nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
Vanessa Lawrence

Dr Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence was Director-General and Chief Executive of Ordinance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency, between 2000-2014. She was the first woman ever to hold the post. Winnie Agbonlahor, Lawrence to leave Ordnance Survey after 14 years, Civil Service World, 3 April 2014, accessed 24 October 2016.
==Independent consultancy== 
In June 2015, Lawrence sought the advice of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) on setting up an independent consultant agency, 'to provide strategic advice on how to optimise information assets in the global digital arena'. The committee approved the request on condition that she should not become personally involved in lobbying government for up to two years after her last day of service, that she should not undertake work which involves providing advice to an organisation relating directly to Ordnance Survey, and that she make a case directly to the Committee before accepting any new commission. Lawrence took up the first of her commissions in September 2015. 
===Clients===
*Satellite Applications Catapult; National Geospatial Information Committee, Saudi Arabia (September 2015)
*World Bank Group (October 2015)
*Australian government; Third Bridge (October 2016). Summary of business appointments applications - Vanessa Lawrence, GOV.uk, 12 October 2016, accessed 24 October 2016. 
==Notes==
Vanessa Turner

Vanessa Turner was a partner at the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer until they announced on 13 March 2008 that she has been asked to join the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, as a member with responsibility for merger control and antitrust issues.Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, "Freshfields partner to join the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Competition," 13 March 2008, accessed 13 March 2010.
==Background==
Vanessa worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s leading antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice in Brussels (1996-2008). She was a partner from 2000 until she left in April 2008 for European Commission. She represented the firm’s clients in European antitrust and merger control law.
David Aitman, global co-head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Geringer’s ACT practice, said: "This is tremendous news for Vanessa. We are delighted the Commission has recognised Vanessa’s excellent experience in the field of antitrust and merger control. It is unusual for a senior policy role like this to be filled by someone from private practice, which indicates Vanessa’s strong reputation and breadth of experience."Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, "Freshfields partner to join the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Competition," 13 March 2008, accessed 13 March 2010.
At the Commission, she is currently responsible for antitrust and merger policy across a wide range of areas. 
==Affiliations==
*Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, ATC (1996-2000); Partner (2000-2008)
*European Commission, Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Competition
==Resources==
*Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, "Freshfields partner to join the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Competition," 13 March 2008, accessed 13 March 2010.
==Notes==
Turner, Vanessa
Varian Fry

Varian Fry was the European representative of the Emergency Rescue Committee in 1940.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network, Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1999, p.15.
==Affiliations==
*American Labor Party
*Emergency Rescue Committee
==External Resources==
*Dara Horn, The Rescuer, Tablet, 17 January 2012.
==Notes==
Fry, Varian
Vasili Mitrokhin

Vasili Mitrokhin is a former KGB archivist who defected to the UK.
Dan Hind, an editorial assistant to Stuart Proffitt of Penguin, was involved in the publication of Mitrokhin's material:
::Penguin commissioned two books, co-authored with a Cambridge academic called Christopher Andrew, which purported to be the contents of the Mitrokhin archive. It was the contents of the Mitrokhin archive as redacted and edited by MI6, and these publications were being used by MI6 to tell the world that the Russians were no longer an intelligence superpower, that MI6 had run away with the crown jewels and that it was game over for the Russians as serious players in intelligence. The archive was also, perhaps, a chance to settle scores and influence events elsewhere. The revelations made a big splash in Italy, for example.Dan Hind, Jamie Stern-Weiner, How Power Shapes Publicity - The Political Economy of Publishing (Part 1), New Left Project, 21 April 2011.
==Related pages==
*Mitrokhin Commission
==Notes==
Mitrokhin, VasiliMitrokhin, VasiliMitrokhin, VasiliMitrokhin, Vasili
Veena Hudson

