Topic: Sciences, engineering & technology
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26 February, 2020Roger Wright CBE
Roger Wright CBE has been Chief Executive of Snape Maltings since 2014. Prior to this he was Controller of BBC Radio 3 and Director of BBC Proms for 17 and 7 years respectively. Roger is recognised as one of the UK’s most experienced cultural leaders both nationally and internationally. Educated at Chetham’s School of Music […]
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Lisa Winward
Lisa started her police career in North Yorkshire Police in 1993 as a Special Constable in York having completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology at the University of York. She joined Humberside Police as a regular officer in 1994 and has worked in a number of posts, both community and detective roles through […]
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Sophie Wilson
Before university Sophie designed and built systems counting translucent drops of liquid and detecting spun fibre machinery breakdowns; in her first vacation she developed a cow-feeder. She designed the Acorn System 1, coding the operating system in binary before designing and implementing Acorn Assembler, Acorn MOS and BASIC. She and Steve Furber took less than […]
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Professor David Wilson
Professor Wilson works in the Institute for Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton and investigates early human development prior to birth. He has particular interest in the molecular genetic and cellular events during embryogenesis with a focus on cardiac development and cardiac genetics. He is trying to provide explanations as to why some children are born […]
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Neil Williamson
Neil joined Jardine Motors Group in July 2015 as CEO, having most recently held the position of Managing Director of SEAT UK. Prior to this, Neil was MD of Mercedes-Benz Retail UK from 2004 to 2013, holding responsibility for 40 retail sites with a workforce of 2,200, selling 40,000 cars per annum. Previously, Neil enjoyed […]
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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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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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David Whysall
David is the UK Infrastructure Managing Director within Turner & Townsend. David has spent 15 years with the business since joining as a graduate in 2004. During that time he has designed and implemented commercial strategies, assurance functions and managed major programme delivery teams for some of the most high profile capital investment programmes in […]
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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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Professor Dame Melanie Welham
Melanie started her scientific career as an undergraduate in Biochemistry at Imperial College, London. She moved to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, for her PhD, which focused on cancer cell biology. After several years of post-doctoral research at The Biomedical Research Centre, University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, Melanie was appointed to a […]