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Sir John Bond
Sir John Bond became Chairman of Vodafone Group Plc on 25 July 2006
having previously served as a Non-Executive Director since January 2005.
He is also a non-executive director of Ford Motor Company.
Previously he was Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc until May 2006,
when he stepped down after a 45 year career with
HSBC. Sir John joined The Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in 1961 and worked in Asia for 25
years and the USA for four years, before coming to London in
1993. He became Group Chief Executive of HSBC Holdings on 1
January 1993 when HSBC merged with Midland Bank plc, and became Group
Chairman on 29 May 1998.
His previous appointments include non-executive director of London
Stock Exchange from 1994 to 1999, British Steel from 1994 to 1998 and
Orange from 1996 to 1999; he was also on the Court of the Bank of
England from 2001 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Institute
of International Finance, Washington DC (an organization of over 300
banks) from 1998 to 2003 and was elected President of the International
Monetary Conference (IMC) in June 2002.
Sir John was born in July 1941. Following his education in
the UK, he held an English-Speaking Union Scholarship in the USA from
1959 to 1960, this proved to be one of the most formative years of his
life. From November 1997 to December 2003 he was a Governor
of the English-Speaking Union. He was elected a Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Bankers in 1983.
His Knighthood was conferred for services to banking in the
Queen’s Birthday Honours in 1999. In 2003 Sir John
was awarded both the Magnolia Gold Award by the Shanghai Municipal
People’s Government and the Foreign Policy Association, New
York’s Gold Medal.
Married with two daughters and a son, his interests include skiing,
golf and reading biographies.
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Professor Ronald Carter
Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University
of Nottingham. He has written and edited more than 50 books and
published over 100 academic papers in the fields of
literary-linguistics, language and education, applied linguistics and
the teaching of English. He has taught, lectured and given
consultancies to government agencies and ministries in the field of
language education, mainly in conjunction with the British Council, in
over thirty countries world-wide. In the UK he has worked closely with
QCA and the DfES on the National Curriculum, the Adult ESOL Core
Curriculum and as linguistic adviser on Basic Skills, Literacy and
ESOL.
He is co-director with Professor Michael McCarthy of the CANCODE
spoken English corpus project, sponsored by Cambridge University Press.
Professor Carter's recent publishing includes Exploring Grammar in
Context, The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other
Languages (with David Nunan, CUP 2001), Cambridge Grammar of English
(with Michael McCarthy, CUP 2006) and From Corpus to Classroom (with
Michael McCarthy and Anne O'Keeffe, CUP 2007).
Professor Carter is a
fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a fellow of the British Academy
for Social Sciences.
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Professor David Crystal OBE
David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster.
He was professor of linguistic science at the University of Reading, and is now honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor. His authored works are mainly in the field of language, but he is also editor of a family of general encyclopedias and reference books. Recent authored books include The Fight for English, As They Say in Zanzibar (both 2006), and By Hook or by Crook: a Journey in Search of English (2007).
A past member of the Board of the British Council and of the English-Speaking Union, he received an OBE for services to the English language in 1995 and was made a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2000. He is also vice-chairman of the ESU's English Language Committee.
For a full list of David Crystal's publications, see www.davidcrystal.com.
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Dr Elizabeth Cumming
Dr Elizabeth Cumming is an independent art historian and
curator, and an honorary Research Fellow at the Universities
of Glasgow and Edinburgh. A graduate of the University of
Edinburgh, she worked initially as a researcher on the national survey
of Pictish symbol stones and as a fine art museum curator
in Dundee and Edinburgh before becoming increasingly
involved in the decorative arts and holding a
lectureship in design history at Edinburgh College of
Art from 1992 to 2000. Her exhibitions have included Glasgow 1900: Art
& Design for the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
She has published articles, exhibition catalogues and books on Scottish
art and design in Britain, Ireland, Norway, France, Spain, America,
Canada and Japan. Her books include The Arts and Crafts Movement (1991,
as co-author) in Thames & Hudson’s World of
Art series, and Phoebe Anna Traquair 1852-1936 (2005) for the
National Galleries of Scotland and National Museums Scotland. Her
latest book, Hand, Heart and Soul: the Arts and Crafts
Movement in Scotland (2006), published in Edinburgh by Birlinn, was
shortlisted for the 2007 Saltire Society Research Book of the Year.
