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An international guest speaker, H.E. Lord Puttnam, the UK’s Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Cambodia, joined us as part of his official visit to the Kingdom.Lord Puttnam has spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Memphis Belle. His films have won ten Oscars, 25 Baftas and the Palme D'Or at Cannes. He retired from film production in 1998 to focus on his work in public policy as it relates to education, the environment, and the creative and communications industries.
Lord Puttnam was awarded a CBE in 1982, a knighthood in 1995, and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997. In France he was made a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1985, becoming an Officer in 1992, and a Commander in 2006. He has been the recipient of more than 40 honorary degrees from Universities in the UK and overseas.
In 2012 he was appointed the UK Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
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