Building like fury: joining up to level up - Building Back Healthier Tuesday, 8th June 2021, 11:30am - 1:00pm (UK) HOSTS Michael Salter-Church MBE, Director of External Affairs & Policy, Openreach After a career in Westminster, including serving as a Special Advisor in No10 to David Cameron (where he led on broadcasting and equal marriage), Michael served as Head of Public Affairs for Sainsburys (including through their acquisition of Argos) before joining Openreach where he leads on engagement with the national Governments and stakeholders. He founded LGBT+ Pride in London and led the volunteer team as it became the third largest annual one-day event in the capital. The work of the volunteers was recognised with the award of The Queen’s Award for Volunteering. He is a member of the organising committee for the Ultimate News Quiz, the leading annual fundraising event for two charities, Action for Children and Restless Development, and is an elected member of the governing Council of the National Trust. Will Black, Head of Policy, Openreach Will has been Head of Policy at Openreach for three years leading on engagement with Government policy makers, trade bodies and third parties. He also leads on research, including the study that showed there could be a £59 billion boost to productivity if the UK had a full fibre broadband network. His previous roles include Senior Policy Advisor at the Federation of Small Businesses. Will studied History and Politics at Oxford University. CHAIR Neal Lawson, Partner, Jericho Chambers Neal is Director of the good society pressure group Compass and was author of All Consuming (Penguin, 2009) and co-editor of The Progressive Century (Palgrave, 2001). He serves on the Advisory Board of the social democracy journal Renewal which he helped found. He writes on sites such as the Guardian, New Statesman, Prospect and Open Democracy. He has worked as a trade union researcher, an advisor to Gordon Brown and ran a communications company. He is a partner at the progressive communicators Jericho Chambers where he works on the global responsible tax project. Neal has been described by the late Zygmunt Bauman as “one of the most insightful and inventive minds on the British political stage”, elsewhere as “the most optimistic commentator in western Europe” and as the “Eyore of the left” by the Sunday Times. RAPPORTEUR Matthew Gwyther, Partner, Jericho Chambers Matthew edited Management Today for 17 years and during that time won the coveted BSME Business Magazine Editor of the year on a record five occasions. During a fifteen-year career as a freelance, he wrote for the Sunday Times magazine, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Observer, GQ and was a contributing editor to Business magazine. Matthew is the main presenter on BBC Radio 4’s In Business programme.
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