London’s 1000 Most Influential People - 2010

Evening Standard

David Cameron, Prime Minister

It is no longer “Yes, Dave” but “Yes, Prime Minister” among the Conservative leader's devoted
staff. Works diligently and without tantrums and has restored calm and good manners to
Downing Street. Wife Samantha adds glamour. And the public like it — Cameron's approval
ratings have risen since the election. He may be in coalition, but he is the unrivalled boss — and
confident enough to handle “Brokeback” gags.

Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister

Two dazzling displays of leadership made Clegg the first Liberal in 80 years to taste real power.
First was his electrifying live TV election debate that shifted the polls. Then came the coalition
negotiations and the task of herding his troops behind a deal. Clegg's reward is the right to see
and influence everything that matters in Whitehall. Yet his party is riven with tensions, posing the
question: how long can it last?

Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition

With nerve and ruthlessness, he saw off his older brother David to seize the Labour crown and
begin mapping a new political direction for a “new generation”. But the narrow victory left Labour
divided and his shadow cabinet contains several old rivals and critics. The son of Marxist theorist
Ralph Miliband denies he is Red Ed, but his union backers seem happy.

George Osborne, Chancellor

His stature grows by the day and with an emergency Budget and a comprehensive spending
review already under his belt, the “Boy George” jibe has long been forgotten. No one is closer to
David Cameron and they talk endlessly. Officials praise his working habits — and he mixes with
backbenchers in the Commons canteen. However, Labour still thinks he is a “weak” link in the
Tory frontline.

Sir Gus O'Donnell, Cabinet Secretary

Persuaded to delay his retirement, the well-liked mandarin stayed on to brief Cameron on how to
press the nuclear button. GOD, as he is known, shaped the coalition agreement, advising the
parties to make it comprehensive. Unstuffy and never vain, he works in an open plan office.
Described as the most influential Roman Catholic in Britain.

Vince Cable, Business Secretary

After Nick Clegg, the best-known and respected Lib-Dem. But he loathes being in coalition with
the Tories — and other ministers tread carefully around the beekeeper and ballroom dancer.

William Hague, Foreign Secretary

Razor-sharp and witty, Cameron hailed him “deputy leader in all but name”, reflecting his
importance to Tory unity. Ex-McKinsey, Hague is a born executive. Alas, he proved a dreadful
spin doctor when gay smears were made.

Andy Coulson, Director of Communications, No 10

Despite the phone-hacking furore, the ex-News of the World editor is consulted on every big
decision at No 10. A rival to Steve Hilton for Dave's ear, he honed policies that won old boss
Rupert Murdoch's support. Rumour suggests he has had offers from top City PR firms.

Steve Hilton, Director of Strategy, No 10

No one else pads around Downing Street with bare feet — but the svengali in blue jeans makes
his own rules. He gives Cameron ideas, soundbites and friendship, while wife Rachel Whetstone
is big in Google.

Jeremy Hunt, Culture Secretary

Is he the next Tory premier? Lots of MPs think so, which is why the dashing blade grabs
attention in Whitehall. He proved an enthusiastic cutter in the spending round, axing his own HQ.
Shocked the BBC by forcing it to take a 16 per cent cut to its overall budget.

Theresa May, Home Secretary

The late Alan Clark, on meeting her, drooled at having discovered “the next Margaret”. May's
standing among Tories has been variable but she packs more punch than any other woman in
politics. Famed for leopard-print heels.

Danny Alexander, Treasury Chief Secretary

Badly underrated before his surprise promotion, Clegg's former chief of staff sliced through the
budgets of Whitehall departments in the spending review. One to watch.

Michael Gove, Education Secretary

Articulate and brainy, the ex-Times journalist and Moral Maze panellist has found Government
harder than his time in Opposition. Came under fire for over-promising on academy schools.
Once spurned by Tory HQ for being “insufficiently Conservative”, he is close to the Cameron
project.

Ed Llewellyn, Prime Minister's chief of staff

Guards Cameron's private office with good manners and steel. Like Dave he is ex-Eton, Oxford
and Conservative Research Department and they have been friends for years. Lets his hair down
on the dancefloor.

Jonathan Evans, MI5, director-general

The head of the Security Service is, handily, also its foremost expert on counter-terrorism and
the Russians. Proved his independence by refusing to to be a cheerleader for Labour's 42-day
detention plan.

Robert Chote, Office for Budget Responsibility, chair

Statistics nerd and fearless critic of Labour and Tory budgets at the Institute for Fiscal Studies
who is the first permanent official economic forecaster. A former Financial Times journalist who
was unafraid to upset Gordon Brown. Could make life tough for Osborne.

Liam Fox, Defence Secretary

No one else has dared challenge the Chancellor quite as openly as the former doctor who
regularly takes the pulse of the simmering Tory Right wing. Widely considered unsackable. Tricky
brief in Afghanistan.

Iain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary

More respected now than when he was party leader, IDS is the party's conscience on social
issues and hugely sways party activists. But his reform plans are costly — and there is always the
fear he will suddenly quit.

Oliver Letwin, Policy adviser, No 10

Often compared to the late Keith Joseph, the Tory MP combines immense intellect with
eccentricity. The former merchant banker has a roaming brief greatly underestimated by
outsiders.
Francis Maude, Cabinet Office Minister
Along with Oliver Letwin, one of the quietly huge powers in Whitehall. Keen cost-cutter. His
career
(ex-Treasury minister, shadow chancellor, Tory chairman) was reborn as Cameron's progress
chaser.

Chris Huhne, Energy and Climate Change Secretary

Unafraid to use power, the Westminster and Sorbonne-educated Left-winger could be Lib-Dem
leader if Clegg falls under a bus. Born Christopher Paul-Huhne, he de-poshed at Oxford.

Ed Balls , Shadow home secretary

A punchy leadership campaign enhanced his reputation as Labour's ace prizefighter. Denied the
shadow chancellorship, he still hopes to get there, which could be a problem for his party leader.
Loves soccer, pizza, Spandau Ballet and shadow cabinet colleague Yvette Cooper — his wife.

Kenneth Clarke, Justice Secretary

Wonderfully unmodernised, the cigar-puffing, bird-watching,jazz- and Europe-loving ex-
Chancellor retains all the period features of a bygone age. No political beast has a bigger roar.

Alan Johnson , Shadow chancellor

The big surprise in Ed's reshuffle, a battle-scarred Blairite in charge of tax and spending. The ex-
postie has nothing to lose and is showing an independent streak, such as opposing his boss's
graduate tax idea. The City wasn't impressed when he said his first task in the Treasury role was
to read an economics primer for beginners.

Simon Hughes, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats

No ministerial car for him but fiery Hughes made himself shop steward of the Lib-Dem MPs who
fear being swallowed up by the coalition. Nobody dares decline his call.

Jeremy Heywood, Permanent Secretary, No 10

Every Premier's favourite civil servant, they had to create a post for a high-flyer who had run out
of titles. He's been wowing ministers for 20 years, apart from a brief spell in banking, and keeps
No 10 oiled.

James O'Shaughnessy, Head of policy, No 10

No policy geek — he has been known to DJ in Clapham's trendier bars. He reshaped the
Conservative Research Department to Dave's public services agenda and now drives new policy
across Whitehall.

Steve Webb, Minister for Pensions

Brainy Lib-Dem Leftie who expected to oppose, tooth-and-nail, the coalition — but stunned MPs
by how well he has hit it off with fellow Christian and former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith.

Yvette Cooper, Shadow foreign secretary

Don't call her Mrs Balls. Ultra-clever, fiery and articulate with a CV that ranges from working for
Bill Clinton to Work and Pensions Secetary. She didn't stand for leader this year — but she might
next time ...

Chuka Umunna, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ed Miliband

He is just 31. He's been an MP for barely six months. Yet Ladbrokes rate the Streatham MP and
ex-lawyer with movie star looks as the 10-1 third favourite to be the next Labour leader. Quick,
buy him lunch.
Jonny Oates, Nick Clegg's chief of staff
Hurriedly promoted when Nick Clegg's office found itself over-pressed, the election-savvy ex-PR
man now hosts twice-daily meetings of the inner circle. His dad was rector of St Brides, Fleet St.

Harriet Harman, Deputy Labour leader

A great survivor, Harman constantly outwits her (mostly male) critics and keeps equalities issues
high on the new Labour leader's agenda. It must be down to her St Paul's education.

David Miliband, Labour MP

Retreated to the backbenches rather than serve his younger brother after losing leadership battle
despite being more popular with MPs. Could be a lightning-rod for dissent but ex-Foreign
Secretary will not be short of job offers beyond Westminster.

Sir Menzies Campbell, Former Liberal Democrat leader

The former Olympic sprinter has recovered from his brief and torrid period as leader and
emerged as an éminence grise who would cause serious problems for Nick Clegg if he withdrew
support for the coalition.

Andy Burnham, Shadow health secretary

Boosted his standing with a passionate leadership bid that built on populist ministerial decisions
like free swimming and cutting hospital car park charges. Friends with football star Jamie
Carragher.

Frank Field, Labour MP and Poverty Czar

Not loved by his own party, but everyone respects his expertise on welfare reform. Appointed by
Cameron to study anti-poverty ideas, he also has strong views on immigration policy.

Kate Fall, David Cameron's deputy chief of staff

Superbly well-connected, the inscrutable diplomat's daughter guards the PM's diary and secures
time for donors and MPs. Friends since Oxford, she is married to Ralph Ward-Jackson, who runs
the Art London exhibition.

Polly Mackenzie, Nick Clegg's strategy adviser

Brainy Welsh lass who took up the Gurkha cause and wrote key speeches. Now a key No 10
player, she shadows Steve Hilton and sifts papers for Lib-Dem elephant traps.

Diane Abbott, Shadow public health minister

In 2010, the first black woman MP suddenly found fresh drive to match her Oxford-sharpened
brains in the Labour leadership race. The Hackney MP bagged a role on the front bench as a
result. Don't mention her son's private education.

Graham Brady, Tory chairman of the 1922 Committee

The smouldering volcano of the Tory Right has its spokesman in Brady, the shadow minister who
gave up his job over grammar schools and gained a lot of followers.

Sadiq Khan, Shadow justice minister

The first Muslim privy counsellor is the son of a London bus driver; he grew up to become
Transport minister. After managing Ed Miliband's leadership campaign, he had his pick of jobs.

Alistair Carmichael, Deputy chief whip

With the tough job of corralling rebellious
Lib-Dem MPs into backing the Government lobby, the former solicitor uses charm and persuasion
but can also be a tough cookie.
Daniel Hannan, Tory MEP
An unwhippable Eurosceptic, the former Telegraph journalist made his name when a YouTube of
him attacking Gordon Brown went viral. Cameron allies hope he never gets to Westminster.

Matt Hermer, Boujis, founder

His London-based Eclipse group is expanding with a bar in Barcelona's W hotel, a pop-up in Porto
Cervo and plans for a Boujis Hong Kong. Closer to home, the original Boujis and restaurant
Bumpkin bump along nicely. No longer eligible after marrying NY style PR Marissa Anschutz.

Nick Jones, Soho House, founder

His Greek Street club has gone global: West Hollywood, Berlin and Miami Beach all in a year, and
Soho House also popped up in Toronto. The club's LA opening was the best pre-Oscar party.
Closer to home Shoreditch House has new naughty sleepover rooms. And Mr Kirsty Young's Dean
Street Townhouse hotel is hot too.

Frederick Achom, Jalouse, co-owner

Achom — along with business partner Alex Nicholl — is the smoothest club owner in town with
Swarovski-covered monster venue in Hanover Square. He has spread his wings, taking a yacht at
the Cannes film festival.

Charlie Gilkes, Club promoter

Tory Boy about town. He's founder and owner of Maggie's in Chelsea where you can “party like
it's 1983” in homage to the Iron Lady. Never seems to lack a beautiful woman on his arm.

Guy Pelly, Club owner

Sold his stake in nightclub group run with partners Piers Adam and Nick House and is now going
it alone with plans to open Public nightclub. Longstanding mates with Princes William and Harry
— and he keeps their secrets.

John Stephen, Chinawhite, co-founder

Piccadilly club reopened in even more debauched form this year with keys for membership and
addition of poles for pole dancing for guests. His Chinawhite bash at the Cartier polo event
celebrated its 10th bacchanalian year in July with Pete Tong DJing.

Roger Michael, Club promoter

A bona fide night owl who runs I AM ROCK STAR club night — don't call him before 11am.
Russian redhead spy Anna Chapman had him on speed dial for her nights out in Kensingtongrad.

Harvey Goldsmith, Impresario

Legendary concert promoter who produced Live Aid, the story of which has just been made into
a BBC biopic. Currently working with everyone from Jools Holland to opera singer Andrea Bocelli.

Piers Adam, Club promoter

One of the trio behind top clubs Whisky Mist and Mahiki — and has a stake in Mayfair pub The
Punch Bowl with Guy Ritchie et al. He was Ritchie's best man at his wedding to Madonna.

Vince Power, Promoter

Music scene veteran who sold his Mean Fiddler empire but remains active. His great coup this
year was getting old friend Bob Dylan to play boutique festival the Hop Farm in Kent.

John Northcote, Academy Music Group, chief executive

Runs a string of top venues around the UK including the O2 Brixton Academy and Shepherd's
Bush Empire. Cut his teeth working for Richard Branson at Virgin.
James Palumbo, Ministry of Sound, founder
Ex-Eton and Oxford, Lord Palumbo's son has built quite an empire with his Elephant and Castle
club-turned-record-label. Just formed an alliance with nightclub operator Luminar.

Phillip Blond, ResPublica, founder

Stepbrother to James Bond star Daniel Craig, he was dubbed the “Red Tory” for devising the
muscular civic Toryism that morphed into Cameron's Big Society agenda. Runs think tank,
admired by Steve Hilton.

Neil O'Brien, Policy Exchange, director

Dubbed “Tory boot camp”, his think tank spews more policy ideas and Conservative stars than
any other. He crosses boundaries and, at 31, has already risen fast.

Stewart Wood, Senior aide to Ed Miliband

A politics tutor at Magdalen, Oxford, Wood provided much of the nous in Ed's leadership
campaign and served as chief of staff. He was previously one of Gordon Brown's closest aides at
No 10.

Rachel Reeves, Shadow pensions minister

Former Bank of England economist who is tipped as a hot talent. Newly elected in May as MP for
Leeds West, the 31-year-old is sceptical and articulate about the threat posed by deep public-
sector cuts.

Chloe Green, Heiress

At 19, Top Shop tycoon Sir Philip's daughter is keen to become a fashion designer and has the
perfect mentor in her father. There is talk of a collaboration with Kate Moss after the supermodel
stopped her own Top Shop line.

Naomi Campbell, Model

Famous as much for her temper as her talent, Campbell has been a catwalk queen for more than
two decades but remains in demand. Hit the headlines this year when she was called to give
evidence at the war crimes tribunal after accusations that she had accepted “blood diamonds”
from the former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

Christopher Bailey, Burberry, chief creative officer

A favourite of both Hollywood starlets and the fashion press, the Yorkshire-born designer helped
reinvigorate the British fashion house. Has made a ticket to Burberry's show the most sought-
after on the London Fashion Week calendar and put the aviator jacket at the top of every
fashion-lover's wish list this winter.

Stella McCartney, Designer

One of Britain's most fêted designers, McCartney is nonetheless understated — despite her family
name. After her line for Gap Kids caused a stampede of stylish mums at the chain, she is
launching a capsule childrenswear collection under her own name. McCartney is also designing
Team GB's outfits for the Olympics. Splits time between Notting Hill and Paris.

Natalie Massenet, Net-a-Porter, founder

The ex-Tatler journalist launched the luxury internet store Net-a-Porter a decade ago — now
about 2 million customers visit the site every month. In April, Massenet pocketed £50 million
after selling her remaining stake in the business to luxury goods giant Richemont. Mr Porter, a
site aimed at style-conscious men, will launch next year.
Sir Paul Smith, Designer
A style polymath, Sir Paul is best-known for his sharp suits and love of stripes but has designed
everything from kitchen appliances to bikes. As a teenager, injury ended his dreams of becoming
a professional cyclist so he turned his hand to designing clothes. Fans of his suits include Sir Mick
Jagger and Bank of England governor Mervyn King.

Alexandra Shulman, Vogue, editor

Shulman has reigned over the style bible for 18 years and courageously took on designers over
their use of “size zero” models. The Queen's Park resident is a poetry and football fan, who loves
Carol Ann Duffy and Sylvia Plath and supports QPR.

Samantha Cameron, Ambassador for British fashion

The Prime Minister's wife transformed Smythson from a stuffy stationer into a stylish brand and
was named Accessory Designer of the year at last year's Glamour awards. After her husband
entered No 10, she cut back to just two days a week at Smythson and will spend her spare time
promoting designers for the British Fashion Council. Made Vanity Fair's Best Dressed List.

Erdem Moralioglu, Designer

Anna Wintour, Keira Knightley and the first ladies on both sides of the Atlantic have worn
Moralioglu's creations. Known for his colourful prints and lady-like designs, the Anglo-Turk won
the inaugural British Fashion Council/Vogue Fashion Fund award to help grow his business.

Adrian Joffe, Dover Street Market, founder

The creator of London's most avant-garde — and possibly intimidating — shopping destination.
Dover Street Market stocks from both top labels and up-and-coming designers. His wife is
designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons.

Victoria Beckham, Designer and fashion icon

Admired and mocked in equal measure yet there's no denying Posh's influence on style if not
music. Her clothing label, part of the grandly named Beckham Ventures Limited, has been a hit
and she's expanding from dresses into luxury bags. Mrs Becks leads a transatlantic lifestyle but
when in London, she always turns heads.

Phoebe Philo, Céline, creative director

Sensitive former creative boss of Chloé — she took over when friend Stella McCartney quit — had
a break before joining Céline in 2008. Parent company LVMH holds Philo in such high regard that
they moved the label from Paris and built her a studio in London.

Tamara Mellon, Jimmy Choo, president

The former Vogue accessories editor teamed up with bespoke designer Jimmy Choo in 1996 to
found the ultimate shoe label. Mellon, who dated the actor Christian Slater and is a regular on
the party circuit, is said to be on the verge of selling her remaining stake in the company.

Nick Knight, SHOWStudo, director

Top photographer started his career with a photography book on skinheads in 1982, now works
with all the biggest names in fashion. His baby is SHOWstudio, a fashion film website which
broadcasts live from the catwalk. Pioneering the latest trend — the film instead of the fashion
show. Earlier this year he was awarded an OBE for services to art.

Christopher Kane, Designer

Donatella Versace compared the Central St Martins graduate to her late brother, Gianni. She is
such a fan that as well as his eponymous label, Kane also designs Versace's diffusion label
Versus. His fans include Chloe Sevigny and Emma Watson, who was snapped in one of his
leather dresses.
Kate Moss, Model and designer
Britain's most famous model has graced the cover of British Vogue 30 times. Even being
photographed allegedly snorting cocaine could not stop Moss. Her agent, Storm's Sarah Doukas,
admitted recently that the scandal helped double her income. Has not yet proved she can be as
successful a designer as she is a model.

Philip Treacy, Milliner

Five-times winner of accessories designer of the year, the master milliner has worked closely with
the late Alexander McQueen and Karl Lagerfield amongst others. After he created stage
headpieces for Lady Gaga, she became such a fan that she applied for an internship with him.

Mario Testino, Photographer

The most sought-after snapper in the business, the Peruvian is best-known outside the industry
for his photographs of Princess Diana. A close friend of Kate Moss, the pair collaborated on an
extensive exhibition earlier this year. Testino is keen to photograph the Queen for her Diamond
Jubilee portrait in 2012.

Jourdan Dunn, Model

Once dubbed the “next Naomi Campbell”, Dunn was discovered while shopping in Hammersmith.
The first black model on a Prada catwalk for more than a decade, she modelled for Jean Paul
Gaultier when she was seven months pregnant and returned to the catwalk just 10 weeks after
giving birth. Like Campbell, though, her life has not been controversy-free: her boyfriend was
jailed in a drugs bust.

Lara Stone, Model

The Dutch-born Mrs David Walliams has been one of the hottest faces in fashion — helped by her
distinctive gap-toothed smile and celebrity cachet. Now teetotal after admitting alcohol troubles
in the past. Jokes her mantra as she walks down the catwalk is: “Don't fall, don't fall.”

Jane Shepherdson, Whistles, chief executive

Previously the mastermind behind Topshop's inexorable rise, Shepherdson is now working her
magic at Whistles. Launched her first collection just as Lehman Brothers collapsed, but the range
still proved a hit with shoppers. She has widened the chain's appeal by collaborating with
designer Roksanda Ilincic.

Suzy Menkes, Fashion editor

The International Herald Tribune's fashion critic attends every catwalk show where her signature
pompadour quiff is easily spotted on the front row. Known for her serious analysis of the luxury
business but still loves to snap photos on the fashion party circuit.

Louise Wilson, Central St Martins, professor

Respected head tutor at the world's most famous fashion college. It is said that if a student can
survive Louise Wilson, they can survive the industry. Perpetually dressed in black, she was
rewarded with an OBE for services to fashion in 2008.

Dame Vivienne Westwood, Designer

The flame-haired grande dame of British fashion, Westwood brought punk into the mainstream.
Now she is urging shoppers to buy fewer clothes to help save the planet. When she received her
OBE, she turned up at Buckingham Palace without any knickers on.

Mary Portas, TV presenter and consultant

The Mary Queen of Shops star is fighting to improve the British retail experience by helping out
flummoxed shop owners. Portas recently entered into a civil partnership with Melanie Rickey,
Grazia's fashion editor-at-large.
Lucy Yeomans, Harper's Bazaar, editor
Successfully relaunched Harper's Bazaar and built circulation even during the recession, though
Vogue is still bigger. She raised £1.2 million with model Natalia Vodianova earlier this year to
help deprived children in Russia.

Sarah Doukas, Storm models, founder

Best known for having “found” Kate Moss, the former model started her modelling agency in
1987. Over two decades, Storm has had Cindy Crawford, Lily Cole, Liberty Ross and Sophie Dahl
on its books. Last year, Doukas sold Storm to Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment group but she
remains at the helm.

Roland Mouret, Designer

The French designer has teamed up with Simon Fuller to relaunch his dressmaking career,
winning back the rights to his name. Mouret's Galaxy dress was perhaps the most famous dress
in recent history and was worn by Cameron Diaz, Rachel Weisz and Carol Vorderman.

Marios Schwab, Designer

Darling of the fashion scene, Greek-born Schwab originally wanted to be a ballet dancer. Earlier
this year, he was installed as designer of revived US fashion house Halston.

Lulu Kennedy, Fashion East, director

One of fashion's best talent spotters, Kennedy runs Fashion East, which showcases the work of
new designers at London Fashion Week. Fashion's fairy godmother has just launched her own
collection — Lulu & Co, a tie-up with her many successful alumni, who include Gareth Pugh,
Louise Gray and Richard Nicoll.

Edward Enninful, Stylist

Fashion editor at i-D magazine at just 18, the stylist — now in his late thirties — masterminded
two of fashion's most memorable recent covers: Italian Vogue's black issue and i-D's Best of
British. Naomi Campbell says he is like a brother to her.

Nicholas Kirkwood, Shoe designer

One of the friendliest men in the fashion business, Kirkwood began his career working with
milliner Philip Treacy. After five years, Kirkwood decided that his future lay with shoes and, after
designing for Ghost and John Rocha, launched his own range, recognisable for its architectural
designs and killer heels.

Rankin, Photographer
So famous that he is known only by his surname, Rankin launched Dazed & Confused magazine
with Kate Moss's former-squeeze Jefferson Hack. Rankin has photographed everyone: from Tony
Blair and the Queen to Michael Jackson and Kylie Minogue.

Tom Chapman, Matches, founder

Matches boutiques, dotted around some of the most affluent parts of the capital, are favourite
shopping haunts of London's label-lovers. Chapman and wife Ruth began selling upmarket
fashion items from their Wimbledon home.

Averyl Oates, Harvey Nichols,chief fashion buyer

A former model, Oates joined Harvey Nicks in 2004 after working for several top fashion brands.
Oates's shrewd eye and canny buying are considered one of the contributors to the
Knightsbridge-based chain's success.

Rupert Sanderson, Shoe designer

Sanderson turned his back on a career in advertising to take up shoe design. The former
Cordwainers College student worked for Sergio Rossi and Bruno Magli before starting out on his
own. He names every shoe after a daffodil.

Emma Hill, Mulberry, creative director

Hill once declared that the “It bag” is dead but seems to be proving quite the reverse at
Mulberry, where sales have never been better. In her two years at the luxurious handbag maker,
Hill has made its designs essential arm candy. Designed the “Alexa” bag named after TV
presenter Alexa Chung.

Stephen Jones, Milliner

Hat designer extraordinaire, Jones's creations have adorned a multitude of famous heads
including Princess Diana, Madonna and Kylie Minogue. This former housemate of Boy George and
Grayson Perry has even designed a hat which the Queen sported on a 45p special stamp in 2001.
Recently curated his own retrospective at the V&A.

Peter Pilotto & Christopher De Vos, Designers

Best known for their graphic prints, the two designers teamed up having met while studying in
Antwerp. Working under Peter Pilotto's name, they were awarded the “Emerging Talent” prize at
the British Fashion Awards.

Nadja Swarovski, Jeweller

Collaborations with top designers such as Christopher Kane and Giles Deacon have been a
masterstroke for the 125-year-old crystal group, which sponsors the British Fashion Awards. She
has helped move the brand upmarket, without denting its popularity.

Katie Grand, Love, editor

Stylist, brand consultant and magazine editor, she set up and edits Condé Nast's twice-yearly
glossy, Love. She persuaded Liz Hurley to pose naked for her former magazine POP. Gap-toothed
Grand is considered one of the world's most powerful stylists.

Charlotte Dellal, Shoe designer

Leopard print-loving shoe designer Dellal's Charlotte Olympia brand is stocked at Harvey Nichols
and Dover Street Market. One of three siblings well-known on the party circuit — her sister Alice
is a model, while her brother Alex owns a Hoxton gallery — she recently married Maxim Crewe.

Joan Burstein, Browns, founder

The elegant octagenarian is known as “Mrs B” to the fashion fraternity. Burstein founded the
Browns boutique with her husband Sidney and is credited with bringing Giorgio Armani and
Calvin Klein to London and spotting John Galliano. “The thing you must never do in a business
like ours is think ordinary,” Burstein says.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model and actress

One of Burberry's most recognisable “faces”, Huntington-Whiteley has also launched an acting
career, replacing Megan Fox in Transfomers 3. One of lingerie brand Victoria's Secret's new
“angels”, Huntington-Whiteley has been dating British actor Jason Statham.

Giles Deacon, Ungaro, creative director

One of London's hottest designers, Deacon recently took up the reins at French fashion house
Ungaro, with a debut collection which returned the label to its roots. Deacon, whose range for
New Look is adored by fashion-lovers on a budget, injects his quirky British humour into his
collection, with designs including stuffed dinosaur totes and insect-covered clothes.

Pat McGrath, Make-up artist

Hailed by Vogue as the world's top make-up artist, she is flown everywhere for magazine and
advertising shoots. Splits her time between London and New York. McGrath credits her Jamaican
mother for instilling a love of fashion.

Joanna Sykes, Designer, Aquascutum

After working for Giorgio Armani and Alberta Ferretti, Sykes launched her own label — which has
won a following with women of all ages for its cut and tailored designs. Likes to use models of all
ages — including the 81-year-old Daphne Selfe — for her catwalk shows.

Katie Hillier, Accessories designer

Her signature animal “doodles” adorn her own label on everything from jewellery to bags and
sunglasses. Won the 2009 accessories designer of the year award and is influential behind the
scenes with other designers — such as Victoria Beckham, with her new range of bags.

Henry Holland, Fashion designer

The Lancashire fashionista, famed for his enormous quiff, has made waves with his populist
House of Holland brand of women's clothing. Friends with model Agyness Deyn and as busy on
the party circuit as designing.

Boris Johnson, Mayor of London

London's most popular politician has got to grips with the capital's top job. Is able to chalk up the
end of Public Private Partnership on Tubes and the new “Boris bikes” as tangible achievements.
He'll stand again and stay away from Parliament, so relations with David Cameron have eased.
For now. Much rests on his ability to shield London from the impact of government cuts — and
on keeping his turbulent private life private.

Ken Livingstone, Labour mayoral candidate

Ex-Mayor cannily stitched up Labour nomination process for 2012 election race and is determined
to win back what he sees as his rightful place running City Hall. In a throwback to the Eighties he
will concentrate his campaign on fighting against cuts. It worked then, so why not now against
Boris? Ken turned 65 this year and must convince Londoners he has something new to offer.

Sir Simon Milton, Mayor's chief of staff

Without a doubt the power behind the throne. Some would even say that Boris would struggle to
run London without him. Only his health holds him back from higher office. Hugely effective but
prefers to stay in the background. Keeps a firm grip on planning powers and, crucially, keeps the
lines of communication with Whitehall open.

Peter Hendy, Transport commissioner

Former bus driver and conductor who rose to head London's public transport system. This wily
operator, who made his cash from bus privatisation, has an iron grip on his TfL empire but as the
cuts begin to bite faces months of strikes which could shake his reputation.

Sir Paul Stephenson, Met Police, Commissioner

Straight-talking Lancastrian is proving popular with the rank and file and his political masters.
Has seen a long-term fall in youth violence and introduction of single patrolling. Unlike his
predecessor, he steers clear of controversy and has avoided being tainted by G20 protests or the
News of the World phone-hacking case.

Kit Malthouse, Deputy mayor for policing

Once thought to be destined for Parliament, this fiercely ambitious ex-Tory councillor now insists
there are few jobs that could match running the Met. It means he's perfectly placed to step in
should Boris change his mind about a second term. Known as “Killer Kit”, he is likely to be chief
Ken antagonist.
Mike Brown, London Underground, managing director
Tube supremo has shown his mettle by taking control of the Northern and Piccadilly line
upgrades, protecting modernisation plans from cuts and standing firm against unions. But this
personable Northern Irishman's promise of a “golden era” on the Underground still looks a long
way off. In a previous role, he delivered Terminal 5 for Heathrow.

Kulveer Ranger, Mayor's transport adviser

Initially thought to be out of his depth, the former Tory party vice-chairman is now the
presentable face of London transport. He is regularly rolled out to firefight during Tube strikes
and funding negotiations. Real power over the Tube lies elsewhere within TfL but his handling of
the bike rental scheme has won plaudits.

Daniel Moylan, Transport for London, deputy chair

De facto boss of TfL (Mayor Boris is chairman). Moylan not only implements policy but also thinks
up much of Boris's strategy. Scored a coup with the Tube Lines buy-out which brought an end to
the controversial PPP project. He's also the deputy leader of Kensington and Chelsea.

