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Profile: Carolyn McCall

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14/05/2016

Carolyn McCall

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Mark Coles profiles easyJet's high-flying CEO, Dame Carolyn McCall.

Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. Mark Coles profiles easyJet CEO Carolyn McCall in the week that the orange airline has gone into the red.

Chief executive of Easyjet, Dame Carolyn McCall, is one of the UK's most successful businesswomen. Initially seen as an outsider, she has won over staff and investors, piloting the airline into the FTSE 100.

Over the past three decades, she's also run the Guardian Media Group, and brought her wisdom to the boardrooms of Lloyds TSB, Tesco, Burberry and New Look. Last year she was voted Britain's most admired business leader.

An only child, Dame Carolyn was brought up in Bangalore and Singapore, before moving to boarding school in Derbyshire, and later meeting her husband at Kent University.

Mark Coles finds out more about this high flyer from her school roommate, former colleagues Alan Rusbridger and Sir Michael Rake, and Easyjet pilot Captain Angus Hogg.

Presenter: Mark Coles
Producers: Ruth Alexander and Sarah Shebbeare.

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