Curriculum Vitae of Dr Daniel Thorniley
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Present position: Senior Vice President, Economist Group, Vienna, since autumn 1986.
Senior Consultant on global corporate business trends, with specialisation in USA, Europe, East-Central
Europe, Russia and Mid-East & Africa and emerging markets.
Manager of the Economist Group Vienna office (staff of 20) providing client, consulting, advisory and research
services to international business companies.
Manager of 250-company client groups, the East European Group and Middle East and Africa Group
Companies include AIG, Akzo Nobel, Citibank, Bank Austria, Coca Cola, Dow Chemical, EBRD, Eli Lilly, Ernst
& Young, Exxon, Ford, Glaxo Smithkline, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Philips,
Unilever.
In this post he makes regular briefings (duration between one hour and two days) to client companies at HQs
in Europe, Middle East and North America on the business environment, corporate case studies, market entry
and development, banking, financing, politics and economic situation. Each year he makes ten in-house
presentations to the chairman or CEO of major US and European companies – including, ABN-Amro Bank,
IBM, Dow, Dupont, Eaton, Eli Lilly, Emerson, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg, Kimberly Clark, Nycomed and
Pioneer among many others.
Other presentations include:
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Presentations in 2003-04 to the CEOs/Boards of ABB, American Express, Dow, Emerson, Eaton, Eli Lilly,
Hearst Magazines, IBM, Kimberly Clark
Speech for CEO of SAP’s Sahila conference on The Business Future of Africa
In house private presentations to Board members of the Big-4 companies on global markets and strategic
analysis;
Two-day briefing in Geneva to CEO and staff of Sanofi-Synthelabo Pharmaceuticals;
Five-hour presentation on global, regional and Middle East & Africa (covering 19 countries) to senior global
managers of Andersen.
Presentation on global business trends to CEO of Boots International;
One-day briefing in Dubai on Mid-East & Africa business trends (12 markets).
Presentation on global and Russian markets at personal invitation of Shiv Khemka, CEO of the Sun
Group, to address audience of US FDI and portfolio investors.
Through 1988-2006 two to three business presentations per month to Western companies often at The
Economist boardroom, London or the Williams Club, New York. This is usually a grouping of 15-50 client
companies. These meetings also take place in Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna and Moscow.
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In addition to in-house briefings, work involves report writing and telephone consultation on business, financial,
economic and political situation on global business trends, international affairs, investment strategies and
business trends in East-Central Europe and Russia. On average he has 15-20 company contacts per week. A
recent report writing was a 80-page document for Nomura of Japan on borrowing, bond policy and investment.
During the 1998 Russian devaluation crisis he wrote five analytical documents for his clients. He continues to
send his clients 8-9 analytical business papers each year looking at global market trends, European business
trends and analysis on the CEE, CIS, Mid-east and African regions. The CEO of Heineken has commented
that his papers are “unique” in the business world for their accuracy and frankness.
He is also the Economist Group’s principal chairman and speaker at conferences and Government
Roundtables and invited guest speaker: these number 6-8 per annum in Western Europe, East Central
Europe and the Middle East and Africa with audiences of 50-250 participants.
Examples of all varieties of his presentations recently include:
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Invited to speak at SAP’s congress of 850 attendees in South Africa as keynote speaker on global
business trends October 2002. Voted best corporate speaker by delegates.
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Was invited by Accenture London to provide input and commentary into Global Business Scenarios
presented at Davos, Switzerland.
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Keynote speaker at the NATO colloquium "The Implementation of the Russian Reforms", NATO
headquarters, Brussels.
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Keynote speaker and conference chairman at annual series of "Business Development Strategies in
Russia and the CIS", The Economist Conferences, Moscow, 1995-2006.
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Panellist in Vienna with Russian Central Bank Chairman, with Dr Thorniley's speech appearing in the
Austrian newspaper "Die Presse".
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Co-presenter with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev at private client meetings in 2000 and
consultant to Mr. Kozyrev in Moscow .
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Chairman and speaker at Government Roundtables in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,
South Africa and Ukraine with prime ministers and government ministers, 1995-2005.
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Invited guest speaker at Cipros (international think-tank), Luxembourg, on business strategies, 2000.
