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BROADCASTERS AND SPEAKERS
January 2015
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Ruby Wax performs her show
Sane New World on mental
health at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mark Hix the restaurateur –
entrepreneur (above) and Tim
Hayward (left), Food DIY Dad
and proprietor of Fitzbillies.
Our Company
Peters Fraser & Dunlop, one of the longest-established
literary and talent agencies in the UK, celebrates its 90th
anniversary this year.
We proudly represent a broad range of clients who are
specialists and experts in their field – authors, journalists,
politicians, business leaders, chefs, historians, scientists,
actors, presenters and more.
Our clients and their work have appeared across the globe on
film, television, digital channels and radio, online and at
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They offer everything from presenting, consulting, producing
and expert contributions to keynote speeches, motivational
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Gus Casely-Hayford
Emily Chappell
Jackie Clune
Jessica Fellowes
Daisy Goodwin
Jonathan Goodwin
Grant Harrold
Philip Hook
Sandra Howard
Twiggy Lawson
David Linley
Philip Norman
John Rendall
Ruby Wax
Tom Wilkinson
Jeanette Winterson
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BUSINESS
Ed Burstell
Lynda Gratton
Jonathan Zittrain
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LIFESTYLE
Tim Atkin
Martin Dorey
Francesca Fox
Annie Gray
Tim Hayward
Mark Hix
Louise Johncox
William Sitwell
Mel Southerden
Nick Weston
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HISTORY
Oliver Cox
Janice Hadlow
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Max Hastings
Helen Rappaport
Robert Sackville-West
Jacqueline Yallop
HORTICULTURE
Mark Diacono
Sarah Raven
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JOURNALISM
Clive Aslet
Jamie Bartlett
Kay Burley
Carla Buzasi
Lorraine Candy
Allison Pearson
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MILITARY
David Blakeley
Phil Campion
Stuart Tootal
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POLITICS
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Paddy Ashdown
Sherard Cowper Coles
Michael Heseltine
Michael Howard
Deeyah Khan
Deana Puccio and Allison Havey
SCIENCE
Harry Cliff
Susan Greenfield
Tony Juniper
Susie Orbach
Steve Peters
Janet Reibstein
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Gus Casely-Hayford
Curator and cultural historian
Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford is a curator and cultural historian. He is a King’s College
Institute Associate and a Research Associate at the University of London’s
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
As part of the Wonderful Africa Season in 2010, Gus presented Lost Kingdoms of
Africa, four 60-minute programmes for BBC Two and BBC Four, followed by a
second series in 2012. Gus presented The Genius of British Art for Channel 4 in
2010 and hosted The Culture Show on BBC Two in 2012.
Gus is a frequent contributor to arts programming including the announcement
of the Turner Prize 2014 live on Channel 4.
A former Executive Director of Arts Strategy for Arts Council England, Gus has
advised the UN, the Canada Council, the Tate galleries and others. He regularly
judges art prizes and lectures on world art at Sotheby’s, Goldsmiths and the
University of Westminster.
Emily Chappell
Cycle courier and adventurer
Emily Chappell studied at Cambridge and SOAS, and since 2008 has worked as a
cycle courier in London. In 2011 she set off to cycle round the world, writing
about her travels as she went, and so far has covered Europe and Asia, with
imminent plans to tackle the Americas.
Emily’s work has featured in The Guardian, The Ride Journal, Boneshaker, Oh
Comely and Coven Magazine, and in 2012 she won Travel Blogger of the Year at
the British Travel Press Awards, and a Jupiter’s Traveller Award from the Ted
Simon Foundation.
Increasingly in demand as a speaker, Emily recently delivered a lecture to the
Royal Geographical Society and ran Night of Adventure, where first class
adventurers come together to share their experiences with the audience.
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Jackie Clune
Actress, singer, comedian and writer
Jackie Clune is an actress, singer, comedian and writer. She recently appeared in
the sell-out Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory), has performed cabaret and
stand-up Edinburgh solo shows, appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI,
and The Staying In Show, and she is now a musical theatre and drama regular.
She starred in Mamma Mia! and toured the world, and played Mrs Wilkinson in
the West End's Billy Elliott. She currently appears in Henry IV at the Donmar.
Jackie is a columnist for Top Sante Magazine and features for The Daily Mail and
the Mail on Sunday. Jackie writes for The Guardian, The Telegraph and The
News of the World. Media appearances include The Wright Stuff, Loose Ends
(guest interviewer), Front Row, This Morning, Loose Women, and she hosted
her own arts, culture and politics show (BBC Radio London).
Having four children in two years, Jackie has written two books, Man of the
Month Club and Extreme Motherhood - The Triplet Diaries were both well
received, and she is about to start her third, The Crap Mum Handbook.
Jackie is available as a guest speaker, newspaper reviewer, cultural attaché and
parenting guru, with subjects including theatre, music, motherhood, sexuality
(she spent twelve years as a lesbian) and relationships.
Jessica Fellowes
Journalist, author of The World of Downton Abbey & The Chronicles of
Downton Abbey
Jessica Fellowes, journalist, public speaker and author of the worldwide
bestsellers The World of Downton Abbey, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, and
A Year in the Life of Downton Abbey, started out as a journalist at the Mail on
Sunday where she was a celebrity interviewer, gossip columnist and lifestyle
editor for six years.
She was then the Deputy Editor of Country Life magazine, during which time she
wrote the magazine’s weekly Town Muse column as well as a townie’s guide to
country weekends for The London Paper. The latter formed the basis of her first
book, Mid & the City: Dos and Don’ts for Townies in the Country.
Jessica’s work on Downton Abbey has given her a unique insight into the social
history of the early 20th century, particularly the changes that women were
experiencing, as well as looking at the correlation between the great leaps in
technology that were happening then and how similar it feels today.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Daisy Goodwin
Novelist, editor and television producer
Daisy Goodwin is a novelist and the editor of numerous poetry anthologies.
Daisy’s family biography Silver River was published in 2007 and her debut
novel, My Last Duchess, was published by Headline Review in 2010 in the UK and
St Martin’s Press in the USA. It has sold over 100,000 copies and made The New
York Times bestseller list. Her second novel The Fortune Hunter was published
in April in the UK and the US edition will be published in July.
Daisy is also an award-winning television producer and founder of Silver River
Productions. Since 2005 Silver River has produced programmes as various as
Elizabeth Taylor – Auction of a Lifetime, If Walls Could Talk – The History of the
Home with Lucy Worsley, and the BAFTA-winning Off By Heart. Daisy began
her TV career as an Arts Producer at the BBC. Here Daisy devised many highly
successful shows, including Bookworm, The Nation’s Favourite Poems,
and Home Front.
A Cambridge graduate and Harkness Fellow, Daisy is married to Marcus Wilford
who she met at university. They have two daughters, three dogs and live in
West London.
