100 Notable alumni of
University of Essex
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The University of Essex is 610th in the world, 227th in Europe, and 48th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Essex 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
- 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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John Bercow
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- In 1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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John Simon Bercow is a British former politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019. A member of the Conservative Party prior to becoming Speaker, he was the first MP since Selwyn Lloyd in 1971 to be elected Speaker without having been a Deputy Speaker. After resigning as Speaker in 2019 and opting not to seek re-election as MP for Buckingham in the 2019 general election, Bercow left Parliament. In 2021, he joined the Labour Party but was suspended in 2022.
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David Yates
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- In 1987 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwritertelevision directordirectorfilm director
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David Yates is an English filmmaker, who has directed feature films, short films, and television productions. He is best known for directing the final four films in the Harry Potter series and the three films of its prequel series, Fantastic Beasts. His work on the Harry Potter series brought him critical and commercial success along with accolades, such as the British Academy Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing.
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Yanis Varoufakis
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- Graduated with doctorate in economics and mathematics
- Occupations
- authoreconomistuniversity teacherpoliticiannon-fiction writer
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Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he was a member of Syriza and was Greece's Minister of Finance between January 2015 and July 2015, negotiating on behalf of the Greek government during the 2009–2018 Greek government-debt crisis.
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Daniel Libeskind
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- architect
- Biography
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Daniel Libeskind is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.
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Stephen Daldry
- Occupations
- theatrical directorfilm directordirectorfilm producer
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Stephen David Daldry CBE is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End. He has received three Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, for the films Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), and The Reader (2008).
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Ernesto Laclau
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- philosophersociologistuniversity teacher
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Ernesto Laclau was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner, Chantal Mouffe.
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Rodolfo Neri Vela
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- 1975-1976 graduated with master's degree in telecommunication
- Occupations
- astronautpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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Rodolfo Neri Vela is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. He is the second Latin American to have traveled to space after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.
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Abel Caballero
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianwritereconomist
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Abel Ramón Caballero Álvarez is a Spanish professor of Economics and since June 2007, the current mayor of Vigo, representing PSdeG-PSOE. Since 19 September 2015, he has also served as the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP).
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Óscar Arias Sánchez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010.
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Nick Broomfield
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- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Nicholas Broomfield is an English documentary film director. His self-reflective style has been regarded as influential to many later filmmakers. In the early 21st century, he began to use non-actors in scripted works, which he calls "Direct Cinema". His output ranges from studies of entertainers to political works such as examinations of South Africa before and after the end of apartheid and the rise of the black-majority government of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress party.
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Oussama Mellouli
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Nesma "Ous" hashem is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He is a three-time Olympic medalist, is an African record holder, and trains with the USC Trojans team based at the University of Southern California, where he studied as a computer science undergraduate and swam collegiately.
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Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the first female speaker of the Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad since April 2013 until September 2024. At 46, she became the youngest person to assume that office. She was also the chairperson of the executive committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 2014 and 2017. She previously served as the state minister of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs of Bangladesh.
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Ben Okri
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- authorpoetnovelistwriterjournalist
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Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Okri was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
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Virginia Bottomley
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- Studied sociology
- Occupations
- social workerpoliticianjustice of the peacesocial scientist
- Biography
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Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC DL is a British Conservative Party politician and headhunter. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She became a member of the House of Lords in 2005.
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Christophoros A. Pissarides
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- university teachereconomistacademic
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Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides FBA is a Cypriot economist. He is Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on macroeconomics, labour economics, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010 he received the Nobel Prize in Economics along with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen, "for their analysis of markets with theory of search frictions."
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Robert Service
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- writeruniversity teacherhistorian
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Robert John Service FBA is a post-revisionist British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. He was until 2013 a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is best known for his biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. He has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998.
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Lisa Jardine
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- historianliterary criticprofessornon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Lisa Anne Jardine was a British historian of the early modern period.
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Nuruddin Farah
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today". He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.
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Nathan Zach
- Occupations
- poetwritertranslatoruniversity teacherliterary scholar
- Biography
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Nathan Zach was an Israeli poet. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent poets in the country's history, he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1995 for poetry. He was also the recipient of other national and international awards. Zach was a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of Haifa.
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Yao Jen-to
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- 1993-1995 graduated with master's degree
- In 2002 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- sociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Yao Jen-to is a Taiwanese sociologist and politician who previously served as the vice chairperson and secretary-general of Straits Exchange Foundation from 21 June 2018 to 19 May 2020. He is currently a professor of sociology at National Tsing Hua University.
