60 Notable alumni of
University of Surrey
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The University of Surrey is 844th in the world, 293rd in Europe, and 58th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 60 notable alumni from the University of Surrey sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jeremy Kyle
- Occupations
- television presenter
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Jeremy Neil Kyle is an English broadcaster and writer. He is known for hosting the tabloid talk show The Jeremy Kyle Show on ITV1 from 2005 to 2019. He also hosted a US version of his eponymous show, which ran for two seasons beginning in 2011. In 2022, Kyle became a presenter for TalkTV.
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John Lennox
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherapologistphilosopher of sciencemathematician
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John Carson Lennox is a mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God (like his books, Has Science Buried God and Can Science Explain Everything), and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
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Jim Al-Khalili
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- writernon-fiction writertelevision presenterphysicistinternational forum participant
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Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili CBE FRS HonFREng FInstP is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. He is a regular broadcaster and presenter of science programmes on BBC radio and television, and a frequent commentator about science in other British media.
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Hassan Diab
- Occupations
- politicianengineercivil servant
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Hassan Diab is a Lebanese academic, engineer and politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon from 21 January 2020 to 10 September 2021. He was appointed by President Michel Aoun in 2019 to succeed Saad Hariri as prime minister. He submitted his resignation on 10 August 2020 in wake of the explosion in Beirut and served as caretaker prime minister until Najib Mikati formed a new government on 10 September 2021. Prior to his premiership, he served as the minister of education from June 2011 to February 2014 under President Michel Suleiman.
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Jim O'Neill
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- economistwriterpoliticianbusinessperson
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Terence James O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley is a British economist best known for coining BRIC, the acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China—the four once rapidly developing countries that were thought to challenge the global economic power of the developed G7 economies. He is also a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and former Conservative government minister.
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Nick Ayers
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- political adviser
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James Nicholas Ayers is an American political strategist and consultant who served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Mike Pence between July 2017 and January 2019. He had previously served as national chairman for Pence's vice-presidential campaign in 2016, and as the former executive director of the Republican Governors Association from 2007 to 2010.
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Alec Issigonis
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- racing automobile driverengineercar designer
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Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis CBE FRS RDI (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of the 20th century in 1999.
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Michael Middleton
- Enrolled in the University of Surrey
- In 1973 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- flight dispatcherbusinessperson
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Michael Francis Middleton is a British businessman. He is the father of Catherine, Princess of Wales, Philippa Matthews and James Middleton.
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Linda Papadopoulos
- Occupations
- psychologistpodcaster
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Linda Papadopoulos is a Canadian psychologist based in England.
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Susan Blackmore
- Enrolled in the University of Surrey
- In 1974 graduated with Master of Science
- In 1980 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- lecturerfreelancertelevision presenterwriterpsychologist
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Susan Jane Blackmore is a British writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a visiting professor at the University of Plymouth. Her fields of research include memetics, parapsychology, consciousness, and she is best known for her book The Meme Machine. She has written or contributed to over 40 books and 60 scholarly articles and is a contributor to The Guardian newspaper.
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Jordi Puigneró i Ferrer
- Enrolled in the University of Surrey
- In 1997 studied systems engineering
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Jordi Puigneró i Ferrer is a Catalan IT engineer and politician. He served as Vice President of Spanish Autonomous Community of Catalonia and Minister of Digital Policies and Territory since May 2021 until 29 September 2022. He previously served between 2018 and 2021 as minister of Digital Policies and Public Administration of the Government of Catalonia. He is a member of Together for Catalonia (JUNTS) political party. He is considered the designer and architecture of the Catalan Digital Republic project.
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Dzulkefly Ahmad
- Occupations
- docentpolitician
- Biography
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Datuk Seri Dr. Dzulkefly bin Ahmad is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Health for the second term in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2023 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kuala Selangor from March 2008 to May 2013 and again since May 2018. He served his first term as the Minister of Health in the PH administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from May 2018 to his resignation and the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020. He is a member and Strategic Director the National Trust Party (AMANAH), a component party of PH coalition and was a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a former component party of the former Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and Barisan Alternatif (BA) opposition coalitions. He has also served as the Vice President of AMANAH since December 2023.
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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
- Enrolled in the University of Surrey
- In 1983 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- chemistpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Dr. Bibi Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim GCSK (born 17 October 1959) is a Mauritian politician and biodiversity scientist who served as the sixth president of Mauritius from 2015 to 2018. In December 2014, she was selected to be the presidential candidate of the Alliance Lepep. After Kailash Purryag resigned on 29 May 2015, both Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth and Leader of the Opposition Paul Berenger positively welcomed her nomination, which was unanimously approved in a vote in the National Assembly.
