Topic: Culture, history & language
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26 February, 2020Bridget Prentice
A former secondary school teacher, teaching English and History, I was also Head of Careers Education and Guidance. I was a Member of Parliament for 18 years including eight years in government as a Whip and subsequently a Minister in the Ministry of Justice. My portfolio included, courts, elections, youth engagement, cemeteries and cremations! I […]
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Vice Admiral Duncan Potts
DIRECTOR GENERAL JOINT FORCE DEVELOPMENT & DEFENCE ACADEMY Vice Admiral D L Potts CB Duncan Potts was educated at Wellington School before joining the Navy in 1979.After training and sea time, he studied at City University, London. Qualifying as a Principal Warfare Officer (Underwater) in 1988, he served in HMSs AMBUSCADE & NORFOLK on exchange […]
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Rajiv Popat
Rajiv Popat has worked as radio and television journalist in the Midlands for more than 20 years. He began his career in 1993 at Sunrise East Midlands, a Leicester based radio station which broadcast throughout the Midlands , where his role included producing, reporting and reading the daily news bulletins. The following year, Rajiv was […]
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Johnny Pitt
Johnny has built his career around creativity. Credited with helping to develop the UK’s first ever Big Brother broadcast format in 2000, Johnny founded creative comms agency, Launch, in 2001. Voted Best Agency Leader, Winner of Campaign of the Year and an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, Johnny believes a good idea […]
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Sarah Pinch
Sarah Pinch Chart.PR, FCIPR, MIoD Sarah is MD of Pinch Point Communications, Vice Chair of Manx Care, Chair of the Taylor Bennett Foundation and an Independent Advisor to the Welsh Assembly Commission. She started her career as a journalist with the BBC, leaving in 2000 to work in PR, she has worked in international development, […]
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Dame Alison Peacock
Professor Dame Alison Peacock is Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, a new Professional Body that seeks to raise our status through celebrating, supporting and connecting teachers to provide expert teaching and leadership. Prior to joining the Chartered College, Dame Alison was Executive Headteacher of The Wroxham School in Hertfordshire. Her career to […]
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Mags Patten
Mags leads the delivery of the Arts Council’s fourth strategic goal: ensuring the leadership and workforce in the arts, museums and libraries are diverse and appropriately skilled. She is also responsible for work in areas of public policy including health and wellbeing, criminal justice and socio-economic disadvantage. Mags leads on communication between the Arts Council […]
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HMI Matt Parr
Matt Parr was appointed as Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary in August 2016. Brought up in London, he now lives in the West Country. He currently has responsibility for forces based in the capital, the national special forces and those in Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. His background is in the Royal Navy, which he […]
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Phil Parker
Phil is a screenwriter, credits include ‘Hockey King’ (China); ‘Manou – the Swift’, (Germany). Phil Parker is also one of Europe’s leading content development consultants – productions include ‘Wallace and Gromit – Curse of the Were Rabbit’ ; ‘Terry Prachett’s – Hogfather’ and “Bach In Brazil’ for Disney International. His clients have included Aardman Animation, […]
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Stephen Page
Stephen is the Chief Executive of Faber & Faber Ltd. Founded in 1929 Faber & Faber is an independent publishing house based in London and remains one of the world’s leading literary publishers. Over the last 15 years of extraordinary change and challenge to all media businesses, Faber has been transformed into an award-winning, modern […]