The 2025 Tony Cowling Foundation Annual Event will take place on 16th October at the prestigious Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in central London, following the theme of Truth and Trust.

We’re excited to reveal the speakers for this year’s Annual Event:

Kancho Stoychev – renowned sociologist, business leader, former President and current Director of the International Gallup Association (Zurich), and Chairman of KANTAR’s Southeastern Europe branch.

Ros Taylor – journalist, author, podcast host and expert commentator on UK and European politics – will be joining us on 16 October at RSA House, London. With a career spanning the BBC, The Guardian and the LSE, Ros brings a sharp lens to one of the defining issues of our time.

Stan Sthanunathan - retired Executive Vice President of Consumer & Market Insights at Unilever, former Global Vice President of Insights at The Coca-Cola Company, and current Executive Chairman of i-Genie.AI Inc.

Sonal Srivastava,  Research Fellow in Marketing at the Cambridge Judge Business School (Cambridge University) will give an academic perspective on global research and how machine learning can help us maintain truth and accuracy in our field.

Kancho Stoychev

Stan Sthanunathan

Discover more about each speaker and what they’ll be bringing to the stage:

Meet Kancho Stoychev

Meet Ros Taylor

Meet Stan Sthanunathan

Meet Sonal Srivastava

These gatherings are a powerful tribute to the legacy of Tony Cowling, whose visionary leadership continues to inspire innovation, collaboration and progress in our field.

To RSVP to the event, please fill in this quick form.

If you would like to speak or sponsor, please fill in this short form, or for further information please get in touch with our Partnerships Director, Richard Clarke:
richard.clarke@tonycowlingfoundation.org

Sonal Srivastava

Ros Taylor