Pull up a Chair with Melissa Geiger

Season one of the ‘Pull up a Chair’ podcast has wrapped up filming. In the final episode, Bina revisits some of the highlights from her conversations with business leaders from some of the world’s most influential organisations on sustainable growth.

Throughout the first series, guests have explored how to grow successful businesses in today’s challenging and unpredictable environment, and the most important lessons they’ve learned in their distinguished careers. 

In this episode of 'Pull up a Chair', Bina welcomes Euan Blair.

Euan Blair is the co-founder and CEO of Multiverse, the British educational technology start-up offering professional apprenticeships.

Owing to Multiverse’s tech unicorn status, Euan also has great perspectives to share on technology, entrepreneurship, and the challenges of scaling sustainably in the UK.

Passionate about improving opportunity, Euan has built important insights on disrupting traditional educational models, and how businesses can use apprenticeships to build the skills they need to drive growth and strengthen social mobility.

In this episode of 'Pull up a Chair', Bina welcomes Clare Barclay.

Clare Barclay is the Chief Executive of Microsoft UK.

With nearly three decades’ experience in the IT industry, most of them in diverse roles across Microsoft, Clare has a wealth of knowledge and insights to share on innovation and technology.

As a senior leader with a deep passion for diversity and inclusion, Clare holds views on important topics including the UK’s digital skills gap, how technology can help us address the climate emergency, what AI will and won’t replace, and what the future of work looks like.

In this episode of 'Pull up a Chair', Bina welcomes Dame Elizabeth Corley.

Dame Elizabeth Corley is the Chair of the Impact Investing Institute.

With extensive experience in financial services, Elizabeth is a leading voice on harnessing finance for good, and the role that impact investing plays in driving sustainable growth. In 2019, Elizabeth was awarded a DBE for services to the economy and financial services.

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In this episode of 'Pull up a Chair', Bina welcomes William Vereker.

William Vereker is the Chair of Santander UK and also on the board of the fast-growing tech unicorn, Celonis.

William is not only one of the best-known names in the City, with a first-class track record in banking having held positions at JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and UBS, but he has also spent time at the top of government.

As former Prime Minister Theresa May’s business envoy, William was focused on strengthening the relationship between government and the City at a time of seismic change in the UK economy.

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In this episode of 'Pull up a Chair', Bina welcomes Andy Haldane.

During his time as the most senior economist at the Bank of England, Andy was widely cited as a leading expert on financial stability as well as being named by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.

Andy also led the government’s taskforce for Levelling Up and is currently the Chair of the Levelling Up Advisory Council, which he described as ‘one of the biggest economic and social challenges of our time’, and is a passionate advocate for improving numeracy across the UK.

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In this episode of 'Pull up a Chair', Bina welcomes Baroness Dambisa Moyo.

Dambisa is a pre-eminent economist, named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

The author of four New York Times Bestselling Books - including her most recent: ‘How Boards Work’, which explores how boards can work better in a chaotic world, Dambisa has an incredibly strong influence in the strategic investment and public policy spheres.

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In this episode of 'Pull Up a Chair', Bina is joined by Sir John Kingman, Chair of Legal & General, covering how his experiences in positions at the very top of government and business have shaped his perspectives on investing for sustainable growth, and attracting Global talent.

As former Second Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, he was at the heart of the UK government’s response to the 2008/9 financial crisis, managing the resolution of Northern Rock and negotiations around the refinancing of UK banks.

Sir John was also the first Chair of UK Research and Innovation, overseeing government science funding of more than £8bn per year, and his eponymous review of the Financial Reporting Council in 2018 recommended the wholesale reform of audit and accounting regulation.

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For episode 3, Bina welcomes Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is one of Britain’s most decorated Paralympian athletes, winning 11 gold medals, four silvers and one bronze over five Paralympic Games. Tanni is established as one of the most gifted and courageous sportswomen of her generation.

Since retiring from athletics, Tanni has held many important roles in sport – including vice-president of the Women’s Sport Foundation and most recently Chair of Sport Wales.

In 2010, Tanni became an independent peer in the House of Lords, and since this time has continued to act as a prominent and vocal advocate for disability rights, welfare reform and inclusion.

She talks to Bina about the role of Boards in making cultural change in organisations, how businesses can support more disabled people into employment and what it means to be an inclusive leader.

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For the second episode of ‘Pull up a Chair', Bina welcomes Dominic Barton, the Chair of Rio Tinto, to the podcast.

Dominic was Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company between 2009 and 2018. He also served as Canada’s ambassador to China, before joining Rio Tinto as Chair earlier this year.

He joined Bina to talk about his career, planning for the long-term, why culture drives everything and, of course, that big question of how to deliver growth in a responsible way, that meets the needs of people, planet, and profit. 

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