Lynton Crosby, Director of Boris Johnson's re-election campaign

Formidable Australian political strategist who was credited with winning BoJo the 2008 election
with his focus on crime and the “doughnut” strategy of concentrating on outer London. Seen by
some as a master of the dark arts, he pioneered the so-called dog whistle tactics. Down-to-earth
style, with a sense of humour.

Guto Harri, Mayor's director of communications

Just like the consigliere in a mafia movie he is unstintingly loyal and committed to the cause. Ex-
BBC man's contacts across government and media helped Boris survive the latest drama in his
personal life practically unblemished. Ambitious but some say he has burnt bridges with the
Cameroons. Touted for TV jobs outside politics — but claims he's not interested.

Len Duvall, London Assembly, Labour leader

Gruff exterior belies a strategic, pragmatic politician. In his role as chair of London Labour he will
take on a key role as link-man between Ken Livingstone and party. Seems to have got over his
upset at being forced to give up his job running the Metropolitan Police Authority. Might yet
consider a shot at Mayoralty himself.

Jules Pipe, Labour Mayor of Hackney, leader of London Councils

Former newspaperman and Hackney's first directly elected mayor is now the main power broker
between councils across the capital. Involved in the surprise Labour triumph in the May elections
which saw the map of the capital's boroughs turn red. An East Ender born and bred, he is tipped
to make it on the national stage.

Colin Barrow, Westminster council, leader

Quietly spoken but hard-working multi-millionaire who gave up a high-flying career as a trader in
the City to go into politics. Has focused on cutting costs, axing hundreds of jobs, merging the
borough's education department, and cleaning up Soho ahead of the Olympics. Chair of the
National Autistic Society.

John Yates, Met police,head of anti-terrorism

“Yates of the Yard” is a safe pair of hands entrusted with the anti-terror brief and some of the
Met's most sensitive cases, such as cash for peerages and the News of the World phone-hacking.
Tipped as a future commissioner. Popular with bobbies, but very much his own man. Liverpool
fan and marathon cyclist.
Leo Boland, Greater London Authority, chief executive
The former chief exec of Barnet council has a mixed reputation at City Hall. He is a tough
operator who gets things done but he attracted controversy after accepting a huge pay rise while
jobs were being cut. All major City Hall spending has to cross his desk, and he keeps the cheque
book under lock and key.

Bob Crow, RMT union, general secretary

A constant thorn in the side of City Hall and the travelling public who has presided over a series
of damaging Tube strikes with the threat of more to come. He may be a passionate campaigner
for workers' rights but he has come under fire over his six-figure pay and pensions package.
During his leadership the RMT has become one of the country's fastest growing unions. Holds a
strong hand.

Simon Fletcher , Team Ken 2012, chief of staff

Ken Livingstone's best man at his recent wedding but also his closest political ally. A dead cert to
return to City Hall as chief of staff should Ken beat Boris. Has spent his time in the political
wilderness wisely — uniting the Left through Progressive London. He is credited with running
Labour's surprisingly successful London campaign during this year's general election and
persuading his former boss how he needs to change to win.

Baroness Valentine, London First, chief executive

Seen by many as the true voice of business in London. Ex-Barings banker and a hard-working
advocate for making the capital a better place to do business — can claim the Government's
support for £16 billion Crossrail project as one of her lobbying successes. Not afraid to take on
the Mayor on issues she feels strongly about.

Dee Doocey, Lib Dem, chair of the London Assembly

No-nonsense style keeps the naughty children of the Assembly in line, while the Mayor may rue
the day he ever considered waffling instead of giving a short answer. What you see is what you
get with this former fashion industry executive. She has a head for figures — putting the Lib-
Dems on a level footing during 10 years as finance director — and is close to Business Secretary
Vince Cable.

Merrick Cockell, Kensington & Chelsea, leader

Fiercely proud of his 'hood, the leader of the Royal Borough runs a tight ship, sparking both fear
and respect in his staff — but enjoys being in charge of London's richest council, with plush
offices. Lost his chairmanship of London Councils after the Tories took a battering in the local
elections, but is pragmatic enough to know it's better to plan the fightback rather than wallow in
disappointment. Sits on the Tory party board.

Jenny Jones, Green party leader, London Assembly

Tireless campaigner on green issues as well as policing and civil liberties, which she watches over
from her seat on the Metropolitan Police Authority. This slightly eccentric, but extremely
passionate, former archaeologist has a love/hate relationship with the Mayor — attacking him
over his environmental record but secretly appearing charmed by his attentions.

Tony Travers, London School of Economics, local government expert

The media's favourite London commentator for his unrivalled knowledge of all things related to
local government. But the softly spoken university director's expertise belies a quick sense of
humour, a level head and a warm heart. Often sounded out by the Mayor on key issues such as
transport fares and likely to be an important voice when cuts start to hit the capital in a big way.

Anthony Browne, Mayor of London's strategy adviser

The man behind negotiations to get extra New York-style mayoral powers for London, including
on housing and the Royal Parks. The former journalist and Policy Exchange director also oversees
the London Development Agency. Has successfully allayed fears over his more controversial
views, while those working closely with him have been impressed by his brain power. Ambitious,
so could turn up at No 10 at any point.

Munira Mirza, Mayor of London's culture adviser

A blast of fresh air in the sometimes blokey atmosphere of City Hall, the former academic has
gradually earned the approval of London's arts community. She has been assiduous in steering
the Mayor through the minefield of arts policy and rows over the appointment of the Arts Council
London boss. Claims not to vote Tory but is well connected — not least through her speechwriter
husband — with the Right.

Jo Johnson , Orpington MP
Every bit as intellectual as his big brother Boris but a lot more serious and less likely to put his
foot in it. Already a member of the powerful public accounts committee and an old friend of
George Osborne, he is the latest Johnson to take the Tory party by storm. His economic
conservatism is, in the family tradition, tempered by social liberalism. He is even married to a
Guardian journalist.

Stuart Fraser, City of London Corporation, policy chairman

The avuncular stockbroker is two years into his job as the Square Mile's policy chairman and has
proved himself to be a doughty fighter for its multi-billion pound interests. Will lobby the Mayor
and Government as the country emerges from the downturn, with a particular focus on transport
infrastructure and keeping the capital competitive.

Dan Ritterband, Mayor's director of marketing

Slick former advertising man who describes himself as non-party-political but would “take a bullet
for Boris”. Will be key to delivering the Mayor's Olympic vision but is not expected to stick around
for a second term at City Hall. He might find the allure of the Olympic gravy train — or corporate
big bucks — difficult to resist.

Richard Barnes, Deputy mayor

Boris's statutory number two, who keeps him in touch with the boroughs and different
communities across the capital. Although not a member of the Mayor's tight inner circle, this Tory
stalwart has useful links across the party and marshals the sometimes unruly London Assembly
Tories. His experience of taking on Ken Livingstone will make him useful to have around over the
next 18 months.

Terry Morgan, Crossrail, chairman

Combative Welshman, a former boss of Underground maintenance firm Tube Lines and Land
Rover, scored a major win by securing government support for the £16 billion project. His
budget has been cut by £1 billion and parts of the cross-capital link will be delivered a year late,
but it's nose to the grindstone from here on in.

Cressida Dick, Assistant commissioner (specialist crimes), Met Police

The Met's most senior woman officer is highly regarded by colleagues of all ranks — even if she
is still best known for the bungled Jean Charles de Menezes operation. An ambitious, but cool,
operator who has risen on merit and is popular with senior officers. In charge of murder,
organised crime, drugs and vice, she is seen as a contender to be the next Met commissioner.

Michael Charlton, Think London, chief executive

As the man responsible for attracting business to London from around the world he is one of the
capital's “super-salesmen” and travels extensively. The KPMG-trained accountant works closely
with the Mayor to champion the city. Now faces a fight to keep his budget in the face of austerity
cuts.

Stephen Hammond, Government spokesman for London

Convivial Wimbledon MP and behind-the-scenes fixer who acts as a key link man between Boris
and the Government. The former banker missed out on a ministerial job by a whisker as they
were handed out to Lib-Dems but is now PPS to Eric Pickles. His strong links with the transport
industry while in Opposition are important now, given Crossrail and the Tube.

Sir Robin Wales , Mayor of Newham

Lives and breathes his job and as a result Sir Robin is well known across the borough — not
always for the right reasons. The high-profile departure of his council chief executive Joe
Duckworth, the highest-paid in the country, raised awkward questions about his management
style. But he is a huge champion of boosting sport for the poor and securing an Olympics legacy
for his residents.

John Armitt, Olympic Delivery Authority, chairman

In charge of making sure the venues are finished in time, Armitt is confident the Olympic Park
will be ready. He has a track record of delivering major projects and in his former role as
Network Rail chief executive he masterminded the successful project to install the high-speed link
from the Channel Tunnel to St Pancras.

Lord Coe, Olympic Organising Committee, chairman

Savvy operator who knows he faces growing scrutiny as the countdown to the Games intensifies
— witness the row after the East End was dropped from the Olympic marathon route. The former
double Olympic champion has been busy recruiting over the past few months, calling on
Londoners to volunteer to help out during the Games.

Neale Coleman, Mayor's adviser on Olympics

Boris Johnson leans heavily on Coleman, who has an encyclopaedic grasp of the Olympic project
from his role in the original bid. The former housing adviser was also a key part of Ken
Livingstone's team when he was Mayor and is one of the few who made the transition to the
Tory administration — a tribute to his knowledge and value.

Paul Deighton, Olympic Organising Committee, chief executive

The former Goldman Sachs banker is the money man behind the Games. Successful sponsorship
negotiations and a calm air when dealing with tickets sales, volunteers and merchandising have
helped him secure a reputation as one of the most important figures in the 2012 team. Earlier
this year he donated his £300,000 bonus to charity.

Jessica Ennis, Athlete

World and European heptathlon champion — one of athletics' most strenuous disciplines. Pulled
out of the Commonwealth Games in India to focus on training for next year's world
championships and missed the Beijing Olympics through injury. Ennis is one of the brightest
prospects for a home gold in track and field. Could be the poster girl for 2012.

Andy Altman, Olympic Park Legacy Company, chief executive

A renowned urban renewal expert, his big contribution has been a well-received legacy plan for
more upmarket homes in the Park. Has a history of successful regeneration in Philadelphia —
where he was previously the deputy mayor — and Washington DC, but has his hands full
as he tries to shape a post-games Stratford.

Denis Oswald, Chair, IOC co-ordination commission for London

Chief inspector Oswald, a Swiss academic, has been full of praise so far for London's Olympic
preparations. However, all concerned are advised to prick up their ears if this refrain changes.
The former Olympic rower's main concern is London's road network, about which he has said
“there are many, many cars coming into the city every day and the roads are rather narrow”.

Mo Farah, Athlete
Hugely likeable Somali-born distance-runner had breakthrough year in 2010 with gold in 5,000m
and 10,000m at the Euros. Has come a long way since moving to Britain as a child with only a
few phrases in English. Has a chance to win gold when the Olympics comes to his adopted home
city in 2012.

Baroness Ford, Olympic Park Legacy Company, chair

Top of the legacy guru's in-tray is deciding on the future tenants of the Olympic stadium as
competition hots up between West Ham and Spurs over who will play in the venue after the
Games. The Labour peer used to head housing and regeneration agency English Partnerships and
she is determined that the Olympic site does not become a post-Games “enclave for the rich”.

Christine Ohuruogu, Athlete

Despite a tricky year hampered by injuries, the Olympic 400m gold medalist will be hoping to
repeat her exploits in Beijing. With her local roots, she hopes to be to London 2012 what
Aboriginal athlete Kathy Freeman was to the Sydney Games. Ohuruogu's promising sister Victoria
may also make Team GB in the 400m.

Rod Sheard, Olympic architect

As chief architect of the Olympic stadium and handball arena, Sheard's imprint on the Olympic
Park is already significant. His Populus (formerly HOK Sport) firm has also been tasked with the
final fitting out of every venue. The 2012 project indisputably makes Sheard the premier designer
of London's sports infrastructure, with the new roof at Wimbledon's Centre Court and Wembley
already to his name.

Lord Sugar, Amstrad, founder

Best known for hosting TV's The Apprentice, which makes Hackney-born Sugar, left, an
influential role model. The ex-Tottenham Hotspur owner has sold Amstrad, the computer and TV
box company through which he made his fortune. Failed to impress in his role as a government
adviser to Gordon Brown.

Marc Bolland, Marks & Spencer, chief executive

The name's Bolland, Marc Bolland. The Dutch former Heineken chief operations officer, who
turned around Morrisons supermarkets before taking the top job at M&S, has something of 007
about him. Dresses sharply, drives a 1967 Aston Martin and has taken up shooting. Has yet to
prove he can win top Marks.

Sir Philip Green, Arcadia, owner

No-nonsense tycoon who made a fortune with Arcadia, owner of Topshop and Bhs. Wife Tina
lives in Monaco. Canny Sir Philip was brought in by David Cameron to scrutinise Whitehall
efficiency and claimed to have found £20 billion in waste. Kate Moss has launched her last
Topshop line but Green's daughter Chloe has her own designs.

Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, chief executive

King of UK advertising who owns scores of agencies, from top media-buyer Group M to creative
shops JWT and Ogilvy & Mather and City PR firm Finsbury. Ultra hands-on at 65 and prides
himself on his global vision. Wants a third of his business to be digital and a third in emerging
markets, led by the BRICs — Brazil, Russia, India and China. Sits on David Cameron's business
council.
Willie Walsh, British Airways, chief executive
Five years at the controls and going strong, this steely Irish ex-pilot has seen off recession,
striking staff and volcanic ash. Walsh is a doughty defender not only of Heathrow and the foiled
third runway but also of the capital itself, recently becoming president of the London Chamber of
Commerce.

Lord Wolfson, Next, chief executive

Ennobled in June, Simon Wolfson is a Tory donor and very close to Chancellor George Osborne.
Was pivotal in the attack on Labour's plans to raise National Insurance and backed austerity cuts.
Was one of the youngest chief executives of an FTSE-100 company, taking over the clothing
retailer when he was 33.

Sir Richard Branson, Virgin, founder

Branson is still the greatest advertisement for his brands. He runs more than 400 Virgin
companies, including a mobile phone network, an airline and a train company. Intrepid
adventurer's 60th birthday plan was to kite-surf the Channel but his really big idea is commercial
space travel. Reserve your seats now if you have a spare $200,000.

Lakshmi Mittal, Mittal Arcelor, chief executive

The richest man in Britain recovered from recession to add to his enormous wealth. He has
agreed to fund the new Anish Kapoor-designed tower in London's 2012 Olympic Park. Mittal also
owns 20 per cent of QPR, where his son-in-law sits on the board.

Justin King, Sainsbury's, chief executive

Dashing former director of food at M&S has done wonders for Sainsbury's, deftly ensuring it
doesn't head downmarket and keeping the brand fresh — even with long-serving Jamie Oliver as
its face. Drives an eco-friendly hybrid Lexus.

Philip Clarke, Tesco, chief executive-elect

Stacked shelves as a schoolboy and is now the anointed dauphin, taking over from departing Sun
King, Sir Terry Leahy. Worked at Tesco since 1981 and has led the march into new markets in
Europe and the Far East, seen as an indication of the future for Britain's biggest retailer.

Bob Dudley, BP, chief executive

“Good ol' Bob” grew up in Mississippi and is on a rescue mission to convince America that BP is
taking its environmental responsibilities seriously. The first non-British head of BP, he took over
from Tony Hayward. He has already made his mark by shaking up the exploration arm involved
in the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

Angela Ahrendts, Burberry, chief executive

Savvy, US-born Ahrendts carefully controls Burberry's sales and image. The share price has
tripled on her watch, prompting speculation that a City investor could snap up the fashion label,
or that Ahrendts may be head-hunted for a big retail job back in America.

Matthew Key, O2, chief executive

Former finance director who “gets” branding, he transformed the Millennium Dome into The O2
arena and has repeated his success by rebranding other London music venues. Landed an
exclusive early deal with Apple iPhone and has sold more than three million of them in the UK.

Charlie Mayfield, John Lewis Partnership, chairman

A former Army captain, keen sailor and skier, Mayfield has kept JLP shipshape with surging
revenues and profits — proof that Middle Englanders with low mortgages will keep spending on
quality at John Lewis and Waitrose. Has warned that January's increase in VAT will hit the
economy.
Helen Alexander, Confederation of British Industry, president
The first female president of the employers' lobby group, she took over after almost 25 years at
the Economist Group, taking the magazine circulation over a million. Her background is in
marketing and she's suitably diplomatic and well-heeled, with a St Paul's and Oxford education.

Brian McBride, Amazon, UK managing director

Scottish boss of Britain's top internet retailer says the age of austerity isn't denting sales — the
Kindle reading device was his biggest seller this autumn. McBride has kept expanding Amazon's
range, moving into groceries and pet food. Jets north frequently from his Slough base to watch
his beloved Celtic.

Charles Dunstone, Carphone Warehouse, chief executive

Well-connected and jolly but has a smart business brain. Built one of the biggest independent
mobile phone retailers in Europe in just two decades. Has teamed up with US retail giant Best
Buy in a deal that could take Carphone to a new level. No longer an eligible bachelor after
marrying a City PR.

Sam Laidlaw, Centrica, chief executive

Low-profile head of the British Gas owner says he should not have to apologise for making
“healthy profits”. The Old Etonian has warned that harder times lie ahead, as utility companies
attempt to switch to more sustainable power sources. His father was chairman of BP.

Nick Robertson, Asos, founder and chief executive

Chelsea supporter Robertson can claim As Seen On Screen as a rare British internet retail success
story. Expansion plans in the US are going well, too. Says his early career as an advertising buyer
taught him how to haggle. Retail is in the blood — his great-grandfather was Austin Reed.

Robert Swannell, HMV, chairman

Swannell is the former investment banker who saw off Sir Philip Green's bid for M&S and advised
Roman Abramovich during his takeover of Chelsea. Now suave Swannell is going to chair Marks
from January, adding to his chairmanship of music retailer HMV.

Michael O'Leary, Ryanair, founder

Publicity-mad Irishman said Europe needed a “good, deep, bloody recession” to remove all
airlines making a loss. Glories in his “no frills” reputation and has even suggested charging
passengers extra for using the loo.

Sir Terry Leahy, Tesco, chief executive

Stepping down after a 14-year stretch during which he transformed Tesco's fortunes to the point
that £1 in every £8 on the high street is spent with the retailer. Praised for his introduction of the
loyalty card, Leahy has had to defend the company in the past for being “too successful”. Will be
inundated with job offers.

Michael Ward, Harrods, managing director

After roles at Lloyds Pharmacy and private equity firm Apax, Ward joined Harrods in 2006.
Helped Mohamed Fayed collect £1.5 billion when the business was sold to Qataris in May and is
staying on at London's most famous department store. Plans include a possible hotel atop the
Knightsbridge landmark.

Vittorio Colao, Vodafone, chief executive

Italian and discreet, the ex-McKinsey man has had to keep his nerve during the recession amid
shareholder unrest. Although keen on global expansion, he has reduced Vodafone's involvement
in China as he streamlines the mobile giant.
Sir Stuart Rose, Marks & Spencer, chairman
Dapper boss of the high street chain steps down next year and recently came out as a Tory at
the party conference. Rose is moving into private equity to make serious cash. But expect the
silver fox to take up a portfolio of other boardroom offers — and perhaps a peerage.

John Fingleton, Office of Fair Trading, chief executive

Customer-friendly Fingleton has been handed a second five-year term in charge of the regulator.
The Irishman's job is to tackle vested interests and he has had a fair few run-ins with the
supermarkets. Faces an intriguing merger with rival Competition Commission in so-called Tory
“bonfire of the quangos”.

Harold Tillman, Jaeger, owner

Serial entrepreneur who revived the fortunes of high street retailer Jaeger, heads the
Aquascutum clothing brand and runs Harry Morgan sandwich bars. Has been an energetic,
hands-on chairman of the British Fashion Council and created a £1 million scholarship fund for
fashion students. He's a natty dresser, too.

Simon Fox, HMV, chief executive

Enjoyed a stellar rise at the music retailer, embracing digital and computer games. A foray into
live music has not been entirely successful and there's still a way to go to get Waterstone's book
chain to adapt to the internet age. Was touted for top job at ITV and sits on board of the
Guardian.

Perry Oosting, Vertu, president

Worked at a string of blue-chip fashion brands including Prada and Gucci before joining the
British-based luxury mobile phone manufacturer. Believes in “unrelenting attention to detail” to
justify the five-figure price tag for his top smartphones, which even offer their own global
restaurant booking service.

Richard Glynn, Ladbrokes, chief executive

Previously the head of spread betting company Sporting Index, he moved to Britain's biggest
bookie this year and has already launched a major shake-up. The Oxford rugby blue stands to
scoop £12 million if he doubles Ladbrokes' share price in five years.

Kate Swann, WH Smith, chief executive

Swann is credited with the change in fortunes of the stationery giant as she moved away from
CDs to embrace newspapers, magazines and other low-cost items. Profits kept rising as she cut
costs and focused on the airport sector. Made her name at Coca-Cola, where she suggested
using re-sealable plastic bottles.

Paul Marchant, Primark, chief executive

Streetwise operator who was poached from “value” fashion rival New Look to take over from
legendary Primark founder Arthur Ryan. Marchant has kept the stores humming and profitable.
Preparing to open second megastore on Oxford Street.

Luke Johnson, Risk Capital Partners, founder

Entrepreneur and private equity man who founded Pizza Express is currently chairman of
Patisserie Valerie and Giraffe restaurants. Ex-Channel 4 chairman writes a well-regarded column
in the FT on business and recently set up a think tank to promote entrepreneurship.

David Kershaw, M&C Saatchi,chief executive

Old-school advertising man who scored a coup by picking up Tory election work — a return to
glory for Maggie's favourite agency. Arsenal fan Kershaw says: “It might not be Mad Men but it's
still a lot more fun than banking and law.”
Bart Becht, Reckitt Benckiser, chief executive
Trousered £90 million last year in share awards for running the consumer goods giant, which
makes Cillit Bang and Vanish. The flying Dutchman is based in Slough, employs tens of
thousands and spends hundreds of millions a year on advertising.

Dame Marjorie Scardino, Pearson, chief executive

American Scardino proclaims the Financial Times and Penguin publisher is the “world's leading
learning company” because it makes two thirds of its money from education. She has been 13
years at the top of the FTSE-100 firm and is showing no signs yet of wanting to retire.

Cilla Snowball, Abbott Mead Vickers, chairman

Charming, courteous boss of London's biggest creative ad agency, Snowball is proud of nurturing
long-standing relationships with blue-chip clients such as Sainsbury's and The Economist.

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, easyJet, founder

The irrepressibly entrepreneurial Stelios has fingers in many pies. He was at loggerheads with the
airline's board but buried the hatchet with a lucrative licensing deal which means he is free to
focus on other projects.

Peter Voser, Royal Dutch Shell, chief executive

Hardly a household name yet he is the boss of the biggest company on the Footsie, eclipsing
troubled BP. Splits his time between here and Holland. After a tough 2009, profits have come
roaring back.

James Caan, Hamilton Bradshaw, chief executive

One of four stars from TV's Dragons' Den on this list, Caan is the highest-profile British-Pakistani
businessman. Mayfair-based Hamilton Bradshaw is his day job in private equity and he co-chairs
the Ethnic Minority Business Taskforce. Donor to Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund.

Nick Varney, Merlin Entertainments, chief executive

Runs the private equity-backed operators of premier tourist attractions including London Eye,
Madame Tussauds, London Dungeon and Alton Towers. Says the secret to success is attention to
detail. Studied at LSE and keeps chickens in his garden.

Mark Price, Waitrose, managing director

Dubbed the “chubby grocer”, Price has shown an uncanny knack for knowing what Middle
England wants — a mixture of quality and value — and reckons he can see “double-digit” growth
for years.

Theo Paphitis, Ryman, chairman

TV Dragon and serial retail entrepreneur who runs stationers Ryman. Previously bought lingerie
chain La Senza for £1 and sold it for £100 million. Now he is launching new business DNA
Lingerie. Born in Cyprus, he is an enthusiastic Londoner and ex-chairman of Millwall Football
Club.

Peter Jones, Phones International Group, founder

Another Dragon whose latest brainwaves include a waterproof “floating” mobile phone. He has
been in talks with Gordon Ramsay about turning around the chef's troubled empire.

Duncan Bannatyne, Bannatyne Group, founder

Made his money in the care homes industry before branching out into fitness. Born in Scotland,
he says entrepreneurs shouldn't fear austerity cuts and sees them as an opportunity. The TV
Dragon has criticised the new Equalities Bill, saying it could harm small business.
Robert Senior, Saatchi & Saatchi Fallon, chief executive
Founder of edgy Fallon advertising agency who also oversees Saatchis within French giant
Publicis. Famed for Sony Bravia “bouncing balls”, Cadbury's drumming gorilla and T-Mobile's
“flash mob”. Says: “When advertising is done well I can't think of a better business.”

Paul Walsh, Diageo, chief executive

King of booze industry whose brands include Guinness and Pimm's. He is on David Cameron's
new business council but keeps making noises about relocating overseas because of tax — that
gets him an audience.

Peter Dubens, Oakley Capital, founder

Ultra-savvy investor who spotted opportunities in the digital market, launching sports site
365Media and internet provider Pipex, selling both for huge sums before the credit crunch. As
well as running his own Oakley fund, he is a partner in well-connected venture capital firm
PROfounders.

Andy Hornby, Alliance Boots, chief executive

The comeback kid is doing well at private equity-owned chemists and putting his former Asda
marketing experience to good use with clever advertising. Has been able to forget collapse of
HBOS bank while he was CEO.

Robert Saville, Mother, co-founder

Runs one of London's biggest independent ad agencies with a reputation for playful work such as
“Here Come The Girls” for Boots. Has maintained cutting-edge output for corporate clients such
as IKEA and Stella Artois.
Says: “I did not plan this. Everything was created based on intuition.”

Johnnie Boden, Boden, founder

Old Etonian whose Middle England clothing suits the David Cameron generation perfectly.
Surprisingly successful in exporting Boden mail order chic, particularly to Germany, and a stock
market flotation beckons.

Laurence Graff, Graff Diamonds, owner

Son of East End immigrants, the king of bling has made a fortune in international jewellery and
remains hands-on. Fathered a child at 71. Splits his time between Gstaad and London.

Joseph Wan, Harvey Nichols, chief executive

Hong Kong-born boss of the swish department store chain reckons this year's profits should be
back up to pre-recession levels. Unafraid to criticise Labour and Tories over attack on non-doms
and the plans to raise VAT.

Arnaud Bamberger, Cartier, UK executive chairman

Dapper French boss of Richemont-backed luxury goods firm whose smart sponsorship deals have
ranged from polo tournaments to the Frieze Art Fair. Well-connected with royals, appropriately he
has a Louis XVI desk in his office that he inherited from his father.

Beverley Aspinall, Fortnum & Mason, managing director

“I am democratic in my leadership style,” says the unflappable boss of London's poshest grocers,
whose revamp of Peter Jones was so good Fortnums poached her. Weak pound has helped to
keep tourists and profits flooding in. Educated at a comprehensive. Favourite gadget is her
tractor.

Alannah Weston, Selfridges, creative director

Heiress with fashion savvy whose latest investment is newly opened Shoe Galleries. Asked
whether there is a cure for women's addiction to expensive shoes, she jokes: “Not available!” The
daughter of Selfridges owner Galen gets daily sales figures sent to her mobile.

Sue Whiteley, Louis Vuitton, UK managing director

Elegant British boss of the brand since 2004 who previously ran the Alexander McQueen label at
Gucci. After taking an “anchor” store at Westfield in White City, she celebrated with a star-
studded opening of the New Bond Street flagship this summer.

Christian Rucker, White Company, founder

Former beauty journalist launched textiles company when she couldn't find good-quality white
linen nearly 20 years ago. Now it has an annual turnover of £80 million and Rucker has moved
into kitchenware and bath products.

Nick Wheeler, Charles Tyrwhitt, founder

Shirt-maker who adapted well to internet age, selling more shirts than anyone else. Coping with
austerity by refusing to raise cost of his cheaper shirts while boosting quality and price of dearer
items. “People want good value” is his mantra. Married to Christian Rucker.

Simon Calver, LoveFilm, chief executive

From an industrial estate in Acton, Calver has built a successful online DVD rental business which
he is trying to turn into a digital video-on-demand TV service. If he pulls that off, expect a stock
market float.

Per Neuman, Estée Lauder, UK managing director

Swedish-born boss whose firm dominates top end of beauty market. A great evangelist for the
industry's capacity for reinvention, he brought Lady Gaga to London this year for an Aids
fundraiser, highlighting his MAC cosmetics brand.

Viscountess Astor, Oka, chief executive

Samantha Cameron's mother Annabel Astor runs the upmarket furnishing mail order business
and has a string of stores, too — including a new flagship on Fulham Road. Used to run the
Annabel Jones jewellers — her maiden name.

Emma Bridgewater, Potter

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of her pottery company. Started when she
was unable to find a suitable present for her mother. Now has three stores in London, one in
Edinburgh and one in Stoke-on-Trent. Profits rose 40 per cent last year.

Cath Kidston, Cath Kidston, founder

Her distinctive floral homeware and clothing has conquered the hearts of yummy mummies and
led to Kidston being hailed as this generation's Laura Ashley.

Livia Giuggioli, Campaigner

The Italian film producer/director wife of Mr Darcy and George VI actor Colin Firth is, with her
husband, a passionate campaigner on ethical issues. He has demanded more help for the world's
poor and spoken out against maltreatment of prisoners. She runs Chiswick store Eco-Age. This
year they launched online film festival Brightwide to raise awareness about social and political
issues.

Lord Wei, Government adviser

Nat Wei, one of the masterminds behind David Cameron's “Big Society”, was ennobled at 33 as
the second youngest-ever peer. British-born with Chinese parents, Wei founded Teach First,
which puts top graduates into schools in disadvantaged areas, before they embark on graduate
careers.
Camila Batmanghelidjh, Kids Company, founder
Charismatic, Iranian-born leader of charity who has won the ear of politicians. Her pioneering
“wraparound care model” takes traumatised, inner-city children and effectively re-parents them.
Founded Kids Company in 1996 and famously remortgaged her flat several times to keep it going
in the early days.

Lloyd Dorfman, Travelex, chairman

The founder of the foreign-exchange firm, who has supported the National Theatre's £10 ticket
programme for eight years, will see the Cottesloe auditorium renamed in his honour in 2013,
after he bequeathed £10 million towards its £70 million redevelopment plan.

