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<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="highlight">Payments for speaking engagements arranged through Chartwell Partners Ltd, 14 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8HN:</span></p>
<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">15 October 2019, received £7,200 from the Internet Advertising Bureau UK (digital advertising), 67-68 Long Acre, London WC2E 9JD, for speaking at Premium Members Annual Breakfast. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 16 October 2019)</p>
<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Name of donor: Reef Enterprises Pte Ltd<br/>Address of donor: 50 Cuscaden Rd, 08-01 HP House, Singapore 249724<br/>Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): hotel accommodation and flights to a value of £9,297<br/>Destination of visit: Singapore<br/>Dates of visit: 19-21 September 2019<br/>Purpose of visit: to attend the Milken Institute’s 2019 Asia Summit and the Singapore Summit.<br/>(Registered 16 October 2019)</p>
<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Payments from Coller Holdings, Park House, 116 Park Street, London W1K 6AF, via Peters Fraser & Dunlop Literary Agents, 55 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1BS:</p>
<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">From 10 July 2019, unpaid Governor of the Ditchley Foundation’s Board of Governors. The Ditchley Foundation’s mission is to renew and redefine how democracies can lead and engage in an evolving world. (Registered 15 July 2019)</p>
<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Name of donor: BP Alternative Energy<br/>Address of donor: 1 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4PD<br/>Amount of donation, or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets at the Wimbledon Championships, and associated hospitality, value £628<br/>Date received: 13 July 2019<br/>Date accepted: 13 July 2019<br/>Donor status: company, registration 102498<br/>(Registered 18 July 2019)</p>
<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Name of donor: European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)<br/>Address of donor: Unter den Linden 17, 10117 Berlin, Germany<br/>Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Travel and accommodation, value £409.05<br/>Destination of visit: Lisbon<br/>Dates of visit: 25-26 June 2019<br/>Purpose of visit: Attending and speaking at Annual Council Meeting of ECFR.<br/>(Registered 08 July 2019)</p>
<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">19 July 2019, received £6,000 from JLA Speakers Bureau, 14 Berners Street, London W1T 3LJ, for a speech to the AM100 Dinner in Birmingham on 19 June 2019, on behalf of Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Media House, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA. Hours: 6 hrs. Train tickets and hotel accommodation also provided by the payer. (Registered 19 July 2019)</p>
<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Payments for articles, from the Financial Times, 1 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL:</p>
<p class="indent" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">From 1 May 2019 to 25 July 2019, member of the Advisory Board of Noric Swiss GmbH, an engineering group active in foundation industries, of Olsbergerstrasse 2, 4310 Rheinfelden, Switzerland. I consulted ACoBA about this role, for which I was paid £4,167 a month for a monthly commitment of two days (15 hrs approx). (Registered 28 May 2019; updated 26 July 2019)</p>
Lords' Registered Interests
33 registered interests in the House of Lords register
Director, Global Academic Holdings Ltd (international education group)
House in London Borough of Camden
Shearwater Global Ltd (strategic consultancy)
Adviser, Achieve Education (services for schools and higher education institutions)
Chairman of the Board, FutureLearn (digital learning platform)
Member, Advisory Board, Bifinity (payment technology company) (interest ceased 16 December 2022)
Member, Advisory Board, Halp (education technology company)
Non-executive Director, Elara Capital plc (an India-focused investment bank) (interest ceased 1 February 2023)
Adviser on education technology to Global Academic Holdings Ltd (investment firm focused on education and technology sectors) (interest ceased 30 November 2022)
Member, Advisory Board, Samsung Europe (interest ceased 31 May 2024)
Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London
Speaking engagement, 9 February 2021, virtual event for Financial Times FT Live conference on financial services (arranged through Chartwell Partners) (payment received 15 February 2021)
Speaking engagement, 2 December 2020, virtual event for University of Exeter discussion on future of higher education (payment received 15 January 2021)
Speaking engagement, 9 December 2020, virtual event for Property Week conference on trends in international education (arranged through Speakers Corner) (payment received 17 December 2020)
Member, International Advisory Board, Shearwater Global (strategic consulting firm)
Advice on global education technology sector to Seminal Capital (education technology investment firm) (interest ceased 31 March 2023)
Advice on development of technology platform in UK to Skyrora Limited (space technology company) (interest ceased 28 February 2022 - notified 2 April 2022)
Share of a house in Somerset from which rental income is received
ApplyBoard Inc (online platform for international study)
Tes Topco Limited (parent company of Tes Global, the education software services group) (interest ceased 19 January 2022)