Randa Haines

I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.