TV presenter, author, motivator

Ian Robertson was educated at Cambridge University where he won a rugby "Blue" in 1967. He played rugby for London Scottish, the Barbarians and won 8 international caps for Scotland between 1968 and 1970. Ian is a well-known corporate speaker, excellent event host and enthralling after dinner speaker.

Ian joined the BBC as a rugby commentator in 1972 and for the last 25 years, in his capacity as BBC Rugby Correspondent, he has covered all the great rugby matches all over the world.

He has appeared regularly on BBC TV for over 20 years on Rugby Special and Grandstand and he spent 3 years from 1980 to 1983 as the Rugby Correspondent of the Sunday Times.

Ian has also written 30 books including the ghosted autobiographies of Bill Beaumont and Andy Irvine, 2 books with Gareth Edwards and the family biography of Richard Burton. To persuade Elizabeth Taylor to write the foreword to this book, he was forced to spend a whole week with Miss Taylor in Hollywood.

In the summer he masquerades as an expert on horse racing for BBC Radio and over the years has had numerous tiny shares in a succession of very slow horses that lacked any sort of ambition.

In the evening Ian is a highly entertaining after-dinner speaker, whose wit and acute sense of humor provides some of the funniest speeches ever heard. His wealth of sporting anecdotes and one liners are an absolute joy to listen to.