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Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Anita Roddick, Deepak Chopra, other luminaries
exchanging ideas, sharing visions of future with business leaders
Singapore,
Monday December 1, 2003 - Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Anita Roddick, Deepak
Chopra, Tom Peters, Narayana Murthy, Scott Bedbury, Ho Kwon Ping and Tom Kelley
are anchoring the Global Brand Forum 2003, which opened this morning at the Shangri-La
Hotel. The Forum has attracted over 600 business leaders from across Asia and
around the world.
Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew is the Guest of Honour
at this inaugural event, and is sharing his thoughts on what steps need to be
taken to help ensure the future economic and social vitality of Singapore in the
21st century. The Global Brand Forum is being hosted by Riz Khan and is an ambitious
effort by IE Singapore and the Ogilvy Group to put issues of brands, business
and leadership onto a single world platform for the first time.
The speakers
and panel leaders challenging conventional wisdom are discussing topics ranging
from:
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The Soul of Leadership by Deepak
Chopra | | • |
Business as Unusual: Ethical Business Practice and Building a Global Brand by
Dame
Anita Roddick | | • | A
Brand New World: Principles for Global Brand Leadership by Scott
Bedbury | | • | Leadership
and Building Brands with a Conscience (Panel Discussion) | | • | The
Challenges of Taking an Asian Brand Global by Ho Kwon Ping | | • | Compassionate
Capitalism by Narayana Murthy | | • | Building
Competitive Advantage Through Brand and Business Leadership by Tom Peters |
| • | The
Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley | | • |
The Future of Asian Brands (Panel Discussion) |
The
Global Brand Forum Singapore 2003 is also supported by CNN, Time, Fortune, The
Straits Times and Singapore Airlines.
About the Global Brand Forum
The Global Brand Forum presents high profile international events aiming
to raise the perspective and standards of business executives, entrepreneurs,
marketers and bureaucrats through exposure to and interaction with speakers who
have redefined business and changed the world. Global Brand Forum speakers are
icons and catalysts for change.
The Global Brand Forum provides participants
with the insights, knowledge and skills required for responsible and meaningful
leadership to benefit not only company shareholders but also society at large.
For further information please contact Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
or the Global Brand Forum.
Ogilvy Public Relations
Jonathan Webster,
Tel. (65) 6213 7863, jonathan.webster@ogilvy.com
Lim Chen Yi, Tel. (65) 6213 7847, chenyi.lim@ogilvy.com
Global Brand Forum
Tony Gourlay, Director, Tel. (65) 6213 7859,
tony.gourlay@globalbrandforum.org
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