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Eleftheria Eleftheriou
- Occupations
- singer
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Eleftheria Eleftheriou is a Greek-Cypriot singer, musician, and actress. She came to prominence through her participation in the second season of the Greek version of The X Factor. Shortly after her elimination, Sony Music Greece signed her and submitted her as a candidate to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. She was later disqualified from the national final, following the leak of her song onto the internet by an unknown party.
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Tanya Byron
- Occupations
- journalistclinical psychologistpsychologisttelevision presenter
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Tanya Byron is a British psychologist, writer, and media personality, best known for her work as a child therapist on television shows Little Angels and The House of Tiny Tearaways. She also co-created the BBC Two sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle with Jennifer Saunders, and still contributes articles to various newspapers.
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Deborah Turness
- Occupations
- international forum participantjournalist
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Deborah Mary Turness is an English journalist, former CEO of ITN (2021), and as of 2022, CEO of BBC News. Prior to this she was president of NBC News (2013–2017) and then president of NBC News International. Before NBC, Turness was editor of ITV News (2004–2013), which made her the UK's first female editor of the network news.
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Miaoux Miaoux
- Occupations
- keyboardist
- Biography
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Julian Victor Corrie, better known by his stage name Miaoux Miaoux, is an English producer, musician and songwriter based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is signed to Chemikal Underground Records, who have released his albums Light of the North and School of Velocity. Prior to his solo career Corrie was a member of the Glasgow-based band Maple Leaves.
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George Young
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, CH, PC, known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented Ealing Acton from 1974 to 1997 and North West Hampshire from 1997. He has served in Cabinet on three occasions: as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997; as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012; and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014.
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Rebecca Romero
- Occupations
- rowersport cyclisttrack cyclist
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Rebecca Jayne Romero, MBE is an English sportswoman, a former World Champion and Olympic Games silver medallist at rowing, and a former World champion and an Olympic champion track cyclist.
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Michael Price
- Occupations
- composermusicianfilm score composerrecord producer
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Michael Price is an English composer and pianist. Prior to establishing himself as a composer, he held a number of roles within the TV & film music field such as producer, arranger and music editor, much of which whilst working alongside acclaimed film score composer Michael Kamen.
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Lorraine Bowen
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
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Lorraine Bowen is an English singer, songwriter, comedian and musician. Bowen has released seven studio and compilation albums, and multiple singles as both a solo and contributing artist.
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Aleks Krotoski
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Aleksandra Krystyna Theresa Krotoski is a broadcaster, journalist and social psychologist based in the United States who writes and broadcasts about social aspects of technology and interactivity. She currently presents the BBC Radio 4 series The Digital Human.
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Claudia Hammond
- Occupations
- writerradio personalitytelevision presenterjournalistpsychologist
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Claudia Anne Hammond is a British author, frequent radio presenter and podcast host for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and occasional TV presenter.
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Liz McInnes
- Occupations
- politicianbiochemist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Anne McInnes is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood and Middleton from 2014 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she was a Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2016 to 2019 and Communities and Local Government from 2015 to 2016.
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Nabil Shaban
- Occupations
- actorwritertelevision actor
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Nabil Shaban is a Jordanian-British actor and writer. He co-founded Graeae—a theatre group which promotes disabled performers. He's best known as the recurring villain Sil in Doctor Who.
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Omid Nooshin
- Occupations
- film directorwriter
- Biography
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Omid Nooshin was an English film director and writer. He was best known for his debut independent feature film Last Passenger.
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Jasmine Dotiwala
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Jasmine Dotiwala is a British broadcaster, producer, and columnist. Dotiwala has worked with television and radio news platforms such as MTV, Channel 4 and BBC Radio London.
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Adam Jones
- Enrolled in the University of Surrey
- 1985-1989 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- human rights activistwriterpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Adam Jones is a political scientist, writer, and photojournalist based at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction and other books in genocide studies. He is Executive Director of Gendercide Watch. He was chosen as one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide" for the book of that name, which was published in 2010. He is also a published photographer, both in print and online under a Creative Commons license.
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Ann Keen
- Occupations
- politiciannurse
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Ann Lloyd Keen is a British Labour Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentford and Isleworth from 1997, until she was defeated by Conservative candidate Mary Macleod in 2010. In 1999, The Guardian newspaper revealed that she had acted as a "secret go-between" for the Labour Party and Shaun Woodward, at the time the MP for Witney, as he attempted to defect from the Conservative Party in the same year.
