Webinar

From Insight to Influence: Mastering Global Thought Leadership

3 June 2026 – 10.00am BST (London)

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Join Debra D’Agostino, Managing Director of Thought Leadership at Oxford Economics, as she shares expert guidance and practical steps for developing and elevating your organisation’s global thought leadership strategy.

In this interactive session, you’ll gain insights into:

Producing high-quality research that resonates with your audience and senior leadership
Amplification and activation strategies that work
How to effectively leverage your networks, and stakeholders to maximise visibility and impact
Solidifying your reputation as a trusted advisor and influential voice

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Speakers

Debra D'Agostino

Debra D’Agostino is Chief Capability Officer at Oxford Economics, overseeing the company’s global human resources team as well as people-focused initiatives to support digital transformation, innovation and the adoption of best practices.

Based in New York, Debra joined Oxford Economics in 2011 to launch the company’s Thought Leadership division, which she continues to lead as Managing Director. She oversees a global team of editors, researchers and analysts who conduct ground-breaking research programs in partnership with the world’s most forward-looking organizations, on topics ranging from business transformation, emerging technology, diversity and inclusion, talent and leadership to risk management and corporate finance. She also serves as Co-Managing Director for Oxford Economics USA, and is a member of the company’s Board of Directors.

Debra joined the firm from the Economist Intelligence Unit, the research arm of the Economist Group, where she led the company’s business research department for the Americas. Prior to the EIU, she served as an editor and writer at CIO Insight, the award-winning business and technology strategy journal she helped launch at Ziff Davis Media in 2001. She holds a bachelor of science in journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Chief Capability Officer; Managing Director, Thought Leadership

Edward Cone

Editorial Director Edward Cone oversees global research programs for our Thought Leadership group. As Technology Practice Lead he works with clients such as Google, Accenture, IBM, SAP, and many others. His areas of focus include Artificial Intelligence, the impact of technology on business performance, and healthcare organizations.

Edward joined the firm in 2012 after more than two decades as a business and technology journalist based in New York, Paris, and North Carolina, including stints as an editor and writer at various Ziff Davis magazines (CIO Insight, Baseline), a contributing editor at Wired, and a staff writer at Forbes.

Edward also wrote a weekly newspaper opinion column for many years in his hometown of Greensboro, NC and authored a semi-popular blog. He has contributed to a bewildering variety of magazines and papers on topics ranging from politics to rock climbing and was a frequent speaker and organizer at new media conferences across the country. Honors for his work include the 2020 Rybczynski Prize, awarded for the best essay on economics by Society of Professional Economists, and various awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and the North Carolina Press Association. He has a BA from Haverford College.

Editorial Director, Thought Leadership