100 Notable alumni of
University of Sussex
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The University of Sussex is 233rd in the world, 80th in Europe, and 17th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Sussex sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with the University of Sussex won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Billy Idol
- Occupations
- film actorguitaristsingeractormusician
- Biography
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William Michael Albert Broad, known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English-American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He first achieved fame in the 1970s emerging from the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of the group Generation X. Subsequently, he embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made Idol a lead artist during the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in the US. The name "Billy Idol" was inspired by a schoolteacher's description of him as "idle".
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Walter O'Brien
- Occupations
- computer securitytelevision producerchief executive officerwhite hat
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Walter O'Brien is an Irish businessman and information technologist. He was also the executive producer and loose inspiration for the television series Scorpion. He is known for claiming various accomplishments, including a childhood IQ of 197, which have been scrutinized and remain unproven.
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Burna Boy
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Studied in 2008-2009
- Occupations
- songwritermusicianrecord producersinger
- Biography
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Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, known professionally as Burna Boy, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. He is credited alongside Davido and Wizkid for popularizing Afrobeats globally.
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Jim Carter
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorlighting designeractorfilm actor
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James Edward Carter is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Mr Carson in the ITV historical drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), which earned him four nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2012–2015). He reprised the role in the feature films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).
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Ian McEwan
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1970 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- film producernovelistfilm screenwriterplaywrightwriter
- Biography
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Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
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Sara Pascoe
- Occupations
- comedianstand-up comedianscreenwriter
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Sara Patricia Pascoe is an English actress, comedian, presenter and writer. She has appeared on television programmes including 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown for Channel 4, QI for BBC and Taskmaster for the digital channel Dave.
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Thabo Mbeki
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1962 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician who served as the second president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request of his party, the African National Congress (ANC). Before that, he was deputy president under Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999.
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Bob Mortimer
- Occupations
- comediantelevision presenterscreenwriter
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Robert Renwick Mortimer is an English comedian, author, television presenter and actor. He is known for his work with Vic Reeves as part of their Vic and Bob double act, and more recently the Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing series with Paul Whitehouse. He has also appeared on panel shows such as Would I Lie to You? and Taskmaster.
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Jessie Ware
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- recording artistsinger-songwritercomposersinger
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Jessica Lois Ware is an English singer. She came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album, Devotion (2012), which peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart, produced the single "Wildest Moments", and was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize. Her second studio album, Tough Love (2014), reached number nine in the UK and produced the singles "Tough Love" and "Say You Love Me". Her third studio album, Glasshouse (2017), reached number seven in the UK. In 2018, Ware began co-hosting the Table Manners podcast alongside her mother Lennie.
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Lucy Worsley
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- 1997-2001 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- historiantelevision presenterwriter
- Biography
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Lucy Worsley is a British historian, author, curator and television presenter. She is joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces but is best known as a presenter of BBC Television and Channel 5 series on historical topics.
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Frankie Boyle
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- comedianautobiographertelevision presenterwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Francis Martin Patrick Boyle is a Scottish comedian and writer. He is known for his cynical, surreal, graphic and dark, often controversial sense of humour.
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Philippa Gregory
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- novelistwriter
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Philippa Gregory is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two films.
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Noel Tata
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Noel Naval Tata is an Indian businessman with Irish citizenship, who is the chairman of Trent and Tata Investment Corporation, the managing director of Tata International, and the vice chairman of Titan Company and Tata Steel.
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Lenora Crichlow
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Lenora Isabella Crichlow is a British actress. She became known for her starring roles as Maria "Sugar" Sweet in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Sugar Rush, Annie Sawyer in the BBC Three supernatural drama series Being Human, and Shania Andrews in the 2012 sports drama film Fast Girls. In 2013, Crichlow portrayed Chen Sam in the television film Burton & Taylor and Victoria Skillane in the episode "White Bear" of the dystopian sci-fi series, Black Mirror. She has since had regular roles in the ABC sitcom Back in the Game and the NBC comedy series A to Z. Since 2020 she has been part of the main cast of the HBO/Sky One comedy series Avenue 5 playing second engineer Billie McEvoy.
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Kemi Badenoch
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Graduated with Master of Engineering
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Olukemi Olufunto "Kemi" Badenoch is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Business and Trade since 2023 and President of the Board of Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden in Essex since 2017.
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Tony Banks
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- singer-songwritercomposerguitaristsongwriterkeyboardist
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Anthony George Banks is an English musician, songwriter, singer and film composer primarily known as the keyboardist and founding member of the rock band Genesis. Banks is also a prolific solo artist, releasing six solo studio albums that range through progressive rock, pop, and classical music.
