Spring Martlet 2017

Richard Jolley (1986,
PPE) was presented
with the award for
Joke Cartoonist 2016
at the Cartoon Art
Trust awards. Richard is
a freelance cartoonist
for Private Eye, the
Spectator and the Mail
on Sunday, amongst
others. This award
obviously eclipses
David Low’s mere
knighthood and makes
him Univ’s highest
achieving cartoonist of
all time.
Former Univ Junior Dean Pireeni Sundaralingam (1986,
Experimental Psychology) has been awarded a Salzburg
Global Fellowship in the cognition of creativity, in addition
to a fellowship at the Exploratorium Museum in climate
change understanding. Her work as a poet appeared this
year in American Poetry Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and
others and has been selected for the Best New Poets 2016
anthology (University of Virginia Press). She is a founding
member of the ‘Vision & Content’ committee, and currently
lead strategist on creativity and decision-making, for the
newly announced United Nations Museum of Humanity.
Simon Talling-Smith
(1987, Economics and
Engineering) has been
appointed CEO of private
airline Surf Air Europe.
Mr Talling-Smith worked
for British Airways for 22
years, latterly as chief executive for the
Americas, followed by a two-year stint at
Silicon Valley deals site TravelZoo, where
he revived search engine Fly.com.
1990s
Award-winning
theatre director,
writer, poet and
teacher, Jake Murray
(1990, English)
directed Strindberg’s
Women at Jermyn
Street Theatre,
London, from 2-26
November 2016.
Jake was Associate
Artistic Director at
the Royal Exchange
Theatre, Manchester
2001-8.
Univ Old Members Julian Glover OBE (1991,
History), lately Special Adviser to the Prime
Minister, and Eleanor Wolfson OBE (née
Shawcross) (2001, History), lately Deputy Chief
of Staff to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
received OBEs for political and public service, in
the Prime Minister’s Resignation Honours. Julian
Glover (1991, History) has been appointed
the Director of the 2017 Wolfson Prize for
Economics. This £250,000 prize will be offered
for the best new and practical idea for funding
and maintaining roads. The prize was won in
2014 by David Rudlin, assisted by Nicholas
Falk (1961, PPE) from their company URBED
(Urbanism and Environmental Design). Julian
Glover was advisor to Patrick McLoughlin, the
transport secretary until the summer, where he
helped shape the creation of Highways England
and the Road Investment Strategy. He is also the
author of a new biography of the great engineer
Thomas Telford, published in January 2017.
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