100 Notable alumni of
University of Warwick
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The University of Warwick is 283rd in the world, 98th in Europe, and 22nd in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Warwick sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sting
- Occupations
- composersinger-songwriteractorguitaristfilm actor
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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for the rock band the Police from 1977 until their break-up in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.
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Stephen Merchant
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- television directoractorcomediantelevision actordirector
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Stephen James Merchant is an English comedian, writer, director, and actor. He was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office (2001–2003), and co-writer, co-director, and co-star of both Extras (2005–2007) and Life's Too Short (2011–2013) alongside Ricky Gervais. With Gervais and Karl Pilkington, he hosted The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook, and television formats; the radio version won a bronze Sony Award. He also provided the voice of the robotic Wheatley in the video games Portal 2 (2011) and Lego Dimensions (2015). Merchant co-developed the Sky One travel documentary series An Idiot Abroad (2010–2012) and co-created Lip Sync Battle (2015–2019).
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Anil Ambani
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- chief executive officerentrepreneurchairpersonpolitician
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Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian businessman, chairman, and managing director of Reliance Group (a.k.a. Reliance ADA Group). The Reliance Group was created in July 2006 following a demerger from Reliance Industries Limited. He led several listed corporations, including Reliance Capital, Reliance Infrastructure, Reliance Power, and Reliance Communications. Anil's net worth is estimated at $1 Billion as of 26 June 2025.
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Paul W. S. Anderson
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- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
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Paul William Scott Anderson is an English filmmaker who is best known for his science fiction films and video game adaptations.
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Brett Goldstein
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- screenwriterpodcasterstand-up comedianactor
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Brett Goldstein is an English actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, and writer. Known for his role as Roy Kent in the Apple TV+ sports comedy series Ted Lasso, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for each of the first two seasons. He is also the co-creator of the comedy series Shrinking (2023).
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Ruth Jones
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- screenwriterwritertelevision produceractortelevision writer
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Ruth Alexandra Elizabeth Jones is a Welsh actress, comedian, writer and producer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the critically acclaimed BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey (2007–2010, 2019, 2024), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2025. She also co-wrote and starred in the Sky One comedy-drama Stella (2012–2017), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Screenwriter.
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Ness Wadia
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- businessperson
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Ness Nusli Wadia is an Indian businessman. Wadia is the managing director of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, a company which has holdings in most of the Wadia Group subsidiaries, including an indirect majority stake in Britannia Industries. He was the Joint Managing Director of Bombay Dyeing, the flagship company of the Wadia Group, till March 2011 when he stepped down from the post. Wadia is a co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Punjab Kings.
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Luis Arce
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- Graduated with magister degree in economics
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, often referred to as Lucho, is a Bolivian former politician, banker, and economist who served as the 67th president of Bolivia from 2020 to 2025. A member of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), he previously served as minister of finance—later minister of economy and public finance—from 2006 to 2017, and in 2019.
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Germaine Greer
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- journalistuniversity teacherwomen's rights activistbroadcasteressayist
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Germaine Greer is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Tom Goodman-Hill
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Tom Goodman-Hill is an English actor in film, television, theatre and radio. He has acted for over 30 years, and in 2024 he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his role in the Netflix drama Baby Reindeer.
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Frank Skinner
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- autobiographertelevision actoractorcomedian
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Christopher Graham Collins, known professionally as Frank Skinner, is an English comedian, actor, presenter and writer. At the 2001 British Comedy Awards, he was named Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. His television work includes Fantasy Football League from 1994 to 2004, The Frank Skinner Show from 1995 to 2005, Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned from 2000 to 2005, and Room 101 from 2012 to 2018. From 2009 to 2024 he hosted The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, broadcast live on Saturday mornings and released as a podcast. In October 2024 Skinner launched the Frank Off The Radio podcast, with the same crew as the radio show.
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Andrea Leadsom
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- bankerpolitical scientistpolitician
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Dame Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom is a British politician who served in various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak between 2014 and 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Northamptonshire from 2010 to 2024. Leadsom served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2016 to 2017, Leader of the House of Commons from 2017 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2019 to 2020. She has twice run to become Leader of the Conservative Party, in 2016 and 2019.
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Carrie Johnson
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- Studied in 2006-2009
- Occupations
- press secretary
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Caroline Louise Beavan Johnson is an English media consultant, a senior advisor to the ocean conservation charity Oceana, and a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation. She is married to politician Boris Johnson, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022.