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Cariad Lloyd
- Occupations
- comedianactorimproviser
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Katie Cariad Lloyd is a British comedian, actress, writer, and podcaster. A member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious, the host and creator of Griefcast, and an improv teacher, she has been performing since 2007.
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Virginia Wade
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in mathematics
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Sarah Virginia Wade is a British former professional tennis player. She won three Major tennis singles championships and four major doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four majors. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles.
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Clive Myrie
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Clive Augustus Myrie is an English journalist, newsreader and presenter who works for the BBC. He is one of the BBC's chief news presenters and correspondents. Since August 2021 he has been the host of the long-running BBC quiz shows Mastermind and Celebrity Mastermind.
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Steve Toussaint
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Stephen Toussaint is a British actor and writer. He first gained prominence through his role in the ITV crime drama The Knock (1994–2000). As of 2022, he plays Lord Corlys Velaryon in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon.
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Mura Masa
- Years
- 1996-.. (age 28)
- Occupations
- recording artistcomposerdisc jockeyrecord producer
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Alexander George Edward Crossan, better known by his stage name Mura Masa, is a Guernsey-born electronic music producer and songwriter. Crossan is best known for his 2016 song "Lovesick" (featuring ASAP Rocky), which reached number one on the Spotify Viral charts in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2022, he produced the single "Boy's a Liar" by PinkPantheress, which peaked at number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
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Hilary Benn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hilary James Wedgwood Benn is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer on 4 September 2023.
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Michael Fabricant
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Michael Louis David Fabricant is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lichfield in Staffordshire, formerly Mid Staffordshire, since 1992.
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Nigel Planer
- Occupations
- writertelevision actorcomediandub actorsinger
- Biography
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Nigel George Planer is a British actor, writer and musician. He played Neil in the BBC comedy The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He has also appeared in Hairspray. He won a BRIT award in 1984 and has been nominated for Olivier, TMA, WhatsOnStage and BAFTA awards.
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Bruno Heller
- Occupations
- film directorexecutive producerfilm producerscreenwriterdirector
- Biography
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Bruno Heller is an English screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for creating the HBO television series Rome, the CBS television series The Mentalist, and the FOX television series Gotham, based on the Batman franchise, co-creating the Gotham prequel television series Pennyworth, based on the Batman and V for Vendetta franchises, for Epix and HBO Max.
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Carlos Alvarado Quesada
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- journalistwriterinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada is a Costa Rican politician, writer, journalist, and political scientist who served as the 48th president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. A member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC), Alvarado previously served as Minister of Labor and Social Security during the presidency of Luis Guillermo Solís.
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Mohammad Shtayyeh
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- economistwriterpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh is a Palestinian politician, academic, and economist who has been Prime Minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority since March 2019.
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Guy Standing
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantuniversity teacherteacher
- Biography
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Guy Standing is a British labour economist. He is a professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. He created the term precariat to describe an emerging class of workers who are harmed by low wages and poor job security as a consequence of globalisation. Since the 2011 publication of his book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, his work has focused on the precariat, unconditional basic income, deliberative democracy, and the commons.
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Euclid Tsakalotos
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- economistpoliticianuniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Euclid Stefanou Tsakalotos is a Greek economist and politician who was Minister of Finance of Greece from 2015 to 2019. He was also a member of the Central Committee of Syriza and has represented Athens B in the Hellenic Parliament since May 2012. He left Syriza in November 2023 and on 5 December 2023 he became founding member of New Left (Greece) parliamentary group.
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Andrew Morton
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- journalistwriterbiographer
- Biography
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Andrew David Morton is an English journalist and writer who has published biographies of royal figures such as Diana, Princess of Wales, and celebrity subjects including Tom Cruise, Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Monica Lewinsky; several of his books have been unauthorised and contain contested assertions.
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Norman Davies
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1966 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Ivor Norman Richard Davies is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. He has a special interest in Central and Eastern Europe and is UNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University, professor emeritus at University College London, a visiting professor at the Collège d'Europe, and an honorary fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. He was granted Polish citizenship in 2014.
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Hélio Oiticica
- Occupations
- painterperformance artistfilmmakerdrawersculptor
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Hélio Oiticica was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, painter, performance artist, and theorist, best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for what he later termed "environmental art", which included Parangolés and Penetrables, like the famous Tropicália. Oiticica was also a filmmaker and writer.
