Topic: Culture, history & language
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26 February, 2020Duncan Wilson CBE
Duncan Wilson joined Historic England as the organisation’s first Chief Executive in April 2015. Historic England is a public body which champions heritage across England. It helps people understand, enjoy and value the historic environment, and protect it for the future. Previously, Duncan was Chief Executive of: the Alexandra Park and Palace Trust, developing a […]
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Deborah Williams OBE
Deborah’s career started in the mid-1980s with her first theatre company. She moved to The Pleasance in Edinburgh and became the first manager at Pleasance Islington. She was an actor with Graeae Theatre Company, worked with the London disability arts forum, and taught stage management at the Webber Douglas Drama School. In 2000 she started […]
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Neil Williamson
Neil joined Jardine Motors Group in July 2015 as CEO, having most recently held the position of Managing Director of SEAT UK. Prior to this, Neil was MD of Mercedes-Benz Retail UK from 2004 to 2013, holding responsibility for 40 retail sites with a workforce of 2,200, selling 40,000 cars per annum. Previously, Neil enjoyed […]
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Major General Peter Williams
Major General Peter Williams is a retired Army officer with over three decades of experience in military intelligence, peacekeeping and international military diplomacy, as well as several years spent as a speechwriter to a very senior American general. Currently he edits a military journal (The Guards Magazine) and gives talks, mostly on military history (often […]
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Paul Williams
Paul Williams is a series producer, director and photographer at BBC studios Natural History Unit in Bristol. Originally from Rotherham he became fascinated by the Natural World when he found his first fossil on a beach in Robins Hood Bay on the Yorkshire coast. This eventually led him to work as a palaeontologist at the […]
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Professor Keith Willett
Professor Keith Willett is the Medical Director for Acute Care and Emergency Preparedness to NHS England and is the Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford. An NHS consultant surgeon for 26 years he has extensive experience of trauma surgery, driving health service transformation and healthcare management. He has taught surgery and […]
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Michael White
Michael White was born in 1945 and grew up in Cornwall. He attended Bodmin Grammar School, then read History at UCL. He was a reporter on the Reading Evening Post and London Evening Standard before joining the Guardian in 1971. There he has been a sub editor, reporter, blogger and diarist, parliamentary sketch writer, Washington […]
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Sarah Weir OBE
Sarah Weir is CEO of Design Council. Previous roles include Head of Arts and Cultural Strategy, Olympic Delivery Authority, Chief Executive of The Legacy List, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park charity (now Foundation for Future London) and Arts Council London. She has a History of Art BA from Birkbeck College (1993-7), an OBE for services […]
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James Webster
I am pretty sure it is my gran’s influence that led to me becoming a journalist. She would watch the news on every channel at all times of day and then coverage of Parliament through the afternoon and I would watch it with her. On election nights we would stay up together all night watching […]
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Emma Watkinson
Emma Watkinson, 31, is the CEO & Co-Founder of SilkFred.com. Whilst working on buying and merchandising team at a fashion e-commerce site, Emma saw the opportunity to bring independent brands online (they were constantly banging on the doors of the buyers) and also show online customers something new and exciting they couldn’t get anywhere else. […]