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Guðni Jóhannesson
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- historianpoliticianuniversity teachertranslator
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Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson is an Icelandic historian and politician who served as the sixth president of Iceland from 2016 to 2024.
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Mark Fisher
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- theoristuniversity teacherphilosophercultural studies scholarmusic critic
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Mark Fisher, also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture.
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David Davis
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- politician
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Sir David Michael Davis KCB MP is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Goole and Pocklington. He was previously the MP for Haltemprice and Howden and, before that, for Boothferry, where he was first elected in 1987. He served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2003 to 2008 and Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from 2016 to 2018. Davis was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1997 New Year Honours, while serving as Minister of State for Europe, a role he held from 1994 to 1997.
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Yakubu Gowon
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- writerhuman rights defendermilitary personnelpolitician
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Yakubu Dan-Yumma "Jack" Gowon GCFR is a Nigerian general and statesman who served as the military head of state of Nigeria from 1966 to 1975.
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Angus Imrie
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- television actorfilm actor
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Angus William Jake Imrie is a British actor. He is known for playing the character Josh Archer in BBC Radio 4's long-running drama serial The Archers. In 2014, he won the casting agency Spotlight's Most Promising Actor Award at The Sunday Times's National Student Drama Festival. The son of the actors Celia Imrie and Benjamin Whitrow, he made his screen debut in the BBC film drama Station Jim, at the age of five.
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Adam Buxton
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- television actoractorcomedianradio personality
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Adam Offord Buxton is an English comedian, podcaster and actor. With the filmmaker Joe Cornish, he is part of the comedy duo Adam and Joe. They presented the Channel 4 television series The Adam and Joe Show (1996–2001) and the BBC Radio 6 Music series Adam and Joe (2007–2009, 2011).
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Natasha Law
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- graphic designerpainter
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Andrea Natasha Heyworth Law is an English painter and graphic designer.
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Timmy Mallett
- Occupations
- artisttelevision presenter
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Timmy Mallett is an English television presenter, broadcaster, author and artist. He is known for his striking visual style, colourful glasses and shirts, and a giant pink foam mallet (known as "Mallett's Mallet"), as well as his "utterly brilliant!" and "blaaah!" catchphrases.
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Jonathan Coe
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- novelist
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Jonathan Coe FRSL is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
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Simon Mayo
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- radio personalitywritertelevision makerradio program designerjournalist
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Simon Andrew Hicks Mayo is an English radio presenter and author who worked for BBC Radio from 1982 until 2022. Mayo has presented across three BBC stations for extended periods. From 1986 to 2001 he worked for Radio 1, including five years on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. From 2001 he presented on BBC Radio 5 Live: from his debut until 2009 on a daily afternoon programme, and from 2009 until 2022 with Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on Fridays. Between January 2010 and December 2018 he was the presenter of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, for the final six months with co-host Jo Whiley. In addition to his programme on 5 Live, Mayo originally joined Radio 2 between October 2001 and April 2008 to host a weekly Album Chart Show, followed by the station's Music Club Weekly. Since March 2021, Simon Mayo Drivetime has returned on Greatest Hits Radio.
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Chip Tsao
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Chip Tsao, also known by his Chinese language pen name To Kit, is a multilingual Hong Kong–based columnist, broadcaster, and writer. His writings are mostly in Chinese. He is well known for his sarcasm and wry sense of humour.
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Adi Shamir
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- computer scientistmathematiciancryptologist
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Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science. In 2002, Ron Rivest, Len Adleman, and he won the ACM Turing Award.
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Claire Fox
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- writerpolitician
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Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley, is a British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician who sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer. A right-wing libertarian, she is the director and founder of think tank the Academy of Ideas, formerly known as the Institute of Ideas.
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Martin Lee
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- politicianbarrister
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Martin Lee Chu-ming SC is a Hong Kong politician and barrister. He is the founding chairman of the United Democrats of Hong Kong and its successor, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong's flagship pro-democracy party. He was also a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2008. Nicknamed the "Father of Democracy" in Hong Kong, he is recognised as one of the most prominent advocates for democracy and human rights in Hong Kong and China.
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Peter Salmon
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- television directortelevision producer
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Peter Salmon is a British television producer and executive. He is Chief Creative Officer of global content creator, producer and distributor Endemol Shine Group, leading the company’s creative direction globally and overseeing the Group’s UK business. Prior to taking his current role in April 2016, Salmon was Director of BBC Studios, the corporation's production arm, and before that held a number of senior BBC roles including Chief Creative Officer of BBC Vision, effectively overseeing all of BBC television's in-house programme production, and Director of BBC North.
