Khalid Aziz

Khalid Aziz LVO DL (born 1953, Lahore, Pakistan) started his career as a journalist, becoming the youngest producer in the BBC at Radio Leicester. And at the age of 24, the youngest presenter of a 6 o'clock BBC TV regional news programme, Look North from Leeds. In his 12-year career with the BBC, he worked on many BBC News and Current Affairs programmes including Newsbeat .

In 1982, he moved to the then ITV company TVS and became the first main anchor for the South edition of the regional news programme, Coast to Coast. Aziz later concentrated on business programming for the station, presenting and producing the award-winning series Enterprise South.

He is a visiting professor of Business Communications at the Southampton University. Since July 2000, he has written Speaking Out, a regular monthly column for Management Today where he reviews speeches by Captains of Industry and awards them either a Foot in Mouth or Silver Tongue. His tenth book – Presenting to Win – a guide for finance and business professionals – was published on 1 January 2000, the first book of the new millennium. His latest book Managing Communications in a Crisis was published in February 2004. Recently published his lst ebook in 2008, with a revised format of Presenting to Win. The interactivity of the Presentation Skills Book is of great significance, as it will give you a vast amount of links to dynamic content, videos / sound files and pictures.

He is an International Ambassador for the Prince's Trust, and in 1997 was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Office for National Statistics.

As Chairman of the Wessex Children's Hospice Trust from 1992 to 1997, the Trust exceeded its target to raise £5m to build, equip and run the first children’s respite care hospice in central Southern England. He was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 1997 Queen’s Birthday Honours and in March 1998 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Hampshire. In August 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Today he runs his own business, The Aziz Corporation and is chairman of the Naomi House hospice in Basingstoke.