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Leung Yiu-chung
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- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Leung Yiu-chung is a Hong Kong politician. He is a member of the pro-labour Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre, which is a part of the pan-democracy camp. He has had a long-standing tenure as a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Between 1998 and 2016, he represented the New Territories West geographical constituency, and from 2016 to 2020, he represented the District Council (Second) functional constituency. Leung has also served as a member of the Kwai Tsing District Council since 1985.
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Vera Kolodzig
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Vera Kolodzig is a Portuguese actress of German descent.
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Simon Critchley
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- university teachermusicianphilosopheropinion journalist
- Biography
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Simon Critchley is an English philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, USA.
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Ian Austin
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- Studied government and politics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ian Christopher Austin, Baron Austin of Dudley is a British politician who sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from the 2005 general election until the 2019 general election when he stood down. Formerly a member of the Labour Party, he resigned from the party on 22 February 2019 to sit as an independent, and was ennobled in the 2019 Dissolution Honours. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.
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Rhys Frake-Waterfield
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- film screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Rhys Frake-Waterfield is a British filmmaker who became known for his 2023 independent horror film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and its 2024 sequel. It was the first theatrical film of his career, as well as the first for his company Jagged Edge Productions.
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Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- Graduated with Master of Economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein was the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy political party and claimed to be the legitimate heir to the position of King of Iraq, based on his relationship to the last monarch, the late King Faisal II.
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Hoshyar Zebari
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari, or simply Hoshyar Zebari is an Iraqi - Kurdish politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the country in 2014 and as Minister of Finance until 2016. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2014.
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James Duddridge
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir James Philip Duddridge, KCMG is a British politician and former banker. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochford and Southend East from 2005 to 2024. Duddridge previously held several ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
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Siobhain McDonagh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Siobhain Ann McDonagh DBE is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitcham and Morden since 1997. She served as an Assistant Whip in the Labour Government, but was dismissed following comments regarding a leadership contest to replace prime minister Gordon Brown.
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Rena Dourou
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- Graduated with postgraduate education in political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Irene "Rena" Dourou is a Greek political scientist and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). From 2014 to 2019, she served as the Regional Governor of Attica. She lost re-election to New Democracy (Greece) Candidate Giorgios Patoulis on 7 July 2019.
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Andrew Wan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew Wan Siu-kin is the former vice-chairman of the Democratic Party and a former member of the Kwai Tsing District Council for Shek Yam constituency. He was elected in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election through New Territories West.
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Sid Lowe
- Occupations
- podcaster
- Biography
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Simon James "Sid" Lowe is an English columnist and journalist. Born in Archway, London, and based in Madrid, he covers Spanish football for many publications, websites, television channels, radio stations, and football-related podcasts across the world.
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John Etheridge
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- Studied in 1967-1971
- Occupations
- jazz guitaristjazz musicianguitarist
- Biography
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John Michael Glyn Etheridge is an English jazz fusion guitarist, composer, bandleader and educator known for his eclecticism and broad range of associations in jazz, classical, and contemporary music. He is best known for his work with Soft Machine from 1975 to 1978, 1984 and 2004 to present.
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Richard Bartle
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in artificial intelligence
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Richard Allan Bartle is a British writer, professor and game researcher in the massively multiplayer online game industry. He co-created MUD1 (the first MUD) in 1978, and is the author of the 2003 book Designing Virtual Worlds.
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Houlin Zhao
- Occupations
- engineergeneral secretary
- Biography
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Houlin Zhao is a Chinese engineer who served as the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) from 2015 to 2022. He was first elected at the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, and re-elected at the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference in Dubai. ITU is the specialized United Nations Agency for Information and Communication Technology (ICT), working on promotion, collaboration, and standardization.
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David Triesman, Baron Triesman
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistmerchant bankerbanker
- Biography
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David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman is a British politician, merchant banker and former trade union leader.
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Nigel Wilson
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Sir Nigel David Wilson is a British businessman. He was the group chief executive of Legal & General from 2012 to 2023. In 2024, he joined the Canary Wharf Group as chairman.
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Dimitrij Rupel
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- editorpoliticianplaywrightliterary historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.
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Pippa Hackett
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pippa Hackett is an Irish Green Party politician who served as a Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine from June 2020 to January 2025. She was one of three Ministers of State in attendance at cabinet, but without a vote. She was a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from November 2019 to January 2025.