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Jem
- Occupations
- recording artistsinger-songwritersongwritersinger
- Biography
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Jemma Gwynne Griffiths, known by her stage name Jem, is a British singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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A. C. Grayling
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- university teacherinternational forum participantphilosopher
- Biography
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Anthony Clifford Grayling is a British philosopher and author. He was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and spent most of his childhood there and in Nyasaland (now Malawi). In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities (now Northeastern University London), an independent undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he formerly taught.
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Guy Scott
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Guy Lindsay Scott is a Zambian politician, who served as interim / caretaker President of Zambia from 2014 to 2015, and was the Vice President from 2011 to 2014.
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Owen Smith
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticiantelevision producer
- Biography
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Owen Smith is a British lobbyist and former Labour Party politician who has been the UK government relations director for pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb since 2020. Smith was Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 2010 to 2019.
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John Cornforth
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., AC, CBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.
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Angela Barnes
- Occupations
- comedianactorstand-up comedian
- Biography
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Angela Barnes is an English stand-up comedian, mostly known for her appearances on Mock the Week.
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Caroline Nokes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes is a British Conservative Party politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey and Southampton North in Hampshire in the 2010 general election. Elected as a Conservative, Nokes had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and sat as an independent politician until the whip was restored to her on 29 October.
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Michael Buerk
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- journalistbroadcasternews presenter
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Michael Duncan Buerk is a British journalist and newsreader. He presented BBC News from 1973 to 2002 and has been the host of BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze since 1990. He was also the presenter of BBC One's docudrama 999 from 1992 to 2003. From 2017, Buerk also presented the TV programme Royal Recipes which ran for two series.
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Marina Mahathir
- Occupations
- international forum participantjournalist
- Biography
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Datin Paduka Marina binti Tun Dr. Mahathir is a Malaysian socio-political activist and writer. She is the eldest child of the 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Mahathir Mohamad and Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali. She graduated from the University of Sussex.
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Peter Hain
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State for Wales from 2002 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath between 1991 and 2015.
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Becky Anderson
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Rebecca Anderson is a British journalist, and the anchor of CNN International's flagship news and current affairs primetime news program Connect the World. She previously hosted Business International.
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Josephine Wiggs
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- guitarist
- Biography
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Miranda Cordelia Susan Josephine Wiggs is an English multi-instrumentalist rock musician, best known for her work as bassist in the alternative rock bands The Breeders and The Perfect Disaster. She has also formed multiple side-projects, including her own bands Honey Tongue, The Josephine Wiggs Experience, and Dusty Trails.
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Cosmo Sheldrake
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Cosmo Christopher Sheldrake is an English musician, composer, and producer. He is the son of parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake and voice teacher Jill Purce, and the brother of biologist Merlin Sheldrake. He released his first single, "The Moss"/"Solar", in 2014 and followed it up with the Pelicans We EP in 2015.
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Brendan Foster
- Occupations
- long-distance runnermiddle-distance runnermarathon runner
- Biography
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Sir Brendan Foster is a British former long-distance runner, athletics commentator and road race organiser. He founded the Great North Run, one of the sport's most high profile half-marathon races. As an athlete, he won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the gold medal in the 5,000 metres at the 1974 European Championships and the 10,000 metres at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He later provided commentary and analysis on athletics, particularly long-distance events, for BBC Sport.
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Dermot Murnaghan
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistpresenter
- Biography
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Dermot John Murnaghan is a British media personality, notable as a journalist, news reporter and television host. He has been a presenter for numerous networks including at Channel 4, a news presenter at CNBC Europe, Independent Television News and BBC News. He has presented news programmes in a variety of time slots since joining Sky News in 2007, until the end of February 2023.
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Heydon Prowse
- Occupations
- climate activistactor
- Biography
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Heydon Prowse is a British activist, journalist, satirist, director and comedian. He is best known for writing and performing in BBC Three's Bafta-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised alongside Jolyon Rubinstein. As part of that show he gave George Osborne a GCSE maths text book, a stunt that featured on the front cover of The Daily Telegraph and other publications.
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Harry Kroto
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherscientist
- Biography
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Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.
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Ben Bradshaw
- Occupations
- university teacherjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Sir Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter since 1997. Before entering politics he worked as a BBC Radio reporter.
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Festus Mogae
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Festus Gontebanye Mogae is a Botswana politician and economist who served as the third President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was re-elected in October 2004; after ten years in office. He stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama.
