David Grayson, CBE

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“David is no stranger to Calgary. He spoke to a packed house of business leaders, charitable organization and donors when he was the keynote speaker at the National Philanthropy Day luncheon in 2000.”

Based in the United Kingdom, David Grayson is an expert in the trends of corporate philanthropy. He spends much of his time speaking, writing and advising on business, entrepreneurialism and social trends for businesses, media outlets and business schools around the world. The Financial Times described him as: “one of the UK’s most respected voices on business social responsibility.”

David has worked with many leading global businesses including BP, Shell and Microsoft and with international institutions such as the European Union and the World Bank. Traveling the world, David is a regular key-note speaker at international business conferences and has lectured at business schools in Africa, North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

For most of his career David has been a social entrepreneur, starting and/or running a number of public-private-community partnerships. He is a former Joint Managing-Director of Business in the Community and currently serves as part-time Director. In addition, he focuses on small businesses as founder chairman of the UK Small Business Consortium.

David is the Director of The Prince of Wales Award for Innovation and a contributing editor to The Corporate Citizenship Briefing. He has Masters degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Brussels, an MBA from Newcastle; and has an honourary doctorate of laws from London SouthBank University.

His books include “Corporate Social Opportunity: Seven Steps to make Corporate Social Responsibility work for your business,” and “Everybody’s Business — Managing Risks and Opportunities in today’s global society.”