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Head Girl's Speaker Programme
Isabella Sankey, Director of Policy at Liberty
23 November, 7pm, Old Reference Library
Ms Sankey leads Liberty's parliamentary lobbying and policy development, working in particular on the protection of human rights in the context of counter-terror policy. Ms Sankey will be talking on human rights and her work with Liberty.
Eleanor Mills, Sunday Times Journalist
11 January, 7pm, Old Reference Library
A recent article by Ms Mills, 'The truth we hide from career women', discussed the challenge of balancing work and home life that career women face today. Ms Mills has written numerous magazine articles on this topic and spoken at a number of events and her talk is of great relevance to the Roedean community.
Phillip Eade, Author
1 February, 7pm, Old Reference Library
Mr Eade has worked as an English teacher, guidebook writer, criminal barrister and financial journalist, and for several years he was on the obituaries desk of the Daily Telegraph. He lives in London and the Welsh marches. Sylvia Queen of the Headhunters, his first book, was runner-up for the Biographers' Club Prize. His lastest book, Young Prince Philip, was described by the Sunday Times as ‘an excellent read’.
Nicholas Soames MP
2 March, 7pm, Theatre
Mr Soames has been a Member of Parliament for 27 years, representing Mid Sussex since 1997 (he was previously MP for Crawley). Between November 2003 and May 2005 he served as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence and as a member of the Shadow Cabinet. Mr Soames, well-known for his interesting speeches, will be speaking on a range of topical matters.
Please support these events and help get the Speaker Programme off to a flying start. Email your attendance to events@roedean.co.uk
Speech Day 2011
Dr Gillian Tett
9.30am, Saturday 12 November
Speaker details
Gillian Tett is the US managing editor of the Financial Times. She leads the editorial development of the paper’s US edition and of US news on FT.com.
Previously, Dr Tett was assistant editor responsible for the FT’s markets coverage. She has also served as capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, Tokyo correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.
Dr Tett was named Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) at the British Press Awards and Senior Financial Journalist of the Year (2007) at the Wincott Awards.
She is the author of New York Times bestseller Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little Brown, UK and Simon and Schuster, US) published in May 2009, and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003). Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the Spear’s Book Awards in 2009.
Before joining the Financial Times in 1993, Dr Tett was awarded a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge based on field work in the former Soviet Union. While pursuing the PhD, she freelanced for the FT and the BBC. She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.