Jonathan Goodwin
Professional Dangerman, presenter and producer
Jonathan Goodwin has been described as a modern-day superhero somewhere
between Houdini and Superman. A professional danger man, Jonathan has put
himself in the most extreme situations and dodged death every time. Jonathan
has been attacked by sharks, burned at the stake, buried alive, bitten by
rattlesnakes, and hung from buildings, helicopters, and cable cars.
From early 2013, UKTV’s Dangerman: The Incredible Mr. Goodwin has been
broadcast worldwide. In 2013, Jonathan lay on a single nail on The Jonathan
Ross Show and had a breeze-block broken on his chest with a sledgehammer.
He has also appeared on The Paul O’Grady Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
Jonathan first appeared on Channel 4’s Dirty Tricks and has subsequently
appeared in The Gadget Show, The Seven Stupidest Things to Escape
From and Deathwish Live. For the Discovery Channel he has filmed One Way
Out and How Not to Become Shark Bait in which he allowed himself to be
attacked by a Caribbean reef shark. Jonathan is currently appearing in the
worldwide theatrical tour of The Illusionists in 2014/2015, showcasing some of
the most astonishing acts to ever be seen on stage.
He is currently writing The Art of the Skill Hacker which will teach readers how
to master skill hacking and to quickly become experts in any field.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Grant Harrold
Royal Butler and Etiquette Expert
Grant butlered and acted as a PA for HRH Prince William The Duke of Cambridge
and his wife HRH Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge.
Grant is now a Royal and British Etiquette Consultant. Grant began his work in
private service in 1997 as an under butler on a privately-owned Scottish estate.
In 2004, Grant was elevated to the position of a Butler and Member of the Royal
Household of HRH the Prince of Wales, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall and the
Princes William and Harry.
Grant was featured in the ITV series Country House and has filmed with Ruth
Watson for Channel 4. In 2014 he was featured in Channel 4’s Can’t Get the
Staff. He is a frequent contributor to national and international broadcast
media on royalty and etiquette.
Grant is an advisor to the country’s top Hotels and the founder of Nicholas
Veitch, a company that teaches entertainment and dining elegance. Grant gives
private tuition and and runs course in how to manage household staff.
Philip Hook
Senior specialist of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department
Philip Hook joined Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department as the
senior specialist in 1994. Sotheby’s is the most prestigious Fine Art Auction
House in the UK. He read History of Art at the University of Cambridge where
he also won a soccer blue. In 1973 Philip joined Christie’s directly from
University. He headed Christie’s 19th Century Paintings Department from 1980
to 1987. In between working at the two auction houses he founded a London
art dealers, The St. James’s Art Group.
With over 35 years of experience and expertise of the art market, Philip is the
author of five successful novels set in the art world and his book Breakfast at
Sotheby’s: An A-Z of The Art World was published by Penguin in November 2013.
The latter discusses art’s value as an investment and its place in our society.
Philip has appeared regularly on The Antiques Roadshow (BBC) as a picture
expert. He makes frequent public speaking appearances, covering a range of art
-related subjects.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Sandra Howard
Novelist, writer and former model
Sandra Howard was one of the leading fashion models of the 1960s, appearing
on the cover of American Vogue two months running. She worked as a freelance
journalist alongside modelling before turning to novel writing. She continues to
write regularly for the press.
Her four novels, Glass Houses, Ursula's Story, A Matter of Loyalty and ExWives are available in paperback. Tell the Girl will be published in 2014. Sandra
has also just begun writing a new novel, a fictionalised, semi-autobiographical
story about the sixties and the present day.
Sandra is actively involved with two national charities. She is a trustee
of Addaction, a charity helping people to fight drug and alcohol addiction, and
Vice President of The National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy (NCYPE).
She speaks and writes on a variety of subjects including food, travel, fashion and
political life.
Sandra has three adult children and is married to the former British
Conservative Party Leader Michael Howard. They live in London and Kent.
Twiggy Lawson
Writer, singer, actress, designer, presenter, producer & activist
In the mid 60s at 16 years of age, Twiggy became internationally known as the
world’s first supermodel. Her photographic modelling success epitomised the
age. She is now a writer, singer, actress, designer, presenter, producer and
activist, and continues to model, including on major magazine covers.
Twiggy began her acting career in film, stage and television by starring in Ken
Russell’s film The Boyfriend, for which she won two Golden Globe® awards:
most promising newcomer and best actress in a musical. She was also
nominated for Tony and Drama Desk awards for the original award-winning
Broadway production of Gershwin’s My One and Only.
Twiggy was a guest judge on the top US reality series America’s Next Top
Model opposite the show’s creator Tyra Banks and, in 2014 she traced her
ancestry in the series finale of Who Do You Think You Are?, the show’s 100th
episode, attracting over one fifth of the television audience.
Twiggy is an ardent supporter of animal welfare and is an anti-fur campaigner.
She is also known for her support of breast cancer research groups. As a
designer, Twiggy has her own successful clothing line for HSN in the US and an
exclusive range of clothing for M&S online, with several other endorsements.
Twiggy celebrates 50 years in show business in 2016.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
David Linley
Chairman of Christie’s
David Linley is the current Chairman of Christie’s a world wide Fine Art and
collectables auction house. David is also a highly successful designer of bespoke
furniture. The Earl of Snowden and the son of Princess Margaret, David is best
known for his imaginative use of wood, blending traditional British woods, such
as oak, with exotic ebony and rosewood species.
David’s book Star Pieces gives an expert’s look at the emotional and intellectual
perspective of furniture through twenty ‘golden ages’ of design.
David has lectured around the world at an array of prestigious venues. These
include the V&A Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the
Smithsonian Institute (Washington), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Art
Institute (Chicago), the LA County Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt Museum
(New York) and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Philip Norman
Journalist and biographer
Philip Norman joined the Sunday Times at the age of twenty-two, and gained a
reputation as a columnist and for his profiles of figures as diverse as Elizabeth
Taylor, P. G. Wodehouse, Little Richard and Colonel Gaddafi. In 1981 he
published SHOUT! A ground-breaking biography of the Beatles that was a
bestseller in both Britain and the US. He has also written the definitive lives of
Sir Elton John, Buddy Holly and Mick Jagger. He is now writing a biography of
Paul McCartney to be published by Orion in 2015.
Although he resists classification as a "rock biographer", a musical theme
pervades almost all of Philip Norman's work. In 1983 he was one of the twenty
Best of Young British Novelists for his autobiographical novel The Skater’s Waltz.
His journalism has been published in three collections, The Road Goes On
Forever, Tilt The Hourglass and Begin Again, and The Age of Parody. His memoir
Babycham Night chronicles his childhood on the Isle of Wight. He is also the
author of the highly acclaimed John Lennon: The Life, which the Sunday Times
Culture Magazine called 'Meticulously researched, compulsively readable book.'
He is married with a daughter and lives in London.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
John Rendall
Conservationist
A clip posted on YouTube featuring an emotional reunion between a young lion
and his owners, John Rendall and Anthony ‘Ace’ Bourke, became an internet
sensation overnight.
