Nicola is Professor of Social Policy & Race at King’s College London and Distinguished Fellow, Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. She is interested in how we think about and understand racism as a basis for fostering meaningful change. Nicola is also founder and Director of NIANRO Consulting a boutique research company specialising […]

Brenda devoted much of her long and successful career in capital markets, investment and relationship banking to championing equity in the workplace. As a global chair of the 30% Club, a Partner in PwC UK within the people consulting practice, and an advisor to the UK Government’s Hampton-Alexander Review, Brenda’s work had an enormous impact […]

Tunji is a Senior Director at LinkedIn leading the UK and Ireland Marketing Solutions team. He has previously held senior leadership positions at PwC and Cisco. He currently serves as a Senior Independent Director at England Athletics, a patron of the autism charity CASPA, trustee at the Personal Best Foundation and a BTEC Ambassador for […]

Robert has been a passionate supporter of gender equality throughout his 40 plus year consulting career. He helped set up the women’s network in Mercer UK and was the first man to join the Board of leading global women’s network, PWN Global. He has mentored and sponsored many women globally and is mentored himself by […]

Athena Lamnisos is a senior third sector leader and is currently CEO of leading women’s health charity, The Eve Appeal which is focused on the five gynaecological cancers and prevention. Athena is experienced at forging partnerships between private, public and not for profit sectors. She has a track record of directing successful change programmes in […]

Kelly Simmons OBE took up the role of Director of the Women’s Professional Game in September 2018 to help transform professional women’s football in England. She has developed the FA Women’s Professional Game Strategy to drive the growth of all aspects of The Barclays Women’s Super League and Barclays Women’s Championship. She was previously The […]

Former child genocide survivor Taban Shoresh is founder and CEO of the Lotus Flower, which supports conflict survivors in Kurdistan, northern Iraq. To date, the charity has reached more than 60,000 vulnerable women, girls and community members at its centres through educational classes, livelihoods and skills training, mental health support, awareness of women’s rights and […]

Christina Blacklaws is a lawyer committed to social justice and women’s empowerment. As President of the Law Society of England and Wales, she led the largest ever global research and campaign in women in leadership in law. This work engaged tens of thousands of lawyers as activists for women’s equity and inclusion and resulted in […]

Amy leads the UK & Ireland Insight Division of Kantar, the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. A graduate from the London School of Economics, her interest in numbers and human behaviour led her into an insight career where she enjoys helping brands interpret people’s actions and leveraging that for growth. She has won […]

Asif is the Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer for Warner Bros. Discovery, he was previously the Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at adidas and has a long and rich career in the diversity and inclusion space with senior executive roles at The Telegraph Media Group, EY Financial Services and the City of London […]

Jaspreet Kaur, also known by her online handle ‘Behind the Netra’ is an award-winning spoken word artist, history teacher and writer from London. She has spent the last decade using activism, writing and teaching to tackle gender issues, taboo subjects and encouraging positive social change in both the Asian community and wider society. Her work tackles […]

Rupal Kantaria is a Partner based in London and head of the Oliver Wyman Forum UK, a platform for engaging key business, public policy and societal leaders to act on shared challenges via thought leadership, convening and active pilots. She has almost two decades of experience in consulting –working in particular across financial services and […]