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Carla Guelfenbein
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- writerjournalistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Carla Guelfenbein Dobry is a Chilean writer, winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2015 for her book Contigo en la distancia. Guelfenbein has published eight novels; The most recent one is called La naturaleza del deseo and it was published in 2022.
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Sima Sami Bahous
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Sima Sami Bahous is a Jordanian diplomat and women’s rights advocate, and has served as Executive Director of UN Women since 2021. She previously served as Jordan's Ambassador to the United Nations from 2016 to 2021. Earlier, she was Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt.
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John Ashdown-Hill
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- teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Louis John Frederick Ashdown-Hill MBE FSA, commonly known as John Ashdown-Hill, was an independent historian and author of books on late medieval English history with a focus on the House of York and Richard III. Ashdown-Hill died on 18 May 2018; he had had motor neurone disease for some time.
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Marie Mendras
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Dr. Marie Mendras is a political scientist in the field of Russian and post-Soviet studies. She is a research fellow with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and a professor at Sciences Po University’s School of International Affairs in Paris.
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Edita Tahiri
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Edita Tahiri is a leader of the independence of Kosovo, the former deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs and peace negotiator. She was also minister for dialogue, minister of public administration and member of parliament in five terms. She was the chief negotiator of the Republic of Kosovo for seven years (2011-2017) in the EU facilitated dialogue, with US support, on normalization of neighborly relations with Serbia. She was the Deputy Prime minister responsible for foreign policy and national security (2011–2014). She was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo for ten years in difficult time of liberation and independence of Kosovo (1991–2000). She is a signer of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Kosovo, on 17 February 2008. She is the President of reformist party, the Democratic Alternative of Kosovo (ADK) and Chair of the Regional Women's Lobby in Southeastern Europe (RWLSEE). She is member of the Women Waging Peace Network. and member of the Mediterranean Women's Mediators Network.
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Martin Docherty-Hughes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin John Docherty-Hughes is a Scottish National Party politician. He was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dunbartonshire from 2015 until his defeat in 2024. He has also served as SNP Defence Spokesperson from 2023 to 2024.
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Anisul Islam Mahmud
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anisul Islam Mahmud is a former Minister of Environment and Forest and Minister of Water Resources in the Cabinet of Bangladesh in the Third Hasina ministry from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1985 to December 1990 under President Hussain Muhammad Ershad.
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Giorgos Provopoulos
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- In 1977 graduated with master's degree in economics
- Occupations
- bankeruniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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George Provopoulos was a Greek economist who was the Governor of the Bank of Greece from 2008 to 2014, and was a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council. Prior to his appointment as Central Bank Head, he was a professor at the University of Athens.
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Enrique Ayala Mora
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- 1978-1979 graduated with master's degree in comparative history
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianhistorianjournalist
- Biography
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Manuel Enrique Alejandro Ayala Mora is a historian, political editorial writer, and a professor of Ecuador, who has been ideologue of the Socialist Party of Ecuador, and founder and former rector of the headquarters of Quito from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.
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Tom Raworth
- Occupations
- poetpublisher
- Biography
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Thomas Moore Raworth was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life. His work has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.
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Chris Moorman
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Chris Moorman, is a British professional poker player. As of August 2017, he is the all-time leader in career online poker tournament earnings crossing the $14 million mark.
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Ambrose Lam
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- solicitor
- Biography
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Ambrose Lam San-keung is a Hong Kong solicitor who served as the member of Legislative Council, representing Legal constituency. He previously served as president of the Law Society of Hong Kong from 2013 until his resignation in 2014. He is known for his pro-Beijing political stance. He gained widespread attention from the Hong Kong media in 2014, when he made numerous controversial comments supporting the 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform consultation and the Chinese Communist Party. He resigned as the President of the Law Society of Hong Kong on 19 August 2014 after a motion of no confidence was passed against him by members of the Law Society Council on 14 August 2014.
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Ruth Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianprofessorpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Margot Ruth Aline Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, CBE, FBA, FAcSS, is currently Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University. She has written or contributed to a number of books, pamphlets and articles on poverty, social security and women's citizenship.
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Pierpaolo Donati
- Occupations
- sociologistphilosopher
- Biography
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Pierpaolo Donati is an Italian sociologist and philosopher of social science, who is considered one of the main exponents of relational sociology and a prominent thinker in relational theory.
