- Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade is Professor of Journalism at London’s City University and has been a media commentator since 1992, most notably for "The Guardian". He also writes a column for the London "Evening Standard". He has been a journalist for 41 years and has worked for most of Britain’s national newspapers. He was editor of the "Daily Mirror" (1990-91), …
- John Fox
(Anthony) John Fox is a British statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia. He was born on April 25 1946, the son of Fred Frank Fox OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London (BSc) and Imperial College London (PhD). He was a statistician at the Employment Medical Advisory Service, 1970-5 and then the Medical Statistics Division of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) until 1979.
- John Palmer
John Palmer (born 25th September, 1959 in an airplane between London and Malta) is a composer of instrumental and electroacustic music. Palmer started playing the piano at the age of 6 and composing at the age of 15. He graduated in Piano Studies from the Conservatory of Music in Lucerne, Switzerland, having undertaken courses in composition and experimental improvisation with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar.
- John Palmer
John Palmer (25.9.1959) is a composer of contemporary music (acoustic and electroacoustic). Palmer started playing the piano at the age of 6 and composing at the age of 15. He graduated in Piano Studies from the Conservatory of Music in Lucerne, Switzerland, having undertaken courses in composition and experimental improvisation with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar.
- Roger Jowell
Professor Roger Jowell is a British social statistician and academic. He was born in South Africa, and was active there in left-wing politics. <blockquote> "As soon as I graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1964, I came to Britain - initially just to gain a broader perspective on my life. It wasn't that I had to leave, although as President of the Students’ Union I’d been heavily involved in student politics and anti-apartheid activities.
- Alan Sugar
Sir Alan Michael Sugar is an English businessman. After leaving school at 16, Sugar started selling car aerials and electrical goods out of a van he had bought with his savings of £100. He now has an estimated fortune of £830m. and was ranked 84th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007. Despite being best known as a technology businessman, most of Sugar's wealth now derives from his property portfolio in Mayfair, rather than business ventures.
- David Marks
David Marks is a psychologist and professor at City University in London, UK. After completing his PhD at Sheffield University he migrated to New Zealand where he taught at the University of Otago. In 1986 he returned to the UK as Head of the School of Psychology at Middlesex Polytechnic before moving to City University in 2000. He founded and edits the Journal of Health Psychology (Who's Who, 2007).
- Mario Davidovsky
Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions under the name "Synchronisms" which during live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electro-acoustic sounds played from a tape. (electro-acoustic music is also called electronic music.)
- Francis Deng
Dr Francis Mading Deng is Research Professor of International Politics, Law and Society at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he is also the Director of a newly established Center for Displacement Studies. He has served as Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Secretariat, as Ambassador of Sudan to Canada, the Scandinavian countries and the United States of America, and as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
- Edward Luce
Edward Luce is the Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times, London. Earlier he was their South Asia Bureau Chief based at New Delhi. He is the son of the Tory politician Richard Luce (Baron Luce). Luce studied at various boarding schools around Sussex. He graduated in politics, philosophy and economics from the University of Oxford and did his post graduation degree in newspaper journalism from City University, London.
- Brendan Barber
Brendan Barber (b. 3 April 1951, Southport, Lancashire) has been the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) since June 2003. He was educated at St Mary's College, Sefton, an independant day school, and City University, where he earned a BA Hons in social sciences in 1974. He spent a year as a researcher for the Ceramics, Glass and Mineral Products Industry Training Board. In 1975 he got his first job at the TUC as a policy officer.
- Jack Dangermond
Jack Dangermond is the co-founder and president of ESRI, a privately-held Geographic Information Systems software company that is headquartered in Redlands, California. In 1969, he co-founded ESRI with his wife, Laura. Originally, the company concentrated on land use analysis, but increasingly focused on developing GIS software. ESRI became a leader in the GIS industry during the 1980s and continues to dominate.
- Ebrahim Moosa
Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion and Director of the Center for Study of Muslim Networks at Duke University. Moosa earned his `alimiyya degree in Islamic and Arabic studies from Darul Uloom Nadwatul `Ulama, one of India's foremost Islamic seminaries in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He also has a BA degree from Kanpur University, and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the City University in London.
- Natasha Barrett
Natasha Barrett began working seriously with electroacoustic composition during a master's degree in analysis and electroacoustic composition, studying with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham (UK). This study also gave her the opportunity to work with BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) which has greatly influenced her current work, and lead on to a doctoral degree in composition supervised by Denis Smalley, awarded in 1998 at City University (London, UK).
