TEDxLondonBusinessSchool

Speakers

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• Ahmed Khan

  Ahmed Khan is a cellular agriculture consultant and the founder of CellAgri, a news and market insights startup focusing on the future of food with cellular agriculture. Having tracked the cellular agriculture field for over 8 years, CellAgri provides the latest updates and insights on a range of topics and trends in the industry. CellAgri’s platform also tracks all the major and upcoming players in the field and shares our insights regularly through CellAgri’s weekly newsletter and through insight reports. Ahmed is the author of the first cellular agriculture eBook, ‘An Introduction to Cellular Agriculture,’ an easy-to-read introduction to the field and has organized a range of virtual events for the ecosystem. In 2019, Ahmed co-founded Cellular Agriculture Canada, a non-profit organization advancing and promoting the cellular agriculture industry in Canada. Ahmed has an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge and completed his undergraduate studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

• Aritra Sutradhar

  Student

  Aritra Sutradhar has spent his career building at the intersection of creativity, technology, and business. He began in education strategy, designing higher education programmes across India and Africa, before moving into product and brand roles at a global Data & AI company headquartered in Singapore. Music has remained a parallel discipline. Trained in Indian classical violin and voice, Aritra has engaged with music through multiple lenses — as a composer, performer, educator, and entrepreneur — including leading international concert tours and building performing arts programmes in India. A London Business School MBA, Aritra led the Tech Club podcast and the Education Club before joining the Boston Consulting Group in London. He also runs The Graduate Network, a cross-school community of students and alumni spanning leading universities across the UK, Europe, and North America, including Oxford, Cambridge, INSEAD, Imperial, Stanford, and Columbia.

• Chris Caldwell

  Chris Caldwell is a renewable energy entrepreneur, clean tech investor, and climate communicator exploring how finance, technology, and leadership shape our climate future. An MBA graduate of London Business School, he left investment banking to build renewable energy projects from the ground up. As CEO of United Renewables and related ventures, his teams have delivered more than 40 clean energy projects across wind, solar, hydro, and anaerobic digestion. Through his podcast, Conversations on Climate, and international keynote talks, Chris challenges leaders to rethink what progress means and to act while there is still time

• Denira Coleman

  Denira Coleman is a South African Greek opera singer, entrepreneur, and MBA candidate at London Business School. After a decade of performing professionally on international stages, she founded DSC For Artists, a digital marketing consultancy dedicated to helping young artists build sustainable and visible careers on and beyond the stage. With first-hand experience across both artistic practice and commercial strategy, Denira’s perspective is informed by years spent navigating both the opera world and the digital landscape, where emerging tools are quietly redefining how creative professionals build relevance, reach, and new forms of creative expression.

• Dr. Selin Kesebir

  Dr. Selin Kesebir is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Trained as a social psychologist, she holds an MA from Northwestern University and a PhD from the University of Virginia. Her research examines the psychological forces that shape how we work, lead, and relate to one another. At LBS, she designed Wisdom and Happiness, a course focused on building a flourishing life.

