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  • Portrait of Professor David Holt

    Professor David Holt

    Professor David Holt has more than 50 years’ experience in laboratory medicine. He established an embedded company within St George’s, University of London, providing specialist laboratory services for the measurement of drugs and naturally occurring compounds. These services are currently used by NHS clinicians, HM Coroners, pathologists and law enforcement agencies. Professor Holt is a […]

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  • Sir Stephen John Hillier

    Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier was the Chief of the Air Staff, commanding the Royal Air Force from July 2016 to July 2019. He led a Whole Force of some 35000 people and was personally accountable for the safe and effective operation of over 700 manned and unmanned aircraft and for meeting the air […]

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  • Portrait of Charlotte Higgins

    Charlotte Higgins

    Charlotte Higgins is the chief culture writer of the Guardian. One of Britain’s foremost writers on culture, she contributes to the news, features, op-ed, literary and arts sections of the website and paper, writes a weekly arts column, and keeps an influential weblog. Charlotte began her career in journalism on Vogue magazine in 1995, and […]

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  • Portrait of Julie Hill

    Julie Hill

    Julie Hill has worked on environmental policy for over thirty five years. She is one of the inaugural Board Members of the Office for Environmental Protection, as well as Chair of the Institution of Environmental Sciences and Chair of the Advisory Committee on Social Sciences for the Food Standards Agency. She is former Director of, […]

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  • Portrait of Dan Healy

    Dan Healy

    Award winning strategist and researcher, fusing together primary research, analytics, psychology and behavioral economics techniques to understand behaviour and forecast future scenarios. Working with various governments, corporates, investors and NGOs, he was one of the few to forecast the fault lines that lead to the Arab Spring, Trump’s conquest of Clinton and the legacy of […]

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  • Portrait of Karen Heaven

    Karen Heaven

    Karen joined Redington as an Investment Consultant after eight years at Morgan Stanley, where she was a Vice President in the European pensions group, focusing on risk management for UK pension schemes. Prior to joining the pensions group, Karen held roles in both equity and debt capital markets. Karen holds a degree in Engineering, Economics […]

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  • Tony Hayward

    Tony Hayward studied geology at Aston University in Birmingham and completed a PhD at Edinburgh University. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Aston University, the University of Birmingham and Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University. He was Group Chief Executive of BP from 2007 to 2010 having joined BP in 1982 as a rig […]

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  • Portrait of Chris Hawkins

    Chris Hawkins

    Chris presents the Early Breakfast Show (5 – 7.30am) on BBC Radio 6 Music and has interviewed some of music’s biggest stars, including Calvin Harris; The Killers; Florence Welch; Dave Grohl and Jack White. He is a notable champion of 2019 Brits Critics Choice Winner, Sam Fender. Chris is a Radio 4 documentary presenter, most […]

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  • Portrait of Richard Harvey

    Professor Richard Harvey

    Richard Harvey is IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College and Professor at the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He is also the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Admissions at the University of East Anglia. Before joining UEA in 1993, Professor Harvey was a mathematician at first Plessey Naval […]

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  • Portrait of Patrick Harrison

    Patrick Harrison

    Patrick Harrison was Prince Charles’ Press Secretary for 11 years, playing a key role in shaping and enhancing the Royal Family’s reputation, including introducing the Duchess of Cornwall to public life, protecting Princes William’s and Harry’s privacy and encouraging a more proactive approach to media relations. This work combined crisis communications with strategic reputational management […]

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