An interview & talk with Will Dobbie.
Will served in the British Army as an infantry platoon commander, serving all over the world. In 2005/6, his platoon was engaged in counter- insurgency operations in Iraq, and suffered fatalities. Will is now a Christian Minister, and is currently in the process of launching a new church in Croydon. Having seen human nature at its starkest, and the fragility of human life, he will be interviewed and then speak on ‘Faith in the Firing Line’.
An interview and talk by Jeremy Marshall
An interview and talk by Jeremy Marshall
Billy McCurrie was a member of a Northern Irish paramilitary organisation before turning his back on violence whilst serving a prison sentence for murder in the notorious Maze prison.
Jeremy has spent 30 years working with the banking and insurance industry in an advisory capacity. As Chairman of KPMG’s Global Financial Services he now frequently travels the world speaking to clients, regulators and policy makers. He will be interviewed about his life, faith and work, and then Marcus Nodder will give a short presentation on ‘Cutting through complexity…about God’.
Matt Maer commanded a Battalion in Iraq in 2004. At the time, his unit was the most attacked in the British Army since the Korean War. He rose to the rank of Brigadier and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership, and he features in the Richard Holmes book ‘Dusty Warriors’. Matt has seen ve tours in Northern Ireland, two in Bosnia
and one in Kosovo, and was made an MBE for running operations for the British sector in Bosnia. He is now Director of Security at Canary Wharf.
Colonel Lewis raided a mortar factory in Belfast, helped re-build a Balkan country torn by sectarian violence and ethnic cleansing and commanded units in Iraq during its first free elections. During this event Col Lewis will be interviewed about his experiences and his faith and then give a short talk on the central claims of Christianity.
Stef Reid is a track and field Paralympian who competed for Great Britain at London 2012. She has just won silver in the T42/44 Long Jump, setting two new Paralympic…
Michael has over 40 years of metals trading experience in the City. In 1989 he formed a company which became the world’s largest trader in copper and nickel. In 2004 he founded Red Kite Capital Management with $1.3 billion of assets under management and which last year topped Bloomberg’s league of global midsize hedge funds. For the first half of his life he didn’t give God much of a thought, but that all changed one night when he was 35.
To all appearances Yvonne was living the dream: beautiful home, lovely husband, cars, money, friends. The shop window looked great, but secretly she was a chronic alcoholic, depressed, suicidal. Then one bank holiday weekend she found herself in hospital, opened a Bible, and her life was dramatically transformed.
Former UBS vice-chairman and chairman of Lazard International, Ken Costa’s career in investment banking spans over 30 years. He is Gresham Professor of Commerce in the City of London. He is also chairman of Alpha International, and was recently appointed head of the St Paul’s Initiative, addressing concerns about capitalism. He reads the Bible every morning at breakfast.
