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  • Philip Walters

    Chair

    Rising Stars Ltd

    Philip is Chair of Rising Stars Publishers, and a Director of four other companies -  Encyclopaedia Britannica, Book Source, Nelson Croom and CABI. He is also a Trustee of Yale University Press (London).  Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Hodder Education, the second largest secondary school publisher in the UK. He worked at Hodder for over 30 years. He is also Chair of Book Aid International, the charity that equips classrooms in sub-Saharan African countries with textbooks and readers that would not be affordable otherwise. He has been an Associate of the Institute of Ideas for seven years, and was involved in the Debating Matters competition from a very early stage in its development.

DEBATING MATTERS HISTORY

National FInal: National Final 2010/11

DEBATE: Smart Drugs

National FInal: National Final 2009/10

DEBATE: Genetic Screening

National FInal: National Final 2008/09

DEBATE: Copyright

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