Topic: Economy & Business
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26 February, 2020Professor Richard Benham
Richard Benham is the World’s first Professor of Cyber Security Management and lectures at Coventry Business School and at the UK’s National Cyber Skills Centre where he is Professor in Residence. He is also a Visiting Professor in Policing at Staffordshire University and also in Cyber Security Management at The University of Gloucestershire. In 2013 […]
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Alex Beard CBE
Alex Beard CBE is Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House. He was appointed in March 2013, taking up the role in September that year. Alex was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Westminster School and King’s College London. He worked for a year at KPMG before joining the Arts Council in 1986. In 1995 he […]
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Elaine Bedell
Elaine Bedell is the Chief Executive of the Southbank Centre and was appointed in May 2017, becoming the first woman Chief Executive of Europe’s largest arts centre in its 66 year history. Previously, Elaine enjoyed a twenty-five year career in the media, working in senior roles at the BBC and at ITV where she commissioned […]
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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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Toby Baxendale
Toby Baxendale (www.tobybaxendale.com) built from nothing , the UK’s largest fresh fish processor / supplier (Direct Seafoods / Seafood Holdings) to the UK’s food service sector and sold it at the end of 2010 to a large global conglomerate . He now invests in supporting other entrepreneurs building their businesses and cultivating talent . Fish […]
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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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Jamie Bartlett
Jamie is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media which focuses on the ways in which social media and modern communications and technology are changing political and social movements, with a special emphasis on terrorism and radical political movements. Jamie is also the Daily Telegraph’s technology blogger where he covers all aspects […]
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Matthew Barwell
Matthew Barwell is the Chief Marketing Officer of Britvic Soft Drinks Plc, a key member of the Executive Committee responsible for all aspects of Global Brand strategy and execution, Innovation as well as for Corporate Affairs and the company’s sustainability agenda. Matthew joined Britvic in 2013 from Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks business, where […]
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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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Gordon Banks
I have worked in the construction industry for 46 years with major construction and housing companies. Since 1986 I have run my own business (a builders merchant) supplying materials to the construction sector. From 2005-2015 I was also Labour Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire in Scotland. During this period I held positions […]