Veena Hudson is a former UK government special adviser, now head of public affairs and policy at Balfour Beatty.
Hudson was deputy PM Nick Clegg's senior special adviser for Home and Foreign Affairs from July 2013 and held special adviser roles for Defra, DfT and CLG from January 2012. 
She was previously head of media and stakeholder relations at Monitor, the independent regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts (June 2010 – January 2012).
==Career==
Hudson has also worked as head of public affairs for ACCA; as a parliamentary and government relations adviser for the UK Environment Agency (2005-08); and as a parliamentary researcher from 2003-04 for Clegg when he was a European Parliament MEP. Veena Hudson, LinkedIn, undated, acc 14 Oct 2013 
As a special adviser to Clegg Hudson is paid a salary of £65,000 annually. Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 28 April 2015 
==Affiliations==
*Monitor
*Liberal Democrats
==Resources==
==Notes==
Hudson, Veena
Velma Hill

Velma Hill was a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers from 1971 to 1979.People of the AFT, Walter P. Reuther Library, accessed 21 April 2013.
==Affiliations==
*American Federation of Teachers - Vice President
*Coalition for a Democratic Majority
*League for Industrial Democracy
*Social Democrats USA
==External resources==
*HILL VELMA MURPHY
==Notes==
Hill, Velma
Vera Golovensky

Vera Golovensky is the Director of International Relations at the Adelson Institute for Strategic studiesDemocracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009. She is a longtime aide of Natan Sharansky Orly Halpern, 11-May-2007, The Jewish Daily Forward Former Refusenik Renews Push for Democratization, Accessed 01-March-2009.
==Affiliations==
Democracy and Security International Conference, Attendee Democracy and Security Conference, List of Participants, Accessed 25-February-2009| Adelson Institute for Strategic studies
==Notes==
 
Golovensky, Vera
Verbalisation

Verbalisation was a PR company set up by copywriter and former British Army psyops reservist Sven Hughes.
The company name had two incarnations, 
*Verbalisation Limited Registered office address 2nd Floor Shaw House 3, Tunsgate, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3QT. Incorporated on 21 July 2011 - Appointment of a voluntary liquidator 25 Nov 2019. Last accounts made up to 31 March 2018, (Previous company names TALK TORQUE LTD. 21 Jul 2011 - 11 Dec 2012)
*Verbalisation Consultancy Ltd (04 Sep 2019 - 09 Oct 2019). Name Changed to Enigma Strategic Communications Ltd on 9 October 2019. Company number 12188078. Registered office address: Unit 3 Merchant, Evegate Business Park, Ashford, Kent, England, TN25 6SX
==Clients==
According to Sven Hughes LinkedIn pageLinkedIn Sven Hughes Retrieved from archive.today' of 24 march 2020 on 24 March 2020.: General Motors, Diageo, First Direct, Primark, itsu, giffgaff, FCO, US State Department, DMG, News UK, Financial Times, Nuon Energy, Samsung, NATO, Thames Water, Quorn, Freeview, Welsh Water, WSJ, Jersey Finance, JTI, Quilliam and Welsh Government.
Families Against Terrorism and ExtremismPR Newswire Verbalisation Expands With Launch of Global Defence and Political Firm News provided by Global Influence, 14 Jul, 2016, 08:00 BST
==People==
===Directors===
: Verbalisation:7 July 2011 - 25 November 2019 - Directors: Sven Hughes, Michael Raimes Jones
: Verbalisation Consultancy: 04 Sep 2019 - 09 Oct 2019 - Directors Sven Hughes, Olga Kurushina
===Staff===
*CEO Alex Van Gestel Nov 2015- Nov 2017 | David Stanhope 'head of the company’s Conflict, Security and Justice arm'The new verbal battlespace where 'weaponised words' and information operations meet, Defence IQ, 02/10/2015.
*Oscar SaundersNot another brother, oscarsaunders.co.uk. Accessed 28 March 2020 | Jennifer HollisNot another brother, jenniferhollis.uk. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 28 March 2020 on 28 March 2020. | Gavin Finney Senior Creative May 2015 – Mar 2016LinkedIn Gavin Finney Retrieved from Archive.today on 28 March 2020.
==Contact==
:Internet Archive holdings of: verbalisation.com 
==Notes==
Verispan

