Inspiring Leadership with Jonathan Bowman-Perks MBE

Ofir Drori – founding Director of The EAGLE Network

Ofir Drori has experience of two decades in fighting wildlife crime and corruption in Africa. He created the EAGLE network, operating in seven African countries, that brought about more than 3,000 arrests and subsequent prosecutions and imprisonments of major wildlife traffickers. It has been instrumental in clamping down on criminal syndicates and kingpins. EAGLE is fighting corruption to get the wildlife law into application and carries undercover investigations, organizes and supervises arrest operations and follows up court cases including private prosecution on behalf of the state. It won seven prestigious awards for innovation in the conservation field and enforcement results. He is the author of the book “The Last Great Ape”.
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For this episode, we are joined by Baroness Eaton DBE DL, whose career in public service spans more than four decades. Beginning her professional life as a schoolteacher, she was elected to Bradford Metropolitan District Council in 1986 and became the council's first female leader in 2000. She later made history again as the first female Chair of the Local Government Association, representing councils across England during a period marked by the Icelandic banking collapse and heightened scrutiny of children's services.

Awarded an OBE in 2003, a DBE in 2010, and created a life peer as Baroness Eaton of Cottingley later that year, she has served as a Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire since 2008 and has spent sixteen years in the House of Lords. From the classroom to local government leadership and national public service, Baroness Eaton's journey offers a unique perspective on leadership, resilience, and public life
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Wayne brings 25+ years in senior leadership roles, culminating with two assignments as President for the APAC region in publicMNCs with healthcare focus (CooperVision, GN Hearing). ​

His substantial service in the prescription pharmaceutical industry culminated with senior leadership roles at Sanofi and Janssen-Cilag (J&J). He has led teams of up to 600 direct employees, and revenues of up to US$600m. Businesses under Wayne’s leadership have delivered exceptionally strong returns with fast revenue growth and market share gains. ​

Wayne has deep experience throughout the APAC region, having been in APAC leadership roles since 2006. He has lived and worked in both China and Singapore, and now operates from Singapore and Sydney. He has had significant exposure to the Boards of public MNCs as well as serving as a member of Global Leadership Teams.​

Wayne is degree qualified in both Law and Commerce / Marketing from UNSW. He has previously founded and ran his own business, during which he delivered comprehensive leadership programs to a multitude of large and diverse businesses in both Australia and Asia including National Australia Bank, Sanofi and Schering-Plough. He is DiSC certified, has a Cert IV in Workplaceand Business Coaching and is a member of the ICF. He is an avid world adventure traveller, marathon runner (10 completed marathons) and has studied and performed in improvised theatre.​

After exiting the corporate world mid 2022, Wayne founded engage4performance Pty Ltd where he combined long held passions (executive coaching and development, speaking) with new endeavours including podcasting (Hard Yards in Leadership) and writing (4 short leaderships books thus far and more on the way). He also is an avid volunteer with Asia Mentors Circle where he devotes significant time to mentoring Asian leaders toward global senior roles.​
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Paul Chapman is co-founder and Managing Director of HornbyChapman, the specialist executive search firm he built with Victoria Hornby in 2006. Before that he spent eighteen years inside the securities services industry: eleven years at Brown Brothers Harriman, where he rose to Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Services in London, followed by senior roles at Credit Suisse, State State and Northern Trust. A Financial Services graduate of Bournemouth University, he has worked as a custodian banker across the Middle East and Asia since the early 1990s.

HornbyChapman began with a shared desk in a basement room under a pub in Middlesex Street. It now places senior and board-level leaders across banks, asset managers, fintechs and market infrastructure firms, with people in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Gulf and joint ventures further afield. Paul also founded the long-running Williams global networking event across the world's financial centres. His network reaches the very top of the securities-services world, including figures such as Margaret Harwood-Jones, the incoming CEO for Europe and the UK at Standard Chartered.

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The Rt Hon Tobias Ellwood was born in New York in 1966 to British parents and holds dual British-American nationality. He was schooled in Bonn and Vienna before Loughborough University. He commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets, reached the rank of captain, and still serves as an Army reservist, now a lieutenant colonel and County Colonel for Dorset.

He was Conservative MP for Bournemouth East from 2005 to 2024. In government he served as a Foreign Office minister covering the Middle East and Africa, then as Defence Minister for Veterans, Reserves and Personnel. He chaired the House of Commons Defence Select Committee from 2020 to 2023, which put him at the centre of British thinking on Ukraine, NATO and the Middle East.

Two moments shaped the man behind the politician. His brother Jonathan was killed in the 2002 Bali bombing. Then in March 2017, during the Westminster terror attack, Tobias Ellwood knelt over PC Keith Palmer and gave him CPR as the officer lay dying, ignoring the risk that the attacker might have left a second device. He was later appointed to the Privy Council, which gave him the "Right Honourable" prefix. He lost his seat in 2024 and now works as a consultant and commentator on defence and geopolitics.

The book: a two-line synopsis

Ten Steps to Prevent World War Three argues that the rules-based order has come apart, and that the next global conflict will not be fought on one front but across many at once: Russia and Ukraine, Iran and the United States, Israel and Palestine, and a new cold war between America and China forught with information, influence and ideology.

Tobias Ellwood then sets out a practical plan to step back from the brink: rebuild hard power, restore soft power, strengthen alliances, and build the off-ramps that let adversaries de-escalate without losing face.

It has landed well. William Hague calls it crucial reading on how the global order came apart, and it carries endorsements from Peter Frankopan, John Kerry, Rory Stewart and General Jim Mattis.

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