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Dr Jane Davis
I left school at 16 with two GCSEs. I was a moderately bright kid with
loads of family problems and started running away from home aged 12. I
always took books with me: they offered escape routes, doorways,
windows, other worlds; and now I find myself leading an organisation
which wants a bigger place in the nation's heart for books and reading.
Later on, as a young single mother, I returned to education, and was
lucky to find a great teacher. After graduating with a First Class
degree in English I spent 3 years writing a PhD mapping out a series of
thoughts I've been circling ever since; basically how books give us a
way of holding complex and divergent truths.
In 1986 I married Philip Davis, a lecturer in the School of English at
the University of Liverpool. That was a good move. Since then we have
brought up our two children and worked in the field of literature
separately but side by side. Until last year when I asked Phil to take
over the editorship of The Reader magazine so I could further
concentrate on developing the whole organisation. We are now, for the
first time in twenty-five years, working together on a couple of
projects.
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Sir Richard Billing Dearlove KCMG, OBE
Sir Richard Dearlove was born in Cornwall on 23rd January 1945. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath; Kent School, Connecticut, USA (ESU Exchange Scholar); and Queens’ College, Cambridge (MA History).
Sir Richard Dearlove served as Chief (known as ‘C’) of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from August 1999 until his retirement in July 2004. For the preceding five years he was Director of Operations and, from 1998, Assistant Chief. As Director of Finance, Administration and Personnel he also oversaw the move of SIS into its Headquarter Building at Vauxhall Cross in 1994. He is a career intelligence officer of thirty-eight years standing and has served in Nairobi, Prague, Paris, Geneva and Washington as well as in a number of key London-based posts.
Sir Richard took up the Mastership of Pembroke College Cambridge on 1st October 2004.
He is also a trustee of Kent School, Connecticut, Honorary Fellow of Queens’ College Cambridge, a member of the International Advisory Board of AIG and senior Adviser to the Monitor Group.
Sir Richard is married to Rosalind, Lady Dearlove. They have two sons and a daughter.
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Professor Sheila Dow
Sheila Dow is Professor of Economics and Director of the Stirling
Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME) at the University of Stirling,
where she has worked since 1979 (with visiting positions during that
period at the Universities of Toronto and Cambridge).
One of her main areas of research is the history and methodology of
economic thought, with a particular interest in the Scottish
Enlightenment. She recently edited, with Alexander Dow, A History of
Scottish Economic Thought (Routledge, 2006), and authored Economic
Methodology: An Inquiry (Oxford University Press, 2002). She is a
member of the Executive of the European Society for the History of
Economic Thought, a former Chair of the International Network for
Economic Method, Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic
Methodology and member of the editorial boards of several other
academic journals.
Her other main area of research interest is money and banking, in which
she has published widely. Her current research is on two issues:
central bank communication, and the regional impact of monetary policy.
She is an advisor on monetary policy to the House of Commons Treasury
Select Committee.
Her previous employment has included positions with the Bank of
England, and the Finance Department of the Government of Manitoba in
Canada.
She was educated at Hawick High School, where she was a competitor in
English-Speaking Union debates, then at the Universities of St Andrews,
Manitoba, McMaster and Glasgow. She is married with two children.
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Jon Dye
Educated at Harris Academy, Dundee and St Andrews University, where he
graduated in Mathematics in 1993, Jon joined the accountancy firm Price
Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers - PwC) and qualified as a
Chartered Accountant in 1996. He then worked as a Technology and Risk
Management consultant for PwC for a large number of blue chip clients
across Europe between 1996-2003. Since 2003 Jon has been with National
Australia Bank (owners of the Clydesdale Bank) where he is currently
the Head of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance. Jon also sits on a number of
banking industry committees for the Bank of England and the Association
of Payment Clearing Services (APACS).
