Topic: Art, media & communications
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26 February, 2020Michael White
Michael White was born in 1945 and grew up in Cornwall. He attended Bodmin Grammar School, then read History at UCL. He was a reporter on the Reading Evening Post and London Evening Standard before joining the Guardian in 1971. There he has been a sub editor, reporter, blogger and diarist, parliamentary sketch writer, Washington […]
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Ellen West
Ellen heads up a team of Producers and Assistant Producers at the Royal Opera House in London. They work across the organisation’s website, digital screens and social media networks to tell stories about the opera and ballet productions being performed on stage and in cinemas around the world. They also do a lot of work […]
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Sarah Weir OBE
Sarah Weir is CEO of Design Council. Previous roles include Head of Arts and Cultural Strategy, Olympic Delivery Authority, Chief Executive of The Legacy List, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park charity (now Foundation for Future London) and Arts Council London. She has a History of Art BA from Birkbeck College (1993-7), an OBE for services […]
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Arabella Weir
Arabella Weir is a comedy actor and writer, broadcaster and presenter. She is probably best known as one of the stars of the BBC’s multi-award-winning The Fast Show. Since then she has also become well known for her contributions to all of the Grumpy Old Women series . As an actor, she has most recently […]
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James Webster
I am pretty sure it is my gran’s influence that led to me becoming a journalist. She would watch the news on every channel at all times of day and then coverage of Parliament through the afternoon and I would watch it with her. On election nights we would stay up together all night watching […]
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Selina Webb
Selina Webb is Executive Vice President of Universal Music UK, the UK’s leading music company, working across its labels Capitol, Decca, Island, Polydor, UMC, UMOD and Virgin EMI, as well as the sync, brand partnership and TV production division Globe, live entertainment division U-Live and the world’s most famous recording studios, Abbey Road. Selina joined […]
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Justin Webb
BBC trainee – worked first in Northen Ireland and then as a reporter on Today Programme. Later foreign affairs correspondent working in Gulf War, Bosnian civil war, South Africa, India. Covered the collapse of the Soviet Union. Europe Correspondent based in Brussels 1997 – 2002. Chief North America correspondent 2002 – 09. Interviewed Obama and […]
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Emma Watkinson
Emma Watkinson, 31, is the CEO & Co-Founder of SilkFred.com. Whilst working on buying and merchandising team at a fashion e-commerce site, Emma saw the opportunity to bring independent brands online (they were constantly banging on the doors of the buyers) and also show online customers something new and exciting they couldn’t get anywhere else. […]
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Professor John Wass
John Wass is the Professor of Endocrinology at Oxford University and was Head of the Department of Endocrinology at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital Oxford, UK until 2012. His research interests include all pituitary tumours, especially acromegaly, adrenal disease, angiogenesis in endocrinology, and the genetics of osteoporosis and thyroid disease. […]
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Jon Wardle
Jon is the Director of the National Film and Television School. Prior to that he was the Deputy Director & Director of Curriculum & Registrar from 2012 -2017. Jon is the author of a number of papers and book chapters on film and media education as well as co-editor of the book ‘Current Perspectives in […]