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Nimble Thompson - Chairman |
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Nimble's background is as a commercial litigator of wide experience, both in England and internationally. Trained in London, he spent his legal life in Leeds becoming Managing Partner, and later Senior Partner of Eversheds in Leeds and Manchester. As the National Vice-Chairman of Eversheds, he was instrumental in the creation of what is one of the biggest European law firms. He became the Chairman of Leeds Metropolitan University in September 2000. |
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Leon de Costa - Chief Executive |
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Leon de Costa practised as a barrister for eight years from Furnival Chambers, the chambers of Andrew Mitchell QC. He attended London University and City University followed by the Inns of Court School of Law where he qualified as a Barrister. |
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Dr Alex Mehta - Communications Director |
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Alex was educated at Oxford University and awarded his doctorate in law and regulatory compliance. He attended the Inns of Court School of Law on a Sir Thomas More scholarship where he trained as a barrister. Alex qualified at the Chambers of Christopher Lockhart-Mummery QC and was an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies, Oxford. A Hardwicke scholar of Lincoln's Inn, Alex is regularly asked to provide expert commentary for the national and international media. |
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Conor Dufficy - Non-Executive Director |
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Conor is ex-Divisional Managing Director at Bank of America where he was Head of Foreign Exchange Trading. He was also the Bank's representative on the Executive Board of EBS.com. A well respected figure in the City, Conor has many years of experience in banking and wide spread contacts in the financial sector, having previously worked with JP Morgan and the Bank of Ireland. Conor has a BA in Legal Science from Trinity College, Dublin and is currently qualifying as a barrister. |
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Terry Bannister - Non-Executive Director |
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Terry has 30 years experience in advertising and public relations. He worked for Saatchi and Saatchi for 17 years, rising through the ranks to Joint Chief Executive of worldwide communications and finally as a Director of the company. He co-founded Warman & Bannister Advertising and Public Relations in 1991. |
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Subhash Shukla - Non-Executive Director |
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Subhash is a graduate of Warwick Business School with a proven track record of turnaround success in the IT industry. He gained much of his experience over sixteen years in sales and marketing at Xerox, followed by two years at a Dutch multinational and seven years as President of Ricoh UK Ltd. |
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ADVISORY PANEL |
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Dr Chris Whelan |
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LLB PhD (LSE). Associate Director, International Law Programmes, University of Oxford and formerly senior lecturer, University of Warwick School of law. Visiting appointments at University of California Berkeley, University of Texas School of law, University of South Carolina School of law and Ohio State University College of law. Dr Whelan is a consultant to the Office of Fair Trading, the National Consumer Council, the Dutch government and the Law Reform Commission of British Columbia. He also practises privately as a barrister from 3 Paper Buildings, the chambers of Michael Parroy QC where he specialises in Employment law. |
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Professor John Flood |
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John Flood is Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Westminster. He studied law at London School of Economics, Warwick and Yale. He received his PhD in sociology from Northwestern University. As a specialist in law and social science, he has researched and taught at the American Bar Foundation, Indiana University and the European University Institute. His research has included studies of lawyer-client interaction, arbitration, the globalization of law, transnational insolvency and consumer complaints in the financial services sector. |
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