Art, media & communications | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Professor Peter Reynolds

    Peter Reynolds failed the 11+ and went to a secondary modern school which he left as soon as he could at the age of 15 with no qualifications. Luckily for him, he had one teacher who believed in him and who encouraged him to try for drama school. He got into Central School in London […]

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  • Jonathan Reekie

    Director of Somerset House Trust April 2014 onwards Began his career at Glyndebourne Opera and then went to be General Manager at the Almeida Theatre, founding Almeida Opera. In 1997 he took over as Chief Executive of Aldeburgh Music where he remained until 2014, a transformational period for the organization culminating in the Britten Centenary […]

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  • Tim Reeve

    Tim Reeve has been Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, since 2013. Tim takes a strategic and operational overview of all museum activities, as well as directly leading the divisions responsible for the V&A’s commercial and digital activities, exhibitions, […]

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  • Portrait of Matthew Reed

    Matthew Reed

    Matthew became Chief Executive of Marie Curie in 2019 having previously served as Chief Executive of The Children’s Society, Chief Executive of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and a director at Christian Aid. Before that, Matthew was a parish priest where he had the privilege of caring for a number of people in the last chapter […]

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  • Paul Rawlinson

    Paul Rawlinson is currently a non Executive director of Classic Prop Co; a business which supplies props to film and streaming companies. Until March 2021, the Chairman of Barts Charity; an organisation which helps support Barts Trust and the School of Medicine and Dentistry in providing healthcare to 2.6 million people in the East end […]

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  • Alice Rawsthorn

    Alice Rawsthorn is an award winning design critic, and the author of critically acclaimed books, including Design as an Attitude and Hello World: Where Design Meets Life. Her weekly design column for the New York Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. Alice speaks on design at important global events including the TED conference […]

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  • Gideon Rachman

    Gideon Rachman is chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times. His book “Zero-Sum World” was published by Atlantic in 2011 and has bee translated into eight languages. He writes a weekly column on foreign affairs for the FT. Before joining the paper in 2006, he worked for The Economist for 15 years in a […]

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  • Rufus Radcliffe

    Rufus joined McCann Erickson after graduating from Oxford with a degree in French and Arabic. After a further stint in the agency world at JWT, Rufus joined Channel 4 to help launch their brand-new digital entertainment channel, E4. Over the next decade, Rufus helped lead the further diversification of Channel 4’s digital portfolio with the […]

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  • Jonathan Prynn

    Jonathan Prynn is the award winning Consumer Business Editor of the Evening Standard with wide ranging career background of business, City, consumer and political newspaper reporting over 25 years. He started his career on the financial newspaper Corporate Money in 1987 before being hired by The Times business desk in 1990. He has also worked […]

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  • Matt Prodger

    Matt Prodger is a former BBC journalist who now helps to promote understanding of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Digital Identity, Biometrics and Behaviometrics at Mastercard. He is particularly interested in people’s relationship with technology and its impact on society. He has previously spoken at schools about journalism, fake news and trust in a […]

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