• Helen Hall

  Helen Hall was awarded the Sash of Honour at the Queen’s Annual Royal Air Force Awards in 1982 and following over six years of serving in the Royal Air Force as an Air Traffic Control Officer retrained as a fitness instructor and remedial massage therapist. Her continuing professional development led her to specialize in vascular and lymphatic circulation through Dr Vodder Manual Lymph Drainage and Professor Leduc Medical Lymph. Working first with lymphoedema patients and later with athletes, she deepened her long-standing focus on efficient movement, particularly in walking and running, and extended this work into road and triathlon cycling. This journey led to the founding of both Ten-Point: The Efficient Running & Cycling Studio and Perpetual Forward Motion Ltd – The PFM Way to Movement Efficiency. Through Ten-Point, she taught bike-fitting to UK and European bike-fitters using the GURU system, one of the most advanced bike-fitting tools in the world. The PFM Way challenges conventional thinking about movement, pain, and injury, approaching chronic issues from non-standard perspectives and helping so-called “lost causes,” people who have tried everything, to finally break their pain and injury cycles. Supported by objective data from the most advanced gait analysis technology in the world (and the first of its kind in the UK), she also created online courses, PFM PILOT (Pain & Injury Lifelines via Online Tutorials), to make this knowledge widely accessible. She is passionate about making these “non-standard perspectives” the new standard. She is also a co-founder of Barefoot Audio, an innovative audio coaching tool that blends evocative coaching cues with inspirational music composed specifically to support efficient running. In her injury clinic, she specializes in solving chronic pain and repetitive injuries affecting the neck, shoulders, back, hips, knees, ankles, and feet, whether sports-related or not. Improving walking, running, and cycling form is often a natural outcome of resolving these pain and injury patterns. She is the PFM Efficient Running Master Coach and an online coach for multi-sport athletes, the author of the YMCAfit Barefoot/Efficient Running course and manual and formerly coached the inov-8 Natural Run program. She is also the author of Even With Your Shoes On: Discover Your Natural Path to Smooth, Efficient, Enjoyable Running. An endurance athlete herself, she is a minimalist ultra-distance runner and an eight-time Ironman and is credited as the world’s first “barefoot” female Ironman.

• Johno Verity

  Johno Verity is a London-based content creator, filmmaker, and urban historian known for uncovering and sharing the hidden history of cities through cycling and storytelling. Often described as “London’s cycling historian,” he explores London in the early hours of the morning, revealing the social, architectural, and historical stories embedded in familiar streets, bridges, and public spaces. Through short-form videos and visual storytelling, Johno has built a large and engaged audience by making history accessible, informal, and deeply connected to everyday life. His work has been featured by Cycling Weekly and the BBC, where he has been recognized for presenting history in a way that is both engaging and relatable. Before turning his focus to urban history, Johno worked as a professional skier and filmmaker, experiences that continue to shape his visual and narrative style. His work today sits at the intersection of curiosity, creativity, and wellbeing, encouraging people to slow down, observe, and reconnect with the places they inhabit.

• Lily Crawford

  Lily is currently pursuing her MBA at London Business School and brings experience across healthcare consulting, product management, and entrepreneurship. Prior to LBS, she worked at Boston Consulting Group, focusing on digital transformation and AI in healthcare, and held roles at early-stage startups across the US and China. Beyond work, she is passionate about expanding access to healthcare through technology, and is actively involved in student leadership at LBS.

• Margy Kinmonth

  Margy Kinmonth is an award winning film director, writer and producer. Her theatrical documentaries include “War Paint – Women at War” following female war artists in contemporary conflict zones. “Eric Ravilious – Drawn to War” tells the tragic story of official war artist killed on active service in WW2 (Foxtrot Films). I directed “Revolution – New Art for a New World” (Foxtrot Films), “Hermitage Revealed”, “Remember the Secret Policeman’s Ball” for BBC/Amnesty and “Royal Paintbox” with HRH King Charles 3. Margy won the BAFTA Best Documentary Series for series “Naked Hollywood” (BBC). Her authored film “ The Strange World of Barry Who?” (BBC) won Royal Television Society Best Arts Film Award. She directed and presented “The Secret World of Haute Couture” (BBC). She was awarded the WFTV Creative Originality Award. Her credits “War Art with Eddie Redmayne” “ Looking for Lowry” with Ian McKellen, Smoking Diaries (BBC) Dawn French (ITV) My drama includes To the Western World, Baker’s Dozen and Casualty. She is an exhibiting artist, painter and watercolourist, and studied fine art at Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting and Bath Academy of Art.

• Mark R. Kotter MD PhD

  Neurosurgeon, scientist, and entrepreneur

  Mark Kotter is a fascinated by a simple question: why do our bodies age, why do they become ill, and can we do better. In his work, he moves between the operating theatre, the laboratory, and the startup world, searching for ways to turn deep biological insight into real impact for patients. He is a faculty member at the University of Cambridge and an internationally recognised clinician scientist in neurodegenerative spinal cord disorders. Alongside, he is the founder of clock.health, where he leads efforts to restore youthful cellular function in age related disease, and the founder of bit.bio, a company that pioneered new ways to program human cells at scale. Mark believes the future of medicine will be shaped by our ability to precisely understand and control human biology, not to extend life at all costs, but to restore health, dignity, and possibility across the human lifespan.