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

Leader of the Church of England has enjoyed mixed support in his struggle to keep his flock
together over issues such as women bishops and gay priests, as well as a backlash in Ireland
over comments he made about the child sex abuse scandal. Warned that George Osborne's cuts
could backfire if people felt the motivation was saving the economy rather than a sense of
community.

Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi

Jonathan Sacks has enjoyed the gravitas and limelight of his role as the leader of Anglo-Jewry for
almost two decades. A prolific author and Thought For The Day regular who has spoken out
against the increasing secularisation of Western society. Very close to Gordon Brown — Sacks's
daughter worked in No 10 — and given a life peerage.

Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster

Liverpudlian head of the Catholic Church in England is regarded as a savvy media operator who
became more conservative before his promotion last year. He opposed the adoption of children
by gay couples but has backed David Cameron's call for a Big Society for “the common good”.
Played host to the Pope during his UK visit in September.

Martin Narey, Barnado's, chief executive

Articulate former head of the prison service and ex-Whitehall mandarin has raised the profile of
the children's charity on a raft of issues, including children in care and asylum-seekers. He
argued that George Osborne's case for abolishing child benefit for the better-off was “morally
overwhelming”.

Farooq Murad, Muslim Council of Britain, secretary-general

Newly appointed leader of UK Muslims. Born in Pakistan and trained as a management
consultant, Murad is eager to bring MCB into mainstream and has praised Britain as being “more
welcoming” than other European countries. Has warned that higher university tuition fees could
hit ethnic communities particularly hard.

Decima Francis, From Boyhood to Manhood Foundation, co-founder

Runs specialist school in Southwark which tackles gang culture by teaching troubled young boys
to communicate, control their anger and get more out of the education system. Francis is talking
about launching satellite FMBF centres in other London boroughs.

Sir Ronald Cohen, Philanthropist

Father of British venture capital at Apax, where he made a fortune, has moved into “social
investment”, using commercial practices to help the socially deprived in Britain. A generous donor
to both the Labour Party and many Jewish causes, he has come under fire for his non-dom
status.
Tony Blair, Tony Blair Faith Foundation, chairman
The former premier is a multi-tasking, globe-trotting ambassador for his own charitable works
and Middle East peace envoy, as well as advising JP Morgan and a string of other international
finance firms. Gave away proceeds of his bestselling memoirs to Royal British Legion.

Neil Mendoza, Philanthropist

Co-founded contract publisher Forward, which he sold to advertising giant WPP in a lucrative deal
in 2001, and uses that business acumen to help the arts. Among his many roles are trustee of
the Shakespeare Schools Festival and director of Soho Theatre.

Bob Geldof, Anti-poverty campaigner

When “Sir” Bob puts his name to a worthy cause, he guarantees front-page headlines — such is
his pedigree with Live Aid and Make Poverty History. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on
several occasions, Geldof remains active with U2 singer Bono in One, which campaigns to
improve health and hunger in developing countries.

Michael de Giorgio, Greenhouse, co-founder

Sports-mad ex-accountant who launched Greenhouse to give inner-city children a chance to
enjoy sport and the performing arts. The charity runs after-school clubs in dozens of centres
around London and has been credited with reducing gun and knife crime. He says: “I see
Greenhouse as an alternative gang where children are inspired to do something positive.”

Ben Summerskill, Stonewall, chief executive

Formerly a mischievous journalist, Summerskill has used his media skills to become an influential
and articulate advocate for gay, lesbian and bisexual Britons. Has faced criticism from some
Stonewall members who say he has not been supportive enough of gay marriage, rather just civil
partnerships.

Jill Kirby, Centre for Policy Studies, director

The head of the Right-leaning think tank, Kirby has been important in shaping Conservative
policy on family and social issues, calling in particular for marriage to be recognised in the tax
system. Former City solicitor who believes there is a “moral and economic imperative” to cut the
number of people on benefits. Invited Rupert Murdoch to give recent inaugural CPS Thatcher
Lecture.

Andrew Haldenby, Reform, director

Former Conservative party researcher is the co-founder of the centre-Right think tank Reform,
which aims to deliver better public services. He has been a strong advocate for the reduction of
government spending and has criticised the Coalition Government for not going far enough in
reducing expenditure.

Eddie Izzard, Comedian

Fund-raising comic and actor has developed a penchant for running. Completed 43 marathons in
51 days to raise money for Sport Relief and has also been enlisted by the 2012 Games to help
encourage Londoners to volunteer for the Olympics.

Baroness Neuberger, Rabbi and Liberal Democrat peer

Britain's second-ever female rabbi is a former chief executive of The King's Fund and also chaired
Commission on the Future of Volunteering. Her Judaism, like her politics, is liberal and she has
been unafraid to confront more conservative rabbis. Her brother-in-law is Master of the Rolls
David Neuberger.

Lady Hamlyn, Philanthropist

The widow of one of Labour's biggest donors has put her money into a host of causes including
the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and her own charity, the Helen Hamlyn Trust, which works in
medicine and arts. A trained fashion designer, she supports her alma mater, the Royal College of
Art, and subsidised Royal Opera House tickets for people who could not afford to go.

Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Marie Curie Cancer Care, chief executive

Ex-City grandee, dubbed “Huge-Wallet”, who now devotes his financial nous to cancer charity.
During his time in charge, he has more than doubled annual income to £135 million. The Old
Etonian says of life after the City: “The big difference is there is more point to it and I'm working
with nicer people.”

Matthew Taylor, Royal Society of Arts, chief executive

Former chief policy adviser to Tony Blair, he quit No 10 before his old boss to run the venerable
RSA, whose remit is to encourage thinking about art, manufacture and commerce. A regular on
Radio 4's Moral Maze, Taylor has welcomed David Cameron's Big Society but warns it will be hard
to win over the population at large.

Lady Getty, Philanthropist

Victoria Getty is continuing the legacy of her husband, Sir John Paul Getty II and is a trustee of
their charitable trust, which has given £38 million to over 3,000 organisations. She is now
speeding up the distribution of cash as the trust is being wound down.

Charles Fraser, St Mungo's,chief executive

Having worked for the homeless charity for 30 years, Fraser knows more than most the
challenges facing London's homeless. He is also a member of the Mayor's Delivery Board, where
he has been set a target of eradicating rough sleeping in time for the Olympics.

Sigrid Rausing & Lisbet Rausing, Philanthropists

London-based sisters are heiresses to the Swedish Tetra Pak fortune. Sigrid founded the Sigrid
Rausing Foundation to protect human rights in 1995 and this year its budget runs to
£20 million. She also owns literary magazine Granta. Lisbet has her own Arcadia Fund, which
looks after culture and nature and has handed out more than £120 million since its 2001
launch.

Lord Sainsbury, Philanthropist

David, scion of the supermarket family, became the first Briton to donate £1 billion to charity. A
former science minister in Tony Blair's government and a major Labour donor, he wants to give
away his fortune during his lifetime and has worked closely with Microsoft philanthropist Bill
Gates.

Cyrus Vandrevala & Priya Vandrevala, Philanthropists

Founders of the Vandrevala Foundation which focuses on mental health, dyslexia and multiple
sclerosis. He is a private equity investor, she is chief executive of Indian property business Hirco.
The power couple are active philanthropists in both India and London.

Bobby Cummines, Unlock, chief executive

The former gang leader, who served a 13-year jail sentence for armed robbery, runs Unlock, the
national association of ex-offenders. Recently Cummines has targeted providing education for
prisoners and making it easier for ex-convicts to get a job on leaving prison. “The principle of real
work in prisons is good,” he says.

Dame Vivien Duffield, Philanthropist

Grande dame of the arts and patron of what she calls “Jewish social” causes. Her Clore Duffield
Foundation has made donations of well over £100 million. She warns Tory cuts to the arts are
going to “yield a relatively small amount and do much more damage”.
Simon Woolley, Operation Black Vote, founder
Grass-roots campaigner who encourages ethnic minorities to vote. Woolley backed Diane Abbot's
Labour leadership campaign and has criticised the Lib-Dems for their poor performance on
diversity. Black newspaper The Voice named Woolley as its “fantasy” prime minister this year.

Nina Barough, Walk the Walk, founder

Barough, who launched the charity just as she suffered a cancer scare herself, encourages
women to walk in their bras in a fundraising effort to tackle breast cancer. The idea caught the
imagination — so far she has managed to raise £55 million in 14 years in a series of annual
walks in London and beyond.

John Caudwell, Philanthropist

No-nonsense ex-Phones4U entrepreneur who made more than £1 billion when he sold up. Now
devotes much of his time and money to good causes, including his own Caudwell Children
charity.

Richard Chartres, Bishop of London

The outspoken leader of London's Anglicans since 1995, he said getting made redundant could
be a “relief” from the rat race and attacked the “crackBerry” culture. A critic of gay nuptials in
church.

Jamie Drummond, One, executive director

Global campaigner who played a key role in Jubilee 2000 and Make Poverty History, persuading
Western governments to waive debts to developing countries, particularly in Africa. Drummond
founded One with U2 singer Bono to fight extreme poverty. Works closely with Microsoft founder
Bill Gates, whom he brought to London recently on a philanthropy drive.

Peter Tatchell, Human rights campaigner

Australian-born activist who tried to make a citizen's arrest of Zimbabwean leader Robert
Mugabe. A relentless crusader, he is fighting for gay couples to be allowed to marry — not just
have a civil partnership.

Mo Ibrahim, Philanthropist
Sudanese-born, he sold his pan-African phone network Celtel for £2 billion in 2005 and
launched his charitable foundation, based in London, to “improve the economic and social
prospects of the people of Africa”.

Mark Hix, Chef and restaurateur

“Hixy” can rely on his glitzy Brit Art pals to populate the eponymous restaurants he can't seem to
stop opening. A hands-on understanding of a good time and its connection to exceptional
indigenous produce is the secret. Also a newspaper recipe columnist.

Angela Hartnett, Chef

Would Angie leave Gordy? It was the Wayne Rooney question of the catering world. Now the
Ramsay protégée, an award-winning global figure in her own right, has parted ways amicably.
She will thrive operating Murano independently.

Pablo Flack & David Waddington, Pop-up restaurateurs

Dynamic duo struck again this summer at Studio East Dining, built from bits lying around the
Westfield Stratford City site overlooking the Olympics stadium. Food was delivered by crane.
Since restaurants often have short lifespans, pop-ups suit the psychology of the genre.

Jamie Oliver, Chef and TV presenter

With the successful roll-out of Jamie's Kitchen (sales approaching £20 million), the proselytiser
for healthy ingredients and proper cooking shows it can be done at street level — the definition
of true progress. More than a decade after he first emerged, his passion and outrage about the
way we eat make him London's most influential foodie.

Richard Caring, Entrepreneur

A group of restaurant brands to roll out worldwide is the self-styled strategy, but behind high-
profile Caprices and Soho Houses and new best friends like New York restaurant king Keith
McNally are chains such as Côte and Bill's Produce that very nicely butter the bread.

Fergus Henderson, Restaurateur and writer

King of the carnivores takes his British nose-to-tail ethos to the St John Hotel on the site that was
Manzi's off Leicester Square. He describes it as “a grand urban hut”, adding “we don't do shiny”
and serving food until 2am — an offal lot is expected. The former architect picked up a Michelin
star last year.

Jeremy King & Christopher Corbin, Restaurateurs

Owners of The Wolseley who — let's not forget — brought Caprice, Ivy and J Sheekey to
prominence. Now they have plans for a hotel in Balderton Street in the West End and a
restaurant on levels 58-63 in Bishopsgate Tower. They understand “the science of positioning
people”.

Heston Blumenthal, Chef and pioneer

The nutty professor understands appetite the way Roald Dahl understood children. A Waitrose
contract and advertising deal subsidises research into sorbets that burst into flame. Dinner by
Heston Blumenthal opens in December at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park. He is looking at how
to improve hospital food, too.

AA Gill, Sunday Times, restaurant critic

Adrian, who once taught cookery, now teaches chefs and restaurateurs a thing or two in Style
magazine. Fans love his invective — he embodies their restaurant outrage. But it is his partner,
the Blonde, who does the ordering.

Marcus Wareing, Chef and restaurateur

After losing the association with the name Petrus in a very public spat with Gordon Ramsay,
Wareing has gone on to bring lustre to his own name by assiduous and unusual attention to duty
in the kitchens of his eponymous eaterie at the Berkeley hotel.

Martin Brudnizki, Designer

Sleek as a greyhound, Brudnizki sprang from fellow designer David Collins's studio 10 years ago.
Cleverly engages with the small and funky like Tierra Brindisa and chains like Strada as
enthusiastically as with flagship sites such as Scott's or Soho House Miami.

Nigella Lawson, Author and TV presenter

Mrs Charles Saatchi hams it up for the camera but her lascivious comfort cooking, with extra
lashings of sugar and fat thrown in, is oddly appropriate for these austere times. Selling books by
the bucketload — and her pad in Eaton Square, after Charles got fed up with the neighbours.

Jason Atherton, Chef

A long-time, important cog in the wheels of Gordon Ramsay Holdings, his leaving the company
seemed to precipitate the closure of Maze restaurants abroad. The first British chef to work at the
acclaimed El Bulli opens his own Pollen Street social early 2011 and consults for catering giant
Compass.
Kerstin Rodgers, Guerrilla restaurateur
Rodgers, better known as Ms Marmitelover, is a glamorous former rock photographer who
pioneered the burgeoning supper club movement. The underground restaurant (and now an
underground market) in her Kilburn flat has spawned a rash of imitators, few achieving her skill
or originality.

Gordon Ramsay, Restaurateur and TV star

From idol to ogre if some are to be believed and the latest blow is the departure of his father-in-
law Chris Hutcheson as chief executive of Gordon Ramsay Holdings. But let's not write off GR just
yet. He has purveyed Michelin-starred food to more than most in London. And in person he can
be charm personified.

Giles Coren, The Times, restaurant critic, and TV presenter

Larky reviews keep readers up-to-date with the activities of newly married Giles. The chap who
some say put the twit into Twitter also frequently makes salient points about eating out.
Educated at Westminster, he's still a demon sportsman on the fives court.

Ewan Venters, Selfridges, food and catering director

That food is important in Selfridges' branding is well understood by the well-connected Scotsman.
Timing of stunts such as credit crunch chocolate was felicitous, choice of suppliers such as
butcher Jack O'Shea spot on. Next on the agenda is a hotel and permanent roof restaurant.

Richard Harden, Harden Guide, co-founder and editor

Richard and brother Peter's guide to London is now the largest annual survey of restaurant goers
with more than 8,000 contributors. Crafty at publicity and unafraid to criticise some leading
chefs, the Hardens have instituted their own restaurant awards.

Giorgio Locatelli, Chef

Godfather to the Sali brothers, Max and Federico, at new Tinello in Pimlico and inspiration to
Pasquale Amico at Amico Bio, the dishy, gifted Italian chef is extending his work family — here
and in Dubai.

Des McDonald, Caprice Holdings, chief executive

East End boy Des oversees empire that includes The Ivy, J Sheekey and Scott's for Richard
Caring. The former chef now wears bespoke suits and travels the globe in charge of the
expansion of the group, which he joined 17 years ago. Tough and industrious.

Daniel Boulud, Chef

French-born and taught, but Boulud is schooled in the ways of American urban eating. He is the
first high-profile New York, Michelin-starred chef successfully to infiltrate London with acclaimed
Bar Boulud in Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge.

Nuno Mendes, Chef

Portuguese-born Mendes has come to rest after travels round the world, including a period at El
Bulli. Founded innovative, roving supper club The Loft Project, and also runs Restaurant Viajante
in what was Bethnal Green town hall. Audacity, patience and empathy mark his style.

Arjun Waney, Venture capitalist and restaurateur

Co-owner with German chef Rainer Becker of Zuma and Roka, which are rolling out around the
globe. Bombay-born Waney has also embraced French at La Petite Maison and Italian at Il
Barretto. Expect a new sighting in South Ken too.

Marlon Abela, Restaurateur

A sizeable inheritance has enabled Abela diligently to pursue exacting standards, amazing wines
and Michelin stars. His Marc empire includes The Greenhouse and Umu in Mayfair and has now
been joined by Cassis in Knightsbridge with a chef from three-star Maison Lameloise in Burgundy.

John Lanchester, Restaurant critic

Author of one of food's finest forays into fiction, The Debt to Pleasure, Lanchester has returned
to applying his light touch and clear love for the subject to analysing restaurants as critic for The
Guardian. Also published an acclaimed book on the credit crunch, Whoops!, this year.

Tom Harrow, Wine Chap, founder

A Wine Chap iPhone app gives customers the nous of a sommelier when faced with a restaurant
wine list. “We spend time poring over lists so the pouring you do is into the glass,” says Harrow.
Events, advice, tastings, wine tours and more.

Tom Byng, Byron, founder

Former restaurateur who ran Zucca has teamed up with Gondola Holdings, owners of Pizza
Express, to create funky burger chain Byron. Byng says there's “something a bit erotic about a
burger” but the emphasis is on quality and service. Similar associations may prove the way
forward for chains.

Lady Bamford, Daylesford Organic, founder

Ex-air hostess Carole, wife of Sir Anthony (the B in JCB) has brought her arguably Marie
Antoinettish view of eating from the Cotswolds to Pimlico and Notting Hill. Organic will cost you is
the message, but there are plenty of followers.

Eric Narioo, Wine merchant and restaurateur

His company, Les Caves de Pyrène, has added interest and value to many a restaurant wine list.
Terroirs, his highly successful wine bar off the Strand offering natural, biodynamic wines, is being
joined by Brawn in Bethnal Green.

Mike Belben, Gastropub inventor

When, in 1991, with chef David Eyre, Belben saw the advantage of using the long hours, licence
to drink and cheap rents of a pub to offer vivacious food, the London gastropub was born.
Hundreds if not thousands followed his example. His next big idea is a 21st-century “greasy
spoon”.

Ruth Rogers, Restaurateur

A bright, shining legacy of the late Rose Gray and her friend and business partner Ruth Rogers is
the number of River Café-inspired chefs and restaurateurs improving eating out in London. Ruth
works on as the linchpin of what is, fortunately, an inimitable business.

Sally Clarke, Restaurateur

Paris-trained with a traditional yet unstuffy vision and she's a top baker too, making 2,000 loaves
a day. Claim to fame is that hers was one of Elizabeth David's favourite restaurants and she is
still going strong in Kensington.

Gizzi Erskine, Food writer and TV presenter

With beehive hairdo and angel's wings tattoo on her back, the Leith's-trained former professional
body piercer reaches out to inspire the young to eat, cook well and become slim. Beat Nigella in
the annual Kitchen Crumpet Awards.

Nigel Slater, Chef and author

His understated, accessible approach to cooking has won him legions of loyal fans and has
produced yet another bestseller this autumn. Film adaptation of his autobiographical novel,
Toast, starring Helena Bonham Carter, is being shot for the BBC, for whom he has also made a
new series, Simple Suppers.

Samantha Clark & Samuel Clark, Restaurateurs

The couple's restaurant Moro, in partnership with Mark Sainsbury, opened on a high in 1997 and
has stayed there ever since. Morito, a no-bookings tapas bar, is their latest equally upstanding
offering.

David Coffer, Coffer Group, chairman

Few significant restaurant property transactions take place without the knowledge of the slightly
alarming “Mr Leisure” — 40 years in the business. His Coffer Foundation supports disadvantaged
youngsters through sport.

Marina O'Loughlin, Metro, restaurant critic

After more than a decade of caustic, funny, well-informed, influential reviewing, still few
recognise the wee half-Scots, half-Italian ex-copywriter from Glasgow. She doesn't do launches.

Cyrus Todiwala, Restaurateur and campaigner

Founder of Café Spice Namaste, one of the first London restaurants to push Indian culinary
boundaries, he learnt his craft in Taj Hotels group. Todiwala devotes time and energy to the
importance of training, especially of young Asian chefs in the capital.

Anthony Demetre & Will Smith, Restaurateurs

Chef and sommelier, they created an ideal partnership and modus operandi. Arbutus in Soho and
Wild Honey in the West End are worthy and trustworthy restaurants but at Les Deux Salons, a
spoonful of sexiness has been added to the recipe.

Erik Huggers, BBC Future, media and technology director

The Dutch-born digital chief wields clout through the ubiqutious iPlayer, yet faces an intense
squeeze in BBC spending cuts. Still keen to move into mobile phone apps and other innovations.
Has come under fire for his expenses after he spent nearly £5,000 in three months, with one
journey costing £639.

Matt Brittin, Google UK, director of operations

The internet search giant's UK operation just keeps getting bigger and will surpass £2 billion in
revenues this year as it continues to be Google's biggest hub outside the US. Brittin is a Brit, a
former Trinity Mirror executive and top ex-Cambridge rower. Has proved adroit at lobbying
Google's cause at events such as its annual Zeitgeist in Hertfordshire.

Oliver Schusser, Apple, iTunes European director

The mastermind behind Apple's dominance of the download market, the German is also
responsible for the computer firm's move into film and TV show downloads. Previously at
Napster, he was also a driving force behind Apple's 30-night music festival at the Roundhouse
earlier this year.

Alan Hely, Apple, European communications director

Amiable but tough, the Glaswegian is credited with much of the success of the Apple brand in
Europe. He helped create the massive buzz around the launch of the iPod and iPhone as well as
the Apple stores in Regent Street and Covent Garden. Trusted by Steve Jobs's inner circle and a
friend of chief designer Jonathan Ive, Hely has been with Apple since 1995.

Joanna Shields, Vice-president, Facebook, Europe Middle East and Africa

Well-connected American who has been recruited by Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg to
repeat her success at Bebo, where she built up the brand and introduced online soap operas —
before selling at the top to AOL. Also worked briefly for Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth at
her TV production company Shine.

Martha Lane Fox , Digital inclusion advisor

After gaining fame as the co-founder of Lastminute.com, the Government's digital champion is
tasked with getting the 10 million or so Britons who do not use the internet online by 2012. The
media-savvy entrepreneur is on the boards of M&S and Channel 4. Continues to overcome the
challenges of a terrible car accident.

Danny Rimer, Index Ventures, partner

The Harvard-educated Canadian who joined Index Ventures in 2002 and established their London
office has had successes with Skype, Last.fm and LoveFilm. He was named by Forbes magazine
in 2007 as one of the world's best 25 dealmakers. Close to James Murdoch and sits on board of
BSkyB.

Brian Lenz, BSkyB, director of product design

The American is the man putting 3D TV in your living room. He was the driving force behind
launch of Sky 3D channel earlier in the year with its coverage of the first live Premiership football
games and the Ryder Cup. Prior to BSkyB, Lenz held a similar role with rival Virgin Media.

David Yu, Betfair, chief executive

Boss of what some say is Britain's biggest internet success story — gambling website Betfair,
which has just floated on the stock market. Yu has an impressive IT pedigree, with degrees from
both Stanford and Berkeley. Claims to have no hobbies: “I've no time for anything but Betfair.”

Richard Halton & Anthony Rose, YouView, chief executive and chief technology officer
Former BBC duo who are hoping to repeat the success of iPlayer with online streaming of TV to
set-top boxes. The joint venture between BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4 and others could transform
our viewing habits — at least they hope so. Halton is an ex-BBC strategy wonk. Rose, an Aussie,
is credited with being the man who ironed out iPlayer's glitches before launch.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Internet pioneer

Suitably self-effacing, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web has advised the UK
Government on how to open up the vast amounts of data it stores for public consumption. He
runs the Web Foundation, which aims to empower people across the world, and has enlisted his
friend Gordon Brown as an adviser.

David Rowan, Wired, UK editor

Former Evening Standard media interviewer has uncanny knack of being able to explain complex
technological issues in simple terms. Currently working hard on transferring the magazine to app
formats, Rowan jokes he writes far more than he should for the publication and recently said he
was not on Facebook because of privacy fears.

Saul Klein, SeedCamp, chairman and Index Ventures, partner

Venture capitalist who was co-founder and original CEO of Love Film and former vice-president of
Skype. Has influential dual role as venture capitalist with Index and with SeedCamp, an
investment and entrepreneurial mentoring service which aims to encourage talent — which
means he knows about every hot start-up in town.

Ajaz Ahmed, AKQA, founder

One of the top digital advertising bosses in London, his agency has been the subject of a recent
global bidding war with talk of a £400 million price tag. The former Apple marketing man
founded AKQA back in 1995 and has managed to keep expanding while maintaining his “ideas-
led” firm's independence — at least until now.
Julian Assange, Wikileaks, editor-in-chief
The Australian-born apostle of transparency has had a big year with Wikileaks, which
anonymously publishes documents — notably the controversial US army war logs. Assange has
no permanent abode and travels the world attempting to expose all that's suppressed, striking up
an alliance with The Guardian newspaper.

Michael Acton Smith, Moshi Monsters and Firebox founder

Smith runs Moshi Monsters, the children's animation and social networking site with more than
25 million members worldwide, from a Battersea warehouse. The charismatic entrepreneur also
set up gadget shopping site Firebox and Perplex City, an alternate reality game. Now
spearheading a move into physical products for Moshi.

Dick Costolo, Twitter, chief executive

The new tweeter-in-chief, right, who takes over from the social network's co-founder Evan
Williams is tasked with making money from the increasingly popular micro-blogging site. Plans to
set up a UK HQ are in the offing and it is thought Twitter will be tailoring its output to exploit
local advertising.

Jack Schulze & Matt Webb, BERG London, digital design consultants
Shaping everything from Nokia's next-generation mobile phones to a BBC site which lets you see
how big the gulf oil slick would be if it hit the capital, BERG London has been lauded by Apple
boss Steve Jobs for its work reinventing magazines for the iPad age. The duo are based close to
Old Street, helping to give the area its Silicon Roundabout nickname.

Julie Meyer, Ariadne Capital, founder

Meyer's ethos at Ariadne is that successful entrepreneurs should back new entrepreneurs. Her
venture capital firm has a stake in almost 20 digital businesses. Co-founder of networking club
First Tuesday, one of the catalysts behind the original dotcom bubble, and she has recently
served as a Dragon for the online version of the BBC's Dragons Den.

Sam Houser & Dan Houser, Rockstar Games, co-founders

Creators of the popular and highly controversial Grand Theft Auto franchise, the London-born
brothers shy away from the spotlight. This year saw the release of new Wild West-themed game
Red Dead Redemption. Recently won libel damages in the High Court over claims they were
planning a game based on Northumberland gunman Raoul Moat.

Mike Butcher, TechCrunch Europe, editor

King of dotcom commentators for TechCrunch website. His latest project, called TechHub, aims
to recreate the feel of a Silicon Valley incubator in a concrete office block just off Old Street
roundabout. Member of the Mayor's Digital Advisory Board and will advise Boris on the planned
London-wide wi-fi hotspot by 2012.

Daniel Ek, Spotify, founder

Swedish co-founder of the revolutionary music service Spotify, who celebrated reaching
10 million users in Europe with a party in London's grunge music hotspot Camden Town (where
else?). Pinning future hopes on US expansion within months and getting Spotify onto
smartphones to make his “freemium” business model work.

Ashley Highfield, Microsoft UK, general manager

Ex-BBC man has his hands full at the computing giant, with the launch of Windows Phone 7 and
attempts to take on Google with MSN's search engine Bing. A well-connected luncher beyond the
tech world; he is a non-executive director of William Hill and governor of British Film Institute.
Rishi Saha, Deputy director of digital communications at the Cabinet Office
As co-ordinator of the Tories' digital election strategy, Saha had an important role in electing
David Cameron. The former hip-hop club promoter is now deputy director of digital
communications at the Cabinet Office and is keen on behavioural economics as a way to nudge
citizens' behaviour. Close to No 10 spinner Andy Coulson.

Brent Hoberman, mydeco.com, co-founder

Etonian who made his name with Martha Lane Fox at lastminute.com. Hasn't quite created the
same buzz with interiors website mydeco but is also an active “angel” investor as part of
Profounders Capital, which looks to back start-ups. Hoberman is also on the board of Guardian
Media Group.

Alex Hoye, Latitude Group, chief executive

Runs digital marketing group Latitude but has also been behind many of the capital's best new
media start-ups. He created GoIndustry, a leading industrial auctions site, and made a fortune. A
regular at London's dotcom social events, he was educated in the US at Stanford and Harvard,
and co-founded the wine club at both.

Howard Panter & Rosemary Squire, Theatre owners and producers

Coupling sound commercial instincts with adventurous producing, the married couple behind the
Ambassador Theatre Group's 39 nationwide venues are British theatre's true power couple; Mr
and Mrs West End. Says Panter: “We take the business side of theatre very, very seriously.”

Sir Nicholas Hytner, National Theatre, artistic director

In seven years in charge of the National the sleek Hytner has maintained theatrical excellence,
revolutionised pricing, scheduling and use of the building, and become the arts' vocal champion.
Knighted this year.

Lord Lloyd-Webber, Composer, theatre owner, TV personality

Already a powerful figure as a musical writer, producer and playhouse owner, he is also the only
man ever to make theatre work on TV. Recently downsized by selling four theatres.

Kevin Spacey, Old Vic, artistic director

The Hollywood star has taken the resurgent Old Vic into the West End and the tunnels beneath
Waterloo, and gone global via Sam Mendes's Bridge Project, for which he'll play Richard III in
2012.

Dominic Cooke, Royal Court, artistic director

Softly spoken Cooke has quietly stamped his authority on the Sloane Square venue, and had a
great run with Sucker Punch, Posh, Spur of the Moment and Clybourne Park.

Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Impresario and theatre owner

Oliver! and Les Mis keep on giving more to producer Mackintosh, who has ploughed his riches
into refurbishing his seven West End theatres, and into ambitious gambles like Hair.

Michael Grandage, Donmar Warehouse, artistic director

The most charming man in theatre, and the man everyone wants to work with, ever-youthful
Grandage has made the ever-expanding Donmar brand a byword for excellence. He quits in
autumn 2011 as he wants to move “away from being in charge of a building in order to develop
my work as a director”.

Sheridan Smith, Actress

Pint-sized musical powerhouse Smith made Legally Blonde the London hit it is, and is slated to be
an all-singing Bridget Jones on stage. She's come a long way since TV comedies Two Pints of
Lager and Gavin and Stacey.

Timothy Sheader, Regent's Park Theatre, artistic director

The geekily cool director has turned Regent's Park's Open Air Theatre into an essential summer
destination, programming adventurous plays and musicals to go with the Pimm's and picnics.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Actor

The Old Harrovian, below, is one of our most versatile leading men, reviving Rattigan at the
National while at the same time reworking Sherlock on telly, and is now set to star in Spielberg's
film of War Horse.

