Group Chief Executive

Halma Plc

Andrew is Group Chief Executive of Halma, the FTSE 100 global group of life saving technology companies. Halma is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture throughout the Group and has been a member of the 30% Club since 2017. Andrew’s work to improve the gender balance in leadership positions at Halma has resulted in more diversity at all levels of the organisation. As of March 2022, Halma’s plc Board and Executive Board were 50% and 60% women, including two of the three Sector Chief Executives who lead its portfolio of companies. Female representation on all Halma company boards was 26%, an increase from 18% in 2020, and targeted to be 40%+ by 2024 supported by a range of initiatives, including Halma’s graduate programme which is 55% female. As Halma’s CEO Andrew is personally committed to ensuring that this progress lasts and to build further on other dimensions of diversity.

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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

State Street Corporation

Under Ron's leadership, State Street has continually focused on increasing female leadership in the companies in which it invests, including by launching the Fearless Girl initiative, which helped spur female corporate board member appointments. Ron also introduced STT company-wide diversity goals that are tied to executive compensation, diverse talent slates for all open positions, and introduced State Street’s “10 Actions Against Racism and Inequality,” the firm’s commitment to taking strategic action in the IDE space. In 2021, Ron added two women to State Street’s Management Committee, bringing female representation to 28%, with 36% of promotions at Managing Director level and above being women. State Street has been featured on Working Mother’s 100 Best Companies and Best Companies for Dads, and the Diversity Best Practices Inclusion Index. For seven consecutive years the firm has earned a 100% on the HRC Equality Index.

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CEO, Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking and CEO, Europe & Americas

Standard Chartered

As Global D&I Council Chair for Standard Chartered, Simon has accelerated the pace of change, resulting in Inclusive Leadership workshops for over 16,000 leaders and in CEOs taking more accountability for the delivery of local D&I plans and objectives. Simon has overseen the introduction of a global Fair Pay Charter; the disclosure of the Gender Pay Gap in key markets; and the implementation of safety and security initiatives in 21 markets to support female colleagues living and working in countries with a history of heightened violence. He recently oversaw the launch of landmark research on menopause in the workplace, in collaboration with the Financial Services Skills Commission. Simon’s approach has resulted in positive metrics including female representation in senior roles, which increased from 27.7% in 2018 to 31.19% today, and employee inclusion index scores, up from 78% in 2019 to 80.65% in 2021.

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Chief Executive Officer

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

As CEO of BCG, Christoph has made diversity, equity & inclusion a key priority for the firm. Women hold several critical leadership positions across global functions and regions – in particular leading BCG’s businesses in some of the world’s largest economies: the United States, United Kingdom, and China. Christoph has set clear goals related to the hiring, promotion, and retention of women, working closely with leaders and teams to advance this critical agenda. The firm has seen a rise in the percentage of women new joiners globally, from 44% in 2020 to 48% in 2021. BCG also continues to uphold equal retention rates for women and men at all levels, with the aim to further increase women representation. Christoph is known for creating a truly inclusive workplace, emphasizing widespread awareness through regular trainings for all 26,000+ BCGers to ensure all live up to the firm’s DE&I ambitions and business ethics.

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Group CEO

ISS

Jacob has encouraged all 30 countries in which ISS operates, to sign the UN charter of Women Empowerment Principles, strengthening ISS’s commitment to advance gender equality. He set a new target to reach at least 40% of gender balance within all corporate leadership levels by 2025 – a target already reached at the Board of Directors. Over the last 12 months, Jacob successfully implemented leadership programmes to attract and develop female talent, with the number of women at Executive Group Management (EGM) level increasing from one to four. In addition, the Global Management Trainees are gender balanced, ensuring a strong pipeline of future leadership talent. Jacob, as the Gender Balance Employee Resource Group sponsor, empowers the team to drive continued awareness and initiatives globally, and explore global partnerships to drive further action. Jacob ensures that DEI is high on the EGM agenda and a new strategy, policies and frameworks ensure a fairer, more equitable workplace. Outside the organisation, Jacob has joined the Danish Diversity Council. Alongside other prominent CEOs, Jacob will host the council focussing on DEI initiatives and future challenges.

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CEO

Man Group

As CEO of Man Group, Luke oversees the firm’s DE&I strategy alongside the Group COO and General Counsel. Together they re-launched Drive, the internal DE&I network, which today is comprised of the gender balance network Women at Man alongside several others. Luke also oversees the Senior Executive Committee, who are responsible for championing DE&I at the firm and leading Drive’s employee networks. Luke is the executive sponsor of Man Group's commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, and the firm has seen the proportion of women in senior roles increase from 16% in 2016 to 27% in 2022, which is aligned with efforts to support and develop women within the firm. The firm’s consistent efforts to support and develop women have now led to increased targets to reach 30% female representation in senior roles by 2024, whilst the board achieved gender parity in 2020.

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Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

London Stock Exchange Group

David has set a clear vision for a diverse culture where inclusion is a constant practice. He has established priorities against which to measure the Group’s progress globally; LSEG employs 23,000 people, more than half of whom are based in Asia Pacific. In 2022, one of LSEG’s strategic objectives is to ‘foster a diverse, inclusive culture’, a goal embedded throughout the organisation. David has introduced senior leadership gender and race/ethnicity targets aiming to achieve 40% women in senior leadership roles by the end of 2022, 20% underrepresented groups in senior leadership roles by the end of 2023 and 25% by the end of 2025. With great pride, LSEG was shortlisted for the "Company of the Year" category at the British Diversity Awards in 2022 and awarded “Large Brand of the Year” in the Bank of London Rainbow Honours 2022. LSEG continues to build momentum in advancing its diversity, inclusion, and belonging agenda.

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CEO AXA UK and Ireland

AXA

Claudio has placed gender equality as a key, strategic priority for AXA UK&I, and his actions have resulted in AXA being listed as a coveted 2021 and 2022 Times Top 50 Employer for Women and helped to significantly reduce the gender seniority gap. Under Claudio’s leadership AXA UK&I have improved the female representation on the executive committee from 19% in 2018 to 44% in 2022. Claudio has also improved women in executive roles from 32% in 2020 to 40% in 2022. Claudio regularly participates in D&I initiatives, during 2022 these have included external panel discussion to celebrate International Women’s Day with Liverpool Football Club and an internal virtual speed mentoring event hosted by our network. Claudio also uses his LinkedIn platform to celebrate international women’s day through Break the Bias post and sharing recent conversations he had with participants in the AXA Global IWD mentoring initiative. Claudio is also an active participant of the Swiss Embassy’s YPG Mentoring Programme which sees Claudio mentor and coach future generations of female business leaders

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Chief Executive

Diageo

Since becoming Diageo’s Chief Executive in 2013, Ivan has championed Inclusion and Diversity across the whole of the organisation, as well as the wider drinks and hospitality industry. As well as ambitious 2030 goals to increase the representation of women in Diageo leadership roles and the percentage of suppliers from female and minority-owned businesses, Diageo is amongst the first companies to have created a clear link and direct accountability for ESG commitments with its senior management community, meaning that ever senior leader is incentivised to make progress on this agenda. This year the firm has continued to empower women and to lean into often taboo subjects: its Global Menopause Guidelines are now live in over 40 countries and it introduced Domestic and Family Abuse Guidelines to foster a working environment that promotes safety and respect.

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CEO

WPP

As CEO of WPP, Mark appointed a new Chief People Officer and a Global Head of Culture, to continue to improve diversity and build an open and inclusive culture at the firm. Women now make up 51% of senior managers and 40% at the most senior executive level. Last year, WPP launched an updated online ethics training, including unconscious bias modules which are mandatory for all staff, and a new Conscious Inclusion training program to embed DE&I into hiring processes, performance management systems and leadership development. For the third year running the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index has listed WPP, and last year Forbes ranked the company sixteenth in its Top 20 Best Employers for Women List. In 2020, of a total $94 million had been spent by the firm on diverse suppliers, 64% of which went to women-owned business enterprises and 14% to minority women-owned business enterprises.

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President and Chief Financial Officer

Dow

As President and Chief Financial Officer, Howard is a vocal advocate for a safe, inclusive and supportive workplace for all employees. He has served as Executive Sponsor for the Women’s Inclusion Network ERG since 2017, supporting over 9,000 participants through programs such as EY’s POWER UP, Sponsor to Success, and Catalyst MARC Workshops. He has a track record of enforcing expectations for recruiting gender-diverse talent across all levels, including transparently posting all roles internally, and he has cultivated a strong female talent pipeline across the organization by providing external coaches for female employees globally. As Executive Sponsor of the Total Rewards Assessment program, Howard has reinforced Dow’s commitment to offer equitable opportunities by establishing a global minimum standard of 16 weeks paid time off for new parents – birthing, non-birthing and adoptive, regardless of gender.

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SVP, Head of S&P Market Intelligence Software Solutions

S&P Global

Andrew Eisen is the head of S&P Global Market Intelligence Software Solutions business, which provides industry leading solutions across enterprise data management, syndication, investment management and asset servicing. Andrew and the leadership team launched three new Women’s Career Development and Retention programs which saw hundreds of women enroll for mentoring, sponsoring, and coaching. In addition to directly mentoring 10 women, Andrew has also placed a focus on building recognition of female members of his team and encouraging them to take on a more public persona. In 2021-22, IHS Markit (now S&P Global) has seen a significant increase in female promotions at the VP level and SVP level. 2022 is also seeing an increase in female hires, specifically in the intern program that reached an all-time high of female representation. These outcomes have received public recognition from Mogul Top 100 Workplaces, the Rewards & Benefits Association and Forbes’ list of America's Best Employers for Women.

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Chief Sales Officer

HubSpot

Christian Kinnear is the Chief Sales Officer of HubSpot, where he leads the company’s global sales strategy and organization across North America, Latin America, EMEA and JAPAC. Since joining HubSpot in 2016, under his leadership, HubSpot expanded its footprint with global operations in Ireland, Germany, France, UK, Spain and the Netherlands. Christian has also been instrumental in building HubSpot’s award-winning culture, championing various global Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging efforts

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Chief Operating Officer, Investment Solutions & Services

Fidelity International

As the Accountable Executive for the UK Women in Finance Charter, Malcolm supervises the company’s progress toward achieving gender balance targets: going from 29.4% women in senior roles and 53% women in the overall workforce in April 2022 to 27% and 52% respectively in April 2021. He is also Chair of the COO ISS D&I Working group - championing all aspects of diversity within his business area and encouraging leaders to take accountability and ownership towards improving diversity and inclusion. Malcolm is actively engaged with the Women in Finance Charter Blueprint creation and communication as well as a member of the Taskforce. Blueprint is an industry-first blueprint to accelerate gender diversity across financial services. He is an active mentor. Additionally, he was a keynote speaker for Fidelity's internal celebration event for featuring on The Times Top 50 Employers for Women List 2022.

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Chief Executive

KPMG UK

Since being elected as Chief Executive of KPMG in April 2021, Jon has put Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (IDE) at the heart of his strategy. He is responsible for the firm's progress against IDE targets, as well as pay gaps and action plans, and he ensures that these are regularly discussed and challenged by the Executive Committee in order to drive action and progress. He also sets the tone for all people processes, making sure that colleagues apply a gender and ethnicity lens to achieve the right outcomes and drive sustainable change. In his previous role as the Head of Audit, Jon developed IDE goals for all Audit Partners and Directors, and initiated IDE awareness sessions for all 7,000 of Audit’s employees. Since 2017 Jon has been a member of the KPMG Inclusive Leadership Board, which serves to challenge the firm on progress and bring in external views regarding best practice.

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CEO, RES Americas

RES (Renewable Energy Systems)

John believes all women are supported in the work environment, and one of the first things he did as CEO of the Americas was to sign RES up to the Business Coalition for the Equality Act. He has supported the LGBT+ network in implementing the gender affirmation policy and creating a workplace ally guidance document. On his leadership team, he has increased diversity from one female to three within his first nine months of work. This Pride Month, the company’s Americas head office is attending Denver Pride for the first time and has arranged for trans speakers in the UK and Australian head office. Globally the firm is also reviewing its HR processes, including recruitment and career progression, to ensure there are no barriers to advancement for those from underrepresented groups, including women and non-binary people. John advocates for DEI by joining panels and organizations and by speaking publicly about DEI to try and influence everyone to do more.

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Chief Executive Officer US and Americas

HSBC

Michael is an advocate and Sponsor for all HSBC ERGs, including Balance (gender equity). Michael is supports the Balance ERG by sponsoring a partnership with the United Nations. This partnership brings together an intimate group of the most ambitious leaders from across government and institutions who will spearhead transformative change across countries, companies, and communities, inspiring many others to follow suit and demonstrate the value of allyship. The Inclusion & Culture Team, newly formed under Michael Roberts in 2020, supports, develops, and implements programs and processes to progress the US Inclusion and Culture strategy. As a result, in 2021, an increase was achieved in women's representation in Senior Management. In November 2021, two women were appointed to the HNAH, HUSI, and HBUS Board of Directors, moving the profile of women to 36.4% of the Board.

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Managing Partner for Europe

Oliver Wyman

First and foremost, Christian is a father. He has two young children and took significant time out of his career after each birth to enable his wife return to full-time work. As Managing Partner for Europe, Christian is the most senior role-model for other men in the region. By talking openly about his parental leave he has reduced the stigma around it. As a result, many more men now take longer breaks. Following his parental leave, Christian was one of the architects of a revised parental leave program, which for the UK now includes 26 weeks of equal parental leave. Fathers taking on greater childcare responsibilities will help address some of the inequities women experience in the workplace, something Christian is cognizant of as Global Sponsor of the employee group Women at Oliver Wyman. Christian also personally oversees all efforts to meet the firm’s diversity targets in Europe.

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Co-Head and Chief Investment Officer for Multi-Asset Strategies & Solutions

BlackRock

Pierre is a senior co-sponsor of BlackRock’s "Women in Investment" initiative in EMEA. The initiative looks to nurture and facilitate the development of women within BlackRock's investment teams and attract women's talent to new roles and opportunities. Thanks to the commitment of Pierre and his team, the representation of women within BlackRock's European Investment platform has grown significantly. He is also the senior Sponsor of Big City Bright Future, a program founded by BlackRock in 2015 and was created in partnership with IntoUniversity, a UK charity focused on education, to increase economic mobility and help students from underprivileged backgrounds gain work experience. As a Managing Director, Pierre is actively involved in BlackRock's internal diversity network and is a senior sponsor of landmark industry initiatives fostering social inclusion and gender diversity. Furthermore, he is a mentor and advocates for helping women from all kinds of backgrounds to grow careers in the workplace, especially in financial services.

