Topic: Social Sciences
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26 February, 2020Nicola Williams
Nicola Williams became the Service Complaints Ombudsman for the Armed Forces on the 1st January 2016, following a year in the role as the Service Complaints Commissioner for the Armed Forces. Before this, she held the post of the Complaints Commissioner for the Cayman Islands from 2009 to 2014. Since 2009, she has also been […]
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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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Nick Wilkie
Nick is Chair of The Parent-Infant Foundation. Nick has previously been chief executive of the National Childbirth Trust and London Youth and UK director at Save the Children. He has also served on the boards of a number of charitable and public institutions and as a policy advisor to Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. Now, […]
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Sharon White
Sharon White took over as Chief Executive of Ofcom in March 2015. Before joining Ofcom Sharon had a long career in the civil service. She was second Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, responsible for overseeing the public finances. Before that she held Board level positions at the Ministry of Justice and the Department for International […]
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Baroness Patience Wheatcroft
For most of her career, Patience was a journalist. She began her national newspaper career with the Daily Mail and worked on a number of different titles before becoming Business Editor of The Times. After nine years in that role, she took on the editorship of the Sunday Telegraph. Then she decided to see what […]
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Michael White
Michael White was born in 1945 and grew up in Cornwall. He attended Bodmin Grammar School, then read History at UCL. He was a reporter on the Reading Evening Post and London Evening Standard before joining the Guardian in 1971. There he has been a sub editor, reporter, blogger and diarist, parliamentary sketch writer, Washington […]
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Sarah Weir OBE
Sarah Weir is CEO of Design Council. Previous roles include Head of Arts and Cultural Strategy, Olympic Delivery Authority, Chief Executive of The Legacy List, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park charity (now Foundation for Future London) and Arts Council London. She has a History of Art BA from Birkbeck College (1993-7), an OBE for services […]
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James Webster
I am pretty sure it is my gran’s influence that led to me becoming a journalist. She would watch the news on every channel at all times of day and then coverage of Parliament through the afternoon and I would watch it with her. On election nights we would stay up together all night watching […]
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Justin Webb
BBC trainee – worked first in Northen Ireland and then as a reporter on Today Programme. Later foreign affairs correspondent working in Gulf War, Bosnian civil war, South Africa, India. Covered the collapse of the Soviet Union. Europe Correspondent based in Brussels 1997 – 2002. Chief North America correspondent 2002 – 09. Interviewed Obama and […]