- Frances Cairncross
Frances Anne Cairncross CBE (born 30 August 1944, Otley, England) is a British economist, journalist and academic. She is the daughter of economist Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross (Alec Cairncross) and the niece of John Cairncross. She became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford in October 2004. Previously, she was on the staff of "The Economist" for 20 years, most recently as management editor. She was on the staff of "The Guardian" from 1973 to 1984, …
- Robert Worcester
Sir Robert Worcester , a Governor of the English Speaking Union, is the Founder of MORI (Market & Opinion Research International), London, and now an International Director of Ipsos Group, Paris, and Chairman of the Ipsos Public Affairs Research Advisory Board. He is a Past-President of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR).
- Durmuş Yılmaz
Durmuş Yılmaz is a Turkish economist and currently Governor of the Central Bank of the Turkish Republic. Born in the western Anatolian city of Uşak in 1947, Yılmaz obtained a B.S. degree at City University in London, UK and received his M.A. degree from the University College, London. Yılmaz joined the Central Bank of Turkey in 1980 and started to work in the Foreign Debt Rescheduling Division. Then he served in the area of Exchange Rates and Reserve Management.
- Ed Mayo
Ed Mayo is a leading British thinker in the fields of economics, community and consumer issues. He is Chief Executive of the British National Consumer Council (NCC). Mayo was educated at Downing College, Cambridge and City University business school. After a short period as a management consultant at Anderson Consulting, Mayo joined the World Development Movement, serving as acting Director until 1992.
- Robert Birley
Sir Robert Birley (14 July, 1903-22 July, 1982) was an English educationalist who was headmaster of Charterhouse School, then Eton College, and an anti-Apartheid campaigner. Robert Birley began his career as a history teacher at Eton in 1926 and was then appointed headmaster of Charterhouse in 1935. During this time, he authored the Fleming Report, 1944, on the relationship between public schools and mainstream education. After World War Two, he became, in 1947, …
- Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden (born 1966) is a Scottish poet. Lumsden was born in St Andrews. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1991. His first book "Yeah Yeah Yeah" was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in the Best First Collection section. His second collection "The Book of Love" was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
- David Grimaldi
David Grimaldi (entomologist) (born September 22, 1957) is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect systematics and paleontology, and evolutionary biology.
- Anne Snelgrove
Anne Christine Snelgrove (born August 7, 1957, Wokingham, Berkshire) is the Labour Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Swindon South. She was elected in the 2005 general election. She is Parliamentary Private Secretary to Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Health. She was educated at Ranelagh School in Bracknell, King Alfred's College, Winchester and City University, London. She is a member of the Co-operative Party, Amicus and Amnesty International.
- James Humphreys
James Humphreys is a writer and political campaigner who was born 1967 in Cambridge, UK. Author of psychological thrillers "Sleeping Partner" and "Riptide". Civil servant in the Department of the Environment (1992-1997) and Prime Minister's Office (1998-2003). Author of "Negotiating in the European Union" and various articles. Currently visiting Professor of Government at City University and director of political campaign consultancy Woodnewton Associates.
- Andrew Dilnot
Andrew William Dilnot CBE (born 19 June 1960), economist and broadcaster, has been Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford since October 2002. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's series on numbers, "More or Less" and of documentaries for British television. Dilnot was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford and of the Institute of Actuaries, …
- John Loder
John Loder (April 7 1946 - August 12 2005) was a British sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios, as well as a former member of EXIT and co-founder of the Southern Records distribution company with his wife Sue. He was also the studio engineer of choice for Crass Records, and was often considered to be the bands' '9th member'. Loder died of a brain tumour.
- Meliz Serman
Meliz Serman (born in 1983) is best known for her appearance on the Reality TV programme "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?". She was known as "Sexy Maria". She has a BMus and Masters in Music Performance and BA(Hons) Music from City University and voice training at Guildhall. Meliz is currently studying a Masters in Music Performance Studies. She also plays violin and piano.
- Sharon Maguire
Sharon Maguire is a British writer and director. She made her directorial debut in 2001 with "Bridget Jones's Diary", the film version of English writer Helen Fielding's book. Not only did Fielding approve of the adaptation, but she also based the character of Bridget's friend Shazzer, featured in the "Bridget" books and films, on Maguire. Maguire's received her Broadcast Journalism Diploma from City University in 1989.