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Global Chief People Officer

VMLY&R

Ronnie Felder, VMLY&R’s global chief people officer, oversaw the promotion of two women to global executive co-directors of DEI in 2020. The team has since grown to a global roster of 10 women. More recently, Ronnie was a key player in the promotion of three women into executive or leadership roles and hiring of nine more women into leadership roles. Ronnie is also involved in the development of policies and provision of benefits, many of which are vital to employees who identify as women. For example, VMLY&R offers employees 12 weeks of paid parental leave for child birth, adoption, or foster placement, including in the case of surrogacy. VMLY&R also pays up to $8,000 per child in adoption expense reimbursement and offers educational resources to assist with adoption and assisted reproductive technologies. Ronnie is dedicated to ensuring VMLY&R is the best place to work for everyone and committed to elevating as many women as he can into leadership positions within the agency.

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Partner – Chief People Officer UK

KPMG UK

In his role as Chief People Officer at KPMG in the UK, Kevin has executive accountability for the firm’s Inclusion, Diversity and Equity strategy and policies, and has set clear expectations about the proportionality of all promotions, and the outcomes of performance reviews and reward processes. Since joining he has initiated a review to ensure that annual IDE targets and the associated plans are sufficiently stretching, and that KPMG in the UK are on target to achieve their publicly quoted gender targets. As well as requesting the organisation develop more ambitious gender targets that go beyond current 2022 goals, Kevin has also required a IDE review of all new policies being implemented as part of the transition to hybrid working, to ensure there will be no adverse gender impact. He has been a member of the KPMG Inclusive Leadership Board since starting at the firm, and along with the CEO and Chair sets the agenda for this group of external advisers.

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CEO HSBC Mexico

HSBC

Jorge promotes gender equality within HSBC Mexico by actively participating in the ERG Balance activities. He signed the WEP's from UN Women to support gender equity actions within the organization and has worked with authorities of the financial system to reinforce gender balance actions. Also, Jorge promotes a DEI agenda with ABM (Mexican Bank Association). This year, under his administration, HSBC Mexico launched "Mujeres al Mundo", an initiative from Argentina focused on products and services for women. As a result, HSBC Mexico has increased the number of women in leadership positions from 22% in 2017, to 30% in 2021, above the regional goal and 13% above the national average. In addition, women in succession plans of the Executive Committee increased from 68 to 92% in the last five years. Before working at HSBC, Jorge participated in launching Women in Wall Street in NY.

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Group Head of Talent

London Stock Exchange Group

Jig leads the global Talent and DEI Function and sets the DEI strategy, owning the four priorities around which the strategy is based: create a culture that fosters belonging, build a diverse leadership team, accelerate the progression of underrepresented talent, particularly ethnically diverse women, and shape inclusion in our industry. As Group Head of Talent, he is heavily involved and ultimately responsible for ensuring the hiring of diverse talent across the company. Jig also ensures that every leader has an objective centred on DEI in their performance to help drive the representation of senior women. He created a new leadership development strategy, with inclusive leadership at its core, to support the career development of women company-wide. In addition, he also initiated the Belonging & Inclusion index from LSEG engagement surveys and an Employee policy review to mitigate bias and psychological safety.

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President and Head of Investment Services

State Street Corporation

From 2017 - 2021, Lou served as the Executive Sponsor of State Street's Professional Women's Network (PWN), an Employee Resource Group providing professional development opportunities for women across the company. He regularly encourages colleagues and peers to participate in the network’s events, as he strongly believes that networking and conversations are critical to help to foster a strong pipeline of female talent. As well as launching and continuing to lead the PWN's Global Advisory Board, which advises on policies that drive diverse hiring and promotional practices, Lou has made a number of female leadership appointments at the Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President levels. In 2021, the firm reached 32.4% female representation across leadership roles, and approximately 36.4% of promotions at Managing Director level and above were women. PWN initiatives Lou has led have included authoring a blog on “Allyship and Equal Pay Day for Black Women” and hosting an event focused on Women in IT.

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Global Head, Standard Chartered Global Business Services

Standard Chartered Bank

Matthew is actively championing Diversity and Inclusion with a commitment to build a safe and inclusive environment in Standard Chartered Bank. Through the use of data and better understanding of unconscious bias, he introduced new perspectives that were effective in hiring more women across the board. Matthew worked tirelessly to advance representation of women leadership across various committees – specifically at the Board Director level, women representation went up to 50% from 20% and in the Executive Committees to 25%. He lobbied to appoint 24 women leaders to local Leadership Councils. Matthew has been a personal mentor for women colleagues across different levels of seniority since 2015. He is an active sponsor of IGNITE, a coaching programme for junior women talents. As part of “SheReturns” initiative, Matthew was instrumental in the collaboration between the Bank, government agencies and NGOs to empower women who wish to resume work after a career break.

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Vice President, Global Head of Business Service Centre

InterContinental Hotel Group - IHG

A natural approachable and inclusive leader, Greg has worked and collaborated with HR and Talent acquisition partners to create a more balanced gender ratio of workers in India’s Global Service Centre employees to 48% male: 52% female – spearheading and bringing to life IHG’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion agenda in India, championing a diverse culture where everyone can thrive.He’s also actively creating career opportunities for women to move into roles of increasing responsibility, and believes that investing in women's talent and having diverse leadership and development initiatives is pivotal to the hospitality industry. For a long time Greg has supported organizations such as Jack and Jill (formed during the Great Depression by African American mothers) and 100 Black Men of America (a mentoring organization changing the lives of children through education) which has influenced his drive to make positive and inclusive cultural changes. For example, he recently hosted gender/transgender equality engagement sessions in the office featuring Kalki Subramaniam, an Indian transgender speaker.

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Group Managing Director

LexisNexis Risk Solutions (RELX)

The third year on the HERoes role model list, Dean passionately believes that diversity is the best way for a business to succeed, as the most effective, inclusive cultures bring a depth of background, thought and experiences leading to innovation and the best business decisions. All D&I targets are published, and metrics have improved significantly during his tenure at LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group and in the businesses he leads. Dean is an executive supporter of the company’s Employee Resource Groups and sponsor of the Female Ignite and Accelerate program, an initiative where he mentors and supports several female colleagues. A strong ally, Dean regularly speaks advocating for diversity and sits on numerous internal and external panels for events such as International Women’s Day, and arranged the company’s first external D&I forum in the Energy and Petrochemical industry. Dean is also a trustee of a charity which commissions research measuring progress and providing case studies of best practices for inclusion and equality.

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Senior Managing Director, Cloud First Lead, Advanced Centers in India, Accenture

Accenture

As the Cloud First Lead at ATCI, Ajoy is committed to helping women achieve their full potential by conceptualizing, sponsoring, and driving programs for maximum impact. Previously, as the lead for the largest ATCI market, Ajoy drove the diversity ratio to 48.3% (2% above ATCI average) and it further increased to 50% in 2022. His notable contribution as a program sponsor sees Ajoy conceptualize the Cloud Career program to help women technologists transform their careers and create the Cloud X Hackathon event. With over 7,000 participants, 4,000 entries, and 136+ prototypes, the event generated ideas for an Accessible & Inclusive Environment. In addition, Ajoy has been building tech expertise with the Go-Higher hackathon, which has helped 500+ women at AM level and above build a brand of knowledge through hands-on cloud learning and an innovation contest. Furthermore, he has enabled PwDs – a Sign language training for 190 people, of which 126 are now certified, and the #Horizon>Together mentoring program for PwDs.

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Managing Director & Partner

Boston Consulting Group

Naoto is Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group and has been responsible for hiring women talent for the Japan office. He has conducted several events for women to expand the candidate pool and join BCG to increase gender balance within the firm. Naoto is a core member of BCG's Financial Institutions, People, and Organization practices. He has worked closely with clients, mainly in financial services, and much of his work involves development of corporate and business strategies, transformation, group management, digital transformation, and post-merger integration.

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Senior Managing Director - Resources Industries US South

Accenture

For Omar, DEI is at the heart of everything he does and is crucial for the company's success. In early 2021, he shaped and implemented the "New Business DEI Initiative" that reviews the gender and ethnic diversity of team structures in proposed work to embed DEI into the fabric of the business he leads. The initiative is increasing opportunities for the firm’s diverse workforce, helping them to progress with their career. Since the initiative began, 242 programs have been reviewed, triggering 46 deep dives with leaders to either re-shape the teams immediately or identify actions to correct them in the immediate future. Additionally, he made sure that this initiative became a pre-requisite to any new business being discussed for approval and a mandatory approval step in the management process. Omar also actively mentors and sponsors women at all levels in his business and across Accenture, formally and informally, to grow their careers.

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Partner, Digital Practice

Oliver Wyman

Since the start of 2022, Julian has sponsored an initiative to certify Oliver Wyman Australia as a Family Inclusive Workplace™. In addition, he has sponsored the Australia-wide Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), ensuring that key ERGs are well led and supported, sponsoring cross-ERG initiatives, sharing best practices within groups, and providing visibility of the ERGs to the market senior leadership team. Since 2019, Julian has actively participated as a Women at Oliver Wyman mentor, meeting regularly with junior women consultants to provide them with an additional perspective on their career pathway and growth. Julian’s ambition is to role model inclusion and belonging through everyday actions inside and outside his work. This includes dedicating his time to ensuring that talented colleagues are supported throughout their careers, calling out opportunities for the firm to have a broader range of perspectives, and continuing to actively sponsor the ERGs in Australia, which play an essential role in advocating for and supporting allies across IDB.

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Head of Continental Europe

BlackRock

Christian has consistently advocated for DEI at BlackRock by strengthening regional efforts to mitigate potential bias in the hiring process, identify women's talents and help accelerate their career growth through training, leadership programs, and mentorship. As a member of BlackRock's Global Human Capital Committee, he has been committed to building, developing, and retaining a diverse talent pipeline where women from all backgrounds can build long-term careers fulfilling their potential. His efforts led BlackRock to have 45% of employees across Continental Europe (CE) being women. In addition, Christian prioritized concrete actions to foster women's talents at all levels, including senior management. As a result, he has been able to increase the share of female Country Managers in CE from 37% to 63% over 2 years. He also promotes women leaders in key regional roles, such as the recently appointed COO for Continental Europe.

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Business Development Manager, Banking

Capital International Group

Luke is Group Mental Health Lead at Capital International Group and an Advisory Board Member for The InsideOut Mental Health Charter, which demonstrates leadership engagement in and commitment to the mental health agenda by signing up to several actionable principles. Luke was previously a Company Director at the Isle of Pride and is in charge of organizing the first-ever Isle of Man Pride in history, promoting equality on the Island. Luke is also an ambassador for reboot, which is tackling racial inequality in the workplace. In addition, is a Trustee of InspireUK, a Mental Health Charity to support the overwhelming NHS, and other mental health providers throughout the pandemic. More recently, Luke has supported Unmind with videos to share his wellbeing story, globally.

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UK Commercial Director

CBRE, Global Workplace Solutions

Adam has worked to build the largest, most effective Commercial team in the industry, and his reporting line is now 50/50 male/women. In addition, Adam has been an advocate for change and diversity, making opportunities available for women who may have felt overlooked in the industry. He and his team have made key workplace adaptions to retain and develop returning Mothers within CBRE, who may not have otherwise been able to return due to new family commitments. By developing a program to welcome returning mothers, they have removed the uncertainty and anxiety some women have experienced on MAT leave. This program has also created opportunities for returning Mothers to advance their careers shortly after returning, recognizing their hard work and talent. Furthermore, Adam has been a mentor to and helped develop two women members of the team who have been selected for the firm’s High Potential program, recognizing them in the top 0.001% of CBRE talent.

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Secretary, Board of Directors

YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago

B sits on the Board of Directors of the YWCA, an organization whose entire purpose is to empower women. In 2020, B and their team acquired an additional YWCA location that was in danger of closing, ensuring that women and children in a more suburban area of Chicago had their programs maintained. The YWCA also acquired Streetwise, an organization that allows individuals to become independent workers and develop their own income. With COVID, those individuals were given additional training that supported programs like vaccination registration, food assistance programs, and childcare. The YWCA also stepped up and provided 1000s of meals to Chicagoans who had lost their jobs due to COVID, as well as providing grants to support housing assistance. Outside of the YWCA, B speaks nationally and internationally on gender diversity and women's inclusion including talks with companies such as British Airways, McMaster University, and Crunchyroll so far in 2021.

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Chief Executive Officer

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

As CEO at Alnylam, Yvonne has advocated for the development of measurable benchmarks to hold the company accountable, leading a cross-functional global team to create an action plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion that after establishing a set of guiding principles to inform their work, it led to Alnylam's first-ever Corporate Responsibility Report for 2021. Alnylam is committed to supporting women in the office and at home and creating a work environment that allows staff to balance work and family. Alnylam’s Employee Resource Networks (ERNs) enable global networking, education, advocacy on gender diversity, and promotion of equity and inclusion both internally and externally. In 2021, the company initiated The Athena Project, which focuses on enhancing women's leadership skills at the Director and Senior Director levels. As a board member of the Biomedical Science Careers Program, Yvonne advises and supports initiatives to provide academic opportunities to underrepresented individuals.

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Chief Executive Officer

Fidelity International

As the Chief Executive of Fidelity International and Chair of Fidelity’s Global Operating Committee, Anne is responsible for setting the firm’s corporate and strategic initiatives with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion. Under her leadership, Enhanced Parental Leave Policy was introduced, allowing fathers/secondary carers to take equalised paid leave as mothers/primary carers regardless of sexual orientation or working location. Another policy provided all employees with caring responsibilities with up to five additional days paid leave per calendar year. In 2020, Fidelity achieved their target of 30% women in global senior management roles and set a new target to achieve 35% women in senior roles by December 2023. Under Anne’s leadership, Fidelity also piloted a female leadership program which resulted in a direct increase in female recruitment to senior roles in India, and expanded the firm’s successful New Horizon Returnship Program.

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CEO

Standard Chartered bank (Vietnam) limited

Michele’s organization has 70% female representation with 45% in leadership roles. As chair of the Vietnam’s people’s agenda, the focus on DEI, CSR and New Ways of Working resonates across the organization of 1550 employees that participated in 30 events through the year. More broadly, Michele is also senior Bank sponsor of SCB’s global coaching program – IGNITE that target mid-level females as they progress their leadership journey. The program has coached 650 females (21% of total female population) across 53 countries. For the Vietnamese community SCB’s commitment of female empowerment through various local partners NGO’s, Chambers of Commerce, clients and vendors impact ethnic minority students to executive / entrepreneurs providing thought leadership, toolkits and financial education that augments female participation in society and business. Michele is vocally advocates for all DEI through media and panel discussions and is recognized by Top 100 women in Fintech 2022 and Heroes for the 2nd consecutive year.

