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| The Rivers Lecture | 2012 Lecture | Past Presenters |
The Rivers LectureThe Rivers Lecture is held in conjunction with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Commercial Education Trust. Peter Rivers, after whom this Lecture is named was a member of The Institute of Chartered Secretaries for almost 50 years and a Fellow from 1943. He served with distinction as a member of Council from 1957-73. He was elected President in 1970 – an important year in which the merger of the Corporation of Secretaries with the Institute was smoothly and successfully accomplished. He devoted a great deal of his life to charitable purposes, and the Institute’s Educational Trust and the Benevolent Fund both benefited from his support. He also made a generous provision for an annual series of lectures, which now bear his name and have an important part in the Institute’s calendar. He died in 1977. The first lecture was held on 2 May 1972 at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, St James’ Square. Lord Redcliffe-Maud spoke on The Indispensability of the Administrator. At the second lecture, on 3 May 1973, Lord Robens spoke on The Growing Bureaucracy, and on 6 June 1974 The Rt Hon George Thomson spoke on How the EEC Works. Lord Hailsham was the speaker in 1976. The Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators started its own annual series of lectures in 1988. The first lecture was held at City University on 2nd March 1988 with sponsorship from Rank Xerox. After ten years the Institute and the Company considered that it was not practical to hold two lectures effectively in competition with one another, so in 1998 the Company took over the Rivers Lecture with financial support from the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Commercial Education Trust. The first combined lecture took place in March 1998 at the Drapers’ Hall when Mr Bernard Harty, Town Clerk and Chamberlain to the Corporation of London, spoke on The Future Governance of London. See Past Presenters page for a list of speakers in subsequent years. |
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