Speakers
- Sir Chris Bonington
- Sarah Montague
- Oona
King - Will
Hutton - Philip
Ross - Anna
Leach - Andy
Friedman - Michael Mainelli
- Eugenie Harvey
- Duncan
Clark
Sir Chris Bonington
Born in Hampstead in 1934, Chris Bonington was educated at University College School, London and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the Royal Tank Regiment in 1956. He spent three years in North Germany in command of a troop of tanks and then two years at the Army Outward Bound School as a mountaineering instructor.It was during this period that he started climbing in the Alps, making the first British ascent of the South West Pillar of the Drus in 1958 and then the first ascent of the Central Pillar of Freney on the south side of Mont Blanc in 1961 with Don Whillans, Ian Clough and the Pole, Jan Dlugosz. At that time this was one of the most difficult climbs in the Alps and even today is considered one of the great classics of the Mont Blanc region.He made the first British ascent of the North Wall of the Eiger in 1962.
On leaving the Army in 1961 he joined Unilever as a Management Trainee but after nine months realised that he could never combine a conventional career with his love of mountaineering. Now married to Wendy, a freelance illustrator of children's books, Bonington made the decision to go freelance and since 1962 has followed a successful course as writer, photographer and mountaineer. They have two sons, Daniel and Rupert.
For a full list of Chris’s expeditions, books, honours and positions please download the pdf.
More details on Chris can be found at www.bonington.com
Sarah Montague
Since 1997, Sarah has presented Newsnight, Breakfast with Frost, Hardtalk, and evening news bulletins as well as being a key presenter on News 24.
Sarah works regularly in the corporate sector hosting conferences, chairing discussion and interviewing CEO’s. She has hosted the Nominet Forum for two years running and also hosted Jersey Finance Trusts Seminar. She has interviewed the Nobel Prize winners for the last two years in Nobel Minds for World News.
Oona King
Oona King is Head of Diversity at Channel 4 (March 2009 - present). Before taking this position Oona was Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister on Equalities, Diversity and Faith at 10 Downing Street. Oona is also a broadcaster, writer, and political campaigner. Oona is Chair of the Institute for Community Cohesion (iCoCo), Founding Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Genocide Prevention in the House of Commons; and Chair of Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, a £30m project which seeks to bring different communities together through art.
Oona has written for papers including the Guardian, New Statesman, Sunday Telegraph, Express and Observer, and is a presenter for television and radio documentaries. Oona’s book about her time in the House of Commons, “House Music – The Oona King Diaries” was published in September 2007 by Bloomsbury, and nominated for Channel 4 Political Awards ‘Political Book of the Year’ 2008. Oona’s most recent television documentary, on the life of Martin Luther King, was broadcast in April 2008 on BBC2 and nominated for a Royal Television Society award. Oona’s role as a television presenter includes work for Channel 4 (The Last Word), BBC (The Struggles I’ve Seen), and Sky News (News reporter and commentator 2005-07).
Oona was MP for Bethnal Green & Bow from 1997-2005, became PPS to the Cabinet Minister for Trade & Industry, and was previously PPS to the Minister for e-Commerce. Oona was appointed to two Select Committees (International Development and Urban Affairs). Other roles included Vice-Chair of the British Council (1998-2002), Chair of the All-Party Group on Business Services (1998-2001), Vice-Chair of London Labour MPs (1997-2005), and Treasurer of Friends of Islam (2001-2005). Oona changed the law in five areas, including housing policy and equalities policy. The work of her All Party Group on peace-keeping was commended by the UN Security Council’s Expert Panel.
Before being elected an MP at 29, Oona was a Trade Union organiser representing low-paid workers, and spent 5 years as a researcher at the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg. Oona gained a 1st class politics degree from York University (1990), and a scholarship to Berkeley. Oona’s father is African-American from Georgia and her mother is from Newcastle, from a Jewish family with roots in Hungary, Scotland and Ireland. Oona married Tiberio Santomarco in Naples in 1994, and they live in Tower Hamlets with their two young children. In her spare time, Oona enjoys cinema, dance music (in particular house music), cooking, history, and walking in Mile End Park. Oona speaks French and Italian, and a little Bengali.