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CEO Europe Cluster and Member of Group Executive Committee, Vodafone Group

Vodafone Group plc

Since 2014 Serpil has chaired Vodafone’s global Inclusion for All Committee, which has led a pioneering agenda towards colleagues, customers and communities to improve diversity and inclusion. Serpil has championed the development and rollout of specific apps and services to support women in markets where Vodafone operates – such as the domestic violence app, and drove a target of connecting an additional 20 million women in Africa and Turkey, achieved four years ahead of schedule. In March 2020, Serpil led the development and launch of Vodafone's #ChangeTheFace initiative – a call for action based on ground-breaking research into the lack of racial, gender, age diversity within the technology industry. This evolved into the #ChangeTheFace Alliance where leading global tech companies and organisations collaborate on accelerating diversity and equality in the technology sector. In February 2022, Serpil received the Diversity In Tech Outstanding Achievement Award at Mobile World Congress.

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Global Board Chair

Deloitte

Sharon has spent over three decades on boards and held several executive roles including Deputy CEO of Deloitte North South Europe. She actively promotes and is a sought-after public speaker on diversity and inclusion, mental health/wellbeing, and sustainability. Sharon works with Deloitte’s leadership to set and meet ambitious goals for the representation of women in leadership globally. She is an advocate for allyship and sponsorship in the workplace, for example through her involvement with Deloitte's Women in the Boardroom report. Sharon established Deloitte’s UK diversity networks in 2007, and champions the Deloitte Global Gender Balance network, the Deloitte UK Neurodiversity network, and the Deloitte Global LGBT+ network. She personally sponsors and mentors several people, and actively participates in external forums such as The 30% Club. Sharon regularly meets with groups of women at Deloitte and externally to share her experiences, understand theirs, and encourage them to pursue their career ambitions.

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President

Biogen U.S. Organization

Alisha is responsible for driving growth and people development for Biogen’s U.S. Organization. Leadership to Alisha is about inspiring people to achieve more than they thought possible, embrace change, and seek diverse perspectives to deliver extraordinary results. She created new development programs including "Women on the Rise" and "PROPEL" to accelerate the readiness and visibility of mid-level women and non-white people for senior roles. She also serves as Executive Sponsor for Biogen's Women's Innovation Network, an employee resource group designed to create opportunities for empowerment, advocacy, and advancement. As a board member of The Biogen Foundation, she advocates for supporting access to science education for diverse populations. Her career spans a wide spectrum of leadership roles in strategy, sales, marketing, market access, key account management, advocacy, and medical functions in the U.S. and internationally.

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Chief Executive Officer

Criteo

Megan Clarken is the Chief Executive Officer at Criteo, the global commerce media company. Since joining in 2019, Megan has been instrumental in Criteo’s transformation. Today, the company operates a robust Commerce Media Platform that connects 22,000 marketers and thousands of media owners to deliver richer consumer experiences. Prior to Criteo, Megan served as Chief Commercial Officer of Nielsen Global Media, where she spent over 15 years in a variety of roles leading initiatives that allowed the 90+-year-old company to adapt and prevail in a time of change. Before she was dubbed one of the “most important figures in media” by Adweek, Megan was an Olympic class athlete, using her perseverance and resilience to pivot into a successful career in technology. With vast awards under her belt, Megan continues to be recognized for her ability to transform businesses, while championing underrepresented groups in media.

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Chairwoman & CEO

Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC

Since her appointment as Chairwoman and CEO of EY ShinNihon in 2019, Masami has accelerated her efforts in developing and appointing female talent and fostering a more flexible working environment to further improve gender representation of the firm. One of her key focuses is a hybrid working style, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, aimed at not only promoting work-life balance but also improving productivity and a level of collaboration with firm’s clients. According to a recent EY people survey, the female engagement index was up 16 percentage points from pre-COVID-19 levels in 2019. Masami also demonstrated the power of diversity through leadership. She serves as a member of EY Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness Steering Committee, leveraging the group as a means to advance DE&I efforts worldwide. Externally, Masami focuses on developing female talent and future generations through lectures and mentoring programs for various forums, organizations, and universities.

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CEO

Sodexo Engage

Burcin has been a member of Sodexo's global women advisory board (SoTogether) since 2017. The board sponsors inclusion and gender balance initiatives in the company and partners with local NGOs to advance women's representation. She collaborates with Sodexo leadership teams on HR processes, the embedding of DE&I strategy, and how to improve the measure of KPIs. Burcin is also a mentor to women in Sodexo and across the world, encouraging and advising them on building their careers through Sodexo Together initiatives. Her commitment to gender equality and inclusion has resulted in 59% of the management community and 45% of the senior leadership community in Sodexo being represented by women. Furthermore, in 2022, the company was awarded an Investors in People Gold Award – a recognition that only 17% of firms achieve. Additionally, Burcin is part of several NGOs leading on gender equality and actively mentoring young Turkish women through TurkishWIN, a global community of women with cultural, professional, or family ties to Turkey

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Global Chief Executive Officer

Wunderman Thompson

Mel Edwards is the Global CEO of Wunderman Thompson, a network built to inspire growth for ambitious brands. She oversees 20,000 creatives, data scientists, technologists, and storytellers across 90 markets.A catalyst for business transformation, Mel is recognized as a leader with a proven record of helping marketers anticipate and navigate change. At WPP, Mel successfully led the global brand transition to Wunderman Thompson whilst continuing to expand the agency’s client relationships with Ford, HSBC, Microsoft, Nestle, Pfizer, Unilever, and more. Most recently new clients have included The Coca-Cola Company, Snap and Kyndryl. Mel is recognized as one of the most influential people in digital marketing and advertising, having been featured in Campaign’s A-List, The Drum’s Digerati, HERoes Women Role Models, and Ad Age’s European Women to Watch.Mel currently lives in London with her husband, Rich, and her two teenage children, Honor and Mack.

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WPP U.K Country Manager & GroupM U.K CEO

WPP & GroupM

As the GroupM UK CEO and WPP UK Country Manager, Karen has launched the Visible Start Program, which has trained 300 midlife female returnees in digital media, and provided confidence building, soft skills, networking, and mentoring. Since 2020, she has supported a Sponsorship Program benefiting 30 Black and ethnically diverse employees and launched best-in-class mandatory DEI training on Allyship and Conscious Inclusion. In addition, she has been championing training for senior management in understanding all structures of oppression and helped build and launch the Inclusive Leadership Learning Experience to help mid-level managers foster a culture of belonging for their teams. As a result, WPP UK was named 9th best performer in FTSE100 gender diversity ranking in Senior Leadership and on the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index for transparency in gender data for four consecutive years. Karen is also a founding trustee of the Black Equity Organization; a new national Charity focused on dismantling systemic racism.

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Chief Operating Officer, HSBC Bank PLC and HSBC Europe

HSBC

Terecina is a passionate supporter of driving gender diversity and inclusion. She strongly supports the creation of a nurturing and sustainable inclusive culture, where differences are acknowledged, appreciated and encouraged. This helps individuals thrive, supports innovation and makes the organisation a better workplace. Terecina is the Global Co-Sponsor of HSBC Balance (an Employee Resource Group promoting gender diversity with over 50,000 members across 48 countries) and HSBC Digital Business Services (DBS) on 'Inclusive Culture’. Terecina also sponsors #Inclusive Europe, an Employee Resource Group covering over 10,000 colleagues across 21 countries. Alongside sponsoring female talent under HSBC’s talent programmes, Terecina also mentors colleagues around the world and participated in various external events in Europe and Asia supporting wider female talent growth in the community.

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Chair

KPMG UK

In 2021, Bina was appointed KPMG UK’s first female chair in its 150-year history. As well as chairing KPMG’s UK Board, Bina also chairs the firm’s Inclusive Leadership Board, a forum for independent experts to provide challenge to ensure the organisation is embedding inclusion, diversity and equity within the business strategy. She uses her prominent role to champion the need for organisations to create inclusive, supportive, and diverse cultures that enable people from all backgrounds to thrive. Bina won the Hammer Award at the 2022 GG2 Leadership & Diversity Awards, awarded to an individual who has broken through the glass ceiling, and was awarded an MBE in this year’s New Year’s Honours list for supporting female entrepreneurs.

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CEO, North America

Aon plc

As Co-Chair of the Global Inclusive Leadership Council (GILC), Jennifer drives the group’s efforts to provide advice, recommendations and accountability for I&D strategy and actions at Aon plc. Her achievements in the role have included the formation of a new Aon plc sub-committee to the board for I&D, which she now regularly reports to, and the launch of a global ‘I&D Scorecard’ which has clear goals for gender diversity and is linked to leadership renumeration. Part of Jennifer’s work with the board sub-committee led to the recent announcement of a 50:50 gender balance within the Aon Executive Committee. She has also worked hard to ensure that female representation on her leadership team is higher than average, and she remains connected with Aon’s Business Resource Groups in order to drive equity at all levels of the firm, not just at senior leadership. Over recent years she has mentored a number of female colleagues and clients.

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President, SAP Latin America & Caribbean

SAP Latin America &Caribbean

Cristina Palmaka is president of SAP Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) since July 2020. With more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry, she is known for creating inclusive conditions that allow diverse teams to thrive and achieve extraordinary results. SAP LAC has more than 6,000 employees throughout Latin America and Cristina believes in the power of their diversity to unlock business value and social impact. She brings to the table people from different races, genders, sexual orientations, and backgrounds to broaden perspectives and make decisions educated by different viewpoints. Cristina is part of the company's D&I council and its main sponsor. Under her leadership, women in the workforce at SAP LAC increased from 35.6% to 38%, and women in leadership went from 28.8% to 33%. Also, SAP LAC's employee network model grew substantially, thanks to an executive sponsorship program that promotes their work and increases visibility.

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Chief Information Officer, Asia

Metlife Asia

As a Chief Information Officer for Metlife Asia, Siew Choo serves on the Global T&O Diversity Council and is a sponsor of the Asia Women in Tech group. Prior to MetLife, Siew Choo was Managing Director at DBS Bank in Singapore and was the sponsor for the DBS Gender Diversity agenda, where she drove many initiatives including DBS Women in Tech Hiring that helped increase by 4% representation of women in tech in a single year. She is a Board Member who champions gender diversity at the School of Science & Technology in Singapore and the National University of Singapore - High School of Maths & Science. Siew Choo was recognized in 2020 as one of Singapore’s Top 100 Women in Tech. In 2019 and 2021, she was recognised by IBM for the Top 40 Women in AI awards. Furthermore, she is a mentor at the Financial Woman Association in Singapore and a Core Team Member of Web3 Women in Hong Kong.

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Chief of Staff to State Street Chairman and CEO, Global Head of Internal Communications, and Head of Global CEO Experience Program

State Street Corporation

Yvonne sits on State Street’s Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (ID&E) Council and serves as Executive Sponsor of the firm’s Latino Professional Affinity Group. Under her leadership State Street earned a spot on Working Mother Magazine's “100 Best Companies” and “Best Companies for Dads” lists, as well as the Diversity Best Practices Inclusion Index and the “Top 10 Companies to Work For” by Latina Style Magazine. In 2020, Yvonne helped to define the firm’s 10 Actions Against Racism and Inequality, and in 2021, she supported the addition of two women to State Street’s Management Committee, bringing the balance to 28% women. In addition to her work for Slate Street, Yvonne is the Chair of the Association of Latino Professionals for Advancement (ALPFA) Advisory Board, and the Executive Director of Small Business Strong, a coalition of leading firms in Massachusetts supporting women and minority-owned businesses impacted by the COVID-19 economic downturn.

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Global Chair

Norton Rose Fulbright

As Norton Rose Fulbright LLP’s first female Chair, Farmida is committed to further increasing the representation of women in management positions and closely supports the firm’s ambitious global gender diversity targets. She has also long been a sponsor and steering group member of the firm's women's network. Farmida personally reorganised the firm’s CSR programme and, alongside the Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) Managing Partner, implemented initiatives addressing gender and wider diversity and inclusion issues. This included a bursary programme to improve access to the legal profession and a Race & Ethnicity Strategy, which involved setting targets and launching a learning and development programme to increase BAME representation. Farmida leads the firm’s EMEA partnership with Save the Children (STC), which tackles the disruption COVID-19 caused to education, providing pro bono and volunteering support. She also drives the firm’s 2022 Global Charitable Initiative with STC, helping communities affected by climate change.

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CEO Global Distribution

BBC Studios

Since joining BBC Studios in June 2020, Rebecca has recruited a senior leadership team with talented women leaders in key roles that are helping to grow BBC Studios' commercial business around the world. Furthermore, she has been at the forefront of creating and championing BBC Studios' flexible work environment that allows all employees to find balance in their lives while still making an impact. She is a member of the Women's Forum of New York, a network of women leaders representing the highest levels of professional achievement across all sectors, industries, and spheres of influence in New York City. Rebecca previously served on the board of WICT, an organization dedicated to helping women in media, entertainment and technology advance, and she is also the global executive sponsor of the Pride network at BBC Studios, an employee group dedicated to providing support, advice and community to LGBTQ+ team members and allies.

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Global Chairman, Advertising & Partnerships

NBCUniversal

As global chairman, Linda is an advocate of BOLD, an initiative created by NBCUniversal with a mission to influence, inspire and develop the next generation of Global Advertising & Partnerships leaders. Linda's extensive championing of BOLD's mission has driven transformational change for the initiative, including the creation of new opportunities in leadership and diversity, with BOLD Vets, the group's program to honor and engage veterans within NBCU, and BOLD Spotlight, a series of inspirational conversations with internal and external leaders from diverse backgrounds and careers. Externally, Linda uses advertising to advance equity through a variety of partnerships including the #ShesMy campaign, which champions the ways women break down barriers in both the professional and personal spheres; Target’s Scene in Color, which elevates emerging BIPOC creatives in film; and a partnership with Telemundo to release a Latina-centric storytelling guide as well as external partnerships around Telemundo’s exclusive coverage of the Women’s World Cup in 2023.

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CEO AXA Health

AXA Health

Tracy is the Executive Sponsor for Diversity & Inclusion across AXA in the UK and Ireland, and as part of this role she chairs the Diversity and Inclusion Board, which is comprised of senior leaders from across the business. Over the past year successes have included getting AXA UK&I listed as a coveted 2021 Times Top 50 Employer for Women, developing and executing an Ethnicity Action Plan, and launching an allyship program which has been engaged with over 2,000 times to date. Additionally, Tracy was able to strengthen senior leadership commitment to D&I by ensuring all leaders have two performance-related D&I objectives, as well as making D&I a quarterly standing agenda item at Executive Committee meetings. To celebrate 2021 International Women's Day, Tracy starred in a global AXA Group panel discussion on the impact of Covid-19 on gender equality, which was watched by over 3,000 employees across the globe.

