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David Arculus became a non-executive director in February 2006 and currently serves on the audit and nomination committees and as chairman of the personnel committee. He is a non-executive director of Telefonica SA, and was previously chairman of O2 plc from 2004 until it was acquired by Telefonica at the beginning of 2006. His previous roles include chairman of Severn Trent plc and IPC Group, chief operating officer of United Business Media plc and group managing director of EMAP plc. David Bell became a director in March 1996. He was appointed Pearson s director for people with responsibility for finding, keeping, rewarding and inspiring our employees across the Pearson Group. He is chairman of the Financial Times and Sadler s Wells Theatre. He is also chairman of Crisis, a charity for the homeless, Roehampton University, The Institute for War and Peace Reporting and the London Transport Museum.

John Plender has been a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times since 1981, an assignment he combined until recently with current affairs broadcasting for the BBC and Channel Four. He has a weekly column on economics and business on Mondays and also writes for the opinion pages.

Michael Oxley is a sales director for Ignites Europe, based at the Financial Times in London. Previously Michael has worked at the Times Educational Supplement, the Trader Media Group & Reed Elsevier working on advertising campaigns with direct clients and media agencies. Michael graduated with honours at the University of Gloucestershire where he studied Sports Science.

Peter Oxner is the volunteer coordinator for Men's Ministry at Naperville Presbyterian Church. His efforts in the community of men within our congregation reflect the mission of NPC: "to infect all people with a joy in God's glory and passion to become like Him". By investing in lay leadership, Peter coordinates what is already happening in the church. He desires to help connect men to gospel-centered ministry opportunities and life-giving relationships. Peter is the Midwest Sales Director for the Financial Times and works in Chicago. A graduate of San Jose State University and an alumnus of Northwestern University and Moody Bible Institute, Peter enjoys all outdoor family activities, sports (especially soccer) and is a history buff. Peter joined NPC in 1997 with his wife Erin after moving to Naperville in 1995. Peter & Erin have 4 children - Gabriel (10), Grace (8), Harrison (6) and Shea (3).

Adrian is the Milan correspondent for the Financial Times. While in Milan Adrian has covered the continuing Parmalat scandal, the attempted turnaround at Fiat, and will be covering the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Before covering Milan, Adrian was a New York correspondent for the Financial Times, where he covered a series of corporate scandals including the downfall of Enron.

Andrew Jack is a journalist with the Financial Times, and was the paper's Moscow correspondent between 1998 and 2004. He is author of "Inside Putin's Russia" (Granta/OUP) When Vladimir Putin was still an awkward technocrat plucked from obscurity by Boris Yeltsin to become prime minister in 1999, he was asked by journalists whom he considered to be his "comrades." He cited three names: Sergei Ivanov, Nikolai Patrushev and "Dima" Medvedev.

Brian Lapping is a programme-maker and historian, who started his career working as a journalist on The Guardian and The Financial Times. Brian's books include 'The Labour Government 1964-70', 'End of Empire' and 'Apartheid - A History'. His television factual dramas include 'Breakthrough at Reykyavik' and 'Countdown to War'...

Christopher Caldwell writes a weekly column on politics, culture and international affairs for the Financial Times. Mr Caldwell is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a contributing writer for the New York Times magazine.

David Cameron has personally endorsed the corporate responsibility practices of several blue chip companies that happen to be former clients of his most influential political adviser, the Financial Times has learnt. Clan at war over man who would be chief (The Scotsman) THEY were once one of the fiercest clans in Scotland - proud Highland warriors who were the first to rally to the support of Prince Charles Edward Stuart when he raised his standard at Glenfinnan in 1745.

Francis Hodgson is a photography critic for the Financial Times, and the former Head of Photographs at Sotheby's, London. A specialist in photography of many years? standing, Hodgson is unusual in having worked at a senior level both in the cultural and in the commercial aspects of photography. Hodgson was for some years the manager of the print room at the Photographers? Gallery in London. He later founded and directed Zwemmer Fine Photographs, a gallery specialised in photography, and has worked with several other galleries. Hodgson was also director of photography at Photonica, a major stock image library, where he was responsible for opening up the stock photography market to more artistic photography than had been considered possible. He was also at one time director of content at Eyestorm, the online art dealership. He has acted as representative and agent to photographers, and has been a writer and broadcaster on photography for many years. In another life, Hodgson authored "Only the Goalkeeper to Beat" (Macmillan 1998) a highly praised study of the role of the goalkeeper in soccer.

Harry Eyres established the Slow Lane, which celebrates the creative use of downtime, in January 2004. He has written on wine and food, travel, theatre, literature and music.