People across the world wanted to know the story behind the pictures. John
told of how he came to buy Christian the Lion from a London department store
in the late 60s — how he and Ace lived with the lion whilst working in a
furniture shop on the King’s Road, and how they eventually introduced their lion
into the wild under the watchful eye of lion expert George Adamson.
Through his work with Christian, John developed a life-long interest in
conservation and speaks on this important topic through Christian’s story and
legacy. What was once a novelty has changed into a crisis: there are now just
300,000 elephants, 25,000 rhinos, and even fewer lions.
Christian’s story is told in the book A Lion Called Christian and in a documentary
film of the same name. The film rights to Chirstian’s story are currently under
option with a major studio. A new exhibition featuring photographs of Christian
will open at the Proud Gallery, London in July 2014.
Ruby Wax
Poster girl for mental health, writer, performer & comedian
Arriving in Britain from the United States in 1977, Ruby Wax began her acting
career with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She went on to write and perform
in her own hugely popular television programmes for the BBC and Channel 4
and was Script Editor on all series of Absolutely Fabulous.
She recently obtained a Masters degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
from the University of Oxford and spoke at TEDGlobal. Ruby has become the
poster girl for mental illness in the UK.
Ruby regularly speaks of her keenness to normalize mental health by talking
openly about it. She describes her experience of trying to keep anxieties under
control, but finding out she simply couldn’t cope after becoming famous. Her
show Sane New World revolves around the fact that one in four people suffer a
mental health problem at some time in their lives.
Sane New World: Taming The Mind, Ruby’s non-fiction work on mental health
and mindfulness, was published by Hodder on June 6th 2013 and is a Sunday
Times No. 1 Bestseller. The paperback was published in 2014.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Tom Wilkinson
Writer and Art Historian
Tom Wilkinson is a writer and art historian specializing in architecture,
photography, and German history. He is History Editor of the Architectural
Review.
Tom is currently working on a PhD at University College London, where he also
teaches a course on London’s modern architecture. He can often be found in
Berlin, looking at buildings and pursuing his other loves, Wagner and techno.
Tom’s first book, Bricks and Mortals: The Great Buildings and the People They
Made, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. He contributed chapters
to Masters of Photography, published by Carlton in 2013.
Jeanette Winterson
Writer
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester and raised in Lancashire
by adoptive parents. Intending to become a Pentecostal Christian
Missionary, she began evangelising and writing sermons at age six. By age 16
she left home and soon after read English at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
After moving to London, her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was
published when she was 24 years old. It won the 1985 Whitbread Black and
Jeanette adapted it in 1990 into a BAFTA Award-winning drama. She won the
1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Passion.
Her subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the
imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities, and have won several
literary awards. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a Sunday Times
bestseller and won the Independent Booksellers’ prize in 2012.
In 2014 Jeanette wrote and presented her second five-part Radio 4 series,
Manchester: Alchemical City on her home town. Jeanette is a frequent
contributor to television and radio, an engaging public speaker, and has filmed
several documentaries. She was made an officer of Order of the British Empire
(OBE) at the 2006 New Year Honours.
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BUSINESS
Ed Burstell
Managing Director of Liberty London
Ed Burstell is the Managing Director of Liberty of London.
In his native United States, Ed was a senior vice president of luxury department
store Bergdorf Goodman and general manager of upscale fashion accessories
boutique Henri Bendel.
He started his career as a fragrance sprayer at Macy’s, a vast and wellestablished mid-range stalwart of the American retail industry.
Ed appeared in the Channel 4 series Liberty of London.
Lynda Gratton
Professor of Management Practice at London Business School
Harvard Business Review and The Times named Lynda Gratton as one of the top
15 business thinkers in the world. She is Professor of Management Practice at
London Business School where she runs the world’s leading program on human
resources. The Founder of The Hot Spots Movement, she has led the Future of
Work Consortium for over 5 years, bringing together executives from more than
60 companies.
Lynda is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and has chaired the WEF
Council on Leadership. She judges the FT Business Book of the Year, chairs the
Drucker prize panel and is on the governing body of London Business School.
Lynda won the Tata prize (India), she is the annual Fellow of NAHR and won the
CCL prize (US), and won the HR prize (Australia).
She has written extensively about the interface between people and
organizations. Her eight books have been translated into more than 15
languages. Lynda’s case on BP won the EECH best case of the year, her article on
‘signature processes’ won the MIT Sloan award, and in 2012 The Shift received
the best business book of the year in Japan. Lynda’s book The Key (published
2014) looks at the impact of the changing world on corporate practices,
processes and leadership.
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BUSINESS
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard
Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder of the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control
of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of
intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful
and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
Jonathan performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and
Saudi Arabia, and as part of the OpenNet Initiative co-edited a series of studies
of Internet filtering by national governments. He is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Board of Advisors
for Scientific American. He has served as a Trustee of the Internet Society, and
as a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, which named him a Young
Global Leader, and as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Federal
Communications Commission, where he chairs the Open Internet Advisory
Committee.
His book The Future of the Internet is available from Yale University Press and
Penguin UK — and for free under a Creative Commons license.
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LIFESTYLE
Tim Atkin
Master of Wine, journalist and photographer
Tim Atkin is an award winning Master of Wine and UK wine journalist with 28
years’ experience and an international following. Tim has won over 25 awards
for his journalism and photography.
Wine Editor at Large of Off Licence News and wine columnist for Woman and
Home, Tim writes for a number of publications including The World of Fine Wine,
The Economist’s Intelligent Life, Gourmet Traveller Wine, Imbibe, Decanter, Wine
-Searcher, Fine Drink and Woman and Home. Tim has written two books on
wine: Chardonnay and Vins de Pays d’Oc.
Tim is a regular wine expert on BBC 1’s Saturday Kitchen and is co-chairman of
the International Wine Challenge, the world’s most rigorously judged blind
tasting competition.
Tim conducts regular wine tastings, lectures and other public appearances. He
is widely respected for his amusing and often controversial presentation style.
Martin Dorey
Writer, surfer, photographer, presenter, cook and campaigner
Martin is a writer, surfer, photographer, presenter, cook and campaigner for the
#2MinuteBeachClean. He writes about camping, fun, outdoor food, living the
outdoor life and having adventures in his 1979 VW camper van. Martin’s first
book, The Camper Van Cookbook, inspired the BBC TV series One Man and His
Campervan in which Martin cooked and camped his way around the UK. It has
now aired all over the world. The follow-up book, The Camper Van Coast,
celebrates Martin’s love for coastal living, playing, cooking and eating.
A writing career came late for Martin after a 12-year stint in the advertising and
film industry as an AD on some of the more famous 90s TV commercials –
Guinness, Levis, Oxo — as well as promos for The Rolling Stones, Paul
McCartney, Annie Lennox and many others.
As way of grateful thanks for the treatment his daughter received for leukaemia
as a baby, Martin helps out children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent in their
fundraising, and is the Patron for local charity North Devon Care for Kids.
He loves fishing but rarely catches anything. Despite this, he recently spoke
about fish, cooking and marine plastics for eco charity Surfers Against Sewage.