- Anjali Rao
Anjali Rao is a journalist and anchor of CNN International's news and business program "TalkAsia" since January 2006. Rao often co-anchors with Andrew Stevens live from CNN’s Asia headquarters in Hong Kong, her birthplace. Before joining CNN, Rao worked as a producer and reporter at Hong Kong's Wharf Cable Television and worked at Channel 7 in Melbourne, Australia.
- Colin Cherry
Colin Cherry (1914 - 1979) was a British cognitive scientist whose main contributions were in focused auditory attention, specifically regarding the cocktail party problem. This concerns the problem of following only one conversation while many other conversations are going on around us. Cherry used shadowing tasks to study this problem, which involve playing two different auditory messages to a participant's left and right ears and instructing them to attend to only one.
- Ellie Crisell
Ellie Crisell (born 1976 in County Durham, UK), is an English journalist and television presenter. Crisell currently works on the BBC's children's news bulletin program "Newsround" on CBBC, "Newsround Extra"; and as an occasional presenter on BBC News 24
- William Castell
A graduate of the City of London College, Sir William joined Amersham plc in 1989 as Chief Executive. After GE acquired Amersham plc in April 2004, Sir William was appointed a Vice Chairman of the General Electric Company and became the CEO of GE Healthcare, the combination of the Amersham and the GE Medical businesses and, in July 2005, became the Chairman of GE Healthcare. In April 2006 Sir William retired as a Vice Chairman of GE.
- James J. Greco
James J. Greco is the chief executive officer of Bruegger's Enterprises Inc., parent company of Bruegger's Bagel Bakeries, headquartered in Burlington, Vermont. Before joining Bruegger's, Greco was CEO of Fieldbrook Farms, Inc. from 1996 to 2002, a $100 million manufacturer of private label ice cream and frozen desserts. While at Fieldbrook Farms, Greco designed and executed a strategic plan to revive the company, doubling sales and increasing productivity.
- Philip Dawid
(Alexander) Philip Dawid (born 1 February 1946) is Pearson Professor of Statistics at University College London and a leading proponent of Bayesian statistics. He was educated at the City of London School, Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Darwin College, Cambridge. He was lecturer in statistics at University College London from 1969 to 1978. He was then Professor of Statistics at The City University until 1981, when he returned to UCL as a reader, …
- Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
Zakka Iwas (') is the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church. The patriarchate is based in Damascus. As is traditional for the head of the church, he has adopted the name Ignatius. Being the first patriarch to be named Zakka, his name is often written as Ignatius Zakka I Iwas. His full titulary is: : :transliteration: :English: His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, …
- Tom Arthurs
Tom Arthurs is a jazz trumpeter from Northamptonshire, England. Having studied under Barak Schmool at City University, he has been an active member of the F-IRE Collective. His first band, Centripede, came from a Peter Whittingham Award, and his next album, Squash Recipe, was a trio with piano and drums. He is rapidly developing a reputation as a new generation easily taking the instrument beyond a foundation set by Kenny Wheeler.
- Rachel Zadok
Rachel Zadok is a writer and a Whitbread First Novel Award nominee (2005). She is a graduate of the Certificate in Novel Writing course, run by the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning at City University, London. Zadok was born in South Africa in 1972 to a South African mother and an Israeli father and grew up in Kensington a white middle-class suburb of Johannesburg. She later studied Fine Art and worked as a freelance graphic designer.
- Louis Nashelsky
Louis Nashelsky, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Technology at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is also Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Technology. Engineering and science students around the western world will be familiar with the names Boylestad and Nashelsky. With his colleague Robert Boylestad at Queensborough College, …
- Robert Boylestad
Robert Boylestad, was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Technology at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is currently retired. Engineering and science students around the western world will be familiar with the names Boylestad and Nashelsky. With his colleague Louis Nashelsky at Queensborough College, they were the authors of many fundamental publications on electronic devices and circuits.
- Alexandra de Scheel
Alexandra de Scheel is the daughter of Peter Michael de Scheel and his wife, née Princess Antoinette Maria Anna Magdalena Cecilie Georgine Reuss, of the House of Reuss. She graduated Institut Le Rosey in 2002, and is currently residing in London and attending City University.
- Robert Bellinger
Sir Robert Ian Bellinger, GBE DSc was Lord Mayor of London in 1966. Born in Gloucestershire his family moved to London. After his father's death he started work at the age of 14 as an office boy. He studied accountancy at evening classes allowing him to join the wholesale grocers Kinloch. He rose through the ranks to become chairman in 1946 which he held until retirement in 1975.