LEWIS PUGH CT
Lewis William Gordon Pugh, OIG, is a British-South African endurance swimmer and ocean advocate. He has been described as the “Sir Edmund Hillary of swimming
Lewis knows how to hold a room – whether negotiating the protection of UK waters in the middle of Brexit, inspiring a corporate audience, or walking alone into the Kremlin.
Lewis’s speech at the Business Innovation Forum in Rhode Island was voted one of the 7 Most Inspiring Videos on the Web.
Vivid storytelling
Lewis takes his audiences through the highs and lows of pioneer swimming, reliving the close calls, spectacular wildlife encounters and the passion that fuels him to take action to change the world.
Gifted speaker
Lewis transforms his experience into lessons that every person in the audience can take away and apply to their own work and lives.
Media pull
Over 5 million people have viewed Lewis’s TED Talks, and countless others have followed him on the BBC, CNN, BBC Radio 2’s Breakfast Show, HBO, France 2, Good Morning America, Radio 4’s The Today Programme, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, and many more. Lewis has appeared with Jon Stewart and Jay Leno. His editorials have been published in The New York Times and The Daily Telegraph, among others. Sky News has made three documentaries about his work.