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Trevor Cooper
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- actortelevision actor
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Trevor Cooper is an English actor.
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Heather Brooke
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- journalistwriter
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Heather Rose Brooke is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin, dozens of MPs standing down in the 2010 general election and multiple MPs being jailed.
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Jennie Bond
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Jennifer Bond is an English journalist and television presenter. Bond worked for fourteen years as the BBC's royal correspondent. She has also hosted Cash in the Attic and narrated the programme Great British Menu.
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Camila Batmanghelidjh
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in theater arts education and theatre studies
- Occupations
- writerpsychologist
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Camila Batmanghelidjh CBE was an Iranian-Belgian author, psychotherapist, and charity executive based in the United Kingdom. She was the founder of the charity Kids Company (closed in 2015) and Place2Be, charities that worked with marginalised children and young people at risk, in inner London, Bristol and Liverpool.
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Valentine Strasser
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- politician
- Biography
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Valentine Esegragbo Melvine Strasser is a Sierra Leonean former military officer who served as the head of state of Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1996. He became the world's youngest head of state in 1992, seizing power three days after his 25th birthday.
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Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
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- diplomatsociologistpolitician
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Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN, she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997, serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
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Oliver Hart
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- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Sir Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart is a British-American economist, currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. Together with Bengt R. Holmström, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.
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Steve Heighway
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- association football playerassociation football coach
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Stephen Derek Heighway is an Irish former footballer who played as a winger. He was part of the successful Liverpool team of the 1970s. Following his eleven-year spell at the club, he was ranked 23rd in the 100 Players Who Shook The Kop poll.
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Jeff Leach
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- television presentercomedianstage actor
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Jeff Alexander Leach is an English actor, writer and stand-up comedian. He has also worked as a television and radio presenter on programmes in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and Europe.
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Suzanne Packer
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- actor
- Biography
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Suzanne Packer is a Welsh actress, known for playing the role of Tess Bateman in the BBC medical drama Casualty from September 2003 to August 2015. She later returned to the series as a guest for the 30th-anniversary episodes in 2016. Since departing from Casualty, she has appeared in various television series including Bang, In My Skin and The Pembrokeshire Murders.
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Ian Stewart
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- science fiction writerwriteruniversity teachernovelistmathematician
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Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England.
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Luciano Floridi
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- AI ethicistuniversity teachercomputer scientistphilosopherinformation ethicist
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Luciano Floridi is an Italian and British philosopher. He is John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science and Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University. He is also a Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna, Department of Legal Studies, where he is the director of the Centre for Digital Ethics. Furthermore, he is adjunct professor ("distinguished scholar in residence") at the Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C. He is married to the neuroscientist Anna Christina Nobre.
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Gobind Singh Deo
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Gobind Singh Deo s/o Karpal Singh is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who was appointed as the Minister of Digital in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2023 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Damansara since November 2022.
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Hari Kunzru
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- novelistwriterjournalist
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Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru is a British novelist and journalist. He is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, White Tears, Red Pill, and Blue Ruin. His work has been translated into 20 languages.
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David Li
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- justice of the peacebankerbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Sir David Li Kwok-po GBM GBS OBE JP is a Hong Kong banker and politician. He is the executive chairman of the Bank of East Asia and pro-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the Executive Council of Hong Kong in the 2000s.
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Adrian McKinty
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- writerchildren's writer
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Adrian McKinty is a Northern Irish writer of crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction, best known for his 2020 award-winning thriller, The Chain, and the Sean Duffy novels set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. He is a winner of the Edgar Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Macavity Award, the Ned Kelly Award, the Barry Award, the Audie Award, the Anthony Award and the International Thriller Writers Award. He has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
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Dawn Foster
- Occupations
- authorwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Dawn Hayley Foster was an Irish-British journalist, broadcaster, and author writing predominantly on social affairs, politics, economics and women's rights. Foster held staff writer positions at Inside Housing, The Guardian, and Jacobin magazine, and contributed to other journals such as The Independent, The New York Times, Tribune, and Dissent. She regularly appeared as a political commentator on television and was known for her coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire.
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J Blakeson
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
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J Blakeson is an English film director and screenwriter. His first feature film was The Disappearance of Alice Creed, a thriller starring Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, and Eddie Marsan, which he wrote and directed. His most recent film was I Care a Lot (2020).
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Martin Allen
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football coach
- Biography
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Martin James Allen is an English football manager and former player.
