Topic: Sciences, engineering & technology
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26 February, 2020Professor Robin Walker
Robin Walker is an academic psychologist with particular interests in studying the human brain. He is a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London where he has been since 1997. Prior to this Robin worked in the Department of Neuroscience at Charing Cross Hospital (now Imperial College) […]
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Richard Walker
Born in Chester in 1980, Richard graduated in geography from Durham University and then qualified as a chartered surveyor. He developed his own property businesses in Poland and the UK before joining Iceland, the company founded by his father Malcolm, in 2012. Richard spent his first year with the business as a full-time shelf-stacker and […]
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Julie Waddell
Julie grew up in Northern Ireland, surrounded by cooking as her Grandparents were in the catering trade. After University, Julie ended up working as a radio news presented at the BBC in 2005. Julie’s passion for food and broadcasting came together when she took on a role on BBC Radio 4 as a journalist on […]
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Robert Wainwright
Family business background and dyslexic, after taking himself back to college to gain a business degree Rob spent most of his career working for European companies as CEO/MD of their UK&I subsidiaries, and included overseas sourcing and travel (Europe, USA, Far East). Keen on outdoor activities Rob has climbed in the Himalayas (Ama Dablam) and […]
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Professor Sir Tejinder Virdee
Professor Sir Tejinder Singh VIRDEE, Professor of Physics at Imperial College, London, is distinguished for his crucial role, over the last 25 years, in the design, construction, and physics exploitation of the Compact Muon Solenoid at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, one of two experiments that made the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson in July […]
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Johannes von Stumm
1959 born in Munich, 1980 – 83 Law and Politics at University Munich !984 – 89 Studies sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München, Diploma 1995 Move to England 1997 Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors 2003 Founding member of Sculpture Network (Europe) 2004 Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors […]
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Adam Vile
Adam Vile is the CTO of VAKT, a super-startup building and bringing to a platform, underpinned by blockchain, that will reshape commodities trading. He is a technologist and business leader with over 20 years experience in financial services technology, 10 of which in consulting. Adam started his career as a maths teacher, and then university […]
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Edward Vince
Ed Vince is a London-based Creative Director currently leading the International Team at Airbnb, where he oversees all of the advertising outside of the US. Ed spent five years in California working for both Apple and Facebook before returning to the UK. Prior to this he led his own design studio, working on publishing projects […]
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Louisa Vincent
Louisa is a non-executive director of the Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure Investment Trust and Chair of Fight For Sight. She has had a 30-year career in financial services, working globally in institutional, wholesale and retail investment management, most recently as a managing director with Lazard Asset Management Limited where she was Head of Institutions. Prior […]
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John Vary
A thought leader in the field of retail disruption and human centred innovation, John is Futurologist at the John Lewis Partnership. He is responsible for the Partnership’s innovation team where he oversees the gathering of intelligence about the future; the composing of stories about possible alternative futures; the invention and production of new products and […]