DL1713 QUADissue 16 v26.qxd 4/7/07 13:02 Page 1 ISSUE 16 • 2007 INCORPORATING CATCH-UP Ching-He Huang on fusion foods David Clutterbuck on mentoring Richard Learwood on pet parenting THE MAGAZINE FOR THE ALUMNI COMMUNITY OF QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON DL1713 QUADissue 16 v26.qxd 4/7/07 13:03 Page 2 DEAR FRIENDS When is the right time to establish a December this year, will bring together the business? Four alumni featured in this issue voices and memorabilia of the women who of QUAD talk about how and when they have studied and worked at all four of the established their diverse enterprises. Ching-He constituent parts of today’s College. The Huang and Fuge Foods; David Clutterbuck exhibition will take place in the Octagon. with his business management consultancy; Our colleague, Sue Boswell, retired at the Justin Rhodes with his eponymous designer end of 2006. Sue spent ten varied years in belt company in Covent Garden and Piers the area of External Relations at Queen Corbyn with WeatherAction. Mary, she did much to revive the fortunes 2007 is a year of anniversaries: it is 125 of the Queen Mary and Westfield Alumni Sue Boswell with Dr Brian Colvin, President of years since the founding of Westfield College Association, and worked closely with medical the Barts and The London Alumni Association and 120 years since the founding of what and dental colleagues to establish the Barts has become Queen Mary, University of and The London Alumni Association. We of 23 from cancer, shortly after the last issue London through the People’s Palace Project all wish her a long and happy retirement. of QUAD went to press, has left an unfillable and East London College on the Mile End Our new website ‘Alumni, Family and gap in the memory of the present institution. site. It is now also 20 years since the Friends’ was launched in June 2007. It This issue of QUAD is dedicated to Laura’s decision to merge Westfield with Queen features profiles of many former students memory. Mary College in 1987 was taken. and can be accessed from www.qmul.ac.uk 2007 is also the centenary anniversary of Finally, I am sure that many readers will Aeronautical Engineering which celebrates be saddened to hear of the deaths of two With kind regards being the oldest such department in the members associated with the College. Dr country, with a conference and reunion Janet Sondheimer, author of Castle Adamant focusing on the achievements of its founder, in Hampstead and archivist at Westfield Professor AP Thurston, taking place in College, died on 1 April 2007. While 2004- SUSAN NETTLE September. An exhibition called 05 Students’ Union President Laura Head of Alumni Relations and Events Office Women@QM, running from October to Blomeley, whose untimely death at the age The Queen Mary Alumni Relations and Events Team IN THIS ISSUE SUSAN NETTLE STEPHANIE MANNION Head of Alumni Relations and Events Office Database and Membership Officer JO STILES GEORGE FODEN Alumni in the News ...................... 03 Alumni Relations Manager: Barts and The London Corporate Events Manager College News ................................ 04 ANILA MEMON AMY KOBELIS Alumni Relations Manager Corporate Events Manager Ching-He Huang interview ............ 06 RACHEL NABUDDE LOUISE MEAD Database and Membership Manager Events and Alumni Officer Alumni entrepreneurs .................... 08 Alumni Relations and Events Office PHOTOS: Jon Cole, Ed Park, Lucy Williams and Westfield Way .............................. 10 Department of Corporate Affairs members of the Alumni Relations and Queen Mary, University of London Events Team Cambridge wartime reunion ........ 12 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS ISSN: 1743-5676 Women@QM ................................ 13 Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 3092 +44 (0)20 7882 7423 Richard Learwood interview .......... 14 Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3706 email: [email protected] www.QMandWAlumni.org International and student news .... 18 DESIGN: Queen Mary, University of London Catch-up ........................................ 20 Publications and Web Office www.corporateaffairs.qmul.ac.uk/ The Alumni Relations & Events team, March 2007 Forthcoming events ...................... 32 pubweb/ DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the individual writers and contributors 2QUAD2 • SPRING 2007 DL1713 QUADissue 16 v26.qxd 4/7/07 13:03 Page 3 ALUMNI IN THE NEWS Alumni in the News Ed Whitmore (English Literature 1992) was Professor David Blanchflower (QMC, PhD Economics 1985) has been awarded an Edgar by the Mystery Writers of appointed an external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy America for best teleplay for his episode of Sea Committee. The Committee makes operational decisions on interest rate of Souls, a BBC1 crime drama, at a ceremony policy. David, also Bruce V Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth in New York. The ‘Edgars’, or Edgar Allan Poe College, New England, is a leading labour economist; his areas of interest Awards, are given to the world’s most talented include economics of trade unions, entrepreneurship, wage determination and youth crime and mystery writers. unemployment. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown said he was delighted at the appointment, adding Sir Michael Lyons “David is a world class labour market economist and brings a wealth of experience (MSc Economics and expertise to the Committee”. Professor Blanchflower gave the Annual Bernard 1973) was appointed Corry Lecture in June 2007. the first Chairman of the BBC Trust, the Bruce Dickinson (QMC, History 1979) front BBC’s new governing man of heavy metal band Iron Maiden, Elizabeth (Liz) body, with effect together with his band mates, celebrated the Davenport from 1 May 2007. 25th anniversary of the release of their first (q PhD The He said the appointment was a “great eponymous album and 30 years since their London 1993), privilege" and that he looked forward to formation in 2005. The celebrations also saw Professor "the exciting challenges of the future and the re-release of the single Number of the of Dental working with my colleagues on the Trust Beast which went straight to number three Education in to ensure the BBC provides a quality service in the UK charts. the Institute of to justify the public's continuing support.” Dentistry, was Sir Michael was formerly chief executive among the top 50 lecturers and learning of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Matt Hyde support staff who received National Nottingham city councils and Professor of (English 1996) has Teaching Fellowships from the Higher Public Policy at Birmingham University. He been appointed Education Academy in 2006. Professor was also a non-executive director of Central National Deputy Davenport was awarded the first ever Television Ltd and, until recently, Chairman Director of the Chair in Dental Education in Europe, of the Regional Advisory Council for ITV. He National Union of having been instrumental in driving received a knighthood in 2000 for services Students (NUS). He forward a review of the dental curriculum to local government. has a long history in the School of Medicine and Dentistry. of involvement in the student movement She has since introduced the Graduate having been President of the Students’ Entry Programme for Dentistry (first intake Queen’s New Year’s Honours Union at Queen Mary between 1996 and 2006-07) and has received two Drapers’ Husband and wife Professor Malcolm 1998 and of the University of London prizes for Excellence in Teaching and Molyneux (q MBBChir Barts 1968) and Union (ULU) from 1998-99. He said, “I’m Learning in the last five years. Professor Elizabeth Molyneux (q Barts thrilled to have been offered the position 1968) received OBEs in the Queen’s New of Deputy National Director of NUS. Parveen Kumar CBE (q Barts 1965), Year’s Honours. Malcolm was recognised for The National Union of Students has a Professor of Clinical Medical Education at medical services in Malawi, particularly in the significant role to play in promoting, Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School field of tropical diseases, while Elizabeth was defending and extending the rights of Medicine and Dentistry was delighted and acknowledged for services to paediatric of students.” honoured to have been appointed President healthcare in Malawi. Also based in Malawi, Professor Christopher Lavy (q Barts 1982) Dilwara Khatun (Biochemistry 2005) of the British Medical Association last July. was awarded the OBE for services to featured in an article in the Guardian about The theme she has chosen for her year as orthopaedic care in Africa. careers in finance. Upon graduation she President is ‘the quality of care we deliver to heard about the East London Business our patients’. Dr John Lloyd Parry (q Barts) was made Alliance’s Community Affairs Trainee Scheme Professor Kumar, also an honorary consultant an MBE for services to Sports Medicine. which offers Bangladeshi graduates the physician and gastroenterologist for Barts David Streeter (QMC, Botany 1959), opportunity to work in the City and Canary and The London NHS Trust, has combined conservationist and Reader in Ecology at the Wharf in established corporates. She is a lifelong working commitment to the NHS University of Sussex, received an MBE for now an analyst with Credit Suisse. with a distinguished academic career. services to Higher Education. QUAD • SPRING 2007 3 DL1713 QUADissue 16 v26.qxd 4/7/07 13:03 Page 4 COLLEGE NEWS College News New Honorary Fellow Westfield Student Village completed Professor Dame Lesley Rees DBE The Curve, Queen Mary’s latest (q Barts 1965), was made an Honorary Fellow catering facility, marks the of the College in summer 2006. Shortly after completion of Phase 3 of the graduating with Distinction in 1965, she Westfield Student Village. Offering embarked on co-founding a world-renowned a deli counter, café bar and eatery, Centre for Clinical Endocrinology at Barts. The Curve is located on the She has won numerous awards for her ground floor of Fielden House research and, in 1980, was the youngest Fellow to be admitted halls of residence which opened to the Royal College of Physicians.