Annual Conference Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer
Leader, Labour
Keir was elected as Labour MP for Holborn & St Pancras in May 2015. In April 2020, Keir was elected Leader of the Labour Party.
Prior to becoming an MP, Keir was a human rights lawyer. He co-founded Doughty Street Chambers in 1990, and conducted cases in a wide range of international courts, including the European Court of Human Rights.
In 2008 Keir was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales, a role he held until 2013.
Keir studied law at Leeds University and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and has published several books including Three Pillars of Liberty: Political Rights and Freedoms in the UK (1996) and European Human Rights Law (1999).
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Dame Carolyn Fairbairn
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Rain Newton-Smith
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Josh Hardie
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Alan Jope
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Julian Richer
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Sue Garfitt
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Stephanie Flanders
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Frances O’Grady
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Ben Page
CEO, Ipsos MORI
Judith McKenna
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Markus Beyrer
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Michelle Scrimgeour
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Bernard Looney
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Chuka Umunna
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Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux
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Perrin Beatty
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Professor Devi Sridhar
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Sharon White
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Alison Rose
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Anne Sheehan
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Gavin Patterson
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James Harding
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Joachim Lang
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John Amaechi OBE
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Karan Khanna
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Laxman Narasimhan
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Mark Sedwill
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Matthew Fell
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Olly Benzecry
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Zanny Minton Beddoes
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Ayesha Ghafoor
Assistant Vice President, Barclays
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
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Francesca Mariotti
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Helen Lamprell
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Lisa Mayhew
Co-Chair, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Masakazu Kubota
President/Director General, Keidanren
Thomas J. Donohue
Chief Executive Officer, US Chamber of Commerce
Simon Winfield
UK Managing Director, Hays
Javed Khan
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Javier Ferrán
Chairman, Diageo
Perrin Beatty
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Steve Hatch
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Jamie Driscoll
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Tony Danker
Director-General Designate, CBI
Baroness Dido Harding
Chair, NHS Improvement and Interim Executive Chair, NHS Test and Trace
Andy Burnham
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John Holland-Kaye
Chief Executive Officer, Heathrow Airport
Brian Moynihan
Chairman and CEO, Bank of America
Deborah Fraser
Director Regions, CBI
Dan Robertson
Director, VERCIDA Consulting
Yvonne Smyth
Group Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Hays
David Cameron
Chair of Patrons, National Citizen Service
Susan Muigai
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Rajesh Agrawal
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Rt Hon Mark Drakeford MS
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Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP
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Gordon Wilson
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Professor Sir David Eastwood
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Lauren Adams
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Mayokun Alonge
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