Martin lives in Cornwall with wife, Jo, water babies Maggie and Charlie, a
collection of surfboards and his 1979 camper. Having said that, he always makes
cream teas the Devon way.
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LIFESTYLE
Francesca Fox
Fitness blogger
Francesca Fox is a food and fitness blogger at FrancescasFitKitchen.com.
A cordon bleu trained chef and commercial model, Francesca has a passion for
healthy living. Francesca’s food is about nutrients, not calories, encouraging us
to let go of our diet demons and start living the happiest, healthier life we
deserve.
Francesca suffered with eating disorders from the age of 14 for over a decade —
anorexia for two years and bulimia for eight. In love with cooking, Francesca
trained as a chef when she was 18 and spent a year cooking in France. She
continued cooking during university, spending her holidays chef-ing across the
globe.
Having joined the City crowd in London to ‘make it’, Francesca then took a leap
of faith, giving up a good, regular job to become a self-employed private chef.
Francesca coaches clients with diet and fitness, helping to transform people’s
mind-sets as well as their bodies.
Annie
Gray
Food historian
Dr Annie Gray is a food historian specialising in the Georgian, Victorian and early
twentieth centuries. She's a popular speaker and broadcaster and also works as
a consultant to museums and heritage sites.
Annie is the resident food historian on BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet, and
has appeared in the show since its inception, as well as contributing to The Food
Programme, Today, and PM. TV appearances include The One Show, Hidden
Killers: The Victorian Home, The Great British Bake Off, Heston's Great British
Food, BBC Food and Drink, Newsnight and most recently Nigel Slater’s Icing on
the Cake. She was the advisor on the BBC4 documentary Calf's Heads and
Coffee, which won a Guild of Food Writers Award. She's also written for The
Guardian online, BBC online and The Sun and is currently working on her first
book.
Annie has worked in heritage for over ten years, both as a food historian, and
also advising on domestic history and the lives of servants. She regularly dons
period costume and works in character, portraying long-dead cooks to bring
history to life. She also trains others, working to bring to life historic sites across
the country. She's available to talk on heritage interpretation and public history,
below stairs life in the 18th to the 20th century, and of course her core area of
the history of British food and dining from the Restoration onwards.
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Tim Hayward
Food writer and broadcaster
Tim Hayward is a Cambridge-based food writer and broadcaster. He is a regular
presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme and appears as a panellist on The
Kitchen Cabinet. Tim is a contributing writer at the Financial Times and a
regular contributor to the Guardian ‘Word of Mouth’ Food Blog. His features
have appeared in the FT, Guardian, Observer Food Monthly, Delicious, Olive,
Waitrose Food Illustrated and Saveur.
Tim has appeared on the Good Food channel’s Market Kitchen, Ever Wondered
about Food? for BBC 1 and Sunday Brunch for Channel 4. He is the publisher
and editor of Fire & Knives, a quarterly magazine of new food writing and Best
Food Magazine at the 2012 Guild of Food Writers Awards. He is a Guild of Food
Writers Food Journalist of the Year and has won their award for Best Food
Broadcast. Tim publishes Gin & It, a journal of new writing for drinkers and
thinkers. He is the proprietor of Fitzbillies bakery and restaurant in Cambridge.
Tim’s first book, Food DIY – How To Make Your Own Everything, was published
in 2013 and is a handbook of smoking, curing, preserving, baking and other
manly pursuits from sausages to smoked salmon, sourdough to sloe gin, bacon
to buns. Tim is currently working on his next book and is available for
broadcasting, speaking, writing and hosting bespoke events.
Mark
Hix
Restaurateur and writer
After only two months as Sous Chef at Mr Pontacs, Mark Hix was promoted to
Head Chef at just 22 years old, and won The Candlewick Room a Michelin Red
M. Mark then became Head Chef at Le Caprice and its sister restaurant The Ivy
in Covent Garden, during which time both restaurants were also awarded a
Michelin Red M. Le Caprice expanded with Mark overseeing Daphne’s, BamBou, Rivington, J.Sheekey, Scott’s and Urban Caprice.
In 2007, Mark left Caprice to become Director of Food at Brown’s, and the next
year he opened Hix Oyster and Chop House and Hix Oyster and Fish House. He
then opened many restaurants to critical acclaim, including the Tramshed, HIX in
Soho, and Cock n Bull Gallery. Mark is as passionate about Art as he is about
cooking. The HIX Academy opens in September 2014.
Mark has been involved in a number of other projects within the catering world,
including consultancy work, various cookery demonstrations and judging panels,
charity events, writing and television & radio appearances.
Mark writes for Esquire and The Independent on Saturday magazine where he
has held a regular weekly column for 11 years.
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LIFESTYLE
Louise Johncox
Author and Journalist
Louise comes from a long line of pastry chefs originating from Poschiavo on the
Swiss Italian border. Growing up, Louise’s father worked as a baker and
chocolatier in the family tea shop, Peter’s, from 1958 to 2000. Louise left the tea
shop to train as a journalist and worked as a staff writer on The Times and as
Assistant Editor on Sunday Times Style magazine. She has a monthly column in
Surrey Life Magazine called On The Tea Shop Trail where she goes in search of
good quality tea shops and cafes. Louise has written for The Sunday Times, The
Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian.
Louise’s books, The Baker’s Daughter, Timeless Recipes from Four Generations,
with a Foreword by Albert Roux, and A Life Shaped by Cakes – The Memoir of
The Baker’s Daughter were published in Spring 2014.
Louise is also a keen hiker who has blogged about her adventures and written
about them for The Guardian. She has given numerous lectures on creative
writing, food writing and journalism.
William Sitwell
Writer, presenter, critic, editor of Waitrose Kitchen
William Sitwell is the editor of Waitrose Kitchen Magazine. He is a regular judge
on Masterchef – The Professionals (BBC2) and Britain’s Best Dish (ITV1) and
was co-presenter of the BBC2 series A Question of Taste. As a food critic, he has
been described as the man who “strikes fear into the heart of chefs at
restaurants across London”.
William has made a number of documentaries including Michelin Stars – The
Madness of Perfection (BBC2). He has been named Editor of the Year in
awards from both the British Society of Magazine Editors and the Association of
Publishing Agencies (APA).
His first book A History of Food in 100 Recipes tells the story of world cuisine by
looking at the ingredients, cooks, techniques and tools that have shaped our
love of food. He is currently working on his next book.
William speaks on the history of food in a talk called ‘4000 Years in 3000
Seconds’.
William is available for food and drink events, speaking engagements, openings,
award ceremonies and more.
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LIFESTYLE
Mel Southerden
Lawyer-turned Pastry Chef
Mel Southerden made her passion a career when she left the law to open her
renowned Pastry Store in Peckham. Mel classically trained at the Cordon Bleu,
worked at Yauatcha and staged in exemplary Michelin kitchens between 2012
and 2013. With her extensive knowledge of what’s hot on the Peckham food
scene, deciding to open her eponymous patisserie there was an easy decision.
It’s where she lives and loves.
