Tony Hayward

Um, hello! I wonder if this constitutes 'general chit chat' and may be of interest to someone out there??

I met Tony Hayward the other evening after a lecture he gave on leadership in a crisis (who better??)

We were a small group of GKP holders who met for the first time to attend the lecture, hoping I'm sure for some tidbits about Kurdistan/GKP/KRG - whatever - something that might shed some light on the intricacies of the operation in that part of the world.

During questions and answers after the lecture he said that he felt his company was an "enabler of Kurdistan's right of self determination" and he was of the opinion that Irag would fragment along religious lines within 5 years and this would be engineered by politicians in Baghad.

I was lucky enough to 'collar' the man for a very brief couple of minutes after his lecture and my interpretation would be that he didn't rate GKP at all, felt that there was a "strong case against" them at the moment and were never going to reach £5 He wasn't that enamoured by AFR either but was positive about AOI and, of course, GENL.

All this is my interpretation from a very brief interaction with the man and offered as "general chit chat"

Happy Wednesday everyone!