1994
London as a growing centre of world trade
Sir Colin Marshal, Chairman, British Airways plc
1993
Prospects for the UK and International Economy in 1993/Does the Balance of payments matter?
Sir Kit McMahon, Formerly, Deputy Governor Bank of England
1992
Trade and the Environment
Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO, Warden, Green College, Oxford
1991
International Trade from a Kuwaiti and Arab Perspective
Sheikh Salim Al-Sabah, Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait
1990
A View from the Study - Changing a culture
Mr David Emms, Director of London House for Overseas Graduates
1989
Lord Harris of High Cross, Chairman of the Institute of Economic Affairs
1988
What is happening to national and international markets for "Goods & Services"?
Professor Hugh Murray, Professor of Export Management, City University
Note: Titles and honours shown are those held by the Tacitus Lecturer at that time.