Topic: Economy & Business
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26 February, 2020David Bodanis
My latest book – ‘The Art of Fairness’ – is on a most topical subject: Can you succeed without being a jerk? It got a glowing full page in the Sunday Times Nov ’20 (and also in The Economist; there was a long positive piece in the FT but that carries a bit less authority […]
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Helen Boaden
Helen Boaden spent 34 years at the BBC starting in local radio and ending on the Executive Board. She was an award winning journalist, ran Radio 4, the UK’s premier speech station, and was the first female Director of BBC News in charge of 8000 staff at home and abroad. Her final role at the […]
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Iwona Blazwick OBE
Iwona Blazwick is a curator of modern and contemporary art, a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. She was formerly Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London, Head of Exhibitions at Tate Modern and London’s ICA as well as working as an independent curator in Europe and Japan. Blazwick was founding editor of Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel […]
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Baroness Christine Blower
Christine Blower is the President of the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), the Education International Regional Structure in Europe. She was the General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers in the UK from 2008 to 2016, and now acts as International Secretary of the NUT section of the new National Education Union, […]
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Dame Amanda Blanc
Amanda Blanc is the Group CEO of Aviva, the UK’s leading insurance, wealth and retirement business. Amanda was born and bred in Wales, having grown up in the Rhondda Valley, and many of her family still live there. She started her career as a graduate at one of Aviva’s ancestor companies, Commercial Union. Following success […]
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Branko Bjelobaba
Branko has three areas of specialism – finance, motivation and democracy. (1) He started his insurance career in 1987 and has worked extensively across the sector – for a regulator, PwC, Aviva and a large broker and has run his own consultancy business since 2004. Nothing happens without insurance! (2) Branko didn’t go to uni […]
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Professor Dame Carol Black
Professor Dame Carol Black is currently Chair of the British Library, the Centre for Ageing Better, and Think Ahead, the Government’s fast-stream training programme for Mental Health Social Workers. She chairs NHS Improvement’s Advisory Board on Employee Health and Wellbeing, and is Adviser to NHSI and PHE on Health and Work. She is also a […]
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Roz Bird
A chartered surveyor and qualified marketer, Roz joined MEPC in 2007, becoming Estate Director at Granta Park in 2011. In 2014, following MEPC’s acquisition of 131 acres of development land around the Silverstone Circuit, Roz became Commercial Director of Silverstone Park and in 2015, a member of the MEPC Executive Committee. Roz is taking forward […]
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Ann Beynon
Ann has held major roles in the private and public sectors. As BT’s Director for Wales until July 2015, she was the company’s senior representative, overseeing its commercial and policy agenda in the country. This required in-depth knowledge of all aspects of BT’s commercial activities across all its lines of business and engagement with BT’s […]
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Lord (Karan) Bilimoria
Karan Bilimoria is the founder of Cobra Beer, Chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited, a Joint Venture with Molson Coors, and Chairman of Molson Coors Cobra India. He is President of the UK India Business Council, a former Chancellor of Thames Valley University, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London. Karan is the Senior […]