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  • Portrait of Francesco Guerrera

    Francesco Guerrera

    Francesco Guerrera has been a financial and business journalist as far as he can remember. In the course of a 20-year career, he has worked in London, Brussels, Asia and the U.S.. After graduating from City University in London with a first-class degree in journalism and economics, Francesco worked for Building Magazine and AFX News […]

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  • Portrait of Robert Guest

    Robert Guest

    I’m the Foreign Editor of The Economist, a British news magazine that is surprisingly popular in the rest of the world. I run our foreign coverage. I’ve been a journalist all my working life. I’ve reported from more than 90 countries and lived in six, covering war, famine, trade, innovation and Donald Trump’s effect on […]

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  • Portrait of Jani Guest

    Jani Guest

    Jani Guest is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Independent Films. The award winning production company is responsible for some of the highest profile advertising films of the last decade, earning a BAFTA for the short film, Room8, directed by James W. Griffiths, and a Grand Prix at Cannes for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s World Cup Nike […]

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  • Portrait of Matt Griffiths

    Matt Griffiths

    Matt Griffiths is the CEO of Youth Music, a national charity equalising young people’s access to making, learning and earning in music: www.youthmusic.org.uk. Matt originally trained as a percussionist and was a professional musician and music educator for ten years. This work included leading workshops and projects in prisons, young offender institutions, special schools, mental […]

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  • Andrew Grill

    Pragmatic Futurist Andrew Grill’s broad career spanning over 30 years in large corporates such as IBM British Aerospace and Telstra, as well as 12 years running technology start-ups means he is well qualified and experienced delivering keynote presentations on a wide range of topics related to technology trends and the near-term future. 100% digital, Andrew […]

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  • Portrait of Geordie Greig

    Geordie Greig

    Geordie Greig is Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, it is his fifth national editorship. He has been Editor of Tatler, The Evening Standard, The Mail on Sunday and The Daily Mail. Geordie is Chairman of The Friends of the National Libraries, a charity which safeguards Britain’s literary heritage. He is the author of The Kingmaker, the […]

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  • Portrait of Robyn Grew

    Robyn Grew

    Robyn Grew is President at Man Group, which includes responsibility globally for Corporate Sustainability and Responsible Investing; Man Solutions and Man FRM; Central Trading, Funds Treasury and Bank Relationships; Operations; Financial Crime; Corporate Real Estate; and Communications. Based in New York, Robyn is also a member of Man Group’s Senior Executive Governance Committee. Robyn was […]

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  • Portrait of Julia Greenhough

    Julia Greenhough

    Julia worked across a number of senior roles in High Street Retail before she joined Ford Retail in 2013. Previously with brands such as Virgin Records, Safeway, Bhs, Cargo and Argos she has had responsibility for buying and marketing across a wide spectrum of product areas including music & entertainment, grocery , fashion, furniture and […]

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  • Portrait of David Gregson

    David Gregson

    David is chair of The Gregson Family Foundation; an Executive Committee Member of The Institute for Fiscal Studies; a Trustee of Pro Bono Economics and The Windsor Leadership Trust; a Director of the FA Womens Super League; an advisor to the Sutton Trust, which seeks to improve social mobility through education, and to the Invictus […]

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  • Andrew Green

    After a series of senior information services posts in UK universities, most recently in Swansea University, Andrew became Librarian (chief executive) of the National Library of Wales in 1998. The National Library in Aberystwyth is one of Wales’s leading cultural and information institutions: it is an archive, a screen and sound collection and an art […]

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