Dame Helen Alexander, Honorary Fellow at Hertford, announced as Chairman of UBM
Dame Helen Alexander has been announced as the new Chairman of UBM plc, a leading global business media company. UBM inform markets and bring the world’s buyers and sellers together at events, online and in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully.
Dame Helen is chairman of the Port of London Authority, Incisive Media and deputy chairman of esure Group Holdings, a non-executive director at Rolls-Royce Group plc, and senior adviser to Bain Capital. She was President of the CBI 2009-2011, and Chief Executive of the Economist Group until 2008, having joined the company in 1985 and been managing director of the Economist Intelligence Unit from 1993 to 1997. She was also a non-executive director of Centrica PLC from 2003 to 2011.
Dame Helen studied Geography at Hertford and is now an Honorary Fellow. She was awarded a CBE for services to publishing in 2004 and an DBE in 2011 for services to business.
Dr Richard Graham, Lecturer in Medicine, appointed Head of the Medical Branch of the Royal Naval Reserve.
The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) Medical Branch's primary function is delivering medical care to service personnel injured on operations. The branch provides a surge capability to increase the operational capacity of the UK’s Primary Casualty Receiving Ship, RFA ARGUS. The specialist skills of branch members are frequently used in support of OPERATION HERRICK in Afghanistan and on counter piracy operations. The Medical Branch has been an integral stakeholder in providing the highest quality trauma care on operations and providing instructors for pre-deployment training of defence medical service personnel.
Dr Graham is a lecturer in medicine at Hertford College, as well as a visiting senior lecturer at the University of Bath. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Emergencies in Radiology and supervises radiology trainees from the Severn Deanery. His areas of subspecialisation are Nuclear Medicine, diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal, trauma, endocrine and oncological radiology.
Dr Emma Smith's work on Shakespeare reveals a co-author
26 April 2012: Hertford's Fellow and Tutor in English, Dr Emma Smith and Professor Laurie Maguire (Professor of English Literature at Magdalen College) have published some research which suggests that All’s Well that Ends Well may be a collaboration between William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton.
Dr Smith said: 'We are not saying that Middleton and Shakespeare definitely worked together on All’s Well, but Middleton’s involvement would certainly explain many of the comedy's stylistic, textual and narrative quirks.
'The narrative stage directions - especially "Parolles and Lafew stay behind, commenting on this wedding" - look as though it is the point at which one author handed over to another.'
Further information can be found here.
Will Hutton giving Ebor lecture, 2 May 2012
Hertford's Principal, Will Hutton, will be the guest speaker at the next Ebor lecture. His lecture entitled It was bad capitalism that got us into this mess - good capitalism that will get us out will be given on the 2nd of May 2012 in York Minster. It will examine arguments for political change based on a firm moral framework in the context of this year's series theme The Good Society? Re-invigorating Public Life.
The Ebor Lectures are an annual series of lectures in response to the growing need for theology to interact with public issues in contemporary society. The lectures relate faith to public concerns including politics, economics, contemporary culture, religion and spirituality, society and globalisation, local and global Christianity.
Admission by ticket only begins at 6.30pm, and the lecture starts at 7pm. Tickets are free and can be booked online or by contacting the Ebor Lectures Co-ordinator on 01904 876474 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Further information is available here.
Will Hutton's Ownership Commission Report
Will Hutton's Ownership Commission Report - a two year inquiry into what constitutes good ownership across all forms of public and private ownership – was published on the 14th of March and launched in London with Business Secretary Vincent Cable.
Entitled Pluralism, Stewardship and Engagement, it proposes a range of initiatives to remove tax anomalies, create incentives and new enabling legal requirements that will help Britain build more middle sized businesses, employee owned companies, and co-operatives while reducing much of the short termism that plagues our public companies. It is available on ownershipcomm.org