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Lloyd Langford
- Occupations
- comedianstand-up comedian
- Biography
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Lloyd Langford is a Welsh comedian, comedy writer and voice artist.
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Ralf Speth
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchief executive officer
- Biography
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Sir Ralf Dieter Speth is a German automotive executive and a director of Indian company Tata Sons since 2016. From 2010 to 2020, he was the chief executive officer of Jaguar Land Rover. He has also had roles with BMW, Linde and Ford's Premier Automotive Group. Since 2022, Speth is the chairman of Indian Automaker TVS Motor Company.
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Joseph Ngute
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- politicianminister
- Biography
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Joseph Dion Ngute is a Cameroonian jurist and politician, serving as the 9th prime minister of Cameroon, following his appointment in January 2019. He succeeded Philémon Yang, who held the post since 2009.
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Bouthaina Shaaban
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- 1976-1977 graduated with master's degree in English studies
- 1977-1982 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in English studies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bouthaina Shaaban is a Syrian politician who served as political and media adviser to the presidency under Bashar al-Assad until his overthrow in 2024. Shaaban had also previously served as the first Minister of Expatriates for the Syrian Arab Republic, between 2002 and 2008, and was described as the Syrian government's face to the outside world at the time.
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James A. Robinson
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- 1985-1986 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- political scientisteconomist
- Biography
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James Alan Robinson is a British-American economist and political scientist. He is a University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy of the University of Chicago, where he led the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. Robinson taught at Harvard University from 2004 to 2015.
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Simon Calder
- Occupations
- opinion journalisttravel journalistjournalist
- Biography
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Simon Peter Richie Calder is a freelance English travel journalist and broadcaster. He works for various news and travel publications as well as being travel correspondent for The Independent.
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Andriy Zahorodniuk
- Occupations
- statesperson
- Biography
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Andrii Pavlovych Zahorodniuk is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. From 2015 to 2017, Zahorodniuk headed the Reform Project Office at the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. He was the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 29 August 2019 to 4 March 2020.
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Tundu Lissu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tundu Antiphas Mughwai Lissu is a Tanzanian lawyer, CHADEMA politician, anti-corruption activist and former Member of Parliament for Singida East constituency between 2010 and 2020. He is the current chairman of CHADEMA, Tanzania's leading opposition political party.
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Roxanne Emery
- Occupations
- record producernon-fiction writersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Roxanne Emery,, also known as Rox Pink and by their stage name RØRY, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. She is the sister of the DJ and producer Gareth Emery.
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Ray Brassier
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosophertranslator
- Biography
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Raymond Brassier is a British philosopher. He is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London, England.
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Seema Malhotra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Seema Malhotra is a British politician who has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities since 2024, and as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office since 2025. A member of Labour Co-op, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Feltham and Heston since 2011. She previously sat on the opposition front bench as the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers, Shadow Minister for Employment and a shadow Home Office minister.
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Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
- Occupations
- diplomateconomist
- Biography
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Augustine Thomas O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell, GCB, FBA, FAcSS is a former British senior civil servant and economist, who between 2005 and 2011 (under three Prime Ministers) served as the Cabinet Secretary, the highest official in the British Civil Service.
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Tim Barrow
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Timothy Earle Barrow, Baron Barrow is a British diplomat, who served as Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 2017 to 2020 and as the British Ambassador to the European Union from 2020 to 2021. He served as National Security Adviser from 2022 to 2024. He has been a member of the House of Lords since 2025.
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Kode9
- Occupations
- disc jockeyclub DJwriter
- Biography
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Steve Goodman, known as Kode9 is a Scottish electronic music artist, DJ, and founder of the Hyperdub record label. He was one of the founding members of the early dubstep scene with his late collaborator The Spaceape. He has released four full-length albums: 2006's Memories of the Future and 2011's Black Sun (both with The Spaceape), Nothing (2015), Escapology and Astro-Darien (2022).
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George Saitoti
- Occupations
- ministeruniversity teacherpoliticianmathematicianeconomist
- Biography
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George Musengi Saitoti, E.G.H. was a Kenyan politician, businessman and American- and British-trained economist, mathematician and development policy thinker.
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Andy Palmer
- Occupations
- chief executive officerengineerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Andrew Charles Palmer is an English automotive executive and engineer. He has been described as the 'Godfather of EVs' and the 'éminence grise' of the auto industry due to his work launching the Nissan Leaf in 2010 whilst COO at the Japanese company. Palmer is also known for launching Aston Martin's first SUV, the DBX, and first mid-engined sports car, Valkyrie, during his tenure as CEO from 2014 to 2020. Palmer was previously CEO and Executive Vice-chairman of electric bus and van company, Switch. He resigned from this role in 2022. Palmer was appointed Interim CEO of PodPoint in July 2023.