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Najat Kaanache
- Occupations
- chefactor
- Biography
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Najat Kaanache is the host of AMC Networks' cooking series "Cocina Marroquí" which airs on Canal Cocina in Spain and El Gourmet throughout 20 countries in Latin America. Kaanache was born and raised in San Sebastián of Spain's Basque Country. She gained fame as a lead actress on Spanish daytime television series "Goenkale" and then traveled throughout the Middle East and South America working in philanthropy to empower women and street kids. She later attended culinary school and gained fame as "The Pilgrim Chef" by blogging throughout her four years training with the world's top chefs: Ferran Adrià, René Redzepi, Thomas Keller, Grant Achatz, Heston Blumenthal and Martín Berasategui.
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Neena Prasad
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India - Occupations
- dancer
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Neena Prasad is an Indian dancer. She is an exponent in the field of Mohiniyattam. She is the founder and principal of Bharthanjali Academy of Indian Dances in Thiruvananthapuram and Sougandika Centre for Mohinyattam in Chennai.
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Nicola Fox
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- astrophysicist
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Nicola Justine Fox is the Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Appointed to the position in February 2023, she is therefore NASA's head of science. She previously served as the Director of NASA's Heliophysics Science Division of the Goddard Space Flight Center and in the Applied Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University. Fox was the lead scientist for the Parker Solar Probe, and served as the Science and Operations Coordinator for the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative.
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Peter Hayes
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- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Peter Richard Hayes is a British diplomat. He was formerly the Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory and the British Antarctic Territory.
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Imad Moustapha
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Imad Moustapha is a former Syrian Ambassador to China and the United States.
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Shakardokht Jafari
- Enrolled in the University of Surrey
- Graduated with doctorate in medical physics
- Graduated with master's degree in medical physics
- Occupations
- medical physicist
- Biography
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Shakardokht Jafari (Dari: شکردخت جعفری) is a Medical Physicist and an award-winning innovator based at the Surrey Technology Centre. She developed an efficient and low cost method of measuring a medical dose of radiation.
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John Butcher
- Occupations
- jazz musiciansaxophonist
- Biography
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John Butcher is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player.
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Felix Dodds
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- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- university teacherwriter
- Biography
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Felix Dodds, born Michael Nicholas Dodds, is a British author, futurist, and activist.
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Jonathan Potter
- Enrolled in the University of Surrey
- 1977-1978 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- psychologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jonathan Potter is Dean of the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University and one of the originators of discursive psychology.
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Róisín Mullins
- Occupations
- television presenterdancer
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Róisín Mullins is a TV presenter, TV talent show judge, professional Irish dancer, singer, stage show owner and choreographer.
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Abbie Hutty
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- 1986-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- mechanical engineer
- Biography
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Abigail Hutty is a British mechanical engineer based in Stevenage. She has worked as the lead structures engineer on the European Space Agency ExoMars rover, now the Rosalind Franklin rover vehicle. In 2016, she was elected as the youngest ever Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. She advocates the science and technology education of young people and promotion of careers in the space industry. Her public appearances have included the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and The Sky at Night.
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Shukuru Kawambwa
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shukuru Jumanne Kawambwa is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Bagamoyo constituency from 2005 to 2020. He is the former Minister of Education and Vocational Training. He has also served as the Minister of Infrastructure Development
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Martin Sweeting
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- engineeracademic
- Biography
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Sir Martin Nicholas Sweeting is the founder and executive chairman of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL). SSTL is a corporate spin-off from the University of Surrey, where Sweeting is a Distinguished Professor who founded and chairs the Surrey Space Centre.
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Susan Jebb
- Occupations
- international forum participantnutritionist
- Biography
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Susan Ann Jebb is Chair of the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency and Professor of Diet and Population Health at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.
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Lee Chambers
- Enrolled in the University of Surrey
- In 2018 graduated with Master of Science in psychology
- Occupations
- academiclife coachpsychologistentrepreneur
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Lee Chambers is a British businessman and radio host. Chambers has been interviewed by Vogue, The Guardian, and Newsweek, and is known for analyzing inclusion and wellbeing in the workplace. He was born in Bolton, United Kingdom, and is the founder of PhenomGames and Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing.
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Rolph Payet
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Rolph Antoine Payet FRGS is an international policy expert, researcher and speaker on environment, climate and island issues, and was the first President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Seychelles. He was Minister of Environment and Energy in the Cabinet of Seychelles from 2012 to 2014. He is currently United Nations Executive Secretary for the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Convention.
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John A. Pickett
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- 1945-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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John Anthony Pickett CBE DSC FRS FLSW is a British chemist who is noted for his work on insect pheromones. Pickett is Professor of Biological Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at Cardiff University. He previously served as the Michael Elliott Distinguished Research Fellow at Rothamsted Research.