Quintiles Transnational Corp. and McKesson Corporation joined together to create Verispan Quintiles Transnational Corp. About Us Accessed 1st January 2008, which describes itself Verispan About Accessed 1st January 2008 as a 'broad-based service company to meet the vast majority of information and analysis needs' of their clients. Verispan's advertise their clients as including 'virtually all of the Top 50 pharmaceutical companies..., most of the leading biotech and medical/surgical companies, the Food & Drug Administration..., Wall Street, consulting firms and other health care related organizations'. Verispan describe their service as 'leading patient data to target promotion, world-class program execution, and near real-time patient data to assess return on investment, all wrapped with comprehensive contextual audit, profile and other services to provide clients with the true measure of healthcare'.
==References==
Category:Pharmaceutical Industry
Category:Biotech Industry
Category:Health
Category:Food and Agriculture Industry
Category:GM
Veritas Capital

Veritas Capital according to the New York Times is "by one measure the second-largest military contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, after KBR". It owns several military contracting companies, including DynCorp International.
==Principals==
*Robert B. McKeon - President
*Barry R. McCaffrey - member advisory council
==Related Articles==
*David Barstow, One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex, New York Times, 3 December 2008
Vernon Coaker

Vernon Coaker has been the Labour Party MP for Gedling since 1997. 
Coaker was appointed shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland in 1997.Vernon Coaker, www.parliament.uk, 24 August 2013.
Following the September 2015 Labour leadership election, Coaker resumed the role of shadow Northern Ireland secretary which he had served under Ed Milliband, moving on from shadow defence minister. Who's who in Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet BBC News, Accessed 16 September 2015 
 
==Contributions and secondments==
Between April 2014 and April 2015, 13 members of the Labour Party received a total of £597,404 in secondments from the Big Four accountancy firms (PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst and Young). During this time Coaker received a secondment worth £13,039 from KPMG. Carlos Martin Tornero Labour to win, if Big Four donation patterns become self-fulfilling prophecy The Accountant, 5 May 2015, accessed 18 May 2015.
==Affiliations==
*Labour Friends of Israel - in January 2014 Coaker took part in an MPs' factfinding visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories with defence and security focus. ref needed here too 
==Notes==
Coaker, VernonCoaker, Vernon Coaker, Vernon
Coaker, VernonCoaker, Vernon
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. is Senior Managing Director of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, New York, and Senior Counsel in the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, in Washington, DC.Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq., Howard University, accessed 4 June 2013.
Jordan was chairman of the Clinton Presidential Transition Team, and is a past President of the National Urban League and former Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund.Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq., Howard University, accessed 4 June 2013.
==Affiliations==
*American Express Company - (Senior Advisor)
*Asbury Automotive Group- Director
*Lazard Ltd - Director 
*Xerox Corporation - Director
*Barrick Gold - International Advisory Board.
*American Bar Association - Member.
*National Bar Association - Member.
*Council on Foreign Relations - Member.
*Bilderberg
*Economic Club of Washington, D.C. - Past President.
==External resources==
*NameBase JORDAN VERNON E JR
==Notes==
Jordan, Vernon
Jordan, Vernon
Vernon Ellis

Vernon Ellis is the chair of the British Council.Vernon Ellis, British Council, accessed 25 July 2010.
==Education==
Ellis graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.Vernon Ellis, Bridges Ventures, accessed 25 July 2010.
==Accenture==
Ellis joined Accenture in 1969. In 1989 he became Managing Partner for Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.Vernon Ellis, Bridges Ventures, accessed 25 July 2010. From 2001 to the end of 2007 he was the firm's International Chairman. He also led the firm’s participation in the World Economic Forum and was the UK private sector representative at the G8 Digital Opportunities Task Force. At the beginning of 2008 he became Senior Adviser at Accenture.Vernon Ellis, British Council, accessed 25 July 2010.
==Other activities==
Ellis has been Chairman of the Board of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, and a member of Advisory Councils or Boards for the Centre for European Reform, IMD, INSEAD, and the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He was Deputy Chairman of the Mayor of Seoul's International Business Advisory Council from 2004-2006. He was on the Boards of Enablis and WorldLinks."Vernon Ellis", in "Opening a World of Learning", World Links report, undated, accessed October 2008 He is chairman of Martin Randall Travel.Vernon Ellis, British Council, accessed 25 July 2010.
Ellis is also Chairman of ENO, the Classical Opera Company and the Sacconi Trust, and is a trustee of the Royal College of Music, the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the Florestan Trust. He is international chairman of Mission, Models and Money. His wife is a trustee of British Youth Opera.Vernon Ellis, Artistic inspiration, Philanthopy UK, March 2007,accessed 25 July 2010.
==References==
Ellis, Vernon[[Ellis, Vernon
Vernon Gibson

