Former EMAP group managing director Sir David Arculus is deliver this year’s Stationers’ Company Annual Lecture on 9 March.

It is titled “Riding a Tiger” and will detail the “rise and fall” of a group he helped transform from a small regional newspaper publisher into a media giant.

Arculus, who is now chairman of Energy (UK) and Hassium Asset Management, is expected to deliver a “high colourful” and “hard hitting” lecture – according to the Stationers’ Company.