Jon has had a long association with the English-Speaking Union. He was
a finalist in the ESU Scottish Schools Debating competition and also
debated competitively for St Andrews University. For many years, he has
judged public speaking and debating competitions for the ESU at school
and university level. In 2000, Jon was appointed to the Scottish
National Committee of the ESU and was elected Chairman in 2003. In
2005, he was appointed as a Governor of the ESU of the Commonwealth.
Jon has over the years been a trustee of a number of local and national
charities.
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Dr Paul Edmondson
Paul is Head of Learning at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, an
Honorary Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute, and an Honorary Fellow of
The Society for Teachers of Speech and Drama. His first degree is from
the University of Durham. He did his post-graduate work at The
Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, and produced a
critical edition of The London Prodigal (1605) for his Ph. D.
He has lectured on Shakespeare in France, Germany, Norway, Hungary,
Romania, and the United States. He is co-supervisory general editor of
the New Penguin Shakespeare and has produced a new introduction to
Richard II for the series. He is co-author (with Stanley Wells) of
Shakespeare's Sonnets for Oxford University Press (2004). His book on
Twelfth Night was published in the Palgrave Shakespeare Handbooks
series (2005).
He has published numerous articles and reviews, and is assistant
director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival. Paul's love of
Shakespeare is apparent to anyone who has ever had the pleasure of
listening to him give a reading from the poetry or the plays. The
passion and conviction which can clearly be heard whenever he shares
Shakespeare's words help to make his lectures and discussions a
particular treat - his enthusiasm is truly inspiring.
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The Rt. Hon The Lord Hunt of Wirral MBE PC
David Hunt was educated at Liverpool College and graduated from Bristol
University in Law, from where he won the British Debating Championship
with Bob Marshall-Andrews MP. He went on to represent British
Universities on a debating tour of the United States of America and
then organised the first transatlantic telephone debate as well as
speaking in the first internet debate. He is now Chairman of
The English Speaking Union, having been a Governor for many years and
then Deputy Chairman.
He is chairman of financial services at Beachcroft LLP. He
advises the Association of British Insurers and, as a Member of the
House of Lords, represents the All-Party Parliamentary Group on
Insurance and Financial Services as a frequent speaker at national and
international conferences on insurance and reinsurance. He
led the legal teams which established the Pension Advisers Support
System (PASS), the Raising Standards Initiative and PPIAB, and the
Association of Independent Financial Advisers, whose first Chairman he
was from 1999-2002. He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Actuaries and Vice-President of the Chartered Insurance Institute
(CII). He was also the first independent chairman of the
Professional Standards Board of the CII.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Wirral in March 1976 and then
spent 21 years as an MP. In 1979, he became a member of
Margaret Thatcher’s first administration serving in a variety
of posts until she made him her Deputy Chief Whip after the 1987
General Election. Whilst serving as Minister for Local
Government and Inner Cities from 1989 to 1990, he was appointed to the
Cabinet as Secretary of State for Wales. Re-appointed in that
position by John Major, he became Secretary of State for Employment in
1993 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1994-1995.
David is President of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational
Health and Safety, and, as Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Council
Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, is also Trustee of the Holocaust
Educational Trust and Vice Chairman of the War Crimes Group.
He was awarded the MBE in 1973 and appointed to the Privy Council in
1990. He was made a Life Peer as Lord Hunt of Wirral in 1997
and is President and Patron of over fifty charities and voluntary
organisations.
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Sir Christopher Meyer KCMG
Sir Christopher took up his appointment as Chairman of the Press
Complaints on 31st March 2003.
He has a distinguished diplomatic background and was, most recently,
Ambassador to the United States from 1997 until February 2003.
Immediately before that he had been Ambassador to Germany.
Between 1994 and 1996, Sir Christopher was Press Secretary to Prime
Minister John Major. Before that he had held postings in Washington,
Moscow, Madrid and the EU.
Born in 1944, Sir Christopher was educated at Lancing College,
Lycée Henri IV in Paris and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he
graduated in History. (He has been an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse
since 2002.) After graduating, he attended the Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies at Bologna before beginning his career
in the Foreign Office in 1966. Between 1988 and 1989 he was a Visiting
Fellow at Harvard University’s Centre for International
Affairs.
