Speakers and Chairs Bios

Peter Day was born in Norfolk in 1947 and educated at Lincoln School and the University of Oxford. He worked for BBC Radio from 1974 to 2016. In 1988, he became the presenter of the Radio 4 programme 'In Business' with a mandate to seek out the trends influencing the working world. Peter has that rare ability of making listeners interested in subjects they didn’t realise they cared about. From 2000 he also presented the BBC World Service’s Global Business.

His podcast, Peter Day's World of Businesshas been one of the BBC’s most popular downloads.