The former president of Ireland Mary Robinson will be the guest speaker at a banquet on September 18 at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock.

The banquet is being held at the end of a three day conference staged by Oxford Analytica at Christ Church College in Oxford.

The company is an international consultancy firm which provides business and political leaders with analysis of worldwide political, economic and social developments.

Mrs Robinson was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and is now leader of the Ethical Globalisation Initiative based in New York. The conference, in its 20th year, has 200 delegates from 18 countries.

On September 17, the Saudi Arabia Ambassador Prince Turki Al-Faisal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud was quest speaker at a dinner at Christ Church.