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Kate Oates
- Occupations
- television producer
- Biography
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Kate Oates is a British television producer, who was born in Nottingham and graduated from Warwick University. She began her career working as a researcher and editorial assistant for Germaine Greer, before becoming a script editor for the soap opera Crossroads. In 2003, she joined the radio soap The Archers as a producer, a position which Oates credits as the majority of her training. After resigning from this job, Oates began working on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as a script editor, during which time she assisted with the soap's fortieth anniversary celebrations and worked on British Soap Award-winning storylines. She remained in the position until 2012 when she joined Coronation Street as the assistant producer.
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Tim Loughton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timothy Paul Loughton, FSA is a British politician and former banker who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for East Worthing and Shoreham from 1997 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families from 2010 to 2012 and has twice served as the Acting Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee in 2016 and 2021, following the respective resignations of Keith Vaz and Yvette Cooper.
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Andy Haldane
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Andrew George Haldane CBE FRS FAcSS FRSA is a British economist who worked at the Bank of England between 1989 and 2021 progressing to the role of chief economist and executive director of monetary analysis and statistics. He moved from the Bank of England in June 2021 to serve as chief executive of the Royal Society for Arts, which he resigned from in February 2025, making his tenure the shortest in the institution's history. He sits on the UK's government's Economic Advisory Council, and is currently the Chancellor of the University of Sheffield.
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Bob Kerslake, Baron Kerslake
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- Studied mathematics
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Robert Walter Kerslake, Baron Kerslake, FAcSS was a British senior civil servant. He was the head of the Home Civil Service from 2011 to 2014, succeeding Sir Gus O'Donnell.
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Linda Jackson
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusiness executive
- Biography
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Linda Jackson is a retired British businesswoman, formerly the chief executive officer (CEO) of Peugeot from 2021 to 2025, and of Citroën from 2014 to 2020.
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Idris Jala
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Idris Jala is a Malaysian politician and technocrat. He served as the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department and as the chief executive officer of the Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu) from 2009 until 2015, the unit tasked with spearheading Malaysia's transition towards high income status by 2020. He was also a Senator in the Dewan Negara from 2009 till 2015. At present, he is the President and CEO of PEMANDU Associates, a global consultancy firm focused on public sector transformation and business turnaround.
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Jon Cruddas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jonathan Cruddas is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dagenham and Rainham, formerly Dagenham, between 2001 and 2024.
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Leslie Valiant
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Leslie Gabriel Valiant FRS is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist. He was born to a chemical engineer father and a translator mother. He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. Valiant was awarded the Turing Award in 2010, having been described by the A.C.M. as a heroic figure in theoretical computer science and a role model for his courage and creativity in addressing some of the deepest unsolved problems in science; in particular for his "striking combination of depth and breadth".
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Brian Paddick
- Occupations
- politicianpolice officer
- Biography
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Brian Leonard Paddick, Baron Paddick, is a British life peer and retired police officer. He was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the London mayoral elections of 2008 and of 2012, and until his retirement in May 2007 was a deputy assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan Police Service.
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Nina Power
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- 1997-2000 graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in philosophy
- 2000-2002 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- writerphilosophertranslatorsociologistwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Nina Power is an English writer and philosopher, author of three books.
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Jevgeni Ossinovski
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- 2007-2009 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jevgeni Ossinovski is an Estonian politician, formerly the mayor of Tallinn and former leader of the Estonian Social Democratic Party.
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Brian Deer
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- journalist
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Brian Deer is a British investigative journalist, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine, and social issues for The Sunday Times. Deer's investigative nonfiction book The Doctor Who Fooled the World, an exposé on disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield and the 1998 Lancet MMR autism fraud, was published in September 2020 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Wendy Alexander
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wendy Cowan Alexander, Baroness Alexander of Cleveden is a Scottish politician Life Peer and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North from 1999 until 2011. She held various Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the Leader of the UK Labour Party in Scotland from 2007 to 2008.
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Vernon Coaker
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vernon Rodney Coaker, Baron Coaker is a British politician and life peer serving as Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Gedling from 1997 to 2019.
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Eku Edewor
- Occupations
- modelfilm producertelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Georgina Chloe Eku Edewor-Thorley, otherwise known as Eku Edewor, is a British Nigerian actress, television presenter, and model. She is best known for her work as host of the entertainment television program 53 Extra on Africa Magic.
