Art, media & communications | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Devie Mohan

    Devie is a fintech industry entrepreneur, advisor and mentor based in London. She is the co-founder and CEO of Burnmark, a fintech research company. She is a panel member on the ING group Think Forward initiative on better financial decision making. She writes extensively on innovation, disruption and digitalisation and is a columnist with several […]

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  • Zanny Minton Beddoes

    Zanny Minton Beddoes is the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. Previously she was the Business Affairs editor, responsible for the newspaper’s coverage of business, finance and science. Prior to this role, she was The Economist’s Economics editor, overseeing the newspaper’s global economics coverage from her base in Washington DC. Before moving to Washington in April 1996, […]

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  • Portrait of Katie Mitchell

    Katie Mitchell

    Katie’s career has seen her work with some of the industry’s leading brands and creatives including Nike, Selfridges, Anthropologie and Jimmy Choo. Following her BA Hons at the prestigious Central Saint Martins, Katie has travelled the world working on a spectrum of culturally diverse creative projects. From launching new stores in the USA to producing […]

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  • Safia Minney MBE

    Safia is recognised internationally as the pioneer of sustainable fashion and one of the best know people in the Fair Trade movement. She is also recognised by the World Economic Forum as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur. Safia launched Global Village in 1991 in Japan out of which People Tree was born and then in London […]

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  • Rosie Millard OBE

    I am Chair of BBC Children in Need, Chair of Firstsite arts centre and Dep.Chair of Opera North. I was the BBC’s Arts Correspondent for a decade and chaired Hull 2017 City of Culture for which I got an OBE. I am a freelance journalist and broadcaster and have written a couple of novels and […]

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  • Andrew Miller

    Andrew was appointed Chief Executive of Motability Operations Group Plc on 1 January 2021. An accountant by training, he has led organisations through periods of rapid technological change and has extensive experience of successful digital transformation in consumer facing industries. His experience covers strategic, operational and finance roles at a number of companies across many […]

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  • Andrew Milliken

    Andrew joined Amazon in 2012 as the Director for Consumer Electronics. Before that, he spent 8 years at Dixons, most recently as Transformation Director on the main Group Executive Committee. Prior to Dixons, Andrew worked at BCG and BBC Worldwide. He holds an MEng from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from Insead. Outside […]

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  • Nick Merriman

    Nick grew up in Birmingham and both of his parents left school at 16. He loved history and finding old things, and studied archaeology at university, followed by a Museum Studies course. He decided to go into museum work and was lucky to get his first job at the Museum of London. After that he […]

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  • Andy Middleton

    Andy is Founder Director of the TYF Group, an innovative and visionary social enterprise based in St.Davids, Pembrokeshire. TYF’s mission is to train revolutionaries – giving normal mums, dads & kids, business teams and community groups the confidence, skills and reason to revolutionise the way they play, think and connect with nature. TYF’s goal is […]

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  • Professor Linda Merrick CBE

    Professor Linda Merrick is Principal of Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), a leading conservatoire for aspiring young musicians and one of the North West’s most thriving performance venues. A professional clarinettist with over 20 recordings to her name, Linda is an established international artist specialising in contemporary music and for the past 15 […]

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