?There have been few higher profile HR jobs over the last few years than heading up HR at the BBC

?Rachel King joined Camelot, operator of The National Lottery in 2016, after working for a number of other high profile brands across the media, retail and consumer sectors.

Kathryn Austin has played a core leadership role in Pizza Hut's brand turnaround

Gail Clark is currently the head of workforce change

Alison Wilcox joined BT in July 2015 as group HR director

Francis has functional leadership responsibility for human resources and communications across 5,500 employees and a much larger extended supply chain.

Neil Foulger represents Liberty Global's HR interests in the Dutch joint venture with Vodafone

Peter Cappelli is the George W Taylor professor of management and director of the Center for Human Resources at Wharton University of Pennsylvania

Giovanni Giordano joined the management board of British American Tobacco (BAT) in June 2011

Jan Woods is a director of consumer-focused investor Lion Capital

Josephs joined Historic Royal Palaces as HRD in 1999, shortly after it became an independent self-funding charity

Patrick Lencioni is one of America’s pre-eminent thought leaders on topics related to leadership, management and teamwork at the executive level