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Partner – Co-Head of Public Sector - Europe

Oliver Wyman

As leader of the Public Sector and member of the European Leadership Team supporting over 1,500 employees in Europe, Lisa is committed to using her platform to drive diversity and inclusion through core commercial operations. An Executive Sponsor of Women of Oliver Wyman (WOW), Lisa’s goal is to achieve gender equality; therefore, she has built out her team on this principle resulting in being the only one that is gender-balanced at all levels. Her teams have achieved results through their deep understanding of public institutions and their ability to bring together diverse skills to solve complex problems. Long before the pandemic, Lisa was pivotal in championing the option of fully flexible working and job shares and campaigned for equal maternity and paternity leaves at 26 weeks. Beyond Oliver Wyman, Lisa is a member of the Board of Trustees for Best Beginnings and co-founder of the Green Hat Foundation, both charities focused on supporting people from diverse backgrounds to thrive in the UK.

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Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

JP Morgan

Efe is Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at JP Morgan. In addition to her role as in-house counsel, she’s involved in the company’s diversity and inclusion efforts that have resulted in hiring and retaining diverse talents. Her passion for inclusiveness transcends her day job. Efe is also the Founder of ImpactHER, a non-profit that cultivates environments within which African female-led small businesses not only survive but thrive. Under her leadership, ImpactHER has provided pro bono business advisory support and directly trained 46,806 African women entrepreneurs from 53 African countries, connected them with investors, and converted 16,432 non-technologically enabled businesses to technologically enabled businesses. Her work not only helped African women-led businesses from permanent shutdown during the covid shutdowns but is also actively changing the narrative of disenfranchised female business owners on the Continent; allowing women to crash through glass ceilings and re-define the face of successful entrepreneurs in Africa.

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CEO

Colt Technology Services

Keri founded Colt's first Inclusion & Diversity Council and chairs the TM Forum's Diversity & Inclusion Council, the aim of which is to make the telecommunications sector more diverse and inclusive. In response to 2020's Black Lives Matter protests, Keri held listening sessions with a cross-section of employees from different racial and ethnic backgrounds to find out what was on their minds and gain an understanding of what Colt could do to support them. The insights she gathered led to a collaboration between HR and the YOUnited employee network group, aiming to ensure that Colt was focused on removing any biases inherent within its systems, processes and structures, and that all employees, including those who identify as BAME, had a fair chance to join and develop at the firm. Over the past year, under Keri's support, Colt has sponsored 12 employees through the Black British Business Awards Talent Accelerator programme.

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Chief Operating Officer, Fidelity Holdings Limited, Global Head of First Line Risk and Regulatory Solutions

Fidelity International

For over a decade Dipi has passionately championed D&I in the financial services sector at a senior level. Within Fidelity she is an Executive Board member, sits on Fidelity’s Global D&I Leadership Council and is Executive Co-Sponsor of Fidelity’s Social Mobility Strand. She is also a role model and mentor, particularly to women in the industry and has contributed to the City Hive mentoring programme and The Investment Association’s Investment20/20 programme. Dipi is also a Director and Steering Group Member of “Progress Together” – a membership body that drives socio-economic diversity at senior levels across UK financial services. Chosen to be part of a group of 30 industry leaders - she was instrumental in the development of Progress Together - promoting social mobility across the UK financial and professional services sector. In 2022, she received the Freedom of the City of London in recognition for her exceptional contribution to the industry.

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CEO

Bank of Ireland

At Bank of Ireland Francesca set D&I targets to achieve a 50:50 gender balance in management and leadership appointments and introduced dedicated female accelerator and development programmes . In 2021 the percentage of women represented in senior appointments was 45%, up from 38% in 2017, and by H4 2021 this figure had risen to 51%. Under Francesca’s leadership a number of initiatives were introduced including a policy whereby colleagues having a baby via a surrogate can take paid leave in line with maternity benefits; a Recruitment Charter for hiring diverse talent; and a domestic abuse leave policy providing a range of supports to colleagues who may be experiencing domestic abuse. Additionally, Bank of Ireland is the only Irish bank to proactively publish their Gender Pay Gap Report ahead of legislation, and during the pandemic colleagues unable to work due to childcare and caring commitments continued to receive a full salary.

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Chief People Officer

Audible

Anne Erni is the Chief People Officer at Audible where she leads the People and Places team, which comprises Human Resources, Workplace Real Estate and Facilities, and Newark neighborhood-making. Anne has consistently partnered with the CEO to drive diversity in the leadership team, including reaching 55% female representation in the executive team in 2021. Thanks to Anne’s work to intentionally grow women into leadership roles, the proportion of women at VP level and above has risen by 11 percentage points from 2020 to 2021. As well as informing the creation of a D&I strategy which includes targeted, bespoke plans for each business, Anne encouraged the formation of formal affinity groups, renamed ‘Impact’ groups, with one key aim being to increase diverse representation in Audible's content offerings. Anne is an internationally recognized thought leader on workplace innovation and a champion for equitable hiring and professional development practices.

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Group General Counsel

London Stock Exchange Group

As Executive Sponsor for Diversity and Inclusion and chair of LSEG’s D&I Working Group, Catherine brings together leaders who own, drive and oversee change within their business units and regions. In her collaboration and overarching leadership of the LSEG Inclusion Networks, Catherine's focus on diverse female talent drives these networks' realignment and overall strategy to increase awareness and allyship. Catherine’s consistent visible leadership and promotion of internal activities and events in support of LSEG Inclusion Networks that represent diverse groups and talent are evident in her attendance, promotion, and speaking engagements at specific activities such as International Women's Day – No Woman Left Behind panel discussion, which discussed how to drive genuinely equitable opportunity for all women, across all backgrounds and demographics. She accelerated the progression of underrepresented talent by launching Women's Mentoring Circles in collaboration with LSEG's Women Inspired Network, and in 2020, she spearheaded LSEG's reverse mentoring program for black colleagues and senior leadership.

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Global COO & GC, Head of ESG, Head of Man Group US

Man Group

Robyn leads ‘Drive’, Man Group's global DE&I network, and chairs its Steering Committee, overseeing Man Group's DE&I activity globally. She is the senior executive sponsor of Man Group's BEAM (Black employees and allies) and PRIDE (LGBT+) employee networks and has been driving "Paving the Way," the firm’s campaign to diversify the "pipeline" and encourage a broader range of talent, especially women, to enter the company and industry. Alongside the CEO, Robyn led Man Group's signing of the Women in Finance Charter and has been working to meet the targets set by this. Man Group now has 56% women representation on its board. She spearheaded the inclusion of gender pronouns across WorkDay, Slack and emails and has been leading HR and Talent in Diversity-focused recruitment, graduate engagement policies, and initiatives. Furthermore, she championed a Women Returners program, which helps highly-skilled women return to the workforce following a career break, and also worked on expanding the firm’s mentoring program to include peer mentoring through the "Power of 10" program, which is led by Robyn and other women from the Executive Committee.

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Chief People & Transformation Officer

NatWest Group

As Chief People & Transformation Officer and executive sponsor for LGBT+, Jen co-chairs NatWest’s 'One Bank Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Committee’, bringing together key stakeholders, including employee-led networks, to share best practice, drive impact and positive change. Jen strives to build a culture of inclusivity where all women can thrive, working with the Gender Network to ensure women's voices are heard. Jen pushes for constant improvement, recently initiating a review of women’s safety, the company’s parental leave policy and introducing enhanced menopause support. Jen relentlessly holds leaders to account for attracting and retaining diverse talent and building strong sustainable pipelines. Externally, Jen is a proactive ambassador, regularly speaking at external events to help to facilitate change across UK plc, and supports several campaigns such as female executive development, the 30% club and 25x25, an initiative to help to increase the number of female CEOs in the UK FTSE.

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Global Chief People Officer

WPP

As WPP's Global Chief People Officer, Jennifer Remling is laying the groundwork for unlocking the creative potential in all 109,000 employees within the WPP network. Central to that is ensuring DE&I is embedded in all aspects of the People strategy – from talent acquisition and total rewards to employee engagement and leadership development. Jennifer has a wealth of experience building high-performing teams in agency environments in roles at Essence, R/GA, AKQA, 360i and most recently GroupM. There, she transformed the People team to deliver a world-class People proposition that ensured a fair, equitable and inclusive workplace for all 36,000 employees in 80 markets. Jennifer is passionate about helping people find meaning and purpose in what they do, no matter their background. That’s why she published “Carve Your Own Road: Do What You Love and Live the Life You Envision” in 2009 and has made it her lifelong ambition to help as many people as possible reach their full potential

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Managing Director - Head of Advisory & Sales, Wealth Management Middle East & Turkey

Credit Suisse AG

As a managing director and internally Head of the Middle East & Turkey Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Board, Samina focuses on highlighting the strategic role that D&I plays in achieving business goals, as well as implementing several initiatives that promote an equal opportunity landscape within her region, centered around three ongoing D&I Priorities. To build women's representation, Samina implemented female talent mentorship programs, set gender aspiration and hiring targets through ongoing monitoring, reviewed the gender pay gap, and set up a Women's Network. Additionally, Samina focuses on fostering an inclusive culture through awareness. She also focuses on age by using the generational gap as an advantage and implementing some strategies like reverse mentoring. As a senior female leader at Credit Suisse in the Middle East, Samina co-hosted Women's Events in Saudi Arabia in 2019 and Qatar in 2022.

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Managing Partner, EME

Reed Smith LLP

Tamara Box is the Managing Partner, EME and a member of the global board at Reed Smith LLP. Tamara is a founding member of the Steering Committee of the 30% Club, an influential group seeking to enlist Chairs and CEOs to bring more women into senior management and onto boards. Tamara is also a non-executive director on the Board of Interpath Advisory, a member of the Board of the Chartered Management Institute, a trustee of gynaecological cancer charity Eve Appeal, a member of the Advisory Board of children’s charity, Theirworld and an Emeritus Governor of the London School of Economics. Tamara is an active and passionate advocate for the women at Reed Smith and for gender balance more generally. Several Reed Smith women Tamara has nominated have been shortlisted or winners of female leadership awards including from Rising Star, Citywealth PowerWomen, and Asian Women of Achievement.

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Executive Vice President, Head of Underwriting & Portfolio Management

Citizens Financial Group

Jessica has served in several leadership roles in the Citizens Business Resource Group, Women's Impact Network (WIN), since its inception in 2017. From 2019 to 2021 she served as the Chairperson of the group, growing the organization to reach 2,000 members, aligned under the mission to help women advance their careers through professional development and networking opportunities. Jessica also helped initiate the development of the Women in Commercial Banking Group, an internal organization at Citizens that provides networking opportunities and encourages local connections in the Greater Boston area and across Citizens' footprint in North America. Externally, Jessica serves as Board Director for the Center for Women and Enterprise, a 501C3 organization that provides education and support to female and minority business owners throughout New England and in 2021 she co-chaired the Boston chapter of 50/50 Women on Boards, a global advocacy organization that promotes gender diversity for corporate boards.

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Global CIO

WPP

Through a complete redesign and relentless focus on equality through our recruitment process, Rachel improved the female intake into the WPP IT organization from 11% to 38% over the past 12 months. Through the firm's operating and organizational model redesign and by establishing a new people design authority to govern internal and external appointments, she has improved the representation of women in the top 3 layers of leadership in WPP IT. Before joining WPP, she was the founder and executive sponsor of the multi-award-winning TechWomen program in her previous job. During her final year leading the program in 2020/1, Rachel delivered a year-long development journey for 450 women across BT and supported an alumni network of 2,300 women. The program was enormously successful, dramatically improving participants' confidence, with 67% of them moving into more prominent roles, and addressing the local cultural barriers to women's progression in India and Malaysia.

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Chief People Officer

Aviva

Danny champions the female agenda by encouraging business to consider the potential future impact of hybrid working on women, carers and the future gender pay gap. Danny is responsible for Aviva’s Diversity and Inclusion strategy, which supports women through initiatives including: simplifying all job adverts to encourage more female candidates; including diversity targets in Executive reward; monthly reporting on gender diversity metrics; inclusive leadership training; Aviva’s own Licence to Hire training (covering non-inclusive behaviours and recruiting underrepresented candidates); extending sponsorship programmes to advance the careers of underrepresented talent (including women); and engaging 1,000+ part-time colleagues (87% female) to understand challenges around development and progression. Aviva’s employment policies include equal parental leave, paid carers leave and domestic abuse support, the latter of which Danny is co-executive sponsor of. Danny is also the co-executive sponsor of our Pride community, and has also contributed to a number of external news articles championing women.

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Global CEO, Profiles Division

Kantar

Kantar is a world-leading market research agency, inspiring growth by understanding people. As a Global CEO, and part of Kantar's Exco and I&D Steering Committee, Caroline is committed to ensuring a culture that embraces all intersections of diversity. She holds herself accountable to increasing female representation by being an authentic ‘see it, be it’ role model to Kantar’s ~12,000 women, which includes being a mentor and sponsor for Kantar’s Aspire programme empowering females across the globe progress their careers by building strong, authentic, influential personal brands. Caroline also serves as Global Executive Sponsor of Pride@Kantar, the Employee Resource Group inspiring Kantar’s 700+ LGBTQIA+ employees and allies flourish at work by embracing and celebrating their individuality, and co-founded Kantar’s 360 Mentorship Program with Special Olympics athletes, to support people with intellectual disabilities build successful careers in paid jobs. She also represents the ‘Agency’ voice on the Market Research Society’s DI&E Council.

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EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Global Head of Strategic Resources

FactSet

Passionate about D&I, Rachel has promoted gender diversity since she started at FactSet in 2001. As the company's first general counsel and sole female executive leadership team member for over 15 years, she fought for women to be included and promoted to higher ranks of management globally. Rachel is responsible for introducing the first female director to FactSet's board and including three more after her. Rachel has formally mentored and informally sponsored women who are now part of the company's leadership. As an Executive Sponsor of FactSet's Women's BRG, Rachel furthered programs around the world designed to bring women together to support each other. Furthermore, Rachel founded and led a 20/20 Women on Boards chapter to achieve at least 20% women directors on boards of public companies, and has supported the Thirty Percent Coalition. Additionally, Rachel is a Mentor, WOMN, LLC, mentoring women law partners in New York since 2014.

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CEO, Randstad Global Businesses and Executive Board Member

Randstad

Rebecca is one of two women on Randstad's executive board and the executive sponsor of Randstad's Global Diversity Council, which represents 15 business-led workgroups such as inclusive leadership, the Business Resource Group for Women, diverse hiring programs, equal pay, and the Pride Business Resource Group. Rebecca is a founding sponsor of Women in Randstad Empowering Development (WIRED), which empowers Randstad women to develop themselves as leaders and to achieve exceptional results through collective inspiration, sharing of knowledge, and giving back to the community. Furthermore, she is a sponsor and mentor to Randstad's Hire Hope apprentices, which provides career-readiness training and job-placement services to underserved and at-risk women. As a global executive at Randstad, Rebecca actively explores ways to advance gender parity issues and change policy in all areas of work. She also works with partner organizations like the Female Quotient to raise awareness and effect change to help working women advance their careers

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Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Passionate about creating opportunities for women, evolving inclusion in tech is a key priority for Tanuja. At AWS, she has sponsored empowerment initiatives such as Leadership Circles, a monthly open forum focused on learning and development. She is a member of the AWS ID&E advisory board and championed the Inclusion Ambassador program – active change agents across genders. She is an avid GetIT advocate, an AWS program for young students especially girls to encourage them into tech and re/Start which started in the UK and is a free 12 week classroom training program for unemployed and underemployed individuals. In 2013, Tanuja founded PowerWomen Network, a peer-to-peer network of 150 C-level women across sectors and functions focused on building the next generation of female talent. She also hosts a podcast called PowerWomenSpeak, where she has conversations with senior female leaders. More recently, she started the Next Gen Power Women network, a group of high potential women who are actively mentored by PowerWomen members.

