Topic: Social Sciences
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26 February, 2020Professor Penny Endersby
Penny Endersby became the Chief Executive of the Met Office in 2018, the first woman to hold the position. She is a physicist and engineer by training, with a distinguished career as a government scientist and leader, mostly in the Ministry of Defence. Penny grew up in London and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University […]
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Mike Emmerich
Mike is founding partner of the newly formed Metro Dynamics and former Chief Executive of New Economy. Mike was the instigator of the Manchester Independent Economic Review (MIER) and led the city region work of devolution with Government culminating in the ground breaking deal signed with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Greater Manchester in […]
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Bill Emmott
I am an independent writer and consultant on international affairs, write columns for La Stampa in Italy and Nikkei Business in Japan, am chairman of the London Library and was narrator and co-author, with the director Annalisa Piras, of a documentary film about Italy’s 20-year decline, Girlfriend in a Coma, which was shown on BBC […]
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Basil Eastwood
Basil Eastwood CMG A retired diplomat who spent much of his career in the Middle East Born 1944. BA (Oxford) (Arabic with Turkish) Entered HM Diplomatic Service 1966. Posted to Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Germany, Sudan, Greece, then Director of Research and Analysis, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1991-6 Ambassador to Syria 1996-2000 Ambassador to […]
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Professor The Right Honourable Sir David Edward KCMG KC FRSE
Professor The Right Honourable Sir David Edward is a Lawyer, Professor and Former Judge of the European Court of Justice. Currently, he is Chairman of the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh; Honorary President of the Franco-Scottish Society; Vice-President of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law, the UK Association for European Law […]
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Ben Dyson
Ben is currently the interim Programme Director responsible for coordinating the development of a new People Plan for the NHS. This will set out how to provide great jobs and careers for everyone working in the NHS, how to improve the leadership culture of the NHS, how to improve recruitment and retention of staff across […]
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Sir Jan du Plessis
Sir Jan du Plessis was appointed as Chair of the Financial Reporting Council in February 2022. The FRC is the body that regulates the auditing, accounting and actuarial professions, and sets the UK’s Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes. Before that, over a period of 18 years, Sir Jan has served as Chair of several large […]
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Terri Duhon
An award winning educator and TEDx speaker, Terri Duhon went from a Math degree at MIT to a derivative trader on Wall Street then on to become an entrepreneur and author. She is now an educator, often guest lecturing at Oxford University where she is an Associate Fellow, and a board member of a number […]
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Pamela Dow
Pamela is a Director in the Cabinet Office, currently leading the Brexit Readiness Unit. In a career spanning the private, public and social sectors she has influenced major public service reform, notably in education and criminal justice. As Catch22’s Chief Reform Officer she focused on improving social impact at a local level, and established new […]
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Sir Martin Donnelly
Martin spent 37 years as a civil servant, working in a range of UK government departments including No 10/Cabinet Office, Treasury, Foreign Office and Home Office; the European Commission in Brussels and the French Finance Ministry. He led work on UK growth, university finance, trade policy and international diplomacy in the G7. After leaving government […]