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Topic: Social Sciences

  • Sir Stephen John Hillier

    Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier was the Chief of the Air Staff, commanding the Royal Air Force from July 2016 to July 2019. He led a Whole Force of some 35000 people and was personally accountable for the safe and effective operation of over 700 manned and unmanned aircraft and for meeting the air […]

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  • Portrait of Julie Hill

    Julie Hill

    Julie Hill has worked on environmental policy for over thirty five years. She is one of the inaugural Board Members of the Office for Environmental Protection, as well as Chair of the Institution of Environmental Sciences and Chair of the Advisory Committee on Social Sciences for the Food Standards Agency. She is former Director of, […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Noreena Hertz

    Professor Noreena Hertz

    Noreena Hertz is a renowned thought leader with an impressive track record in predicting global trends. Her best-selling books, The Silent Takeover, IOU:The Debt Threat and Eyes Wide Open, are published in 23 countries. Her latest book, The Lonely Century, will come out in 2020. Noreena advises a select group of the world’s leading business […]

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  • Portrait of Dan Healy

    Dan Healy

    Award winning strategist and researcher, fusing together primary research, analytics, psychology and behavioral economics techniques to understand behaviour and forecast future scenarios. Working with various governments, corporates, investors and NGOs, he was one of the few to forecast the fault lines that lead to the Arab Spring, Trump’s conquest of Clinton and the legacy of […]

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  • Portrait of Karen Heaven

    Karen Heaven

    Karen joined Redington as an Investment Consultant after eight years at Morgan Stanley, where she was a Vice President in the European pensions group, focusing on risk management for UK pension schemes. Prior to joining the pensions group, Karen held roles in both equity and debt capital markets. Karen holds a degree in Engineering, Economics […]

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  • Tony Hayward

    Tony Hayward studied geology at Aston University in Birmingham and completed a PhD at Edinburgh University. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Aston University, the University of Birmingham and Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University. He was Group Chief Executive of BP from 2007 to 2010 having joined BP in 1982 as a rig […]

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  • Portrait of Sir Oliver Heald

    Rt Hon Sir Oliver Heald QC

    The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon David Cameron MP, appointed Mr Oliver Heald, QC, MP for North East Hertfordshire, to be Solicitor General on 4 September 2012. Oliver Heald has served as Member of Parliament for North East Hertfordshire since 1992, holding a number of frontbench positions and select committee roles. Born in Reading, Oliver […]

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  • Baroness Helene Hayman

    The Rt Hon Baroness Hayman GBE was the first elected Lord Speaker of the House of Lords from 2006 to 2011. Born in 1949, she was educated at Wolverhampton Girls’ High School, and went on to read law at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was elected President of the Union in 1969. Following positions with […]

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  • Portrait of Chris Hawkins

    Chris Hawkins

    Chris presents the Early Breakfast Show (5 – 7.30am) on BBC Radio 6 Music and has interviewed some of music’s biggest stars, including Calvin Harris; The Killers; Florence Welch; Dave Grohl and Jack White. He is a notable champion of 2019 Brits Critics Choice Winner, Sam Fender. Chris is a Radio 4 documentary presenter, most […]

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  • Portrait of Richard Harvey

    Professor Richard Harvey

    Richard Harvey is IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College and Professor at the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He is also the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Admissions at the University of East Anglia. Before joining UEA in 1993, Professor Harvey was a mathematician at first Plessey Naval […]

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