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Partner, Financial Services

Oliver Wyman

Catherine’s leadership priorities at Oliver Wyman Australia focus on upholding its unique culture and values. During her time in Australia, the company jumped to #5 in "Most Prestigious Consulting Firms in Asia Pacific" in the 2022 Vault rankings, and the Australian office has been certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace. She has helped increase women hired by 11% since May 2021. In 2016 she pioneered Oliver Wyman’s European BOOST program, which provides sponsorship and support for individuals taking parental leave. In 2021 she introduced BOOST in Australia, with a 100% success rate to date. She is a mentor to over 25 incredibly talented women, and a senior stakeholder for Women of Oliver Wyman. She has been a sponsor of the company's Inspiring Leaders program since 2015. In addition, through her pro-bono work she supports organisations that promote gender diversity. Her motivation: I would rather women don’t have to think about it.

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Co-founder of the Intersectionality workstream at the Diversity Project & Head of UK Wholesale Aviva Investors

Aviva Investors

As co-founder of the intersectionality workstream at the Diversity project, Member of the Inclusion Steering Committee at Aviva Investors, Mentor to women, Apiramy consistently and tirelessly works to drive DEI within the company and the industry. She challenges outdated business practises to contribute to creating a more gender-balanced company. She drives discussions on how Aviva can create a culture of belonging for all to thrive and has helped implement Inclusive leadership approaches within organisations to focus on getting middle managers on the inclusion journey to flex their management style to the individual in their teams. Apiramy’s goal is to create a culture of "add," not "fit," and a leadership team and style that has, at its core, empathy and curiosity for its employees. She is keen to inspire the next generation into work, pass on the knowledge to navigate the industry, and empower others with the soft skills required to succeed.

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Global Chief Operating Officer, Core+; Chief Operating Officer, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT)

Blackstone

Wesley has served as Chair of Blackstone's Women's Initiative since 2019. Under her leadership, the Initiative has driven many programs focused on developing employees' careers, fostering connectivity across businesses, encouraging organic mentorship relationships, and helping shape Blackstone's recruiting strategy. Wesley also created the Working Parents initiative in the U.S. for the firm. She is a mentor and champion for other women and is deeply committed to hiring and retaining top women talent. Over the past few years, Blackstone has also evaluated its benefits to ensure they are comprehensive and competitive. The firm offers primary and secondary caregiver leave, adoption leave, phased back to work, fertility coverage, and backup childcare, to name a few. It also recently introduced family planning benefits for US employees, such as enhancing infertility benefits to include cryopreservation and extending primary caregiver leave to 20 weeks.

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Managing Director & Partner

Boston Consulting Group

In addition to her main job, Nadjia chairs DE&I for BCG's largest region covering Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. She oversees the regional networks: Women@BCG, Pride@BCG, Accessibility, and Ethnic & Cultural Diversity with a focus on gender, driving the mission internally to step-change BCG gender diversity, especially women’s representation, particularly at senior levels across the region. Nadjia has been driving the change across Recruiting, Sponsorship; Career Support, Bonding; Policies, and External Engagement. She has ensured the company’s policies have maintained equal retention rates of men and women across cohorts, resulting in a 10% increase in the number of junior female consultants in the last two years and this year, a 5% increase in experienced women hires. Nadjia's involvement with DEI goes beyond BCG by being a Trustee of the charity Women for Women International UK, which helps women affected by war and conflict to rebuild their lives and communities through a holistic curriculum of social and economic empowerment.

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Chief Information Officer

Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria & West Africa

Rachael Asonibare is the Chief Information Officer for Nigeria and West Africa at Standard Chartered Bank. Rachael is an advocate for employee development, and she is an active member of the Bank’s Network of Women (NOW). She champions an annual awareness program on health, wellness and fitness. She is a career mentor to several women both in and outside of the Bank and is committed to helping them upskill their capabilities to take advantage of the new evolving professional roles within the professional industry. Racheal is passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially on education and the empowerment of women and youths. Most recently, she sponsored a CSR program on Climate Change to create awareness and enable the behavioural and societal support required for the achieving the global net zero agenda. Rachael consistently works towards inspiring young girls in Information Technology and Cybersecurity through ELICIT, an NGO she co-founded.

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Chief Human Resource Officer

Citizens

Susan LaMonica is the Chief Human Resources Officer & Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and serves on the bank’s executive committee. She is responsible for developing and driving people strategies to further Citizens’ growth plans while working to enact sustainable and systemic change leading the company’s ESG efforts. As the Executive Sponsor of Citizens’ Business Resource Group, Women’s Impact Network, she understands the challenges that exist for female colleagues, customers and community members while advocating for efforts to attract, retain and support women inside and outside of Citizens. She led the development of initiatives aimed at increasing accountability in Citizens’ hiring process and the deployment of programs such as TalentUp which focuses on talent acquisition, reskilling/upskilling, and expanding the talent pipeline. Outside of Citizens, Susan is a board member of Oasis, a non-profit whose mission is to change the lives of women and children by breaking the cycle of poverty.

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Chief Financial Officer

London Stock Exchange Group

Over the past 18 months, Anna has engaged in several initiatives to promote D&I. She has led the cultural change aspects as Exco Sponsor for the D&I Committee, focused on 'creating a culture that fosters belonging' to embed the concept and enabling policies across the group. She held an 'employee board listening conversation' with colleagues from North and Southeast Asia, and spent time with the Indian teams discussing culture, diversity, and inclusion in various formats to understand the challenges. Anna is committed to coaching and developing leaders of all backgrounds by sharing her career path, views, and experiences at women’s networking and D&I events. She has taken an inclusive approach to developing her Finance Leadership team, ensuring diversity. In 12 months, she reached 36% ethnic diversity from a baseline of almost no diversity, with seven of the 13 being female.

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China Chairman

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Teresa has been a staunch advocate for gender diversity for over a decade. As the first female to chair the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s Listing Committee, Teresa has been a leading voice on greater board diversity in listed companies. Teresa is known for her commitment to clients and believes in using her position as a trusted advisor to encourage systemic change. She is dedicated to developing Freshfields colleagues, both professionally and personally to maximise their potential. As executive sponsor of Freshfield’s Asia Women's Network, Teresa mentors and sponsors female associates, helping them to hone their business development skills, connecting them to key contacts, and nurturing them to become future leaders. As well as being recognised as a HERoes Executive Role Model. She was recently named in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2022 - an elite ranking for the most prominent women lawyers globally and in Forbes’ ‘Asia's Power Businesswomen’ list 2021.

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Chief Transformation Officer

MediaCom

Sue has been involved in a number of major initiatives to drive greater gender diversity and equality at MediaCom. These include serving as Executive Sponsor of the Gender ERG and serving as a member of the new Global Belonging Council, a diverse mix of senior people from different areas of the business who meet on a regular basis to drive sustainable change in all areas of DE&I. She is also actively involved in the company's Leadership Reverse Mentoring, a program which sees junior employees act as mentors to senior global leaders. Sue has been a frequent participant in, and promoter of, the company’s ongoing learning initiatives around allyship and microaggressions and is also the author of two best-selling books on diversity in the workplace, “Belonging, the key to transforming and maintaining diversity, equality and inclusion at work” and “The Glass Wall, success strategies for women at work and businesses that mean business”.

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EVP, President of Retail Investments

Northwestern Mutual

Aditi is the executive sponsor of Northwestern Mutual's African American ERG and has spearheaded strategy development with leaders and advocated for resources required for the group's mentorship program, talent development, and robust programming for its 700+ members. In 2019, Aditi championed the company's first-ever Women's Initiative, which aims to increase the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women at the company. Since then, she and her colleagues have created programs that support women through leadership development and coaching. As a result, women recruitment grew by 60% over the last five years, and women in leadership positions increased by 57% in the previous three years. Aditi, with her team, championed the Northwestern Mutual's Women's Field Association, a first-of-its-kind industry group, which supports the growth, development, and relationship building of the women advisors in the organization.

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Chief Executive Officer

Federation of Small Businesses

As CEO at the UK’s largest business group, Julie founded a new cross-organization Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Steering Group, which includes both leading staff and a set of elected FSB volunteer members, including female business owners and staff. As the leader of the business, Julie has overseen a majority female Board of Directors, and a majority female Senior Management Team – empowering women to put themselves forward, and sending the message throughout the organization that women succeed at FSB, and reach the very top. Most recently, Julie has signed FSB up to the Menopause Workplace Pledge, starting a conversation with the small business community (collectively – the UK’s largest employer) to address 900,000 women that have left work because of periods, fertility struggles, pregnancy or menopause.

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Partner/Lawyer

Clifford Chance LLP

Since joining Clifford Chance in 2001, Ilse has advocated for gender parity within the Amsterdam office and the Global Firm, ensuring that diversity is at the very top of the agenda. From 2020 to 2022, Ilse co-led a project with Harvard's gender and behavioral science expert, Paola Secchi Dimeglio, to perform an AI data-driven "body scan" of the Amsterdam office appraisal and promotion systems to find nudges to improve the gender balance and enhance retention numbers in the longer term. The research outcome has been used to implement changes in the Amsterdam appraisal and collaboration systems and heavily contributed to increasing the number of women partners from 2 to 5. Under Ilse's leadership, Clifford Chance Amsterdam launched their chapter of the global gender parity group Accelerate in 2020, and she also organized a high-profile women leadership program for women associates.

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Chief HR Officer

Vodafone

Leanne has been driving gender balance, diversity, and inclusion for over 20 years across tech-comms, luxury and FMCG industries. At Vodafone, Leanne is an Executive Committee Member and Sponsor for its Employee Networks, including the Women's Network, and led Vodafone's #CountMeIn diversity data capture initiative to enable an intersectional approach to DEI and strengthen women's inclusion and representation. She launched the Reciprocal Mentoring program enabling senior leaders to connect with minority groups and, in 2019, equalised parental leave to support parents and families so that responsibilities are shared. In 2022, as part of Vodafone's support of Ukrainian refugees, she led the Ukraine Employment Programme providing those displaced with employment and resettlement, with 61% of applicants being women. Additionally, Leanne launched Vodafone's hybrid working model to provide flexibility, including 20 days of remote working from any location to attract and retain diverse talent.

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Country Head - Ireland

Northern Trust

As Country Head for Northern Trust Ireland, Meliosa is responsible for all its asset servicing business conducted from Dublin and Limerick supporting fund managers and institutional investors worldwide. Under her leadership, female representation at senior level has moved from 37% in 2019 to 44% in 2022. Meliosa led the firm’s signatory of the Women in Finance Charter in Ireland, setting a target of improving senior female representation from 44% to 48% by 2025. Meliosa has led a number of notable initiatives across the Irish community to help underrepresented groups obtain work experience. Meliosa is the chair of the 30% Club in Ireland. Since taking on this role, Meliosa has committed to ensuring the network is fully inclusive of diverse groups, recognizing the additional challenges underrepresented women face. She is planning to expand the network’s reach, recognising the talent in regions beyond Dublin, and ensuring the network is accessible to all.

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Global Chief Creative Officer

VMLY&R

Over two decades, Debbi has built VMLY&R into a creative force — experiencing unprecedented growth and recognition. In May 2021, under Debbi's leadership, Campaign magazine named VMLY&R as Global Creative Network of the Year. Additionally, in 2021, Debbi's leadership helped earn yet another year of growth for the nearly $2B agency, which bookended the year with renewal wins of two of VMLY&R's long-standing and notable clients. Debbi drives her teams around the world to create advertising that makes a difference, particularly in the crusade for gender equality. She was named 2020 Ad Age CCO of the Year, as well as being featured on Adweek's Creative 100, Business Insider's "30 Most Creative People in Advertising," and Campaign's Female Frontier Awards.

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General Counsel of BlackRock Taiwan

BlackRock Taiwan

Angela, one of the 3 representatives from APAC sitting on the global Talent Development Committee from 2018 to 2021, has successfully promoted 89 females within the global Legal & Compliance function to the next level of their corporate title. Since 2020, she has been serving as the sponsor for the VP Village and the Associate Arena for BlackRock, social networks for colleagues with junior to mid-level corporate titles. Through these social networks, Angela has been mentoring young female colleagues and assisting them in navigating their careers in the firm. She has coached more than ten female colleagues across different functions and geographical areas, resulting in 2 of them being promoted to VP and Director roles in 2021. She has been conducting career advancing sessions for colleagues in BlackRock Taiwan since 2019 and served as the WIN Chairperson from 2012 to 2019, holding quarterly events to promote gender diversity and inclusion.

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Head of EMEA & President of the UK Branch

Silicon Valley Bank

Erin has been Executive Sponsor for SVB’s global gender network since 2021 and established a local EMEA chapter in 2022. Five years ago, she created the first EMEA women's network and under her leadership the team implemented significant enhancements to the company’s family-friendly policies by extending enhanced pay for maternity, shared parental and adoption leave from 12 to 30 weeks; making it available from day 1 of employment. In addition, introducing 'Special Parental Leave' that provides any FTE 12 weeks fully paid. Her commitment to women’s inclusion has seen her exceeding internal targets to achieve 50% women in senior leadership hires and promotions. She mentors and sponsors numerous women, internally and externally. Erin's ambition is to dramatically increase the number of women and other overlooked talent in the innovation ecosystem and to create an environment where all people can thrive, build with purpose, and bring their authentic selves to work.

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SVP & US General Counsel

National Grid

Keri is helping National Grid, The Energy Transition Company, implement its vision for a fossil-free future while delivering safe, reliable, and affordable service to its more than 7 million customers across New York and Massachusetts. Keri is committed to helping women thrive in the energy industry. She serves as the Executive Sponsor of National Grid's PRIDE Employee Resource Group- which advocates for, invests in, and sponsors LGBTQ+ employees to ensure everyone is treated fairly, respected, and empowered to achieve their full potential. Keri is a member and former Executive Sponsor of the Employee Resource Group WiNTR, focused on supporting women in field, engineering and technology roles. She has incorporated diversity metrics in personal and team objectives and promoted women to leadership roles. She has been a speaker for WiN, an ERG focused on supporting and sponsoring women in the organization, and a mentor through Executive Connections with the Alliance of Black Professionals ERG.

