Topic: Social Sciences
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26 February, 2020Sir Brendan Barber
Sir Brendan Barber was appointed as the Chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) commencing January 2014. He was the General Secretary of the TUC from 2003 to 2012 having first joined the TUC in 1975. He is a member of the Banking Standards Board, the Board of Transport for London and of […]
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Ed Balls
Ed Balls is Senior Fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Visiting Professor to the Policy Institute at King’s College London, and Chairman of Norwich City Football Club. Ed was UK Shadow Chancellor from 2011 to 2015 and co-chaired the Center for American Progress Inclusive Prosperity Commission with former US […]
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Maria Balshaw
Maria Balshaw is Director of Tate, a role she has held since June 2017. She has overall responsibility for Tate’s strategic direction and day to day operations. As Director, Maria is also the Accounting Officer appointed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Previously, as Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester […]
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Peter Ayton
I am a professor of psychology at City University where I have been since 1992. My research analyses human judgement, risk perception and decision-making. This covers a huge range of subjects – including gambling, attitudes to health and safety, people’s beliefs about luck & happiness and why they find decisions difficult. I have edited or […]
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Rachel Bacon
Rachel joined Northumbria Police in June 2017 as Assistant Chief Constable and is responsible for Citizens Focus which includes Custody, Criminal Justice and Safeguarding. Rachel was previously Head of Crime for Sussex Police and has specialised as a Detective during her career. Her portfolio included intelligence; organised crime; cyber and economic crime. Rachel is a […]
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Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini (www.julianbaggini.com) is the author of several books, including Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind, The Ego Trick and The Virtues of the Table (Granta). He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, the Financial Times, Prospect and the New Statesman, as well as for the think tanks […]
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Phil Attfield
Phil Attfield is a Visual Effects (VFX) industry professional with more than 25 years experience in VFX as an artist, entrepreneur and educator. In 2000, Phil cofounded the VFX boutique Men-from-Mars, based at Ealing Studios. He was nominated for BAFTA and Emmy awards for work on the Hornblower TV mini-series between 2000 and 2002. In […]
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Tom Attwood
Tom Attwood was for a number of years Chief Executive of Intermediate Capital Group PLC. He was previously a Non-Executive Director of ICG and helped the founders raise its initial equity in 1989 and was responsible for ICG’s flotation in 1994. Prior to that Tom was a Director of James Capel & Co, now HSBC […]
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Robert Arnott
Robert Arnott is Director of Strategy, Social Mobility and Disadvantage at the Department of Education and is also Chair of Trustees of the Cardinal Hume Centre. Following a PhD and research fellowships in neuroscience, Robert has held a series of increasingly senior civil service appointments, in the Home Office and the Cabinet Office and now […]
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Syima Aslam
Syima Aslam is the founder and Director of the Bradford Literature Festival (BLF), which she established in 2014. A 10-day literary and cultural celebration, BLF welcomes more than 70,000 visitors to Bradford annually and is celebrated as the most socio-economically and ethnically diverse literary festival in the UK. Under Syima’s directorship, BLF has made a […]