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  • Portrait of Professor Jonathan Benger

    Professor Jonathan Benger

    Jonathan Benger is Professor of Emergency Care in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of the West of England. He leads the Emergency and Critical Care Research Theme, and is Director of the Bristol Academic Department of Emergency Care. Jonathan’s main research interests relate to emergency and pre-hospital care, cardiac arrest, […]

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  • Portrait of Sir Peter Bazalgette

    Sir Peter Bazalgette

    Sir Peter Bazalgette is non-executive Chair of ITV and also Chairs LoveCrafts, an online retailer. He led an independent review into the UK’s creative industries as part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy. Sir Peter has been a Non-Executive Board Member of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and currently chairs the Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Book Prize […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Ian J Bateman OBE

    Professor Ian J Bateman OBE

    Ian is an environmental economist with a wide array of research interests. These revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and social science knowledge within decision making and policy. Particular interests lie in the fields of quantitative analysis, integrated modelling and the valuation of non-market benefits and costs. Ian […]

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  • Portrait of Kurt Barling

    Kurt Barling

    Kurt went to Comprehensive School in North London. He began his career as a gifted academic at the London School of Economics studying successfully all the way to Ph.D. level. He became a journalist fired up by the need for rigorous and better access driven journalism in the wake of the terrible Broadwater Farm riots […]

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  • Portrait of Judith Batchelar

    Judith Batchelar OBE

    Judith is a Biochemist, nutritionist, has an Honorary Doctorate in Agriculture from Harper Adams University, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST), the Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures (RSA) and a liveryman at The Worshipful Company of Butchers. Judith started her career in pharmaceuticals and teaching before finding […]

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  • Sir Brendan Barber

    Sir Brendan Barber was appointed as the Chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) commencing January 2014. He was the General Secretary of the TUC from 2003 to 2012 having first joined the TUC in 1975. He is a member of the Banking Standards Board, the Board of Transport for London and of […]

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  • Portrait of Maria Balshaw

    Maria Balshaw

    Maria Balshaw is Director of Tate, a role she has held since June 2017. She has overall responsibility for Tate’s strategic direction and day to day operations. As Director, Maria is also the Accounting Officer appointed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Previously, as Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester […]

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  • Portrait of Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Bacon

    Rachel Bacon

    Rachel joined Northumbria Police in June 2017 as Assistant Chief Constable and is responsible for Citizens Focus which includes Custody, Criminal Justice and Safeguarding. Rachel was previously Head of Crime for Sussex Police and has specialised as a Detective during her career. Her portfolio included intelligence; organised crime; cyber and economic crime. Rachel is a […]

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  • Portrait of Phil Attfield

    Phil Attfield

    Phil Attfield is a Visual Effects (VFX) industry professional with more than 25 years experience in VFX as an artist, entrepreneur and educator. In 2000, Phil cofounded the VFX boutique Men-from-Mars, based at Ealing Studios. He was nominated for BAFTA and Emmy awards for work on the Hornblower TV mini-series between 2000 and 2002. In […]

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  • Portrait of Robert Arnott

    Robert Arnott

    Robert Arnott is Director of Strategy, Social Mobility and Disadvantage at the Department of Education and is also Chair of Trustees of the Cardinal Hume Centre. Following a PhD and research fellowships in neuroscience, Robert has held a series of increasingly senior civil service appointments, in the Home Office and the Cabinet Office and now […]

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