Public speaking
As a child I loved making speeches and would practise in front of a full-length mirror we had at home. I was encouraged by my father who asked me to write speeches for him to deliver at business gatherings in Bombay. My uncle then asked me to write the speech he gave to a session of the Indian National Congress, where the audience included Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister. We did not know Nehru was dying; he died two weeks later. I was leaving school, having just turned 17. After that at college and for my university I was a keen debater. My speaking today includes speaking or moderating at dinners, sporting events, conferences and seminars on subjects ranging from sports to wider economic and political issues and also India.
If you wish to contact me for speaking engagements please get in touch with Simon King of JLA at talk@jla.co.uk
Tel: (+44) 020 7907 2800
Recent engagements
March 2013:
3 March – Rotary Clubs’ Conference Serving Society – Helping Humanity – Interview of Sir John Madejski OBE DL
18 March – Interview with rugby legend, John Smit – SAWIP (South Africa-Washington International Program)
January 2013:
22 January – British Future: State of the Nation 2013 debate
November 2012:
4 November – Brown kids can’t jump – South Asian Literary Festival – Chair
October 2012:
1 October – MCC and sporting globalisation – Cricket History Society lecture
August 2012:
17 August – Debate: rethinking sport, Edinburgh International Book Festival
July 2012:
23 July - Sports Think Tank – Formulating sports policy
June 2012:
30 June – The Freud Museum – Sport and Psychoanalysis – The meaning of sport
25 June – CJA – Olympic Games: Too big to fail, too big to succeed? Panellist
23 June – Proms at St Jude’s Literary Festival
14 June – MCA Annual Lecture – The business of sport
May 2012:
20 May – Queen’s Park Book Festival – Euro 2012 Holland, Spain and the rest – debate Click here to listen to the debate
30 May – Chatham House – Does Sport Matter to Diplomacy? – chair
April 2012:
Olympic Forum - CIPR Corporate and Financial Group – speaker
March 2012:
40 Minutes to Glory – MRS Annual Conference 2012 – chair
November 2011:
September 2011:
TEDxEastEnd – Society beyond borders
July 2011:
ICAEW Entertainment and Media Annual Conference - chairman
The Lord’s Taverners The Macqueries Eve of Test Match Dinner – Hosting a question and answer panel with Mike Gatting OBE and Ravi Shastri
May 2011:
The heartache we must endure – Mihir Bose’s tale of a Panama hat, mouldy rice and migration
Chartwell Partners Breakfast Club – Is money killing sport?
April 2011:
Edelman Sport Breakfast Event 2011 – Going for gold in an Olympic year
‘Football Finance’ – A policy breakfast from the APG on Business, Finance and Accountancy
June 2010:
YouGovStone Debate – Can the FIFA World Cup redefine a Country or a Continent?
January 2010:
Editorial Intelligence London 2012 forum
Feedback
“Chair was charming, intelligent – an excellent choice” Delegate at ICAEW Entertainment and Media Annual Conference
“Mihir is a great presenter” Delegate at ICAEW Entertainment and Media Annual Conference
“Thank you so much for leading the discussion this morning. We are receiving brilliant feedback!” Chartwell Partners
“We hugely appreciated your insightful and candid comments and hope that you enjoyed the session as much as we did.” Vanessa Pymble, Edelman
“Thank you very much for such a spirited and insightful performance. We had great feedback straight after the breakfast and we have continued to have very positive messages since then.” Michael Davies, Gorkana
“Very entertaining. I had a number of people say it was the most interesting Gorkana event yet.” Michael Webster, Gorkana
“Mihir Bose chaired the forum and, as you would expect from an experienced sports reporter and presenter, he was superb. He was very even-handed with the speakers, injected the right amount of humour and organised a very slick Q&A session.” Jeremy Jacobs
