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Dr Hannah Fry

Associate Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL

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Dr Beth Healey

Emergency medicine doctor

Zoe Bayliss Wong

Zoe’s focus is scaling business operations and leading multi-team projects to accelerate growth, coupled with strong internal governance and efficiency

Bobby Kasanga

Community leader and founder of London’s leading community football club, Hackney Wick FC

Nina Schick

High-profile political commentator, adviser and public speaker

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Chris Grant: I Can See Clearly Now… Making Decisions in a Time of Crisis

In the ten days between being invited to write this blog, and sitting down to do so, the world has been transformed by the advance of COVID 19. At the same time as getting used to new phrases, such as “social distancing”, the current situation invites us to think again…

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3:05 PM - 27 May 2020
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12:54 PM - 27 May 2020
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10:11 AM - 27 May 2020
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5:34 PM - 26 May 2020
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12:11 PM - 26 May 2020
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11:42 AM - 26 May 2020
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2:50 PM - 25 May 2020
The second instalment of #FromCrimeToCrime by Sir Richard Henriques is published today in the @DailyMailUK, in whic… https://t.co/FSOcCKQkJi
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