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About Frances Cairncross - Speaker on the Future of the World Economy, Trends and Technology:

Frances Cairncross is Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. Previously, she was on the staff of The Economist, most recently as management editor. She is a member of the Scottish Council of Economic Advisers and chairs the Executive Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She was formerly also chair of Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council, and is past President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (2005-06), a non-executive director of Stramongate Ltd, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio Four’s Analysis programme. She is a speaker on the international economy, future global trends and technology in the workplace.

Her book, The Company of the Future, was published in 2002 by Harvard Business School Press. She is also the author of The Death of Distance, a study of the economic and social effects of the global communications revolution, first published in 1997 and re-published in a completely new edition in 2001. In 2004-05, she held the honorary post of High Sheriff of Greater London, and in 2006 she became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Member of the British Science Association. She holds honorary degrees from a number of British universities, from Trinity College Dublin and from Williams College, Massachusetts.

What Frances Cairncross Talks About:

Shaping the future: seven top trends for the coming century
This talk looks at the main factors likely to shape the coming century, including demography, technology and globalisation.

Business and the environment
Examines how companies can respond to and lead environmental change.

The Death of Distance
How does the internet and associated technologies alter the world for companies, for society and for government?