Mel regularly runs workshops on Southerden’s signature treats – her
Marshmallow Masterclass has been named the best in London by The Evening
Standard.
Mel’s other passions are fashion and design - she curates her store and was a
fashion-buyer before opening Southerden Pastry. When she’s not baking,
blogging or designing, Mel is showing off her vocals doing karaoke.
Nick Weston
Foraging expert and hunter gatherer
Nick Weston is a foraging expert, survivalist and hunter gatherer. Nick was the
resident ‘survival expert’ for the Channel 4 series Shipwrecked in the Cook
Islands, where he passed on his skills to his fellow islanders.
In 2009, longing to quit the London rat race, he headed to the Sussex
countryside and began work on his home for the next six months: a treehouse.
Nick wrote his first book, The Tree House Diaries: How to Live Wild in the Woods,
which was published by Anova Books in 2010.
His foraging and cookery school Hunter Gather Cook was established in March
2011 with the construction of the HQ. Nick’s vision was to create a ‘HunterGatherer’ school that blended a mixture of foraging, animal butchery, outdoor
cookery techniques and bush craft with an emphasis in living comfortably in the
great outdoors and creating high-end dishes using wild produce.
Hunter Gather Cook runs a wide range of seasonal and specialist courses from
deer and mushroom hunting to home brewing and wild cocktails — they
received glowing reviews for their workshops at Wilderness Festival in 2013.
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HISTORY
Oliver Cox
Historian, expert on Country Houses
Dr Oliver Cox is a historian who is passionate about convincing us that heritage
and history still matter in the twenty-first century.
He is the director of the Thames Valley Country House Partnership. This
partnership is busy finding new ways to engage wider audiences with country
houses through exciting events and the innovative use of social media - with
links to every major Country House throughout Britain.
Oliver’s most recent TV appearances include Glorious Gardens From Above and
Len Goodman’s Holiday of my Lifetime on BBC One. Oliver has also filmed with
Ian Hislop’s Olden Days (BBC Two), Lucy Worsley’s The First Georgians (BBC
Four), and the BBC’s The One Show.
Oliver’s doctoral thesis explored how and why King Alfred the Great was
manufactured into a national hero in England and America between 1640 and
1800. His research on Rule, Britannia! has been covered by BBC Radio 4’s Today
programme, BBC News, The Times, The Telegraph and others.
Oliver lives in Oxford and all his spare time is taken up with training for his
second Ironman triathlon.
Janice Hadlow
Author of: The Strangest Family: The Private Life of George III and A Royal
Experiment
Janice Hadlow is an author and television producer. She is the former controller
of BBC Two and now director of special projects and seasons at the BBC. She
was a Radio 4 producer from 1987 to 1989 and worked on programs such as
Woman’s Hour, Start the Week and The World Tonight. She has edited the
Late Show on Radio 4 and has also worked for Channel 4 where she oversaw
the factual department.
Janice was the driving force behind the BBC's History of Britain series.
Janice’s book The Strangest Family: The Private Life of George III is being
published by William Collins in August 2014. She is currently working on a
second book: A Royal Experiment to be published in 2015.
For her books, Janice has conducted extensive research over decades and is an
authority on Georgian Royal History.
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HISTORY
Max Hastings
Journalist, historian and broadcaster
After leaving Oxford University, Max Hastings became a foreign correspondent,
and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and
the London Evening Standard.
After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, he
became editor of the Evening Standard in 1996. He has won many awards for
his journalism, including Journalist of The Year and What the Papers Say
Reporter of the Year for his work in the South Atlantic in 1982, and Editor of the
Year in 1988.
He stood down as editor of the Evening Standard in 2001 and was knighted in
2002. His monumental work of military history, Armageddon: The Battle for
Germany 1944-1945 was published in 2005. He is also a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature.
Catastrophe: Europe Goes To War 1914 was published in September 2013 by
HarperCollins and Knopf to tie in with the anniversary of the outbreak of WWI.
Max is frequently featured on television and radio, and speaks regularly at
literary festivals and other events.
Helen Rappaport
Historian and broadcaster
Helen Rappaport is a fluent Russian speaker and a specialist in Russian history
and 19th century women’s history. Her great passion is to winkle out lost stories
from the footnotes and to breathe new life and perspectives into old subjects.
Since the mid-70s Helen has also become well-known as a Russian translator in
the theatre, working with British playwrights on new versions of Russian plays.
She has translated all seven of Chekhov’s plays, including Ivanov for Tom
Stoppard which was a critical success at the Donmar Season at Wyndham’s in
2008. She was also Russian consultant to the National Theatre’s Tom Stoppard
trilogy, The Coast of Utopia.
Helen recently filmed a two-part documentary The Romanovs for BBC Two and
appeared in Channel 4’s Walking Through History. Her latest book Four Sisters
was published in 2014. She is currently working on a project for the
100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 2017.
Helen gives frequent lectures and is available for public speaking.
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HISTORY
Robert Sackville-West
Chairman of Knole Estates
Robert Bertrand Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville is a British peer. After
studying History at Oxford University, Robert worked in publishing, founding
Toucan Books in 1985, which creates illustrated non-fiction books for an
international market.
He now combines that with chairing Knole Estates, the property and investment
company which runs the Sackville family's interests at Knole. Since its purchase
in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has
been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the
Sackvilles, for 400 years.
Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and images, the current
incumbent of the seat, Robert, paints a vivid and intimate portrait of the vast,
labyrinthine house and the close relationships his colourful ancestors formed
with it. Robert and his wife and three children moved in the house in 2008
His book Inheritance was published 2010. His next book The Disinherited was
published in 2014.
Jacqueline Yallop
Novelist and historian
Jacqueline Yallop is a novelist and historian. She has a PhD in nineteenthcentury literature and culture and has worked as curator at the Wordsworth
Museum in Grasmere, the John Rylands Library in Manchester and the
Millennium Galleries in Sheffield – she is currently curating a series of
exhibitions exploring the legacy of John Ruskin. She works with TV and radio
production companies on arts programming and writes for broadsheet
newspapers.
Jacqueline’s first non-fiction book, Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the
Victorians Collected the World, told the stories of eccentric private treasurehunters and traced the rise of the public museum. She has just finished
Dreamstreets, a personal ramble through two centuries of model workers’
villages. It will be published by Cape in June 2015.
Jacqueline has written three critically-acclaimed novels. The latest, Marlford,
was published in March 2014. She lectures in creative writing at the University
of Aberystwyth and frequently contributes to Literary festivals and events. In
2015 Jacqueline will be giving Guardian Masterclasses on writing.
She is available as a guest speaker and reviewer on subjects including collecting
and curating; museums; the nineteenth-century, and pig-keeping.
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HORTICULTURE
Mark Diacono
Writer and broadcaster
Mark runs Otter Farm, the UK’s only climate change farm, home to orchards of
pecans, peaches, almonds, szechuan pepper, apricots and a vineyard. He hopes
to revolutionise the British larder by growing delicious food normally sourced
from overseas.