Will Hutton
Will Hutton is executive vice chair of The Work Foundation, the most influential voice on work, employment and organisation issues in the UK. Regularly called on to advise senior political and business figures and comment in the national and international media, Will is today one of the pre-eminent economics commentators in the country.
He began his career in the city, as a stockbroker and investment analyst before moving to the BBC, where he worked both on radio, as a producer and reporter, and on TV as economics correspondent for Newsnight. Prior to joining The Work Foundation, Will spent four years as editor-in-chief of The Observer, for which he continues to write a weekly column. He also regularly contributes to the Guardian and Financial Times.
Will’s best-known book is probably The State We’re In, which was seen at the time as setting the scene for the Blair revolution. Since then he has published The State to Come, The Stakeholding Society, On The Edge, (with Anthony Giddens) a groundbreaking analysis of globalisation and The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century. Will is currently working on his next book – a timely examination of fairness and due desert – Them and Us .
Outside The Work Foundation, Will is a governor of the London School of Economics, where he is also a visiting professorial fellow at the Centre for Global Governance . He is a member of the Scott Trust, and a fellow of the Sunningdale Institute. In 2004, Will was invited by the European Commission to join a High Level Group on the mid-term review of the Lisbon Strategy and act as its “rapporteur” for the final report.
Most recently, Will was invited by Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, to join a new advisory panel on New Industry, New Jobs, Universities and Skills, set up to challenge conventional policy thinking in these areas and generate ideas across the Government’s New Industry, New Jobs agenda, linking it with the skills and higher education agenda.
Philip Ross, CEO, Cordless Group
Philip is an author, commentator and consultant specialising in the impact of emerging technology on the world of work and the workplace.
He has worked with organisations such as Ernst & Young, Eversheds, McKinsey & Co, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Royal Bank of Scotland on future workplace concepts based on emerging technologies.
Philip has spoken at conferences around the world including The Wall Street Journal Europe CEO Forum on Converging Technologies and Corenet’s Global Summits in Beijing, Sydney, Orlando and Melbourne.
In 1994 he founded Cordless Group and wrote and published The Cordless Office Report. He has written three books on the future of cities, work and workplace: The Creative Office, The 21st Century Office and Space to Work (all co-authored with Jeremy Myerson and has contributed to a number of other books including the Corporate Fool and the Responsible Workplace.
Anna Leach
Anna Leach is a senior economist at the CBI in the tax and fiscal policy group, providing advice and analysis on structural economic and fiscal issues, such as public sector borrowing, as well as drafting the CBI’s representations to the Treasury for the Pre-Budget and Budget reports and producing the CBI’s public finance forecasts.
Anna joined the CBI in April 2008 from the civil service, where she held a variety of roles. These included head of macroeconomic briefing and analysis at the Treasury and a secondment to the Treasury Select Committee where she was responsible for coordinating the private equity inquiry.
Anna holds a BSc and an MSc in Economics, both from the University of Warwick, and completed her Masters in 2002.
Professor Andy Friedman
Andy is the managing director of the Professional Associations Research Network. He is also Professor of Management and Economics in the Department of Management at the University of Bristol. Through PARN, he has carried out research projects leading to PARN books on continuing professional development, governance, member services, ethical codes and routes to membership. Andy has carried out numerous consultancy projects for professional bodies in the UK and abroad. He has facilitated over one hundred strategic reviews and away days of professional bodies at the highest level.
Professor Michael Mainelli
Michael co-founded Z/Yen in 1994, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank, to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Michael is a qualified accountant, computer specialist and management consultant with a degree in Government from Harvard as well as mathematics and engineering at Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Michael started as a research scientist later becoming a partner in a leading accountancy firm directing their consultancy work in the UK and overseas. Michael has worked in public, private and not-for-profit organisations, was British Computer Society Director of the Year 2004/2005, has a DTI Smart Award, and served on the board of Europe’s largest R&D organisation.
