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www London Bridge. Outside of work, it's mainly football, golf and Game of Thrones.
Rupert Rudkin: After graduating at Newcastle University with a Geography degree, I went to Oxford Brookes to do an MSc in Real Estate, before starting a career in commercial property. I am currently working in London for GCW as a chartered surveyor. My main
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Emily Booth: I celebrated successfully surviving Oundle with a year of travelling round Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Fortunately, nothing I met was as fearsome as the Wyatt dining room! I read English Literature at Birmingham, before working briefly in brand and marketing for an agency in Leeds. An opportunity in sales at IBM came up that was worth sleeping on my brother’s sofa for and I’ve now been in London for almost four years. I’m still in sales, but with another US-based tech company and am the Strategic Sales Director for the UK and the Nordics – lots of Hygge and travelling! When not in Gatwick Airport, I live in central London with my boyfriend.
Hannah Dillon: After leaving Oundle, I spent a relatively predictable year volunteering in and travelling around east and southern Africa, before studying Anthropology at Cambridge University. On graduating, I moved in with my brother and fellow OO, Jack (G 06), to enjoy a brief stint in advertising, before focusing my attention on positive social change. I spent three years working in partnership with the Home Office to counter violent extremism – one year of which was spent in delightful co- habitation with Lucy Taylor (W 09) – before taking four months out to go diving, decorate my flat and play with my niece, property of Meg Dillon (W 04). I’ve just started a new role running climate, oceans and biodiversity campaigns for a not-for- profit organisation that advocates the
interests are cricket and golf.
Tom Spencer: With a degree in History & Politics from Durham, I moved to London to begin a career in finance. I am currently helping to build Saranac Partners, a Mayfair- based private office. At Saranac I work with a small group of European technology entrepreneurs across their investment and broader financial affairs. Away from work, I
have swapped rugby and cricket for golf and tennis (with little success). I love to travel and have spent time in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
George Thomas: After graduating from Durham in 2012 with a degree in Economics, I moved to a career in finance and accounting. I am currently based in London and work for Qatari Diar, a global leader in sustainable real estate developments.
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UN’s sustainable development goals, and seem to spend a lot of my free time either travelling or playing netball with Emily Westwood (W 09), Rachel Hawkesford (W 08) and Sophie Cranfield (W 07).
Ysobel Greenlees: Having lost out in the Head of House battle at Wyatt, I departed on a cultural and educational gap year around South America, far superior to the alcohol- fuelled trips of my peers. This sparked a passion deep within me, as after finishing Bristol University, I said a fond farewell at the first of my numerous leaving parties and headed off to Argentina and then Malaysia. Having got the travelling bug out of my system, I am now a History teacher in London, shaping the young minds of today. I have also
discovered a passion for netball (hand-eye coordination was a late development for me) and books – follow @whizardbooks. However, I have not ventured far from the Oundle bubble when it comes to love. Despite having to take my driving test six times, I'm pretty much nailing life.
Imogen Harris: After leaving Wyatt, I went to Cambridge to read Chinese Studies – which involved four years of squeezing as many Chinese characters into my head as possible! I lived in Beijing on my year abroad, developing a mild obsession with dumplings and spicy peanut noodles. After my final year back at Cambridge, I went to live and work in Hong Kong for a stint, trying to see as much of Asia as possible, but