It also means he’s lucky enough to spend most of his time growing, eating,
writing and talking about food. His book A Taste of the Unexpected was
published in 2010.
He was named Garden Columnist of the Year at the Garden Media Awards 2010
and Photographer of the Year in 2013.
Mark leads the Garden Team at River Cottage, appearing in the TV series,
running courses and events at River Cottage HQ. His book Veg Patch: River
Cottage Handbook No. 4 was published in 2009 and Fruit: River Cottage
Handbook No. 9 was published by Bloomsbury in August 2011.
Sarah Raven
Broadcaster, journalist and author of Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: The
Creation of a Garden
Sarah is an inspirational and passionate teacher, running cooking, flower
arranging, growing and gardening courses at Perch Hill, her farm in East Sussex,
and around the country, since 1999. SarahRaven.com was established in 2008,
based around the plants trialled and grown at Perch Hill.
Sarah has presented Gardeners’ World (BBC) and written for The Daily
Telegraph, Country Living, Gardens Illustrated, Gardeners’ World Magazine, The
English Garden magazine and Sainsbury’s Magazine. Her gardening and cookery
books have won a number of awards including Best Specialist Gardening book
for The Cutting Garden and Cookery Book of the Year for Sarah Raven’s Garden
Cookbook.
Her most recent book is Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: The Creation of a
Garden which brings Vita’s garden writing up to date and describes the vision
and craft that has made Sissinghurst, one of the most inspirational gardens in
the world, a place of vitality and beauty.
In 2012 Sarah presented Bees, Butterflies and Blooms (BBC) on the crisis of
insects and in 2014 presented an episode of Great British Garden Revival (BBC).
Sarah is currently working on a cookery book.
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JOURNALISM
Clive Aslet
Editor at Large of Country Life
Clive Aslet is an award-winning writer and journalist, acknowledged as a leading
authority on Britain and its way of life. In 1977 he joined the magazine Country
Life, was for 13 years its Editor and is now Editor at Large. Clive writes
extensively for papers including the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the
Spectator, is a frequent broadcaster on television and radio, and is well-known
as a campaigner on the countryside and other issues.
Clive’s latest book War Memorial resurrects the lives of the individuals named
on Lydford village war memorial in Devon, a memorial chosen at random but
which tells the story of every man at war.
Among many other topics, Clive has written on country houses, architecture in
the United States, on British identity, on the countryside and on the House of
Lords. Clive has contributed to the Today programme, PM, Midweek, Newsnight
and many documentaries. His first novel, set in Salonika — the Casablanca of
the First World War — is published in 2014.
Clive divides his time between Pimlico in central London and Ramsgate on the
Kent coast. He likes talking, eating and the arts.
Jamie Bartlett
Author and journalist
Jamie Bartlett is the author of The Dark Net, an examination of the hidden
corners of the internet and the strange subcultures and protagonists that
inhabit it – from Bitcoin miners to neo-Nazis.
As Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the
Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos, Jamie has researched and
written extensively about radical political parties and movements across Europe.
He is also a technology blogger for the Telegraph and writes frequently for
several publications on how the internet is changing politics and society.
Jamie’s main topics are new political movements, social media research and
analysis, internet cultures and security and privacy online.
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JOURNALISM
Kay Burley
Journalist and broadcaster
Kay Burley is the longest-serving newsreader on British television, a presenter
and a journalist. She currently anchors Afternoon Live on Sky News. Her first
novel First Ladies was published by Harper Collins in 2011. Her second novel
Betrayal followed in 2012.
Kay has covered some of the world’s biggest news stories including the deaths
of Diana, Princess of Wales, the Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the 9/11
terrorist attached on the World Trade Centre in New York and the recent Libyan
conflict.
Her exclusive interviews range from prime ministers and royalty to celebrities
and sportspeople, and saw her shortlisted for Presenter of the Year alongside
Jon Snow and Andrew Neil.
After 25 years with Sky News she considers travelling to Washington D.C. to
interview Hillary Clinton on International Women’s Day as a stand-out moment.
Kay sells her home-grown veg and eggs at Sky to raise money for Macmillan
Cancer Support, a charity for which she is a proud ambassador.
Carla Buzasi
Broadcaster, Editor and Writer
Carla Buzasi is an award-winning editor and writer, founding editor of
Huffington Post UK and former Global Director of Huffington Post Lifestyle. She is
now the Global Chief Content Officer at WGSN Group, a world-renowned trend
forecasting service.
Carla is a former editor of Marie Claire online and deputy editor of Condé Nast’s
Glamour.com. She joined AOL Huffington Post Media Group to launch women’s
lifestyle site MyDaily. Her work has been published in newspapers, in magazines
and online including Marie Claire, the Guardian, Glamour, Vogue.com and
Cosmopolitan.
Carla tracked down Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington to pitch a UK
version of the news site following AOL’s acquisition in 2011. Huffington Post UK
grew to 8 million monthly unique users under Carla’s leadership. Carla lives in
London.
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JOURNALISM
Lorraine Candy
UK Editor of ELLE, the world’s biggest fashion magazine
Lorraine Candy is the UK Editor of ELLE, the world’s biggest fashion magazine.
With 44 print editions worldwide, 37 websites, 25 million unique visitors and
370 million pages views per month, ELLE reaches over 21 million readers.
In June 2014 she celebrated 10 years with the iconic title having been the
driving force behind rebooting the classic magazine structure to embrace an
innovative new publishing era. ELLE is the only luxury magazine brand to have a
fully integrated editorial team producing content across all brand platforms –
print, digital, mobile and social media.
Lorraine has over a decade of experience as a captain of industry. She joined
ELLE in 2004 from Cosmopolitan where she was Editor-in-Chief. In her first 5
years the magazine won 10 awards. Lorraine has worked in journalism all her
life, beginning aged 16 when she took her first job at her local newspaper, The
Cornish Times. She would go on to be a features writer at the Daily
Mirror, columnist for the Daily Mail, The Sun’s women’s editor and features
editor at The Times, where she was also appointed deputy editor of the
paper’s Saturday Magazine, and oversaw the supplement’s re-launch.
She writes for The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Times and Observer Woman.
Allison Pearson
Journalist and author
Allison Pearson is a Welsh journalist and author, who was a prominent Daily
Mail columnist and now writes for The Telegraph as a columnist and Chief
Interviewer. Allison was named Critic of the Year and Interviewer of the Year in
the British Press Awards.
Her other work includes weekly columns in the London Evening Standard and
being a member of the BBC’s Newsnight Review panel.
Allison’s novel I Don’t Know How She Does It, published in 2002, has sold four
million copies and was made into a film starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce
Brosnan.
I Think I Love You, her second novel, was published in 2010.
Allison lives in London with her husband and their two children.
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MILITARY
David Blakeley
Author and Speaker
Captain David Blakeley is one of the few people in the world who is able to
speak about missions behind enemy lines. He was Second in Command of the
elite British military unit the Pathfinders, also known as “The Ghost Platoon”. He
led the most audacious mission of the Iraq War, commanding a patrol on a
mission deep behind enemy lines – the subject of his first book, Pathfinder,
which was published in 2012, and was a Sunday Times bestseller. He was
amongst the first British soldiers operating in Afghanistan post 9/11, working
with Afghan Warlords and irregular forces.
