Topic: Culture, history & language
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26 February, 2020Helen 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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Baroness Christine Blower
Christine Blower is the President of the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), the Education International Regional Structure in Europe. She was the General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers in the UK from 2008 to 2016, and now acts as International Secretary of the NUT section of the new National Education Union, […]
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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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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 […]
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Ann Beynon
Ann has held major roles in the private and public sectors. As BT’s Director for Wales until July 2015, she was the company’s senior representative, overseeing its commercial and policy agenda in the country. This required in-depth knowledge of all aspects of BT’s commercial activities across all its lines of business and engagement with BT’s […]
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Andrew Bernard
Andrew ‘Bernie’ Bernard is a TEDx Speaker, Director of Innovative Enterprise and National Careers Week, Entrepreneur and Fellow of Professional Speaking Association. Bernie has, since 2006, worked with schools, businesses, charities, universities and colleges to help over 145,000 young people Bring the Future to Life through enterprise and careers workshops. All keynotes can be delivered […]
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Peter Bennett-Jones
Peter is a veteran tv, film and theatre producer. His former production company Tiger Aspect was responsible for countless international hits including Mr Bean, the Vicar of Dibley, Charlie and Lola, Billy Elliot and Robin Hood. He currently chairs Burning Bright Prods and PBJ Management. PBJ and KBJ represent leading comedy and presenting talent including […]
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Josh Berger
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Dr Anna Beer
Anna’s first book, type-written when she was 12, was ‘Wuthering Claudia’, written for, featuring, and strongly influenced by her classmates at Chiswick Community School. Now, several decades on, she continues to write about what interests her – and hopes will interest others. Her latest book, ‘Sounds and Sweet Airs: the Forgotten Women of Classical Music’ […]