Sean Holmes, Lyric Hammersmith, artistic director

Shaven-headed, strong-willed director whose adventurous programming (Punk Rock, Ghost
Stories, the a gory revival of Sarah Kane's Blasted) has put the Lyric Hammersmith back on the
map.

Michael Attenborough, Almeida, artistic director

Eight years into his tenure the affable, halo-haired Attenborough shows no signs of letting
Islington's Almeida Theatre slip from its pole position as a creative — and fashionable —
powerhouse.

Ben Whishaw, Actor

Nobody does fine-featured anguish like Whishaw, on screen in Brideshead and Bright Star, at the
Royal Court in Cock or on Broadway in The Pride. A return to the classical stage is hoped for.

Sir Richard Eyre, Director

Former National Theatre director Eyre scored big with Welcome to Thebes and Private Lives, and
he's next lined up to adapt Robert Evans's Hollywood memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture on
Broadway.

Nica Burns, Theatre owner and president of the Society of London Theatres
The genial Burns sees herself as “curator” rather than proprietor of the Nimax London theatres
she owns with Max Weitzenhoffer, and is an astute appraiser and producer of drama and
comedy.

Katie Mitchell, Director

The National Theatre's resident high-art experimentalist puts classical texts and video techniques
through the blender, but is now showing a lighter touch: next up, a Christmas Beauty and the
Beast at the NT.

Edward Hall, Hampstead Theatre, artistic director

As charming as his father Sir Peter, “call me Ed” Hall is midway through his first season in charge
of Hampstead. If anyone can revive the beloved venue's shattered fortunes, he can.

Rory Kinnear, Actor

Brooding thesp Rory Kinnear's stellar stage career, including a Hamlet for the National, has now
overshadowed fond memories of his dad Roy.

Michael Grade, Theatre owner

The TV executive has now embraced the heritage of his uncles, impresarios Lew Grade and
Bernard Delfont, and agent Leslie Grade, heading a consortium that purchased West End
theatres from Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Rebecca Hall, Actress
After her appearance in the 2008/09 Bridge project, the elegant, intelligent daughter of Sir Peter
Hall and Maria Ewing returns to the classical stage in Twelfth Night for her dad at the National.

Sam West, Actor and director

West is one half of the new power couple of British theatre, along with playwright Laura Wade,
author of Posh. He's the fiercely committed director and actor, who this year shared the stage
with father Timothy West in a hit revival of A Number.

Howard Davies, Director

The great ensemble director scored a hit with Blood and Gifts and Russian dramas Burnt by the
Sun and The White Guard at the National, and with All My Sons in the West End.

Thea Sharrock, Director

Formerly London's youngest artistic director at the Southwark Playhouse, Sharrock is still only 34,
but has orchestrated Keira Knightley's stage debut and revived Rattigan's reputation: expect her
to run a major theatre soon.

Caro Newling, Producer

Sam Mendes's producing partner when he ran the Donmar and subsequently with Neal St
Productions, Newling is a forceful operator, and a guiding light behind Shrek The Musical.

Lucy Bailey, Director

Crop-haired Bailey mines rich seams of sexuality in her work and is a stalwart of Shakespeare's
Globe, and this year has opened her own studio space for challenging work in west London.

Sir David Hare, Writer

This combative theatrical knight produces densely researched state-of-the-nation dramas at a
dazzling rate but still finds time for the odd film script (The Reader) or solo show.

Lucy Prebble, Writer

Enron may have disappointed in New York but its storming London run confirmed Prebble as a
young talent — with forthcoming commissions at the National and Royal Court — to watch.

Rupert Goold, Director

As hotshot artistic director of touring company Headlong, Goold's bold co-productions (including
Macbeth, Enron and Earthquakes in London) have won him a 2009 Evening Standard theatre
award, among others.

Sir Ian McKellen, Actor

Still the only great classical actor to have also done panto and Coronation Street, McKellen's Lear
and Godot only showed him getting stronger. Likely to reprise his role as Gandalf in the new
Hobbit movie. Activist and entertainer.

Sir Tom Stoppard, Writer

Stoppard is “struggling” with a new play, but a Chekhov translation for the Bridge Project and
revivals of his The Real Thing and his masterwork Arcadia confirmed his wit and wisdom. Arcadia
makes the transfer to Broadway in 2011.

Alan Bennett, Playwright

He's donated his archive to the nation and refused every honour going, but The Habit of Art
showed Bennett as a writer still at the top of his game.
Dame Judi Dench, Actress
Don't dare call her a national treasure, but Dench guarantees good box office and continues to
challenge herself and delight audiences, most recently revisiting Titania aged 75.

Vanessa Redgrave, Actress

The fiercely talented Redgrave has been defined more by the sad loss of her daughter, brother
and sister recently, but she remains a potent figure in theatre, and has won rave reviews on her
Broadway return.

Sonia Friedman, Producer

Having started out in the subsidised sector, Friedman has become a powerful mover and deal-
maker in the still male-dominated world of producing, ranging from serious drama to big
musicals.

Simon Russell Beale, Actor

Billed as the stage's “Greatest Living Englishman”, SRB is a polymath who can breathe life into
hokum like Death Trap, as well as doing Shakespeare, Chekhov and Le Carre's Smiley.

Jez Butterworth, Playwright

Between film scripts, Butterworth maintains his strong association with the Royal Court that
resulted in the awesome Jerusalem: next up is a film about a feuding comedy duo, Huge.

Josie Rourke, Bush Theatre, artistic director

Three years into her reign at the Shepherd's Bush venue, Rourke has proved herself with starry
hits like The Aliens, as well as the off-site Stovepipe, and made her National Theatre debut this
autumn.

Marianne Elliott, Director

Having made it her home with a string of critical hits (and her commercially blockbusting co-
direction of War Horse) the clever and likeable Elliott is in the frame to run the NT one day.

Mehmet Ergen & Leyla Nazli, Producers

The duo behind the Arcola Theatre in Dalston embody the spirit of the fringe, mounting stunning
classics and new plays on a wing and a prayer: a move to more commodious premises is on the
cards.

David Babani, Menier Chocolate Factory, artistic director

The amiably burly Babani has made the south London Menier a starry, credible crucible for drama
and musical revivals, scoring West End transfers with La Cage and Sweet Charity.

Ruth Wilson, Actress

This mercurial actress has impressed at the Almeida in Through A Glass Darkly and Streetcar
Named Desire at the Donmar. Made her name in TV, starring as Jane Eyre in BBC adaptation and
establishing herself as a sought-after talent in BBC police drama Luther. Her other claim to fame
is her grandfather — an MI6 agent and serial bigamist.

Polly Stenham, Playwright

The gamine author of That Face continues to work on her third play, is opening a gallery, and is
part of London's bright young set with actor friends such as Doctor Who star Matt Smith and the
Treadaway twins.

Mark Rylance, Actor

Theatre would be infinitely duller without the sublimely talented, mercurial and defiantly eccentric
Rylance, former RSC star and Globe director who lit up Jerusalem and La Bête.
Nicolas Kent, Tricycle Theatre, artistic director
The ageless, impish Kent continues to run Kilburn's unique Tricycle Theatre with undimmed verve
and reformist political zeal: recent hits include Antony Sher in Miller's Broken Glass.

David Lan, Young Vic, artistic director

The soft-spoken leader of the Young Vic has made over the theatre — sometimes physically — as
a home for co-productions, opera and exciting stagings, and he's boldly chosen Tennessee
Williams for Christmas.

Roy Williams, Playwright

The prolific and ever-inventive Williams knocked audiences and critics sideways with his
devastating Sucker Punch at the Royal Court, and has several scripts in the pipeline.

Sir Trevor Nunn, Director

Former NT and RSC director and musical supremo Nunn scored a transatlantic hit with A Little
Night Music for Sondheim's 80th, and became visiting Cameron Mackintosh professor at Oxford.

Matthew Byam Shaw, Producer

The former actor is a producer who is not afraid to take risks, whether it's backing Frost/Nixon,
Enron and Legally Blonde, or taking Jude Law's Hamlet and Boeing-Boeing to Broadway. Has just
co-produced the hit stage version of Yes, Prime Minister.

Dominic Dromgoole, The Globe, artistic director

The refreshingly combative director of Shakespeare's Globe has built on his predecessor Mark
Rylance's foundations, pleasing aficionados and tourists alike, pairing the bard with new plays.

Michael Boyd, Royal Shakespeare Company, director

This month's re-opening of the RSC's Stratford theatres after a £112 million refurb is the bricks-
and-mortar symbol of the way Boyd has rebuilt the RSC's critical and public reputation in seven
years.

Kwame Kwei-Armah, Playwright and actor

Actor, writer, goodwill ambassador, TV presenter — Kwei-Armah is quite a polymath. Recent
projects have included The London Story on Radio 4 and he's the go-to spokesman for the arts.

Felix Barrett, Director

Kick-started the revolution in immersive theatre with his radically inventive company Punchdrunk
— each performance is a unique must-see.

Simon McBurney, Actor and Complicite founder

The motivating force behind Complicite has directed operas, concerts, even comedy gigs, but
he's best loved for his visionary stage shows, whether devised (Shun-Kin) or text-based
(Endgame). Also popped up on BBC's Rev.

Fiona Shaw, Actress

Versatile Irish-born actress has wowed the National in Mother Courage and London Assurance.
Best known outside theatre for her role as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films.

Bob Diamond, Barclays Capital, president

Went to America to run BarCap, now coming back to be chief executive of the whole of Barclays.
Superstar banker, rubs shoulders with celebrities and sports stars. Got Lehman's US business for
a song. His pay attracts criticism but the City view is that he is worth it and traders revere him.
Chelsea fan.
John Varley, Barclays, chief executive
Table tennis-loving, ascetic. Stepping down in favour of Bob Diamond at Barclays. Likely to pick
up one or two high-profile jobs. Will be listened to. Managed to keep Barclays out of the state
bailout.

Marcus Agius, Barclays, chairman

Urbane, cultured chair of Barclays. Successfully guided bank through crisis, kept John Varley and
Bob Diamond focused on job in hand rather than personal rivalry. Arranged for Diamond to take
over when Varley announced retirement. Could be next chair of BBC — already its non-executive
director responsible for top salaries.

Mervyn King, Bank of England, Governor

More powerful than ever, having emerged from the financial crisis with a large slice of banking
supervision added to his remit. More trusted than any politician on the economy even though he
admits he did not see the crisis coming. True independent voice.

Stephen Green, HSBC, chairman

Preacher of moral capitalism. Serious, studious, respected. First ran HSBC, then stepped up as
chairman of Britain's biggest bank. He will leave in December to be trade minister, which led to
brutal infighting over choice of his successor. In Westminster, likely to have key role in deciding
future of banking industry.

Lord Turner, Financial Services Authority, chairman

Once thought to be a New Labour luvvie but, it turns out, admired by the Tories just as much.
Still author of the best report to date on the financial meltdown. His description of some types of
banking as “socially useless” will stand the test of time. Good at seeing the bigger picture.

Michael Sherwood, Goldman Sachs International, co-chief executive

Those who thought there might be a degree of contrition from Goldman Sachs, in the face of the
onslaught accusing the bank of profiteering, clearly do not know its pugnacious London co-head.
Sherwood, despite being a Brit, is Goldman to the core. For all his toughness, he is donating
increasing amounts to charities.

Stephen Hester, Royal Bank of Scotland, chief executive

Impossible-to-ignore boss of the state-owned bank. Steering what may prove to be a remarkably
quick turnaround at RBS. Good at dealing with politicians. Made a fortune in investment banking
before heading for Abbey. Likes hunting.

Xavier Rolet, London Stock Exchange, chief executive

Frenchman who speaks five languages. Was Lehman's chief in Paris. Under pressure to add
clearing to LSE's list of activities. Still has much to prove.

Sir Win Bischoff, Lloyds Banking Group, chairman

Silky smooth grand old man of the City. Spent most of his career with Citigroup and ran that
bank briefly when the crisis hit. Now chairing newly merged Lloyds-HBOS. Naturally diplomatic,
brilliantly connected. Poaching António Horta-Osório of Santander to be CEO looks shrewd.

Anshu Jain, Deutsche Bank, head of investment banking

London-based star of the mighty Deutsche. Runs its global capital markets operation. In demand
at Davos and elsewhere for his views on the world economy and emerging nations. Has even had
a stake in his own IPL cricket team in India although he has since sold it.

Simon Robey, Morgan Stanley, global chair of M&A

Dashing co-chair of global merger and acquisitions for Morgan Stanley. Defended Marks &
Spencer against Sir Philip Green. Away from banking, other post as chair of the Royal Opera
gives him enormous social and networking clout.

Hector Sants, Financial Services Authority, chief executive

Ex-investment banker who went to “the other side”, to run the FSA. Despite criticism of the
watchdog, Sants is much admired at Westminster. Was going to leave but persuaded to stay in
the new regulatory set-up. Tipped as a future governor of the Bank of England.

Michael Spencer, Icap, founder

Revered in the City — not least because he built inter-dealer broker Icap up from scratch to
become world's leading player. And because he still loves the markets and the buzz of the trading
floor. Turned round Tory finances. Fine wine buff.

Crispin Odey, Odey Asset Management, founder

Fun, jolly hedge fund manager who is also very clever. Loves to take positions that are counter
to the rest of the industry. Made a killing investing in Barclays when its shares had slumped and
sticking with the bank through the crisis. Married to Nicola Pease, herself head of JO Hambro.

Paul Tucker, Bank of England,deputy governor

The Bank's eyes and ears in the capital markets. More in touch with the trading floors than his
boss, Mervyn King. Down-to-earth and practical. Kept the system stable, despite the dramas.

Terry Smith, Fundsmith, founder

Ultra-sharp, analytical and critical head of inter-dealer broker Tullett Prebon and formerly boss of
broker Collins Stewart, now going into investment management with his own fund. Battle of
Britain nut who campaigned successfully for a permanent memorial to fighter commander Sir
Keith Park.

Peter Sands, Standard Chartered, chief executive

Runs one of the few banks not badly holed by the sub-prime disaster. Consulted by Government
on how best to pull British banking out of the crisis. Standard Chartered goes from strength to
strength in key Chinese and Indian centres.

John Studzinski, Blackstone, senior managing director

Constantly jetting the world in search of deals. One of those responsible for repositioning
Blackstone from pure play private equity to all-round, high-level financial adviser. Moves between
heads of state and corporate chiefs. Massive donor to the arts.

David Giampaolo, Pi Capital, chief executive

American who made his money in fitness clubs and now runs ultra-well-connected investment
club Pi (it stands for Private Investors). Giampaolo throws regular power lunches and talks for
the starry list of members who are invited to invest in potential new ventures.

António Horta-Osório, Lloyds Banking Group, chief executive

Portuguese-born former Goldman banker who worked such wonders at Santander that he has
just been poached by Lloyds. Horta-Osório likes scuba-diving with sharks and will need
toughness at 41% taxpayer-owned Lloyds.

Ana Patricia Botin, Santander, UK chief executive

Glamorous, tough-talking daughter of Santander's billionaire chairman is moving from Spain to
run the high street giant which gobbled up Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley.
She will be busy as Santander plans a UK stock-market float.
Ian Hannam, JP Morgan Cazenove, chairman capital markets
Deal-maker and fixer extraordinaire. Often gets first call from anyone thinking of mounting a
mega-bid. Cazenove's No 1 rainmaker. Ex-member of the Territorial SAS. Fearsomely fit.

Pierre Lagrange, GLG,co-founder

The “L” of GLG. Hedge fund manager with rock-star looks. Likes to appear a rebel but
underneath is a serious philanthropist. Art collector. Quietly spoken, thoughtful.

Lord Levene, Lloyd's of London, chairman

Establishment pillar, chairman of Lloyd's, now fronting a new high street bank venture with fellow
grandee Sir David Walker. Has held numerous senior City posts, including Lord Mayor. Knows
exactly which Whitehall buttons to press.

Jim O'Neill, Goldman Sachs Investment Management, chief investment officer

Top economist who was first to spot potential of the emerging markets, calling them the BRICs
— Brazil, Russia, India, China. Mancunian and passionate Manchester Utd supporter, leading Red
Knights' bid to oust the club's owners, the Glazers.

Christopher Hohn, Children's Investment Fund, founder

Feared hedge fund manager, best known for forcing ABN-Amro to seek a suitor. All the profits his
fund makes goes to a charity run by his American wife, making him Britain's biggest
philanthropist. Unsettles a City used to making personal profit.

Keith Harris, Seymour Pierce, executive chairman

Whirlwind on the deal front, specialises in football clubs. But at same time, has built up Seymour
Pierce into leading middle-tier broker. Seems to know everyone, in the City, in football.

Anthony Ward, Armajaro, co-founder

Known as “Chocolate Finger” by traders because he has bought up seven per cent of the world's
annual cocoa production. Could move the price of chocolate bars if he wanted to. Loves his food
and wine. Starting a private equity fund investing in Africa.

Edward Bonham Carter, Jupiter, chief executive

“Bonny” runs Jupiter, the investment manager. Took over after founder John Duffield walked out.
Regular broadcaster. Charming, suave. Not afraid to speak his mind.

Amanda Staveley, PCP, Partner

Made the Middle East and its wealthy sovereign funds her own. Envy of everyone for her contacts
book. Can pick up the phone to Gulf rulers. Glamorous and personable, not given to airs and
graces.

Noam Gottesman, GLG, co-founder

Discreet co-founder of GLG, world's biggest multi-strategy hedge fund, now owned by Man
Group. Enormously wealthy. Arts patron. Never photographed.

Neil Woodford, Invesco fund manager

Britain's biggest institutional fund manager who blotted his copybook slightly recently by the odd
decision to back investments in Zimbabwe. When he speaks the City listens. Has the fate of
members of the FTSE 100 at his finger-tips. Bearish on UK plc's prospects.

Lord Rothschild, RIT, founder

Wise, veteran financier who still remains close to the action. Friends include Rupert Murdoch and
Peter Mandelson. Incredibly shrewd. Likes to stay out of the limelight. Major philanthropist.
Peter Montagnon, Financial Reporting Council, senior investment adviser
Ex-financial journalist turned corporate governance crusader. Was at the Association of British
Insurers for years, where companies grew terrified of his warning notices that they needed to
clean up their act — or else. Now on a similar mission at the Financial Reporting Council.

Tidjane Thiam, Prudential, chief executive

Had a difficult period as the insurer's bid for AIA flopped. Raised in Ivory Coast, ex-McKinsey.
Jury remains out on him but, because of Pru's size and the fact he's still the only black boss of a
FTSE 100 company, he commands attention.

Angela Knight, British Bankers' Association, chief executive

Cheerleader for bankers. Sadly lacking in support from the chiefs of the industry who prefer to let
Angela speak for them. Was a Tory MP and minister. Tough and articulate.

Anthony Thomson, Metro Bank, founder

Breaking mould by launching new High Street bank. Tightly run, return to old-fashioned, friendly
banking. Only lends 75 per cent of what it takes in as deposits. Branches even offer dog bowls
for people who want to bring their pets along.

Jonathan Moulds, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Europe president

Dashing banker, who has not only helped mould giants BoA and Merrill together but has kept the
organisation firmly in the corporate finance shop window. Making waves, seems to be involved
with everything.

Ian Wace & Paul Marshall, Marshall Wace, founders

Hedge fund leaders. Co-founders of Ark children's charity with Arpad Busson. Fingers in lots of
pies. Marshall keeps the lower profile of the pair.

Damon Buffini, Permira, partner

Popular, charismatic. Still a name the City respects — in spite of private equity's woes. Rare black
man at the very top. Grew up in a council flat, went to Cambridge University.

Keith Skeoch, Standard Life Investments, chief executive

No-nonsense fund manager who speaks for one of Britain's biggest equity investors. Strong
advocate of proper corporate governance, earns plaudits from regulators and the Government for
his views. Had misgivings about RBS that proved to be justified.

Hugh Osmond, Horizon, founder

Aggressive financier who can't stop doing deals. Has set up Horizon, an investment vehicle with
brief to find a corporate prey. Developed Pizza Express with his Oxford friend Luke Johnson.
Founded Punch Taverns.

Johannes Huth, KKR, head of Europe

Other executives at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts enjoy more public recognition but within the firm
Huth is regarded as the main man outside the US. Softly spoken, speaks four languages, remains
in the background. Deal track record is second to none.

Nat Rothschild, Vallar, founder

Son of Jacob Rothschild. Seen as carrying on his father's tradition of money-making. Shirks
publicity but receives it because of his friendship with politicians. Not uncontroversial. Infamously
crossed swords with Chancellor George Osborne in Corfu.
Martin Halusa, Apax, chief executive
Worldwide CEO of Apax private equity operation. German, based in London. Takes keen interest
in technology stocks. Has fingers in Auto Trader, Emap and many other pies.

Clive Cowdery, Resolution, founder

Made a fortune in insurance before setting out to reshape the sector. Known as “Big Clive”. One
of five children whose mother lived on state benefit. Speculation always has him linked to several
rumoured takeovers at any one time. Calculating, deliberate and combative.

Anthony Bolton, Fund manager

Nearest we have to a “Sage of Omaha”. Used to manage Fidelity, now targeting investments in
China. Can still move prices with his views. Writes orchestral music.

Alan Howard, Brevan Howard, founder

Billionaire who liquidated assets into cash ahead of the financial crisis. Brevan Howard is Europe's
largest hedge fund and fourth biggest in the world. Close to senior Tories, including George
Osborne.

Douglas Flint, HSBC, chairman-elect

HSBC veteran and long-serving finance director is a safe pair of hands who won the chairmanship
after a bruising boardroom struggle which saw his boss, chief executive Mike Geoghegan, quit
the bank. The Scot, who trained as an accountant, is credited with defusing HSBC's subprime
problems early before the credit crunch struck.

Franck Petitgas, Morgan Stanley, co-head of investment banking

French boss of London operation. Can flex enormous financial muscle. Supporter of the visual
arts, chairs Tate Foundation. Keen charity donor.

Stuart Gulliver, HSBC, chief executive-elect

Head of the powerful investment banking division is stepping up to the top job, which will mean
he splits his time between Hong Kong and London. He is highly experienced, having worked for
HSBC in both Asia and America. Admirers say he is brilliant at calculating risk. Studied law at
Oxford where he was said to have been a keen boxer.

John Micklethwait, The Economist, editor

Cerebral editor with global vision whose magazine sells more than 1.4 million copies a week.
Maintained dry pro-free market agenda and backed the Tories' plans to slash the deficit. Former
banker who spent nearly a decade covering the US before taking the Economist's top job.

Lionel Barber, Financial Times, editor

Renewed FT's focus on core City audience and made a success of its internet pay wall. After
nearly two decades of support for Labour, Barber's Pink 'Un swung behind the Tories over
austerity cuts. Says he would have been a private detective if he weren't a journalist.

Paul Ruddock, Lansdowne Partners, chief executive

Hedge fund boss with estimated £265 million fortune. Controversially profited from “shorting”
banking shares during credit crunch. Donor to the Tories and the arts and chairs Victoria & Albert
Museum.

Peter Cruddas, CMC Markets, founder

Ultra-tough and savvy founder of financial trading business, which he famously founded with
£10,000 in 1989. Relentlessly built business in online era. Already fabulously wealthy, expected
to cash in with a stock-market float.
Ken Costa, Lazard International, chairman
A superbly connected deal-maker, Cambridge-educated, ex-UBS and SG Warburg. Specialises in
providing advice to family-controlled companies and worked for Mohamed Fayed on the sale of
Harrods. Committed Christian.

Stanley Fink, International Standard Asset Management,chief executive

Well-connected hedge fund boss who retired from Man Group but soon popped up at ISAM.
Philanthropist who backed schools' charity Ark and is Tory Party treasurer.

Ben Goldsmith, WHEB Ventures, partner

The son of Sir James and brother of Zac has inherited City savvy. He is a key player in the eco-
friendly private equity and asset management firm, which has made more than a dozen “clean-
tech” investments.

Sergei Polunin, The Royal Ballet, principal

Vadim Muntagirov, English National Ballet, first soloist
The two young Russians dominate London ballet, with Polunin at The Royal Ballet and
Muntagirov at ENB. Both have considerable charisma, both make near perfect princely leads, and
both are barely out of their teens with potentially long careers ahead.

Alistair Spalding, Sadler's Wells, chief executive and artistic director

Spalding's policy of booking popular troupes to underwrite edgier work and a diversity of resident
artists mean both audiences and wannabes flock to the door of his North London flagship. He
complains that TV dance shows are too “fluffy” and celebrity-driven — no risk of that at Sadler's
Wells.

Monica Mason, The Royal Ballet, director

The Queen Bee of London dance may have a reputation as a slightly too-safe pair of hands, but
under her stewardship The Royal Ballet has become an assured operation, mixing both heritage
and innovative new work, and attracting the cream of international young dancers.

Craig Hassall, English National Ballet, managing director

Running the cultural programme for the 2000 Sydney Olympics was just one of Hassall's blue-
chip jobs in Australia before joining ENB in 2005. He's since steered the troupe to popular and
financial success, and was unsurprisingly asked to advise on London's 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Arlene Phillips, Choreographer and director

She transcended the Strictly Come Dancing fiasco (after being dropped as a TV judge) by quietly
proving she's still the best in the West End. She masterminded Hot Gossip, choreographed
Starlight Express, Grease and the new Flashdance, and created moves for Tina Turner and
Robbie Williams. Next is a series
of dance-themed children's books.

Wayne McGregor, The Royal Ballet, company director and choreographer

Forty this year, McGregor has consolidated his youthful achievements into influential maturity. As
well as umpteen independent projects, he continues to create new work for The Royal Ballet as
well as classical troupes around the world (New York City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and the Bolshoi).

Howard Jacobson, Author

Won this year's Man Booker Prize with The Finkler Question at the venerable age of 68 —
claiming to be the first comic novelist to win in the prize's history. Jacobson has described
himself, only half-joking, as the “Jewish Jane Austen”.
Dame Gail Rebuck, Random House, chief executive
Formidable, considered by many to be the most powerful woman in publishing, with a stable that
includes authors from Dan Brown to AS Byatt. Married to political guru Lord Gould, Rebuck has
risen to even greater eminence by publishing Tony Blair's memoirs so successfully.

Mark Smith, Quercus, chief executive

Struck gold by buying English-language rights to Stieg Larsson's record-setting Girl With The
Dragon Tattoo trilogy. Did the publicity himself by handing out free copies in Bloomsbury Square
and asking taxi drivers to give them away. Founded Quercus in 2004 with ex-Orion colleague
Wayne Davies. Now launching US/Canadian imprint called Silver Oak.

Ian McEwan, Novelist

The one and only novelist of the highest literary rank who invariably achieves sales that rival or
outdo mass-market fiction. Unlike his peers, he practises the art of suspense. However, his most
recent novel, Solar, about a fat rogue scientist, disconcerted some fans with its episodic structure
and broad humour.

Mariella Frostrup, TV and radio presenter

Face of Sky TV's arts programming, much in evidence at the Hay Festival, as well as Radio 4
regular. Warmth and accessible approach have for some time now made the husky-toned
Frostrup an important advocate for the industry in wider media.

Victoria Barnsley, Harper Collins, chief executive

Founder of Fourth Estate, now runs the books arm of Rupert Murdoch's empire. Famous for her
single arching eyebrow, married to Nick “Castle” Howard. Bought up Peter Mandelson's memoirs
and fought the BBC in court to publish Top Gear driver The Stig.

Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury, chief executive

Harry Potter catalogue is still lucrative and his Soho house is flourishing as Newton takes it
forward into a digital, academic and specialist publishing future. Born in San Francisco, the
committed Anglophile has done a digital deal for Sir Winston Churchill's papers and has a new
venture in the Middle East.

Ion Trewin, Booker Prize literary director and author

Ex-literary editor of The Times and publisher at Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Trewin is now literary
director of the Man Booker Prize and a general éminence grise. When he was still at Weidenfeld
he was the sympathetic editor of MP Alan Clark's scurrilous Diaries and has written the old roué's
authorised biography.

Nicholas Pearson, Fourth Estate, publishing director

Responsible for bestsellers including Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and as UK editor of top novelist
Jonathan Franzen. Won't have been happy about errors which crept into Franzen's latest book,
Freedom, which led to copies being pulped, but it is already another hot seller. Pearson is
married to Rachel Cugnoni, who runs Vintage, Random House's literary paperback imprint.

Jamie Byng, Canongate, publisher

Son of the Earl of Strafford, stepson of Sir Christopher Bland, Byng bought Canongate from the
receivers while still in his mid-twenties and has turned it into a dynamic outfit. Snapped up UK
rights to Barack Obama's surprisingly good books. Eclectic list includes Philip Pullman and Yann
Martel.

Stuart Proffitt, Penguin, editor

The driving force behind the creation of The Samuel Johnson Prize, Proffitt remains one of a
handful of editors who still take non-fiction seriously in a celebrity-obsessed industry. Ginger-
coiffed and mild-mannered, Proffitt looks and acts older than he is.

Martin Amis, Author

His most recent novel, The Pregnant Widow, about the terrible consequences of letting it all hang
out, was roundly raspberried by the critics. But though Amis has never won the big prizes or
shown the popular touch, he's still a great agent provocateur.

Tim Hely Hutchinson, Hachette Livre UK, chief executive

Despite attending Eton and Oxford, Hely Hutchinson is famous for championing trashy literature,
and who can blame him? Profits of French-owned giant Hachette Livre are solid, thanks largely to
Twilight author Stephenie Meyer.

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate

Duffy is the first female, self-proclaimed bisexual, Scottish Poet Laureate — and by far the most
popular contemporary poet. So far, as Laureate, she has published poems about MPs' expenses,
David Beckham's Achilles injury and volcanic ash. Will she serve the monarchy in due course or
not?

Geoffrey Hill, Poet

Always a challenging writer, Hill was for most of his career notably costive, but since going on to
anti-depressants, he has become far more fluent. Following the Ruth Padel debacle, he was the
overwhelming choice to become Oxford's next professor of poetry. Impressive body of work as
poet and critic.

Baroness James, Crime writer

Now 90, Baroness (PD) James continues to intervene for cultural standards, roundly criticising
the BBC, for example. But she warns that she may have written the last of her entrancing and
evocative novels about the poet-detective Adam Dalgleish, with The Private Patient, set in a
private clinic in Dorset. Let's hope not.

Andrea Levy, Novelist

Levy made the big-time with her fourth novel Small Island, about the Jamaican experience in
Britain, which won both Whitbread and Orange Prizes and was turned into a high-quality TV
drama. Her follow-up about slavery, The Long Song, was Man Booker shortlisted.

William Boyd, Novelist

Always a novelist much enjoyed, Boyd's sales looked to be flatlining until he moved from Hamish
Hamilton to Bloomsbury with Restless — which won him the Costa and Richard & Judy
endorsement. His latest, Ordinary Thunderstorms, is another literary thriller. Lives in Chelsea and
France, where he also makes wine.

JK Rowling, Author
With the saga over, Rowling is now working on a Harry Potter encyclopedia — although there
have been intriguing hints she could yet write more fiction on the HP theme. She remains a
generous contributor to good causes.

Tom McCarthy, Author and conceptual artist

Has gradually made his way to the big time, his latest novel C having been shortlisted for this
year's Booker. Self-appointed “general secretary” of the semi-fictitious International
Necronautical Society, mimicking early 20th-century avant-garde movements. His work plays with
notions of authenticity, is highly intellectual and deliberately mystifying.
Richard Dawkins, Scientist and author
Dawkins first found fame expounding hard-line evolutionary theory in The Selfish Gene. Since the
publication of The God Delusion, he has risen to new prominence as an evangelising atheist.
Married to actress and ex-Doctor Who assistant Lalla Ward, to whom he was introduced by
Douglas Adams. Not an admirer of the Pope.

Zadie Smith, Author

Hit the big-time at just 25 with debut novel White Teeth. Lately, she has been lecturing and
working on literary criticism and is professor of creative writing at New York University, while
keeping a base in Brondesbury. Scarcely any new British fiction is more keenly awaited than her
own next book.

Stephen Page, Faber, chief executive

The son of a prep-school headmaster, Page is known for his man-management skills. Has yanked
the previously scruffy independent into era of profitability, in new premises in Great Russell
Street, with jazzy repackaging of many old titles and the creation of strong non-fiction and
children's lists.

Hilary Mantel, Author

Has written remarkably varied novels since 1985. Only since her epic historical novel Wolf Hall,
about Thomas Cromwell, won the Booker has she reached the readership she deserves. She had
the biggest-selling hardback in the history of the award with 223,000 copies sold through the UK.
Now planning the sequel.

Simon Prosser, Hamish Hamilton, publisher

His fierce competitive streak has helped Prosser build a strong literary list at Hamish Hamilton,
taking the lead in younger British fiction.

Caroline Gascoigne, Publisher

Gascoigne moved from being literary editor of the Sunday Times to taking charge of Century
Hutchinson, a big, mid-range Random House list, which includes such writers as Sebastian
Faulks, Robert Harris and Ruth Rendell — and now she has equally successfully published Alastair
Campbell and Tony Blair, whose line editor she was.

Sir Andrew Motion, Poet

Former Poet Laureate has worked tirelessly for the cause of poetry and literature in general,
although he faced a battle to make an impact in his royal role. His most recent collection is The
Cinder Path, but it is not for his own writing he is chiefly valued. He continues to chair the
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, plus this year's Man Booker Prize.

William Sieghart, Forward Poetry Prize, organiser

Patron saint of poetry, being both the founder of National Poetry Day and of the Forward Poetry
Prize. Works tirelessly for other good causes. Made fortune creating business publisher Forward.

Andrew Franklin, Profile, publisher

Ex-Penguin, he has created the pre-eminently successful independent publishing house. The big
break was publishing Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves in 2003. Profile now publishes 100
titles a year, a surprising range, all without any corporate stuffiness.

Nick Hornby, Author and screenwriter

His USP as a novelist is that he does emotion for the ladies as brilliantly as he does the blokey
stuff like footie and music lists. Recent projects have included the screenplay for the movie of
Lynn Barber's Education. He has said he will use his time and money for anything he considers
truly worthwhile in future.
Kate Mosse, Author and Orange Prize co-founder
Champion of women's writing with Orange Prize, she has done very nicely for herself as a
novelist too, with her Languedoc trilogy. Has sidelines as a Radio 4 arts presenter and reviewer.

Bill Scott-Kerr, Transworld, publisher

Scott-Kerr's great coup was to sign up not only The Da Vinci Code but also the whole of Dan
Brown's backlist for a bargain price. Brown's latest may have been critically panned but it still
managed to do the business. Also publishes many other successful mid-market novelists.

Anthony Cheetham, Atlantic, publisher

A great publishing veteran, having created Century, Orion and (most recently) Quercus
publishing houses. Now has a new role at another independent, Atlantic, where, with his son
Nicolas, he is directing a new imprint, Corvus. He's in no mood to retire yet.

Sebastian Faulks, Author

The popular and sociable Faulks has proved he can both churn them out and swing every which
way. Been busy with everything from James Bond revival novel to London credit-crunch tale A
Week In December and his old bestseller Birdsong being adapted (not entirely successfully) for
the West End stage. A former journalist, he lives in Notting Hill.

Toby Mundy, Publisher

An independent spirit, Mundy worked at HarperCollins and Orion before creating his own list for
Atlantic, as a subsidiary of the US publisher Grove/Atlantic. Promotes intelligent and
argumentative writers such as Christopher Hitchens, Ian Buruma, Philip Bobbitt and Man Booker
winner Aravind Adiga.

Philip Pullman, Author

A teacher until he was 50, author of children's favourite His Dark Materials trilogy. Committed
atheist and many have seen his work as a retort to CS Lewis's Narnia books. Keen amateur
carpenter. Criticised Pope's visit to UK in September.

Lady Antonia Fraser, Historian

Writes vivid histories of great figures such as Marie Antoinette and Mary Queen of Scots. Her
memoir of her husband Harold Pinter was surprisingly touching. Not quite as Left-wing as he was
but she is a doughty supporter of PEN, which campaigns for the freedom of writers around the
world.

Antony Beevor, Historian

Ex-military man, trained at Sandhurst, before resigning to write, publishing several novels before
turning to military history, where his straightforward narrative style has won him a big following.
Stalingrad remains his best-known work.

John Blake, Publisher

A former red-top editor, Blake is a key player in the pop market, showing loftier publishers what
the public really want to read about, from Jordan to pets. Perhaps the only publisher to have a
specific category called “Hard Men Non-Fiction”, boasting such titles as Bovver, Chopper and
Bronson.

Sir Salman Rushdie, Author

Booker-winner who has lived down the notoriety of The Satanic Verses fatwa. Continues to
publish novels tackling cultural clashes, albeit not always so well-reviewed now, and to appear
regularly at literary parties. Knighted in 2007. Married four times and still energetic.
Adam Foulds, Author
Winner of numerous prizes for The Broken Word, a history in verse of the Mau Mau uprising, and
his novel, The Quickening Maze, about the life of John Clare. The son of a rabbi, Foulds is still in
his mid-thirties.

Robert Harris, Novelist

Harris has consistently shown himself to have his finger on the pulse, whether quickly writing a
thriller about politics and the media (The Ghost) or making a success of his long-term project, a
trilogy about the Roman orator Cicero. Has maintained close links to Mandelson, rubbished Blair
and defended Roman Polanski, despite his sex crimes.

Jung Chang, Author

While it's proved impossible for her to top the success of her memoir, Wild Swans, she remains
much sought-after as a voice that can explain China to the West. Wrote a biography of Mao with
husband Jon Halliday, banned by Beijing. Lives in west London.

Sir VS Naipaul, Author

Nobel Laureate who has delivered the most incisive and unsparing account of the whole
experience of colonialism, perceived from within. At 78, still a trenchant writer and traveller,
accompanied by charismatic wife Nadira. His latest book The Masque of Africa has shown he has
lost none of his ability to cause trouble.

Katie Price, Celebrity author

Yet again Katie Price has succeeded in out-selling the Booker contenders with her latest slush,
Paradise, ably ghosted by Rebecca Farnworth — and there's been another autobiography this
autumn. Nobody has done more to change mass market publishing in recent years — backed by
fly-on-the-wall TV and red-top deals.

Andrew Roberts, Historian

Diminutive, tireless, sociable, reactionary, Roberts sets the mark for all other historians in sheer
productivity and self-promotion. Critically acclaimed biographer of Salisbury and Halifax, before
moving onto 20th-century epics. Spends more time in the States now, with Brunswick PR wife
Susan Gilchrist.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

Born in Japan, he has lived in the UK since the age of five, currently in Golders Green. His novels
are full of poignant irony, his first person narrators never fully appreciating their own plight, even
as they describe it. A Booker-winner who is modest and retiring. Can the film of Never Let Me Go
equal the success of The Remains of the Day?

Peter Florence, Hay Festival, director

Legend has it he funded the first event with his father using winnings from a poker game. Based
in London, he has just signed a lucrative deal with the Daily Telegraph to sponsor his Hay-on-
Wye Festival. Has taken the Hay approach to such far-flung places as Bogota and Cartagena and
been honoured by the Colombian government for his efforts.

Pablo Ganguli, Festival organiser

The talented Mr Ganguli, still in his mid-twenties, organises literary and film events from Soho to
Papua New Guinea. Described as a “fearsome networker”, he is also a PR and fixer. Born in
Calcutta, he shot to prominence at 17 when he fell in love with the male British deputy high
commissioner in eastern India.

Banksy, Artist
Despite becoming increasingly commercialised, Banksy still has the capacity to prompt delight
and mirth in the public and outrage in city councils. His recent exhibition at the Bristol Museum
exhibition broke attendance records and he has just about managed to keep his identity secret
too.

Anish Kapoor, Artist

Phenomenally popular, Kapoor's sculptures are becoming increasingly visible in the public realm.
His mirrors have been gracing Hyde Park, while his steel tower will dominate the Olympic Park in
Stratford in 2012.

Sir Nicholas Serota, Tate, director

After countless triumphs in the Noughties, Sir Nicholas must now steer Tate through rougher
waters. Doubts remain over the funding of the Tate Modern extension, but if anyone can pull it
off, this brilliant politician and fundraiser can. Still the pivotal London art world figure, Sir
Nicholas is more charming and witty than his public image suggests.

Julia Peyton-Jones, Serpentine Gallery, director

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, co-director exhibitions and programmes
The art world's dream team: Obrist's indefatigable energy and Peyton-Jones's political and social
nous, allied to a shared passion for contemporary art. The Serpentine has remained among the
most glamorous and yet radical galleries in Europe and has just won the right to expand into
second Hyde Park venue designed by Zaha Hadid.

Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp, Frieze, directors

The Frieze Art Fair is now the contemporary art world's most important event, dictating the entire
autumn art season and prompting museums to schedule around it. Slotover and Sharp, who also
founded the magazine Frieze back in 1991, have not rested on their laurels, bringing in new ideas
and new curatorial blood with each edition.

Neil MacGregor, British Museum, director

Still known as Saint Neil in some quarters. MacGregor's diplomacy and curatorial brilliance have
made the British Museum more relevant in the capital's cultural life than it has been for decades.
Look out for the BM's big Afghanistan exhibition in March.

Charles Saumarez Smith, Royal Academy, chief executive

Mild-mannered, quietly steely Saumarez Smith has a populist touch, overseeing the first true
blockbuster of his RA tenure in the Real Van Gogh earlier this year and defending the
questionable Summer Exhibition against critics' attacks.

Nicholas Penny, National Gallery, director

Refreshingly outspoken for a museum director, Penny has stamped his own identity on the
National since taking the helm two years ago. He has focused on lesser-known artists, alongside
big hitters like Canaletto this autumn and Leonardo in November 2011. Prolific author too.

Iwona Blazwick, Whitechapel Gallery, director

After last year's re-opening, Blazwick has re-established the Whitechapel's identity as a centre for
cutting-edge, and often overlooked, artists. Cerebral but accessible, Blazwick is the heroine of
countless would-be curators across London.

Jay Jopling, White Cube Gallery, Owner

Still Britain's most famous art dealer, Old Etonian Jopling has always nurtured less stellar talents
alongside the Hirsts and Emins for whom he is famous. Has yet to tap in to a new generation,
but has a good eye, and a top team.
Charles Saatchi, Collector
He wields less power than at his Nineties zenith, but Saatchi's shows remain must-sees. His
recent idea to gift much of his collection to the nation seems to have hit the buffers, but his
gallery off the King's Road is one of London's best art spaces.

Wolfgang Tillmans, Artist

German-born Tillmans's Serpentine show this summer proved him to be master of photography,
but he also runs a quiet but excellent gallery, Between Bridges, in Bethnal Green.

Harry Blain & Graham Southern, BlainSouthern Gallery, directors

Founders of the highly regarded Haunch of Venison, Blain and Southern left the gallery this year
after Christie's bought it. They quickly moved to open BlainSouthern, their new Dering Street
gallery, in October. With leading artists like Mat Collishaw defecting with them, this new gallery is
one to watch.

Ralph Rugoff, Hayward Gallery, director

This imaginative American curator has made the Hayward a must-visit venue again, mainly
through a series of eye-catching and popular group exhibitions of contemporary art. Overseeing
a major Tracey Emin show in 2011.

Henry Wyndham, Sotheby's, chairman

Smooth, Old Etonian hammerman for the auction house, he has remained bullish in the
recession, and with good reason — sales have remained surprisingly strong, particularly in the
field of Impressionist and Old Master works with some record prices .

Jussi Pylkkanen, Christie's Europe, president

Impressionist specialist who continues to hammer out big prices, focusing on trustworthy
Impressionist and modern masters. Also in the Finn's Christie's empire is the contemporary art
gallery Haunch of Venison.

Penelope Curtis, Tate Britain, director

In trying times for museums, the first woman to direct a London Tate gallery has the experience
and know-how to keep Tate Britain on an even keel. Was curator of Henry Moore Institute in
Leeds for a decade. Look out too for Curtis's Modern British Sculpture show at Royal Academy in
2011.

Simon de Pury, Phillips de Pury, chairman

A Swiss baron, De Pury still has a major share in the Victoria-based auction house, alongside
Russian luxury retail company Mercury Group, and remains chief auctioneer. De Pury has been
known to dabble as a DJ.

Nicholas Logsdail, Lisson Gallery, director

Logsdail's Lisson Gallery has been a beacon for cutting-edge art off the Edgware Road ever since
the 1960s. The formidable gallerist recently rejuvenated the gallery with artists like Ryan Gander
and a fresh curatorial team, including son Alex.

Sandy Nairne, National Portrait Gallery, director

For many years Nick Serota's sidekick, the affable Nairne joined the National Portrait Gallery in
2002 and has transformed its stodgy reputation, bringing in more visitors, and giving it fresh
relevance with his passion for contemporary art.

Gilbert & George, Artists

Bethnal Green's finest. More than 40 years after first becoming “living sculptures”, Gilbert
Proesch and George Passmore continue to influence and antagonise. Their recent Jack Freak
Pictures, prominently featuring the Union Flag, have just been on a grand tour of Europe.

Damien Hirst, Artist

Few exhibitions have been worse received than Hirst's recent paintings, but his star still shines on
the market. His next move may be his most important to date. The former leader of the Young
British Artists must raise his game.

Iwan Wirth, Hauser & Wirth, gallery owner

Swiss gallerist Iwan Wirth has long been pushing his gallery beyond its Piccadilly base and now,
to great fanfare, he has inaugurated a second, cavernous space in Savile Row. Has a top-class
roster of artists, including Martin Creed and Roni Horn.

Mark Jones, Victoria and Albert Museum, director

Quieter and less dynamic than his many of his directorial peers, Jones has nonetheless had
consistent success, overseeing the recent rejuvenation of the Medieval and Renaissance galleries,
and the visit of the Vatican's Raphael-based tapestries.

Lucian Freud, Artist

Britain's most expensive living artist, Freud continues to paint as he nears his nineties, and
retains his magnetism and aversion to publicity. This year's retrospective at the Pompidou Centre
confirmed his position among Europe's leading figurative painters.

David Hockney, Artist

Ever ready to explore new media, Hockney, who has a Kensington studio, was the first
contemporary artist to explore the iPad. Otherwise, when not raging about the plight of smokers,
Hockney is likely to be found quietly capturing the landscape of his native Yorkshire.

Antony Gormley, Artist

With his metal casts from his body now bestriding landscapes and cities from the Alps to Bexhill-
on-Sea, Gormley is Britain's most ubiquitous artist. His Reith Lectures for the BBC will be
broadcast in the spring.

Jenny Abramsky, Heritage Lottery Fund and National Heritage Memorial Fund, chair
As guardian of £190 million of Lottery money for the arts, former BBC radio boss Abramsky will
be under siege when the full reality of cuts becomes apparent.

Veronica Wadley, Arts Council England, London chair

The former Evening Standard editor was very much Boris's choice for the Arts Council post. As
the organisation copes with government cuts, opera-lover Wadley will need to use her extensive
political and media contacts.

Ivor Braka, Art dealer

He has never had a gallery, but straggly haired Braka is one of London's leading art dealers and
socialites. He bought Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon before their prices soared, and deals in the
work of numerous top contemporary artists.

Mark Getty, National Gallery, chairman

Founder of Getty Images, former banker and son of John Paul Getty II, he has continued his
family's grand tradition of philanthropy. Will need all his entrepreneurial skills as government cuts
bite at the National.

Sadie Coles, Gallerist

Lynchpin of the YBA scene, and married to photographer Juergen Teller, Coles continues to
preside over one of London's essential spaces for contemporary art, despite finally closing her
gallery in Heddon Street.

Anita Zabludowicz, 176 gallery, director

Zabludowicz and wealthy Finnish-Jewish husband Poju are big philanthropists, but also collect
numerous young artists who are not yet in museum collections and show them at 176, their
shabby-chic gallery in a former church in Chalk Farm.

Rachel Whiteread, Artist

In House, her 1993 concrete cast of an East End home, Whiteread created an icon of the Young
British Arists era, and this Shoreditch resident's staying power is confirmed by her acclaimed
show of drawings, which have just been on show at Tate Britain.

Dexter Dalwood, Artist

Makes collaged paintings — signature style is to depict famous places he has never been to. It
has taken a while, but this year St Martins-trained Dalwood has finally made it onto the shortlist
for next month's Turner Prize.

Daria Zhukova, Collector and gallery director

“Dasha” Zhukova has made a major art splash in her native Moscow by creating the Garage
Center, the Russian capital's equivalent of Tate Modern, and collects modern and contemporary
art. Partner of Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich, with whom she has a son.

Jake Chapman & Dinos Chapman, Artists

The Chapmans may look and talk as tough as ever, but they have grown increasingly avuncular
as they have matured — as proved by their fun but inevitably creepy children's drawings at the
Whitechapel this year.

Mark Wallinger, Artist

Cerebral and politically outspoken, Chigwell-born Wallinger has won the Turner Prize, had the
first sculpture on the Fourth Plinth, and his vast white horse will soon dominate the north Kent
landscape.

Ryan Gander, Artist

Despite his relatively youth, Gander, 34, is showing his witty conceptual art across the world. He
also formed a one-year gallery, Associates, in Shoreditch, giving 12 unsigned artists the chance
to show their work.

Timothy Taylor, Gallery owner

Taylor shows major modern and contemporary artists like Bridget Riley, Sean Scully and Agnes
Martin from his exquisite Mayfair gallery space. Son of a naval officer and married to Lady Helen
Windsor.

Tracey Emin, Artist

Former rebel and provocateur, Emin has cut a decidedly conventional figure of late, and is
rumoured to be in bed with the Tories. Major exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery and in her
hometown Margate are planned for 2011.

Grayson Perry, Artist

The self-deprecating “Transvestite Potter” is both a lynchpin of the art party scene and a
thoughtful, outspoken cultural commentator, unafraid to lampoon the shortcomings of conceptual
art. Branching out into sculpture and tapestry.
Victoria Miro, Gallery owner
Veteran gallerist who has overseen the rise of artists such as Peter Doig and Chris Ofili, while
also promoting newer talents such as Conrad Shawcross and Phil Collins. An ex-painter, Miro is
famously both kindly and robust.

Frank Auerbach, Artist

Veteran painter of expressive portraits and landscapes, Auerbach's recent Courtauld show met
with acclaim. A painting of Mornington Crescent, close to where he lives, is expected to reach
more than £1 million at auction.

Maureen Paley, Gallery owner

A resolutely cutting-edge dealer for a quarter of a century, beehive-coiffed American Paley
represents several key artists, including Wolfgang Tillmans and Gillian Wearing. A heroine for
numerous subsequent women gallerists.

Tim Jefferies, Gallery owner

Perennial presence on the party scene, Jefferies has run Hamiltons, the photography gallery in
Mayfair, since 1984. Jefferies uses his A-list contacts to maximum effect as chair of the ultra-
glam Serpentine summer gala fundraiser.

Viscount Linley, Christie's, chairman

Highly regarded as a furniture designer, David, the son of the late Princess Margaret, has
showrooms in Pimlico and Mayfair. He has been chair of Christie's since 2006.

Stuart Shave, Gallery owner

Led the resurgence of West End galleries when he moved from the East End in 2007. About to
open a basement gallery to expand his space for his roster of conceptual legends and bright
young things.

James Lingwood & Michael Morris, Artangel

With the visionary Artangel, ex-ICA curators Lingwood and Morris have given us some of the
most spectacular public artworks in recent memory, like Rachel Whiteread's House and, last year,
Roger Hiorns's Seizure.

Deyan Sudjic, Design Museum, director

The Design Museum seems perennially in the midst of dispute, but the former Observer
architecture critic's programme — whether it's David Adjaye's African photographs or John
Pawson's minimalist architecture — is consistently strong.

Maurice Cockrill, Royal Academy Schools, keeper

Creator of modest, lyrical abstract paintings, Cockrill has nonetheless contributed to a more
radical approach at the RA Schools, from which numerous hotly tipped artists have emerged in
recent years.

Dame Paula Rego, Artist

Portuguese-born, the Turner Prize-shortlisted painter is known for her candid and at times
unsettling portraits and illustrations. Mischievous and inventive, she's been hugely influential —
not least on her son-in-law, the Australian sculptor Ron Mueck.

Stephen Deuchar, The Art Fund, director

His new role is an inevitable comedown from the directorship of Tate Britain, but Deuchar's
stubborn pursuit of high ideals and passion for art will be necessary as a cash-starved art world
increasingly relies on the Art Fund's money.
Ben Janssens, Art dealer
Dutch-born Jermyn Street dealer who specialises in historic Asian art. Well-connected, he is also
chair of a major blue-chip fine art fair in Maastricht.

Alison Jacques, Gallerist

Jacques has long been a linchpin of the London art scene, with several notable artists on her
books, but this year she reached a new level, balancing hardcore conceptual legends and top-
class emerging artists at her gallery just north of Soho.

Carey Mulligan, Actress

Blossoming into a major talent. After her acclaimed turn in An Education, she landed her first big-
time Hollywood gig as Shia LaBeouf's girlfriend in Wall Street 2, a role she assumed in real life
before they parted recently. Now starring in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

Danny Boyle, Director

The Oscar-minted Slumdog Millionaire man has a new flick, 127 Hours, which is set for big box-
office returns and awards heat. The biggest British director in Hollywood has another key role,
overseeing the opening ceremony at the 2012 Olympics.

Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Working Title, founders

Still the UK's biggest film-making duo. A couple of recent movies have stumbled at the box office.
But the Universal-owned company has new instalments of the Johnny English and Bridget Jones
series on the slate, as well as a big-budget adventure, Everybody Loves Whales, with Drew
Barrymore.

Stephen Daldry, Director

Oscar-nominated for each of his first three films (Billy Elliot, The Hours and The Reader), Daldry
divides his time between film and stage. Has a 9/11 movie in the pipeline and is working with
Danny Boyle on London Olympics.

Christopher Nolan, Director

Warner Bros took an expensive gamble on Nolan's long-cherished Inception and it paid off with
worldwide box office of more than $700 million and counting. Batman 3 is next on the agenda
for this visionary director.

Patrick McKenna, Head of Ingenious Media Group

Major player in film finance who is basking in the fact he was among the backers of the 3D global
smash, Avatar. McKenna, rumoured to be worth the best part of £600 million, is a not-
uncontroversial figure and has faced scrutiny from the Inland Revenue over loopholes in former
film financing activities.

Kate Winslet, Actress

Mother of two beats every actress in Hollywood to the choicest parts on offer. The 2009 Oscar-
winner may have gone through a divorce from Sam Mendes but she has completed the title role
in five-hour mini series Mildred Pierce and is shooting Steven Soderbergh's global virus thriller,
Contagion.

Daniel Craig, Actor

While the 23rd Bond film has been delayed indefinitely, Daniel Craig is doing just fine with lead
roles in $100 million sci-fi actioner Cowboys And Aliens and Steven Spielberg's Tintin. And then
there's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Josh Berger, Warner Bros UK, head

A 20-year veteran of the US studio, he increased Warner's commitment to the UK this year with
plans to create a permanent production base at Leavesden Studios — and his empire covers
Spain, too. But he is wary of the Government's plans to mess with film tax credit system.

Dame Helen Mirren, Actress

As good as ever, and the Dame knows it, which is part of the charm. Plays a Mossad agent in
John Madden's The Debt, a male Prospero in Julie Taymor's The Tempest, a retired CIA killer in
Red, Ida in Brighton Rock and the John Gielgud role in the remake of Arthur.

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

Life after Harry: the finale to the Potter franchise is hitting cinemas now, but Radcliffe is moving
on, opting for indie chiller The Woman In Black and a return to Broadway in musical revival How
To Succeed In Business.

Guy Ritchie, Director

Ritchie hit the doldrums during his marriage to Madonna and infamous failures like Swept Away,
but the newly single director is now back on the A-list after the success of Sherlock Holmes. The
sequel is already in production for release next year.

David Heyman, Producer

As the man who brought the Harry Potter franchise to Warner Bros, generating worldwide
revenues of well over $10 billion, Heyman can do anything he wants and has already lined up
post-Potter films at the studio including a film of Paddington Bear and Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity
with Robert Downey Jr and Natalie Portman.

Keira Knightley, Actress

A veteran at 25, Knightley has refocused her career away from Pirates-style franchises to classy
European fare like Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. A
stage stint in The Misanthrope boosted her reputation.

Tessa Ross, Head of Film4

Has just won a 50 per cent increase in her annual budget to £15 million which she has
stretched across a slew of films from star-packed Never Let Me Go to Danny Boyle's Slumdog
follow-up 127 Hours, as well the latest from Mike Leigh and Chris Morris.

Christine Langan, BBC Films, creative director

With an annual budget of £12 million, elegant ex-TV producer Langan is one of the industry's
biggest gatekeepers, greenlighting quintessentially British movies such as Made In Dagenham
and Brighton Rock,as well as upcoming pics for actors-turned-directors Dustin Hoffman and
Ralph Fiennes.

Danny Perkins, Optimum Releasing, chief executive

Fuelled by cash from French parent StudioCanal, independent distributor Optimum has backed
Last Exorcism and its biggest ever release — The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina
Jolie — as well as UK films Brighton Rock and Attack The Block.

David Kosse, Universal Pictures, president of international

One of the most powerful executives in the UK, the well-liked US-born Kosse runs the production
and distribution operations of Universal outside the US from his Oxford Street base. His value to
the studio is undeniable.

Matthew Vaughn, Director and producer

Mr Claudia Schiffer is thick with the Tories. He pushed hard for the abolition of the UK Film
Council and says Hollywood should have to share profits in return for filming here. Vaughn is a
director in demand after Kick-Ass was a hit. Shot X-Men prequel for Fox at Pinewood.
Jane Goldman, Screenplay writer
Mrs Jonathan Ross, best known for her multicoloured hair and party antics, has suddenly
blossomed into a hot Hollywood talent. Her Kick-Ass script was a hit and she's juggling a string of
other projects, including the X-Men prequel and Woman In Black.

Sally Hawkins, Actress

Something of a late starter but Dulwich-born Hawkins, now in her mid-thirties, lit up Brit flick
Made In Dagenham. Cut her teeth in TV on Casualty and Little Britain and then caught
Hollywood's eye following Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky.

Adrian Wootton, Film London, chief executive

Launched the city's film body in 2003 and has won endorsement of Boris Johnson and the new
Government. Now a serious contender to take over Lottery production funding from the doomed
UK Film Council.

Andrew Cripps, Paramount Pictures International, president

Chiswick-based American Cripps has had a smashing time, delivering more than $1 billion in
grosses
for Paramount and DreamWorks Animation films including Iron Man 2, How To Train Your
Dragon and Shrek Forever After. He also helped to back UK films such as Made In Dagenham.

Nira Park & Matthew Justice, Big Talk, co-chief executive and managing director
They run the film and TV production company with top comedy talent Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
and Nick Frost. With Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead, and upcoming movies such as Paul and
Attack The Block, Big Talk is getting bigger.

Stephen Frears, Director

Evergreen Frears can survive a miss like Cheri and return to form with the well-received Tamara
Drewe. One of England's finest, his CV includes some of the best British films in the past 30
years, from My Beautiful Laundrette to The Queen.

Edgar Wright, Director

His third feature Scott Pilgrim Vs The World was a disappointment at the box office but Wright's
cred is still soaring on both film and TV. He's also hot in Hollywood and wrote the first in the new
Tintin trilogy for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.

Sam Mendes, Director

Although he has dropped the 23rd James Bond film due to studio troubles, Mendes is always
busy. He is juggling Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach while directing Kevin Spacey as Richard III at
The Old Vic. Has split with wife Kate Winslet.

Kenneth Branagh, Director and actor

Branagh has probably never been hotter, collecting a Bafta for playing Kurt Wallander on TV. Has
just directed FX-laden Marvel Comics movie adaptation Thor and is playing his hero Laurence
Olivier in My Week With Marilyn.

Graham King, Producer

The son of a cabbie and hairdresser from Cockfosters is one of the most talent-friendly producers
in the business, winning the confidence of stars including DiCaprio, Depp and Jolie. He finances
his own movies, which is no mean feat bearing in mind that his current pictures are lavish
Depp/Jolie adventure The Tourist and pal Martin Scorsese's first 3D family movie, Hugo Cabret.

Colin Firth, Actor

Firth has had a renaissance thanks to Tom Ford's A Single Man, which won him Bafta and Oscar
nominations. Now his performance as the tormented, stammering George VI in The King's
Speech is winning him greater praise. Married to eco-warrior Livia Giuggioli.

Tim Burton, Director

Enjoying his biggest ever hit, 3D Disney epic Alice In Wonderland, now the sixth biggest movie of
all time and one of only 10 to gross more than $1 billion. Burton, whose other half is Helena
Bonham Carter, is moving on to a film of TV series Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp.

Richard Curtis, Writer and producer

Four Weddings writer may still be smarting after the disappointment of last year's directing job
The Boat That Rocked but he has moved on with aplomb, cherry-picking his jobs from the Van
Gogh episode of Doctor Who to the screenplay of Steven Spielberg's adaptation of War Horse.

Jeremy Thomas, Producer

Dual role running both Recorded Picture Company and its sales/financing arm HanWay Films.
One of the only producers in the UK who can finance and produce a steady stream of high-
quality movies. Is working hard-to-get Terry Gilliam's long-gestating Man Who Killed Don Quixote
in front of the cameras.