At 21 years old David was the youngest Captain in the British Army. He has
presented at military seminars, and was chosen as the British Army
representative for a series of NATO ‘Partnership for Peace’ programmes. After a
serious injury on a mission he left the military in 2006, but not before regaining
full use of all his limbs and 100% physical fitness.
He has since worked as a consultant to film and television companies and a
number of high profile computer games including the latest ‘Alien Vs Predator’.
He has also fronted a number of advertising campaigns including for HBO.
David’s latest book, Maverick One, the story of his selection into the Pathfinders
and his missions in Afghanistan, was published in 2013.
Phil Campion
Author and broadcaster
Phil Campion is a veteran of military operations in just about every conflictprone corner of the world. He served with the Royal Hampshires, passed
through Commando and Parachute Regiment selection, before being badged
with 22 SAS.
He left the British Army in his early thirties, with the rank of Staff Sergeant, and
started working on the private military circuit. Phil was a contributor to Channel
4’s Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial.
Phil lives with his partner Wendy and their children in Southampton. He has
written four books, including Born Fearless, the brutally honest story of Phil’s
life as a military operator, Desert Fire and its sequel Killing Range. Most recently
published in May 2014, Real World SAS Survival Guide is a complete guide to
help anyone face any threat, in any situation, anywhere.
Phil is developing projects for television and is available for speaking
engagements.
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MILITARY
Stuart Tootal
Defence and security expert
Colonel Stuart Tootal is a defence and security expert who was commissioned
into the Queen’s Own Highlanders from Sandhurst in 1988. He initially served in
Germany during the Cold War and completed several emergency tours of
Northern Ireland during the ‘Troubles’.
As Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (3 PARA),
Stuart Tootal DSO commanded the UK’s first battle group to deploy to Southern
Afghanistan in 2006. Stuart’s 1,200 strong battle group was tasked with
providing security to reconstruction efforts.
During their six month deployment, Stuart’s men saw near continuous combat –
one gruelling battle after another – in what would become one of the most
extraordinary campaigns ever fought by British troops. Relying on a few
helicopters for food and ammunition resupply, troops were subjected to
relentless Taliban attacks, as well as 50 degree heat and spartan conditions.
At the end of the tour, the Taliban offensive had been tactically defeated. But 3
Para paid a high price: fourteen soldiers and one interpreter were killed, and 46
wounded.
Stuart is now Head of Global Security for a major financial services provider.
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POLITICS
Paddy Ashdown
Politician, diplomat and author
Paddy Ashdown GCMG KBE is one of the world’s best known and most
respected political figures. He is currently running the Liberal Democrats 2015
General Election campaign. Born in New Delhi, Paddy spent his childhood
between India and Britain. Joining the Royal Marines in 1959, he became a
member of the Special Boat Service before studying Mandarin at Hong Kong
University and spending five years as a British diplomat.
Paddy entered the House of Commons in 1983 as Liberal MP for Yeovil. In 1988
he became the first leader of the merged Liberal and Social Democratic Party, a
post he held for 11 years. Paddy was knighted in 2000 and entered the House of
Lords a year later. Paddy was one of the leading advocates for decisive action by
the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He became High
Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 until 2006. He is
President of UNICEF UK.
In 2012 Paddy presented the BBC documentary The Cockleshell Heroes based
on his book A Brilliant Little Operation. His new book The Cruel Victory marking
the 70th anniversary of Vercors in 1944 will be published in June 2014. Amongst
many speech themes Paddy talks about UK and global politics, conflict
resolution and the new multi-polar global power structure.
Sherard Cowper Coles
British Diplomat, Expert on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles KCMG LVO is a British diplomat. From 2009 to
2010 the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative to Afghanistan and
Pakistan.
He worked briefly for BAE Systems’ as the International business development
director, focusing on the Middle East and south-east Asia. He is now a Senior
Advisor to HSBC’s Group Chief Executive Officer.
His first book Cables from Kabul was published by HarperCollins in 2011. It is a
frank and honest memoir, which provides a unique, high-level insight into
Western policy in Afghanistan. Ever The Diplomat, his second memoir, was also
published by HarperCollins in 2013. This entertaining and engaging memoir lifts
the lid on embassy life throughout the world.
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POLITICS
Michael Heseltine
Politician, diplomat and head of Haymarket media empire
Michael Heseltine has enjoyed one of the most high profile in modern British
politics. For thirty years, from his days as Minister for Aerospace in the early
1970s to his appointment as Deputy Prime Minster in the mid-1990s, he has
consistently ranked as one of the most admired of public figures with two
successive nicknames — first ‘Tarzan’ and then ‘Hezza’. He has held many senior
political positions from Secretary of State for the Environment and Secretary of
State for Defence to President of the Board of Trade.
A businessman, Conservative politician and patron of the Tory Reform Group,
now Lord Heseltine was a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001 and was a
prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
Michael ran first a boarding-house and then a hotel in Bayswater, in 1962 as a
property developer he was almost forced into bankruptcy, and after a disastrous
start he patiently built up his magazine empire Haymarket to the point where it
is today one of the largest private companies in the land.
In 2011 Michael was asked to head an audit of the UK's industrial performance
for the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and HM Treasury, upon
which, after 11 years as a Member of the House of Lords, he made his maiden
speech to the chamber. Michael is married with three children.
Michael Howard
Politican and former leader of the Conservative party
Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, PC, QC is a British politician who served as the
Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November
2003 to December 2005.
Michael was educated at Llanelli Grammar School and later read law at
Peterhouse, Cambridge and following a successful career at the Bar became a
QC in 1982.
His Parliamentary career began in 1983 as Member for Folkestone and Hythe.
Howard rose through the ranks to become Employment, then Environment
Secretary and finally Home Secretary under John Major’s premiership. He
introduced both the poll tax and its replacement, the council tax. Following John
Major's resignation in 1997 he campaigned for leadership but was unsuccessful.
He served as Shadow Foreign Secretary for two years standing down in 1999. In
2001 he returned as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer until 2003 when he
became Leader of the Conservative Party until 2005. Michael retired at the 2010
general election after more than a quarter of a century in Parliament.
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POLITICS
Deeyah Khan
Filmmaker and human rights activist
Deeyah Khan is a music producer, composer and Emmy and Peabody awardwinning documentary film director whose work highlights human rights,
women’s voices and freedom of expression. She is the founder of production
company Fuuse which creates works in the intersection of art and activism.
Born in Norway to immigrant parents of Pashtun and Punjabi ancestry, the
experience of living between different cultures, both the beauty and the
challenges, dominates Deeyah’s artistic vision. Aged eight, Deeyah was
immersed in a music career usually reserved for those three times her age. At
13, she signed her first recording contract. At 15, she released her solo debut.
Her success led to difficult confrontations with more Orthodox Muslims, whose
threats eventually made it too dangerous to continue.
