Labour peer, author of 28 books, including Mandela (2018), Rhino Conspiracy (2020), Pitch Battles (2020), A Pretoria Boy (2021) Elephant Conspiracy (2022) Lion Conspiracy (2024)

Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand Business School in Johannesburg from 2017-2019, he now teaches at the University of Pretoria Business School GIBS and is a Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University.

A former leading anti-apartheid campaigner, Lord Peter Hain is currently campaigning for an International Anti Corruption Court to bring looters to justice. In 2017/18 used his parliamentary privilege to expose global corporate complicity during the Zuma/Gupta decade of corruption. In 2022 he persuaded the UK government to suspend Bain & Co from public contracts for three years after they were found to have acted unlawfully for former President Zuma in disabling the SA Revenue Service. He also persuaded the UK government to impose sanctions on the Gupta brothers. In 2019, Lord Hain gave testimony before Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo – and the world’s media – at The State Capture Inquiry in Johannesburg.

London-based, The Right Honourable Lord Hain of Neath, better known as Peter Hain, was born in 1950 and brought up in South Africa. In politics for over 50 years, he was recently involved in exposing the money laundering by the Zuptas (former President Zuma/the Guptas).

A captivating speaker on a range of global issues with a treasure trove of anecdotes from his extraordinary life, his most requested talk topics include:

South Africa – How the World Sees It | Geo political realignment: the implications for business | Making sense of Trump and global political instability

At just 19, Peter became a British anti-apartheid leader and in December 2015 he received from South Africa the OR Tambo National Award in Silver for his ‘excellent contribution to the freedom struggle’.

Peter Hain is a Vice-President of Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA), Chairman of the Donald Woods Foundation charity, Trustee of Liliesleaf UK and Patron of the Canon Collins Trust.

As the MP for Neath from 1991-2015, he served in the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for twelve years, seven of which were in the Cabinet.

As Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, he negotiated an end to the conflict, bringing old enemies together in government in 2007.

In November 2015 he was introduced to the House of Lords.