Topic: Culture, history & language
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26 February, 2020Rupert Soames OBE
Rupert joined Serco as Group Chief Executive on 1 May 2014, tasked with turning around what was, at the time, a troubled business. Over the last four years, Serco has been transformed into a specialist supplier of services to Government in Health, Defence, Transport, and Justice and Immigration, employing some 50,000 people and operating in […]
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Patrick Spence
Patrick is a BAFTA Award winning television producer. He has recently joined AC Chapter One as Managing Director. He was until recently Creative Director, ITV Studios. His recent production include Gwyn Hughes’ smash hit MR BATES vs THE POST OFFICE for ITV, starring Toby Jones and Monica Dolan, about hundreds of sub-postmasters fighting back against […]
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Arthur Snell
Arthur Snell served as a British diplomat in some of the world’s most challenging environments, including Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. His work encompassed counter-terrorism in Yemen and Iraq, reconstruction in Afghanistan and election monitoring in Zimbabwe. In 2010, at the age of 35, he was the youngest person to be appointed a British […]
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Dan Snow
Dan Snow is a history broadcaster. He worked for the BBC for 15 years and wrote history books and now works at the online broadcaster History Hit that he co-founded in 2017. His podcast is the most listened to history podcast in Britain and he has hundreds of thousands of followers across various social media […]
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Lord Chris Smith
Master of Pembroke College Cambridge, former Culture Secretary and former Chairman of the Environment Agency. Born in 1951, Chris was educated in Edinburgh and then Pembroke College, Cambridge, achieving a double first in English (and later a PhD on Wordsworth and Coleridge) and was also a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard. Chris began his political career […]
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Professor Sir Gregor Smith
Dr Gregor Smith is proud to be a GP and was appointed Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Scotland in October 2015. Prior to this he combined roles as a Senior Medical Officer in the Scottish Government and medical director for Primary Care in NHS Lanarkshire where he spent most of his clinical career as a […]
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Lucy Skilbeck
Lucy grew up in Australia and studied Drama and English at the University of Newcastle, NSW. She acted in the university’s revue company and drama department productions, and worked professionally after graduation in Theatre in Education before moving her focus to directing. In 1996, Lucy returned to the UK, a single mum with a 3 […]
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Harjot Singh
Harjot has been a creative strategist for over 20 years. A true globalist, he has lived in 6 countries across 3 continents; working for some of the most famous brands and agencies in the world. He can also make himself understood in 6 languages. As Chief Strategy Officer for McCann Worldgroup in Europe and UK, […]
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Jessica Simor KC
Jessica is recognised as one of the country’s leading specialists in human rights and public law, acting for a wide range of clients, ranging from large companies such as the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co, GE, Google, GNER, National Express, the Post Office, Ingenious Media and Welsh Water to regulators such as Ofgem, the […]
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Dr Jeremy Silver
Jeremy Silver is an entrepreneur, author and angel-investor. He is CEO of Digital Catapult and a Trustee of the British Library. He is a member of the UK Creative industries Council. He is on the Board of HammerheadVR Ltd, Imaginarium Studios Ltd, and FeedForward.AI. He was Executive Chairman of Semetric (acquired by Apple). He was […]