Amanda Nevill, British Film Institute, director

The personable Yorkshire-woman has turned the BFI around, doubling turnover, transforming the
South Bank cinemas into a popular destination again and building up the London Film Festival
into one of the world's best. Successfully kept the BFI in favour when the UK Film Council got the
chop.

Amanda Berry, Bafta, chief executive

No-nonsense Berry is a popular chief executive who has done a lot to revitalise the crusty
organisation, separate film and TV events, expand the group's national year-round activities and
bring media attention and big-time movie stars to the red carpet.

Ewan McGregor, Actor

Dividing his time between UK and LA, McGregor keeps on the A list through judicious juggling of
tasty studio roles (Angels & Demons) and daring independent work (The Ghost, I Love You Philip
Morris). Won raves for his latest, Beginners, in which he plays a man coping with his gay father's
death.

James Richardson, Vertigo Films, co-founder

The man behind Streetdance 3D, the British success story of the year, also backed the ultra low-
budget sci-fi Monsters and had one of the year's biggest sleeper hits. As producer and distributor,
Vertigo has a bright future including Streetdance 2, and films of Horrid Henry and The Sweeney
— all in 3D.

Ken Loach, Director

He may be firmly rooted in the art house, but veteran Loach is one of the most bankable film-
makers in the UK. Looking For Eric last year was one of his biggest hits to date and his Iraq war
thriller set in Liverpool, Route Irish, should win over new fans.

Emma Watson, Actress

Impeccable box-office pedigree, after eight Harry Potter films. Next project is My Week With
Marilyn. But she is taking her next steps tentatively, juggling modelling and university.

Joe Wright, Director

Wright suffered setbacks with his poorly reviewed US debut The Soloist and the cancellation of
period drama Indian Summer, which was to star Cate Blanchett, but he has bounced back and
shot Hanna, with Blanchett and Saoirse Ronan as a 14-year-old assassin.

Robert Pattinson, Actor

R-Patz may face competition in the hearts of teenage girls from his Twilight co-star Taylor
Lautner, but the heart-throb from Barnes is building a career outside Twilight with roles in the
romance Remember Me and period drama Bel Ami.

Michael Fassbender, Actor

Understated and has parlayed his independent cool — from films like Hunger and Fish Tank —
and dashing good looks into the Hollywood A list and roles in new movies by Steven Soderbergh
and David Cronenberg. Plays a brooding Rochester in the new movie of Jane Eyre.

Jude Law, Actor

Back in the ascendant, playing Hamlet to great acclaim for Michael Grandage in both the West
End and on Broadway and matching Robert Downey Jr scene for scene as Dr Watson in Sherlock
Holmes. Up next for Law: Holmes 2 and the next Scorsese and Soderbergh films.

Tom Hollander, Actor

Versatile, understated and witty, Hollander has proved his worth with big-budget pieces such as
Pirates Of The Caribbean and Pride And Prejudice. Won new fans with sleeper BBC hit Rev, in
which he plays Adam Smallbone.

Gemma Arterton, Actress

Red-carpet favourite with blockbuster roles in Clash Of The Titans and Prince Of Persia, where
she was just a pretty face. Title role in Tamara Drewe showed she's more than that. Still
complains she is treated as “a piece of ass”.

Mike Leigh, Director

One of the only directors who can finance his films without a script in place. His unique method,
which includes the creation of the script in extensive rehearsal periods, may be unconventional
but it nearly always delivers, as acclaimed latest film Another Year shows.

Alison Owen, Producer

A well as being the mother of singer Lily Allen, Owen runs thriving production company Ruby
Films. Her achievements this year include Emmy-winning TV movie Temple Grandin and Tamara
Drewe.

Tom Hardy, Actor

Hardy was the scene-stealer for many in summer smash Inception and has now assumed full
heart-throb status, playing Reese Witherspoon's love interest in comedy This Means War and
taking over Mel Gibson's mantle in next year's Mad Max reboot.

James McAvoy, Actor

Having taken a break in the aftermath of Hollywood blockbuster Wanted, the Scot is back
working as hard as he ever did, playing an attorney defending a woman accused of conspiring to
assassinate Lincoln in Robert Redford's The Conspirator. Also headlining Matthew Vaughn's X-
Men prequel.

Tilda Swinton, Actor and producer

The fearless Swinton bagged the Oscar and could have pursued a lucrative Hollywood career but
instead chose to star in Italian art house drama I Am Love. Next up, she plays Lewis Carroll's
dream wife in Marilyn Manson's Phantasmagoria. Of course.
Michael Winterbottom, Director
Busiest film-maker in showbusiness with a diverse range — from BBC series The Trip, with Steve
Coogan and Rob Brydon, to The Promised Land, a drama about the role of England in the
Israel/Palestinian conflict.

Andrew Garfield, Actor

Raised in Essex, he has bagged major roles in Facebook epic The Social Network, Never Let Me
Go, and, biggest of all, Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man.

Tom Hooper, Director

Wunderkind behind The Damned United and The King's Speech, the 38-year-old will fly the Brit
flag at the Oscars.

Paul Weller, Musician

The modfather, once criticised as too old-fashioned, is currently writing as if he has months to
live. Two albums, 37 songs in two years, all daring, experimental and tremendously exciting.

Florence Welch, Musician

Camberwell's finest. Florence and the Machine bestrode the music world in 2010 like an exotically
dressed collossus, releasing six singles fom the No 1 debut album, Lungs, and dueting with
Dizzee Rascal at the Brit Awards. Next year's second album will be a major event.

Dizzee Rascal , Musician

Having pioneered the UK's urban pop sound that now dominates the charts, Dizzee (real name:
Dylan Mills) has become its unstoppable figurehead, landing a remarkable four No 1 singles in
the past year.

David Joseph, Universal Music,UK chairman and chief executive

Stepped up when Lucian Grainge moved to LA to run the world's biggest record company. Joseph
not only runs Britain's biggest record label (Take That, Amy Winehouse) but is also new chairman
of the Brits committee, organising pop's biggest awards show.

Ged Doherty, Sony Music, UK chairman and chief executive

The former drummer and roadie sits atop the second of the big four record labels, doing nicely
thanks to a deal with Simon Cowell's Syco that gives Sony a share in all his talent-show albums.
Also looking forward to more credible blockbusters from Kings of Leon and Mark Ronson.

Paul Latham, Live Nation International, chief operating officer

Now that the entertainment giant has merged with Ticketmaster it has even more of a hold on
ticket sales and concert venues. It sold 140 million tickets worldwide last year. Latham is proud
of his Left-wing leanings and is a theatre fan too.

Roger Faxon, EMI, chief executive

Faxon is the third man to take the hot seat this year which shows just how tough life has been at
the private equity-owned major label. But as an EMI man since 1994, Faxon knows the company
better than most. Global success for Katy Perry and Lady Antebellum have helped a battered
reputation. Splits time between here and New York.

Richard Russell, XL Recordings, director

The most influential indie label in the UK has earned global success with The White Stripes and,
this year, Vampire Weekend, as well as being home to current Mercury Award-winning hotshots
The xx. Russell also squeezed a magical new album out of reclusive poet Gil Scott-Heron this
year.
George Ergatoudis, Radio 1, head of music
As the man who ultimately picks the songs that get
the heaviest rotation on Radio 1, Ergatoudis is a major shaper of the singles chart, partly
responsible for the current popularity of grime-pop and the folk revival led by Mumford & Sons.

John Reid, Warner Music Europe, chief executive

Reid oversees everything the major label does outside the US. Warner has enjoyed recent
success in the male solo artist field with Plan B and Paolo Nutini, and has high hopes for new
releases from James Blunt and Rumer. Warner's global supremo Edgar Bronfman, who has
bought a home in London, lurks in the background.

David Campbell, AEG Europe, chief executive

Since opening in 2007 AEG's O2 Arena has become comfortably the world's busiest venue,
beating New York's Madison Square Garden. Has just taken over from Earls Court as the home of
the Brit Awards. Also working with Tottenham FC on possible move to take over the Olympic
Stadium after 2012.

Maya Arulpragasam, Musician

Better known as MIA, the rapper and producer of Sri Lankan descent punches well above her
weight thanks to attention-grabbing, outspoken interviews and controversial videos. Now that
she's engaged to Ben Brewer, whose father Edgar Bronfman is CEO of Warner Music Group, she's
powerful too.

Taio Cruz , Musician

The 28-year-old Londoner started out as an anonymous R&B songwriter for hire but has become
a star in his own right, landing No 1 hits with Break Your Heart and Dynamite, continuing to
write for Cheryl Cole, McFly and JLS and even launching his own Rokstarr clothing range.

Oliver Sim, The xx

Sim and bandmates Romy Madley Croft and Jamie Smith won this year's Mercury Prize by uniting
sparse indie, dubstep and electronica, and sound like no one else around. Not bad for three
schoolfriends from Putney. Every new band in 2011 will be billed as “The next xx”.

Oliver Jones, Magnetic Man, producer

Best known by his stage name Skream, he is one third of the trio — along with Benga (real
name: Adegbenga Adejumo) and Artwork (Arthur Smith) — who form Magnetic Man. The
dubstep sound of south London has been bubbling underground for years, but after Burial's
Mercury nomination in 2008, this Croydon supergroup are finally taking it into the mainstream.

Mark Ronson, Musician, producer

The parping horns of Ronson's three-times-platinum album Version, and his production work with
Amy Winehouse, became unavoidable. Now he's starting a new trend with the analogue synths
of his latest work, Record Collection.

Peter Robinson, Editor, Popjustice.com

Music journalist Robinson revived the snarky tone and genuine love of chart pop on his website.
Now his influence is spreading with the editorship of the official X Factor magazine and his own
record label, Virgin subsidiary Popjustice Hi-Fi.

Damon Albarn, Musician

It didn't go quite as well with Gorillaz as it did with the reformed Blur, but Albarn's headlining
slots at Glastonbury two years running demonstrate the extent of his popularity, no matter what
style of music he touches.
Thom Yorke, Radiohead
Having released their last album as a pay-what-you-like download in 2007, all eyes will be on
Radiohead's sales technique for the follow-up, most likely due early next year. The music is likely
to be as influential as ever too.

Krissi Murison, Editor, NME

Sales of the weekly music mag remain under pressure but under Murison's stewardship it has
smartened up both visually and intellectually, and it retains influence on the wider media world.

Simon Frith, Mercury Music Prize, chair of judges

The academic who steers the decision-making process to name the British or Irish album of the
year was judged to have got it right for once by giving the latest £20,000 cheque to The xx. The
Mercury still stirs musical debate like nothing else around.

Nick Williams, BRIT School, principal

A recent top five hit for BRIT School graduate
Katy B shows the continuing influence of the Croydon performing arts college. Comebacks next
year from fellow alumni Adele and Amy Winehouse will show that the school does something
more interesting than producing identikit pop stars.

Zane Lowe, Radio 1, DJ

The students' favourite has been touring Britain's universities with live bands in tow. Having a
track named as Lowe's “Hottest Record in the World” is still a vital step on the way to stardom.

Lily Allen, Musician

With two smash albums behind her, Allen has claimed to be quitting music in favour of opening a
clothes shop, but she's also planning her own record label. Whatever she does next will be worth
watching. Sadly, she recently lost a baby late in pregnancy.

Feargal Sharkey, UK Music, chief executive

The former Undertone has become a key adviser on government policy in the music business
such as tackling illegal downloading. It is rumoured he could soon become the first punk Lord, so
impressed is David Cameron.

Alison Howe, Later… with Jools Holland, co-producer

Jools is the face of the music show that recently marked its 250th episode, but Howe is the one
choosing the bands and changing their fortunes for the better. Recent clever spots include
Rumer, Everything Everything and Yeasayer.

Rob Da Bank, DJ and festival promoter

Robbie is the epicentre of all things quirky on the music scene, with his Bestival and Camp
Bestival proving the pinnacle of the “boutique” experience, and his Sunday Best label signing
oddballs such as Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip and Kitty, Daisy & Lewis.

Bryan Ferry, Musician

The old smoothie is due to be cool again, with Roxy Music touring in January to mark their 40th
anniversary, plus a recent solo album with Kate Moss on the cover and collaborations with
members of Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Scissor Sisters and Brian Eno within.

Stuart Price, Producer

The electronics wizard has been in demand ever since taking Madonna back to the disco on her
Confessions On A Dance Floor album. The latest acts to pay for his synthesised sheen are
Brandon Flowers of The Killers, Kylie, and Scissor Sisters.
Laurence Bell, Domino Recording Co, founder
Bell's indie empire was behind what was widely named the best album of 2009, Animal
Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion, and this year Domino received a pair of Mercury
nominations for the first time, for Villagers and Wild Beasts.

Marcus Mumford, Mumford & Sons

Far outselling even his acclaimed girlfriend, Laura Marling, Mumford's band have become the key
act in the current folk resurgence. Their debut album has now been high in the UK chart for
almost a year and they're starting to shift serious units in America.

Amanda Echalaz, Singer

The South African soprano caused a sensation when she took over as Tosca from an indisposed
Angela Gheorghiu last year at Covent Garden; more recently she starred in the role again at ENO
and is now widely touted as the singer most likely to seize the Callas crown.

Antonio Pappano, Royal Opera House, music director

The artistic hub of the Royal Opera, Pappano is a cosmopolitan figure (born to Italian parents in
London) whose dynamism, charisma and talent goad his colleagues to give their all. Not only a
brilliant conductor and pianist, but also, as a recent TV series demonstrated, a credible singer
and an engaging television presenter. His £630,000 wage has attracted controversy.

Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra, chief conductor

Famous for his blazing eyes and fluttery beat; also for always trying to be in several places at
once. But on the podium the Russian never delivers less than a blistering performance.

Roger Wright, Radio 3, controller, and BBC Proms, director

Urbane and with a nice line in dry humour, he rules his twin empires with flair and imagination,
introducing new audiences to classical music while doing his best to keep the traditionalists from
rioting. He's a BBC survivor, running Radio 3 since 1998.

Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Barbican Centre, managing director

Brings long experience from broadcasting and journalism to his current role as head of the City's
cultural flagship. Not one to rest on his laurels, Kenyon continues the wide-ranging and ambitious
programme initiated by his predecessor, Sir John Tusa.

Edward Gardner, English National Opera, music director

Intelligent, gifted Old Etonian conductor who has already made his mark. Under the leadership of
Gardner and artistic director John Berry, ENO has explored alternative venues, investigated an
adventurous repertoire and sought out new directorial talent for opera, notably from the cinema
and the legitimate and musical theatres.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia, principal conductor

Part of the Finnish wave of talent that has so enhanced British music-making in recent years.
Salonen's revelatory leadership of the Philharmonia has persuaded some commentators that the
orchestra now holds pole position in London.

Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra, principal conductor

Ruggedly handsome Slavic maestro whose performances with the London Philharmonic are
always compelling and thoughtful, even when they (just occasionally) seem wrong-headed. At his
best, a stimulating, often thrilling conductor.

Marcus Davey, Roundhouse, chief executive

Classical music has now been reintroduced to the wide-ranging programme in the newly
refurbished Roundhouse, which also hosts the Electric Proms and appearances by such stars as
Bob Dylan. Davey vigorously oversees both the artistic programme and the drive to involve local
children in cultural activities at the Chalk Farm flagship.

Peter Millican, Kings Place, chief executive

Inaugurating a major new complex — part of the King's Cross regeneration scheme — in the
teeth of the economic downturn is a huge achievement, but Millican is that rare breed: a
property developer who loves and understands the arts. His performance spaces at Kings Place
encourage curators to bring remarkably varied fare to both new and traditional audiences.

Jude Kelly, South Bank Centre, artistic director

Responsible for the whole artistic output of the South Bank Centre, Kelly and head of music
Marshall Marcus have succeeded in making the complex an exciting crossroads where cultural
streams converge and revitalise each other.

Darren Henley, Classic FM,managing director

Passionate about both classical music and jazz, he uses his popular radio station to bring them to
the masses. Recently appointed by the Education Secretary to lead an independent review of
music education, intended to broaden access to music.

Christina Coker, Youth Music, chief executive

For well over a decade, Youth Music has been transforming the lives of millions of disadvantaged
children by involving them in musical activity. Former teacher Christina Coker is the inspirational
figurehead.

Oliver Knussen, London Sinfonietta, conductor laureate

The bear-like figure of Knussen towers in every way over British contemporary music. His own
creative powers are rarely sparked these days — more's the pity — but there is no more vigorous
advocate of other composers' music.

Ian Ritchie, City of London Festival, director

With corporate sponsorship getting harder and harder to deliver, Ritchie has to be endlessly
creative to keep the City of London Festival — London's biggest classical festival after the Proms
— at the forefront. His wide experience and contacts stand him in good stead.

Thomas Adès, Composer and pianist

The leading British composer of his generation, his works are performed all over the world. Not
as prolific as he was and hardly gregarious either — he rarely gives interviews, preferring to let
his music speak for itself.

Mike Volpe, Opera Holland Park, general manager

Has run OHP with producer James Clutton for two decades, bringing recherché Italian repertoire
to the park with the remarkable support of the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Jokingly
plays up to the image of the Sicilian mobster his name suggests.

Luke Bedford, Composer

Highly talented young composer who has won numerous awards and a string of prestigious
commissions in recent years. Became the Wigmore Hall's first composer-in-residence last year.

Colin Matthews, Composer

His works, which include a high-profile Proms commission this year, are performed all over the
world. Also an influential figure on numerous boards, including those of the Britten Estate, the
Britten-Pears Foundation, NMC Recordings and the Royal Philharmonic Society.
James Rutherford, Singer
Bass-baritone whose steady progress up the international ladder reached the stellar heights of
the Bayreuth Festival this year, where he sang the role of Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Now in demand all over the world.

Sally Groves, Schott Music International, head of contemporary music

Publishes works by leading international composers including Henze, Penderecki and Turnage.
Also holds influential positions with the British Music Information Centre, Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Royal Northern College of
Music. Her father was celebrated conductor Sir Charles Groves.

Janis Susskind, Boosey & Hawkes, publishing director

As director for B&H she has nurtured many major composers. Has long been involved with
numerous key musical organisations and is currently a board member of the ENO.

Ruth Mackenzie, Cultural Olympiad, director

Arts supremo brought in to get the Cultural Olympiad on track in time for 2012. She will need her
all her skills as a formidable administrator to mould something worthwhile and lasting in the short
time available.

Kathryn McDowell, London Symphony Orchestra, managing director

The former Arts Council chief and director of the City of London Festival has brought her
impressive organisational skills to the task of maintaining the LSO's status as one of the world's
leading orchestras. Has effectively answered the critics of her appointment five years ago with
her calm competence and persuasive abilities.

Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation, chief executive

James Murdoch, News Corp Europe and BSkyB chairman
Rupert has dominated UK media for 40 years but the masterplan that he and son James have to
take full control of Sky would give them unprecedented influence. Their papers, The Sun and The
Times, backed the Tories to the hilt at the election and while that failed to win outright victory,
David Cameron owes them a debt of gratitude. James is tipped to move to New York as Rupert's
successor.

Simon Cowell, TV impresario

No one in global TV, bar Oprah Winfrey, comes close to his combination of on-screen presence
and power behind the camera. ITV was thrilled to sign a new three-year deal to keep his hit
shows. Cowell's ambitions go far beyond Britain with the launch of X Factor in America.

Mark Thompson, BBC, director-general

His star, like that of the Corporation, is on the wane. Assailed by critics at Westminster and
media rivals, Thompson has been woefully slow in reacting to anger about bloated budgets and
executive pay. Still, iPlayer has been a success and the Beeb produces some great TV and radio.
Wants to stay until Olympics.

Paul Dacre, Daily Mail, editor-in-chief

No editor has more influence, not only in running the Mail titles but also as chairman of the
editors' code committee which monitors press standards. Dacre has not been the most
enthusiastic supporter of David Cameron, which means the Tories care even more about what
the Mail says.

Lord Rothermere, Daily Mail, chairman

Steadfast supporter of the Mail who has built up a portfolio of non-newspaper businesses to
protect the flagship paper. Rothermere remains a minority shareholder in the Evening Standard,
where he cut his teeth as managing director.

Rebekah Brooks, News International, chief executive

The most powerful woman in newspapers oversees The Sun and The Times. Formidable and
sociable, she made a seamless transition from New Labour to the Cameron set. Ex-Sun editor has
had to grapple with fallout from the phone-hacking scandal.

Richard Desmond, Northern & Shell, chairman

Self-made colourful press baron who has taken his media empire to new heights, adding Channel
Five to a stable that includes the Daily Express, Daily Star and adult TV. He is not just a cost-
cutter, building OK! magazine into a global success.

Alan Rusbridger, Guardian, editor-in-chief

Still relishes a battle, with relentless pursuit of the News of the World over phone-hacking
allegations. Backed the Lib-Dems at the general election to dismay of Labour stalwarts.
Passionate advocate of free online news but has struggled to keep Guardian's losses under
control.

Jeremy Darroch, BSkyB, chief executive

Sky has grown ever mightier since he took over in 2006. Darroch answers to the Murdochs but as
a no-nonsense Englishman he has helped broaden Sky's appeal, investing in the arts and cycling.
Plans to stay at Sky after any News Corp takeover but will be sought-after for other jobs.

Tony Gallagher, Daily Telegraph, editor

A battle-hardened ex-Daily Mail executive, Gallagher is credited as the mastermind behind the
paper's award-winning exposé of MPs' expenses. Kept up the pressure by claiming scalp of Lib-
Dem minister David Laws and blasted Tories over child benefit cuts.

Danny Cohen, BBC1, controller

Hit the big time with promotion to run Britain's biggest TV channel with £1 billion budget at the
age of just 36. Previously ran youth channel BBC3, provoking praise and envy in equal measure.
First made his name in charge of E4, where he backed Skins and oversaw Big Brother.

Archie Norman, ITV, chairman

Adam Crozier, ITV, chief executive
New duo tasked with turning around ITV. Norman is the smooth ex-Tory MP and party chairman
who is lobbying to ease advertising rules. Crozier is more hands-on, with a tough pedigree as
former boss of Royal Mail, Football Association and Saatchi & Saatchi. Do they have the touchy-
feely skills to nurture ITV's creative soul?

David Abraham, Channel 4, chief executive

Low-profile but has steel. Hired by C4 as a safe pair of hands after years of boardroom angst.
Has to find successor to Big Brother. Made his name founding ad agency St Lukes before running
first Discovery and then UKTV, with successful rebrand of blokes' channel Dave.

Alexander Lebedev & Evgeny Lebedev, Evening Standard and The Independent, proprietors
Russian father and son who took London by surprise last year when they bought the Standard,
then took it free and increased circulation to 700,000. They have expanded the empire by
purchasing the Independent titles. The younger Lebedev became a British citizen this year.

Dominic Mohan, The Sun, editor

Former showbusiness columnist who has injected wit into the paper and come up with ideas like
Column Idol — a search for new writers. But it wasn't The Sun wot won it, after the paper's
backing for the Tories failed to secure outright election victory.

Colin Myler, News of the World, editor

Red-top veteran has claimed remarkable scalps in recent months, as Pakistan's cricketers, the
Duchess of York, and footballers Wayne Rooney and John Terry can all testify. Myler, whose
daughter advises Ed Miliband, is still having to grapple with phone-hacking scandal of
predecessor Andy Coulson.

Peter Fincham, ITV, director of television

It is no exaggeration to say that ITV's creative future rests on Fincham, one of the few survivors
of a management cull. Creatives rate the ex-BBC1 boss because he used to be a programme-
maker. He backed hits such as period drama Downton Abbey, but Daybreak is a headache.

Helen Boaden, BBC, director of news

Steadied the ship when she took job in 2004 after Andrew Gilligan row. Her star is on the rise, as
she joins BBC executive board after management cull. Ex-Radio 4 boss is contender to be the
next director-general.

Jay Hunt, Channel 4, chief creative officer

Stepping down as controller of BBC1 to become top programming boss at C4, which needs help
post-Big Brother. Hunt is well-regarded within TV and kept BBC1's ratings high. But she struggled
with rows about Jonathan Ross and her involvement in a family media business.

Elisabeth Murdoch, Shine, chief executive

Rupert's daughter is a media mogul in her own right, running one of Britain's biggest
independent TV companies, makers of Masterchef and Ashes To Ashes. Has carved out a
reputation as her own woman. A trustee of the Tate.

Ed Richards, Ofcom, chief executive

Critics don't like his New Labour background, as a former adviser to Tony Blair, yet he has done a
decent job as regulator, trying to keep Sky TV's dominance in check. Would be no surprise if he
quits Ofcom, given Tory calls to clip its wings.

Aidan Barclay, Telegraph Media Group, chairman

Can justly claim the Telegraph is in rude health, picking up hatfuls of awards for MPs' expenses
story and profitable too. Aidan and brother Howard's family own The Spectator and Ritz Hotel.

Gwyneth Williams, Radio 4, controller

Suitably cerebral. Has held top posts in BBC News and World Service. Unusually took five years
off in her thirties when she had children. Has a hard act to follow after taking over from donnish
Mark Damazer.

Richard Wallace, Daily Mirror, editor

Gregarious, old-school newsman. US papers have tried to poach him but Wallace has stayed loyal
to the Mirror — and Labour. May have eye on management after studying business course.

Sly Bailey, Trinity Mirror, chief executive

At the helm of Daily Mirror's owner for nearly eight years but not universally popular as she has
slashed costs. Expanded regional newspaper business with canny acquisition of Manchester
Evening News on the cheap.

John Humphrys, Today, presenter

King of the radio interviewers, he is still the journalist that the politicians fear the most and, at
the age of 67, has lost none of his appetite for the job. Host of Mastermind and a prolific author,
too.

Riz Lateef, BBC London, presenter

Understated, charming host of local TV news who can reach key mass audience in run-up to
2012 Mayoral election. Now being given exposure on BBC national news bulletins too.

Nick Ferrari, LBC, presenter

Former Sun journalist who is arguably the “voice of the capital” with his punchy, fast-moving
breakfast radio show. Has keen ear for what Londoners care about. Second string to his bow is
a thoughtful interview show on Classic FM.

Nick Robinson, BBC, political editor

The top TV journalist at Westminster who has adjusted well to the dramas of coalition
government. A former Tory student leader at Oxford, he led efforts to dissuade BBC journalists
from striking over pensions during the Conservative conference.

James Harding, The Times, editor

Won newspaper of the year in 2009 but has faced unenviable task of trying to make internet
paywall work. A former Financial Times journalist, it would be no surprise if he were groomed for
management.

John Witherow, The Sunday Times, editor

With 16 years in the hotseat and going strong, Witherow runs the undisputed heavyweight player
in Sunday quality market. Early convert to Apple iPad although he admits charging for online
news is a “big gamble”.

Jonathan Newhouse, Condé Nast International, chairman

Nicholas Coleridge, Condé Nast International, managing director
Newhouse is a scion of the family that owns the glossy magazine empire but the international
operation has independence from New York. He and Coleridge oversee more than 100 titles
including Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ. Both globe-trot from Mumbai to Moscow.

Simon Kelner, The Independent, editor

Began his second spell as editor just before the general election. A former sports journalist who
previously edited the Independent for a decade and spent two years in management.

Fraser Nelson, The Spectator, editor

A key influence on the Tories' austerity agenda, he has unique dual role at The Spectator and as
a columnist for News of the World. Unearthed agenda-setting data on true extent of benefit
claimants.

Tony Cohen, Fremantle, chief executive

Powerful figure in independent TV production, overseeing the making of hit global shows such as
X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. Not everything has run smoothly as subsidiary Talkback
Thames lost The Bill.

Tim Davie, BBC, head of audio & music

Sharp ex-marketing man who runs all the Beeb's radio stations. Failed to convince with handling
of Ross-Brand row and abortive plan to axe 6Music, but survived BBC management cull and has
shrewd understanding of media.

Ashley Tabor, Global Radio, chief executive

Son of bookmaker and racehorse owner Michael Tabor. Wealthy backers have helped him to
build Britain's biggest commercial radio business, which includes Heart and LBC. Now he's taking
London's Capital national.

Sir Simon Jenkins, Evening Standard and Guardian columnist

Authoritative ex-editor who has benefit of the long view, ranging across politics and the arts.
Chairman of National Trust but not a default conservative.

Adam Boulton, Sky News, political editor

Indefatigable presence at Westminster who chaired Sky's election leaders debate. Became a
YouTube sensation after ranting at spin doctor Alastair Campbell live on TV. May want to pass
grind of daily reporting to younger team.

Dylan Jones, GQ, editor

Nattily dressed boss of top-selling men's glossy magazine who believes in great writing and is
willing to recruit the biggest names. A keen author who has written books on everything from the
iPod to David Cameron.

Jeremy Paxman, Newsnight, presenter

The most feared interviewer on TV is becoming more magisterial as the politicians get younger.
His grillings regularly set the news agenda. And he trousers a handsome wage for hosting
University Challenge.

John Ryley, Sky News, head

Led effort for leaders' election debates to be televised and has also pushed Sky News onto HD.
His latest campaign is to get cameras inside the country's courtrooms to cover the decisions of
the judiciary.

Andrew Neil, BBC, political presenter

Ex-Sunday Times editor hosts the smartest political show on TV, The Week. Hugely energetic,
Neil has fingers in many pies, overseeing The Spectator and dabbling in Middle Eastern media
interests.

Andrew Marr, BBC presenter

Cerebral operator whose Sunday political show sets the agenda. Ex-Independent editor has huge
appetite for the arts too. Marr, who is married to Left-wing columnist Jackie Ashley, made
surprising attack on “spewings” of bloggers.

Cheryl Cole, X Factor, judge

Arguably the biggest female star on TV, who juggles her own pop career as well as a string of
lucrative advertising deals. Emerged stronger after divorce from footballer Ashley Cole. Being
groomed for US TV stardom.

Arnaud de Puyfontaine, NatMags, chief executive

Suave and witty former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy has confounded the sceptics at publisher of
Good Housekeeping and Harper's Bazaar with plans to expand. He's a big advocate of “ancillary
revenues” from e-commerce to events.

Robert Peston, BBC, business editor

Made his name in the credit crunch on TV and with his blog. As austerity cuts bite, he remains
the authoritative voice on the UK economy. Once wrote an admiring book on Gordon Brown.

Mark Kleinman, Sky News, City editor

Dynamic former newspaperman with a thirst for breaking stories who has adapted seamlessly to
the world of 24-hour TV news. Kleinman is pushy and proud of it. He's become a key conduit for
City insiders.

