CBI President, Lord Karan Bilimoria, CBE, DL, set out his priorities and vision of a people-first recovery at the 2020 CBI Annual Conference.
CBI President, Lord Karan Bilimoria, CBE, DL keynote speech at 2020 CBI Anual Conference
Full transcript below.
Introduction
Good morning, and welcome to day two of the CBI’s 2020 annual conference.
I’d like to thank our strategic partners, Hays and Accenture, very much for their support. And what a day – with the US elections, today and sadly, overnight, the tragic news from Vienna. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected, and to everyone in Austria.
Now, as you may know, this is my first annual conference as CBI President. For years, I have been a passionate supporter of British Industry.
You’re the most innovative, most productive and most creative companies ever known.
But little did I know that I would begin my term as CBI President in the midst of the biggest health challenge in a century and the deepest UK recession in living memory. And this crisis has taken its