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Topic: Social Sciences

  • Andrew Hood

    Andrew Hood is a Partner and a qualified barrister at European Law firm Fieldfisher. Andrew has almost 20 years’ experience as an EU, trade, regulatory and public international lawyer working in both the public and private sectors. Prior to moving into private practice Andrew spent over 13 years as a lawyer and negotiator for the […]

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  • Portrait of Peter Homa

    Peter Homa

    Peter Homa is the Director General of the Defence Medical Services. Peter has nearly 40 years management experience including 27 as Chief Executive in three university teaching hospitals and two national organisations including the Commission for Health Improvement. In November 2017 Peter retired from being Chief Executive of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH); one […]

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  • Portrait of Dame Lin Homer

    Dame Lin Homer

    Lin Homer is the Former Permanent Secretary and Fomer Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs, a role she undertook in January 2012. Prior to this she was the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport. Before that, Lin was Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency at the Home Office. Previously Lin has been […]

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  • Dr Mike Holmes

    Professor Michael Holmes BSc MB ChB MSc DRCOG FRCGP Mike is a GP in Yorkshire and Vice Chair of the Royal College of GPs with responsibility for Membership, English Faculties and the International Work of the College. He has been a Partner with Haxby Group since 2002 caring for 50,000 patients in the cities of […]

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  • Portrait of Alison Holt

    Alison Holt

    Alison is an award winning correspondent for BBC national news, producing reports mainly for the Six and Ten O’clock television news and for the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme, Panorama. In 2015 she was named Royal Television Society Specialist Journalist of the Year and was awarded the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils. This […]

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  • Portrait of Professor David Holt

    Professor David Holt

    Professor David Holt has more than 50 years’ experience in laboratory medicine. He established an embedded company within St George’s, University of London, providing specialist laboratory services for the measurement of drugs and naturally occurring compounds. These services are currently used by NHS clinicians, HM Coroners, pathologists and law enforcement agencies. Professor Holt is a […]

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  • Portrait of Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe

    Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe

    Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe was born in Sheffield. He has an MA in Law from Oxford University, a diploma in Applied Criminology and was awarded an MBA in Business Administration from Sheffield University and on 14th November 2012 he received an Honorary Doctorate in Law from Sheffield Hallam University in recognition of his contribution to policing. […]

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  • Portrait of Sharon Hodgson

    Sharon Hodgson

    Sharon Hodgson is the Labour Member of Parliament for Washington and Sunderland West, and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities. Sharon was elected to Parliament for the Gateshead East and Washington West constituency in 2005. In her first term she served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Home Office, Defence and Health Ministers, as well […]

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  • Portrait of Paul Hodgson

    Paul Hodgson

    I’m Head of Government Affairs at Royal London – the largest mutual life insurance and pensions company in the UK. We are a member-owned business and our focus is on creating value for our customers and members. That means we need to ‘promote’ Royal London and our values with policy makers and ‘protect’ the interests […]

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  • Portrait of Julia Hobsbawm

    Julia Hobsbawm

    I am a businesswoman and a writer and work-life balance coach who specialises in talking about networking and the importance of knowing as much as possible about as many people as possible in order to stand the best chance in life. Everyone has much more potential than they realise and I hope to encourage people […]

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