| Gerhard Schröder signed a contract with the Harry Walker lecture agency Yesterday, another place of work of ex-Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder became known. The German newspaper Bild reported that the management of the American agency Harry Walker from New York confirmed the fact of concluding a contract with this famous politician of the very recent past. The agency will act as an intermediary in organizing lectures, reports and similar meetings of the former chancellor with an interested audience, which can be found anywhere in the world. If you believe the tabloid Bild, then for one such speech Schröder can claim a fee in the amount of 50 thousand to 100 thousand dollars. As you know, in recent months the ex-chancellor has already found work as an adviser to his friend, the Swiss publisher Michael Ringier, as well as accepted an offer to head the shareholders' committee of a Swiss-registered company for the construction of the North European Gas Pipeline.
The Harry Walker Agency is currently celebrating its 60th anniversary. In its own promotional documents, the firm calls itself "the world's leading exclusive speaking agency, proudly presenting the most exciting speakers of our time." In 1946, Harry Walker realized his dream of creating a "modern lecture industry", which did not exist at that time. “Our dream was to bring the makers of history, such as presidents and prime ministers, to the marketplace of ideas and introduce them to a wide global audience,” the New York agency said in documents.
Harry Walker offers potential clients a list of former heads of state, Nobel laureates, the most famous American ex-ministers, the biggest names in journalism, top managers of multinational corporations and leading economists. The Harry Walker Agency's highest fee reaches $250 thousand per performance. The most vocal “brands” in his program are considered to be former President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. More recently, Alexander Kwasniewski, who left the post of President of Poland, was included in this list.
However, the range of interesting people from Harry Walker is not limited to political speakers alone. It also contains Olympic champions, famous figures in medicine and related medical sciences, leading artists of serious genres, political satire, as well as rock stars. How comprehensively the long-cherished dream of an enterprising American has come true can be judged at least by the presence in the agency’s program of such a section in the proposed list of interesting people as “afternoon speakers.”
However, the scope of social and educational activities of the outstanding interlocutor from Germany will be incomparably wider. The Harry Walker Agency suggests Gerhard Schröder as "one of the leading forces on the world stage over the past eight years." Schröder, as his résumé suggests, is one of the leading statesmen with an international reputation in the thematic areas of international relations, social change and economic development. The agency does not advertise Mr. Schroeder’s role in the North European Gas Pipeline project. Yuri Shpakov, Berlin |
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