Alumni Interviews

Michael Jermey (Class of 1981) is Director of News and Current Affairs at ITV. After taking a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, Michael worked for a year at Central TV before joining ITN in 1986. Starting as a trainee, he went  on to hold positions including Editor…

Robert Norton (Class of 1990) is an entrepreneur working at the cross-section of tech and art. After taking a Masters in Modern History at Oxford University, Robert worked for Reuters news agency and AOL before going on to become MD of mobile gaming company King.Com and to co-found two major online art…

Debodun Osekita grew up in Peckham and came to the City of London School in the Sixth Form, in 2003. After Warwick University, he worked in finance, firstly as a trader at Goldman Sachs for three years and, most recently, as an Execution Trader for De Putron Fund Management, based…

Sir Bernard Silverman was knighted in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List, for public service and services to science. After leaving CLS in 1969 he studied Mathematics at Cambridge and held senior academic roles at Bath, Bristol and Oxford Universities. Sir Bernard was Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office…

Anthony Rudolf was at City of London School between 1953 and 1960 and went on to graduate in Modern Languages and Social Anthropology from Cambridge. As a poet, editor, translator, memoirist and literary critic, he is the author of more than 30 books. His works include the acclaimed ‘The Arithmetic…

Alan left City of London School in 1996 and completed a BA (Hons), M.Phil and PhD degrees in history at the University of Cambridge. He is founder and executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, a think tank that specialises in foreign policy. How did you become a pupil at…

George left City of London School in 1999 and, after studying at Oxford, joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2002. He has had postings to Kabul, Brussels, Islamabad and Washington and achieved a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University. Since 2015, he has been British ambassador to Senegal.…

Will Tosh was at City of London School between 1992 and 1999. After reading English at Oxford University, he worked as an actor and went on to complete a PhD in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Queen Mary University of London. Since 2014, he has been Research Fellow and…

Joseph Ataman (Class of 2011), read Geography with a choral scholarship at St John’s College, Cambridge before heading to Beirut to begin a career in journalism. After working in Turkey and completing a masters in Turkish, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, Joseph is now back in London and…

Lawrence Anfo-Whyte grew up in Hackney and came to CLS on a bursary as an 11-year-old in 2001. He went on to be captain of the CLS football team and to study at the Ivy League University, Dartmouth College. Now 28, he works for JP Morgan in London and says…

Drummond was at CLS from 1958 to 1963, before achieving first and higher degrees in Russian at the University of London. After becoming the first-ever sabbatical President of the University of London Students’ Union, Drummond went on to a varied career in the governance and management of UK Universities. For…

After leaving City of London School in 1991, Tim Levene studied Russian at Manchester University and began his career at the management consultancy Bain & Company. His first entrepreneurial venture was as one of the founders of Crussh which now has over 30 stores across London. He went on to…