Topic: Culture, history & language
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26 February, 2020James Kidner
James Kidner has been working in technology start-ups for the last five years – first with Improbable, who make platforms for games and simulations; then, since 2019, with Rebellion Defence, who build Artificial Intelligence tools for the Armed Forces. This followed three decades in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and in other Whitehall positions, including […]
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Jon Khoo
Jon Khoo is an Innovation Partner at Interface with a focus on sustainability, inclusive business and intrapreneurship. Following a former career as a city lawyer, Jon joined Interface in 2012 having chosen to reapply his skills to tackle the global challenges of marine plastics, inequality and climate change. Jon works on Interface and the Zoological […]
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Dr Anna Keay OBE
Anna Keay is a writer, historian and curator, with a special interest in 17th-century British history. Anna became Director of Landmark in July 2012, following two years as a Trustee. Born in the West Highlands of Scotland, Anna was educated at Oban High School in Argyll and Bedales in Hampshire and read history at Magdalen […]
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Winton Keenen
Chief Constable Keenen started his career with Northumbria Police in 1985 as a Police Constable on patrol in Sunderland North and has moved up through the ranks, in uniformed, plain-clothed and covert policing. He has taken on a variety of specialist roles, often tackling more serious crime, including those of dedicated Senior Investigating Officer for […]
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Dr Matt Kearney
Dr Matt Kearney is a General Practitioner and is the National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. In this role, he is leading work to help the NHS ‘get more serious about prevention’ of heart attacks, strokes and dementia by improving our performance in diagnosing and treating high-risk conditions like high blood pressure, raised cholesterol […]
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Keranjeet Kaur Virdee
Keranjeet Kaur Virdee is a creative producer, artistic director and cultural broker. As Chief Executive and Artistic Director of South Asian Arts-uk (SAA-uk) she has shaped the organisation’s cultural offer so that its imaginative programming reflects the rich cultural tapestry of the U.K. – with the very best of classical and contemporary South Asian music […]
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Professor Eileen Kaner
I am a behavioural scientist and Professor of Public Health and Primary Care Research at Newcastle University. My research aims to improve health and well-being via the development of brief interventions to reduce risk due to alcohol, substance use and linked mental health problems. My work crosses the life-course and focuses on tackling social inequalities. […]
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Serin Kasif
Serin Kasif is the Business Development Director (Live & Theatrical) for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s company The Really Useful Group (RUG). For The Really Useful Group, Serin works across all titles with global partners on productions and tours around the world and leads on activity in major markets specializing in work in China, Australia, Middle East, […]
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Parisha Kanani
Parisha joined Octopus in March 2018 as Group General Counsel and Head of Company Secretariat with responsibility and oversight for legal, regulatory and governance risk matters across its various divisions and group companies including financial services, property, healthcare and fintech. Parisha is also appointed as Company Secretary to Octopus Titan VCT, plc, the UK’s largest […]
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John Kampfner
John Kampfner is a long-standing author, broadcaster, commentator and cultural entrepreneur. He established the Creative Industries Federation to much acclaim in November 2014, providing a single voice to all the UK’s creative sector. He led the organisation for four and a half years, putting the sector at the heart of political, economic and social decision-making […]