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Kim Newman
- Occupations
- film criticscience fiction writernovelistplaywrightwriter
- Biography
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Kim James Newman is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer. He is interested in film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternative history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award and the BSFA award.
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Sherry Rehman
- Occupations
- journalistinternational forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Sherry Rehman is a Pakistani politician, journalist and former diplomat who has been the member of the Senate of Pakistan since 2015. She was the first female Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from March to August 2018 and served as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2013. She is currently serving as the Federal Minister for the Ministry of Climate Change.
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Hattie Hayridge
- Occupations
- stand-up comedianfilm actorcomedianactor
- Biography
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Hattie Hayridge is a British comedian and actress, best known for the role of the female version of Holly in Red Dwarf during the third, fourth and fifth series. She was described as a "cult figure in a beloved sit-com" by The List in 2007.
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Noureddine Melikechi
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Noureddine Melikechi is an Algerian atomic, molecular, and optical physicist, educator and inventor. He is the author of more than 125 peer-reviewed publications, three book chapters and 15 patents. Melikechi is a member of the Mars Science Laboratory, NASA’s largest Mars exploration effort to date.
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Beardyman
- Occupations
- beatboxerYouTubermusicianvideo blogger
- Biography
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Darren Alexander Foreman, better known as Beardyman, is an English musical producer, DJ, multivocalist, musician and comedian from London known for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping.
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Zhang Xin
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Studied economics
- Occupations
- chief executive officerentrepreneurinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Zhang Xin is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman, having primarily earned her fortune in the real estate industry. With her husband Pan Shiyi, she is the co-founder and former CEO of SOHO China, a Chinese office building developer. She stepped down from the role of CEO on 7 September 2022 “in order to focus on supporting the arts and philanthropic pursuits.” She has since taken on the role of Founder of Closer Media, a New York City-based film production company and financier.
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Jeremy Deller
- Occupations
- video artistfilmmakerartistperformance artist
- Biography
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Jeremy Deller is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. Much of Deller's work is collaborative; it has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process. He won the Turner Prize in 2004 and represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2013.
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Alice Arnold
- Occupations
- actorjournalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Alice Arnold is a British broadcaster and journalist. She also made a brief appearance in Peepshow when she played Aunt Lizzy.She was a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4 for more than twenty years until the end of December 2012.
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Peter Kyle
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter Kyle is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology since 2023. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove since 2015.
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Catherine Mayer
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Catherine Mayer is an American-born British author and journalist, and the co-founder and President of the Women's Equality Party (WE) in the UK.
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Anil Seth
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 2000 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Anil Kumar Seth is a British neuroscientist and professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. A proponent of materialist explanations of consciousness, he is currently amongst the most cited scholars on the topics of neuroscience and cognitive science globally.
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Albie Sachs
- Occupations
- lawyerwriteruniversity teacherjudge
- Biography
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Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs is a South African lawyer, activist, writer, and former judge appointed to the first Constitutional Court of South Africa by Nelson Mandela.
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Shamshad Akhtar
- Occupations
- economistbanker
- Biography
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Shamshad Akhtar is a Pakistani development economist, United Nations diplomat, banker and politician who also is the outgoing caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan. She also previously served as the caretaker Finance Minister from 5 June 2018 to 18 August 2018.
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Ben Sidran
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1971 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerradio personalitysingerjazz pianisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Ben Hirsh Sidran is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer. Early in his career he was a member of the Steve Miller Band and is the father of Grammy-nominated musician, composer and performer Leo Sidran.
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Alan Woods
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Alan Woods is a British Trotskyist political theorist and author. He is one of the leading members of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) as well as of its British affiliate group Socialist Appeal. He is political editor of the IMT's In Defence of Marxism website. Woods was a leading supporter within the Militant tendency within the Labour Party and its parent group the Committee for a Workers' International until the early 1990s. A series of disagreements on tactics and theory led to Woods and Ted Grant leaving the CWI, to found the Committee for a Marxist International (soon renamed International Marxist Tendency) in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party. Woods has expressed particularly vocal support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and repeatedly met with the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, leading to speculation that he was a close political adviser to the president.
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Dimitri Nanopoulos
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Dimitri V. Nanopoulos is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 48,500 times across a number of separate branches of science.
