Culture, history & language | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Culture, history & language

  • Jeremy King

    After an initial career in merchant banking, Jeremy King has been in the restaurant business since 1975. During his time at Joe Allen’s he met Chris Corbin and they launched a business partnership which has lasted over 30 years. They acquired Le Caprice in 1981. The Ivy was subsequently secured in 1990 and was hugely […]

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  • Professor Ros King

    I am Professor of English studies and Head of English at the University of Southampton. I am also a musician and theatre director as well as an academic, have run my own theatre company, and have worked as a dramaturg with Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the English Shakespeare Company, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz (California). I […]

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  • Robert Kilgour

    Robert is a Scottish serial entrepreneur, investor and property developer who founded Four Seasons Health Care in 1988, opening its first care home in May 1989 in Fife in Scotland. He left the company in early 2000 when it was operating 101 care homes and employing around 6,500 staff, the UK’s fifth largest care home […]

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  • James Kidner

    James Kidner has been working in technology start-ups for the last five years – first with Improbable, who make platforms for games and simulations; then, since 2019, with Rebellion Defence, who build Artificial Intelligence tools for the Armed Forces. This followed three decades in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and in other Whitehall positions, including […]

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  • Jon Khoo

    Jon Khoo is an Innovation Partner at Interface with a focus on sustainability, inclusive business and intrapreneurship. Following a former career as a city lawyer, Jon joined Interface in 2012 having chosen to reapply his skills to tackle the global challenges of marine plastics, inequality and climate change. Jon works on Interface and the Zoological […]

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  • Dr Anna Keay OBE

    Anna Keay is a writer, historian and curator, with a special interest in 17th-century British history. Anna became Director of Landmark in July 2012, following two years as a Trustee. Born in the West Highlands of Scotland, Anna was educated at Oban High School in Argyll and Bedales in Hampshire and read history at Magdalen […]

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  • Winton Keenen

    Chief Constable Keenen started his career with Northumbria Police in 1985 as a Police Constable on patrol in Sunderland North and has moved up through the ranks, in uniformed, plain-clothed and covert policing. He has taken on a variety of specialist roles, often tackling more serious crime, including those of dedicated Senior Investigating Officer for […]

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  • Dr Matt Kearney

    Dr Matt Kearney is a General Practitioner and is the National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. In this role, he is leading work to help the NHS ‘get more serious about prevention’ of heart attacks, strokes and dementia by improving our performance in diagnosing and treating high-risk conditions like high blood pressure, raised cholesterol […]

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  • Professor Eileen Kaner

    I am a behavioural scientist and Professor of Public Health and Primary Care Research at Newcastle University. My research aims to improve health and well-being via the development of brief interventions to reduce risk due to alcohol, substance use and linked mental health problems. My work crosses the life-course and focuses on tackling social inequalities. […]

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  • Serin Kasif

    A big haired antipodean, Serin joined The Really Useful Group in 2012. Her skills are heavily skewed towards touring and she works closely with the producing and licensing teams to oversee the development, planning and execution of global tours. She has a keen knowledge of Australasian territories and audiences and is passionate about audience development. […]

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