Culture, history & language | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Culture, history & language

  • Malcolm Robertson

    Malcolm is a veteran of the UK communications industry. He served his apprenticeship more than 20 years ago at Beattie Media, which, at the time, was Scotland’s largest PR agency. From there he moved to BAA, the airports operator, where he spent 12 lively years on the frontline of some of the most high-profile political, […]

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  • Mr Keith Roberts

    I was state schooled in North Wales; my father was a plumber and mother house wife. I trained in Cardiff and began working in 1999. I progressed through surgical training and on the way to my current job conducted a PhD (a role for iron in oesophageal cancer) and worked on local air ambulances for […]

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  • Trewin Restorick

    Trewin Restorick is Founder and CEO of the award-winning charity Hubbub UK www.hubbub.org.uk which transforms the way environmental messages are communicated by bringing people and organisations together as a force for good. He is also Chair of Student Hubs http://www.studenthubs.org/ Previously Trewin created Global Action Plan the UK’s leading environmental behaviour change charity. Trewin is […]

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  • Professor Peter Reynolds

    Peter Reynolds failed the 11+ and went to a secondary modern school which he left as soon as he could at the age of 15 with no qualifications. Luckily for him, he had one teacher who believed in him and who encouraged him to try for drama school. He got into Central School in London […]

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  • Tim Reeve

    Tim Reeve has been Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, since 2013. Tim takes a strategic and operational overview of all museum activities, as well as directly leading the divisions responsible for the V&A’s commercial and digital activities, exhibitions, […]

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  • Portrait of Matthew Reed

    Matthew Reed

    Matthew became Chief Executive of Marie Curie in 2019 having previously served as Chief Executive of The Children’s Society, Chief Executive of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and a director at Christian Aid. Before that, Matthew was a parish priest where he had the privilege of caring for a number of people in the last chapter […]

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  • Paul Rawlinson

    Paul Rawlinson is currently a non Executive director of Classic Prop Co; a business which supplies props to film and streaming companies. Until March 2021, the Chairman of Barts Charity; an organisation which helps support Barts Trust and the School of Medicine and Dentistry in providing healthcare to 2.6 million people in the East end […]

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  • Professor Jeremy Ramsden

    After both industrial and academic posts in Switzerland and the UK, in recent years Jeremy has cofounded several high-technology start-up companies, engaged in air quality sensors and nanomaterials, among others. He remains Hon. Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Buckingham. His most recent book is Climate Change from First Principles; he has also authored […]

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  • Joanna Prior

    Joanna Prior has been named the new CEO of Pan Macmillan in London in 2021. Prior has been managing director of Penguin General Books at Penguin Random House UK for the last 12 years where she has led the growth of an award-winning publishing house. During that time, Penguin General has doubled in size, added […]

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  • Martin Prendergast

    I am a senior leader having worked all my career in the arts and creative industries, although what I’ve learned can be applied to any industry. As a Speaker for Schools it is a real privilege to meet teachers and students from a wide variety of backgrounds and from all over the country. I love […]

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