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Senior Corporate Counsel

Atlas Copco

Since 2020, Nicolina has been a member of the UK D&I committee and was spotlighted globally for her support for women and diversity within this global Nasdaq listed company. As one of the few diverse members of the senior leadership team at the top of the Holdings group within the UK, she is often approached to encourage and mentor those within the organization. Nicolina is involved with the rollout of the new mentoring program for young women at university to build an understanding of STEM careers and join the innovative global engineering sector. Furthermore, she is an Ambassador, presenter, and mentor for Women On Boards UK and sits on the Racial Equity Committee of International Women’s Forum UK. In 2022, they set up a mentoring scheme to link ethnic women with high-profile women leaders to help them on their senior leadership journeys.

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Head of Preferred Lending

Bank of America

At work and in her communities, Shim is a tireless advocate advancing women’s careers, mentoring and developing women leaders, and working to dismantle barriers built by unconscious bias. She is often invited to speak at various forums, panels and events, and has served as a keynote speaker addressing global audiences on the topic of inclusion and empowerment of women. She is an executive sponsor for Bank of America’s Leadership, Education, Advocacy & Development for Women employee network, with 44,000 members in 25 countries. She is founder of the company’s Consumer Investments Women’s Forum and founder and executive sponsor of the Preferred Banking Executive Women’s Forum, bringing together executive women and providing them exposure to education, expansion and advancement opportunities. She has been named to the 2022 and 2020 EMpower Top 100 Executives Role Model list, and the 2021 and 2020 “INDIA New England News” list of Outstanding Women.

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Regional Head of Learning, UK & EMEA

GroupM UK Ltd

Sandra has been an active ally and advocate of women’s inclusion. Through the Visible Start women 45+ “returnship” program, she has supported the production and delivery of mid-life women returners training program, helping to build/rebuild confidence, learn new skills, and recognize and appreciate their existing transferable skills. The full program resulted in 20 women being hired within the Group, around a quarter of those into senior roles. Sandra also designed, developed, and launched an internal sponsorship program, requiring senior leaders to actively and intentionally advocate for and seek out the opportunity to grow and develop the careers of minority ethnic employees (60% women), resulting in 50% promotions overall (of which 60% were women). Additionally, she is a member and co-chair of Lifetimes (Generation) ERG promoting multi-generational workforce benefits with a particular focus on women 45+. Sandra organized numerous menopause lunch and learns, drop-in sessions, and set up a menopause champion group.

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General Manager, President & CEO

HSBC Bank Canada

Throughout her career with Canada’s leading international bank, Linda has been a passionate advocate for gender diversity and women's inclusion. Over the last two years, Linda continued to use her position of influence to create meaningful change. She championed D&I by making it a key priority in HSBC's strategy approved by the Board in November 2021 and supported the creation of a D&I Dashboard, including targets for women leaders, to drive accountability and measure progress. Linda endorsed improvements to employee benefits supporting women, including flexible/hybrid work, market-leading maternity benefits, parental leave, and family-building benefits. Additionally, she set a 50% promotion target for women in senior leadership, which was achieved in 2020. Furthermore, Linda has been mentoring and sponsoring female talent, actively hosting exchange sessions and other employee-led meetings on challenges experienced by women, and challenging her leadership team to increase women's representation in their respective succession plans.

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CEO

OpenUK

Amanda supports the initiatives of several organizations. She is a Judge at We are the City's Rising Stars Program, speaks at many organizations' diversity events, and in 2022 organized an IWD Day event at the House of Lords with Baroness Kennedy and the Judges rescued from Afghanistan. Amanda leads an organization with Diversity at its core and supports diversity at every turn in her work. She also led the creation of two OpenUK Kids Camps in 2020 and 2021, designing courses for kids using a digital glove based on Imogen Heap's software glove, with which Arianna Grande toured. This has encouraged young women into developing digital and coding skills. OpenUK gave away over 8000 gloves to young people, particularly targeting the digitally excluded to allow them free participation.

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Senior Vice President, Global Communications

Philip Morris International

A veteran communicator and trendspotter, Marian makes smart use of her global platform to advance positive change. Through regular bylines, interviews, and keynote addresses, she advocates for the equitable advancement of women. A member of the PRWeek Hall of Femme and Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, she has been honored with the Changing the Game Award from AWNY/She Runs It and serves as a mentor for Brown Women in Business. Within Philip Morris International, Marian promotes change through two employee resource groups: EMBRACE Global (focused on racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity) and the Women’s Inspiration Network (WIN). Her latest book, The New Megatrends: Seeing Clearly in the Age of Disruption (Penguin Random House, May 2022), examines changing gender mores and the role female leaders can play in addressing critical societal issues.

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Founder & Managing Partner

Pallas Partners LLP

Natasha is a leading international disputes lawyer and one of the few women to set up and lead a City law firm. Natasha launched Pallas Partners in February 2022, starting out as a majority female firm with significant representations of ethnic minority background and LGBTQ+ colleagues. Diversity is integral to the firm-wide strategy she introduced, with the firm pledging to achieve diversity parity by 2025. When launching Pallas the vast majority of the partners, associates and staff from Boies Schiller Flexner’s London office joined her. That office, which Natasha founded, was ranked #1 for the highest proportion of U.K lawyers identifying as LGBTQ+ by Law.com, and #1 in AmLaw’s UK A-List for diversity and female equity partner representation in 2020. She further won plaudits for overhauling BSF’s diversity programme when she was the Deputy Chair there, securing the firm Mansfield Rule Certification. Natasha sits on the Changemakers Board at The Brokerage, a charity creating internship opportunities for under-privileged candidates.

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Global Head, Technology, Media & Telecommunications

S&P Global

Maria is a leader in S&P Global women's PILOT program, a skill-based program targeting mid-career women. She participates actively, leading panels, sharing expertise, and coaching women throughout the duration of the program. Maria has successfully raised the profile of women leaders by participating in a 2-year program on women sponsorship at the executive level, thereby highlighting the contribution of women in leadership at the company. She has also been an active mentor for years, and thanks to her coaching, many women successfully moved into leadership roles. Furthermore, she mentors graduates in programs from the Brandeis International Business School, Miami University and other institutions, helping them to identify areas of career direction and find internships and employment.

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Independent Non-executive Director

Scottish Power Energy Networks Holdings Ltd

In her previous role of CEO HSBC Channel Islands and Isle of Man, Sue was the Lead Executive Sponsor of the D&I Allies Group. Through this role she raised the profile of the group’s work and helped to cement an inclusive culture at the bank. In by-monthly ‘Ask Me Anything’ townhalls hosted and sponsored by Sue for over 1,200 colleagues, she regularly raised issues of diversity, inclusion and equality, actively encouraging people to discuss and ask challenging questions about gender bias in the workplace. For the last 4 years Sue has been a Global Ambassador for BALANCE, HSBC’s gender diversity Employee Resource Group, made up of over 48,000 members. For International Women’s Day this year she hosted a virtual panel event and wrote a thought leadership article about gender equality, sharing her own experiences of trying to climb the executive career ladder in a historically male dominated sector and highlighting the struggles women still face today.

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Partner

Linklaters

Always hugely passionate and supporter of the value of the diversity at every strand, Claudia serves as sponsor many initiatives and programmes and has participated to mentorship projects to support female and young talent. She is the founder of Breakfast@Linklaters, an important female business community in the country and the Italian Ambassador of Inspiring Girls, a project launched in Italy with the Ministry of Education. As Special Friend of UNHCR in Italy, she is supporting the campaign for the instruction of refugees focusing on young women. In the past she was President of Valore D, the largest Italian association of companies for gender inclusion. In 2020 Claudia published with Il Sole24Ore the book “Meravigliose. Tour guidato all’interno di noi stesse” dedicated to gender issues, young women and talent. In 2022, she has been appointed as Chair of the Italian Stock Exchange, the first woman to take this position.

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International Chief Customer Officer

American Express

While leading the UK Business as Country Manager, Charlotte pledged American Express’ commitment to achieving a 50:50 gender balance in senior management under HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter, a target which was reached earlier this year. As an Executive Sponsor of American Express’ Women’s Interest Networks, Charlotte has championed the Company’s ‘Ambition Project’ as a means of raising awareness of the role ambition plays in women's professional success. She has also overseen initiatives including the roll out of self-identification amongst colleagues to help drive D,E&I changes across the company and the introduction of training to over 5,000 colleagues in order to combat unconscious bias. As colleagues moved towards working from home during the pandemic, American Express also initiated a range of company-wide internal communications and initiatives intended to support colleagues, particularly those shouldering caring responsibilities. Under her leadership American Express has been recognized over the past two years as a top employer by the Financial Times, LinkedIn, Working Families and Glassdoor.

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Vice President Global Product Delivery

Fiserv

Mairead has always been a keen advocate for Diversity and Inclusion and has sponsored a number of ERG’s in her previous companies and participated in several discussion panels and working groups in Ireland and globally. Since joining Fiserv, she became a Committee member of the Disability Associate Council, of the Women's Impact Network, and an ally of the LGBTQ+ Leadership Council Unity. Her commitment sees her participating at DEI events, in mentorship programs, discussions, and driving engagement externally with local community women's events. Mairead takes a servant leadership approach with her teams and her stakeholders, ensuring that as a leader, she creates an environment of diversity and inclusion, where diversity of thought is encouraged and where everyone has a voice and where that voice is listened to. She is also always driving her recruitment partners to ensure they bring in gender-balanced and diverse candidates and have diverse interview panels with closed feedback loops to remove unconscious bias in the selection process.

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Group Head of Claims

Beazley Group

In January 2020, Beth joined the Executive, taking on the global Group Head of Claims role, reporting to Beazley's CEO. She is responsible for the development, management, and operational efficiency of a high-performing global team who she committed to a culture valuing inclusion, friendliness, approachability, and creativity. Throughout her career, Beth has been devoted to developing junior talent through mentorship, helping many achieve promotions because she is passionate about empowering others to accomplish their objectives, maximize their opportunities, and stretch their development. Since she took the helm, Beth was able to double the number of People of Color on the team and materially increase the number of managers who are People of Color, as she recognizes development and promotion are crucial markers of change. Beth also played a key role in extending parental leave to 6 months paid leave, honoring equality in family responsibility while materially enhancing a staff benefit.

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CEO & Founder

Jomas Associates(Engineering & Environmental)

UK’s first Black Female founder of a seven-figure turnover engineering company serving the construction sector, Roni is a trailblazer and role model, combining being CEO of Jomas with campaigns championing women in industry. Roni is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Geologist. Graduate of Portsmouth University with a BEng(hons) in Engineering Geology and Geotechnics, she also holds a Masters’ (with distinction) in Environmental Management from Exeter University. She has worked on major construction schemes including the widening of the A406 and M25, and various buildings and structures across the UK. She is Construction Policy Chair for FSB. She received the highly prestigious presidential invitation to Fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in 2019 and was appointed Honorary Fellow of RIBA in 2020. Multi award winner, international speaker and dedicated mother to three boys, Roni is passionate about diversity, social mobility and volunteers her time to mentor and coach many.

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Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Dollar General Corporation

Rhonda has leadership responsibility for legal, risk management, public relations, government affairs, global compliance, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, and internal audit. As one of three female C-suite leaders at the Fortune #106 company, she values diversity and inclusion as well as the mentorship and development of all talent. Rhonda mentors several individuals, both formally and informally, connecting one-on-one with future leaders of the Company and offering counsel and advice. She also is a mentor to her team, leading by example as a good business partner while proudly celebrating the accomplishments and successes of her colleagues. She also helps spearhead D&I efforts at Dollar General to guide and support the Company’s diversity and inclusion strategy, mission and goals. Additionally, Rhonda is a member of the Women's Professional Network Employee Resource Group, which strives to cultivate and further inclusivity and empowerment through networking, leadership, educational opportunities, and experiences.

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Chief Executive Officer

Canada Life UK

Throughout her career, Lindsey has been a passionate advocate of women's inclusion, whether through significant mentoring and support provided to women during all stages of their careers or through setting up dedicated accelerated leadership programs to broaden further and accelerate women's opportunities. As a CEO, Lindsey has been able to ensure Canada Life UK has committed to offering fully flexible working to all 1500 of its colleagues. Additionally, she has put Family Friendly Policies under review to ensure that they have a robust D&I lens and has championed the rollout of Menopause support & guidance. Under her leadership, the company released an annual report to publicly set out Canada Life's commitment to reducing the pay gap and has committed to having 35% Women in Senior Leadership Roles by 2023. Lindsey is currently a key mentor to several women looking to achieve senior executive positions in financial services.

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Chief Technology & Strategy Officer

Waygate Technologies

Arungalai is mother to a 7-year-old daughter, fierce gender-balance advocate and a member of the Women's Network Group within Baker Hughes, and she has been coaching and mentoring gender-diverse employees to succeed in their careers so that she can create more gender-diverse teams in a high-tech business. Arungalai has been promoting roles in STEM with school and university-level students and is a thought leader in Forbes Technology Council and on Gender Balance & Working Mothers. She was featured in the Top 100 Women in Technology Leaders by Technology Magazine in 2021, in the 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by National Diversity Council in 2021, and in the 10 Most inspiring women leaders to follow in 2022 by Insights Success in 2022 & 40 under 40 by CDO Magazine in 2022.

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Chief HR Officer

Diageo

Louise was appointed Chief HR Officer in January 2022 and is the Executive member responsible for the design and implementation of Diageo's Inclusion and Diversity strategy. In her previous role as Global Talent Director, Louise led the creation of Diageo's Thriving Through Menopause guidelines in 2021 to raise awareness and understanding of menopause throughout the business. The guidelines are live in over 40 countries and in June, Louise championed Diageo to become the first global company to make the balance+ menopause app available to all employees. Under Louise's leadership as Global Talent Director, she helped to foster a culture with inclusion and diversity at its heart and developed Diageo's approach to talent development and acquisition. During her time in this role, she worked to drive the representation of women in leadership roles from 28% in 2016 to 42% in 2021.

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Chief Government Affairs and Public Policy Officer

BlackBerry Limited

Marjorie joined BlackBerry in 2020 as a corporate officer and the company's first Chief Government Affairs and Public Policy Officer, making her one of the few female Global Government Affairs/Public Policy C-suite leaders worldwide. As the top advisor to BlackBerry's Executive Chairman and CEO on worldwide government affairs and technical standards decisions, Marjorie has role-modeled gender diversity and women's inclusion across the company. She proactively endeavors to ensure that all voices and perspectives are considered in corporate decision-making and has mentored many women across the technology sector. Her multi-decade history of advocating for and mentoring women and promoting STEM education and careers for women has inspired an entire cohort of women (and men) at BlackBerry, who have joined Marjorie in promoting gender diversity and women's inclusion throughout the company and beyond.