• Professor Sir Andrew Likierman

  Professor Sir Andrew Likierman is Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School (LBS) and was its Dean from 2008 to 2017. His current research is in judgment in management, and he has published on judgment in leadership, in professions, on Boards and in the world of AI. His book “Judgement at work: Making better choices” was published in 2025 (paperback 2026). Andrew spent 11 years in the Treasury (the UK Finance Ministry) as Head of the Government Financial Service and before that advised House of Commons Select Committees on public spending. He has been a member of many public enquiries, including the Cadbury Committee on corporate governance and is a former President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Andrew has been non-executive Chairman of the UK National Audit Office, market research firm MORI and the Economist Bookshop Group. His other non-executive Directorships include the Bank of England, Barclays Bank, insurance company Beazley plc and Times Newspapers Holdings.

• Sam Stockwell

  Senior Research Associate, Alan Turing Institute

  Sam Stockwell is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) within the Alan Turing Institute. His research focuses on how AI is affecting the online information ecosystem, particularly in relation to mis/disinformation, moderating harmful content, and election interference. He also conducts research on challenging issues at the intersection of privacy and safety trade-offs, such as the use of biometrics in law enforcement and lawful access proposals for criminal investigations on end-to-end encrypted networks.

• Sandrine Hoeur

  Sandrine Hoeur is an international luxury business leader with over 15 years of experience at Christian Dior Couture, where she held senior leadership roles and contributed to the development and scaling of the business across Asia-Pacific, including China. Her work has spanned highly competitive markets, where success depended on navigating cultural complexity, uneven growth realities, and the constant tension between global strategy and local execution. She has been closely involved in translating long-term brand ambition into commercially grounded action, aligning teams and priorities across markets. She is currently completing a Global Executive MBA at Columbia Business School and London Business School. Drawing on her experience in complex organizations, she brings a distinctive perspective on how business decision-making frameworks can also inform personal choices around time, energy, and relationships.

• Stephen Barton

  GRAMMY-winning and BAFTA-nominated composer Stephen Barton has left an indelible mark on the realms of film, television, and video games, boasting a prolific career over all three mediums. His body of work includes scores for Star Trek: Picard, all twenty-seven seasons of Apex Legends, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, 12 Monkeys and the entire Titanfall franchise, among numerous others. Beyond composing, he actively explores both music in education as well as spatial and immersive music for virtual, augmented, and extended reality, contributing his expertise to formats like Dolby Atmos and various binaural and ambisonic technologies. He is a member of Abbey Road’s Spatial Audio research group and the GRAMMY immersive audio committee. His current projects include projects for Marvel Studios, Activision and Skydance, including 1943: The Rise of Hydra with legendary director Amy Hennig.

• The Dandelion Chain

  Band

  The Dandelion Chain is a Hampshire-based post-punk fusion of alt rock and electronic vibes set over dark lyrical harmonies. Their music is an eclectic mix of genres spanning gothic moodiness, indie-pop bangers and anthemic ballads. The full band includes: Mike – Vocals and guitar. Lucy – Lead guitar, synth and backing vocals. Carlos – Bass guitar, Cello and backing vocals. Matthew – Drums and percussion. Mike and Carlos performed at TEDxLondonBusinessSchool. As experienced musicians they have played in various venues across the UK and beyond. From Leeds to London, Bristol to Bournemouth and even Mexico City.

• THE YAZ BAND

  Band

  THE YAZ BAND are a London-based indie-pop/rock duo, one from Canada and one from India, who found each other and, somewhere in the middle, found their sound. Drawn to the same thread running through Coldplay, Spacey Jane and Royel Otis, they make music that sits in that tender space between feeling too much and finding a reason to keep going. Their songs are deep and honest, but always pointed toward the light. Every track is built around a simple belief: that the voice you've been ignoring, the one that still believes in things, is the one most worth hearing. THE YAZ BAND makes music for that version of you.