54 Notable alumni of
Keele University
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Keele University is 901st in the world, 319th in Europe, and 61st in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 54 notable alumni from Keele University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Priti Patel
- Enrolled in Keele University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Priti Sushil Patel DBE is a British politician who has served as Shadow Foreign Secretary since November 2024, having previously served as Home Secretary from 2019 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, she was Secretary of State for International Development from 2016 to 2017. Patel has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Witham since 2010. She is ideologically on the right wing of the Conservative Party; she considers herself to be a Thatcherite and has attracted attention for her socially conservative stances.
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Ned Naoko
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Prince Chinedu Munir Nwoko popularly known as Ned Nwoko is a muslim, Nigerian lawyer, philanthropist and politician who serves as the senator representing Delta North senatorial district in the Nigerian Senate. He was a member of the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2003 representing Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, Delta State. In January 2020, he undertook a symbolic expedition to Antarctica to flag off a Malaria Eradication Project.
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Peter Moore
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Peter Moore is a British-American business executive. He is known for his former positions as senior VP of Global Sports Marketing at Reebok, president of Sega of America, and corporate vice-president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division, overseeing the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles. From 2007 to 2011, he was head of Electronic Arts' EA Sports game division. In 2012, Moore was appointed COO of Electronic Arts. He resigned from EA in February 2017 to become CEO of Liverpool Football Club. It was announced in July 2020 that Moore would be leaving Liverpool at the end of August that year, having completed his three-year tenure with the club.
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Clare Short
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Clare Short is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2003.
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Kojo Annan
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Kojo Adeyemo Annan is a Ghanaian-Nigerian businessman and son of the late former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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Jem Finer
- Occupations
- artistbanjoistguitaristsongwriterentertainer
- Biography
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Jeremy Max Finer is an English musician, artist and composer. He was one of the founding members of the Pogues.
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Michael Mansfield
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- barrister
- Biography
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Michael Mansfield KC is an English barrister and head of chambers at Nexus Chambers. He was recently described as "The king of human rights work" by The Legal 500 and as a leading Silk in civil liberties and human rights (including actions against the police).
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Ash Regan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ashten Regan is a Scottish politician. She has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Edinburgh Eastern since 2016. Initially elected to parliament for the Scottish National Party (SNP), she defected to the Alba Party. Regan served under First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as the minister for community safety from 2018 until she resigned in 2022 in protest against her government's Gender Recognition Reform bill.
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Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Stephen Michael Wedgwood Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate, is a British hereditary peer and Labour member of the House of Lords.
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Peter Lee Ka-kit
- Occupations
- justice of the peacepolitician
- Biography
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Peter Lee Ka Kit, GBM, GBS, JP, L.H., is a businessman and philanthropist from Hong Kong, the elder son of real estate tycoon and majority owner of Henderson Land Development Lee Shau-kee, who is the founder of (HKEx:00012) Henderson Land.
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Stefan Oster
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Stefan Oster S.D.B. is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the Latin Church bishop of Passau since 2014.
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Khaled al-Obaidi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Khaled Yassin al-Obaidi is an Iraqi politician who served as the defense minister of Iraq from 2014 to 2016.
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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ndemupelila Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, nicknamed NNN, is a Namibian politician who became president-elect of Namibia after winning the presidential election on 3 December 2024. She is scheduled to be Namibia's fifth president and the first woman to hold this position. She is serving as the third vice-president of Namibia since February 2024. She was also SWAPO's first female presidential candidate for the 2024 Namibian general election. In 2017, Nandi-Ndaitwah was elected vice-president of SWAPO, the first woman to serve in that position.
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Alun Michael
- Enrolled in Keele University
- Studied philosophy and English literature
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alun Edward Michael is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative retired politician. He served as Secretary of State for Wales from 1998 to 1999 and then as the first First Secretary of Wales (later known as First Minister) and Leader of Welsh Labour from 1999 to 2000. He went on to serve as South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012 to 2024.
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Zulfikar Ghose
- Occupations
- writernovelistpoet
- Biography
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Zulfikar Ghose was a Pakistani-American novelist, poet and essayist. His works are primarily magical realism, blending fantasy and harsh realism.
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Graeme Clark
- Occupations
- inventorphysician
- Biography
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Graeme Milbourne Clark AC FRS FAA FRACS is an Australian Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne. He has worked in ENT surgery, electronics and speech science, and contributed towards the development of the multiple-channel cochlear implant. His invention was later marketed by Cochlear Limited.
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John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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John David Beckett Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick is a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1996, at the age of 44, he became one of the youngest people in the upper house.
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Marina Lewycka
- Occupations
- writernovelistteacher
- Biography
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Marina Lewycka is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin.