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Stuart Townend
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- hymnwritersingersongwriter
- Biography
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Stuart Townend is an English Christian worship leader and writer of hymns and contemporary worship music. His songs include "In Christ Alone", (2001, co-written with Keith Getty which is Townend's first collaboration with any songwriter), "How Deep The Father's Love For Us", "Beautiful Saviour", and "The King of Love". In 2008, Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) listed "In Christ Alone" as one of its Top 25 CCLI Songs.
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Kenan Malik
- Occupations
- journalistbiologistphilosopherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Kenan Malik is an Indian-born British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science. As an academic author, his focus is on the philosophy of biology, and contemporary theories of multiculturalism, pluralism, and race. These topics are core concerns in The Meaning of Race (1996), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000) and Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate (2008).
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John Gribbin
- Occupations
- physicistscience fiction writernovelistastronomerwriter
- Biography
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John R. Gribbin is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the universe, and biographies of famous scientists. He also writes science fiction.
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Froyla Tzalam
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Froyla Tzalam, is a Belizean Mopan Maya anthropologist and community leader, who has served as the third governor-general of Belize since 27 May 2021.
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Lucie Green
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1998 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- physicistastronomerastrophysicisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Lucinda "Lucie" May Green is a British science communicator and solar physicist.
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Lai Shin-Yuan
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lai Shin-yuan is a Taiwanese politician who served as minister of the Mainland Affairs Council from 2008 to 2012.
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Enele Sopoaga
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Enele Sosene Sopoaga PC is a Tuvaluan diplomat and politician who was Prime Minister of Tuvalu from 2013 to 2019.
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Duncan Campbell
- Occupations
- consultantuniversity teacherinvestigative journalistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Duncan Campbell is a British freelance investigative journalist, author, and television producer. Since 1975, he has specialised in the subjects of intelligence and security services, defence, policing, civil liberties and, latterly, computer forensics. He was a staff writer at the New Statesman from 1978 to 1991 and associate editor (Investigations) from 1988 to 1991. He was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act in the ABC trial in 1978 and made the controversial series Secret Society for the BBC in 1987 (see Zircon affair). In 1988, he revealed the existence of the ECHELON surveillance program.
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Ricardo Lagos Weber
- Occupations
- politicianlawyereconomist
- Biography
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Ricardo Andrés Lagos Weber, son of former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, is a politician who served as the Ministry General Secretariat of Government of Chile in the administration of former President Michelle Bachelet after having worked for Bachelet's 2005-2006 campaign. He is trained in law and economics, and has served the majority of his government career in economic positions. He was also an organizer and the senior representative for Chile at the Annual Meeting of APEC held in Chile in 2004, in addition to being one of the architects of the free trade agreements that Chile signed with the United States (United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement) and the European Union (European Union Association Agreement) as the head of the Foreign Ministry's Department of Trade Policy. He is a member of the Party for Democracy (PPD). Between March 2016 and March 2017 he was President of the Senate of Chile.
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Clive Hamilton
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- writerprofessoreconomist
- Biography
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Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA is an Australian public intellectual currently serving as Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is a member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government, and is the Founder and former Executive Director of The Australia Institute. He regularly appears in the Australian media and contributes to public policy debates. Hamilton was granted the award of Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 2009 for "service to public debate and policy development, particularly in the fields of climate change, sustainability and societal trends".
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Yannis Ragousis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Giannis Ragousis is a Greek economist and politician of SYRIZA who had previously served in the government of Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
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Giles Ji Ungpakorn
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Associate ProfessorGiles Ji Ungpakorn is a Thai-British academic, and Marxist political activist. He formerly worked as a teacher at Chulalongkorn University. He worked as an associate professor in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, before he fled to the United Kingdom in 2009 after facing a lèse majesté charge in Thailand.
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Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala
- Occupations
- mountaineerwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala is a Sri Lankan adventurer, professional rock climber, motivational speaker, and LGBT and women's rights activist. She is the first person from Sri Lanka to summit Mount Everest, which she achieved on 21 May 2016. Kuru-Utumpala is an advocate for women's rights in Sri Lanka and has spent most of her adult life researching gender studies and women's rights. She formed a collaboration with fellow mountaineer Johann Peries for several expeditions.
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Peter Jonas
- Occupations
- theatre managertalent managerintendant
- Biography
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Sir John Peter Jonas was a British arts administrator and opera company director.
