Brie is Head of Community Partnerships for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Facebook - a new team central to Facebook's mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.
Prior to joining Facebook, Brie launched the petition platform Change.org in the UK, starting as their UK Director before leading their work across Europe.
Brie has over a decade of experience in online campaigning, empowering people to use digital tools to start, grow and sustain communities and campaigns, having worked with a range of International NGO's helping them harness the power of technology to build global movements.
Brie was named Top 35 Women Under 35 by Management Today, one of the BBC's top 100 Women of 2014 and awarded Women of the Future for Tech and Digital.
Ben studied for a PhD in the landscape history of 18th and 19th century estates. He is now the Director General of Historic Houses, representing 1,500 of the UK’s historic houses, castles and gardens, some of which featured in his PhD.
Following graduation from Nottingham, Ben became a Fast Stream entrant to the civil service and spent ten years working at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
On leaving the civil service, Ben took on the role of Head of Policy at the National Trust, before becoming its Regional Director in the East of England. Ben joined Historic Houses in 2016 and was awarded an OBE for services to cultural heritage (particularly during the Covid19 pandemic) in the 2021 New Year Honours list.
John's career at the University of Colorado Boulder, has involved the Quaternary history of ice sheets in both hemispheres but with a focus on the North American, Greenland, Antarctic, and Iceland ice sheets.
The research has involved both field and ship-based expeditions with an emphasis on the chronology of events, the glacial isostatic impact of large ice sheets on crustal response, and the impact of ice sheet collapse (Heinrich events) on sediment delivery to the North Atlantic. This has included some of the first attempts to map the pattern of retreat and crustal rebound of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
The observational aspect of John's research has been balanced by collaboration with colleagues to model the global relative sea level response, the changes in ice sheet mass, and the rate of sea level fall associated with glacial inception.
Following postgraduate studies in Landscape Architecture, Peter focused initially on urban regeneration and land reclamation for local government before joining a multi-national environmental consultancy where typical projects included the design of major business parks.
Setting up Insite Environments in 1992, several large-scale masterplanning projects followed including regenerating Newcastle Quayside as a new business quarter. An interest in computing acquired at Nottingham was also reawakened and the company went on to pioneer the application of graphics technology - particularly Virtual Reality - to environmental impact assessment, improving the accuracy and predictability of visual impact assessment. Insite's real-time 3D modelling has since underpinned the planning and design of several UK infrastructure projects including National Grid transmission schemes and major UK airports, ports and tunnels.
Rob has spent his career in senior executive roles in global automative and aerospace procurement and supply chain management. Most recently, this has been with Jaguar land Rover as their Global Purchasing Director during their new model transformation. Prior to this, he has held posts at Rolls Royce Aerospace, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Europe and BMW.
Earlier in his career, Rob joined Toyota at the start-up of their European operations, and ultimately became Vice President of Purchasing Europe. Roles in Procurement and Supply Chain typically involve looking after multi billion pound annual expenditures, and the strategic selection, negotiation and operational management of global supply networks.
After graduation in July 2018, Sarem began her career as a researcher for a non-governmental organization – Center for Civilians in Conflict – in November 2018, in the Nigerian Country Office.
She has been responsible for the design and implementation of research that has culminated in reports and policy/issue briefs. Sarem has taken on project management roles by acting as the monitoring, evaluation and learning focal point. She has worked on improving documentation, data management and the implementation of projects by keeping track of donor requirements, reviewing project progress and ensuring that set targets are achieved.
One of her major achievements is being the lead writer for a European Union annual donor report that was highly praised by the donor and organisation.
Dame Mary graduated with First Class BSc Hons in Geography in 1968. She has been Chair of Trustees, at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health since November 2016.
She is a cross sector leader who is also currently a non-executive director of HSBC Bank plc, a member of the Governing Body at London Business School, a Trustee of Teach First and Director on the board of the LSO (London Symphony Orchestra). She is a member of the Asia Advisory group for the University of Nottingham.
Following the earlier stages of her life journey as a Geography teacher, including having been head teacher of two comprehensive schools in the 1990s, she was Chief Executive of the children's charity NSPCC and then Founding Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme.
In October 2019, Mary was voted by readers of Charity Times, a UK magazine, as one of the 25 most influential charity leaders.
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