Economy & Business | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Economy & Business

  • 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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  • Stephen Welton CBE

    Stephen Welton was appointed Non-executive Chair of the British Business Bank in October 2023. Stephen has extensive experience as an investor in private capital markets around the world. He was the founder CEO of the Business Growth Fund plc (BGF) from 2011 to 2020, then Executive Chair between 2020 and 2022, and later Non-Executive Chair […]

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  • Sarah Weir OBE

    Sarah Weir is CEO of Design Council. Previous roles include Head of Arts and Cultural Strategy, Olympic Delivery Authority, Chief Executive of The Legacy List, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park charity (now Foundation for Future London) and Arts Council London. She has a History of Art BA from Birkbeck College (1993-7), an OBE for services […]

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  • Portrait of James Webster

    James Webster

    I am pretty sure it is my gran’s influence that led to me becoming a journalist. She would watch the news on every channel at all times of day and then coverage of Parliament through the afternoon and I would watch it with her. On election nights we would stay up together all night watching […]

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  • Emma Watkinson

    Emma Watkinson, 31, is the CEO & Co-Founder of SilkFred.com. Whilst working on buying and merchandising team at a fashion e-commerce site, Emma saw the opportunity to bring independent brands online (they were constantly banging on the doors of the buyers) and also show online customers something new and exciting they couldn’t get anywhere else. […]

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  • Patrick Watt

    Patrick leads the development of Bupa’s international health and travel insurance businesses in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. He is also the Global Head of Bupa’s Workplace Health & Wellbeing practice. Before joining Bupa Global in January 2018, Patrick spent five years as Corporate Director for Bupa UK. Prior to Bupa, Patrick was Executive […]

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  • Alistair Watters

    Alistair has worked for over 20 years at the most senior levels in FTSE organisations leading and delivering the most complex, technology and business transformations and programmes. In a rapidly changing landscape, Alistair is motivated by the challenge of delivering transformation solutions that deliver what customers and colleagues require, when and where they want it, […]

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  • Professor John Wass

    John Wass is the Professor of Endocrinology at Oxford University and was Head of the Department of Endocrinology at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital Oxford, UK until 2012. His research interests include all pituitary tumours, especially acromegaly, adrenal disease, angiogenesis in endocrinology, and the genetics of osteoporosis and thyroid disease. […]

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  • Jon Wardle

    Jon is the Director of the National Film and Television School. Prior to that he was the Deputy Director & Director of Curriculum & Registrar from 2012 -2017. Jon is the author of a number of papers and book chapters on film and media education as well as co-editor of the book ‘Current Perspectives in […]

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  • Sir Peter Wanless

    Peter Wanless is the Chief Executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) a role he has held since June 2013. The NSPCC is one of the UK’s oldest and best known charities which exists to fight for every childhood. The NSPCC delivers services, generates knowledge and campaigns: to prevent […]

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