What Did Jeremy Think?
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Jeremy Heywood was a much-loved Bootham Old Scholar (Bootham: 1973-80) and leading civil servant of the early 21st century. A life dedicated to public service, he worked with four Prime Ministers in various roles including as the first and only Permanent Secretary of 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Secretary and the Head of the Home Civil Service. He was at the centre of every crisis from the early 1990s until 2018.
Find out more about this exceptional man who let his life speak through his dedication to public service. Join Suzanne Heywood, author of What Does Jeremy Think? as she talks about her late husband and his life of public service.
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About the speaker
Suzanne Heywood has written a bestselling biography of her late husband, Jeremy Heywood, who worked for several different UK Prime Ministers. What Does Jeremy Think? tells that story (and used to be a frequent question in Whitehall).
Suzanne has been honoured with a World Woman Hero Award in recognition of her work to widen access to education and improve global equality. This recognition is part of the World Woman Davos Agenda, which runs alongside the World Economic Forum.
When Suzanne was seven years old, she set sail from Plymouth, England, on the schooner Wavewalker with her parents and brother. Their trip, which was recreating Captain Cook’s third voyage around the world, was supposed to last for three years but ended up taking a decade. Along the way they were shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean and, as she grew older, Suzanne had to fight to gain an education and return home. Her international bestselling book Wavewalker tells the story of that voyage.
After gaining a place at Oxford University, aged 17, and completing a PhD from Cambridge University, Suzanne worked in the UK Treasury before joining McKinsey & Co. She is now the COO of Exor, one of the largest holding companies in Europe and chairs CNHi, Iveco Group and Shang Xia and is on the board of The Economist and Louboutin.
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