David Eades

David spent three decades as a frontline presenter and broadcaster for the BBC, filling the posts of Europe Correspondent, Ireland Correspondent and Senior Sports News Correspondent, before becoming Chief Presenter on BBC TV News and World Channels.  

 He also presented BBC Radio 4’s flagship show ‘The World Tonight’, and has  

He has covered stories as wide-ranging as the death of Princess Diana, to the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, to FIFA World Cups, Olympic Games, and the death of Nelson Mandela. 

 He has a very strong track record as an MC and moderator at national and international events taking him around the world to cover issues within Industry, Sport, Environment & Climate. 

 David is a fluent French speaker, a good German speaker, a keen golfer and cyclist.  

He is also a founder member of the charity, Sport at the Service of Humanity,  a Board Member of the International Masters Games Association and serves on advisory boards for a number of other organisations.  

Events covered by David as MC and/or Moderator include: 

•  UN Ocean Conferences, New York and Lisbon 
• Arctic Circle conferences for UN WMO.  
• UN – Small Island Developing States 3rd Conference, Samoa 
• Sport for Humanity Inaugural Global Conference, The Vatican 
• UN Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai & Paris 
• OECD Ministerial Forum, Paris (3 years) 
• Energy Forums, Monaco 
• UN World Tourism Organisation – Sustainability in Tourism Conference, Istanbul. 
• Riga Conference, Kiev Security Forum 
• Nespresso Sustainability Advisory Sessions – Media Host 
• ENEL Sustainability Day, Rome 
• SportAccord Convention 2010 to present 
• IOC Sustainability Forum, Lausanne and IOC Olympism in Action Conference, Buenos Aires. 

 David’s media and presentation training clients have included:   

• CEOs in Energy, Retail, Housing, Cosmetics, Pharmaceuticals, Banking, Automotive. 
• Global hedge fund manager 
• Senior executives, presidents from international sport incl Rugby, Football, Tennis, 
• Athletics, Formula 1. 
• Companies include: Renault Nissan, ENEL, OMV, L’Oreal, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Weatherbys. 
• Also: City administrations of Paris, Istanbul, Tokyo. 
• UN bodies including World Meteorological Org, International Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO