Alannah weston biography of barack

Selfridges Group is a collection of international department stores that exist to imagine and create a sustainable future for their people and customers. Alannah became Creative Director of Selfridges in when her father W Galen Weston bought the business and played a key role in its transformation into a leading luxury department store with four stores in the UK and a digital platform delivering to countries.

She is credited with reinvigorating the brand through a focus on creativity and sustainability. Passionate about people and planet, Alannah has brought a multi-stakeholder approach to her chairmanship, working with the leadership team to embed sustainability and diversity in their business plans. Alannah believes that sustainability will be the next big disruptor of her industry, and in Alannah began to record her own podcast, How to Lead a Sustainable Business , interviewing thought leaders and pioneers who are actively innovating and transforming the way they do business for the sake of people and planet.

Thinking of the first day you walked through the Merton Lodge arch, what was your first impression? As a Canadian, I was seeking out something that felt foreign to me, and yet comforting and home.

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I remember once my printer broke and I asked John Carey if I could read my essay off the laptop and he looked quite alarmed and said that someone else could read their essay that day. John Carey taught me to write. It was a great lesson for me as a female student. The Time Ceremony was something wonderfully bizarre — do you still walk backwards around the quad in sub fusc when the clocks go back?

And I also remember trying to start an Environment Club and only two Fresher boys came along.