In 2005 Sir Christopher published a book of memoirs entitled
DC Confidential. He has presented and
co-written a number of documentaries for BBC television and radio on
diplomacy and British-American relations.
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Mrs Valerie Mitchell OBE
Valerie Mitchell was educated at Beaufront School, Camberley, Surrey,
England and graduated from McGill University, Montreal, with a 1st
Class BA in English and French. After graduating, she was
Personal Assistant to the Assistant Dean of Arts and Science at McGill
University.
In 1980 she joined the English-Speaking Union, as an administrative
assistant to the Director of Education with particular responsibility
for English language and music activities.
In 1983 a new department was formed at the ESU - 'Branches and Cultural
Affairs' - under her directorship. Since then the cultural
programmes of the ESU have gone from strength-to-strength through the
whole national and international network.
In 1990 Valerie became Deputy Director-General of the ESU of the
Commonwealth, and in March 1994 she was appointed
Director-General. Since then she has developed its education
programmes and built its corporate profile through sponsorship, and
through visiting and speaking at branches nationally and
internationally. In England and Wales the national membership
has risen from 6,500 to 7,000 members.
As Secretary-General of the International Council, Valerie is
responsible for the development of ESUs internationally, where
membership is now at 30,000, with 47 ESUs established worldwide. In the
2001 New Year’s Honours List she received an OBE for
“services to the English-Speaking Union”.
Valerie is a Trustee of The Shakespeare’s Globe Trust, the
Royal Academy of Dance and a Trustee of Longborough Festival
Opera. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the
European Atlantic Group, a member of the Executive Committee of the Mid
Atlantic Club and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She
is a member of the Pilgrims Society.
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Professor Christopher Mulvey
Christopher Mulvey is Emeritus Professor of English at the University
of Winchester.
He went to school in London, was an undergraduate at Magdalen College,
Oxford and received his PhD from Columbia University. He taught in the
United States from 1963 to 1978 when he returned to England. He is the
recipient of awards from the Arts and Humanities Council, the British
Academy, and the University of Virginia. He was President of the
Collegium for African American Research from 2003 to 2007.
His articles are numerous, and his books include Anglo-American
Landscapes (1983), Transatlantic Manners (1990), New York: City as Text
(1990), Black Liberation in the Americas (2001), Dominic St John
Mulvey: London Irishman (2005), and William Wells Brown’s
Clotel, or the President’s Daughter: An Online Scholarly
Edition (2006). He is presently working on a history of American
transportation and culture.
He is Managing Editor of the Winchester University Press, and he is a
trustee of the English Project, a registered charity that aims to open
a permanent English Language Exhibition in Winchester in 2012.
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The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, Hon FRSE, PC
Lord (George Islay MacNeill) Robertson is Deputy Chairman of TNK-BP,
and Senior International Adviser to Cable and Wireless plc. He was NATO
Secretary General from 1999-2003 and UK Defence Secretary from
1997-1999. He was a Member of Parliament from 1978-1999.
He was born in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland and educated at
Dunoon Grammar School and Dundee University.
From 1979-1993 he held senior Opposition roles and in 1993 was elected
to the Shadow Cabinet serving as Principal Opposition Spokesman on
Scotland. He was appointed Defence Secretary in 1997. In October 1999
he was appointed 10th Secretary General of NATO and elevated to the
House of Lords.
Lord Robertson is a Privy Councillor, a Knight of the Thistle (KT), and
a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG).
He has been awarded the highest national honours from many countries
including the United States. He is an Honorary Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh and has twelve Honorary Doctorates.
He is a Non Executive Director of several companies, is Joint President
of the Royal Institute of Institutional Affairs and of the UK/Russia
Roundtable, and is an Elder Brother of Trinity House. He is Honorary
Regimental Colonel of the London Scottish (Volunteers).
He is married to Sandra, and lives in Dunblane. He plays
golf, and takes photographs. A book of them has just been published by
Birlinn: Islay and Jura: Photographs by George Robertson.