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Mo Foster
- Occupations
- session musicianbassistguitarist
- Biography
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Michael Ralph "Mo" Foster was an English multi-instrumentalist, record producer, composer, solo artist, author, and public speaker. Through a career spanning over half a century, Foster toured, recorded, and performed with dozens of artists, including Jeff Beck, Gil Evans, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr, Joan Armatrading, Gerry Rafferty, Brian May, Scott Walker, Frida of ABBA, Cliff Richard, George Martin, Van Morrison, Dr John, Hank Marvin, Heaven 17 and the London Symphony Orchestra. He released several albums under his own name, authored a humorous book on the history of British rock guitar, written numerous articles for music publications, continued to compose production music, and established himself as a public speaker. Foster was an assessor for JAMES, an industry organisation that gives accreditation to music colleges throughout the United Kingdom. In 2014, Foster was a recipient of a BASCA Gold Badge Award to honour his lifelong contribution to the British songwriting and composing community.
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Helen Boaden
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Helen Boaden is a British former broadcasting executive who spent more than 30 years working for the BBC, including as Director of Radio between February 2013 and September 2016.
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Simon Segars
- Occupations
- chief executive officerentrepreneurinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Simon Anthony Segars is a board director and technology executive who served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc from 2013 to 2022. ARM is the UK's largest semiconductor IP company headquartered in Cambridge, England, and was acquired by SoftBank Group for £24.3 billion in 2016.
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Suma Chakrabarti
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Sir Sumantra "Suma" Chakrabarti is a former British civil servant who served as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from July 2012 to July 2020. He was previously the highest ranking Indian in Britain's civil service, serving as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery from late 2007 until 2012.
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Srđa Trifković
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- In 1977 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in international relations
- Occupations
- historianjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Srđa Trifković is a Serbian-American publicist, politician and historian. He is currently a foreign affairs editor for the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles, and a politics professor at the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Julie James
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Julie James is a Welsh Labour politician, serving as Minister for Climate Change since 2021. James has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Swansea West since 2011. She served as Minister for Housing and Local Government from 2018 to 2021.
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Dave Camp
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- Studied in 1973-1974
- Occupations
- politicianemployeelawyer
- Biography
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David Lee Camp is a former American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2015. Camp represented Michigan's 4th congressional district since 1993, and previously served one term representing Michigan's 10th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, Camp was chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, serving from 2011 to 2015. In March 2014, he announced that he would not run for re-election.
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John M. Ball
- Enrolled in the University of Sussex
- 1969-1972 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Sir John Macleod Ball is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
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Mateusz Szczurek
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Mateusz Szczurek is a Polish economist and politician. He was the Polish Minister of Finance in the governments of successive prime ministers Donald Tusk and Ewa Kopacz from 2013 to 2015.
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Caroline Ansell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caroline Julie Porte Ansell is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne since the 2019 general election. She was first elected as Eastbourne's MP at the 2015 general election, but was defeated at the 2017 election.
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Rebeca Grynspan
- Occupations
- lawyereconomistinternational forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis is a Costa Rican economist who has been serving as Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021.
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John Altman
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposerconductor
- Biography
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John Altman is an English film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor.
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Howie Severino
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Horacio "Howie" Gorospe Severino is a Filipino broadcast journalist, anchor, host, documentarist and podcaster who is currently working in GMA Network. He is best known for his work with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, The Probe Team, and i-Witness. He has worked in print, television, and online media.
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Zoe Strimpel
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Zoe Strimpel is a British writer. She is the author of three books on gender and relationships and writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's A Point Of View and presents a podcast on culture called Hyped!, with the historian Tom Stammers.
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Claudia Hammond
- Occupations
- writerradio personalitytelevision presenterjournalistpsychologist
- Biography
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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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Simon Busuttil
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Simon Busuttil is the Secretary General of the EPP Group (European People's Party) in the European Parliament. Formerly, he was Leader of the Opposition. and Leader of the Nationalist Party in Malta and a Member of the European Parliament for Malta.
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Simon Fanshawe
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Simon Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe OBE is a writer, activist and broadcaster. He contributes frequently to British newspapers, television and radio. He is also now a consultant and non-executive director of public and private organisations. Fanshawe was one of the founders of the LGBT charity Stonewall. He won the Perrier Comedy Award in 1989. In 2019, he became one of the supporters of the initiative that led to the formation of the LGB Alliance.
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Dan Norris
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dan Norris is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Mayor of the West of England since May 2021. He previously served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wansdyke from 1997 to 2010.
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Linda Bellos
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Linda Ann Bellos is a British businesswoman, radical feminist and gay-rights activist. In 1981 she became the first woman of African descent to join the Spare Rib collective. She was elected to Lambeth Borough Council in London in 1985 and was the leader of the council from 1986 to 1988.