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Nike Oshinowo-Soleye
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestantsocialiteentrepreneur
- Biography
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Nike Oshinowo is a Nigerian entrepreneur, TV host and former beauty pageant titleholder.
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Ricardo Israel
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ricardo Jacob Israel Zipper is a Chilean lawyer and academic. Israel was a candidate for President of Chile in 2013, representing the Regionalist Party of the Independents (PRI), but lost the election obtaining 0.57 per cent of the vote.
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Muhammad Ali Khan Saif
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Barrister Muhammad Ali Khan Saif is a Pakistani politician from Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, He had been a member of Senate of Pakistan, from March 2015 to March 2021. He served as Federal Minister for Tourism and Youth Affairs from November 2007 to March 2008 in the caretaker federal cabinet of Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro.
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Richard Barbrook
- Occupations
- exhibition curator
- Biography
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Richard Barbrook is an academic in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages at the University of Westminster.
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Kee Thuan Chye
- Occupations
- writeractorpoet
- Biography
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Kee Thuan Chye is a Malaysian actor, dramatist, poet and journalist. Acting in theatre, films, and on television for more than 40 years, he continues to do so. In 1981, Kee co-founded the theatre group, KAMI, in Kuala Lumpur. A noted civil rights activist, he would express in his plays whatever he could not express through the newspapers under Malaysia's repressive Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA). For speaking out without fear or favour, Kee was among the first recipients of The Annexe Heroes Freedom of Expression Awards when it was launched in 2008.
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Kevin Casas Zamora
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Kevin Casas-Zamora is a Costa Rican politician, lawyer and political scientist. Casas-Zamora is Secretary General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an inter-governmental organization based in Stockholm; and Senior Fellow and former Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue, a policy research center based in Washington D.C. Prior to that he was Secretary for Political Affairs at the Organization of American States and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He also served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy as well as second Vice President of Costa Rica under Óscar Arias from May 8, 2006 until September 22, 2007. He earned his JD from the University of Costa Rica, his MA from the University of Essex, and his DPhil from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis, titled “Paying for Democracy in Latin America: Political Finance and State Funding for Parties in Costa Rica and Uruguay,” won the 2004 Jean Blondel PhD Prize from the European Consortium for Political Research for best thesis in politics in Europe and was later developed into a book, under the title "Paying for Democracy." In 2007 Casas-Zamora was selected as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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Pierre Joris
- Occupations
- translatorpoetessayistuniversity teacheranthologist
- Biography
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Pierre Joris is a Luxembourgish-American poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist. He has moved between Europe, North Africa, and the United States for fifty-five years, publishing over eighty books of poetry, essays, translations and anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 2015-2021) and Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) and The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). In 2019 Spuyten Duyvil Press published Arabia (not so) Deserta (essays on Maghrebi and Mashreqi literature and culture). Other recent books include: A City Full of Voices: Essays on the Work of Robert Kelly (co-edited with P. Cockelbergh and J.Newberger, CMP, 2020); Adonis and Pierre Joris, Conversations in the Pyrenees (CMP 2018); Stations d'al-Hallaj (translated by Habib Tengour; Apic Editions, Algiers, 2018); The Book of U (poems, 2017, Editions Simoncini, Luxembourg). His translation of Egyptian poet Safaa Fathy's Revolution Goes Through Walls came out in 2018 from SplitLevel. In June 2016 the Théatre National du Luxembourg produced his play The Agony of I.B. (published by Editions PHI). Earlier publications include: An American Suite (early poems; inpatient press 2016); Barzakh: Poems 2000-2012 (Black Widow Press 2014); Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan (FSG 2014); A Voice full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly (co-edited with Peter Cockelbergh; 2014, Contra Mundum Press) and The University of California Book of North African Literature (volume 4 in the Poems for the Millennium series, coedited with Habib Tengour, 2012).
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Tony Lawson
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- 1997-1998 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Tony Lawson is a British philosopher and economist. He is professor of economics and philosophy in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, a former director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, and co-founder of the Cambridge Realist Workshop and the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. Lawson is noted for his contributions to heterodox economics and to philosophical issues in social theorising, most especially to social ontology.
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Ramón Griffero
- Occupations
- writertheatrical directorplaywright
- Biography
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Ramón Griffero Sánchez is a Chilean playwright and theater director, one of the most prominent in his country. He is considered an emblematic figure of the national theater during the 1980s; his earliest productions are associated with cultural and political resistance to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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Paul Hunt
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Paul Hunt is British-New Zealand human rights expert who specialises in economic, social and cultural rights. Between 2019-2024, he held the office of Chief Commissioner at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.
