Topic: Economy & Business
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26 February, 2020Sir 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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Richard Barker
Richard is an Adviser and Investment Committee Member at Iona Capital. He brings over 20 years experience in sustainability, investment banking and strategic consulting. Richard was most recently the CEO of Biogen, the UK’s leading builder and operator of renewable energy via anaerobic digestion. Prior to Biogen, Richard was the CEO of RecovCo, a specialist […]
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Ed Balls
Ed Balls is Senior Fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Visiting Professor to the Policy Institute at King’s College London, and Chairman of Norwich City Football Club. Ed was UK Shadow Chancellor from 2011 to 2015 and co-chaired the Center for American Progress Inclusive Prosperity Commission with former US […]
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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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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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Paul Bainsfair
Paul is an adman. If you want to know anything about advertising he’s your man. His 37 years of agency experience began at Saatchi & Saatchi where he started as an account executive and rose to being its CEO within ten years. After successfully steering the agency through the early 90s recession and with the […]
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Richard Baker
Richard Baker: Until recently, Richard served as Chairman of Whitbread Plc, The British Retail Consortium, and the DFS Furniture Group, and was a Non-Executive Director of the Lawn Tennis Association. His previous career roles include Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Boots, Chief Operating Officer at Asda, Chairman of Virgin Active, and Board member at the […]
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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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Tom Attwood
Tom Attwood was for a number of years Chief Executive of Intermediate Capital Group PLC. He was previously a Non-Executive Director of ICG and helped the founders raise its initial equity in 1989 and was responsible for ICG’s flotation in 1994. Prior to that Tom was a Director of James Capel & Co, now HSBC […]
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Georgia Arnold
Georgia Arnold is Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility at Viacom International Media Networks and is responsible for developing social initiatives for the company’s portfolio of over two hundred TV channels and websites. Ms Arnold has initiated unprecedented partnerships and campaigns for MTV on HIV and AIDS awareness and for Nickelodeon on children’s rights. Ms. […]