Media Mary Berry (Royal High, Bath) Celebrity chef – judge on BBC series ‘The Great British Bake Off’, writer and journalist
Politics and Civil Service • Margaret Bryan (Croydon) British Diplomat – first ambassador to Panama and GDST Associate
• Pippa Harris (Oxford) Film Producer, Neal Street Productions – production credits include Starter for Ten, Jarhead, and Revolutionary Road
• Baroness Manningham-Buller (Northampton) Former Director General of MI5 and life-peer
• Bettany Hughes (Notting Hill & Ealing) Historian and broadcaster, well known television series on The Spartans and Helen of Troy • Becky Mantin (Norwich) ITV Weather Reporter • Miriam Stoppard OBE (Central Newcastle) Doctor, author of the Children’s Medical Handbook, television presenter and agony aunt Non-profit and charity • Dr Mary Baker MBE (Bromley) Former CEO of Parkinsons Disease Society and President of European Federation of Neurological Associations • Claire Hicks MBE (Brighton & Hove) Director of Impact Foundation, awarded MBE for services to International Development • Dame Mary Marsh (Birkenhead) Former CEO of NSPCC, independent nonexecutive Director of HSBC Bank plc
• Esther McVey (Belvedere) Conservative MP for Wirral West, former TV Presenter; GDST Associate • Dame Stella Rimington (Nottingham) Former Director General of MI5, and first female DG of MI5. Author of several spy fiction novels Sport • Sam Davies (Portsmouth) World-class yachtswoman (4th in 2009 Vendee Globe) • Sam Eve (Ipswich) Member of the first all female team to complete the polar challenge; GDST Associate • Karen Pickering MBE (Brighton & Hove) Swimmer – Olympic Gold medallist Swimmer; GDST Associate