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Nigel Roberts
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Nigel Roberts is a British computer scientist.
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Seye Ogunlewe
- Occupations
- sprinter
- Biography
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Adeseye "Seye" Akinola Ogunlewe is a Nigerian track and field sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres. He was a finalist in the 100 m and 4 × 100 m at the 2015 All-Africa Games. He won the 100 m at the Nigerian Championships in 2015 and 2016.
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Charles Kitwanga
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Muhangwa Kitwanga is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Misungwi constituency since 2010. He served as a minister of internal and home affairs in the Magufuli cabinet for five months beginning in December 2015. Kitwanga was found drunk during a parliamentary session on 20 May 2016 and was immediately suspended for drinking during working hours.
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Dick Leonard
- Occupations
- writerjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Lawrence Leonard was a British writer, journalist and Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Romford from 1970 to 1974. He was a pro-European social democrat and had been a supporter of the late Labour foreign secretary Anthony Crosland, who championed Gaitskellism.
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Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson is an Icelandic politician. He was speaker of the Althing, in office 2013 until 2016. He was Iceland's Minister of Fisheries from September 2005, and became Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture when the two ministries merged on 1 January 2008 until 1 February 2009.
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John Barrell
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- university teacherscholar of Englishhistorianliterary historian
- Biography
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John Charles Barrell FBA FEA is a British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies.
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Peter Housden
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Sir Peter James Housden KCB is a former public official who worked in local and central government. He served as Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government from June 2010 to June 2015. He was previously Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government.
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Carry Somers
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Carry Somers is a British fashion designer, social entrepreneur and campaigner. She is founder of Fashion Revolution and was previously founder and director of Pachacuti.
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Noel B. Salazar
- Occupations
- anthropologist
- Biography
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Noel B. Salazar is a sociocultural anthropologist known for his transdisciplinary work on mobility and travel, the local-to-global nexus, discourses and imaginaries of 'Otherness', heritage, cultural brokering, cosmopolitanism and endurance.
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Sirikan Charoensiri
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Sirikan Charoensiri is a Thai human rights attorney. She works with Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) and is one of the legal representatives of the fourteen student activists from the New Democracy Movement (NDM). She has been the subject of harassment and threats from Thai authorities, as well as criminal charges related to her work as a human rights lawyer. She is the first Thai lawyer to have been charged with sedition by the military junta.
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Alhassan Bashir Fuseini
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- In 1993 graduated with Master of Arts in Human Rights
- Occupations
- politiciannewspaper editorcivil servant
- Biography
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Alhassan Bashir Fuseini, popularly known as Alhaji A. B. A. Fuseini, is a Ghanaian journalist and politician, who is the former deputy Northern Regional Minister of Ghana. He is a member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Sagnarigu (Ghana parliament constituency) in the Northern Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.
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Alex Vatanka
- Occupations
- political writer
- Biography
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Alex Vatanka is a senior fellow and the founding director of the Iran program at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. He specializes in Iranian domestic and regional policies. Born in Tehran and also raised in Denmark, he joined the Middle East Institute in 2007. He was formerly an analyst with Jane’s Information Group in London (UK) before moving to Washington D.C. He is also a senior fellow in Middle East Studies at the US Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field and teaches as an adjunct professor at Wright-Patterson AFB.
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David Butler
- Occupations
- writernovelistpoet
- Biography
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David Butler is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and actor. He has won several literary prizes, such as the Ted McNulty Award from Poetry Ireland and the Féile Filíochta International Award and the Fish Short Story Award.
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Lyal S. Sunga
- Occupations
- international law scholarUniversity professorhuman rights activistinternational human rights lawinternational criminal law
- Biography
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Lyal S. Sunga is a specialist on international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law.
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Bryan Avery
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Bryan Robert Avery MBE RIBA was an English architect, born in Wallingford, Berkshire. After his childhood years spent in Lymington in the New Forest, Hampshire, he studied architecture at Leicester College of Art (now the De Montfort University), followed by an MA in the History and Theory of Architecture at Essex University under Professors Joseph Rykwert and Dalibor Vesely.
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Alex Neve
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- lawyerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Robert Alexander Neve, OC is a Canadian human rights activist and the secretary general of Amnesty International Canada.
