Alan Milburn - Member of Parliament for Darlington
Alan Milburn grew up on council estate in a small village in Durham and describes being an MP a "very odd thing to aspire to" as a child. But when he became involved in running a campaign to keep open...
Sarah Brundle - Finance Manager
Sarah Brundle is a Finance Manager for the Arcadia Group. She did a financial industrial placement with Arcadia as part of her degree, "which was an absolutely brilliant experience. It kind of opened...
Nikki Askew - Senior Manager
Nikki Askew is a Fair Value Senior Manager at Fidelity International - she has to be an expert on overseas economies. She realised that after being offered a job in sales "it was the analytical side that...
Magna Abrunhosa - Fund Accounting Manager
Magna Abrunhosa is a Manager in the Fund Accounting at Fidelity. She works in what is called the "back office" - the bit that does the operational work - sorting everything out. She did not go to university...
Aileen Campbell - Member of the Scottish Parliament
Aileen Campbell is an SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament. She was elected in 2007 just before her 27th birthday. "There's probably not a lot of my colleagues who are MSPs who can say that they've...
Liz Smith - Member of the Scottish Parliament
Liz Smith is a Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament, and her party's spokesman on education. She was a teacher before she was elected. "My father died just as I was leaving school to go to...
David Whitton - Member of Scottish Parliament
David Whitton is Labour MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden. He says "it's a real sense of achievement when you've helped somebody who's got a really serious problem". He started as a journalist. He...
Mark Burr - Public Affairs Manager
Mark Burr is the Public Affairs Manager for The Audit Commission. He took a degree in politics and then became an intern for an MP for six months, so he moved to London from Leicestershire. He's been...
Marie Ogley - Senior Policy Manager
Marie Ogley is a Senior Policy Advisor at The Audit Commission. She grew up in Doncaster, and her parents weren't keen on her coming to London to be a civil servant. On her first day of her first placement,...
Sue Mackenzie-Gray - Economics and Business Consulting Director
Sue MacKenzie-Gray is the Market Sector Director for Economics and Business Consulting at Halcrow. She solves finance and business problems for Halcrow customers. When she left university, with a Master's...
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