Topic: Art, media & communications
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26 February, 2020Liv Garfield CBE
Liv took up the reins as Chief Executive of Severn Trent, the Midlands-based water and waste company responsible for providing clean water and taking away waste water to around 8m people in the Midlands and mid- and north Wales, in 2014. Severn Trent is one of the three largest water companies in the UK, and […]
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Helen Garnons-Williams
Helen Garnons-Williams has over 20 years of experience in UK trade publishing, acquiring and editing fiction and non-fiction, including several bestsellers and prize-winners. She was born in Anglesey, North Wales and was a pupil at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, where she studied harp and piano. She read English at Cambridge University and then […]
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Professor Malcolm Garrett RDI
Malcolm Garrett is Creative Director at Images&Co, the creative partnership with Kasper de Graaf established in 1981, when together they produced the ground-breaking magazine ‘New Sounds New Styles’. Malcolm is widely regarded as a key influence on the development of contemporary British graphic design. As a punk at art school in Manchester in 1977 he […]
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Kevin Gaskell
Recognised as one of the outstanding leaders of his generation, Kevin Gaskell is a corporate trailblazer, serial entrepreneur and world class team builder. He is renowned for guiding iconic brands Porsche and Lamborghini from difficulty to market leadership and driving BMW to an unprecedented level of success. As an entrepreneur he has created global businesses […]
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Mariella Frostrup
Mariella Frostrup is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. Current broadcast projects include Radio 4’s long- running weekly programme Open Book, BBC1’s Celebrity Painting Challenge and Bringing Up Britain, the Radio 4 series which looks at the challenges of modern parenting. Mariella has recently launched the Podcast Books To Live By which explores the relationship between […]
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Emma Freud OBE
Emma Freud has been working with Comic Relief for over 20 years, together with her partner, the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis. Having started stuffing envelopes, she is now Director of Red Nose Day, and was awarded with an OBE in 2011. Emma was a co-creator of the Make Poverty History campaign, and a producer of […]
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Tom Freud
I left school having not worked hard enough and life was a struggle in the working world. I left school on Friday and started washes dishes on Monday. It was June and everyone else had been sensible, saved money and gone travelling. Whilst my life is privileged I’ve not had more than two weeks in […]
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Matthew Freud
Matthew Freud is the Chairman of freuds, the international marketing agency he founded in 1985 which is regarded as one of the UK’s pre-eminent communications companies. He is involved in a wide range of charitable, political and cultural activities, including acting as a trustee of Comic Relief, a Governor of the British Film Institute and […]
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Gidon Freeman
Gidon is Vice-President of Government and Regulatory Affairs for NBCUniversal International (NBCU). NBCU is a global film and television company that produces and distributes world-leading content for global audiences. Recent films/TV shows that the company is responsible for include the Jurassic films, Bridget Jones, Mamma Mia and Downton Abbey. NBCU’s US businesses include the Universal […]
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Stephen Frears
Unanimously regarded as one of Britain’s finest directors, Stephen Frears has always embraced a wide variety of styles, themes and genres. He worked almost exclusively for the small screen in the first 15 years of his career, with programs such as One Fine Day by Alan Bennett and Three Men In A Boat by Tom […]