Art, media & communications | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Hugo Tagholm

    Hugo Tagholm if the Chief Executive of the national marine conservation and campaigning charity Surfers Against Sewage. He is an environmentalist, campaigner, surfer, charity professional and a TEDx speaker. Surfers Against Sewage has evolved from a single-issue pressure group into one of the country’s best loved marine conservation charities. Driven by people who actively use […]

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  • Chris Tams

    Chris Tams is the Director of Membership and International at the BPI – the Trade Association for Record Labels in the UK. BPI champions the UK’s recorded music industry, safeguarding the rights of its members and of the artists, performers and label members of collecting body PPL. BPI’s membership consists of over 400 independent labels […]

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  • John Sweeney

    John Sweeney is a British investigative journalist and author. He has worked for The Observer newspaper, and the BBC’s Panorama and Newsnight series. He was educated at Barton Peveril Grammar School, a state grammar school in Eastleigh, Hampshire, followed by the London School of Economics. Sweeney worked for twelve years at The Observer newspaper, where […]

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  • Maureen Sumner Smith

    Maureen has full responsibility for the business performance and operations for all the countries within BSI’s European region (including the UK), which employs around 1200 people. As such, she leads operational delivery, technical review and sales and marketing activities as well as being responsible for delivering and tracking against the EMEA region’s strategic plan. She […]

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  • Irmak Sunal Lutkin

    Born in Turkey and educated in the UK, Irmak Sunal Lutkin is Director of Digital Design at Reuters, looking after a team that spans multiple verticals of Reuters News Products and services. Previously she has worked with Atlantic Records, Sony Music, Puma, Adidas, CNN International and The Wall Street Journal, as well as XOXO The […]

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  • Rory Sutherland

    Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy in the UK, an attractively vague job title which has allowed him to co-found a behavioral science practice within the agency. He works with a consulting practice of psychology graduates who look for ‘unseen opportunities’ in consumer behaviour – these are the very small contextual changes which can […]

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  • Jane Streeton

    Jane Streeton studied at the Royal College of Music, and in addition to her career as a soloist in opera and classical music, she has headed up the Singing Team at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for several years. In opera, her roles ranged from Mozart to Wagner and she has performed with major […]

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  • Poli Stuart-Lacey

    Poli was appointed Director of Communications at HMRC in January 2018, having held the position on an interim basis since May 2017. She is accountable for all reputational issues and leads a team of c.200 colleagues, based across the UK, covering media relations, external affairs, EU Exit communications, strategic communications, marketing and campaigns, and internal […]

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  • Martin Sudweeks

    I am a chartered surveyor with over 30 years of experience of various construction projects. I am currently based in London where I run a team of 150 cost managers. With my company I have worked in many parts of the world including Europe, Middle East and America where I was the Regional MD for […]

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  • Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard

    Helen Stokes-Lampard, Professor of GP Education, is currently on a three-year secondment from the University (July 2020-23) as Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC). The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges is the national body that represents and coordinates the UKs 23 Royal Colleges, Colleges and Medical Faculties that in turn represent all […]

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