Art, media & communications | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Helen Steers

    Helen is a senior investment professional at Pantheon, a London-based leading global private markets investor with over $43bn under management. She leads Pantheon’s European investment team and is a member of various global investment committees, involved in setting strategy, conducting due diligence and monitoring a portfolio of private equity funds and co-investments. Outside Pantheon, Helen […]

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  • Jason Spencer

    As Business Development Director for almost 7 years, Jason has led ITV’s 9 regional sales teams across the UK outside London in delivering revenue growth and creative business solutions through working in partnership with brands and media agencies. With award-winning partnerships and support for fast-track growth businesses, he has driven strong growth in the business […]

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  • Samira Sohail

    Samira Sohail works as a Strategy Manager at the BBC. She works on the growth and the business development of the BBC’s digital portfolio of services, such as BBC iPlayer and the launch of new ones, including BBC Three- a youth service for 16 – 35 year olds, set to evolve from a broadcast TV […]

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  • Sir Alistair Spalding

    Alistair Spalding has been the Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Sadler’s Wells Theatre since 2004. He has been responsible for programming at the theatre since February 2000 (when he joined as Director of Programming, becoming CEO and Artistic Director in October 2004). During that time he has presented companies such as Alvin Ailey American […]

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  • Patrick Spence

    Patrick is a BAFTA Award winning television producer. He has recently joined AC Chapter One as Managing Director. He was until recently Creative Director, ITV Studios. His recent production include Gwyn Hughes’ smash hit MR BATES vs THE POST OFFICE for ITV, starring Toby Jones and Monica Dolan, about hundreds of sub-postmasters fighting back against […]

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  • Penny Smith

    Journalist at Peterborough Evening Telegraph. Two and a half years backpacking in Central and South America and south east Asia. Reporter Radio Trent. PR at Central TV Reporter/presenter Border Television Reporter/presenter Thames News Presenter Sky News Presenter GMTV Also hosted various other shows and currently standing in for Claudia Winkleman on the Radio 2 Arts […]

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  • Dan Snow

    Dan Snow is a history broadcaster. He worked for the BBC for 15 years and wrote history books and now works at the online broadcaster History Hit that he co-founded in 2017. His podcast is the most listened to history podcast in Britain and he has hundreds of thousands of followers across various social media […]

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  • Dame Cilla Snowball

    Cilla joined AMV BBDO in 1992 as the agency’s first New Business Director. Twenty six years later, she oversees the AMV Group in the UK. Cilla sits on the boards of BBDO Worldwide and Derwent London plc and is a member of the Facebook EMEA Client Council. She chairs the Women’s Business Council. She was […]

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  • Jon Smith OBE

    The talks I give include how I conquered communication and the severe lack of confidence that complete dysfluency had given me as a child through to my role as CEO of a London stock market company that had its fair share of ups and downs but was very public in its transactions, respected and ultimately […]

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  • Lord Chris Smith

    Master of Pembroke College Cambridge, former Culture Secretary and former Chairman of the Environment Agency. Born in 1951, Chris was educated in Edinburgh and then Pembroke College, Cambridge, achieving a double first in English (and later a PhD on Wordsworth and Coleridge) and was also a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard. Chris began his political career […]

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