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The Speakers
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Alison
Cole
After
graduating from York University with a degree in
Politics, Alison gained a Masters in Politics from
Warwick University. She joined the CEGB's Parliamentary
and Government Liaison Unit as part of the graduate
placement programme and subsequently held a number
of senior positions in the Government and Parliamentary
Relations field. She was a key member of the privatisation
team, after which Alison took up a role as Government
and Regulatory Affairs Manager. Prior to her appointment
as Director of Corporate Communications for RWE
npower Alison also held the post of Head of Government
Relations and Parliamentary Affairs. Alison is married
with two daughters and a son.
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Andrew
Likierman
Andrew is Professor of Management
Practice at the London Business School (LBS), non-executive
Director of the Bank of England, Barclays Bank plc
and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. His previous
posts at LBS have included Deputy Principal and
Professor of Accounting and Financial Control. He
is currently researching, lecturing and consulting
on how organisations can improve their choice and
use of performance measures.
Andrew previously
worked in both public and private sectors. In the
private sector he ran a textile plant in Germany
and was Managing Director of the overseas division
of Qualitex Ltd. He also started and then sold his
own business selling business books. He has been
non-executive Chairman of the Economists’ Bookshops
Group and of the market research firm MORI Ltd.
In the public
sector he was a member of the Cabinet Office Central
Policy Review Staff (the "Think Tank") and recently
completed a 10-year period as one of the Managing
Directors of the UK Treasury. In his professional
capacity, Andrew is a past president of the Chartered
Institute of Management Accountants and has been
a member of a number of official inquiries, including
the “Cadbury Committee” on corporate governance.
His is currently on the Committee producing a code
of governance for the United Nations. He has written
3 books and over 150 articles.
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Charles
Handy
Charles describes himself nowadays as a social philosopher. He has moved through careers as an oil executive, a Business School Professor and BBC broadcasting and is widely acknowledged as a world leader in management thinking. His prolific authorship includes books which are standard works on bookshelves worldwide, most recently The New Philanthropists, The Elephant and the Flea, The Hungry Spirit and The Empty Raincoat. His concern for society and individuals as the world faces the changes that technology, demography and economics bring, has been awarded with a dozen doctorates, numerous prizes, and a CBE.
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Eric Peacock
Eric's early career was with
a Scottish manufacturing and trading company, operating
in both manufacturing and distribution in all Continents.
He has run subsidiary businesses and lived in Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa, Belgium, Holland, France,
Italy, Canada and Ireland.
Eric worked
as a Director of Missenden Abbey Management Centre
and was involved in the training and development
of FCO Commercial Staff worldwide. He has worked
with the Export Training Unit, the successful locally
engaged programme in Beijing in 1996. His last buy-in
involved Babygro, and as Chairman and Chief Executive
he took the company on to a full UK Stock Exchange
listing with growth from £2 - £21 million and 100
to 1200 people in five years.
Eric is a
visiting lecturer in both Small Business & Enterprise
and International Development at Buckinghamshire
College. He also teaches on the Distance Learning
MSC International Business programme, and has been
responsible for core module development in international
marketing, corporate strategy and HRM.
He is currently
Executive Director of Business Link Hertfordshire.
Business Link Hertfordshire is the only Business
Link in the Eastern Region to have exceeded its
chargeable service targets through its relationship
with OTS services.
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Jennifer
Chambers
Jennifer Chambers is a partner
in the Private Client department of Allen & Overy
LLP. She is the partner in charge of the Allen &
Overy Charity and Not for Profit group and advises
on a wide range of issues affecting charities including
the creation of charities, constitutional issues
and the liabilities of charity trustees. Her practice
includes advising high net worth individuals and
trustees on UK and international tax planning and
trust matters, estate planning and the creation
of onshore and offshore trusts such as financings
including the use of trusts and bare trust structures.
She also advises on the use of trusts in commercial
arrangements such as financings involving the use
of trusts and bare trust structures. Jennifer is
a member of the Charity Law Association, the European
Association for Planned Giving and the Society of
Trust and Estate Practitioners.
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Jenny Harrow
Jenny Harrow is Professor
of Voluntary Sector Management, Cass Business
School, City University. She is a member of the
School’s Centre for Charity Effectiveness, where
she leads the Centre’s research effort and its
Centre for Corporate Governance Research. She
is also Director of the Doctoral Programme for
the Management Faculty of the School. Her doctorate,
from the London School of Economics, examined
the development of the English University Settlements
. She is a trustee of a long-established South
London settlement and a disability grant-making
trust. Jenny has extensive academic and practitioner
experience in the voluntary and community sector,
with research interests including voluntary sector
management decisionmaking, charity regulation,
government-voluntary sector relations and curriculum
development in nonprofit education. A long standing
member of the US –based Association for Researchers
in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, she is secretary
of ARNOVA’s newest Special Interest Group, ‘Pracademics’.
Her most recent practice -based research, June
2006, has been for the British Association of
Settlements and Social Action Settlements, on
its ‘Sharing Without Merging’ (SWiM’) methodology
for community organisations.
