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Edwina Currie was born in Liverpool and graduated from Oxford and London Universities. She served as MP for South Derbyshire (1983-1997) and was a well-known Health Minister under Margaret Thatcher. Following her time in public office she has become a respected author, speaker and broadcaster.
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Ilya Kupriyanov is a business development director in DoktorNaRabote.ru. Experienced speaker and entrepreneur with high level of sales and business development skills. A co-founder of 3 start-ups. led one company through the merge/exit process.
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Denis MacShane is one of the most controversial figures in modern British politics. He was Parliament’s Number One Pro-European. A former minister of Europe he now works advising business, non-profit organisations and governments on how to get things done in Brussels. He was known for his witty and punchy interventions in the House of Commons but underneath a politician who enjoyed controversy is a serious thinker about the British and European economy and geo-politics.
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Gina is Professor of Higher Education & Contemporary Literature and Head of Brighton’s Centre for Learning and Teaching. She is part of the management team for the SOTL research project and also conducted interviews. Gina’s principal research interests are in learning and teaching, specialising in postgraduate study and supervision and she has published The Postgraduate Research Handbook, The Good Supervisor and Getting Published. Gina also teaches, supervises, researches and publishes in twentieth-century women's writing, particularly postcolonial writing and popular fictions. Gina has been chair and co-chair of the Heads of Education Development Group, is chief editor of the SEDA journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International and is currently chair of SEDA Scholarship and Research committee, and the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association.
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Eve Lewis is the current head of student participation in quality Scotland (sparqs). She has worked in the field of student engagement for over 20 years, previously within Heriot-Watt University Students’ Association, prior to taking up her post as Head of sparqs in 2010. During that time she has led many innovative developments, including pioneering work linking course representative systems with senior decision-making processes and implementing one of the first schemes of student-led learning and teaching awards in Scotland. Eve has been involved in developments around the role of students in Scotland’s Quality Enhancement Framework since its inception over 10 years ago and in her current role is responsible for ensuring support for this to institutions and their students’ associations within Scotland’s 19 universities and 26 colleges. Eve is a member of many of the key committees in the Scottish post-16 sector, supporting agencies in developing their student engagement activities.
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François Pachet is director of the SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris, where he leads the music research team. Since its creation, the team developed several award winning technologies (constraint-based spatialisation, intelligent music scheduling using metadata) and systems MusicSpace, PathBuilder, Continuator for interactive music improvisation, etc.). His current goal, funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, is to build computational representations of style from text and music corpora, that can be exploited for personalized content generation. He is also an accomplished musician (guitar, composition) and has published two music albums (in jazz and pop) as composer and performer.
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Dylan Wiliam, PhD, is a consultant who works with educators all over the world to develop effective, research-based teaching. He is former deputy director (Provost) of the Institute of Education at the University of London. From teaching in urban public schools to directing a large-scale testing program to serving in university administration, his professional path has led to a variety of positions at the forefront of education.He has written over 300 books, chapters and articles including a major review of research on formative assessment coauthored with Paul Black. He left the University of London in 2010 to focus on working more directly with teachers, and now spends his time working with teachers all over the world on improving teaching and learning.
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Head of Advocacy, Research and Development and Knowledge Management at the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) in Amsterdam, Europe’s only independent, pan-European cultural foundation. Previously, she was Executive Director of ENCATC (European Network of Cultural Management Training Centres). She also worked with the World Commission on Culture and Development (UN/UNESCO) that published the landmark report “Our Creative Diversity”, Council of Europe, Ministry of Culture of France, and several NGOs in Brussels, London, Paris, and Copenhagen. Isabelle serves different juries and boards. Her special interests lie with international cultural relations and cooperation, as well as EU cultural policy development. She holds a M. Phil in international cultural exchanges (Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble), M. Phil in history of international relations (Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes, Strasbourg), and Master in history of art and archaeology (Université des Sciences Humaines, Strasbourg).
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Researcher for the Italian National Research Council, Giovanna Battelli's research is focused on dairy research, with particular emphasis on lipophilic compounds and include: the identification of markers for the characterization of traditional and PDO cheeses, like fatty acids and terpenes; the study of the production and evolution of volatile flavor compounds in fermented food (cheese, yogurt, but also beer and wine) as the result of the biochemistry activity of the microbiota, with the aim to identify defects or to improve flavor characteristics; the study of nutraceutical value of cheeses and how to improve it feeding animals with diet containing high level omega3 fatty acids plants.
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I'm the CMO, babystep.tv working towards getting our first 100 million views of our videos. I am also the cofounder of thewonk.eu, THE content sharing platform for EU policy analysts. But above all I am a lucky husband and father of two boys.
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Yacine Kouhen is a Trainer and a Coach in Communication as well as a Copywriter. In the field of training, he focuses on Public Speaking (design and delivery of a presentation, body language, storytelling, self confidence), Visual Communication (Power Point, Prezi...) and Written Communication (Clear Writing for the Web, Copywriting...). He works/ has worked with many EU Institutions (Commission, Parliament, EFSA, REA, EESC, JRC...), Groups of Interests (CEMR, Food Drink Europe, Carbon Watch..), Private Companies (Linklaters, Bayer Crop), Business Schools, Phd Candidates, as well as the World Bank, TEDx Brussels... anyone and everyone really. His methods are based on a mix of his corporate and public affairs skills, intense sport at competitive level as well as arts (namely music, acting and writing). On another note, he also likes to develop various creative projects, such as the Eurobubble Series, the first web series on the life of young EU Affairs workers (best web series Award, Liège Festival 2013), short movies, short stories (award winning prize, welovewords 2014) and books (one published, one ongoing)
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Managing Director / Business Psychologist
I am a Business Psychologist* who heads up the Sten10 assessment design consultancy. I specialise in the creation of innovative psychological tests and other assessments to gain insight into people's behaviour, motivation and personality. I have spoken at the following conferences: Association of Business Psychology Annual Conference 2014 and 2015 Association of Graduate Recruiters Annual Conference 2015 I have also run sessions for Masters students and post graduates at the Universities of Kingston, Guildford and Greenwich. I have also run numerous smaller 'bitesize' sessions in a variety of contexts. The topics I cover include areas such as Unconscious Bias, Psychometrics, Personality at Work, How to Perform Well at Interview, Assessment Centre Design and the like. I have over 15 years' experience working across all areas of Occupational Psychology. Recent examples of my work include: - creating numerous situational judgement tests for graduate programmes - designing realistic job previews for banking and armed forces clients - delivering over 1,000 psychometric questions for major test publishers - assessing and developing senior leaders in an insurance firm - training buyers at a major food retailer in how to negotiate with their suppliers. - team build event at Tate Britain using MBTI International assignments include work in Barcelona, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and Sweden. * more formally, I am a Chartered Psychologist, Registered Occupational Psychologist with the Health Professionals Council and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. But that doesn't sound as catchy!
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