Topic: Art, media & communications
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26 February, 2020Lord Paul Boateng
Paul Boateng was born in Hackney, brought up in Ghana and Hemel Hempstead, to become a civil liberty lawyer, one of Britains first Black MPs (1987-2005) and the first Black Cabinet Minister (Chief Secretary to the Treasury 2002-2005) first Black High Commissioner (South Africa 2005 _2009) appointed to the House of Lords 2010, a frequent […]
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David Bodanis
My latest book – ‘The Art of Fairness’ – is on a most topical subject: Can you succeed without being a jerk? It got a glowing full page in the Sunday Times Nov ’20 (and also in The Economist; there was a long positive piece in the FT but that carries a bit less authority […]
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Helen Boaden
Helen Boaden spent 34 years at the BBC starting in local radio and ending on the Executive Board. She was an award winning journalist, ran Radio 4, the UK’s premier speech station, and was the first female Director of BBC News in charge of 8000 staff at home and abroad. Her final role at the […]
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Iwona Blazwick OBE
Iwona Blazwick is Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London since 2001 and is a curator, critic and lecturer. She was formerly at Tate Modern and London’s ICA as well as working as an independent curator in Europe and Japan. Blazwick is series editor of Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Documents of Contemporary Art and has written monographs and […]
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Jonty Bloom
I started work in the City at a large American bank while re-doing my A levels in evening classes. Then I spent 4 years at Keele University and in the last year worked on the Student pirate radio station. After that I joined a news service and from there after many failed applications joined the […]
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Mike Blair
I have been a print, radio and television journalist. I’ve also been a documentary producer; programme commissioner; ran a wildlife film making company and am now an Executive Producer looking after consumer and current affairs shows on ITV. These include Tonight; The Martin Lewis Money Show; and Real Stories.I was involved in the investigative programme […]
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Professor Dame Carol Black
Professor Dame Carol Black is currently Chair of the British Library, the Centre for Ageing Better, and Think Ahead, the Government’s fast-stream training programme for Mental Health Social Workers. She chairs NHS Improvement’s Advisory Board on Employee Health and Wellbeing, and is Adviser to NHSI and PHE on Health and Work. She is also a […]
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Karen Blackett OBE
Karen is a proven business leader with a track record in creating vibrant cultures, energising teams, and consistently delivering business growth and success. She is UK President for WPP, the world’s largest marketing services group and responsible for driving growth in WPP’s second largest market of 10,000 people Former GroupM UK CEO, Karen managed the […]
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Baroness Tessa Blackstone
Baroness Blackstone is a Labour peer whose academic career began at the London School of Economics where she taught for ten years, later becoming Professor of Educational Administration at the University of London Institute of Education. She became Master of Birkbeck College in 1987 and was awarded a life peerage that year. Baroness Blackstone has […]
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Roz Bird
A chartered surveyor and qualified marketer, Roz joined MEPC in 2007, becoming Estate Director at Granta Park in 2011. In 2014, following MEPC’s acquisition of 131 acres of development land around the Silverstone Circuit, Roz became Commercial Director of Silverstone Park and in 2015, a member of the MEPC Executive Committee. Roz is taking forward […]