Topic: Sciences, engineering & technology
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26 February, 2020Dervilla Mitchell
Dervilla Mitchell is a Trustee and board member of Arup and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers and Engineers Ireland. As the firm’s most senior female engineer, Dervilla led the Arup team at T5 Heathrow, the largest construction project in Europe at the time. Dervilla helped establish and is active in Arup’s […]
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Safia Minney MBE
Safia is recognised internationally as the pioneer of sustainable fashion and one of the best know people in the Fair Trade movement. She is also recognised by the World Economic Forum as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur. Safia launched Global Village in 1991 in Japan out of which People Tree was born and then in London […]
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Prof. Tim Minshall
There are countless problems facing the world that engineers can solve. Great engineers are the people who understand that having a brilliant idea is never enough. Getting your new idea into use requires a whole load of non-technical skills, teamwork, and huge amounts of energy. I spend my time at the University of Cambridge teaching, […]
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Andrew Milliken
Andrew joined Amazon in 2012 as the Director for Consumer Electronics. Before that, he spent 8 years at Dixons, most recently as Transformation Director on the main Group Executive Committee. Prior to Dixons, Andrew worked at BCG and BBC Worldwide. He holds an MEng from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from Insead. Outside […]
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Nick Merriman
Nick grew up in Birmingham and both of his parents left school at 16. He loved history and finding old things, and studied archaeology at university, followed by a Museum Studies course. He decided to go into museum work and was lucky to get his first job at the Museum of London. After that he […]
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Andy Middleton
Andy is Founder Director of the TYF Group, an innovative and visionary social enterprise based in St.Davids, Pembrokeshire. TYF’s mission is to train revolutionaries – giving normal mums, dads & kids, business teams and community groups the confidence, skills and reason to revolutionise the way they play, think and connect with nature. TYF’s goal is […]
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Simon Megicks
Assistant Chief Constable Simon Megicks began his policing career with Cambridgeshire Constabulary in April 1996. Simon served in a number of roles across the constabulary. In 2005, upon promotion to Superintendent, he led staff through dramatic performance changes, implemented the force’s response to neighbourhood policing and established himself as a senior operational commander. In 2010, […]
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Judith McNicol
Judith McNicol has been appointed Director of the National Railway Museum, a role she has been performing since July 2017 as acting Director. Judith has been based at the National Railway Museum since she joined the Science Museum Group in 2005, during which time she has held many important roles—most recently as Director of People […]
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Professor Fiona McQueen CBE
Fiona McQueen has been an Executive Nurse Director since 1993, firstly in Lanarkshire, and since 1999 with NHS Ayrshire & Arran. Following graduation, her first clinical post was in neurosurgery and she has wide experience across many clinical areas, having practiced in Greater Glasgow as well as Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. As Board Nurse Director in […]
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John McGrath
John E. McGrath is the Artistic Director of Manchester International Festival. Appointed to the role in 2015, John was previously Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales which he launched in 2009 achieving an international reputation for large-scale site-specific work, digital innovation, international collaboration and extraordinary community involvement. John has worked as a theatre director in […]