David Thomas Travels from Sydney, NSW

Topics

Business Success
Futurist
Globalisation / World Affairs
Leadership
Management
Society / Social Trends
Strategy and Planning
World Affairs

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David Thomas is well known in the Asia Pacific region as a passionate and engaging speaker and a strong advocate of business, trade and investment collaboration in the Asia Pacific region. He has worked with SMEs across most industry sectors and is currently focused on supporting Australian Technology companies with their capital-raising and commercialisation activities in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area of China. With a 30 year career living and working in the UK, Hong Kong, Australia and the Philippines, he has provided advice, support and guidance to entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders as they navigate the cross-cultural challenges, barriers and opportunities of doing business and investing across the Asian region.

David lived in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 90s. His father, the Attorney General for Hong Kong (1983-88) was involved in the negotiations between Britain and China to design and implement the new Basic Law of Hong Kong in 1997. His step-mother was a senior political leader in Hong Kong and worked with Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher to negotiate the future of Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty post 1997. David has had a life-long interest in Hong Kong’s role as a regional hub and China’s emergence as the financial engine of Asia.

For the last 30 years, David has worked with entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders to successfully engage with their Chinese and Asian counterparts. In his keynote presentations and workshops he draws on his own personal stories, anecdotes and case studies to teach leaders how to communicate effectively across cultures.

David is a keynote speaker and the author of ten books and over 500 blogs on the topic of doing business in the Asia Pacific region.

Keynote Titles

Geopolitics - USA, China and Asia What’s happening and why it matters?
Innovation and Technology in the Asian Century - The importance and relevance of Hong Kong and Singapore
Managing cross-cultural challenges in Asia - Crossing the Nine Bends Bridge

Testimonials

David is a highly informed Asia specialist. His presentation at RMA had a very sound conceptual base to which he built very pragmatic examples of where we need to focus in coming years. His candour and up to date comments really added value

Risk Management Association Australia

Thank you again for your well researched and informative presentation at the ATEC Meeting Place conference last week. Your presentation on the BRIC economies and with a twist on the tourism opportunities was well received by our members, and I had much positive comment at the event and over email in the last few days on the quality of your presentation.

Australian Tourism Export Council

I just wanted to pass on my sincere thanks for your excellent presentation to our senior bankers and customers on China and India. The feedback from the session has been overwhelmingly positive. The energy and clear insight that you brought to the Masterclass was a real strength. I look forward to continuing to work together on future events.

Westpac