Dr David Starkey CBE : Full Biography : SPEAKERS for BUSINESS

Dr David Starkey CBE

TV Historian and Leadership Expert

Full Biography

Dr David Starkey is widely regarded as one of the world's most eminent historians. He is the UK's leading constitutional and monarchy expert and a colourful media personality. He has written diary columns for The Sunday Times and The Spectator and appears frequently on television and radio, often invited onto such programmes as BBC's Question Time and Newsnight. In October 2006 he started hosting the second series of The Last Word now known as Starkey's Last Word.

He is perhaps best known for his Channel 4 television documentary series which include Henry VIII of England, Elizabeth I of England and The Six Wives of Henry VIII. In 2004 he began a new Channel 4 multi-year series Monarchy, which chronicles the history of English Kings and Queens from the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms onward.

In addition to his media profile, David is a respected academic who lectured in international history at the London School of Economics from 1972 until 1998. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Dr Starkey has written several books, including Rivals in Power, The Reign of Henry VIII; Elizabeth: Apprenticeship, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, The Monarchy of England Volume 1: The Beginnings and the most recent Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity.

With his wealth of knowledge and skills as a communicator, David blends information and insight with humour. David draws some spectacular analogies with the monarchy in his discourses on corporate leadership and is a prominent commentator on the state of British politics, business and society. An eloquent and highly accomplished speaker who both entertains and enthuses his audiences, Dr David Starkey is intelligent, ever witty, sometimes controversial, and always thought-provoking.

Dr Starkey was appointed a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours list of 2007 for services to history.