More speakers for our Careers Event

If you have been following our blog you will know that this year's Careers Event is on Wednesday 19th June. We are delighted that so many parents have offered to come and talk to students about their industries and careers. We have already introduced some of them in earlier blogs and here are two more profiles of people who will be attending:

Susie Brooks-Smith  Susie began her career producing adverts with directors  such as Bruce Beresford and Peter Weir. She then moved into journalism which included working across all the Vogue titles until she moved to England. Here she continued to contribute to international magazines such as Tatler, House & Garden and Homes & Gardens. She also wrote her first book "Cotswold Gardens" and wrote and produced documentaries for the BBC and C4 including "The Spirit Of Pushkin" (BBC) and "Mummy Doesn't Live Here" (BBC). The first film she produced was " Tooth" starring Harry Enfield, Richard E. Grant, Vinnie Jones, Stephen Fry and Jerry Hall; this won the 2004 Giffoni International award for Best Children's film and Best Child Actor. "Locked In" starring Ben Barnes and Eliza Dushku will be released internationally in 2012. Susie is now co-producing the Booker Prize shorted listed book "The Riders" starring Academy Award winners, Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush.

Saskia Ozinga   Saskia worked for nearly ten years for Friends of the Earth in the Netherlands, working closely with many other environmental and human rights NGOs. Saskia’s main focus was tropical rainforests but she was also involved in other campaigns and has a good overview of the NGO community involved in forests and human rights issues specifically as well as how to campaign.
When Saskia moved to the UK in 1995 she set up FERN, an organisation doing advocacy work at EU level around forests and human rights issues. FERN networks with many EU based NGOs and also works closely with partners in West and Central Africa and Asia to ensure their voice is heard in EU aid and trade policies. Issues they work on include illegal logging, carbon trading, forests and climate, export credit agency financing and biomass. FERN have 12 staff and two offices, one in the UK and one in Brussels.

This should be a tremendously useful event for students and we are grateful to everyone for giving up their time to help.