Sir Jeremy Hunt Keynote Speaker

Sir Jeremy Hunt is an authoritative speaker on the economy, geopolitics and healthcare. He speaks with enormous experience as one of the most high profile and successful politicians in recent British history, having served in senior Ministerial roles since 2010, under four Prime Ministers.

As Chancellor of the Exchequer until July 2024, Jeremy is exceptionally well placed to comment on the UK and global economic outlook and the likely scenarios under the Labour and Trump Governments. As the UK’s former representative on the world stage as Foreign Secretary, he is extremely thoughtful on the global geopolitical situation.

Jeremy was the Minister for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, responsible for delivering the 2012 London Olympic Games, widely and internationally acclaimed as a resounding success.

Promoted to Secretary of State for Health in 2012, he held the post for six years – the longest ever serving Health Secretary, and is credited with far reaching reforms of the National Health Service. As an exceptionally hands-on Minister, he oversaw significant transformation and change within the NHS – the fifth largest employer in the world, and built his keystone policy of “Patient Safety”. He overcame significant challenges in transforming the NHS into a seven day a week organisation, underpinned by the requirement to increase patient safety and prevent unavoidable deaths. In 2022, Jeremy published his thoughts and findings in a book, ‘Zero: Eliminating Unnecessary Deaths In A Post-Pandemic NHS’.

Reappointed as Health Secretary with the additional responsibility of Social Care in 2018, Jeremy was responsible for securing an extra £20 Billion of funding for the NHS, shortly before being appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

As Foreign Secretary, Jeremy was at the forefront of steering the global approach to the UK’s international partners and allies, in the lead up to the UK’s departure from the European Union. He oversaw numerous complex foreign policy affairs, including the strengthening of the US-UK Special Relationship, navigating Britain’s policy in the Middle East and Iran, and forging closer ties with Commonwealth Countries.

In 2022, Jeremy was asked by the then Prime Minister, Liz Truss, to become Chancellor of the Exchequer. He remained in this role throughout Rishi Sunak’s term as Prime Minister, until the general election in July 2024 where he became the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Having previously lived and worked as an entrepreneur in the Far East, Hunt is a fluent Japanese speaker.

Hunt is represented exclusively by Chartwell Speakers for his speaking engagements and topics include Economy and Finance, Geopolitics, and Healthcare.