"Ladies and gentlemen, It's my great honour. I am pleased, so pleased. It is....."
Don't start an introduction speech like that. It's not about you, it's all about the person to whom you are introducing yourself.
The key to giving a good introduction is you want to be relatively brief. You want to give the information the audience need in order to know why they should care about this speaker. And you want to give the most interesting information about the speaker to wet the appetite for the audience.
Don't make it about yourself. It's not a great honour for you. May be it is, but your audience doesn't care. You may be just only person willing to do it.
Do it with a spotlight of focus on the person you are introducing, not you. And try to weave in a little flavor. If you have a personal story that brief and isn't about you that points a picture of the person you are introducing, that's great.
If you want to ask someone else what they like about this person the most, or why an audience member is so excited about hearing this Speaker, weave that in. But brief in. People are there to hear the speaker and not you.
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