Economy & Business | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Economy & Business

  • Nicola Williams

    Nicola Williams became the Service Complaints Ombudsman for the Armed Forces on the 1st January 2016, following a year in the role as the Service Complaints Commissioner for the Armed Forces. Before this, she held the post of the Complaints Commissioner for the Cayman Islands from 2009 to 2014. Since 2009, she has also been […]

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  • Portrait of Paul Williams

    Paul Williams

    Paul Williams is a series producer, director and photographer at BBC studios Natural History Unit in Bristol. Originally from Rotherham he became fascinated by the Natural World when he found his first fossil on a beach in Robins Hood Bay on the Yorkshire coast. This eventually led him to work as a palaeontologist at the […]

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  • Steve Wilkinson

    Steve leads our Advisory business and has been on the UK&I management team for the last four years. His previous roles include Markets Leader and managing the Consumer Products practice in the UK & Ireland. Steve has over 20 years’ consulting experience in leading Global Consumer Products, FTSE 100 Retailers, Technology and Oil & Gas […]

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  • Professor Keith Willett

    Professor Keith Willett is the Medical Director for Acute Care and Emergency Preparedness to NHS England and is the Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford. An NHS consultant surgeon for 26 years he has extensive experience of trauma surgery, driving health service transformation and healthcare management. He has taught surgery and […]

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  • Nick Wilkie

    Nick is Chair of The Parent-Infant Foundation. Nick has previously been chief executive of the National Childbirth Trust and London Youth and UK director at Save the Children. He has also served on the boards of a number of charitable and public institutions and as a policy advisor to Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. Now, […]

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  • Sharon White

    Sharon White took over as Chief Executive of Ofcom in March 2015. Before joining Ofcom Sharon had a long career in the civil service. She was second Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, responsible for overseeing the public finances. Before that she held Board level positions at the Ministry of Justice and the Department for International […]

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  • Matthew White

    Matthew qualified as an accountant in 1992 and joined BDO in September 2001 as an Audit Director and was admitted to the partnership in June 2002. Matthew was appointed as BDO LLP’s Senior Partner in October 2018. Matthew is the Chair of BDO LLP’s Partnership Council, which is the elected body charged with governance and […]

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  • Baroness Patience Wheatcroft

    For most of her career, Patience was a journalist. She began her national newspaper career with the Daily Mail and worked on a number of different titles before becoming Business Editor of The Times. After nine years in that role, she took on the editorship of the Sunday Telegraph. Then she decided to see what […]

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  • Jasmine Whitbread

    Jasmine is the Chair of Travis Perkins. Jasmin was previously Chief Executive of London First, convening business leaders to keep the UK’s capital city globally competitive and working for the whole country. She is a nonexecutive director of BT Group and of Standard Chartered Bank, where she chairs the Brand, Values and Conduct Committee. From […]

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  • Tom Weldon

    Tom Weldon was brought up in London. He studied history at Oxford University, and then was hired as a graduate trainee by Macmillan. After three years as a nonfiction commissioning editor there, he joined William Heinemann, then owned by Reed Elsevier. He spent nine years there as an Executive Editor; American Editorial Director, based in […]

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