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Managing Director & Co-Head of US Buyout and Growth

Carlyle

Carlyle's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council launched in 2013 as one of the first of its kind in the investment management industry. As well as being a leader on this council, Sandra plays a pivotal role in ensuring at least half of the firm's incoming classes are diverse. In the past year, she led the charge in re-evaluating and refining Carlyle's portfolio board diversity goals, which now includes ensuring that 30% of all directors on boards of Carlyle portfolio companies are diverse by 2023. As an active leader in Carlyle's Global Mentorship Program, which has had over 1,000 pairings globally since its inception in 2015, Sandra oversees more than 100 employees, 61% of whom are diverse (female or ethnic minority). She is a long-time Executive Sponsor of Carlyle's Women's Employee Resource Group, which creates inclusive environments for women to advance their skills and leadership potential through connection, mentorship and discussion.

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Business Transformation and Quality Leader

IDEMIA

Enna is a Founding Committee Member of Women in IDEMIA Network, WIN, facilitates WIN Circles in Boston, giving women a chance to come together in a safe space, and supported the launch of WIN's first Mentor/Mentee program. She spearheaded on-boarding recruiting vendors based in Puerto Rico to increase diversity for its Engineering roles and led the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, raising awareness of Latinas and their influence in collaboration with LatAm colleagues. Between 2020 and 2021, Enna launched a partnership between IDEMIA and the Boston Greater Chamber of Commerce, where she sent three employees to their Women's Leadership program yielding 2 of the women to be promoted internally, with one to a director-level position. She is also part of the global company's Ambassadors social media group to help elevate the voice of employees internally and externally. Enna has been an active public speaker, speaking at over 40 organizations, conferences, and workshops, raising awareness of Afro-Latinas in Technology, leading as a woman, sponsorship, and mentoring.

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Global Head of Legal Personnel

Reed Smith

In her position as the Global Head of Legal Personnel at Reed Smith, Casey oversees the firm's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Program, Women's Initiative Network, and Recruiting, Retention and Hiring Programs for lawyers. In 2021, she oversaw the launch of the Family Network, which included the introduction of benefits such as childcare, tutoring, and peer to peer networking, as well as resources to achieve a work-life balance across all family stages. Meanwhile the Family Support Initiative, which was launched in 2020 to address COVID-19 family challenges, was also enhanced. Other policies implemented under Casey’s leadership include a global flexible working policy to provide for agile work; expanded maternity and adoption leave policies; a family forming benefit with a leading global fertility benefits provider, and a Declared Pronoun policy focused on communicating preferred pronouns. Of the firm’s partner promotions in 2021, 42% have been women and 22% have been ethnic minorities.

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Chief Legal Officer

Bridgewater Associates

As Chief Legal Officer, Executive Committee member, Operating Committee member, and a Partner, Tracey is among the most senior leaders at Bridgewater. Her work spans initiatives designed to promote equality for all employees and a department-level D&I program. Under Tracey's leadership, Bridgewater instituted third party pay equity audits and is one of the only alternative asset managers to disclose pay equity data for women and people of color on their public website. In partnership with others on her team, she established the firm's first Pro Bono program, creating opportunities for attorneys to provide services to organizations that reflect their and Bridgewater's values around diversity. In addition, Tracey built a database of D&I industry memberships and conferences and established a development budget for each department member to attend. Furthermore, she promoted awareness and education by requiring diversity information from outside law firms and service providers and organizing department-wide D&I training within and outside the company.

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Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Philip Morris International

Suzanne is a leader in the global corporate, government, and NGO communities whose multi-decade focus on—and support for—emerging female leaders sets her apart. With a compelling strategic vision and sustained commitment, she actively supports mentoring and sponsoring the next generation of leaders around the world. Owing to the breadth of her experience—from working for multiple heads of state to her work with the United Nation’s Decade for Women Conference and the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to her corruption-fighting role at the World Bank, to serving as General Counsel and a trusted business adviser for a range of multinational companies, to her myriad board roles—Suzanne’s leadership is a model for how progress can be achieved. She continues to emphasize the critical role corporate governance engagement plays over the long term—all with the recognition that achieving meaningful change takes time and a champion to drive it forward.

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Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Public Equity at Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Goldman Sachs

As a passionate believer that diverse teams outperform, Katie is at the forefront of leading Goldman Sachs diversity efforts and is a champion for women at the firm and across the industry. She has built and leads one of the industry’s most gender diverse investing teams where over 50% of the team’s $330bn AUS is managed by female portfolio managers. She is a member of the Steering Committee for the Asset Management Division’s D&I Council and is the firm’s sponsor for the ‘Girls Who Invest’ program. Over the past four years, Katie has evolved the firm’s proxy voting policy to push for greater levels of diversity on public company boards and has seen significant improvement, with 68% of all-male boards voted against in 2019 having added at least one woman director. Externally, Katie serves on the Board of the Toigo Foundation, which seeks to advance inclusive leadership within finance and beyond.

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Executive Director, People

Selfridges

As Executive Director of People, Maria champions the representation of women within Selfridges by focusing on the cross-sectional data of female talent and creating more inclusive opportunities for female team members, particularly those from underrepresented and minority groups. In 2021, Maria set a target to increase female leadership in 'Director positions' to 50%, which was surpassed in 2022 (hitting 51%), while also increasing the number of female leaders from ethnic minorities in leadership roles. In 2021 and 2022, she created educational training for managers on Inclusivity, Menopause, and Mental Health. In March 2022, she hosted team panel discussions with 'Fertility Matters at Work' and launched the 'Fertility and Neonatal loss policy.' Furthermore, Maria has introduced new D&I Terms of Business for all partner recruitment agencies, where every candidate shortlist must be 50% female. Moreover, she has been sponsoring careers events that promote Black women within the Tech space and has mentored on Diversity in the Retail's Global Female Leaders program.

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President of Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure (II&I); Asia Pacific oversight

Dow

Jane is president of the Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure operating segment within Dow. With annual sales of $16 Billion, this segment provides innovative solutions to global markets including infrastructure, consumer, construction, mobility, and energy. Jane leads a diverse global leadership team comprised of 40% women, underscoring inclusion as a top business priority. As a member of Sadara Chemical Company’s and Stanley Black & Decker’s Board of Directors, Jane advocates for female representation in the workforce. Jane is also the Executive Sponsor of Dow’s Veterans Network Employee Resource Group focused on attracting, retaining, and mentoring active service members and military veterans. A true champion for gender equality, Jane’s executive-level speaking engagements have included: a notable keynote speech at the 2019 P.O.W.E.R. Up leadership development conference, co-sponsored by EY; and an executive-level industry panel at the March 2019 AFPM International Petrochemical Conference on "How Inclusion Ignites the Workforce in the Petrochemical Industry.

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Chief Revenue Officer

FactSet Research Systems

As the Chief Revenue Officer of FactSet, Helen is a committed advocate for driving equality and empowerment across races and genders. She is the company’s executive sponsor of the Asian Business Resource Group, a member of the Global Diversity Council, and an executive member of the Women’s Business Resource Group. Helen strongly believes in creating personal sponsorships and sharing advice on how to leverage differences into strengths. In addition to being an active speaker at FactSet, Helen has been a panelist at several external corporate events, such as the Women@Amazon’s "Achieving Gender Parity in AWS Partnerships” in 2020, EPAM's IWD 2021 "Lessons in Leadership" panel and HSBC's Latin American Women's conference that same year. As a result, she brings greater visibility to senior female executives, not only in a corporate area but also on the revenue-generating side.

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Former Chief Business Officer

Sandoz

Carol was an executive sponsor of the Sandoz resource groups Women in Leadership and GLOW, where she had the opportunity to amplify the voices of and actively support underrepresented groups at Sandoz. By helping to bring awareness to GLOW issues, Sandoz has seen positive momentum, including raising its first Pride flag on the Holzkirchen, Germany campus and creating "all-inclusive" bathrooms. She is a globally experienced, values-based leader. She was a member of the Sandoz Executive Committee and served as co-chair of the Sandoz Executive Diversity and Inclusion Council, promoting diversity and inclusion across the organization to create an equitable and representative culture. Carol also endorsed Sandoz's sustainable programs and policies, which support minority and underrepresented groups with, for example, extended parental leave and flexible work, executive sponsorships, and DE&I training.

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Partner Antitrust Practice

Mattos Filho

In 2016, Renata, along with other colleagues, founded the 4Women's Program, aimed at discussing and supporting the career development of all women at the firm. Since then, she continues to participate in discussions to bring new initiatives, such as the collective mentoring for women lawyers. She is highly involved in several others mentoring programs and has started to dedicate part of her time to other entities outside the firm. Renata is an active member of a female network called "Woman in Antitrust" (WIA) which gathers female lawyers, economists, and government officials in Brazil. She is currently participating as a mentor in the program organized by WIA and also on an initiative named "elas no jota," which has the aim of promoting and spreading the opinion of female lawyers by encouraging the publication of articles on law and economics for a Brazilian legal newsletter called "Jota."

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Managing Director, Global Head of Equities Quantitative Analysis

Citi

Since joining Citi, Anissa has been actively involved in increasing women’s representation in Markets, particularly in MQA (Markets Quantitative Analysis), an area of Wall Street in which women are traditionally underrepresented. At Citi, women's representation in Anissa’s group has meaningfully increased since she joined. She is also an MD sponsor for RISE, the women’s affinity network in Markets North America. The group organizes events ranging from mentoring, speaker series with women leaders, product teach-ins roundtable discussions, and regular networking events for women. Additionally, Anissa is a mentor to several junior women in Markets and a regular speaker and organizer of networking and career advancement events for women and has been a regular mentor also with Streetwise Partners for multiple years. She was one of the mentors in their first women-only mentorship program aimed at providing unemployed or underemployed women with professional mentorship, skills, resources, and access to networks they need to secure and maintain employment.

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Head of Future Vehicle and Mobility Services - Vice President at DEKRA

DEKRA

With a background of over 20 years in the Automotive industry, Meyseng considers it a part of her mission to mentor and sponsor the next generation of women in the workplace, providing confidence and opportunities for their own journeys. She is taking part in two Mentorship programs for women, one at DEKRA and one for the WAVE (women and vehicles in Europe) association. With another colleague, she created a small initiative called Women Circle @DEKRA aiming to promote gender diversity within the company. Furthermore, she strongly supported an HR initiative to create a dedicated budget for salary equality in France that has been in place for a few years. Outside of DEKRA, she is also an active member of the Lean-In Network. She is known within her team and peers as a woman who stands up for other women and dares to speak out for women’s equality and gender diversity.

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CFO of Deutsche’s Investment Bank

Deutsche Bank

MJ joined the CFO team in 2019 and is responsible for business aligned activities including strategy and planning, performance management, resource allocation and management reporting. She is also the COO for Fixed Income and Currencies.Since joining Deutsche Bank in 2010 MJ has held a number of positions, starting in Risk running Credit Operations, moving to Portfolio Risk Management focusing on the optimisation of financial resources across CIB and holding various COO roles in Structured Finance, GCT and Fixed Income. MJ holds an MBA from Audencia Business School and is Mum to a six year old boy.

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Senior Partner

McKinsey & Company

Gretchen has been the co-lead of McKinsey’s DEI efforts in North America in an official capacity since October 2021 and previously for the Mid-Atlantic office. She launched the Women and Families initiative to drive an integrated effort on gender equity across multiple dimensions. Gretchen also advocated for improvements to the parental leave and return from leave re-boarding programs, resulting in an enhanced offering designed in a manner inclusive of all family structures/types. In her career at McKinsey, she has always been very committed to people leadership and passionate about being an ally and sponsor for all under-represented colleagues.

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Executive Vice President and Lead Acquisition Integration Executive for the Brown Brothers Harriman Investor Services Business Integration

State Street Corporation

Donna is a member of State Street's Professional Women's Network, an employee resource group (ERG) that focuses on networking, coaching, and professional development opportunities for women; and also of the State Street Management Committee, which serves as the company's most senior strategy and policy-making teams, including implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives. In addition, Donna serves as a mentor in "Leading Women," a group of State Street's top female executives established to advance and sponsor senior women across the organization. Donna has a leadership role in State Street's 10 Actions Against Racism and Inequality, established in 2020 to help drive DEI issues both within the firm and beyond. As a Workstream Sponsor for Action #8: Representation Across the Industry, Donna and her team leverage partnerships across the industry and educational networks to advocate for industry representation and career opportunities for Black and Latinx talent, in addition to the creation of college and graduate internship programs designed to attract diverse talent to the industry.

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Chief Operating Officer for EMEA

BlackRock

Justine is an active participant within BlackRock's Women's network, Black Professionals Network, Women in Investments network, and the Administrative Professional network. As COO of EMEA BlackRock, her biggest focus is to normalize the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives in the firm's every action, to challenge and create a subtle change in the day-to-day. Justine’s role provides her with dozens of daily decisions that impact employees across the region. She approaches all of these with DEI as one of the core pillars—for example, bringing in parental leave coaching and supporting an internal program to develop and retain women, as well as a development program for Black professionals. Justine is also a Sponsor for BlackRock's participation in Black Women in Asset Management, a non-profit organization promoting the advancement of Black women working in asset management.

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Chief Compliance Officer, Institutional Clients Group & Citibank, N.A.

Citi

As Co-Chair of Citi's EMEA Women Affinity Steering Committee, Jennifer spearheaded the creation of initiatives, including the "Power Walk," bringing women and male allies together to walk in pairs, sharing stories in a mentoring conversation. In 2022, over 200 employees participated in 11 locations globally, with plans to expand in 2023. Jennifer is an advocate for gender diversity; hiring a number of high-profile women, improving her department's gender diversity globally and at senior levels. She is a mentor to several women and sponsors talent within Citi and pan- industry. Prior to joining Citi, Jennifer was the Co-Chair of EMEA D&I Council at a top-tier investment bank, where she executed a global D&I strategy, oversaw mentoring programs and panels, and drove progress toward representation targets. Furthermore, Jennifer was invited to ring the closing bell at the NYSE in celebration of International Women's day in 2022 in recognition of her diversity efforts.

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Senior Vice President and General Manager, U.S. Commercialization

Bristol Myers Squibb

Catherine Owen was recently appointed to SVP and General Manager, U.S. Commercialization. In this role, she has responsibility for Cardiovascular, Immunology and Oncology Commercialization at Bristol Myers Squibb. Prior to her current role, Catherine was SVP Major Markets at Bristol Myers Squibb and oversaw 19 global markets. Each market has an active B-NOW (BMS Network of Women) chapter focused on ensuring all women at BMS have equal opportunities to develop and advance their careers through programming, development, and mentorship. BMS has achieved gender parity across the company and is on track to achieve gender parity at the executive level by the end of 2022. Catherine is a mentor to many women leaders across BMS and an advocate for supporting wellbeing at work, as well as expanded family care leave so that working parents can thrive in their personal and professional roles. Catherine also mentors colleagues from previous roles, and is on the board of the Philadelphia Conference for Women, a non-profit professional and personal development program where she advises on women's leadership initiatives.