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The Lord Watson of Richmond CBE
Alan Watson is Chairman of CTN (Corporate Television
Networks). He advises many major UK and international
companies on their communication strategies and is Chairman of the
Coca-Cola European Advisory Board. He is also Non-Executive Chairman of
the Wine Importer, Raisin Social. His business career began with four
years as CEO of the advertising agency, Charles Barker City.
In broadcasting Alan was a regular presenter with “The Money
Programme” on BBC2 and “Panorama” on
BBC1. He also reported on LWTV, Radio 4 and the BBC World Service and
wrote and presented award winning documentaries over many years. He is
a Fellow and former Chairman of the Royal Television Society.
From 1976 to 1980 he was responsible for Media at the European
Commission.
Chairman of the English Speaking Union for six years he is now
International Chairman Emeritus. In 2005 he was awarded The
Churchill Medal. He is Chairman of the Council of
Commonwealth Societies and a member of the Executive Committee of the
Pilgrims. He is Co-Chair of the Jamestown 1607 –
2007 British Committee. Additionally he is a member of the Prince of
Wales Business Leader’s Forum.
Internationally he has served on the Executive Board of UNICEF (UK) and
as a member of the European Parliament’s High Level Group on
Romania. In 2004 he was awarded the Commander’s Grand Cross
of the Romanian Order of Merit and in 2007 the Knight’s Grand
Cross of the German Order of Merit.
Alan holds a range of visiting and honorary posts at Universities in
Britain and abroad.
His publications include Europe at Risk,
The Germans: who are they now?,
Thatcher and Kohl: Old Rivalries Revisited and
Jamestown: The Voyage of English.
A former President of the Liberal Party, he was appointed CBE in 1985
and created a Life Peer in 1999. He is a Member of the House of Lords
Select Committee on the European Union.
Lord Watson is married and has two sons. He was educated at
Diocesan College Preparatory School Cape Town, Kingswood School Bath
and Jesus College Cambridge. He lives in Richmond and
Somerset.
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Professor Stanley Wells CBE
Stanley Wells, described by Roy Hattersley as ‘Our greatest
authority on Shakespeare’s life and work’, is
Chairman of the Trustees of Shakespeare’s Birthplace,
Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies of the University of
Birmingham, and Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare
Theatre.
His books include Literature and Drama; Royal Shakespeare: Studies of
Four Major Productions at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre; Modernizing
Shakespeare’s spelling; Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern
Reader; and Shakespeare: the Poet and his Plays. He edited A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Richard II, and The Comedy of Errors for the
New Penguin Shakespeare and King Lear for the Oxford Shakespeare.
He was for nearly twenty years the editor of the annual Shakespeare
Survey, and writes for the TLS and many other publications. He has
edited The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies and is
General Editor (with Gary Taylor) of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare
and co-author of William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion.
His most recent books are Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of
Criticism; The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare; The Oxford Companion
to Shakespeare (edited with Michael Dobson); Shakespeare For All Time;
Looking for Sex in Shakespeare; Shakespeare’s Sonnets and
Coffee with Shakespeare, both co-authored with Paul Edmondson,
Shakespeare & Co., and Is It True What they Say About
Shakespeare?
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Sir Robert Worcester KBE DL
Sir Robert Worcester, a Governor of the English Speaking Union, is the Founder of MORI (Market & Opinion Research International), London, and now an International Director of Ipsos Group, Paris, and Chairman of the Ipsos Public Affairs Research Advisory Board. He is a Past-President of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). In 2005 he was knighted in recognition of “outstanding services rendered to political, social and economic research and for contribution to government policy and programmes”.
Sir Robert is Chancellor of the University of Kent and a Member of Council. He was visiting Professor of Marketing at University of
Strathclyde for three years and is Visiting Professor of Government and a Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE). He is Honorary Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent and in the Department
of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University.
He is Chairman of the Pilgrims Society and a Trustee of the Magna Carta Trust. He is a Freeman of the City of London, a Governor of the
Ditchley Foundation, and was a Member of the Fulbright Commission. He is a Vice President of the United Nations Association and of the
European Atlantic Group. He is currently Co-Chairman of the Jamestown 2007 Commemoration British Committee celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the founding of the first permanent English-speaking settlement in the New World in 1607.
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