McKay Interview

The McKay Interview airs Mondays at 8pm, Saturday at 10am and Sunday at 3pm, always straight after the BBC News.
About Michael McKay
Michael McKay spent twenty three years in the toughest of international businesses, tobacco, holding senior positions in marketing, corporate affairs and external relations.
In the mid-1980's and early 90's he created his own management consulting firm in Zug, Switzerland, with a clientele of blue-chip companies including well-known Swiss banks and prominent firms in other sectors.
As an independent advisor and founder of McKay’s consulting firm, he has addressed on behalf of corporate clients issues such as better regulation; the defence of freedom of choice, effective anti-contraband and anti-counterfeiting strategies, leveraging high-level networks in the Middle East, counselling senior executives on better management of the external environment and effective government relations, enhancing corporate reputation as well as managing communication problems that accompany change management strategies. His consulting work has been carried out in many European capitals.
Michael has been an occasional guest lecturer at the University of Geneva's and the University of Fribourg's MBA programmes and at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is also a regular speaker at NATO Advanced Research Workshops; and is a non-executive Director of MEC International Ltd., London. He is well-known as the charismatic, former Chairman of the Geneva Chapter of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce (BSCC).
Among his clients past and present are HSBC, Ernst & Young, ICRC/CICR, the U.N., JT International, EFG, The British Swiss Chamber of Commerce, Intertrust Switzerland, Geneva Trading & Shipping Association, the International Trade Centre, the United Kingdom Permanent Mission to the U.N Geneva, Edwards Lifesciences, Nestlé, Expedia and many others.
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Episodes
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Professor Dr. Rudolf Minsch - Chief Economist at economiesuisse.
Monday, February 6th, 2023
The state of the Swiss economy
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Leila from Iran
Monday, January 23rd, 2023
View from inside the country
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Vicky Pryce - Professor of Economics
Sunday, January 8th, 2023
Chief Economic Adviser and Board Member, Centre for Economics and Business Research
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Charles Adams, former US ambassador to Finland and from Orrick’s International Arbitration Practice Group.
Monday, December 5th, 2022
Top arbitration expert
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STEVEN MILES: Fellow at the Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies,
Monday, November 21st, 2022
The importance of LNG
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Dr. Charles-Henry Rochat
Friday, November 4th, 2022
World leading Geneva based urologist
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Lieutenant General Ben Hodges (rtd)
Monday, October 24th, 2022
Former US commander in Europe
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Amb. Marie-Thérèse Pictet-Althann Permanent Observer of Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Friday, October 7th, 2022
Permanent Mission to the UN at Geneva
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A look back at the reign of Elizabeth II
Monday, October 3rd, 2022
Different views from all over the world
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Dr Mukesh Kapila CBE
Monday, September 19th, 2022
UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan 2003/4
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Yves Flueckiger - Rector of University of Geneva
Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Also President of Swissuniversities and LERU
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Simon Manley: UK ambassador to UN in Geneva
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022
And other international organisations
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David Willey - former BBC Vatican correspondent
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022
Papal biographer
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Dan Basse, President of AgResource in Chicago
Wednesday, June 29th, 2022
Challenges of food production
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Christoph Maeder - head of economiesuisse
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
Leading business organisation
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Debora MacKenzie - science writer
Monday, May 30th, 2022
Warns on further pandemics
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General Sir Richard Shirreff, former NATO commander
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
Wrote a novel called 'War with Russia' in 2017
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McKay Interview: Martin Chungong, Sec. Gen of the IPU
Friday, May 13th, 2022
And co-moderator at GESDA Science Diplomacy Week
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Robert Sinclair, CEO London City Airport
Sunday, May 1st, 2022
How he dealt with the pandemic
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Ted Souder - x Googler
Sunday, April 17th, 2022
Ted Souder - former Head of Industry and Retail at Google
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Lucie Kunz-Harris, 'Syndic' Commune de Founex
Monday, April 4th, 2022
Half British, half Swiss local politician
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Yevheniia Filipenko – Ukraine’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
International support for Ukraine vital - and appreciated
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Her Excellency Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger
Monday, March 21st, 2022
Ambassador of Austria to the UN at Geneva
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Dr Richard Moxon MA, F.Med.Sci., FRS
Monday, March 7th, 2022
Founder of the Oxford Vaccine Group
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Thomas Greminger, GCSP Director
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
Formerly SG of the OSCE
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Leadership Guru, Dov Baron
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Top 100 leadership speaker
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Ambassador Yvette Stevens
Monday, February 7th, 2022
Former Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the UN, Geneva
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Romain Vetter, head of SWISS western Switzerland
Monday, January 24th, 2022
The challenges of the airline industry
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Lt. Gen (rt.) Ben Hodges
Sunday, January 9th, 2022
Fmr Commander US Army in Europe
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Diccon Bewes: Swiss based British author
Monday, December 6th, 2021
Wrote top-seller 'Swiss Watching'