Economy & Business | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Economy & Business

  • Portrait of Maria Balshaw

    Maria Balshaw

    Maria Balshaw is Director of Tate, a role she has held since June 2017. She has overall responsibility for Tate’s strategic direction and day to day operations. As Director, Maria is also the Accounting Officer appointed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Previously, as Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester […]

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  • Rachel Bacon

    Chief Constable Rachel Bacon became Chief Constable of Durham Police in November 2023. She was previously Deputy Chief Constable of South Wales Police and during this time became the UK police lead for mental health. She worked nationally to improve policing service in this area, this included implementing national Right Care Right Person to ensure […]

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  • Portrait of Paul Bainsfair

    Paul Bainsfair

    Paul is an adman. If you want to know anything about advertising he’s your man. His 37 years of agency experience began at Saatchi & Saatchi where he started as an account executive and rose to being its CEO within ten years. After successfully steering the agency through the early 90s recession and with the […]

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  • Portrait of Richard Baker

    Richard Baker

    Richard Baker: Until recently, Richard served as Chairman of Whitbread Plc, The British Retail Consortium, and the DFS Furniture Group, and was a Non-Executive Director of the Lawn Tennis Association. His previous career roles include Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Boots, Chief Operating Officer at Asda, Chairman of Virgin Active, and Board member at the […]

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  • Portrait of Phil Attfield

    Phil Attfield

    Phil Attfield is a Visual Effects (VFX) industry professional with more than 25 years experience in VFX as an artist, entrepreneur and educator. In 2000, Phil cofounded the VFX boutique Men-from-Mars, based at Ealing Studios. He was nominated for BAFTA and Emmy awards for work on the Hornblower TV mini-series between 2000 and 2002. In […]

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  • Portrait of Tom Attwood

    Tom Attwood

    Tom Attwood was for a number of years Chief Executive of Intermediate Capital Group PLC. He was previously a Non-Executive Director of ICG and helped the founders raise its initial equity in 1989 and was responsible for ICG’s flotation in 1994. Prior to that Tom was a Director of James Capel & Co, now HSBC […]

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  • Neil Ayres

    Neil’s worked for a variety of charities and global publishing companies. After initially specialising in print and then digital production, in recent years he has focused on creative communications, user experience and inclusive design.

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  • Portrait of Georgia Arnold

    Georgia Arnold

    Georgia Arnold is Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility at Viacom International Media Networks and is responsible for developing social initiatives for the company’s portfolio of over two hundred TV channels and websites. Ms Arnold has initiated unprecedented partnerships and campaigns for MTV on HIV and AIDS awareness and for Nickelodeon on children’s rights. Ms. […]

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  • Portrait of Robert Arnott

    Robert Arnott

    Robert Arnott is Director of Strategy, Social Mobility and Disadvantage at the Department of Education and is also Chair of Trustees of the Cardinal Hume Centre. Following a PhD and research fellowships in neuroscience, Robert has held a series of increasingly senior civil service appointments, in the Home Office and the Cabinet Office and now […]

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  • Portrait of Matt Ash

    Matt Ash

    Founder of Changeably, a creative agency created to help businesses improve engagement & productivity by making work a better place for everyone. I head up a creative team of content creators (html developers, script writers, graphic designers, filmmakers & animators) who investigate & build practical solutions to complex challenges in large companies. My journey was […]

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