Speakers
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Tim Marshall Journalist, Broadcaster and Author
Tim was Diplomatic Editor and a Foreign Correspondent for Sky News. After thirty years’ experience in news reporting and presenting, he left full-time news journalism to concentrate on writing and analysis. He reported in the field from Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Following 9/11, he reported from the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. He has written for many of the national newspapers including the Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times.
Tim’s first book, Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, was a bestseller in former Yugoslavia and continues to be one of the most highly regarded accounts of that period. His book Prisoners of Geography has been published in more than 20 countries and languages and has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. This year the follow up, Power of Geography, was released and spent 12 weeks in the Sunday Times top ten chart.
Tim has been shot with bird pellet in Cairo, hit over the head with a plank of wood in London, bruised by the police in Tehran, arrested by Serbian intelligence, detained in Damascus, declared persona non grata in Croatia, bombed by the RAF in Belgrade, and tear-gassed all over the world. However, he says none of this compares with the experience of going to see his beloved Leeds United away at Millwall FC in London.
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Christine Armstrong Author and Researcher
Christine is a researcher, author and vlogger on the future of work. By exploring workplace culture, diversity, work-life balance and remote working, Christine examines the new challenges to the old ways of doing business.
She previously co-founded Jericho Chambers, an early example of flexible and hybrid work. She writes regularly for the Times and Telegraph and is a contributing editor of Management Today.
She is also the author of ‘The Mother of All Jobs: how to have children and a career and stay sane(ish)’, published by Bloomsbury. The book is based on six years of interviews with working parents, employers, leadership experts, and carers. The book was a finalist in the Business Book UK awards 2019.
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Professor Martin Elliott Speaker, Writer and Surgeon
Martin has a life-time record of clinical and academic success and an international reputation. He has held leadership roles in one of the world’s great children’s hospitals. He is an experienced Board Member of three public sector health care organisations and has private sector experience with consulting, software, and pharmaceutical industries. He is an experienced and popular public speaker in clinical, academic, public, and business settings. His experience has resulted in a network of contacts across healthcare. Martin is committed to the provision of optimal quality of care and service to patients and has had primary responsibility for that in several roles. He is committed to the objective measurement of team performance and to transparency. He has managed large budgets and delivered service, reform, and efficiency.
Martin graduated Medical School at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1973. After academic internships, he taught anatomy for a year in Newcastle, before entering surgical rotations in Southampton and Newcastle. He started cardiothoracic surgery in 1978 and simultaneously studied for his Doctorate (MD), studying the effect of open-heart surgery on intermediary metabolism. Martin then specialised in paediatric cardiac surgery from 1983, moving to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London in 1984 where he was appointed Consultant in 1985, and retiring in 2019. He has operated and taught throughout the world.
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Paris Lees Journalist, Campaigner, and Author
Paris is the Author of the critically acclaimed memoir What It Feels Like for a Girl, published by Penguin. She is also a Contributing Editor at British Vogue, and has written for the Guardian, VICE, and the Telegraph. She has received multiple awards for her journalism and work as an anti-bullying campaigner and an honorary doctorate from the University of Brighton. She was the first openly trans woman to present on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4 and also the first to appear on Question Time.
