Imperial College London,legally the Imperial College of Science,Technology and Medicine,is a public research university in London. Imperial grew out of Prince Albert's vision for an area of culture,including the Royal Albert Hall,Victoria &Albert Museum,Natural History Museum,and several Royal Colleges. In 1907,Imperial College was established by royal charter,unifying the Royal College of Science,Royal School of Mines,and City and Guilds of London Institute. In 1988,the Imperial College School of Medicine was formed by merging with St Mary's Hospital Medical School. In 2004,Queen Elizabeth II opened the Imperial College Business School.
Christopher Robert Smith,Baron Smith of Finsbury,PC is a British politician and a peer;a former Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister;and former chairman of the Environment Agency. For the majority of his career he was a Labour Party member. He was the first openly gay male British MP,coming out in 1984,and in 2005,the first MP to acknowledge that he is HIV positive. Since 2015 he has been Master of Pembroke College,Cambridge.
Eric Jack Pickles,Baron Pickles,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentwood and Ongar from 1992 to 2017. He served in David Cameron's Cabinet as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2015. He previously served as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2009 to 2010 and was later the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion from 2015 to 2017.
Sir William David Wiggin is a British Conservative Party politician,and a former Shadow Minister for Agriculture &Fisheries. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Herefordshire,previously Leominster,since the 2001 general election.
Owen William Paterson is a British former politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2010 to 2012 and Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from 2012 to 2014 under Prime Minister David Cameron. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Shropshire from 1997 until his resignation in 2021. Paterson was also the President of the Northern Ireland Conservatives.
Patrick Allen McLoughlin,Baron McLoughlin,is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he first became the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Derbyshire following the 1986 by-election. The constituency became the Derbyshire Dales for the 2010 general election;McLoughlin remained the seat's MP until 2019.
Alexander John Randall,Baron Randall of Uxbridge is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge from 1997 to 2010 and for Uxbridge and South Ruislip until 2015,before being awarded a life peerage. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Deputy Chief Whip between May 2010 and October 2013,as well as Environment Adviser to Theresa May until July 2019.
The Environment Agency (EA) is a non-departmental public body,established in 1995 and sponsored by the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),with responsibilities relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment in England.
Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green is a British businessman who was the chairman of the retail company the Arcadia Group. He owned the high street clothing retailers Topshop,Topman and Miss Selfridge from 2002 to 2020. As of May 2021,his net worth was estimated at £910 million.
William Lygon,7th Earl Beauchamp,,styled Viscount Elmley until 1891,was a British Liberal politician. He was Governor of New South Wales between 1899 and 1901,a member of the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith between 1905 and 1915,and leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords between 1924 and 1931. When political enemies threatened to make public his homosexuality he resigned from office to go into exile. Lord Beauchamp is often assumed to be the model for the character Lord Marchmain in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited.
Arup is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London which provides design,engineering,architecture,planning,and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment. The firm employs approximately 16,000 staff in over 90 offices across 35 countries around the world. Arup has participated in projects in over 160 countries.
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup,CBE,MICE,MIStructE,FCIOB was an English engineer who founded Arup Group Limited,a multinational corporation that offers engineering,design,planning,project management,and consulting services for building systems. Ove Arup is considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time.
Sir Philip Roy Hampton is a British businessman. He was the first chairman of UK Financial Investments Limited in 2008 and chairman of government-owned The Royal Bank of Scotland Group between 2009 and 2015. He has also chaired GlaxoSmithKline and J Sainsbury.
Alexander Jesse Norman is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2021 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010.
Sir Gerhard Jacob Zunz was a British civil engineer and former chairman of Ove Arup &Partners. He was the principal structural designer of the Sydney Opera House.
The London Clinic is a private healthcare organisation and registered charity based on the corner of Devonshire Place and Marylebone Road in central London. According to HealthInvestor,it is one of England's largest private hospitals.
Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax,known as Richard Drax,is a British Conservative politician,journalist and landowner,serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset since 2010.
Sir James Cameron Tudor,KCMG was a Barbadian politician and diplomat,who was a founding member of the country's Democratic Labour Party in 1955. He served on the first Provisional General Council and as the first General Secretary. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados,education minister,high commissioner to Britain,and United Nations ambassador,and was elected to both houses of the national legislature. He also worked as a broadcaster,lecturer and journalist.
Sir David Anthony Cathcart Simmons,KA,BCH,QC,LLM is a distinguished Caribbean jurist and politician:a former Chief Justice of Barbados,he also served as Attorney General.
Qatar –United Kingdom relations are the bilateral relations between the State of Qatar and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,covering a wide range of issues and activities of mutual interest.