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John Howarth
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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John Howarth is a British Labour Party politician who served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2017 to 2020.
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Paulo Gonet Branco
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco is a Brazilian jurist, professor and prosecutor. A member of the Federal Public Ministry of Brazil since 1987, he is the current Prosecutor General of the Republic.
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Nigel S. Rodley
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Sir Nigel Simon Rodley KBE was an international lawyer and professor.
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Marianne Majerus
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Marianne Majerus, born 1956 in Clervaux, Luxembourg, is one of Europe's leading specialist garden photographers.
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Donald C. Pogue
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Donald Carl Pogue was a United States Judge of the United States Court of International Trade and served as Chair of the Court's Long Range Planning Committee and Budget Committee. He was appointed to the Trade Court in 1995 by President Bill Clinton.
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Stuart Etherington
- Occupations
- social workerbusiness executive
- Biography
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Sir Stuart James Etherington FRSA is a British charity executive and former social worker. From 1994 to 2020, he was chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, with the membership base increasing from 400 to over 14,000. He was previously the chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. He received a knighthood in 2010 in recognition of his work for the voluntary and community sectors.
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Oreoluwa Lesi
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and UK-trained economist and information technology expert. She is the founder and executive director of Women's Technology Empowerment Centre, a non-profit organisation that empowers women and girls socially and economically through education in Information technology. W.TEC was established in the year 2008. She is a fellow of Ashoka and a recipient of the Anita Borg Institute (ABIE) Change Agent Award.
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Robert Priseman
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- writerpaintercurator
- Biography
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Robert Priseman is a British artist, collector, writer, curator and publisher who lives and works in Essex, England. Over 200 works of art by Priseman are held in art museum collections around the world including the V&A, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Musée de Louvain la Neuve, The Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Mead Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art and The National Galleries of Scotland.
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Julian Togelius
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Julian Togelius is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.
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Bergdís Ellertsdóttir
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Bergdís Ellertsdóttir is an Icelandic diplomat. She is the current ambassador of Iceland to the United States. She was a permanent representative of Iceland to the United Nations 2018–2019. Since 1991, when she joined Iceland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, she has had a diplomatic career with assignments covering NATO, EFTA, and the European Union. She has also served as Iceland's ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland and San Marino.
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James Gomez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Gomez is a Singaporean academic, politician and a member of the Singapore Democratic Party.
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Reshef Hen
- Occupations
- politicianadvocatelawyer
- Biography
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Reshef Ari Hen is an Israeli lawyer and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui and the Secular Faction between 2003 and 2006.
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Vinod Chohan
- Occupations
- engineerscientist
- Biography
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Vinod Chandrasinh Chohan was a Tanzanian-born accelerator specialist and engineer. He was a Senior Staff Member at CERN for nearly 40 years.
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Danny Lopez
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Danny Lopez is the CEO of cybersecurity firm Glasswall and a board member of Innovate Finance and Aquis Stock Exchange. Between 2011 and 2016 Lopez was the British Consul-General to New York and Director-General of the Department for Business and Trade in the United States and Canada.
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Kelly Murphy
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- sport cyclistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Kelly Murphy is an Irish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team IBCT. She was elite women's national champion in the time trial event in 2018 & 2019 and represented Ireland in this event at the European and World Championships in these same years. At the 2019 European Road Championships, Murphy finished 10th in the TT and in doing so became the first Irish woman to place within the top 10 at any international road event.
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C. George Sandulescu
- Enrolled in the University of Essex
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- scholartextbook writer
- Biography
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Constantin George Sandulescu was a Joycean scholar, but in the first place, he was a linguist with twelve years' experience in the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Stockholm in the 1970s and 1980s, specializing in Discourse Analysis. In that capacity he read a dozen or so papers at various international congresses (see texts below).
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James Stewart
- Occupations
- solicitorjuristlawyer
- Biography
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James Stewart is a London-based family lawyer and Chambers HNW Family Lawyer of the Year.
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Victor Quesada
- Occupations
- writertheatrical director
- Biography
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Victor Quesada is a Colombian theatre director, playwright and writer.
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Dominique Searle
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Dominique Searle, MBE, is a Gibraltarian journalist, son of the also journalist Jon Morgan Searle. Editor of the Gibraltar Chronicle, he is married and has three children.
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Ian H. Witten
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Ian Hugh Witten was a computer scientist at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He was a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
