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Josh Bayliss is CEO of the Virgin Group and is responsible for the management of the Group’s capital investments and the Virgin brand. He has been with Virgin since 2005, previously serving as the Group’s General Counsel before taking on the CEO role in 2011. Mr Bayliss has extensive experience as a director of a large number of companies across the Virgin Group globally and across all of Virgin’s core sectors. He was previously a Senior Associate at international law firm Slaughter and May from 1999 to 2005. Mr Bayliss holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Peter Harrison was appointed as Head of Investment for Schroders, based in London, in 2014. He is a Member of the Group Management Committee and Group Risk Committee, and an Executive Director of Schroders Plc. He is also a Director of SIM Ltd, SIM NA Ltd, Cazenove Capital Management Ltd, and Cazenove Investment Fund Management Ltd. Mr Harrison joined Schroders as Global Head of Equities in 2013. He was previously with RWC Partners, an asset management business with £5 billion under management which he founded in 2006 and where he was Chairman and CEO. From 2004 to 2006, he was Global Chief Investment Officer of Deutsche Bank’s various asset management businesses, including Morgan Grenfell, Scudder and DWS, totalling $530 billion under management. Prior to that, he was at Flemings/JP Morgan from 1996 to 2004 where he ran UK Specialist Equity Research and Asset Allocation, before taking over as CIO for Global Equities and Multi-asset. Mr Harrison previously worked as a Portfolio Manager at Newton Investment Management from 1991, with responsibility for global high performance mandates. His investment career began in 1988 as a UK research analyst at Schroders. He has a Bachelor of Science (with Honours) from the University of Bath.

Andrew Hill is an award-winning columnist and senior journalist at the Financial Times. As Associate Editor and Management Editor, he writes a weekly column on business, strategy and management, as well as contributing longer features and taking part in video discussions and podcasts. He is a regular public speaker and chair of panels on leadership and management.

Since joining the FT in 1988, he has worked in various roles, including editor of the daily Lombard column on British business and finance, Financial Editor, Comment & Analysis Editor, New York Bureau Chief, Foreign News Editor, and correspondent in Brussels and Milan. He is a member of the FT’s Editorial Board.

Mr Hill was named Business Commentator of the Year 2016 in the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards and Best Commentator at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received the Decade of Excellence award for sustained achievement in business and financial journalism.

His latest book is Ruskinland (Pallas Athene, 2019), a personal exploration of John Ruskin’s life, work and enduring influence on our world, published to coincide with the bicentenary of the great thinker’s birth. He is also the author of Leadership in the Headlines (FT Publishing, 2016), a selection of his FT columns and insights about how leaders lead.