53 Notable alumni of
Keele University
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Keele University is 917th in the world, 328th in Europe, and 63rd in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 53 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 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 66)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Prince Chinedu Munir Nwoko, popularly known as Ned Nwoko, is a 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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Jem Finer
- Occupations
- banjoistguitaristsongwriterentertainerartist
- Biography
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Jeremy Max Finer is an English musician, artist and composer. He is one of the founding members of the Pogues.
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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 AnnanListen is a Ghanaian-Nigerian businessman and son of the late former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. From 1995 to 1997, Kojo Annan worked in West Africa for the Swiss-based inspection company Cotecna, as a marketing consultant. He came to public attention when questions were raised about whether a contract, won by Cotecna, was due to Annan's connections. An IIC investigation however, refuted the suggestion and The Sunday Times were also required, in a libel settlement, to state that "the allegation was untrue." Annan currently has interests in a number of start-ups and, in 2016, he founded Africa10, a social enterprise focused on the development of African youth through sports and education.
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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Ndemupelila Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, nicknamed NNN, is a Namibian politician who has been the fifth and current president of Namibia since 21 March 2025. She is the country's first female president. Previously, she served as the third vice president under President Nangolo Mbumba between 2024 and 2025. She held various high level political and ministerial position as well as various responsibility within SWAPO party and its government over an uninterrupted period of 57 years.
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Michael Mansfield
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 85)
- 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 in 2023, before becoming an independent MSP in 2025. 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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Peter Lee Ka-kit
- Occupations
- justice of the peacepolitician
- Biography
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Peter Lee Ka Kit, GBM, GBS, JP,, is a businessman and philanthropist from Hong Kong, the elder son of real estate tycoon and majority owner and founder of Henderson Land Development, Lee Shau-kee.
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Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 75)
- 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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Stefan Oster
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishopuniversity teachertheologian
- 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 Miteb Yassin Hassan Al-Obaidi is an Iraqi politician and former military officer who served as Minister of Defense of Iraq from 2014 to 2016. His tenure took place during a critical period in the country’s fight against the Islamic State, particularly following the fall of Mosul in 2014.
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Alun Michael
- Enrolled in Keele University
- Studied philosophy and English-language 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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Marina Lewycka
- Enrolled in Keele University
- In 1968 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and English
- Occupations
- writernovelistteacheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Marina Lewycka was a Ukrainian-British lecturer and novelist. Her 2005 debut comic novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, was translated into over 30 languages.
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Zulfikar Ghose
- Occupations
- novelistpoetwriter
- 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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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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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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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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Gareth Snell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gareth Craig Snell is a British politician who serves as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He regained the seat at the 2024 general election having represented it from 2017 to 2019. A member of Labour Co-op, he was Leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council from 2012 to 2014.
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Janet Fitch
- Occupations
- writernovelistjournalistuniversity teacher
- 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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Fiona Woolf
- Occupations
- solicitorlawyerbusinesspersonpolitician
- 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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Eva Nogales
- Occupations
- university teacherbiophysicistbiologist
- 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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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 Katie Wallis.
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Terry Milewski
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 77)
- 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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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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Francis Beckett
- Occupations
- biographertrade unionisthistorianjournalistauthor
- 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. He is the recipient of an Independent Radio Drama Productions Award for the Sons of Catholic Gentlemen and the Ted Wragg Award for lifetime achievement in education journalism.
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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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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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Innes McCartney
- Occupations
- explorerhistorianarchaeologistanthropologistauthor
- 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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John Howkins
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 81)
- 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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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 teacherscientistmathematician
- 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 defender
- 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 last Saopha of Yawnghwe and Sao Nang Hearn Kham, the Mahadevi (consort). He was a consulting geologist based in Canada.
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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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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 a British health advocate and public policy leader, best known for his work in HIV/AIDS awareness and for his leadership of the Terrence Higgins Trust, the United Kingdom’s leading HIV and sexual health charity, where he served as chief executive from 1991 to 2013.
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Rachel Griffith
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- 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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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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Robin Grimes
- Enrolled in Keele University
- In 1988 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Professor Sir Robin William Grimes is a British nuclear scientist who was chief scientific adviser in the Ministry of Defense for nuclear science and technology and is a 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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Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo was a Zimbabwean nationalist who was part of the first group of Gonakudzingwa restriction camp political prisoners. He was also a pioneer insurance executive, business magnate, academic, philanthropist, conservationist, pioneer Indigenous businessman and entrepreneur.
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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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Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- 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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Keith Dowding
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- political scientistphilosopherwriter
- Biography
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Keith Martin Dowding is a British political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Political Philosophy at the Australian National University (ANU). In 2006 he held a position in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics.
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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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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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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 69)
- 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 78)
- 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 both 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 61)
- Biography
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Joanna Elizabeth Killian is a local government official, who has been Chief Executive of the Local Government Association since March 2024.
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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.
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Sean Corbett
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Air Vice-Marshal Anthony Sean Corbett, CB MBE is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer.
