Art, media & communications | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Chris Goldson

    Chris has worked in media for over 20 years, for brands including Media Week, Financial Times, the BBC and – more recently – 9 years at Virgin Radio / Absolute Radio where he was Commercial Director. He joined ITV in 2011 to lead its innovation team ‘Creative Works’ which creates exciting ideas for advertisers, and […]

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  • Portrait of Clare Gilmartin

    Clare Gilmartin

    Clare was appointed as CEO of Trainline in 2014 and has since led a period of exceptional growth. Under her leadership, Trainline has rapidly enhanced its mobile customer experience in particular, and has expanded across Europe, now operating in 24 countries. She also led the successful sale of Trainline to its current owner, KKR, in […]

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  • Candida Gertler OBE

    Candida Gertler co-founded Outset Contemporary Art Fund with Yana Peel in June 2003. Having studied law and journalism in Frankfurt/Main, Hamburg and Geneva and having worked for Spiegel TV, Germany, Candida went on to study contemporary art at Sotheby’s Institute. She initiated the contemporary art events as a board member of the British Friends of […]

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  • Portrait of Adam Gee

    Adam Gee

    Adam commissions documentaries at Little Dot Studios, London. He specialises in online video and is also one of the most experienced commissioners in UK broadcasting of multiplatform interactive projects around TV. As Multiplatform Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 his projects ranged from Hugh’s Fish Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to One Born Every Minute, from Embarrassing […]

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  • Portrait of Emily Gee

    Emily Gee

    Emily Gee has been the Director for Cathedral and Church Buildings at the Church Commissioners since Easter 2023, helping people to look after some of our country’s most important historic buildings at the heart of communities. Before this, Emily worked at Historic England for 22 years in roles such as Listing Inspector for many parts […]

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  • Portrait of Lilli Geissendorfer

    Lilli Geissendorfer

    Lilli Geissendorfer is Director of Jerwood Arts, the leading independent funder dedicated to supporting UK artists, curators and producers to thrive. She has been Director for just over a year, during which time she has re-launched the foundation with a new name and new funds under a refreshed vision to provide transformative opportunities for artists […]

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  • Portrait of Lee Georgs

    Lee Georgs

    Lee Georgs is currently the Chief Operating Officer for Eighteen48 and a former COO for Redington, one of the UK’s leading independent Investment Advisory and Pensions Consultancy firms. She sits on the firm’s Operating, Executive, Risk and Remuneration Committees and is the Executive Sponsor for Diversity and Inclusion, speaking regularly on matters of gender, diversity […]

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  • Portrait of Tony Gallagher

    Tony Gallagher

    Tony Gallagher became Editor in Chief of The Sun in September 2015. Born in London Tony attended Finchley Catholic High School, read English at Bristol, then took the newspaper journalism course at City University in London. He trained at the Southern Evening Echo in Southampton before joining the leading agency South West News Service in […]

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  • Alexander Gardiner

    Alexander Gardiner is currently CEO at Rare Television, one of Britain’s biggest truly independent production companies whose titles include Egypt’s Unexplained Files, Digging for Britain and The Sheriffs are Coming. Before that he was a commissioning editor of current affairs at Channel 4, overseeing many of their debate programmes and investigations. Prior to that Alexander […]

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  • Portrait of Corinna Gardner

    Corinna Gardner

    Corinna Gardner is Acting Keeper of the Design, Architecture and Digital Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Corinna leads the collecting and exhibition programme for contemporary design and holds responsibility for the museum’s Rapid Response Collecting activities. In addition, Corinna is also part of the team developing the curatorial strategy for V&A East, a […]

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