Sports, leisure, & health | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Sports, leisure, & health

  • Bob Dewar

    I’ve spent most of my life living and working in Africa. Having been brought up in Nigeria and Malawi and after being a teacher for Voluntary Service Overseas in Sudan, I was lucky enough to work as a diplomat in seven sub-Saharan countries (Angola, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Nigeria) including four times as […]

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  • Yonca Dervişoğlu

    Yonca is Chief Marketing Officer of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for Google. She’s been at Google for 13 years, oversees teams in 35 countries, and is responsible for marketing everything from hardware to consumer apps to ads platforms. Yonca cofounded Google Arts and Culture, and she’s behind Grow with Google, the initiative which […]

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  • Portrait of David Dein MBE

    David Dein MBE

    David Dein MBE is the former Vice Chairman of both Arsenal Football Club and the Football Association. He was also President of the G-14 group of European football clubs and International Ambassador of England’s bid to host the World Cup in 2018. At Arsenal, he was responsible for football matters taking an active role in […]

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  • Portrait of Jo Delahunty QC

    Jo Delahunty KC

    Jo was called to the Bar in 1986, took silk in 2006, became a Recorder in 2009, was made a Bencher of Middle Temple in 2011, and appointed Gresham Professor of Law in 2016, a role she performs alongside her full-time silk practice at 4 Paper Buildings, Temple, London. In March 2019 Jo was given […]

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  • Hilton Dawson

    Hilton Dawson is a Registered Social Worker, renegade former Labour M.P. first General Secretary of the Social Workers Union, a founder of the North East Party and someone who has pursued change for the past 40 years at individual, community, regional, national and global level. A constant thread has been empowering young people – with […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Dame Sally Davies

    Professor Dame Sally Davies DBE FRS FMedSci

    Dame Sally Davies Dame Sally Davies was installed as the 40th Master of Trinity College on 8 October 2019. She joined the College after a distinguished career as a clinical academic and public servant. Dame Sally graduated from Manchester Medical School in 1972 and became a Consultant Haematologist specialising in sickle cell disease. In 1997 […]

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  • Portrait of Tim Davie CBE

    Tim Davie CBE

    Tim Davie – CEO, BBC Worldwide and Director, Global In October 2012, Tim Davie was announced as the incoming Chief Executive of BBC Worldwide and Director of Global, and took up his post in April 2013. He was made Acting BBC Director-General on 10 November 2012. Prior to this Tim was Director of BBC Audio […]

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  • On location portrait of Sophie Darlington

    Sophie Darlington

    Sophie Darlington is an BAFTA winning UK based natural history filmmaker and Director of Photography who has been making wildlife feature films and television for more than 25 years. She has an outstanding reputation as a highly experienced self-shooting cinematographer specialising in long lens camerawork, beautiful composition, high speed and animal behaviour. Sophie has worked […]

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  • Portrait of Ella d'Amato

    Ella d’Amato

    Ella grew up in Weymouth with six siblings. Sheer numbers meant Ella left school at 15 to work, and never looked back. She’s worked in several different sectors, from retail, to hospitality, to law, to chiropractics. By 23, she’d found a job in marketing and quickly progressed up the ranks at Omnicom in London. She […]

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  • Portrait of Tim Crow

    Tim Crow

    Tim is a business leader and sports marketing adviser who has been at the forefront of international sports marketing for over thirty years. He grew up in Halifax in West Yorkshire and graduated from the University of Birmingham. He began his career at the Test & County Cricket Board (now the England & Wales Cricket […]

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