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Jack Brereton
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
- Biography
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Jack Edgar Brereton is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Stoke-on-Trent South constituency from the 2017 general election until 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he is a former councillor on Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
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Janet Fitch
- Occupations
- university teacherwriternovelistjournalist
- Biography
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Janet Fitch is an American author. She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College.
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Gareth Snell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gareth Craig Snell is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2017 to 2019. He regained the seat at the 2024 general election. A member of Labour Co-op, he was Leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council from 2012 to 2014. In July 2022, Snell was reselected as the Labour Parliamentary Prospective Candidate for Stoke-on-Trent Central.
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Fiona Woolf
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitorlawyerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Dame Catherine Fiona Woolf, DBE, DStJ, DL is a British corporate lawyer. She served as the Lord Mayor of London (2013–14), acting as global ambassador for UK-based financial and business services. She has held and still holds many other significant positions in the City of London.
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Madeleine Moon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Madeleine Moon is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bridgend from 2005 to 2019, when she lost her seat to the Welsh Conservative candidate Jamie Wallis.
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Terry Milewski
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Terry Milewski is a Canadian journalist, who was the senior correspondent for CBC News until his retirement in 2016.
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Eva Nogales
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacherbiophysicist
- Biography
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Eva Nogales is a Spanish-American biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as head of the Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (2015–2020). She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
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Don Foster
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Donald Michael Ellison Foster, Baron Foster of Bath PC, is a British politician and life peer who served as Government Deputy Chief Whip and Comptroller of the Household from 2013 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath from 1992 to 2015.
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Charles Landry
- Occupations
- urban planneropinion journalist
- Biography
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Charles Landry is an author and international adviser on the future of cities best known for popularising the Creative City concept. His book The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators became a movement to rethink the planning, development and management of cities.
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Francis Beckett
- Occupations
- authorbiographertrade unionisthistorianjournalist
- Biography
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Francis Beckett is an English author, journalist, biographer, playwright and contemporary historian. He has written biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. He has also written on education for the New Statesman, The Guardian and The Independent and has been the editor of Third Age Matters, the national magazine published by the University of the Third Age. Beckett has been described as "an Old Labour romantic" by Guardian associate editor Michael White.
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Tarique Ghaffur
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Tarique Ghaffur CBE QPM is a former Ugandan-born British police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service. His last post was as Assistant Commissioner–Central Operations.
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John Howkins
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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John Anthony Howkins is a British author and speaker on Creative Industries, particularly the development of this economic sector in China. He is the visiting professor of University of Lincoln, England, and vice dean and the visiting professor of Shanghai School of Creativity, Shanghai Theater Academy, China.
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Innes McCartney
- Occupations
- authorexplorerhistorianarchaeologistanthropologist
- Biography
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Innes McCartney is a British nautical archaeologist and historian. He is a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University in the UK.
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Martine Dennis
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Martine Dennis is a British news anchor. She was most recently a presenter with Al Jazeera English, and before that BBC World News.
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John Duncan
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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John Stewart Duncan OBE is a British diplomat. He was Ambassador for Multilateral Arms Control and Disarmament and UK Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, 2006–11. In June 2013, he was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of the British government, to represent the Queen as Governor of the British Virgin Islands, and to act as the de facto head of state in the Territory. Duncan arrived at the Islands on 14 August 2014 and was sworn in the following day and his term would last until 8 August 2017 when he was succeeded by Robert A. Mathavious.
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Ian Taylor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ian Colin Taylor MBE is a British former Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher from 1987 to 1997, and then for Esher and Walton from 1997 to 2010.
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Des MacHale
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianacademicscientist
- Biography
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Desmond MacHale is an Irish mathematician who is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork. He is an author and speaker on several subjects, including George Boole, lateral thinking puzzles, and humour. He has published over 80 books, some of which have been translated into languages including Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, German, Korean, and Japanese.
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Hso Khan Pha
- Years
- 1938-2016 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- politicianhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Prince Hso Khan Pha of Yawnghwe was a prince of Yawnghwe. He was a son of Sao Shwe Thaik, the Saopha of Yawnghwe and Sao Nang Hearn Kham, the Mahadevi (consort). He was a consulting geologist based in Canada.
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Nick Partridge
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Keele University
- In 1978 graduated with laurea in international relations
- Occupations
- LGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Sir Nicholas Wyndham Partridge OBE is an English healthcare and HIV/AIDS care activist.
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Daphne Hampson
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Margaret Daphne Hampson is an English theologian. Educated at Oxford and at Harvard, she held a personal Chair in "Post-Christian Thought" at the University of St Andrews. Hampson's distinctive theological position has both gained her notoriety and been widely influential. Holding that Christianity is neither true nor moral (in not being gender inclusive), she believes the overcoming of patriarchal religion to be fundamental to human emancipation. As a theologian Hampson has always held to a "realist" position, in which the understanding of "that which is God" is based in human religious experience.
