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Karl West

Senior Consultant, Media Content

Karl West

Karl West is a seasoned freelance journalist with more than 25 years of experience in the media sector. This included several years as senior business correspondent at The Sunday Times, where he mainly wrote about the transport, defence and UK manufacturing industries.

Karl also has a podcast – The All Points West Podcast – that interviews the founders, CEOs and Chairs of small and medium sized UK companies. His work for the IoD includes researching and writing reports for the Policy Team on subjects as diverse as the Post Office scandal, the UK Devolved Nations, Artificial Intelligence and ESG, plus regular jargon-busting ‘governance explainers’.

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