• • • Government Ministers & Members of Parliament
    • Leaders of regional and local government bodies
    • CEOs of major corporates
    • Armed Forces Commanders
    • Leaders of professional practices
    • University Vice-Chancellors
    • Those involved in shaping business development to facilitate national growth and transformation
    • Senior staff with leadership responsibility in the public and private sectors

General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) is a Partner with the global investment firm KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which he established in May 2013. Prior to joining KKR, General Petraeus served over 37 years in the U.S. military, culminating his career with six consecutive commands, five of which were in combat, including command of the 101st Airborne Division during the fight to Baghdad and the first year in Iraq, command of the Multinational Security Transition Command in Iraq, command of coalition forces in Iraq during the Surge, command of U.S. Central Command, and command of coalition forces in Afghanistan. Following retirement from the military and after Senate confirmation by a vote of 94-0, he served as Director of the CIA during a period of significant achievements in the global war on terror. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute. Over the past 15 years, General Petraeus was named one of America’s 25 Best Leaders by U.S. News and World Report, a runner-up for Time magazine’s Person of the Year and the Daily Telegraph man of the year.

Professor Jackie McCoy is Professor of Management Development and Associate Dean at the Ulster University Business School. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE (UK) and Member of the IoD. She was awarded an Ulster University Distinguished Fellowship for outstanding contribution to business and the community in Northern Ireland in 2004. Jackie sits on a number of voluntary Boards and has been Chair of Belfast International Arts Festival for the past 7 years. She was awarded the MBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2022 for services to Higher Education, Business and the Arts. She is also a member of the Accra Business School’s International Advisory Board.

Lord David Triesman has had and continues to have a distinguished career in UK politics and as a successful businessman and merchant banker. He served in the UK Governments of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown first as Foreign Office Minister in the Hours of Lords (2005-2007) and then as Minister of Intellectual Property, Innovation & Skills at the Department of Innovation, Universities & Skills (2007-2008). Prior to Ministerial Office he was General Secretary of the Labour Party (2001-2004). He was Chairman of the Football Association (2008- 2010) and is an Executive Partner in the Salamanca merchant banking Group. He holds numerous positions and is the recipient of many academic accolades including as Chaiman of the UK Design Commission, Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University and is a Freeman of the City of London.

FRIDAY 8 JULY, 2022

Welcome & Conference Objectives  4.15-4.30pm

SESSION 1 | 4:30 – 5:30pm

Leadership challenges of consensus-building across political, economic, social and religious divides

Professor Jackie McCoy MBE
The EU Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Border Region of Ireland, which became known as PEACE I, was established by the European Union to make a positive response to the opportunities presented by developments in the Northern Ireland peace process during 1994, especially after the announcements of cessation of violence by the main republican and loyalist paramilitary organisations.

Between 1995 and 2013, there were three PEACE programmes, with a financial contribution of EUR 1.3 billion. The task of allocating monies and monitoring the spend and outcomes fell on Government Departments and appointed Local Strategy Partnership Boards across Northern Ireland. As a Board Member, and later as Chair of the largest Local Strategy Board for the city of Belfast, Professor Jackie McCoy, MBE will address the leadership challenges of consensus-building across political, economic, social and religious divides.

SATURDAY 9 JULY, 2022

SESSION 1 | 10:30 – 11:30am

Effective Strategic Leadership Interaction between Government & Business

Rt. Hon. Lord David Triesman

Serving as a senior Government Minister in the UK Government and as a merchant banker requires one to learn some serious lessons. Unfortunately, we do not always get the chance to experience both roles and miss out how they interact and on what the interplay is between both national Government and business. Yet this is a fundamental interaction. The worlds of Government and top-level business are massively interconnected. To succeed in one means to successfully co-operate with the other. This session focuses on how that is done and what we need to know about both to create a winning strategy.Further, why is this different from creating a winning strategy in a top football team?

BREAK    |    11:30 – 12pm

PLENARY SESSION | 12 – 1pm

BREAK    |    1 – 1:30pm

SESSION 3 | 1:30 – 2:15pm

Intellectual Construct for Strategic Leadership when Leading the Surge in Iraq and in the Global Investment sector

General David Petraeus
Retired US Army General and former CIA Director David Petraeus, Ph.D., will, in conversation with Professor Cedric Bell (President of Accra
Business School), describe the intellectual construct for strategic leadership that he employed when leading the Surge in Iraq and, now, uses as a Partner in a major global investment firm while supporting the diligence process – and that he and a team distilled for a website at Harvard’s Belfer Center https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/david-petraeus-strategic-leadership