Deeyah directed and produced the Emmy award-winning documentary Banaz: A
Love Story about Banaz Mahmod, who was murdered by her own family in
London in 2006 in a so-called honour killing. The film will be screened at the UN
in New York in May 2014. Deeyah is the co-founder of the Honour Based
Violence Awareness Network, an international digital resource centre working
to advance understanding and awareness of Honour Killings and Honour Based
Violence.
Deana Puccio and Allison Havey
Co-founders of The RAP Project
The RAP Project, or The Raising Awareness and Prevention Project, was founded
by Deana Puccio and Allison Havey. Deana and Allison equip teenage girls
between the ages of 14 and 18 with the tools to avoid becoming a victim of rape
and sexual assault.
RAP have already visited several schools in and around London, including St
Paul's Girls School, North London Collegiate. St Mary's Ascot, South Hampstead
High School, The Mount, Notting Hill and Ealing High School, Fortismere School,
UCS, Westminster and Channing School. Deana and Allison are rapidly
approaching 20 schools and plan to go nationwide.
Deana is a former Sex Crimes Prosecutor who worked in the United States’ first
department dedicated to investigating sexual crimes in the Kings County District
Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, New York. Allison is a writer/producer and media
consultant who has worked for ABC News, NBC News, Associated Press
Television News and Fox Business News amongst others.
Deana and Allison are both mums living in London with teenagers.
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SCIENCE
Harry Cliff
Physicist and Science Museum Fellow
Dr Harry Cliff is a young physicist who splits his time between researching
cutting-edge particle physics at Cambridge and CERN, and communicating the
mysteries of fundamental physics at London’s Science Museum.
As the first Science Museum fellow, Harry is the curator of Collider, the first in a
new series of blockbuster exhibitions centred on the greatest scientific
endeavour of the modern age – the Large Hadron Collider.
Harry’s immersive exhibition has won critical praise after opening in November
2013. Harry worked with a team drawn from theatre, museums, and design to
transport visitors to CERN, conveying the thrill and drama of working on an
experiment that is changing the way we think about the Universe.
It is now set to tour in the UK and internationally.
Susan Greenfield
Scientist, writer and broadcaster
Baroness Susan Greenfield (CBE) is a scientist, writer, broadcaster and member
of the House of Lords.
She has been awarded 30 Honorary Degrees from British and foreign
universities and heads a multi-disciplinary research group exploring novel brain
mechanisms linked to neurodegenerative diseases such Alzheimer’s and
Parkinson’s. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford and has
currently co-founded a biotech company developing a novel approach to
neurodegenerative disorders (Neuro-Bio Ltd). Most recently in January 2014,
she was included in the Debrett's 500, "a recognition of the most influential and
inspiring 500 people in Britain."
She has published a neuroscientific theory of consciousness, The Private Life of
the Brain and developed a keen interest in the impact of modern technologies on
how young people think and feel. This was discussed in her book, ID: The Quest
for Identity in the 21st Century.
Her first novel 2121 was be published in 2012 and her non fiction work Mind
Change which concentrates on the influence of technology and the internet on
the development and growth of the brain, will be published in August 2014.
Susan delivers frequent talks to big businesses, at schools and at festivals.
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SCIENCE
Tony Juniper
Sustainability and Environment Adviser
Tony Juniper is an independent sustainability and environment adviser,
including as Special Advisor with the Prince’s Charities International
Sustainability Unit, Fellow with the University of Cambridge Institute for
Sustainability Leadership and as President of Society for the Environment. He is
a founder member of the Robertsbridge Group that advises international
companies.
Tony speaks and writes on many aspects of sustainability and is the author of
several books, including the award winning Parrots of the World, Spix’s
Macaw and How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet? He was a
co-author of Harmony, with HRH The Prince of Wales and Ian Skelly, and his
multi-award winning best-seller What has Nature ever done for us? was
published in January 2013.
He began his career as an ornithologist, working with Birdlife International.
From 1990 he worked at Friends of the Earth and was the organisation’s
executive director from 2003-2008 and Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth
International from 2000-2008. Juniper was the first recipient of the Charles and
Miriam Rothschild medal (2009) and was awarded honorary Doctor of Science
degrees from the Universities of Bristol and Plymouth (2013).
Susie Orbach
Psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic
Dr Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her
latest book, Bodies (2009), discusses the ways in which bodies today are
becoming sites of display and manufacture rather than a place to live from.
Susie pioneered the treatment of disordered eating in the United Kingdom. As
co-founder of The Women’s Therapy Centre she provided programmes for
women and their families to address the psychology of eating and obesity. She
was a Keynote Speaker at the UK Government’s Body Image Summit and at the
Vienna Body Image Summit.
Susie is the author of Fat Is A Feminist Issue (2006) which was an instant classic,
reflecting on our increasingly diet and body-obsessed society.
Susie has been a consultant at the World Bank, is advising a major beauty brand
how to expand its representation of beauty and is convenor of ANYBODY, the
group working with industry, government and the voluntary sector to tackle
eating problems and increase body diversity.
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Steve Peters
Consultant psychiatrist and founder of the Chimp Model
Dr Steve Peters is a consultant psychiatrist and has worked in the clinical field of
psychiatry for over 20 years. He holds degrees in mathematics and medicine, a
Masters in medical education and post-graduate qualifications in sports
medicine, education and psychiatry.
Dr Peters has created a mind model for teaching people to understand how the
mind works in practice to maximise performance. His Chimp Model can work for
anyone from any walk of life. His book, The Chimp Paradox, brings his work to a
wider audience for the first time and it is the author’s hope that everyone who
reads this book will benefit from it.
He has been the resident psychiatrist with the British Cycling team since 2001
and now also the Sky ProCycling team. His mind management techniques have
been credited with helping to transform the performance of Britain’s elite
cyclists, and contributing to bringing home 14 medals from the Beijing Olympics,
eight of which were golds, and many more from London 2012.
Steve speaks to organisations and businesses across the world about the Chimp
Model.
Janet Reibstein
Psychologist and psychotherapist
Dr Janet Reibstein is a psychologist and psychotherapist whose research and
clinical work primarily focuses on couples and families. She is a broadcaster,
journalist and author, writing about relationships of all kinds. Janet teaches in
the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter.
Janet is the author of, among other books, Staying Alive: A Family Memoir
(published by Bloomsbury US and UK) which documents the story of breast
cancer and its treatment over the post-war period, through the stories of how it
affected various members of her family over fifty years, culminating in her own
attempt to pre-empt cancer through preventative mastectomy and her
subsequent experience (and defeat) of breast cancer.
Janet co-authored the Avon Breast Promise Report. The report explores why,
despite all the information available, women are still not regularly checking their
breasts. It is based on the psychology behind what will motivate a change in this
behaviour. The research looked at what might motivate women at different
stages of their lives to develop potentially life-saving and empowering habits of
checking their breasts.
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Jonathan Goodwin performs at the
Boehringer Ingelheim company gala in
Prague.
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