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Luke O’Shea is Director of Innovation at University College London Hospitals, a large academic multi-hospital group. He has held senior leadership roles across government and was previously Director of Clinical Policy and Operations at NHS England. He was a Harkness Fellow at University of California San Francisco in 2015, publishing in the NEJM on integrated care. Prior to that he worked in a range of government departments including leading work on early year services at the Prime Minister’s strategy unit, as a private secretary to a children’s minister and leading cross government working on ageing.
In the 1980s and 90s, Martin Sixsmith (HF 1977-79) was the BBC’s correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw, Between 1997 and 2002 he worked for the British Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary to several cabinet ministers. He is now an author, presenter and journalist. He worked as a consultant on the BBC2 political sitcom The Thick of It and the 2010 movie In the Loop. In 2013, his book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee was adapted into the film Philomena, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan (playing Martin). It was nominated for four Oscars. His non-fiction books include My Sins Go With Me, Ayesha’s Gift,; Moscow Coup and The War of Nerves – Inside the Cold War Mind. In 2014 he presented the BBC’s 25-part history of psychology and psychiatry. He is currently working on a book about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
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