Honorary awards 2019

Amanda Clack has been recognised for her services to infrastructure and construction.

She is a senior property professional in real estate, infrastructure and construction with extensive ‘Big Four’ consulting experience gained in over 30 years in the sector.

Clack is currently an Executive Director and Head of Strategic Advisory at CBRE, the largest commercial real estate services company in the world. She is also a Member of the UK Board and Executive Committee as well as the Chair of the Strategy Board.

She is the former President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), being the longest serving President in 123 years. She was named Most Influential Surveyor in the 150th Anniversary RICS ‘Pride in the Profession’ award’s Top Surveyors of All Time category.

Dame Cilla Snowball has been recognised for her services to advertising, diversity and equality.

She is the former Chair of the Women’s Business Council, Chairs the GREAT Private Sector Council and is Board Director at Derwent London Plc. Until December 2018, she was Group Chair and Group Chief Executive of AMV BBDO, an advertising and communications group in the UK. She worked for Abbott Mead Vickers for 26 years, in senior management positions since 2006, rising to agency head and country head. She is a former Chair of the Advertising Association.

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to advertising, diversity, and equality.

Born in North West London in 1931, Mayer Hillman is the third son of David Hillman, a portrait painter and stained glass artist, and Dr Annie Hillman, a GP.

He studied both architecture (qualifying in 1954) and town planning (qualifying in 1956) at University College London and was in private practice in Hampstead for 13 years.

Concern about oversight of the crucial links between transport, planning and environmental issues then led him to leave both his private practice and the practice of architecture. He completed his doctoral thesis on this subject in 1970 at the University of Edinburgh. That same year he joined the Policy Studies Institute (formerly PEP – Political and Economic Planning) and was head of its Environment and Quality of Life Research Programme until 1992. He is now Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Institute. His studies have been concerned with transport, urban planning, energy conservation, health promotion, road safety and environment policies, and particularly the implications of climate change.

For 40 years, he has highlighted the imperative of incorporating environmental considerations into public policy. He first proposed personal carbon rationing in 1990, citing it as the only realistic way by which the world’s population could prevent catastrophic climate change. He has written over 50 books on the subjects of his research, including the Penguin book How We Can Save the Planet (with Tina Fawcett) in 2004 and The Suicidal Planet: Our Last Chance to Prevent Climate Catastrophe (with Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Rajan), published by St. Martin’s Press in 2007 in the US.

Gillian Bowen has been recognised for her substantial contribution to the youth and voluntary sector.

Gillian is the Chief Executive Officer at City YMCA, London, a charity which specialises in housing services for homeless young people aged 16-25, and which delivers a range of youth support and health services to vulnerable and at-risk youth aged 12-25. She is currently leading the completion of a £20m housing development for homeless young people in London, the first of its kind to be built in the last decade.

Gillian is a Justice of the Peace and presides in the Adult and Youth Court for the Central London Bench. She also holds the position of Deputy Youth Panel Chair for the North and Central London region.

She helped to found Capital Mass, a joint venture between the Church Urban Fund and the Diocese of London which seeks to see an increase in awareness and engagement from the parishes in tackling poverty and inequality in their communities. She is also a Trustee of youth focussed charities including Lambourne End Limited, LandAid and Just Like Us.

She completed her Master of Business Administration course at the University of Westminster in 2003.

Jan Gooding has been recognised for her services to diversity and inclusion, and her commitment to championing social change.

Gooding is Chair of the Board of Trustees of LGBT equality charity Stonewall and was ranked 16th in the Top 100 Outstanding in Business list published in the Financial Times. She also chairs the Publishers Audience Measurement Company (PAMCo), the governing body which oversees the audience measurement for the published media industry, and is on the executive committee of Women in Advertising London (WACL), an influential club for senior women in UK Communications. Gooding is also the President of the Market Research Society.

She joined Aviva in 2008 as Marketing Operations Director before becoming Group Brand Director, ultimately leading the development of the “Good Thinking” campaign which launched in the UK in early 2016.

In January 2017, Gooding began a new role as Global Inclusion Director at Aviva, spearheading the company’s commitment to fostering a more inclusive culture and ultimately more diverse workplace across the group.

Over a 30-year career, Gooding has also worked for British Gas and BT, and she has been managing partner of two successful marketing consultancies, Antennae and BLUEdOOR.

John Swannell has been recognised for his services to photography.

John started his career aged 16, working as an assistant at Vogue magazine. He assisted the renowned photographer David Bailey for four years, before setting up his own studio at the age of 24.

He spent the next 10 years travelling the world and working for magazines such as Vogue, Harpers & Queen, Tatler, and The Sunday Times. During that time, he developed his very distinctive, individual style in both fashion and beauty photography.

Although best known for his portraits, he also specialises in fashion, nudes and landscapes.

Swannell is regarded as one of the biggest names in British photography. He photographed HM The Queen for her Golden Jubilee and The Princess Royal for her 40th and 50th birthday portraits and, in 1994, was personally commissioned by Diana, Princess of Wales, to photograph her with her sons. Famous sitters include Elton John, Judi Dench, John Gielgud, Kim Cattrall, Sienna Miller and Dame Helen Mirren, among many others.

His images have appeared in leading publications the world over, and he has published six books of his photographs, including John Swannell Nudes 1978-2006, which was also the title of his last exhibition. His work features in permanent collections at The V&A, The National Portrait Gallery in London and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Richard Boden has been recognised for his work in television and his contribution to education.

Boden is a member of BAFTA, of the Royal Television Society and of the Directors Guild of America. Beside several nominations, he has won three Television BAFTAs as director and producer of ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’ in 1989, ‘The Sketch Show’ in 2002 and ‘The IT Crowd’ in 2009. For ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’ he also won the Best Situation Comedy Award from the Royal Society of Television in 1990. He has been a member of several juries, including BAFTA, the Golden Rose of Montreux and the Emmy Award’s pre-selection jury.

Boden is a visiting tutor at the National Film & Television School. He has also lectured and supported students at Exeter University and he was a governor at the London Oratory School for over ten years, acting as its Vice Chairman for a number of years.

Richard is a graduate of the University of Exeter. He started his career at the BBC as a floor assistant, working on programmes such as ‘To the Manor Born’. He became an Assistant Floor Manager, a Light Entertainment Production Manager, and both a producer and director in Light Entertainment. He then became Head of Comedy at Carlton and Central TV, and a director of Columbia TriStar Carlton UK Productions.