Lorna Tilbian, Numis Securities, director

Doyenne of City analysts, Tilbian proved she is as shrewd as ever when she forecast that News
Corp would make a bid for Sky and told clients to buy the shares. Unafraid to criticise when she
sees a company in trouble.

Ian Hislop, Private Eye, editor

One of the longest-serving editors in Fleet Street, who continues to expose scandal such as
spending at the Government's Commonwealth Development Corporation. Takes great delight that
Have I Got News For You outdoes rivals in the TV ratings.

Armando Iannucci, Writer and actor

Justly lauded for his brilliantly observed Westminster satire, The Thick Of It, which has proved
how life can imitate art. Scottish and surprisingly modest, he jokes that the Lib-Con coalition
made writing new series a nightmare.

Simon Bird , Actor

Nerdy star turn of teen comedy The Inbetweeners. This Cambridge Footlights alumnus, still only
in his mid-twenties, has a brace of Bafta awards and is heavily in demand. Now working on a
new Jewish comedy, Friday Night Dinner.

Steve Wright, Radio 2, DJ

A self-deprecating consummate professional who broadcasts with none of the fuss and ego of
some of his peers and has boosted ratings at Britain's most popular station.

Max Clifford, Public relations consultant

When scandal breaks, he is never far away — as he showed with the John Terry affair, when he
acted for Vanessa Perroncel. Says the best stories are the ones he keeps out of the paper.
Reportedly received a vast sum from News of the World to settle phone-hacking allegations.

Jenny Halpern, Halpern PR, founder

Halpern, the daughter of Burton Group retailer Sir Ralph Halpern, founded her own fashion and
luxury PR outfit nearly two decades ago and is still going strong. Won her first client after he
read in the Evening Standard that she was launching the firm. Other clients have included Tiffany
and John Galliano.

Roland Rudd, Finsbury, co-founder

Top City PR who earns £3 million a year advising more than a quarter of all FTSE-100 firms.
Made a fortune selling Finsbury to WPP but remains as hands-on as ever. Entertains favoured
clients in Holland Park home.

Matthew Freud, Freud Communications, founder

Criss-crosses celebrity, corporate and political PR — helped by marriage to Rupert Murdoch's
daughter Elisabeth. Bucked recession with bumper profits from corporate reputation
management. His Notting Hill house parties always draw a power crowd.

Simon Fuller, Agent

Über-agent to David Beckham and Andy Murray, he created the Spice Girls and masterminded
their reunion. Sold stake in his 19 Entertainment business. Having made tens of millions from
American Idol, he believes the next generation of entertainment shows will be online.
Jonathan Lloyd & Jonny Geller, Curtis Brown, literary agents
Chief executive Lloyd works tirelessly to lure established authors from his rival agents, getting
them stonking advances, while Geller, managing director of the books division and an author in
his own right, is credited with winning over edgier new writers. They represent scores of top
British and US writers.

Alan Edwards, Outside Organisation, founder

Tough operator who began in music PR but has spread his wings. Acted for model Naomi
Campbell as she appeared at the “blood diamonds” trial and Richard Desmond in his takeover of
Channel Five. Other clients are Katie Price and Amy Winehouse.

Alan Parker, Brunswick, founder

Low-profile City PR man and strategist who advised Kraft on its successful bid for Cadbury and
spent weeks in America with BP in a bid to salvage its reputation after the Gulf of Mexico spill.
Chair of the trustees of Save The Children.

Lord Bell, Chime Communications, chairman

Chain-smoking legendary PR man who cut his teeth at Saatchi & Saatchi before advising
Margaret Thatcher and founding Bell Pottinger. His Chime empire also includes Compare The
Meerkat agency VCCP and global sports marketing. Advised Qataris on purchase of Harrods.

Sir Nick Lloyd, Brown Lloyd James, co-founder

Well-connected former Daily Express editor whose PR firm represents many of London's top
media businesses. The BLJ empire extends as far as China, Qatar and Libya. He is married to
another former Fleet Street editor, Eve Pollard.

Ben Elliot, Quintessentially, founder

Ultra-smooth nephew of Camilla Parker Bowles has turned his global concierge service into a
smart business, now expanding into public relations too.
He is impressing the City and has become a
non-executive director of pollsters YouGov.

Neil Reading, Public relations agent

Savvy operator who acts for property developers Candy & Candy, Planet Hollywood, and a string
of TV celebrities. Well-connected to all the red-tops. He is godfather to one of No 10 spinner
Andy Coulson's children.

Duncan Heath, Talent agent

The colourful king of the UK talent business runs a team of the country's best, representing
everyone from Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz to Daniel Craig. Dizzyingly well-connected and with a
salty sense of humour to boot.

Charles Finch, Finch & Partners, chairman

Ex-William Morris agent who struck out on his own with luxury branding firm and newspaper,
Finch's Quarterly Review. The go-to man for the glitterati at Oscars, Baftas and Cannes film
festival.

Caroline Michel, PFD agency, chief executive

Tumultuous times for Michel. She split from her husband, ex-Faber boss Lord Evans, and has
seen the literary agency bought up by MF Management — run by Michael Foster and Matthew
Freud. The glamorous Michel is always out, schmoozing potential new clients.

Lindy King, United Agents, co-chair

King left PFD in 2007 to become co-chair of United Agents. Now stronger than ever with a
powerhouse client list that includes Keira Knightley, Ricky Gervais, Ewan McGregor and James
McAvoy.

Jenne Casarotto, Casarotto, agents

The most powerful writers' and directors' agent in the UK is a tough negotiator with smart taste.
Her client list is extensive and includes Shane Meadows, Stephen Frears, Neil Jordan, John
Madden and countless others. There are few British films in which she doesn't have a stake.

Ed Victor, Literary agent

Still ahead of the game, the seventy-something Bronx-born Victor is about to launch the
Speakers Bureau in early 2011. Its aim is to secure lucrative engagements for his clients — who
include Nigella Lawson and Alastair Campbell — and represent new ones.

David Miller & Peter Straus, Rogers Coleridge White, agents

Dynamic duo. Miller joined RCW in 1990 as a receptionist; these days he represents the likes of
Kate Summerscale, Victoria Hislop, Will Eaves and Ben Schott. Straus joined in 2002 from
publishing, and his client list includes Rachel Johnson, Carol Ann Duffy, Mariella Frostrup and
Colm Toibin.

Murray Chalmers, Music publicist

The ex-pat Scot left EMI after 24 years to start on his own. Client list includes Lily Allen, Kylie and
Robbie. Based in Mayfair, but spends as much time as he can in Dundee.

Erica Bolton & Jane Quinn, Bolton & Quinn, founders

Publicity queens for visual arts and dance. B&Q have the ear of countless top directors, artists
and performers — witness their well-backed Save the Arts campaign in the face of the
Government's austerity cuts.

Barbara Charone, MBC Publicity, joint director

Madonna's UK representative. The formidable Charone's wider roster also includes Duffy and
Russell Brand. Soon to branch into management with her favourite singer, Rufus Wainwright.

Stuart Bell & Rich Dawes, Dawbell PR, founders

The new kids on the publicity block have hit the ground running with Leona Lewis, Sir Paul
McCartney and the Brit Awards. Also dealing with the Take That reunion album hype.

Nick Candy & Christian Candy, Developers

Combative pair. Christian is the younger, quieter sibling who fronted the fight with Prince Charles
and emerged from Chelsea Barracks court case with honour intact, if not the millions he was
demanding. Nick is more assertive and, at age 37, still active on social scene. Über-prime One
Hyde Park is new flagship.

Francis Salway, Land Securities, chief executive

A much-admired scholar and gentleman: the No 1 man at the No 1 property company is now
skilfully navigating quieter waters after a choppy recession. Prime sites include Cardinal Place in
Victoria and Rafael Viñoly-designed Fenchurch Street revamp.

Chris Grigg, British Land, chief executive

Tall, dark and polished ex-Barclays banker who, after a sticky start, has smoothed critics and is
now a confident captain of this much more open business. Owns Broadgate and string of City
properties.

George Iacobescu, Canary Wharf Group, chief executive

Resolute Romanian with impeccable English manners, whose breadth of vision has shaped
Canary Wharf, London's other financial centre, over the past two decades. Also backing the
“Walkie-Talkie” in Fenchurch Street.

Gerald Ronson, Developer

Intimidatingly straight talker, hiding a generous nature — wife Dame Gail is big on charity circuit.
The Heron Tower in the City is his legacy and the book on his stitch-up in the Guinness scandal is
two fingers to the establishment.

Franco Sidoli, Frank Warwick, agent

Under-the-radar deal-maker — but like a Brazilian soccer star, famed enough to be known by just
his first name. If “Franco” phones, pick up.

Michael Gutman, Westfield, chief executive

Tall, dark and gracious: a highly determined Australian whose firm has built the vast shopping
mall at White City and is finishing another at Stratford ahead of the Olympics.

Mark Pears, Pears Family Group, chief executive

Who knows? Tall, apparently. The never-photographed boss of a vast family property empire
which tends acres of government and commercial buildings from modest offices in Hampstead.

Mike Slade, Helical Bar, chief executive

Once lunched, never forgotten. This developer is a world-class yachtsman who hides one of the
best minds in property behind a force field of irresistible charm and gale-force gusto.

Peter Wynne Rees, Corporation of London, chief planner

Sharp-tongued sharp dresser with the sharpest mind in the City Corporation: the man running
the show for 25 years has been the real shaper of the Square Mile.

Jeremy Helsby, Savills, chief executive

Sharp, sardonic, and dashing: the very embodiment of a company culture which has grown this
profitable business into the biggest property agents in the UK.

Tony Gibbon, GM Real Estate, founder

“The Animal” is the affectionate name for this highly successful agent whose ferocious bark has
not prevented him becoming the deal-maker of choice for many in the City.

Liz Peace, British Property Federation, chief executive

Gifted, fashionable, diplomatic — and omnipresent: the acceptable face of the sector is the
shrewdest spokeswoman a lobby group could wish for.

Nick Leslau, Max Property Group, director

Moving from “Secret Millionaire” to “High Street Dreams” has ensured the amiable owner of a
large number of sub-prime industrial sheds to become property's “Mr TV”.

Sir John Ritblat, Colliers CRE, chairman

Still the cleverest financial brain in the business. The 74-year-old who built British Land into a
huge business still wields influence through son Jamie's business, Delancey.

Duke of Westminster, Grosvenor Estates, landlord

Three hundred acres of Mayfair and Belgravia and a well-run property called Grosvenor worth
£6.5 billion as well, run by his chief executive Mark Preston. The Duke is the most influential
aristocrat in property and a generous charity donor.
Nick Thomlinson, Knight Frank, senior partner
The posh boss of the poshest agents is self-deprecatory and amusing: don't be fooled, the
sagacious senior partner has bite as well as bonhomie.

David Reuben & Simon Reuben, Developers

The media-shy but beneficent Iraqi-born brothers have built up a £3.3 billion UK property
empire after making a similar-sized fortune metal trading in Russia in the 1990s.

Toby Shannon, Howard de Walden,chief executive

A highly regarded “bailiff” for the de Waldens' 110 acres around Harley Street. Last year an
increase in the valuation of the £1.3 billion estate produced a £150 million bonus for the
family.

Lord Rogers, Architect

A Caesar look-alike who remains one of the world's most influential architects despite a little local
difficulty from Prince Charles, who disliked his plans for Chelsea Barracks. Ex-Mayoral adviser.

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar

The man who set up Al-Jazeera TV snapped up Harrods for £1.5 billion and owns the Chelsea
Barracks site, dropping original plans for it after listening to Prince Charles. Says he would like to
buy Christie's because it has links to “stuff we are collecting”.

Sheik Abdullah bin Saud Al-Thani, Governor Qatar Central Bank

The Shard is rising into the sky at London Bridge thanks to the support of this banker who gave
his backing — and Qatari cash — to build the 1,000ft tower. He visits the capital to monitor its
progress.

Gary Hersham, Beauchamp Estates, director

Low profile. A 30-year veteran of West End residential market whose firm topped the Estates
Gazette fee earnings table in 2010 at £485,000 for each of his six deal-makers.

Irvine Sellar, Sellar Properties, founder

Dogged and canny veteran developer who will leave his mark on London when The Shard tower
he battled to build is finished in 2013.

John Burns, Derwent London, managing director

Tough, polished, with a diamond-sharp mind. This well-dressed developer — appropriately he's
based in Savile Row — has stitched up the market for beautifully designed offices such as
Portobello Dock.

Michael Squire, Architect

Head of prolific, if understated, practice has redesigned controversial Chelsea Barracks site for
Qataris. Also building trendy art'otel in Hoxton and ambitious high-rise schemes for Vauxhall
Cross and the Potters Field site near City Hall.

Sir Terry Farrell, Architect

A clear-sighted visionary, despite his over-hanging eyebrows: master-planner of new Earl's Court
development and much else in London.

Tony Pidgley, Berkeley Group, chairman

Native intelligence and street-fighter instincts have kept Britain's most successful house builder
standing while rivals have been floored by recession.
Mike Strong, CB Richard Ellis
Pocket-dynamo boss of Europe, whose skill in successfully absorbing smaller rivals has helped
turn his firm into the largest commercial agents in the world.

Paul Idzik, DTZ, chief executive

Tough ex-Barclays banker shipped in to shape up ailing agent; much blood has been spilled on
the floor but the patient is now in the recovery room.

David Lunts, London Homes and Communities Agency, head

Wields major clout as HCA controls 80 per cent of housing funding in the capital. Cheerful, long-
serving player. Used to work for John Prescott on urban regeneration in government.

Dame Judith Mayhew, New West End Company, chair

Formidable, feisty and can be fun: New Zealand-born former Dame of the Square Mile now
represents the West End's shopping district. Former top solicitor and head of Cambridge college
is determined to clean up bus-clogged mile of Oxford Street.

Roger Bright, Crown Estate,chief executive

Highly regarded ex-mandarin with an infectious giggle who has transformed Regent Street in his
10 years running this government property business in the name of the Queen.

Ken Shuttleworth, Architect, Make

Has blossomed since leaving Norman Foster, despite his Northern comic name. He is disarming,
modest — and talented.

Rob Holden, Crossrail, chief executive

Smooth delivery of the Channel Tunnel Rail link without a financial squeak has earned this quiet
and well-liked accountant an even bigger train set to play with — the new east-west line.

Sir Stuart Lipton, Chelsfield, co-founder

Tall and rather grand — but always ready to give a helping hand. The widespread influence of
the man who built Broadgate continues to shape London today. Close to Qataris.

Toby Courtauld, Great Portland Estates, chief executive

This still youngish old Etonian from the textile dynasty has tailored the business into one of
London's most active and intelligent developers.

Jon Hunt, Bacchus Partners, founder

Acquired near-legendary status by selling his estate agency, Foxtons, at the very peak of the
market in 2007. Now he is stealthily snapping up properties again with new Bacchus fund. Owns
a giant house in Kensington.

John Pawson, Architect

One of the finest “less is more” designers, the Etonian's minimalist tendencies are being put to
work turning the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington into a new home for the Design
Museum.

Stephen Greenhalgh, Hammersmith and Fulham, council leader

Burly Tory enthusiast for Earl's Court development who is keen to get things built in a borough
that languished for years under Labour. Tipped for higher office. Dared to query George
Osborne's experience.

Trevor Abrahamson, Glentree Estates, founder

Got more than £20 million to spend on a new home? Talk, sorry, listen, to this full-on
dealmaker whose secret is to get the buyer in face-to face talks with the seller. Likes to yack to
the media, too.

Roger Madelin, Argent, chief executive

Key player in eco-friendly regeneration of King's Cross Central, which includes building of major
University of Arts complex. Years of work are set to come to fruition next year.

Alex Michelin & Andrew Dunn, Finchatton, directors

Dubbed “the new Candys” as they make their mark in London with top-of-the-range apartments
and homes in Belgravia and Mayfair. The friendly young duo, who are both in their early thirties,
aren't too flashy — they met at Charterhouse School.

Lady Ward, Manches, partner

Helen Ward is one of the capital's most formidable family lawyers, who negotiated Guy Ritchie's
divorce settlement and also worked for Lord Lloyd-Webber and Bernie Ecclestone. Married to top
judge Sir Alan Ward.

Shami Chakrabarti, Liberty, director

Articulate, media-savvy boss of human rights organisation who has been fierce critic of ID cards
and anti-terror laws. Trained as a barrister and was a Home Office adviser, so knows exactly how
Whitehall operates. Respected in both legal and political circles.

Keir Starmer, Director of public prosecutions

Decides whether to launch prosecutions on sensitive issues such as MPs' misuse of expenses and
patients' right to die. Dropped plan to prosecute police over the death of newspaper vendor Ian
Tomlinson at last year's G20 meeting. The former human rights lawyer says “I would not
characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal”.

Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice

A tough operator, with a reputation for common sense, who oversees all courts and is unafraid to
criticise the Government for making too many laws. Igor Judge says thugs who injure others
should always be brought before a magistrate rather than just being given a slap on the wrist.

Dominic Grieve, Attorney General

Traditionalist and top legal figure in the Cabinet who has sharply criticised the previous
government for turning attorney general into a “policy-making” role. Ex-barrister and QC faces
having to make 25 per cent cuts to his department, which includes the Economic Crime Agency.

Sir David Bean, High Court judge

Mr Justice Bean is the new “safe pair of hands” cornering all the hyper-sensitive and high profile
criminal cases, such as ex-Polly Peck fugitive Asil Nadir, child killer Jon Venables and ex-MI6 spy
Daniel Houghton. Believes in the “common sense, decency and humanity” of juries.

Sir Michael Tugendhat, High Court judge

Mr Justice Tugendhat is regarded as the top libel judge, overturning footballer John Terry's
super-injunction about his private life. He has eclipsed the much-criticised Mr Justice Eady and
provides a ray of hope for a proper balance in the still-developing law on privacy.

William Lawes, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, senior partner

A top corporate lawyer, Cambridge graduate Lawes recently defeated chief executive Ted Burke
to land the top post at Freshfields, whose clients include the Bank of England. He advised the
board of Northern Rock after its collapse three years ago.
David Cheyne, Linklaters, senior partner
Regarded as one of the City's best dealmakers, although mergers and acquisitions deals have
been thin on the ground in the downturn. At Linklaters since the 1970s, the firm's top dog status
in the Magic Circle has never looked more compelling than on his watch. Likes shootin' and
fishin'.

Lord Neuberger, Master of the Rolls

Head of civil courts in England and Wales, he was previously a Law Lord, but resigned when the
Supreme Court replaced them — claiming that the court could become a strong and assertive
body against the government. Earlier this year Neuberger ruled that peace protesters camped
outside Parliament would have to be evicted after losing an appeal.

David Childs, Clifford Chance, managing partner

Dubbed an “executioner” when he cut staff in 2003, Childs started his second four-year term
earlier this year. Clifford Chance was hard-hit by the recession because of its heavy exposure to
banking, but he says business has picked up again for the firm.

Courtenay Griffiths, Garden Court Chambers, QC

Top criminal defence barrister who has picked up work at home on the Graff jewellery heist and
abroad defending ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor at the Hague. Born in Jamaica and raised
in the Midlands, Griffiths says he does not pass the Tebbit test as he still supports the West
Indies in cricket.

Fiona Shackleton, Family lawyer

The top divorce lawyer suffered a rare setback when she recently failed to overturn a pre-nuptial
agreement on behalf of the ex-husband of German heiress Katrin Radmacher. Her past work for
Prince Charles and Sir Paul McCartney makes Shackleton one of the capital's best-known
solicitors. She has been personal solicitor to Princes William and Harry since 1996.

Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Senior Supreme Court judge

Inaugural president of the Supreme Court, Lord Phillips is Britain's top judge and leads the 12
justices in the new court. His decisions this year have included a controversial move to allow two
gay immigrants asylum as they would likely face persecution if they were returned home.

Jason McCue, H2O Law, founding partner

The solicitor husband of gravel-voiced commentator Mariella Frostrup, who refers to him as “the
most moral man I know”, made his name through his work on behalf of the Omagh bombing
victims. He also works closely with NGOs and political figures, acting against the former
government on behalf of Lockerbie victims.

Lord Grabiner, One Essex Court, head of chambers

One of the most important commercial barristers, Grabiner cuts an imposing figure with more
than 40 years' experience at the top of the legal profession. Recently represented Liverpool FC's
board in their High Court battle with controversial former American owners. Also sits as a deputy
High Court judge and is non-executive chairman of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group.

John Kelsey-Fry, Cloth Fair chambers, barrister

Suave QC who is one of the most highly prized defence counsels, defending a Saudi prince in a
recent London murder trial. His star-studded stable of clients has included Steven Gerrard,
Roman Polanski and, suitably for this turf-lover, jockey Kieren Fallon.

Nigel Boardman, Slaughter and May, partner

King of the merger and acquisition deal, he is known in the City for his fearsome work ethic. An
Arsenal fan who has advised the club, he recently also acted for the board of Liverpool during its
fraught sale.

Margaret Cole, Financial Services Authority, director of enforcement

City watchdog's top lawyer who is determined to show it has teeth, launching raids on insider
traders and issuing record fines this year. “We mean business,” she says. Made her name in the
commercial sector sorting out the legacy of Bob Maxwell's pension woes.

Sonya Leydecker, Herbert Smith, partner

The City's top commercial litigator with ultra-blue-chip clients such as Goldman Sachs and BP.
Recent scalps include a £270 million victory for BSkyB against a supplier.

Clive Zietman, Stewarts Law, partner

Street-wise head of commercial litigation, who is unafraid to take on awkward causes that Magic
Circle firms might refuse. Sued Germany's Commerzbank over unpaid bankers' bonuses. Jokes
that his hobby is litigation.

David Price, Solicitor-advocate

Savvy media lawyer who advised the Daily Telegraph on the MPs' expenses scandal. Has also
sued many papers, acting for clients such as Cheryl Cole and Max Clifford.

Lord Pannick, Blackstone Chambers, QC

Versatile star of the bar who covers everything from competition law and human rights to the
media. Acted for the Crown in case against MPs over expenses. Sits as crossbencher in Lords.

Jonathan Sumption, Brick Court Chambers, QC

Cerebral, tough silk who acted for the Government against the BBC in the Hutton Inquiry and
recently defended MI5 over allegations of torture. Insists his seven-figure earnings are “puny”.
Part-time medieval historian.

Clare Montgomery, Matrix Chambers, QC

Tenacious, quick-witted criminal barrister who takes on the toughest of cases such as defending
BAE Systems over bribery allegations and prosecution of Met over death of Jean Charles de
Menezes.

Lord Carlile, Independent reviewer of terror laws, QC

Lib-Dem barrister with a reputation for principled independence who has warned repeatedly
about the danger of the Government's anti-terror laws undermining human rights. However, he
backs control orders.

Baroness Kennedy, Doughty Street Chambers, QC

Scottish, Labour and Catholic — she's a friend of the Blairs — with a media-friendly ability to
reach beyond the legal world. Specialises in criminal and human rights law and has spoken out
against anti-terror control orders.

Andrew Caldecott, One Brick Court, QC

Defamation silk who has handled dozens of top libel and privacy cases for clients ranging from
Lord Sugar to The Guardian. Easy-going but has a fearsome intellect. Writes plays in his spare
time.

Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, DLA Piper, solicitor

Nick Clegg's Spanish-born wife is a partner at the international law firm, where she is an expert
in international and EU trade law and policy. Previously she worked in Brussels — where she met
the Lib-Dem leader, who was an MEP. Determined to keep working despite the pressures of
politics.

Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve, founder

Passionate human-rights lawyer whose charity campaigns against the death penalty. Has lobbied
on behalf of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and to stop a British firm exporting to America a drug
used in executions.

Mark Stephens Finers, Stephens, Innocent, co-founder

Smart media lawyer, with a ready soundbite. He has been unafraid to criticise industry body the
Press Complaints Commission and suggested the Met Police had fallen badly short in their efforts
to investigate News of World phone-hacking allegations.

The Prince of Wales, Campaigner

The heir to the throne is arguably Britain's most influential green, attacking the “pseudo-science”
of climate change sceptics, while his Highgrove garden is a monument to organic goodness. The
carbuncle-hating Prince Charles backs the Foundation for the Built Environment and can torpedo
projects, as was proved at Chelsea Barracks.

John Sauven, Greenpeace, director

Long-time activist who still believes in the power of protest. After successful effort to oppose a
third runway at Heathrow airport, Sauven's team mounted a stunt to close BP petrol stations
across the capital to protest about their environmental record and the Gulf of Mexico leak.

Caroline Lucas, Green Party, leader

Britain's first Green Party MP, elected in Brighton in May, is a popular, self-deprecating figure.
She has clout not only on national stage but also in London, where the Greens have called for
congestion charge to be doubled and opposed bus fare rises.

Sir David Attenborough, Broadcaster

Octogenarian broadcaster has a passionate moral belief in the sanctity of the environment and
burns with surprising anger about mankind's behaviour. There is no other presenter on TV who
can grab the nation's attention. His latest series has been on the origins of life on earth.

Sir Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics, IG Patel Chair

The academic and former chief economist of the World Bank authored a landmark 2006
government report into the economic impact of climate change which still reverberates. Made
recent headlines when he said rearing meat was worse for the environment than producing a
vegetarian diet.

Isabel Dedring, Mayor's adviser on climate

Multilingual former lawyer, who has previously worked as director of policy at Transport for
London, can claim some credit for the Boris bike scheme. Has ambitious plans to reduce carbon
emissions across London — while still axing the western congestion charge at the end of 2010.

Zac Goldsmith, Conservative MP for Richmond

Dashing former editor of the Ecologist magazine is one of the capital's most high-profile greens
— although his eventful private life is an occasional distraction. Zac and brother Ben have both
used their inheritance from their late father Sir James to back eco-investments.

Sir Jonathon Porritt, Sustainable Development Commission, chairman

Grandee of the eco-movement and founder of Ecology Party, the precursor to Greens. He advises
everyone from Prince Charles to Marks and Spencer on sustainability. Described George
Osborne's Comprehesive Spending Review as an “outright failure” in environmental terms.
Sir John Beddington, Government Chief Scientific Adviser
An international expert in renewable food, Beddington was appointed in 2008 and is the personal
adviser on all matters scientific to the Prime Minister. Has warned of the dangers of food and
energy shortages.

Lord Smith, Environment Agency, chairman

Chris Smith, ex-culture secretary and Britain's first openly gay MP, has opposed Heathrow
expansion and caused controversy when he claimed that some areas of Britain's coastline would
be lost to erosion as a result of global warming. Also chairs Advertising Standards Authority.

Colin Matthews, British Airports Authority, chief executive

The man who keeps London's busiest airport Heathrow running smoothly and has to cope when
ash cloud, terror alerts, strikes and other surprises pop up. He is hiking charges on airlines to
encourage them to fly newer planes with more passengers to cut pollution.

John Stewart, Hacan Clearskies, campaigner

Long-serving leader of the main pressure group opposing Heathrow expansion, Stewart is
building on the success of the foiled third runway by calling for a block on any further increase in
plane flights into London. Has slammed the building of a high-speed rail line as a “white
elephant”.

Franny Armstrong, 10:10 campaigner

Documentary film-maker who directed The Age of Stupid and McLibel was the instigator of the
10:10 campaign, which aims to cut UK carbon emissions by 10 per cent by end of 2010. The
former indie band drummer has persuaded hundreds of businesses to cut their emissions.

Jenny Bates, Friends of the Earth, London co-ordinator

Seasoned environmental campaigner has worked tirelessly to prevent expansion of City Airport.
Less successful in opposing the Mayor's axing of the western congestion charge zone. She claims
abolition of M4 bus lane at Heathrow will raise emissions.

Tim Lang, City University, professor of food policy

Britain's foremost expert in food and its environmental impact who is credited with coining the
phrase “food miles”. Criticised Government plan to axe the Food Standards Agency, suggesting
Tory thinking is “ideological”, not evidence-based. Has also been a trustee of Friends of the
Earth.

Mark Constantine, Lush cosmetics, founder

Runs what is billed as Britain's last major independent green company, makers of eco-friendly
soaps and cosmetics. Constantine and wife Mo have been long-time financial backers of ethical
causes.

Tom Delay, Carbon Trust, chief executive

Runs the government-backed body, which makes Dragons Den-style investments in green start-
up firms. In the face of austerity cuts, Delay is focusing on smaller, younger eco-businesses.

James Cameron, Climate Change Capital, executive director

A former lawyer who worked on Kyoto Protocol, Cameron is involved in £1 billion fund manager
that invests in “clean-tech” industry. Close to David Cameron (no relation), sitting on No 10
business council, and on Oxfam's development board.

Jeremy Leggett, Solarcentury, founder

Ex-oil industry geologist who became so worried about global warming he set up Waterloo-based
Solarcentury, now the UK's fastest-growing solar company, which makes innovative “photo-
voltaic” roof tiles. Well-connected politically and lobbied intensively to stop George Osborne
cutting tax benefits for solar.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Chef and eco-campaigner

Former journalist and TV chef has been a long-term campaigner for organic food, building a River
Cottage empire. His TV shows have included an investigation into cruelty in the chicken farming
industry. Britain's most caring carnivore.

Tamsin Omond, Campaigner

Anti-air travel activist who memorably stormed Parliament to protest about global warming in
2008. Last month she invaded various newspaper offices. Baronet's granddaughter failed in bid
to be independent MP in Hampstead at general election.

Rosie Boycott, London Food, chair

Ex-newspaper editor is responsible for trying to make the capital's food consumption more
sustainable. Plans include buying up disused land in the capital and converting it into vegetable
plots. Recently launched a monthly “real food” market on the South Bank.

Toby Young, Education campaign

Mischievous journalist turned dad of four has got serious with campaign to build a free school in
Ealing. The Spectator columnist, who co-wrote the Channel 4 docu-drama When Boris Met Dave
about his Oxford pals, has been using media and political contacts to raise the school's profile.

David Willetts, Universities minister

Nicknamed “Two Brains” because of his cerebral outlook, Willetts is overseeing the Coalition's
tuition fees policy. Works well with education secretary Michael Gove. Headed Margaret
Thatcher's No 10 policy unit at 28.

Mary Curnock Cook, UCAS, chief executive

Formidable new boss of UCAS has to cope with record numbers of candidates applying to
university and a growing shortage of places. Her warnings that thousands will miss out this year
have proved accurate. Suggests school-leavers should consider apprenticeships instead.

Sam Freedman, Department of Education adviser

Bookish right-hand man of Education Secretary Michael Gove, Freedman helped devise Tories'
free schools policy. Made his name as an in-house boffin for the private schools' umbrella group,
the Independent Schools Council. Moved to Tory think-tank Policy Exchange, where he caught
Gove's eye.

