DATE: Friday 28 June 2013
TIME: 07h30 for 08h00
COST: Non-ADEC members R250 each; or R2000 for a table of 10
VENUE: Kyalami Country Club, 433 Maple Road, Kyalami (see map here).

The ADEC Business Breakfast Briefing enables you to network with friends, colleagues and business associates in a cordial environment, and is an ideal opportunity to entertain professional guests, customers and staff at minimal cost.
 
The ADEC Executive Breakfast Briefing is sponsored and supported by EE Publishers. To further assist ADEC raise funds for this event, attendee companies are invited to display floor-standing pull-up banner(s) to the industry leaders at the event at a nominal cost of R750 per banner.

Tony Leon was nominated by President Jacob Zuma as South Africa's ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, where he served from August 2009 to October 2012.

From his experience as ambassador, and with a dose of common sense and humour, Tony Leon will speak and give some political and business insights on the BRICS trading block, with the electronics, ICT, telecomms and software sectors in mind.
 
He recently returned to South Africa, and is consulting to business in South America and South Africa, writing a column for Business Day, and speaking to various audiences. He recently finishing writing his third book, published in 2013 by Pan Macmillan, entitled "The Accidental Ambassador - from Parliament to Patagonia".
 
For nearly 20 years Tony Leon was a Member of Parliament, and for 13 years he led the Democratic Alliance, which he grew from a marginal position on the brink of political extinction into the second largest political force in South Africa.
 
A trained lawyer, Leon actively participated in the critical constitutional negotiations that led to the birth of a democratic South Africa. He has been at the forefront of national and international events, both as a front-ranking parliamentarian and renowned speaker and writer, and as vice-president of Liberal International. He has addressed many international conferences, institutes and think-tanks from the Council on Foreign Relations (Washington DC, and New York City) and the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), London, to the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, the European Parliament in Brussels and the World Economic Forum in South Africa.
 
Tony Leon has been widely published in academic journals and in the media and has authored articles for inter alia, Time Magazine, The Spectator, Harvard International Review, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Financial Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph. He has published two earlier books: "Hope and Fear: Reflections of a Democrat" (Jonathan Ball 1998) and the SA bestseller "On the Contrary: Leading the Opposition in a Democratic South Africa" (Jonathan Ball 2008), which received the prestigious Recht Malan Prize for non-fiction that year.
 
After standing down from the leadership of the opposition in 2007, he was awarded a Fellowship at the Institute of Politics, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2008 he was invited as a fellow to the Cato Institute in Washington DC, where he published a paper on liberal democracy in Africa.
 
Nelson Mandela said of Tony Leon on his retirement from political leadership in 2007: "Your contribution to democracy is enormous, you have more support for all you have done than you might ever read about."