Our readers have spoken, and in the most in-depth investigation of its kind ever undertaken, have revealed who they consider to be the most influential names in HR in 2009. Siân Harrington examines the results of our exclusive survey, discovers why some practitioners and thinkers stand out from the crowd – and hears what fellow HR professionals really think about them.
| Top 30 practitioners | |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Name, title and company |
| 1 | David Fairhurst, senior VP/chief people office, McDonald’sr McDonald’s Restuarants Northern Europe, McDonalds Europe |
| 2 | Clare Chapman, director general, workforce, National Health Service |
| 3 | Martin Tiplady, director of human resources, Metropolitan Police Service |
| 4 | Imelda Walsh, HR director, Sainsbury’s |
| 5 | Angela O'Connor, chief people officer, National Policing Improvement Agency |
| 6 | Liane Hornsey, HR director, Google |
| 7 | Vance Kearney, vice president HR (EMEA), Oracle |
| 8 | Caroline Waters, director of people and policy, BT |
| 9 | Theresa Proctor, HR director, Tesco Stores |
| 10 | Richard Smelt, group HR director, Northern Rock |
| 11 | Catherine Glickman, group managing director, HR, Tesco |
| 12 | Helen Giles, HR director, Broadway |
| 13 | Stephen Dando, executive vice president and chief HR officer, Thomson Reuters |
| 14 | Stephen Moir, director of people and policy, Cambridgeshire County Council (and ex-president of PPMA) |
| 15 | Ann Almeida, group managing director, human resource, HSBC |
| 16 | Dave Gartenberg, HR director, Microsoft UK |
| 17 | Gillian Hibberd,corporate director (people and policy), Buckinghamshire County Council and president of the PPMA |
| 18 | Rachel Campbell, head of people management, KPMG |
| 19 | John Ainley, group HR director, Aviva |
| 20 | Tanith Dodge, HR director, Marks & Spencer |
| 21 | Gareth Williams, HR director, Diageo |
| 22 | Paula Larson, executive vice president human resources, Invensys |
| 23 | Graham White, director of HR, Westminster City Council |
| 24 | Anne Copeland, HR director, Department for Children, Schools & Families |
| 25 | Kevin White, director general, HR, Home Office |
| 26 | Alan Walters, vice president, HR, Unilever UK & Ireland |
| 27 | Stephen Kelly, group HR director, Logica |
| 28 | Claire Thomas, senior vice president, human resources, GlaxoSmithKline |
| 29 | Madalyn Brooks, HR director, UK and Ireland, Procter & Gamble |
| 30 | Hugh Mitchell, global head of HR, Royal Dutch Shell |
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