ei Ambassadors
The eiAmbassadors work closely with Editorial Intelligence to match their expertise with the eiNetwork and ei’s clients in order to continually refresh and enrich the hub of knowledge and connections at Editorial Intelligence.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – Writer and Commentator
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a journalist who has written for The Guardian, Observer, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Evening Standard, The Mail and other newspapers and is now a regular columnist on The Independent and London’s Evening Standard. She is also a radio and television broadcaster and author of several books. From 1996 to 2001 she was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre. She is also a regular international public speaker. In June 1999, she received an honorary degree from the Open University for her contributions to social justice. She is a Vice President of the United Nations Association, UK and has also agreed to be a special ambassador for the Samaritans. She is the President of the Institute of Family Therapy. She was also appointed Visiting Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln.
Giles Gibbons -CEO & Partner, Good Business
Giles is a founding partner and CEO of Good Business, the strategy consultancy that helps, and challenges its clients, made up of companies & charities to stay ahead of societies every changing expectations by being more progressive in what they do and how they do it. Good Business’ has diverse clients from major global brands like Kelloggs and Coca-Cola to start-ups, and charities including the Gates Foundation.
In addition, Giles is the Co-Chairman of ‘We Are What We Do’, a behaviour change social enterprise, a Trustee of the Big Society Network and a fellow of Wellington College. Most recently Giles set up the Sustainable Restaurant Association, a social enterprise which supports restaurants globally to become more sustainable.
Giles’ is also an author, with his first book published in 2002 and was one of the authors for the Economist’s Book on Brands and Branding. He has also written numerous columns for The Times and is regularly invited to speak about roles of organisations in society, entrepreneurialism and behaviour change.
Book(s) I recommend: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Stoner by John Williams; the Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Favourite Art form/Artists: Bill Mills for capturing the essence of Wales (and its weather…)
Favourite Place: Essouira, Morocco
Viv Groskop – Columnist, Observer
Viv Groskop is a columnist, critic and comedian. She writes for The Independent and The Observer and appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 and TV's Sky News. She is artistic director of the Independent Bath Literature Festival which takes place annually in March. She discovered stand-up in her late thirties and is now making up for lost time, reaching the Finals of Funny Women 2012 and winning Spontaneity Shop’s Maestro Improv 2012. Her first book I Laughed, I Cried: How OneWoman Took on Stand-Up and (Almost) Ruined Her Life (Orion) is about an attempt to perform 100 gigs in 100 nights, described as "heroic" by The Times and "frankly psychotic" by the Mail on Sunday. @VivGroskop
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
Toby Mundy – CEO, Atlantic Books
Toby Mundy is the Publisher and CEO of the award-winning Independent publisher, Atlantic Books, which he founded in 2000. He is also on the steering committee of the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain’s leading award for non-fiction; the editorial board of the monthly current affairs magazine, Prospect (where he was a NED for 7 years) and the advisory board of the Legatum Institute, a non-partisan think tank in London.
Book(s) I recommend: May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
Favourite Art form/Artists: Portraiture
Favourite Place: The Languedoc
Desert Island Dinner Companion: Barack Obama
Sanjay Nazerali – Chief Strategy Officer, Carat Global
Sanjay started his career working for Philip Gould and Peter Mandelson on the New Labour brand, going on to be Senior Vice President, Marketing, at MTV Europe. He left MTV to found the Marketing Top 50 insights agency, The Depot, before joining the BBC as Controller of Marketing, Communications and Audiences for Global News. In 2013 Sanjay was appointed Global Chief Strategy Officer at Carat.
Book(s) I recommend: An Intimate History of Humanity: Theodore Zeldin
Favourite Art form/Artists: Ceramic: Edmund de Waal, Rupert Spira, Julian Stair
Favourite Place: Granada, Spain
Desert Island Dinner Companion: Alive – Grayson Perry; dead – Federico Garcia Lorca
Carla Vargas Puccio- Director of International Communications, IESE Business School
Carla Vargas Puccio is Director of International Communications at IESE Business School. Originally from Lima (Perú), Carla joined IESE’s Madrid Campus in 2005. In 2007 she moved to London from where she heads the Department.
A Communications graduate from the University of Navarre, Carla worked as a journalist for several newspapers and TVs in Spain and in PR & Marketing for several charities and companies. Carla holds an MA in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London.
An avid traveler and sports devotee, Carla has lived in six countries and travels frequently, always in company of her much needed trainers for morning runs. She has taken part in several half marathons and successfully completed her first full marathon in 2012, which she was running in support of Charity Teenage Cancer Trust. She loves music, music festivals, windsurfing and cats (her’s is called Gordi.)
Book(s) I recommend: La Ciudad y los Perros (The City and the Dogs) by Mario Vargas – Llosa
Making an Exit by Sarah Murray
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Favourite Art form / Artists: Music: Pearl Jam, Bob Marley, Editors, The Maccabees.
Favourite Place: London
Tarifa
Desert Island Dinner Companion: Eddie Vedder, my husband.
Alice Sherwood
Stefan Stern – Writer and Consultant
Stefan Stern has been writing on business, politics and management for over two decades. His career has taken in stints at Euromoney, International Management magazine, the BBC, the Industrial Society (now The Work Foundation), Management Today magazine, FTdynamo.com, and a period freelancing. In 2006 he became the Financial Times’ management columnist. He wrote that column for over four years before joining Edelman in August 2010. He left in July 2013 to return to full-time writing and consulting.
In October 2010 Stefan was appointed Visiting Professor in management practice at the Cass Business School, London. He is a Fellow of the RSA and contributing editor at Management Today magazine. He continues to write for the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph and the FT.
Book(s) I recommend: L'Etranger by Albert Camus – the difficulty of telling the truth!
Small World by David Lodge – I have never enjoyed a book more than that one.
Favourite Art form / Artists: Titian's Assumption of Mary in the Friars' church in Venice is hard to beat // Carol Reed's The Third Man is The Best Film Ever Made.
Favourite Place: Vienna
Desert Island Dinner Companion: Franz Kafka
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