David Levin, Headmasters' Conference, chairman

The head of City of London School, current chair of HMC representing all private boys' schools,
has urged his members to team up with private sector to offer fully-funded places to children
from state sector. Says number of pupils in private sector is rising even in tough times.

Zenna Atkins, GEMS Education UK, chief executive

Former chairman of Ofsted, Atkins has joined the private sector as the coalition's reforms open
the door to profit-making private schools groups such as GEMS. Increasingly outspoken, the
former entrepreneur of the year believes 21st-century education is failing prepare pupils for
work.

Gillian Low, Girls School Association, president

Head teacher of Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton represents girls' private schools and has
warned that a damaging perception of elitism is prompting the departure of some head teachers.
Has called for schools to give more time for girls' sport.
Tony Little, Eton, headmaster
An Old Etonian himself, Little has been outspoken in his criticism of low standards in GCSEs and
A-levels. Has called for old boy David Cameron's administration to revive the assisted places
scheme to help less well-off childen attend boarding schools.

Stephen Spurr, Westminster School, headmaster

The head of one of London's two top boys' schools along with St Paul's, Spurr has maintained
Westminster's fearsome academic record, boasting a 50 per cent strike rate at Oxbridge on his
watch. Educated in Australia, he has raised doubts about exam standards and has looked at
international alternatives.

Lucy Heller, Ark Schools, managing director

Ex-newspaper executive who is a leading player in Absolute Return for Kids, which sponsors
academy schools. Poised to take over huge swathes of state education under the Tories' free
schools revolution, but has doubts about how many parents will want to run their own schools.

Justine Roberts, Mumsnet, co-founder

Ex-journalist who has made this parenting forum into a must-read with more than 1 million
visitors a month. The mumsnet audience became a key target demographic for all the political
parties at the general election. Roberts's other half is deputy editor of The Guardian.

Anthony Salz, Education and Employers Taskforce, trustee

Executive vice-chairman of NM Rothschild bank, who has also been a top City lawyer and BBC
grandee, has been a keen advocate of strengthening the relationship between businesses and
schools. Has called on employers to allow workers to volunteer in schools to inspire children.

Lord Browne, Tuition fees review, chairman

The former BP boss has recommended that universities should hike tuition fees, which caused a
serious headache for the Lib-Dems, who campaigned to abolish fees. Browne, who has a
portfolio of City jobs, is also advising David Cameron on how to introduce non-executive directors
from the business world into Whitehall.

Fiona Millar, Education consultant

The partner of former spin doctor Alastair Campbell is an outspoken Left-wing critic of the Tory
free schools policy, calling it “divisive and dangerous”. Speaks with hands-on experience as chair
of governors at both William Ellis secondary and Gospel Oak primary schools deep in the Miliband
heartland.

Lord Harris, Harris Federation of Schools, chair

Tory donor and chairman of retailer Carpetright is close to David Cameron. His charitable
federation aims to improve failing schools by sponsoring them to become Harris academies —
there are already nine in south London. Parents are beginning to request Harris as a sponsor of
their schools.

Sir Michael Wilshaw, Mossbourne Academy, principal

A role model, described by Michael Gove as a “real hero”, who has 40 years' experience as a
teacher and has a reputation for turning tough schools around. Currently principal of Mossbourne
academy, on the site of a failed school in Hackney, which he has transformed into a centre of
excellence.

Rachel Wolf, New Schools Network, director

Founded not-for-profit organisation last year to encourage parents to set up their own
independent state schools. A Cambridge graduate, she has previously worked on Boris Johnson's
mayoral campaign and as an adviser to Michael Gove.
Rachel Carr, Into University, chief executive
Starting with primary school age children, her charity works to boost the number of
disadvantaged children going to university and is active in six of London's tougher boroughs. A
former university lecturer, Carr's mission is to provide poorer students with the opportunities that
many middle class students take for granted.

Russell Hobby, National Association of Head Teachers,

general secretary
A former consultant at Hay Group, Hobby is expected to pick fewer fights with ministers than his
bike-loving rock guitarist predecessor Mick Brookes, who orchestrated a national boycott of Sats
exams. His 28,000 vocal members will make sure a lighter touch does not let Michael Gove off
the hook.

Sarah Teather, Children's minister

The diminutive Lib-Dem minister will have to work out which new playgrounds won't be funded,
including flagship projects in her own Brent Central constituency. An ambitious education
spokesman in opposition, she was a key player in the move to ease Sir Menzies Campbell out of
the
Lib-Dem leadership.

Malcolm Grant, University College London, provost

Born in New Zealand, he is a trained barrister and the second-highest paid university head in
England. Led a national review into the radicalisation of students on campus. Recently agreed
that all cleaners at UCL would get paid a London living wage, after a successful campaign by the
Evening Standard.

Bernice McCabe, North London Collegiate School, headmistress

Top for International Baccalaureate results nationwide for the fifth year running, McCabe believes
girls learn better on their own. She has 20 years of experience of working in state schools before
going private. A co-director of the Prince's Teaching Institute. Her deep-red nail varnish is said to
be copied by half of her sixth-formers.

Peter Butler, Plastic surgeon

Given the go-ahead by an ethics committee to perform the UK's first full face transplant, Butler is
a top consultant at Hampstead Royal Free and University College London Hospitals.

Andrew Lansley, Health Secretary

GP's son who has held the Conservative health brief since 2003 — a remarkable stint in itself —
and now runs one of the few departments whose budget isn't being cut in real terms. Caused
controversy by scrapping the “traffic light” labelling on health packaging and with his plan to axe
the Food Standards Agency.

Ruth Carnall, NHS London, chief executive

The steely head of the NHS in the capital has been a big advocate of downsizing hospitals to
provide “Tesco Metro-style” surgeries throughout London. Faces challenges ahead as she aims to
cut costs in the capital's healthcare budgets and has warned NHS faces “real risk”.

Sir Paul Nurse, UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation, director-elect
The Nobel Prize-winning biochemist is the incoming boss of CMRI, a new hub for health sciences
based in London. A strong advocate of stem cell research, he has been president of Rockefeller
University in New York for seven years. Recently voted Britain's most important scientist; he is
the next president of the Royal Society.
Lord Darzi, Imperial College, professor of surgery
Top surgeon has turned his back on politics after his spell as health minister in Gordon Brown's
government of all the talents. Darzi embraces new techniques and has been working to develop
“robotic insects” which will be able to operate on people from within.

Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer

Chief scientific adviser for the Department of Health and NHS has stepped up after Sir Liam
Donaldson stood down. Provides expert advice for the Government on how to handle health
crises — no easy task after last year's overreaction to swine flu.

Hamish Meldrum, British Medical Association, chair

Head of the doctors' professional body, Meldrum has called on the government to abandon pro-
market policies for the NHS and for foreign doctors to improve their English if they wish to work
here. Fears that rising tuition fees will deter would-be doctors.

Sir Robert Naylor, University College London Hospital, chief executive

Head of one of the UK's best-performing hospitals, Naylor, who was knighted in 2008, has
recently argued that cuts in public spending could help to streamline the NHS and cut away
bureaucracy.

Richard Horton, The Lancet, editor

Having been the editor of the world's leading medical journal for more than 15 years, Horton has
presided over a number of medical breakthroughs. Despite becoming embroiled in scandal for
publishing the controversial study of the MMR vaccine, he remains a key influence.

Bill Morgan, Department of Health, special adviser

Watford-born Morgan worked for Andrew Lansley in Opposition for two years before a spell in the
private sector at PR firm Mandate, where he campaigned on health issues on behalf of a number
of major private firms.

Lord Winston, Imperial College, professor of science

The broadcaster and medical expert is one of the UK's premier fertility specialists and was voted
peer of the year in 2008 for his work on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. He serves
as Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University and Chairman of the Royal College of Music and has
written hundreds of papers on reproduction and embryology.

Andrew Witty, GlaxoSmithKline, chief executive

Having worked for the pharmaceuticals giant for more than 25 years, Witty, who became CEO in
2008, knows the company inside out. Under his stewardship GSK has led “big pharma”
companies in reducing the cost of drugs in the developing world, but has been criticised for not
going far enough. Made small fortune from swine flu drugs. A keen runner who has competed in
the London marathon.

Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP

The Cambridge geneticist is science's biggest supporter in parliament. He is actively pushing for
policies to be more grounded in evidence and fact and has criticised his peers for paying “lip
service” to scientific proof.

Sir Andrew Dillon, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, chief executive
As the leader of the drugs rationing body, Sir Andrew has a difficult role to play in helping advise
what medications should be funded. He has come under fire from campaigners and the ill over
decisions which have often proved controversial and will only become more so as austerity cuts
bite.
David Beckham, Football icon
Beckham's star continues to shine globally even though he missed the World Cup after tearing an
achilles tendon in March. His ambassadorial role with England's 2018 World Cup bid has been
especially well received by those whom England are seeking to influence, and a morale-boosting
visit by the LA Galaxy player to the troops in Afghanistan further lifted Brand Beckham.

Karren Brady, West Ham FC, vice-chairwoman

The first woman to become a managing director of a football club when she was appointed by
Birmingham City, she moved to the Hammers this year. She's also a non-executive director of
Channel 4 and Lord Sugar's sidekick on TV's The Apprentice.

Barney Francis, Sky Sports, managing director

The most powerful man in sports broadcasting, responsible for Sky's output across five core
sports channels, four HD channels, the newly launched Sky Sports News HD service as well as
online and mobile content. An acclaimed innovator, he has overseen the introduction of live 3D
football broadcasts and has brought boxing back to the Saturday night schedule. Natty dresser,
too.

Richard Scudamore, Premier League, chief executive

Sharp administrator and a major driving force behind the Premier League's global commercial
success. He scored a winner by handing Premier League clubs an 18 per cent boost in revenues
to a record total of £1.2 billion, due mainly to a doubling in the value of overseas TV rights. But
he also netted an own goal with the row that saw Portsmouth go into administration.

Sir Dave Richards, Premier League and Club England, chairman

The football power-broker has often been shrouded in controversy. He formalised the agreement
to remove an escape clause in England coach Fabio Capello's contract, making it too expensive to
sack the Italian after the World Cup debacle. As chairman of the Premier League, he was also
attacked by Fulham, who claimed he interfered in their bid to buy Peter Crouch from Portsmouth.

Stan Kroenke, Arsenal FC, shareholder

Nicknamed “Silent Stan” for his desire to maintain a low public profile, this American
entrepreneur is the biggest single shareholder and potential owner of Arsenal with a 29.9 per
cent stake, ahead of rival Alisher Usmanov, the Uzbek tycoon. In the US he owns a string of
teams including the NBA's Denver Nuggets and the St Louis Rams in the NFL.

Roman Abramovich, Chelsea FC, owner

The Russian oligarch has bankrolled Chelsea's recent successful spell but is yet to taste the
Champions League success he craves. If manager Carlo Ancelotti doesn't deliver this year, some
Chelsea fans fear their benefactor may tire of the chase and retire to Eclipse, his new plaything,
which at 538ft is claimed to be the world's largest private yacht.

Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One supremo

Octogenarian still nets big bucks as ringmaster of the F1 circus. Lost part of his estimated fortune
of £1.46 billion in a divorce from ex-model Slavica Radic, but consoled by new amour Fabiana
Flosi, a Brazilian nearly 50 years his junior. He's not so cosy with QPR, which he co-owns,
admitting he would struggle to name a single player.

Arsene Wenger, Arsenal FC, manager

The thoughtful Frenchman recently committed to the Gunners by signing a three-year extension
to his contract, which keeps him at the Emirates until 2014. The fans' love affair with their
philosophical manager and his easy-on-the-eye passing style may be tested if Wenger doesn't
come up with some silverware soon. Arsenal's last trophy was won in 2005.
Mohamed Fayed, Fulham FC, owner
Egyptian maverick who sold Harrods for £1.5 billion, but remains loyal to the club he bought in
1997. An estimated investment of more than £200 million has taken the club from the third tier
of English football to the Europa League Final. Unsurprisingly, Fayed gets a standing ovation
when he walks across the pitch before home games at Craven Cottage.

Hugh Robertson, Sport minister

Capable ex-army officer and investment banker has lost no time in making headlines. He has
pulled the plug on free swimming for under-16s and over-60s, called for a Great Britain football
team to contest the 2012 Olympics, is backing England's 2018 World Cup bid, and wants UK
sport, Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust under one umbrella.

Geoff Thompson, England 2018 World Cup Bid, chairman

One of international football's premier politicians and Britain's only representative on the FIFA
executive committee, responsible for deciding the World Cup host for 2018. This former FA
chairman was appointed leader of England's 2018 campaign following the dramatic resignation of
Lord Triesman over claims of corruption between bid rivals Spain and Russia.

Daniel Levy, Tottenham Hotspur FC, chairman

Boasts a first class honours degree in land economy, handy given his commitment to building a
new stadium at White Hart Lane that befits a club which has finally achieved Champions League
status. Seems at last to have won over the fans with both his passion for all things Spurs and his
financial stewardship of the club.

John Steele, Rugby Football Union, chief executive

The former CEO of UK Sport who succeeded Francis Baron to become the most powerful man in
English rugby. Enjoyed a successful playing and coaching career which included leading
Northampton Saints to the Heineken Cup in 2000. Has put pressure on England manager Martin
Johnson by stating he is not afraid to make changes to the coaching team before next year's
World Cup.

Andrew Strauss, England cricket captain

The South African-born batsman who leads from the front reclaimed the Ashes last year to
establish himself as a real English hero. Controversially rested from the winter tour of
Bangladesh, the gamble appears to have paid off with the left-hander in fighting form ahead of
the defence of the Ashes in Australia and then the one-day World Cup.

Sir Trevor Brooking, FA, director of football development

Ex-West Ham and England star who had a successful spell as a pundit on the BBC and now plays
influential role as director of football development at the FA. He is responsible for overhauling
English football and producing a generation of world-beating Englishmen. A tough job indeed.

Adrian Bevington, Club England, managing director

Highly visible with the national team, Bevington has become one of the most influential voices at
the top of English football. Respected by the press pack for his astute work as FA director of
communications, he recently revealed that an Englishman will eventually succeed Fabio Capello
as England coach.

Harry Redknapp, Tottenham Hotspur FC, manager

Few are more adept at working the transfer market but abhors being called a “wheeler-dealer”,
as an unfortunate Sky reporter found to his cost this season. Fans love him after he won a place
in the Champions League in his first full campaign at White Hart Lane. Earned a contract
extension to 2013, which could be challenged when Fabio Capello eventually parts with the
national team.
Dave Brailsford, British Cycling, performance director
The brilliant man-manager who coached the British Olympic cycling team to an astonishing 14
medals at Beijing, including eight golds. He's now intent on replicating this success at London in
2012 alongside his new ambition to lead the new Team Sky professional racing team to victory in
the Tour de France — with a British winner.

Pini Zahavi, Agent

A former sports journalist, the Israeli football
super-agent was involved in some of the game's most expensive and controversial transfers,
including the deal that took Carlos Tevez to West Ham. A close friend of Roman Abramovich and
West Ham manager Avram Grant, Zahavi is reported to have brokered a £1 billion approach to
buy Manchester United from the Glazers.

Caroline McAteer, The Sports PR Company, director

A no-nonsense operator, hence her affectionate nickname “the rottweiler”. For several years
McAteer was the voice of the Beckhams, and secured Freddie Ljungberg's famous Calvin Klein
underwear deal. Her company's current client list includes Theo Walcott, Petr Cech, Didier
Drogba, Djibril Cisse, Michael Essien and rugby star Danny Cipriani.

Giles Clarke, England and Wales Cricket Board, chairman

Multi-millionaire businessman whose myriad interests include wine, roofing, the manufacture of
clay pigeons, coffee shops and catering. That business acumen helped secure lucrative
broadcasting contracts for English cricket, but Clarke has also faced controversy including the Sir
Allen Stanford million-dollar match scandal and this year's Pakistani spot-fixing fiasco.

John Terry, Chelsea, captain

Won Premier League and FA Cup double in May, and was described by Chelsea coach Carlo
Ancelotti as the “captain of all team captains”. However, salacious tales about his private life
caused Fabio Capello to relieve Terry of his duties as England captain. Has weathered that storm
better than another fallen star, Wayne Rooney.

David Sullivan & David Gold, West Ham FC, owners

“I am not embarrassed by what I have done,” says Sullivan, a University of London economics
graduate, who, with business partner David Gold, gained control of West Ham this year. Sullivan
was referring not to buying the football club but the fortune he made from pornography and
owning the Daily Sport paper. Gold makes millions through his Ann Summers sex shops, as well
as running publishing and private aviation empires.

Frank Warren, Boxing promoter

Still going strong 30 years after staging his first licensed show in London. Survived being shot in
1989 to go on and manage some of Britain's best boxers of the modern era including Joe
Calzaghe, Ricky Hatton, Nigel Benn, Amir Khan and Naseem Hamed. Now guiding the career of
2008 Olympic gold medalist James De Gale.

Fabio Capello, England coach

The £6 million-a-year Italian kept his job despite a poor World Cup and criticism of his team
selection and joyless discipline. So he wields power for now but won't seek a new contract when
his current deal expires after the European Championships in 2012 — if he lasts that long.

Edward Griffiths, Saracens RFC, chief executive

Born in Zimbabwe, educated in England, but made his name in South Africa as a sports journalist
and prolific author. He was CEO of South African Rugby during their successful and historic World
Cup campaign in 1995. Describes Saracens as “innovators” for staging some of the club's games
at Wembley.
Martin Johnson, England, rugby manager
Captain of England's World Cup-winning side in 2003, “Johnno” is now intent on coaching the
side to the Webb Ellis trophy in New Zealand next year. Will be encouraged by a summer win
over Australia, but needs to show it wasn't a fluke in Tests against the Southern Hemisphere
sides this autumn.

Nic Coward, British Horseracing Authority, chief executive

A former Freshfields lawyer, Coward spent more than eight years at the FA as director of
corporate and legal affairs before becoming CEO of the governing body for British horseracing.
Fighting a funding crisis which could lead to the closure of historic courses, cuts to prize funds,
and the loss of jobs within the industry.

Ian Ritchie, All England Club, chief executive

Media-savvy Wimbledon boss who has maintained a reputation for innovation at the capital's
grand slam tournament. The roof over Centre Court has proved a particular success. Ritchie,
former West Ham director and head of Channel Five, is now gearing-up the All England club for
hosting the Olympic tennis competition in 2012.

Colin Montgomerie, Ryder Cup captain

As a player “Monty” was a member of five victorious European Ryder cup sides. As skipper, he
regarded the dramatic victory over the US at Celtic Manor as an acceptable substitute for the
major title missing from his golfing CV. However, his captaincy was dogged by controversy over
team selection and tabloid tales about his private life.

Barry Hearn, Promoter

Founder and chairman of Brentwood-based Matchroom Sport which has global interests in
snooker, darts, tenpin bowling, golf, boxing, fishing and poker. This year he took control of world
snooker with a promise to revitalise the sport just as he did with darts. Also owns Leyton Orient
Football Club.

Jon Smith, First Artist Corporation, chief executive

Regarded as the acceptable face of the football agency world, he founded one of Britain's biggest
sports agencies with a roster of more than 200 players and a client list that has included
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp and the England team. Despite making moves to sell off his
company's football arm, he remains a key player in the football business.

Carlo Ancelotti, Chelsea FC, manager

He became only the second non-British manager, after Arsene Wenger, to win the Premier
League and FA Cup double. The highly acclaimed Italian says he wants to stay at Stamford
Bridge for at least another 10 years, but that is only likely to happen if he wins the Champions
League for Roman Abramovich soon.

Lewis Hamilton, Formula One, driver

Brilliant on the track, winning the 2008 World Championship in only his second season. Hasn't
quite managed same feats since. Formed a British dream team with Jenson Button at Mclaren
this year but was fined for showing off to fans in his road car during this season's Australian
grand prix.

Mark Webber, Formula One, driver

Lives in London and Aussies don't come much tougher than Webber, who drove in last year's
world championship while still suffering from a broken leg sustained in his own charity cycle race.
He won this summer's British Grand Prix for Red Bull just a fortnight after surviving a 190mph
crash in Valencia.
Jenson Button, Formula One, driver
The 2009 champion moved from title-winning Brawn to McLaren where he was expected to be
outdriven by that team's protégé, Lewis Hamilton. It didn't happen. Button proved a consummate
competitor, the equal of Hamilton.

Ivan Gazidis, Arsenal, chief executive

South African-born Oxford graduate who is using his US sports savvy — he was deputy
commissioner of Major League Soccer — to boost Arsenal's profits, which hit a record
£56 million this year. Close to the club's largest shareholder, Stan Kroenke.

Baroness Grey-Thompson, Disability champion

Retired Paralympic gold medallist Tanni champions the cause of disabled athletes as a director of
UK Athletics and she's also on the board of the London Marathon and Transport for London.
Elevated from Dame to the House of Lords this year.

Justin Rigby, True North Media Group, founder

Ex-sports journalist who looks after the public relations for a burgeoning list of Premier League
footballers including England captain Rio Ferdinand and Chelsea striker Salomon Kalou.

Andy Murray, Tennis player

That dour demeanour has yet to be lit with the smile that comes with winning a maiden grand
slam. He parted with long-term coach Miles Maclagan following this year's Wimbledon
disappointment. Won six titles last term, but only claimed his second this year in October. Spends
much of his time in the capital.

Sir Elton John, Singer

David Furnish, Producer
Britain's most famous civil partnership. EJAF — the Elton John Aids Foundation — goes from
strength to strength. Even George Michael may now take Sir Elton's advice and get clean.

Lord Mandelson, Ex-minister

Starring in a film about his life and writing a salacious memoir are guaranteed to make Mandy a
slightly unnerving dinner party hit. No one expects him to fade into quiet retirement. Will have
his pick of plum roles.

Lord Saatchi, M&C Saatchi, director

Irrepressible veteran is no longer hands-on at the agency but relished winning back the Tory ad
account for the election. Threw huge “Saatchistory” party to celebrate 40 years in the business.

The Queen, Sovereign

Serene and enigmatic as ever. Savvy too, as she cuts back on partying and spending in age of
austerity.

Prince William, RAF Search and Rescue, pilot

Kate Middleton, Royal fiancée
It's time for a royal wedding. Flight Lieutenant Wales has finally popped the question. The
nuptials are next year.

Prince Harry, Army Air Corps, pilot

It's more fun being the spare. He's supposedly single.

Sir Mick Jagger, Rolling Stone

Has grown old surprisingly gracefully but can still rock the party. Says he will never write his
memoirs. Leggy girlfriend L'Wren Scott dispenses style advice such as how to wear diamonds on
the beach.

Jemima Khan, Heiress

Everyone's favourite heiress, part of the Goldsmith clan. Hard at work on a book on Pakistan.

Rachel Johnson, The Lady, editor

An embattled proprietor does wonders for your social life not to mention book sales. Next stop a
sit-com or a film for the Mayor's younger sister. The Devil Wears Barbour?

Alexa Chung, TV presenter

Model-turned-TV-gazelle who's even got Anna Wintour as a fan and has a Mulberry bag named
after her. Style queen.

Tom Ford, Film director

Former creative boss of Gucci reinvented himself by taking on Hollywood at its own game. Wrote,
directed and funded A Single Man and already plans another film — but won't say what.

Stephen Webster, Jeweller

Webster is the leading half of the most uproarious fashion couple in London — along with wife
Anastasia. Who else throws a Christmas party on a theme of the seven deadly sins? His latest
venture is an LA store on Rodeo Drive.

Baroness Thatcher, Former prime minister

Her health is not what it was but Lady T has star power at any party — witness how the crowds
flocked at the Saatchis' ad agency 40th anniversary.

Alasdhair Willis, Announcement, founder

Mr Stella McCartney used to run furniture designers Established & Sons but has struck out on his
own with new creative consultancy Announcement. He's David Beckham's new style consultant.

Claudia Winkleman, TV presenter

Kris Thykier, Pea Pie Films, founder
She presents Film 2010 and co-hosts Strictly Come Dancing. Husband Kris used to be a top PR
man and now runs his own film production firm. The Debt starring Dame Helen Mirren is set to
be a big hit.

Arpad Busson, Hedge fund manager

Swiss hedgie, still dating Uma Thurman. Founder trustee of Ark charity for schools and his
benefit dinners are legendary, making millions for children.

Elizabeth Hurley, Actress and designer

Pigs, bikinis, non-calorific biscuits — she knows how to sell 'em. Don't call her Liz.

Coco Sumner, Singer

Sting's daughter is the cleverest and prettiest of London's over-exposed crew of rock star
progeny by miles. As she says: “Forget my dad, you need to hear my band.”

Duchess of Cornwall, Royal consort

Dear old Camilla is fabulously politically incorrect — and she has to cope with all husband
Charles's idiosyncrasies. The Parker Bowles brood includes foodie son Tom and gallerist daughter
Laura.
Anya Hindmarch, Designer
Her celebrated handbags make her eminently suited to Tory politics where she is a significant
social player. Next stop working for Dave?

Jaime Winstone, Actress

A famous dad, Ray, is no bar to actually being really good. Party girl who made her name in cult
thriller Donkey Punch. Brilliantly cast in Brit-flick Made In Dagenham.

Nicholas Haslam, Interior designer

Gets invited everywhere because he's the best company. And his designs are to die for —
furniture, fabrics, antiques, Nicky does it all. Knows tout le monde. Brilliant Spectator book
reviewer too.

Josephine Hart, Author

Her jolly “Poetry Hour” readings with the great and the good always sell out at the British Library.
There's serious intent as she is determined that kids should embrace poetry. Married to Lord
Saatchi.

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, Private Secretary to Princes William and Harry

Smooth operator. This is the man who can give us the date and dress code for the wedding.

Sabrina Guinness, Heiress

Bohemian queen of Ladbroke Grove. More rock'n'roll than her famous exes.

Sally Greene, Old Vic, chief executive

Old Vic is the greatest example of private funding in London theatre. Anyone for a cocktail at the
American Airlines bar? Runs Ronnie Scott's too.

Natalia Vodianova, Model

Russian supernova who organises Love Ball for her children's charity Naked Heart. Looks like a
china doll, can party like an animal.

Bryan Adams, Photographer

Philanthropist to the Chelsea Pensioners. The former singer is more opera than rock these days.

Nick Rhodes, Musician and photographer

Duran Duran star-turned-photographer's snaps are the alternative record of the London party
scene — girls are always on film.

Joanna Trollope, Author

Gritty, urban social reality has never been so foxy. The novelist is also a cheerleader for the
National Portrait Gallery.

Lord Archer, Author and auctioneer

Still cranking out bestsellers, he has put prison life behind him in the best way — by writing
about it. Hits the party circuit in his Mini.

Daphne Guinness, Fashion muse

The embodiment of Alexander McQueen's vision. Bought her friend Isabella Blow's clothes
collection in its entirety. The only person who can look good in those McQueen cloven heels.

Rachel Barrett, Curator

Jamaican-born curator/art historian is an elegant new addition to the Young British Artists circuit
as the girlfriend of dealer Jay Jopling.
Sir Sol Kerzner & Lady Heather Kerzner, Hotel mogul and wife
Globe-trotting party hosts, with hotel and supercasino interests in South Africa, Dubai, Mauritius
and more. He recently received an unsolicited £2.2 billion offer from Gulf investors.

Jade Jagger, Designer

Kensal Green and Ibiza's favourite hedonist. The mother of two is designing hotels in Morocco
and also happens to be a demon DJ on the decks.

Elle Macpherson, Entrepreneur and model

Cars, underwear, knitwear, TV — the Australian supermodel known as The Body means business.

Joanna Lumley, Actress

The indefatigable Joanna made her Broadway debut last month at 64. Has been a formidable
campaigner for the rights of Gurkhas — embarrassing politicians with ease — and is great fun.

Catherine Ostler, Tatler, editor

The former editor of ES Magazine began her career as an intern at Tatler so her return to the
society bible last year was a homecoming. Married to top Condé Nast executive Albert Read.

Georgia May Jagger, Model

Gap-toothed pouting juvenile Jagger, left, is a modelling sensation. She got grounded by Sir Mick
when she had to revise, so not just a spectacularly pretty face.

Agyness Deyn, Model

Gazelle without vanity. Shaved her head to look like Morrissey for Giles Deacon's London show.
Fashionably splits time between here and New York.

Leigh Lezark, DJ
It's a sign of a cool party when this NY-Lon DJ flits over from the Big Apple to entertain.

Johnny Borrell, Razorlight singer

Edie Campbell, Model
Another rock star/Burberry model coupling. He tends to be low-key, rides a bike, collects art. She
is the doe-eyed beauty who became the face of the fashion label at 18.

Amanda Sheppard, Party organiser

Bryan Ferry's girlfriend but also a savvy fashion PR who throws a great party. Put her skills to
good use doing monster Hallowe'en bash for Too Many Women, Harry Becher's charity.

David Walliams, Comedian and author

Little Britain star has got married but there's no chance of him going into hiding. Loves to party.
His Mr Stink children's books have been a surprise hit.

Matt Smith, Actor

The sexiest Doctor Who since Paul “Withnail & I” McGann. Lucky old Daisy Lowe, his other half.

Alison Mosshart, The Kills, singer

Kate Moss is reportedly jealous of her special bond with Kills guitarist Jamie Hince. The multi-
tasking rock chick hangs out in east London and also sings in The Dead Weather.

Sheherazade Goldsmith, Eco-warrior

Zac who? Sheherazade is looking like an even yummier mummy and has a new beau,
smouldering Harry Potter director Alfonso Cuaron.
Dominic Cooper, Actor
Someone remake Dirty Dancing. He doesn't chat anyone up — he just dances with them, as in
An Education. For hours. The Mamma Mia star is an irresistible flirt.

Noel Fielding, Comedian

Invite him to your party and ask the Goth comic to do his impression of a bluebird. Hours of fun.
Great to date as you can share his eyeliner.

Daniella Helayel, Designer

Runs Issa label. Couturier to the slinkiest socialites and designed for Madonna's Wallis Simpson
movie, as well as for real royalty from Eug and Bea to Kate M. Throws Brazilian-themed dinner
parties at home in Chelsea.

Polly Morgan, Artist

London's favourite taxidermist. Blonde bombshell, who dates fellow Young British Artist Mat
Collishaw. Likes to party.

David Gandy, Model

The best cheekbones. Dolce & Gabbana model who hasn't let being the hottest guy in London
affect his friendly demeanour. Download his fashion app to look like him. If only.

Sam Taylor-Wood, Photographer and director

Aaron Johnson, Actor
A yummy mummy again and engaged to Aaron Johnson — who's half her age. The couple met
on the set of Nowhere Boy, the movie which catapulted both of them into the film scene's most
wanted. He's had further success with Kick-Ass.

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