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  • Portrait of Kathryn Gutteridge

    Kathryn Gutteridge

    Kathryn was elected Former President of the RCM in June 2017 and is an established Consultant Midwife with a long history of clinical care in the NHS. She has worked in many diverse settings including neonatal services and community midwifery care. She is currently the Consultant Midwife and Clinical Lead for Low Risk Women at […]

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  • Portrait of Loyd Grossman

    Loyd Grossman

    Loyd Grossman was born in Boston and graduated from Boston University (BA), the London School of Economics (MSc Econ) and Magdalene College, Cambridge (PhD, MPhil). After starting a career in journalism, he was diverted into television where, as a writer, presenter or deviser he was involved in a wide range of programmes including Through the […]

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  • Portrait of Francesco Guerrera

    Francesco Guerrera

    Francesco Guerrera has been a financial and business journalist as far as he can remember. In the course of a 20-year career, he has worked in London, Brussels, Asia and the U.S.. After graduating from City University in London with a first-class degree in journalism and economics, Francesco worked for Building Magazine and AFX News […]

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  • Portrait of Robyn Grew

    Robyn Grew

    Robyn Grew is President at Man Group, which includes responsibility globally for Corporate Sustainability and Responsible Investing; Man Solutions and Man FRM; Central Trading, Funds Treasury and Bank Relationships; Operations; Financial Crime; Corporate Real Estate; and Communications. Based in New York, Robyn is also a member of Man Group’s Senior Executive Governance Committee. Robyn was […]

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  • Andrew Green

    After a series of senior information services posts in UK universities, most recently in Swansea University, Andrew became Librarian (chief executive) of the National Library of Wales in 1998. The National Library in Aberystwyth is one of Wales’s leading cultural and information institutions: it is an archive, a screen and sound collection and an art […]

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  • Portrait of Doctor Tim Grant

    Dr. Tim Grant

    Tim Grant is Director of the Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University and has worked across the disciplines of forensic linguistics and forensic psychology for nearly 20 years. He publishes principally in the areas of forensic authorship analysis and on the linguistics of the investigative interview. Recent publications concentrate on determining authorship in short […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Simon Green

    Professor Simon Green

    Simon Green is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe (ACE) at Aston University, Birmingham. He specialises in European politics, focusing on immigration, integration and citizenship policy, as well as on German political structures and party politics. He is the co-author (together with Dan Hough and Alister Miskimmon) of a major […]

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  • Chris Grace

    Chris began his 30 year career in broadcasting as a programme scheduler with ITV Wales & West / HTV before co-founding Channel Four Wales/ S4C in 1982. He kick-started the Welsh animation industry with SuperTed and Fireman Sam. After the fall of the Berlin Wall he worked in Moscow, producing animated series of Shakespeare, Chaucer, […]

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  • Portrait of Emma Graham-Harrison

    Emma Graham-Harrison

    Emma Graham-Harrison is International Affairs Correspondent for The Observer. She recently returned to the UK after more than a decade based in Kabul, Beijing and Madrid. A mandarin Chinese speaker who began her career translating newspapers in Beijing, she charted the country’s rise through the development of its ravenous appetite for energy and its growing […]

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  • Marcus Gover

    Marcus Gover has worked in the environment sector for over 25 years and is currently Chief Executive Officer of WRAP in the UK. WRAP is a not-for profit organisation working with governments, businesses and citizens to create a world in which resources are used sustainably. Its experts generate evidence-based solutions to protect the environment, build […]

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