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PROFESSOR DAVID PURDIE |
| David Purdie was born privately & educated publicly. He grew up on the west coast of Scotland at Prestwick in Ayrshire, being educated at Ayr Academy & on the golf links of Prestwick St. Nicholas. |
| He then went on to Glasgow University where he graduated in Medicine learning the art & craft of public speaking in the University Union Debating Hall under such masters of the art as John Smith (later to lead the Labour Party) Sir Menzies Campbell & the late Donald Dewar. |
| He was latterly Consultant to the Edinburgh Osteoporosis Centre which specialises in the detection & management of this brittle bone disease & remains an adviser to the Department of Health & the Ministry of Defence. |
| Outside medicine, he writes for The Sunday Times & The Scotsman on medical & literary matters & is a Parliamentary speech adviser to several members of the House of Commons. |
| His reputation as a speaker is attested by the engagements he has attended & by the journalist Lewine Mair who described him in the Daily Telegraph as "Arguably our best after dinner speaker of this moment". |
| Professor Purdie is equally at home at a charity function, a Livery Dinner or a business occasion with his blend of acute observation & hilarious anecdotes which is the key to his style, allied always to the golden rule of speaking - leave them wanting more! |
For more information on Professor David Purdie, Contact Arena. Tel: 0113-239-2222 |