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Bob Geldof
Sir Bob Geldof helps audiences understand global power, inequality, and leadership through firsthand political and humanitarian experience. A keynote speaker on geopolitical risk and change leadership, he works with governments and global institutions, recognised by Rolling Stone and Sky Arts for lifetime impact.
Sir Bob Geldof is an Irish singer-songwriter, activist, and entrepreneur whose five decades at the intersection of music, politics, and humanitarian action have helped shape global policy and public consciousness.
As frontman of The Boomtown Rats, Sir Bob scored UK number one hits with Rat Trap and I Don't Like Mondays. In 1984, he co-organised Band Aid and co-wrote Do They Know It's Christmas?, before producing Live Aid in 1985 — broadcast to 1.9 billion people across 150 nations. In 2005, Live 8 placed African debt relief directly on the G8 agenda. He received an honorary KBE in 1986 and, in 2025, Lifetime Achievement Awards from Sky Arts and Rolling Stone.
Sir Bob has spent decades working directly with heads of state, multilateral institutions, investors, and NGOs. That experience gives him unique insights into the forces shaping society and leadership today. Bob connects global instability, economic inequality, and information disruption directly to the decisions businesses and governments are navigating right now.
For programmes that need substance alongside perspective, Sir Bob Geldof is a speaker who has genuinely moved governments and changed outcomes.
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Bob Geldof draws on five decades of direct engagement with heads of state, multilateral institutions, and global crises to frame his talks around the structural forces — economic inequality, geopolitical instability, and information disruption — that shape current business and government decision-making.
Sir Bob Geldof speaks on global issues and geopolitics, economic inequality, and humanitarian action, drawing on decades of engagement with heads of state, multilateral institutions, and NGOs. He organised Band Aid and Live Aid in 1984 and 1985 respectively, with Live Aid broadcast to 1.9 billion people across 150 nations, and in 2005 his Live 8 concert series placed African debt relief on the G8 agenda.
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