Art, media & communications | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Portrait of Javier Espinoza

    Javier Espinoza

    Javier Espinoza is the FT’s Private Capital Correspondent. Prior to his current role, he was the Daily Telegraph’s Education Editor. Before joining the Telegraph in 2015, he was a multimedia Reporter for the Wall Street Journal in London. He studied journalism at City University. He is also a Political Economist having completed a second Master’s […]

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  • Sir Stuart Etherington

    Sir Stuart Etherington was appointed Chief Executive of NCVO in 1994. NCVO is a membership organisation that represents the interests of charities and voluntary bodies. It has over 10,500 member organisations. Previously he was Chief Executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, a major UK charity. He has four degrees: BA in Politics, […]

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  • Portrait of Doctor Alice Enders

    Dr. Alice Enders

    Alice Enders is an analyst serving publications and consultancy to media and telecoms businesses, focussing on music, the disruptive effect of the internet on traditional publishing models and the opportunity for internet-delivered content. Alice is a former senior economist at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, specialising on the European Union and developing countries, and […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Penny Endersby

    Professor Penny Endersby

    Penny Endersby became the Chief Executive of the Met Office in 2018, the first woman to hold the position. She is a physicist and engineer by training, with a distinguished career as a government scientist and leader, mostly in the Ministry of Defence. Penny grew up in London and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University […]

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  • Bill Emmott

    I am an independent writer and consultant on international affairs, write columns for La Stampa in Italy and Nikkei Business in Japan, am chairman of the London Library and was narrator and co-author, with the director Annalisa Piras, of a documentary film about Italy’s 20-year decline, Girlfriend in a Coma, which was shown on BBC […]

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  • Portrait of Francis Elliott

    Francis Elliott

    I’ve spent more than 20 years reporting for national newspapers, giving readers a sense of what’s going on in politics. I’m looking forward to helping Engage Britain find a new direction that brings the wisdom of the frontline to Westminster. To find solutions to our hardest problems, we need to work together.

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  • Chris Elliott

    I left school with 3 ‘O’ levels wanting to be a writer and the school said “don’t think so”. So, I went to be a stockbrokers junior clerk for a fiver a week and luncheon vouchers – big mistake. I was very bored within two months and realised I had cocked up school and 3 […]

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  • Portrait of Russ Edwards

    Russ Edwards

    Russ joined Lendlease in 2017, as Design & Technical Director – Residential, and is tasked with ensuring quality across the residential portfolio, research and development and the development of Lendlease’s ‘Design for Manufacture & Assembly’ (DfMA) and off-site housing strategies in the UK and Europe. Prior to joining Lendlease, Russ spent 4 years with innovative […]

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  • Portrait of Doctor Alistair Edwards

    Dr Alistair Edwards

    Alistair went to a Wilmslow Grammar School, where he took 9 O-Levels and then A-Levels in Physics, Maths and Chemistry. He went from there to the University of Warwick, graduating in 1977 with joint honours in Physics and Computer Science. At that point he took a year out to work in a children’s home in […]

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  • Basil Eastwood

    Basil Eastwood CMG A retired diplomat who spent much of his career in the Middle East Born 1944. BA (Oxford) (Arabic with Turkish) Entered HM Diplomatic Service 1966. Posted to Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Germany, Sudan, Greece, then Director of Research and Analysis, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1991-6 Ambassador to Syria 1996-2000 Ambassador to […]

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