Art, media & communications | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Emma-Jane Kirby

    Emma Jane Kirby was educated at Chelmsford County High School for Girls and then at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (BA Hons English Lang and Lit). She was with BBC Radio 5 Live as a producer for two years before becoming the reporter for Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4. Radio 4 documentaries followed […]

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  • Debbie Klein

    Debbie joined Sky in 2018 as Group Chief Marketing and Corporate Affairs Officer and has since extended her remit to include People. She has responsibility for overall brand and marketing development, as well as leading corporate communications, public affairs, internal communications, Sky’s Bigger Picture (corporate social responsibility) programme and human resources. Prior to joining Sky, […]

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  • Chester King

    Chester is the CEO of the British Esports Association, the national body for esports in the UK. The Chair is Andy Payne, OBE and Vice-Chair is The Rt. Hon Ed Vaizey (former Minister of Culture). The UK Government gave authority for it to be established in January 2016. It is an independent, not-for-profit, organisation whose […]

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  • Jeremy King

    After an initial career in merchant banking, Jeremy King has been in the restaurant business since 1975. During his time at Joe Allen’s he met Chris Corbin and they launched a business partnership which has lasted over 30 years. They acquired Le Caprice in 1981. The Ivy was subsequently secured in 1990 and was hugely […]

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  • Ian King

    I have presented a nightly business show for Sky News since 2014. Prior to that, I was Business & City Editor of The Times, having previously been Business Editor of The Sun and, before then, a business journalist for the Mail on Sunday, The Guardian and the Telegraph. Altogether, I have been a business journalist […]

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  • Cathy King

    Cathy King is a literary manager and partner at the production and management company, 42. Cathy represents writers and directors across film, television and theatre, as well as representing the media rights to multiple books.

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  • Prof. Andrew King

    Dr Andrew King has a background in music technology and is currently the Head of the School of Arts at The University of Hull. His main area of teaching and research is record production and he has interviewed several internationally acclaimed record producers and published in this area ‘The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and […]

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  • Professor Ros King

    I am Professor of English studies and Head of English at the University of Southampton. I am also a musician and theatre director as well as an academic, have run my own theatre company, and have worked as a dramaturg with Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the English Shakespeare Company, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz (California). I […]

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  • Robert Kilgour

    Robert is a Scottish serial entrepreneur, investor and property developer who founded Four Seasons Health Care in 1988, opening its first care home in May 1989 in Fife in Scotland. He left the company in early 2000 when it was operating 101 care homes and employing around 6,500 staff, the UK’s fifth largest care home […]

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  • James Kidner

    James Kidner has been working in technology start-ups for the last five years – first with Improbable, who make platforms for games and simulations; then, since 2019, with Rebellion Defence, who build Artificial Intelligence tools for the Armed Forces. This followed three decades in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and in other Whitehall positions, including […]

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