Topic: Sciences, engineering & technology
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26 February, 2020Professor Graham Foster FRCP PhD
Professor Graham Foster is Professor of Hepatology at Queen Mary University of London and the clinical lead for hepatology at Barts Health. Professor Foster was the founding President of The British Viral Hepatitis Group, a past President of the British Association for the Study of The Liver and is a trustee of the Hepatitis C […]
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Angus Forbes
Angus is a passionate advocate for global governance of the biosphere and the setting up of a Global Planet Authority, and it is this topic that he speaks about for Speakers for Schools. Angus attended Adelaide University, completing an honours degree in Economics. From 1987 to 2007, Angus worked in the City of London, at […]
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Dr Richard Fluck
Richard is currently the Chair of Think Kidneys AKI Board and was NHS England’s National Clinical Director (Renal) until March 2016. He continues as Clinical Co-Chair for Specialised Internal Medicine and Consultant Nephrologist at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Richard trained at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the London Hospital Medical College, qualifying in 1985. His […]
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Tania Flasck
Tania Flasck is currently Director of Infrastructure for the central south region of the UK as well as Head of Utilities with Turner & Townsend. Previously, she was a Vice President with Jacobs UK serving as Solutions and Technology Europe Lead and Head of Business for Water and Energy UK. An environmental professional with over […]
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Harriet Finney
Harriet was formerly Head of Public Affairs at the Music Publishers Association (MPA), working on the music publishing industry response to the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property. During her time at the MPA she sat on a number of UK Music and British Copyright Council committees and was part of the advisory committee for the […]
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Marcus Fairs
After studying 3D design at university I became a journalist writing about architecture and design and more recently, a digital media entrepreneur. In 2006 I launched www.dezeen.com, which is now the most popular design magazine in the world, with over two million readers per month around the world and a social media audience of over […]
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James Fair
James began writing film and book reviews for his local newspaper as a teenager and, by the age of 22, had directed and produced a series of documentaries about nightshift workers for Channel Four. He graduated from Bournemouth University and University College Dublin with degrees in film and television production, and specialises in alternative models […]
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Sir Stuart Etherington
Sir Stuart Etherington was appointed Chief Executive of NCVO in 1994. NCVO is a membership organisation that represents the interests of charities and voluntary bodies. It has over 10,500 member organisations. Previously he was Chief Executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, a major UK charity. He has four degrees: BA in Politics, […]
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Professor Penny Endersby
Penny Endersby became the Chief Executive of the Met Office in 2018, the first woman to hold the position. She is a physicist and engineer by training, with a distinguished career as a government scientist and leader, mostly in the Ministry of Defence. Penny grew up in London and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University […]
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Robert Elsey
Rob Elsey is Executive Director for Technology, and the Bank’s Chief Information Officer. He is responsible for all aspects of technology and programme delivery across the Bank, and he also runs the Bank’s IT Cyber Security Division. Technology at the Bank includes a range of systems, from business-critical operational applications like real-time gross settlement (RTGS) […]