Sports, leisure, & health | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Sports, leisure, & health

  • Portrait of Professor Stuart Croft

    Professor Stuart Croft

    Stuart became the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick in February 2016, moving from his previous role as the University’s Provost and prior to this as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (Arts and Social Sciences). Stuart has been part of Warwick’s community since 2007, when he joined the Politics and International Studies department as […]

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  • Keith Craig

    Keith was born in Scotland and graduated from Oxford University. He served with the British Army before working as a war correspondent in Africa with The Times. He then joined the Swire Group as a commercial manager in Hong Kong and Manila. In the early 1990s he served with the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office […]

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  • Ben Cowell OBE

    I run the Historic Houses Association, which represents over 1,600 important country houses in independent ownership. These houses come in different shapes and sizes, but share the same basic characteristics in that they remain lived-in family homes. Keeping these houses in good repair is expensive, and our members work hard to raise the funds needed. […]

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  • Portrait of Mike Coupe

    Mike Coupe

    Mike was appointed CEO of Sainsbury’s on 9th July 2014. Before that he was Group Commercial Director, with responsibility for Trading, Marketing, IT and Online. He became an Executive Director in August 2007 after joining the Sainsbury’s Operating Board in October 2004. He joined Sainsbury’s from Big Food Group plc where he was a Board […]

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  • Portrait of Pavita Cooper

    Pavita Cooper

    Pavita is recognised as a leading talent and diversity expert. She has over 25 years’ senior executive experience in multi-sector global businesses including Shell, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group. She is a regular speaker on women in business, increasing representation of ethnic minority leaders and the acceleration of diverse talent to the C-Suite and Boardroom. […]

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  • Allan E Cook CBE DSc

    Allan Cook was a non-Executive Director and Chairman of WS Atkins from September 2009 until 3rd July 2017 when Atkins was acquired by SNC-Lavalin. He was Chairman of Helios Towers plc until March 2018. He is a chartered engineer with more than 40 years’ international experience in the automotive, aerospace and defence industries. He was […]

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  • Andy Cooke

    I joined Merseyside Police in 1985 having obtained an Honours Degree in Politics from Nottingham University and have served as a Detective at every rank. I spent four years in Lancashire Constabulary as Assistant Chief Constable, returning to Merseyside in 2012. In July 2016, I was appointed Chief Constable of Merseyside Police. In 2017 I […]

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  • Dan Connolly

    Sport and writing were Dan’s passions at school and by following them he has been able to forge a marketing and communications career in the sports industry working across clubs, federations, agencies and global brands including: The Premier League, The FA, The RFU, London 2012, FIFA, The IOC, Nike, Coca-Cola, EE, Carling and Barclays. His […]

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  • Noreen Connolly

    Noreen has over 20 years’ experience in the advertising industry and is responsible for the smooth day-to-day running of all client-facing operational areas. Starting agency-side at Grey and DMB&B in the TV departments, before making the transition to the supplier side. Noreen was responsible for setting up operations at the digital-delivery company IMD before she […]

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  • Portrait of Damian Collins

    Damian Collins

    Damian Collins has served as the Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe since 2010. Damian’s career before politics was in the advertising and communications industries, working at M&C Saatchi and Lexington Communications. During the Coalition government Damian served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the then Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond. From 2012 to 2014 he […]

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