Mr. Mark Spelman Global Head of Strategy - Accenture
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eInclusion - Welcome Speech
Chairman
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Chairman
About Mr. Mark Spelman
Mark is an international businessman with considerable knowledge and experience of the global energy markets and the low carbon economy. He leads Accenture's Global Strategy practice and runs the company's global macro economic and political think-tank called the Accenture Institute for High Performance. He is responsible for the firm's strategic relationship with the World Economic Forum (WEF); he is a regular participant and session leader at Davos and the WEF regional summits and a member of WEF's recent Global Advisory Council on Strategic Foresight.
At Accenture Mark has almost two decades of experience working at board level in senior management and business strategy positions. Mark's client work over the past decade has centred on working with boards of major corporations on large-scale transformational change programmes across multiple business units and geographies. He is currently working with a number of multinationals and non for profit organisations on restructuring their global operating models. He is actively involved in Accenture's research programmes - current topics include globalisation, operating models, innovation and smart cities.
Mark is currently the Chairman of AmCham's (American Chamber of Commerce) Executive Council based in Brussels. He leads a group of senior directors responsible for the European operations of companies of American parentage - including Alcoa, Boeing, Caterpillar, Dow, Honeywell, Intel, Mars, and UTC. The group is proactively consulted by the Commission, EU member states and MEPs for its advice on EU policies and EU-US economic relationships.
Mark is interviewed regularly, as a leading global expert on a wide variety of macroeconomic and global competitiveness issues ranging from energy, emerging markets, innovation and sustainability. He has appeared on a range of high profile media outlets such as the BBC's flagship news programme Newsnight and is regularly quoted in a wide variety of tier one print media such as the Financial Times and The Economist. He is the sponsor of Accenture's point of view on globalisation - Multi Polar World - he has co-authored in April 2008 an article in the Harvard Business Review on "The Tourist Time Bomb". Mark has an MA in Economics from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD.
He is a regular speaker and session chairman; his recent WEF roles include:
- WEF Latin America April 2010 : speaker on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness
- Davos January 2010 : session leader on Smart grids from Emerging industry to Mainstream
- Davos January 2010 : session leader with Dan Shapiro on Future of the Mediterranean Region
- Dubai November 2009 : member of GAC on Strategic Foresight
- Dalian September 2009: moderator of panel on the Future of Smart Grids
Other 2010 roles have included:
- CeBiT Hannover March 2010 : session leader on eSkills for the Future Competitiveness of Europe
- ADC Summit Melbourne March 2010 : key note speaker on the Future of Australian cities
- WBCSD Montreux March 2010 : session leader on the Future of Global Governance