Topic: Sciences, engineering & technology
-
26 February, 2020Dr Antonia Bostrom
Dr Antonia Boström studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where her PhD dissertation focused on the collecting and display of Florentine sculpture in the second half of the 16th century. She began her museum career at the V&A in 1980, working in the National Art Library and in the Sculpture Department. In […]
-
Dafna Bonas
Motivated by a desire to address the health crisis, Dafna launched Indie Bay Snacks to reinvent the mass snack experience, making it easier for other indies to snack while doing good for themselves and their communities. Indie Bay reinvented pretzels, making delicious, crunchy, all natural snacks packed with protein. They’re now sold all over the […]
-
Lord Paul Boateng
Paul Boateng was born in Hackney, brought up in Ghana and Hemel Hempstead, to become a civil liberty lawyer, one of Britains first Black MPs (1987-2005) and the first Black Cabinet Minister (Chief Secretary to the Treasury 2002-2005) first Black High Commissioner (South Africa 2005 _2009) appointed to the House of Lords 2010, a frequent […]
-
David 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 […]
-
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 […]
-
Marcia Boakye
Marcia is currently an Oncology Team Leader in the Data Management department at Roche Products Ltd, the world’s largest Biotech company) where she leads a team of ~45 across the UK and Switzerland. Marcia has nearly 20 years’ experience in this industry. In 2015, within months of returning from maternity leave, Marcia became the first […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]