Michael is Emeritus Professor and Trustee at Gresham College, visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, non-executive Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, as well as Trustee of the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Ocean Alliance. Michael plays bagpipes from time to time, is a keen sailor and owns Sailing Barge Lady Daphne with his wife Elisabeth. Michael’s humorous novel, Clean Business Cuisine: Now and Z/Yen, was a Sunday Times Book of the Week in 2000; Accountancy Age described it as “surprisingly funny considering it is written by a couple of accountants”.
Eugenie Harvey
After stints working in London for the Australian Tourist Commission and in financial PR for the Brunswick Group, Eugenie joined with David Robinson to found We Are What We Do, a new kind of movement inspiring people to change the world one small action at a time. While at WAWWD, Eugenie managed a range of projects including the books, Change the World for a Fiver (2004) and Change the World 9 to 5 (2006) and a collaboration with Anya Hindmarch to create the iconic "I'm not a plastic bag" shopper (2007).
Duncan Clark
Duncan Clark is an environmental journalist and author. He has been a consultant editor both at the Guardian and BBC Worldwide, and has written a number of successful books, including The Rough Guide to Green Living. He also edited The Rough Guide to Climate Change, which was shortlisted for Science Book of the Year. Duncan co-founded the GreenProfile imprint at Profile Books and was instrumental in setting up rainforest charity Cool Earth, which has projects in Peru and Brazil. In 2006 Duncan set up GoGreenLights.co.uk, a non-profit website selling low-energy light bulbs.
Antonio Zuniga
Antonio Zuniga CFM, MBIFM currently works as lead of the international Operations and Maintenance programme at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The 28 building offices he is responsible for are located in different countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. His proposals in sustainable design and construction have been awarded grants and garnered support by the Bank to improve building operations over the next 6 years. Antonio earned his BsC in Facility Management from Cornell University and is expected to gain his MBA in Sustainable Management from Anaheim University in 2010. His most recent work has been featured in “Foreign Policy Digest” regarding the much-needed implementation of construction standards in Haiti after the earthquake.
Barry Shambrook
Barry Shambrook has over 30 years experience as a contractor and consultant in the Facilities Technology industry and is the major shareholder and Managing Director of Tuckers Consultancy Ltd, a facilities technology consultancy firm based in Canary Wharf, London. Tuckers provide a design and management service to corporate clients, facilities managers, other professional practices and construction companies and are very active in the UK as well as mainland Europe. Barry is a member of the London Chamber of Commerce Property and Construction Committee and has presented previously to the BIFM Annual Conference. He gained the BICSI RCDD qualification in 2002 and has also presented to BICSI at their European conference.
One of the things Barry is currently involved in is providing building owners and occupants with ways of achieving reductions in building energy consumption in order to comply with the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), a Government pollution-cutting scheme that comes into force on 1st April 2010.
John Bowen
John began working life as a trainee building surveyor before moving into wholesale and retail logistics. After a spell as a computer programmer and business analyst he returned to supply chain management running Royal Mail’s internal logistics operations. Managing the property was part of that brief and led John into Facilities Management and he worked in FM for both Royal Mail and the Balfour Beatty Group before taking up his current role as Managing Director of Gulfhaven Ltd in2008.
An experienced senior manager and board member, John has implemented a number of significant projects and translating strategy into results.
In addition to his membership of BIFM John is also a member of the Chartered Institute ofPurchasing & Supply (CIPS) and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). He chairs the BIFM Procurement Special Interest Group and is co-author of The Principles of Warehouse Design (3rd edition).
David Sharp
David Sharp is the founder and Managing Director of Workplace Law Group, which specialises in employment law, health and safety, and environmental services. David is an experienced commentator on workplace regulation, a contributor to industry magazines, and is the co-author of the RIBA Good Practice Guide to Employment
Mark Hillier
Mark is Workplace Law’s Associate Director, Built Environment. He has 18 years’ experience in building control, both in local authority and in private practice. Mark regularly delivers seminars on all aspects of building regulations and fire safety. Mark presents at Workplace Law’s conferences and training events, as well as delivering in-house training to organisations across the UK.
