Breakfast with Digby Lord Jones, UK Minister for Trade and Investment

Breakfast with Digby Lord Jones,
UK Minister for Trade and Investment

TUESDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2007

One of the most interesting and exciting Ministerial appointments made by Gordon
Brown when he became Prime Minister was that of Digby Lord Jones, until recently
Director General of the CBI, as Minister for Trade and Investment. Digby Lord Jones
of Birmingham, as he is now called, brings a wealth of business advocacy experience
to his new role and his own special style. 

Digby Lord Jones, a frequent visitor to China, will be paying his first visit in
his new Ministerial role in November. He will address a British Chamber breakfast
on 20 November about his vision for his new role and what he and UKTI can do to
support UK business in China and the wider world. Those who have heard Lord Jones
speak before will know that he is a lively interlocutor so we are leaving plenty of
time for what we anticipate will be a lively Q and A session.

GUEST SPEAKER

Digby Lord Jones (Minister for Trade & Investment)
Digby Lord Jones was appointed Minister of State for Trade and Investment at the
new Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) as part of
Gordon Brown's first Government in June 2007. He is also the chair of UK Trade and
Investment. Previously, Digby Lord Jones was Director-General of the Confederation
of British Industry from January 2000 until June 2006. In December 2006, he was
appointed by then Chancellor Gordon Brown to be the UK's Skills Envoy, and has also
held several advisory positions in the private sector.

EVENT DETAILS:
Date: Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Time: 07:30 - registration opens;
                07:45 - 09:00 - breakfast and speech
Venue: Function Room 12 (first floor), China World, No 1 Jianguomenwai
中国大饭店，建国门外大街1号,12号会议室
Cost: Members - RMB 200; non-members - RMB 350
Access: All welcome

Please register with us in advance. If you have registered and discover that you
cannot make the event please give us at least 48 hours notice; without sufficient
notice we will have to invoice you for the event. Please settle payment for the
event at the door on arrival. Thank you.

To guarantee your place simply register at www.pek.britcham.org or contact
Mickey Zhao,by Friday, 16 November 2007F (010) 8525 1100, T (010) 8525 1111 ext. 707