Colin Byrne, CEO UK & EMEA Weber Shandwick
Heath Applebaum - Canadian Professor and Reputation Expert
Jeremy Galbraith, CEO, Europe, Middle-East and Africa, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Burson-Marsteller
Jose Filipe Torres - CEO Bloom Consulting, Country Branding Specialist
Msindisi Fengu - Former journalist, winner of the CNN award of Best African Journalist, now Communication Director in a Telco company
Robert Phillips, former CEO Edelman EMEA, author of the coming book "Trust me, PR is dead"
Johnny Clegg will officially open the Congress. Johanna McDowell, IPRA Congress Chairman for the 2015 World Congress commented, "It has been wonderful to have the support of South Africa and all of the local organisations in order to host this congress."
The IPRA Public Relations World Congress is held approximately every three years and is a major event in the public relations calendar. Attracting speakers and participants from many countries, it provides an important focus for the association's activities and is a major opportunity for adding to the intellectual capital of the profession.
Its sponsors for the 2015 IPRA World Conference are:
For more information, go to www.ipra.org.