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Wanuri Kahiu
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
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Wanuri Kahiu is a Kenyan film director, producer, and author. She is considered to be "one of Africa's most aspiring directors, being part of a new, vibrant crop of talents representing contemporary African culture". She has received multiple awards and nominations including for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Picture at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009 for her dramatic feature film From a Whisper. She is also the co-founder of AFROBUBBLEGUM, a media collective dedicated to supporting African art for its own sake.
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Mahmoud Mohieldin
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
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Mahmoud Mohieldin, is an Egyptian economist with more than 30 years of experience in international finance and development. He is the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt. He is an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. He has been the United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda since February 2020.
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Vivien Goldman
- Occupations
- writersongwritersingermusic journalist
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Vivien Goldman is a British journalist, writer and musician.
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Tom Blenkinsop
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Francis "Tom" Blenkinsop is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland from 2010 to 2017, as a member of the Labour Party.
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Tomáš Petříček
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tomáš Petříček is a Czech politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from October 2018 to April 2021. He served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs between August and October 2018, then Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs from May until December 2017.
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Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, PC, is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2001 to 2002. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley from 1992 to 2005.
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Kevin Foster
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin John Foster is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Torbay from 2015 to 2024. He served as Minister of State for Transport from September 2022 until October 2022. Foster served under Home Secretary Priti Patel as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safe and Legal Migration from 2019 until September 2022.
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Manjula Chellur
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Manjula Chellur is a retired Indian judge and a former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. She was the first woman Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, was the Chief Justice of Kerala High Court and the first female judge of the Karnataka High Court. She demitted her office upon attaining the age of superannuation on 4 December 2017.
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Tony Wheeler
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- publishertravel guide writerbusinessperson
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Tony Wheeler AO is an English-born Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman and travel writer, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife, Maureen Wheeler.
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Andy Lane
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- screenwriternovelistscience fiction writerwriterjournalist
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Andrew Lane, as Andy Lane, is a British author and journalist best known for the Young Sherlock Holmes series of Young Adult novels.
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Wong Chen
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Wong Chen is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as Non-executive Chairman of the Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad (MDV) since May 2023, Chairman of the International Relations and Trade Select Committee from December 2019 to May 2020 and again since May 2023 as well as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Subang since May 2018. He served as the MP for Kelana Jaya from May 2013 to May 2018. He was also a member of the Finance and Economy Select Committee. He is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions.
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Siobhan Benita
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Siobhan Benita is a British former civil servant. She was an independent candidate in the 2012 London mayoral election. She was then the Liberal Democrat candidate in the London mayoral election originally planned for 2020, but after the election was delayed to 2021, she withdrew as the candidate.
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Lo Wai-kwok
- Occupations
- engineerjustice of the peacepolitician
- Biography
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Lo Wai-kwok is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the Engineering constituency since 2012 LegCo election, representing the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA). In 2016, he succeeded Andrew Leung to become the chairman of the BPA.
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Pippa Norris
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientist
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Pippa Norris is a British American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. She is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, and she has served as the Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
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DJ Yoda
- Occupations
- disc jockey
- Biography
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Duncan Beiny, better known as DJ Yoda, is a hip hop DJ who uses samples to create an animated musical style. He is known for several awards and media industry achievements.
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Philip Barton
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Sir Philip Robert Barton GCMG OBE is a British diplomat, formerly the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He was previously British High Commissioner to India; he was High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2014 to 2016.
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Gerard Lyons
- Occupations
- writereconomist
- Biography
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Gerard Patrick Lyons is a British economist.
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Pierre Pettigrew
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatforeign ministerbusiness consultantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Pierre Stewart Pettigrew PC is a Canadian politician and businessman.
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Bosun Tijani
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Olatunbosun Tijani listen is a Nigerian-British entrepreneur who is the current Nigerian minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, since 2023.
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Mathilde Tybring-Gjedde
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 34)
- Enrolled in the University of Warwick
- 2011-2015 graduated with bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mathilde Tybring-Gjedde is a Norwegian politician.
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Chan Yuen-han
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Chan Yuen-han, SBS, JP is a former member of Hong Kong Legislative Council and a noted Hong Kong female trade unionist. She is the vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, and was one of the 52 founding members of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong.
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Kim Howells
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Kim Scott Howells is a Welsh Labour Party former politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 1989 to 2010, and held a number of ministerial positions within the Blair and Brown governments.