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Emma Mulqueeny
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Emma Elizabeth Mulqueeny is a British technologist and educator. She is best known for co-founding Rewired State and Young Rewired State, which provided a community and events for technically gifted young people. She has campaigned for programming to be taught from an early age in UK schools to encourage wider uptake and increased diversity in the tech sector.
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Christopher Jenks
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Biography
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Christopher Jenks is a British sociologist who was Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University from 2006 to 2012.
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Eddie Duggan
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Eddie Duggan is a British photographer, film-maker, screenwriter, author and academic games historian.
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Mansur Hoda
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Mansur Hoda was born in a middle-class Muslim family in the Indian city of Chhapra, Bihar. Mansur Hoda as a student, had worked as a research volunteer for the Intermediate Technology Group. After working for Indian Railways for ten years, he joined Bihar government as Inspector of Factories.
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Robin Ord-Smith
- Years
- 1965-2022 (aged 57)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Robin Jeremy Ord-Smith was a British diplomat.
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Pejman Azarmina
- Occupations
- physicianwriter
- Biography
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Pejman Azarmina is an Iranian-American scholar, entrepreneur, musician and thinkocrat. After 15 years of pursuing a career in the pharmaceutical industry (most of which being at Pfizer), he joined UCLA as a faculty member to establish the Office of Physician-Scientist Career Development within the David Geffen School of Medicine. Earlier in his career, his interest in leadership development led to the formation of multiple tools, projects and initiatives aiming to develop the next generation of holistic leaders and systems thinkers under the umbrella term of Thinkocrats.
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Angela Little
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- educational specialist
- Biography
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Angela W. Little is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is known for her work in primary education policy and practice in developing countries as well as education planning, program evaluation and assessment. In particular she has focussed in seven main areas:
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Judith Baxter
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- 1955-2018 (aged 63)
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Judith Baxter was a British sociolinguist and Professor of Applied linguistics at Aston University where she specialised in Gender and Language, and Leadership Language. She served in editorial positions with several academic journals.
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Kay Swinburne, Baroness Swinburne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jacqueline Kay Swinburne, Baroness Swinburne, is a British politician and life peer. She was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales between 2009 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party, and became a member of the House of Lords in 2023.
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Samer Hassan
- Occupations
- researchercomputer scientistactivistsocial scientist
- Biography
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Samer Hassan is a computer scientist, social scientist, activist and researcher, focused on the use of decentralized technologies to support commons-based collaboration. He is Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is the recipient of an ERC Grant of 1.5M€ with the P2P Models project, to research blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations for the collaborative economy.
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Alan C. Evans
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- university teacherneurologistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Alan Charles Evans PhD FRSC FCAHS is a Welsh-born Canadian neuroscientist who is a James McGill Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering, and holds the Victor Dahdaleh Chair in Neurosciences at McGill University. He is also a researcher at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute, Co-Director of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, Director of the McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Scientific Director of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform, Scientific Director of McGill's Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives program and Principal Investigator of CBRAIN, an initiative aiming to integrate Canadian neuroscience data with the Compute Canada computing network. He is recognized for his research on brain mapping, and was a co-founder of both the International Consortium for Brain Mapping and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
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Geoff Southern
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Geoff Southern is a Jersey politician, and former teacher. He has been a deputy in the States of Jersey since winning a by-election, on 15 February 2002, and has chaired two scrutiny panels.
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Sheron Wray
- Occupations
- dancer
- Biography
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S. Ama Wray, known formally as Sheron Wray, is a professor of dance at the University of California, Irvine, USA. She is a British dancer, teacher, choreographer and theatre director. She studied under Jane Dudley at the London Contemporary Dance School. She later performed with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre and the Rambert Dance Company before forming her own company called JazzXchange in 1992. She is presently an associate professor of dance at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine.
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Phebe Mann
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Phebe Mann Eur Ing CEng MICE FCIArb FRICS FRSA MCIOB FHEA is Chair of the Institution of Civil Engineers London. She is an associate professor in highway and transportation at the University of East London. As a Chartered Civil Engineer, Chartered Surveyor, European Engineer, Chartered Construction Manager and Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Mann, is the first woman engineer of minority ethnic origin appointed by the Lord Chancellor to the Upper Tribunal, General Regulatory Chamber (Transport, Information Rights & Estate Agents Jurisdictions) and Agricultural Land Tribunal for Wales. Phebe is also the first and only woman to hold eight professional qualifications concurrently in the UK. She has been recognised with a Top 50 Women in Engineering Award (WE50) for her outstanding achievements in engineering.
