Andy Pag is a successful and informative speaker who mainly addresses topics surrounding sustainability and the environment. An accomplished journalist, Andy talks with humour and passion delivering the important messages behind his travels and adventures. Claiming to be fluent in Italian, French and car mechanics, Andy says that he is fascinated by adventure and fear, and he exposes himself to both of them on a regular basis.
In his younger days, Andy had various summer jobs in Europe as a tour guide but he is most widely known for his two-year trip around inhabitable parts of the world in an old school bus fuelled by used cooking oil. The bus came from a scrap yard and Andy refurbished the interior using reclaimed materials. He then set off from London and made the entire journey on fuel made from sources of other peoples waste.
Before this trip, motivational speaker Andy drove a lorry to Timbuktu using biodiesel made from factory waste cocoa butter. He then organised a European Rally billed as The Grease To Greece Rally involving cars converted to run on waste frying oil from restaurants. Sticking with environmental issues, Andy was also called in by the Blue Peter children’s programme to help out in a ‘green’ car race. The self-proclaimed chip fat expert won the race with the programme’s presenter.
A graduate of the BBC's industry-leading Journalism Trainee Scheme, one of Andy’s greatest passions is journalism and he is renowned for his investigative work for the BBC and other media organisations including Reuters, Sky News, India Today and The Telegraph. The motivational speaker combines this with his skills as a photographer to produce stories and photos designed to inspire and motivate. One of Andy’s biggest investigations – Vice Girl or Victim? – looked into sex-trafficking in the UK involving women from China and Taiwan.
A passionate and motivated campaigner and journalist, Andy Pag is an ideal choice for events needing a sustainability and environment speaker. Audiences will undoubtedly be enthralled by his adventures and his delivery is known to be equally entertaining.