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Rachel Griffith
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- researchereconomist
- Biography
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Dame Rachel Susan Griffith DBE FBA FAcSS is a British-American academic and educator. She is professor of economics at the University of Manchester and a research director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo was a Zimbabwean nationalist, he was part of the first group of Gonakudzingwa restriction camp political prisoners, he is also a Pioneer Insurance Executive, Business magnate, Academic, philanthropist, conservationist, pioneer Indigenous businessman and entrepreneur.
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Robin Grimes
- Enrolled in Keele University
- In 1988 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Sir Robin William Grimes is a British nuclear scientist who is chief scientific adviser in the Ministry of Defense for nuclear science and technology and professor of materials physics at Imperial College London. From February 2013 to August 2018 he served as chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Since November 2021 he has been Foreign Secretary of The Royal Society
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Maggie Atkinson
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Margaret Elizabeth Atkinson is an English educator and the former Children's Commissioner for England. After a career in teaching, she moved into public service administration, initially in education, but later in Children Services. Her appointment and tenure as Children's Commissioner was notable for a series of controversies.
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Jayne Bryant
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jayne Bryant is a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government since July 2024. Since May 2016 she has represented Newport West in the Senedd.
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Keith Dowding
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- writerpolitical scientistphilosopher
- Biography
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Keith Martin Dowding is a Professor of Political Science and Political Philosophy at the Australian National University's School of Politics and International Relations. He was in the Government Department at the London School of Economics in 2006, and has published in the fields of public administration and policy, political theory, and urban political economy. His work is informed by social and rational choice theories. He edited the SAGE Publishing Journal of Theoretical Politics from 1996 to 2012.
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Phillida Bunkle
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Phillida Bunkle is a former New Zealand politician. She represented the Alliance in Parliament from 1996 to 2002, when she retired. Bunkle was for many years a lecturer at Victoria University.
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Kath Pinnock
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
- Biography
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Kathryn Mary Pinnock, Baroness Pinnock is a British Liberal Democrat politician, life peer, and former school teacher. Since 1987, she has been a member of Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council. She was leader of the council's Lib Dem group from 1991 to 2014, and leader of the council from 2000 to 2006. She was created a life peer in 2014 and now sits in the House of Lords.
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Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau CFR GSS, psc, ndc, fwc is a retired Nigerian army general and politician who served as Chief of Army Staff from 2008 to 2010 and in President Muhammadu Buhari's Cabinet as Minister of the Interior from 2015 to 2019. Dambazau is a renowned strategist, especially In National and regional security issues. He is a skillful writer with wide and deep research in various field of human behavior. He is a Criminologist well known for his contribution In the field, and he is also focused on the study and care victims of crime, disaster and conflicts. He is currently the Pro - chancellor Capital City University Kano.
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Ian Norman
- Occupations
- psychologistnurse
- Biography
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Ian James Norman is a British nursing researcher and author, based in Surrey, UK. His research and writing is focused primarily in the fields of psychiatric and mental health nursing, and psychological treatments for people with mental health difficulties. Norman is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King's College London. He is a former Executive Dean of Faculty and Assistant Principal at King's. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Nursing Studies and a practising cognitive behavioural psychotherapist.
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Robert Cooling
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- naval officer
- Biography
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Vice Admiral Robert George Cooling CB is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff.
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Joan Stringer
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Professor Dame Joan Kathleen Stringer, DBE, FRSE, FRSA is a British political scientist and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University and Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
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Iain R. Edgar
- Years
- 1948-2021 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- anthropologist
- Biography
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Iain Ross Edgar was an English social anthropologist at Durham University. He was an expert in the field of dreams and dreaming, and a specialist in altered states of consciousness and mental health. Starting his career in social work, Edgar received a PhD from the University of Keele, where he studied under Ronnie Frankenberg. His thesis Dreamwork, Anthropology and the Caring Professions: A Cultural Approach to Dreamwork discusses a wide range of psychodynamic possibilities and develops a method to work with dreams within a professional care environment.
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Joanna Killian
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Biography
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Joanna Elizabeth Killian is a local government official, who has been Chief Executive of Surrey County Council since March 2018.
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Sean Corbett
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Air Vice-Marshal Anthony Sean Corbett, CB MBE is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer.
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Paul Clark
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Gordon Clark is a British former Labour Party politician and who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gillingham from 1997 to 2010. During his time in government, Clark served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Derry Irvine, Charles Falconer, John Prescott, and Ed Balls, before being promoted in 2008 to the role of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport. At the 2010 general election Clark was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Rehman Chishti in the newly formed constituency of Gillingham and Rainham.