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John Studzinski
John Studzinski is one of
the most creative and entrepreneurial philanthropists
to be found in the City today. John, a star investment
banker, has found the time and resources to support
the causes he believes in. He set up the Genesis
Foundation in 1996 to support young artists, playwrights
and musicians. He is also Chairman of Business
Action on Homelessness, a unique organisation
that changes businesses' perception of homelessness
and helps homeless people back into employment.
John was appointed as a
Trustee of the Tate Gallery in 1998; he serves
as a Life Trustee of the Sir John Soane's Museum
and is a Trustee of Human Rights Watch of New
York. In 2000 he received the Prince of Wales
Ambassador's Award in recognition of his support
for the homeless, and a year later, Pope John
Paul II made him a Knight of the Order of St Gregory.
John was born and raised in the USA and came to
the UK in the early '80s.
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John Williams
John Williams joined the Charity
Commission as a non-executive Commissioner in January
2005. He has a background in advertising, marketing
and corporate communications and now works as an
independent consultant specialising in reputation
management and communications strategy. He is a
co-founder and former Chairman of the corporate
communications consultancy Fishburn Hedges, having
started his career in consumer advertising with
J Walter Thompson. He has advised clients ranging
from the biggest multinational companies to government
departments and agencies, universities and several
charities.
John developed
a particular interest in corporate social responsibility
and also built a practice serving the voluntary
sector, covering corporate identity, public relations,
fundraising strategy and crisis management. He led
the external team that helped transform The Spastics
Society into Scope over a five-year period.
He has been
a volunteer in the charity sector for some years.
John is currently Chairman of the governance and
leadership think tank, Tomorrow’s Company and a
board member of Business in the Community. Until
recently, he was Deputy Chair of ChildLine and played
a central role in steering its merger with the NSPCC.
John is also a former trustee of the Family Welfare
Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts.
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Lord Taylor of Warwick
John David Beckett Taylor
was called to the Bar in 1978, when he won the
Gray's Inn Advocacy Award. In 1992, he unsuccessfully
contested the parliamentary seat of Cheltenham
for the Conservatives. He was created a life peer
in 1996 - at the age of 42 - at that time making
him one of the youngest and only black member
of the House of Lords. His interest in the media
is evidenced by his role as Vice President of
the British Board of Film Classification; Vice
Chairman of The All Party Parliamentary Media
Group and role as presenter with ITV, Sky and
the BBC (e.g. Crime Stalker, BBC1's System on
Trial with John Taylor, and The John Taylor programme
on BBC Radio2). As Vice President of the National
Small Business Bureau, Lord Taylor understands
and represents the needs of thousands of SMEs.
He is patron of the children's charities, Kidscape
and Parents for Children, as well as being a member
of the executive committee for Sickle Cell Anaemia
Relief. Lord Taylor is married to Lady Katherine,
a doctor of medicine - they have three children.
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Nigel
Morris
Nigel co-founded Capital One
Financial Services in 1994 and served as President
and Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman until
his retirement in 2004. Nigel has presented keynote
addresses at international forums hosted by The
Financial Times, BusinessWeek, and The American
Banker. His success at Capital One has also earned
him invitations to speak at some of the world’s
most prestigious gatherings of key business leaders,
including the Transatlantic Summit on Corporate
Citizenship in London and the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland. Some of Nigel’s awards include
“Entrepreneur of the Year” by London Business School;
“Most Influential Personalities in Financial Services”
and “Future Banker of the Year” by Future Banker;
and one of "20 Who Made it Happen" by CIO Magazine.
Nigel is on the board of New Philanthropy Capital,
a charity that advises donors on how to make the
greatest impact with their donations, as well as
a trustee of The Economist Group, Quanta Capital
Holdings and the London Business School. Nigel received
a Masters of Science from the London
Business School.
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Paul
Palmer
Professor Paul Palmer has
extensive knowledge of charity financial, management
and Governance issues. He is a member of the Charity
Commission SORP committee and research advisor to
the Charity Commission, an independent consultant
on Charities to UBS Wealth Management, and an independent
expert on charity dispute issues for courts and
arbitration. Professor Palmer has made Television
and radio appearances on charity issues and work
as a writer on 'practitioner' how to do books on
charity finance and websites
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Peter Cardy
Peter Cardy has worked in the
voluntary sector for over thirty years, starting
in adult education. Following periods as chief executive
at the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the
MS Society which was never out of the news while
he was there, he moved to Macmillan Cancer Support
in 2001. Macmillan is a pioneering organisation,
one of the ten largest charities in the UK, which
develops new and better ways of caring for people
affected by cancer from the time of diagnosis to
the end of life.
He
is Chairman of the Brain and Spine Foundation and
on the National Cancer Research Institute Board
for which he chairs the Lung Cancer Group. Peter
is a prolific speaker and writer, including a weekly
column for the leading voluntary sector trade journal,
and sails offshore whenever he can.
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Sir Richard Butler
Sir Richard Butler is trustee for the Pestalozzi Overseas Childrens Trust.
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