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Invited in 2002-05 in Moscow as guest speaker by Russian conglomerate head Oleg Deripaska to speak
on Russian business trends.
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Invited by US law firm Baker McKenzie to speak at their corporate retreat on “Communication Skills and
Influencing People”.
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Voted best corporate speaker at Cisco’s “Emerging Markets Presentations” in Baden, Austria, February
2004.
Regarding his public speaking a separate reference dossier is available. The Right Honourable John Major, former
British Prime Minister, has said, “Danny is a phenomenal public speaker”.
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1983-86 employed in the United Nations as the United Kingdom representative at the Vienna Centre, a United
Nations office for political and economic research, based in Vienna, Austria.
Work here involved: report writing in a number of publications on Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union:
chairing international symposia, and responsibility for four major long-term international projects on economic
issues.
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Other Activities:
Invited to sit as Advisory Board Member of Ernst & Young, Oracle and International Marketing Services.
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D)
Management Training and Teaching:
a) Invited regular guest speaker in 2000-onwards at the MBA course of the University of Chicago in Barcelona
on global business issues. Voted on ten occasions out of ten as best internal and external speaker by
MBA student faculty.
b) Invited regular guest business speaker at the Oxford University Said Business School MBA course on
corporate strategies and global business trends.
c) Annual course presenter 1989-1995 at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris (one of the French
“Grandes Ecoles”) to MBA students: course on business strategies for Europe, including negotiating
techniques. Voted by MBA student faculty best internal or external speaker for nine years.
d) Invited as guest business speaker at the MBA business course of the Central European University in
Budapest. Voted best internal or external speaker by the students and faculty.
e) Course presenter 1987-1996 to US MBA students from St. Lawrence University on business issues.
f) September 1990: at the invitation of the University of Oxford trained 25 Bulgarian enterprise managers and
ministerial officials in Sofia on business strategies and joint ventures.
g) Invited by Templeton College, University of Oxford, to train Western executives at summer course 1991.
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Course presenter to French Chamber of Commerce, Brittany, May 1990.
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Invited as guest lecturer in Soviet politics and economics at the universities of Stockholm and Gothenburg,
Sweden 1984-86.
DVDs and Videos
Danny Thorniley has produced a series of business presentational DVDs and videos on global business
strategies, The Rusisan busienss outlook, busienss in Europe and the Middle east for senior managers.
Microsoft have commented on these, "They are fantastic. We have about 100 copies distributed though our
company"
F) Journalism:
a) Regular contributor on business and politics to "The Economist" magazine.
b) Freelance contributor to "Time" magazine.
c) Regular features writer to the Economist series "The World in 1988-98 ".
d) Contributor to "East European Newsletter" and "Foreign Report".
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Television, Radio and Press Interviews:
a) Interviewed by the BBC "Money Programme" on investment issues.
b) Regular interviews on CNN in New York and London on business issues.
c) Interviewed by “Business Daily” programme Channel Four television, UK.
d) Several radio interviews on BBC "Financial World Tonight" and BBC World Service.
e) Numerous telephone and studio interviews with CNBC.
f) Extensive interviews and coverage over several pages in The Moscow Times on Russian and Ukrainian
markets.
g) Interview and coverage on human resource issues in Internationale Wirtschaft.
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Book publications:
a) Book published “Doing Business in Emerging Markets” (Profile Books 2004)
b) Book published by Macmillan entitled "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Communist Party".
c) Book published by Gower books entitled "Rural Economics and Rural Sociology: East-West Perspectives".
d) Chapter "East-West Trade in the Gorbachev Era" in Regional Review of Eastern Europe, Nato Books.
e) "A Business Profile of the Soviet Agroindustrial Sector", Business International publications.
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Education:
a) Botelar Grammar School, Warrington, England, 1967-73.
b) Worcester College, University of Oxford, 1973-77, Bachelor of Arts degree.
c) University of Surrey, 1978-79, Diploma in Russian Language and Soviet Politics.
d) Centre for Russian and East European studies, UK, 1979-82, Doctorate in Soviet political economy.
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Language abilities:
English - native speaker
French - excellent
Russian - good
Spanish - good
German - fair
Born: 9 September 1955, England
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