Professor Vernon Gibson was chief scientific adviser at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) from 2012 until June 2016. In this role, he was responsible for ownership of the MOD's science and technology programme, advising ministers and senior officials on science and engineering matters, and working with the wider community of chief scientific advisers on cross-departmental matters. Professor Vernon Gibson, GOV.uk, accessed 19 October 2016.
==Background==
Gibson received his Bachelors degree in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield, followed by a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Following two years as a NATO post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology he returned to the UK to a lectureship at Durham University and was promoted directly to a full Professorship there in 1992.
In 1995 he moved to Imperial College London where he held the Sir Edward Frankland Chair of Inorganic Chemistry. He has received numerous national and international awards and was elected to the Royal Society in 2004.
Before joining MOD, Gibson held the post of Chief Chemist at BP. In this role, he provided leadership to BP’s large technology community and advice to the company on science and technology matters. His remit spanned oil and gas exploration and production, downstream refining and petrochemicals, and the company’s alternative energy businesses. An important part of his role was to maintain connections with world class research through major academic and industrial partners across the globe. 
===ACOBA appointments===
In July 2016, Gibson sought advice from the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) on taking up two separate appointments. The first was as a paid member of the Technology Advisory Council at BP PLC. The committee found that over his time in service he had not been responsible for awarding or advising on any contracts between the firm and the MOD. ACOBA also took note that the role would see him returning to the company he worked for before taking up the MOD post. The second was as an unpaid non-residential Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The committee found that the position would not require Gibson to advise on matters relating to defence or to have any dealings with government. ACOBA approved both appointments in the same month, on condition he would not personally lobby government on behalf of his employers and he not draw on any privileged government information in those roles; he took up the appointments in October 2016.
In September 2016, Gibson sought further advice on taking up a paid, part-time position at the University of Sheffield. The committee found he had no dealings with the University during his time in service, and his appointment was approved in the same condition as his previous ones. He took up the role in October 2016. Summary of business appointments applications - Professor Vernon Gibson, GOV.uk, 12 October 2016, accessed 19 October 2016.
==Affiliations==
*Member of the Defence Council
*Member of the Investment Approvals Committee
*Deputy chair of the Defence Research and Development Board.
==Notes==
Gibson, Vernon
Vernon Hill

Vernon Hill is an American businessman who founded Metro Bank in the UK and Commerce Bank in the US.
==Career==
In 1973 with a $1.5 million investment, Hill launched Commerce Bank in New Jersey. Hill developed a clear business style based on McDonalds and other fast food outlets where the inside of each business looked the same and all transactions were completed quickly.
In 2007 Hill ran into trouble and regulators banned Commerce from opening new branches unless Hill resigned. 
In mid 2008 Hill moved to Britain and had commitments for around $150 million in startup capital to launch Metro Bank. However, due to the collapse of the Lehman Brothers most of the money disappeared and Hill was forced to invest $30 million of his own funds. In February 2010 the British regulators granted Metro a licence to open. Shawn Tully Vernon Hill is the best damn banker alive (Just ask him) Fortune, 15 September 2010, accessed 2 April 2015.
==Letter to the Telegraph==
On 1 April 2015 Hill was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 2 April 2015.
==Affiliations==
*Part owner of 36 Burger King restaurants
*Stake in Site Development Inc
==Notes==
Hill, Vernon
Vernon Keenan

