Summit Agenda Speakers

Rajan Datar is an award-winning international broadcaster and conference moderator. A current affairs journalist who is now one of the most recognisable faces on international media and TV travelogues.
 
His next Travel Show on Bosnia and Hercegovina comes out on the 14th February, following on from his recent programmes from Madeira, Uzbekistan and Sri Lanka. In total he has fronted more than 100 BBC documentaries.
 
In May 2024 Rajan presented the highly acclaimed 3 part special on BBC Radio 4, "The Tourist Trap" on the pressures record-breaking tourist numbers are imposing on popular destinations, local communities and the environment. This lead to being invited on the BBC’s flagship Global Story to explain the issue for an extended edition which has been watched over a million times.
 
In September 2024 he was a special guest on Trevor Noah's What Now podcast ( previous guests Bill Gates, Roger Federer).

He has also presented the BBC World Service’s The Forum ( similar to R4’s In Our Time) the weekly feedback programme Over To You and numerous R4 documentaries and stints as host of The Media Show and Front Row on R4. For 7 years he was a reporter on current affairs strands Newsnight and The Money Programme on BBC2. He also moderates conferences and literary festivals (including Hay) around the world.
 
And a very major part of his life has been as founder/bass Player of Maroon Town, the globetrotting ska and reggae 8-piece. In March 2025 the band have been invited to the Netherlands to perform their debut album, 35 years after it was recorded and then they will then be headlining a London show in April.
 
He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Brasenose College, Oxford University and then gained an MSc in Political Sociology from London School of Economics.