Vernon Keenan is the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI)Frank Rotondo, GBI Director Vernon Keenan Named Outstanding Police Chief of the Year, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, 16-July-2008, Accessed 11-September-2009. Keenan is part of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange and been a regular visitor to the Interdisciplinary Center HerzliyaSeventh International Conference: Terrorism's Global Impact: Toward a Balance Between Fighting Terror and Safeguarding Civil Liberties, Retrieved from the ICT website on 7 September 2009 and uploaded on Spinprofiles as the link is not retrievable.
==Israeli Connections==
On his first visit to Israel in 1993 Keenan observed that a terrorism expert warned the Americans in that it was only a matter of time until radical Muslims struck hard in the United States. "The terrorism expert told us we wouldn't be able to fully appreciate all he was talking about because we had not been through an attack in the United States. ... It was very true. I've thought about that briefing many times since the 9/11 attacks"Michael Jacobs, COVER: A Thicker Blue Line, The Atlanta Jewish Times Online, 31-August-2009. 
==Career History==
Keenan graduated from Valdosta State University and the Law Enforcement Command College in Columbus, where he earned his Masters Degree in Public Administration. He began his career with DeKalb County Police Department in 1972. In 1973, he graduated from the GBI Basic Agent Class.
Keenan was instrumental in the publication of “A Law Enforcement Officer’s Guide to Open Records in Georgia.” Keenan has served on the Advisory Board for the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange Program since 2002. Since its inception in 2004, Keenan has been instrumental in the formation of the Georgia Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program. 
As head of the GBI, Director Keenan oversees Georgia’s criminal investigative agency with 806 employees and a 2007 fiscal year budget of $84.5 million in state and federal funds. In 2004 during the G-8 Summit at Sea Island, Keenan was a member of the State Homeland Security Central Command responsible for protection of public safety, facilitation of law enforcement and coordination of state personnel. Keenan led the formation of the Georgia Terrorism Intelligence Project (GTIP). In 2004, the GBI was given the funding to develop and implement a state-wide multi-agency anti-terrorism programFrank Rotondo, GBI Director Vernon Keenan Named Outstanding Police Chief of the Year, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, 16-July-2008, Accessed 11-September-2009.
==Affiliations==
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya | Georgia Terrorism Intelligence Project | Georgia Bureau of Investigation | World Summit on Counter-Terrorism | International Institute for Counter-Terrorism | Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange
==Notes==
Vernon Kell

Sir Vernon George Waldegrave Kell, KCMG (21 November, 1873 – 27 March, 1942) was the founder and first director general (DG) of the British Security Service, otherwise known as MI5.
Kell was the son of Major Waldegrave Kell (38th Regt) and his wife, Georgiana Augusta Konarska. She was daughter of a Polish emigré, Aleksander Konarski, a surgeon with the 1st Podhalian Rifle Regiment who had fought in the November Uprising and had been awarded the V.M. (Gold, 4th class) and his English wife. 
No doubt Kell learned Polish from his mother. Kell's first cousin Valentine MacSwiney was also a linguist speaking eleven European languages. Valentine (a Papal diplomat & marquis) was arrested during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, but was released the following day; Kell had had his Irish Catholic cousin under surveillance and knew he was not associated with the rebels.
A graduate from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Kell fought in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. He was in the Staffordshire Regt. As he could speak German, Italian, French and Polish with equal facility, he served and studied in China and Russia and subsequently learned to speak their respective languages. 
While he served as an intelligence staff in Tientsin, he was also the foreign correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.
From 1902 to 1906 Kell was head of the German section of the War Office, eventually rising to the rank of staff captain.
In 1909, Kell co-founded the Secret Service Bureau, the first incarnation of the Security Service. He led the dismantling of the German spy network in Britain on the outbreak of the First World War. In 1931, he became the first Director General of the Security Service. By 1939 he had been promoted to the rank of Major-General.Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 8 July 2009.
Kell was removed from office on the orders of the new Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in June 1940.Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 8 July 2009. Kell was knighted for his services (KCMG) shortly before his death.
==See also==
*Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming
*Reginald Hall
*Sidney Reilly
*Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart
*William Melville
==External Resources==
*NameBase: KELL VERNON
==Notes==
Kell, VernonKell, Vernon