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CMO

Logitech

Najoh Tita-Reid is Logitech's CMO and an ambassador for the company's efforts to enable all people to pursue their passion in a way that is good for the planet. Previously she held senior roles at Hero AG, Bayer, Merck, GlobalHue and P&G. Throughout her career, Najoh has worked tirelessly to drive change and results, inspiring women to stand in their unique power and do the same. This includes driving equality of women’s representation, equal pay, and opportunities for career advancement. She has implemented psychological safety training and practices to establish environments that are safe for all employees, and women, to work and contribute fully. She is a mentor to over 20 women, coaching them to overcome barriers in achieving their career goals. Additionally, Najoh is a founder member of the first organization for Black CMOs that advocates for the next generation of talented and diverse women. Finally, she is an active speaker who shares advice on women's leadership to attract top female talent to join her organization and pursue their ambitions across sectors.

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Head of Carlyle's Global Investment Solutions

Carlyle

Ruulke is an active leader and a member of Carlyle's DEI Council, founded in 2013 as one of the first DEI initiatives of its kind within the investment management industry. She is an advocate for diversity and passionate about increasing the representation and leadership of women in private equity. Under her management, 45% of entry and mid-level employees are women, and 27% of senior leaders are too, which is an 8% increase since 2021. Since 2018, Ruulke has played an active leadership role as the Inaugural Chair of the Dutch committee of Level 20, the not-for-profit body established to inspire women to join and advance in the private equity industry. In addition, she focuses on attracting and retaining women into the private equity industry across the Netherlands, supporting women to reach the most senior levels, and organizing and running networking events and initiatives to connect women across the industry.

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EVP, Head of International

Audible, Inc.

As Executive Sponsor of Women@Audible, Audible's largest global impact group with chapters in the US, UK and DE, Susan champions women in business and guides future leaders in their commitment to career development. In leading Audible in nine marketplaces outside the US, Susan and her team have been intentional and purposeful with their responsibility as a content creator. In the past year, they increased their multi-million dollar fund designed to identify, produce and elevate local, diverse voices. Every International Audible marketplace delivered highly-rated, award-winning Original titles under this initiative. In addition to her work for Audible, Susan serves as Executor of the Christine Schneider Scholarship, part of NYU Stern’s Breakthrough Scholars Leadership Program. This four-year undergraduate initiative helps make college accessible to students from a diverse range of backgrounds, and offers cohort-based leadership workshops that complement extracurricular support and career development resources.

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Partner, Supply Chain Competency Leader, EY ASEAN

EY

After these past two years of the pandemic, Ishita’s focus is to push forward equitable policies and a safe work environment to drive gender equality. As the Supply Chain leader at EY, she has ensured that 50% of candidates considered for any role should be female. In addition, she has furthered EY’s culture of flexible working hours which could help young mothers manage work and childcare commitments. Ishita also has organized monthly sharing sessions by women leaders and has been a mentor to young women within the company. Thanks to her efforts, her team has 40% gender diversity, with 60% of managers being women. Additionally, Ishita strives to create a better working world outside her company, so she engages with the professional and start-up community in Singapore to promote gender diversity through inspirational speaking, collaboration, support, and mentoring.

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Marketing Lead - Chrome Enterprise EMEA

Google

Neha works at Google and has been championing DEI initiatives through mentoring and coaching for 8+ years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Neha launched a platform called WonderWoman to connect young girls with women mentors in the tech space to support each other on their journeys. Through this initiative Neha has helped several women globally progress their careers, find new routes to employment and grow their skills. She also runs regular school visits for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds to introduce them to the world of work, and to inspire the next generation of female leaders to pursue a career in technology. Born in India and immigrating to the UK at the age of 20, Neha has made it her mission to open doors for women across various backgrounds and walks of life through mentoring, volunteering, providing job opportunities and raising her voice.

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Principal Asset Management Consultant

Atkins

Marie is a principal consultant helping the Defence enterprise transform their approach to strategic investment decision making with expertise in technology adoption, asset management best practice and people-centric change. Her part-time and fully flexible role at Atkins enables her to apply her skills and experience to additionally support ED&I work around her primary role, for which she is particularly passionate.Marie is the founder and Chief Technology Officer for Speak Out Revolution, an award winning non-profit on a mission to cancel the culture of silence on workplace harassment and bullying in pursuit of truly inclusive workplaces. She led the development of the Speak Out Dashboard - novel, open source technology which transparently presents global workplace challenges for people who experience non-inclusive behaviours so organisations can access intelligent insights to optimally solve the problem within their sector. Marie regularly delivers talks, workshops, training, and consulting to organizations, institutes, and member groups who dare to make a difference for more inclusive workplaces for all.

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Senior Associate

Reed Smith

Natsayi is the Chair of Reed Smith’s NYC office’s DE&I committee, has helped to develop the office's Racial Equity Action Plan and is also an Associate Liaison for the office’s Women’s Initiative Network (“WINRS”). In 2020, she introduced an annual virtual Career Day program to NYC WINRS that connects low-income and homeless women served by the NYC Coalition for the Homeless' "First Step Program" with lawyers in NYC WINRS, who assisted First Step students with resume development, mock job interviews, and discussed issues women face (in the context of a job search). As part of the NYC office's REAP, Natsayi worked with colleagues to develop a pilot Associate Buddy Program in 2021, which she took the lead in taking global in 2022. She is dedicated to investing in the well-being and advancement of others, especially women facing systematic barriers to employment.

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Sr.Manager- Global Strategic Accounts (EMEA)

LinkedIn

Namita Singh Thakur is a leader within the Global Strategic Accounts for LinkedIn in EMEA.  She has also been the  Co-Chair of the Women@LinkedIn Employee Resource Group (ERG) for EMEA for the last 2 years.  LinkedIn has made great strides in gender diversity and currently prides itself on achieving parity across all levels of the organization. Throughout the year, Women@LinkedIn has found ways to bring its mission alive through a line-up of events, L&D Programs, workshops and speaker series. Besides her formal involvement in the ERG, she regularly participates in speaking engagements related to women's education, empowerment & endorsement. Outside of her formal role, she is passionate about arts & democratization of art & regularly supports emerging artists and artists within under-represented racial groups as a patron, art-collaborator and collector. She is particularly perceptive about women & their role in corporate/social life & personal experiences that have shaped their journeys.

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U.S. Head of Sales, Rare Disease

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

As a founding member of Alnylam's Employee Resource Network (ERN) for women, iThrive, Tiffany engages leaders at Alnylam to promote gender diversity and strengthen career growth for staff through advocacy and mentorship. Outside her role as Head of Sales, she sits on the DE&I leadership team, a cross-functional, employee-driven group supporting internal DE&I objectives and workstreams. Tiffany works closely with the talent acquisition team to understand how they can refine their hiring process by developing internal talent and communications and recruitment guidelines for gender diversity. In addition, she is an ambassador and an active participant in the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA). This women-run organization furthers the advancement of women in health care globally. She is also a member of her local chapter of the National Sales Network (NSN), a national non-profit focused on supporting the professional development of sales professionals.

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Delivering Deal Value Director

PwC Mexico

In addition to her commercial role, she is also the Director of the Firm's first D&I Staff Council. As part of her work within the council, she leads the gender inclusion efforts to reduce gaps, stereotypes, and unconscious bias both inside the Firm and within our process, through conversations with senior leaders. She promotes initiatives to support women who suffer, or are at risk of suffering, any forms of gender-based violence by providing tools and a support network. Diana co-founded the Deals Women Network (DWN), which promotes networking and skills development for women. Another program she co-founded was Women in Mergers & Acquisitions Consulting. Her involvement in this project includes speaking in online forums focused on inviting female students and graduates to apply to Deals' open positions.

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Marketing Associate

Bridgewater Associates

Lexie Toorock joined Bridgewater in 2012, and she is a relationship manager, focused on business development and sales, reporting directly to the co-Head of Client Service. Lexie is a founder of Bridgewater’s Diversity and Inclusion Council in Client Service, a member and early builder of Bridgewater’s Women’s Network, and a leader in the firm’s central DEI efforts. She has consistently mentored women and others throughout the firm, while also hosting various firmwide discussions on business and leadership. Beyond Bridgewater, she serves on the board of LSA Family Health Service, a nonprofit focused on assisting families and children by meeting their basic needs for food, healthcare, education, and a safe home, and she is a significant contributor to fundraising efforts and strategy for Grameen America, the largest microfinance nonprofit in the US. Lexie holds a B.S. in Strategic Management and Economics from Babson College.

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Head of Employer Brand

EY

For over two years, Farrah, alongside her day job, has served as Co-Chair of the EY Women's Network. In this role, she has led EY's largest ERG with 3,500+ members across 25 UK locations. She co-leads a team of volunteers to accelerate gender parity at EY through various initiatives with 70+ events delivered in the last two years covering body positivity, intersectionality, everyday sexism, allyship, and menopause topics. The network also runs a Conversation Series with women role models across the firm in fireside chats. She has led EY's International Women's Day celebrations for the last two years. In addition, Farrah hosted, developed, and led EY's largest IWD Awards to date, receiving a record-breaking 600 nominations across the firm celebrating women role models and allies. Furthermore, Farrah launched EY's EMEIA Women in Technology Program with the United Nations to mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

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Senior Professional Support Lawyer

Slaughter and May

Since becoming the Gender Equality Network (GEN) Chair in 2017, the network has grown to over 100 members and organized various events. These include a panel consisting of four women partners discussing career journeys and the legal industry, co-hosted by Macfarlanes and NOTICED for International Women's Day (IWD), a talk by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi, authors of Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change, co-hosted by the Diverse Network in 2021 and a roundtable with Angela Darlington for IWD, co-hosted by the LGBTQ+ network, on workplace inclusion of lesbian and bi women. Tanja also organized the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign that offered free breast examinations by a nurse and helped put together a podcast series for International Day of Families that shares the experiences of having children. She has also been mentoring with the 30% Club supporting mentees with career planning and the King's College Women in Law Society Mother-Daughter mentoring program.

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Head of Property Fund Management

Aviva

Suzie is the Co-chair of Aviva Ireland's (Gender) Balance network. She has created opportunities for the network to educate colleagues about all genders, gender discrimination, stereotyping and allyship. In addition, she has escalated a review of the company’s equal parental leave policy to provide equality for all parents. Suzie is also on the Diversity & Inclusion Committee and has addressed the gender imbalance at senior levels at Aviva by promoting the need for diversity of thought at all decision-making forums. She supports gender conversations across the organization, encourages the elimination of 'manels' (male-only panels), and has established a mentor circle program that has helped women mentees be successful in progressing their careers further and faster. Suzie has also been working as a Council member of the 30% Club with senior leaders of organizations across Ireland to collectively drive change in companies' attitudes towards gender balance and identify ways to progress gender equality.

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Executive Director

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Lin is a thought-leader in delivering the intersection of business, diversity and behavioural science. Alongside her role at Goldman Sachs, she has created ground-breaking talk series such as “Diversity – From Awareness to Action” focusing on behavioural science and how changes happen, to create inclusive cultures both internally and partnering with clients and driving changes in the industry. She articulates East Asians' experience and leads discussion on Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, focusing on intersectionality of gender and race. She created “How to find your voice” series to empower women, especially as working parents. Lin believes that inspiration alone isn’t enough, we need to accelerate learning to equip individuals and organisations. She regularly shares her insights with internal teams, and industry groups such as CFA, ICAEW & Lean-in. She influences via leadership positions at Diversity Project, UK Chinese Women Connect, and Rising Network, and is recognised by multiple awards for her work.

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Director, Head of Derivatives XVA Trading

SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Ltd

At Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)’s Nikko Capital Markets, Eunice is an active committee member of the BALANCE network, a group which supports gender balance and aims to empower all female and male colleagues. Through BALANCE, Eunice hosted the ‘Learning from Leaders’ session where she interviewed the CEO of SMBC Nikko Capital Markets in front of an audience of 200 colleagues. Eunice’s other work championing diversity has seen her actively mentoring and tutoring for the “Young Women into Finance” programme and Career Lead to help develop the female talent pipeline for the finance industry, as well as participating in D&I initiatives such as multiple women’s networking and support groups. Outside of SMBC Eunice founded and now leads the Lean In (Women in Banking & Finance) circle, connecting and empowering women who have career ambitions in finance. She runs monthly and sometimes bi-monthly events for the circle’s 400+ members.

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Head of Markets Advocacy for ETF & Index Investments

BlackRock

Samantha is the Head of Markets Advocacy for ETF & Index Investments at BlackRock. In addition to this role, Samantha co-chairs the firm’s Associate Development Program (ADP), which helps Associate women at BlackRock develop their personal impact, executive presence, and leadership skills to achieve their career goals. After completing ADP in 2017, Samantha chaired its Alumni program for two years before taking leadership of ADP in 2020. 170 women across BlackRock’s Americas offices have participated in ADP, over 50% of whom have been promoted at least once since completing the program. Samantha also serves as a mentor, formally in BlackRock’s mentorship programs for underrepresented groups, and informally throughout different parts of the firm. Since 2019, Samantha has been an active member of the Women’s Bond Club (WBC), whose mission is to advance women in financial services and shape the industry’s future; she received the WBC Rising Star Award in 2020.

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Content Operations Manager

London Stock Exchange Group

As a member of the D&I Committee, Genevieve’s goal is to share the voice of her colleagues and push the DEI agenda. In 2021, she was elected Global Co-Chairperson of LSEG Women Inspired Network (WIN) and has worked closely with the Executive Sponsor & D&I team to push for a more gender diverse and racially diverse company. To help attain the company’s leaders' goals, Genevieve holds monthly meetings with WIN Chapter leads across the globe and sets objectives, works on initiatives such as mentoring, leadership development training & sharing updates to ExCo and D&I. In addition, she has worked with the talent team on focus group discussions to understand the slow progress of talent in Asia. As a result, she partnered with various networks in the Philippines and Co-founded the Women Inter-industry Network to push the D&I agenda.

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Head of Marketing & Comms - Italy, GroupM - PR & Marketing Director - Italy, WPP

GroupM

Paola is Operations Director of the Winspire leadership team, a cross-agencies WPP Italy project inspired by the WPP Stella Project, whose aim is supporting female talents and leadership with internal/external audiences and stakeholders. It collaborates with some industry big players to create initiatives dedicated to DEI. Some of the projects Paola has been responsible for organizing have included a ‘Fast Forward Women’ training with Facebook, inspiring women in their careers; a WPP ‘#IAmRemarkable’ workshop with Google Italia; pro-bono activities for women entrepreneurs in the world of technology and to create adv campaigns for associations that support women in troubled countries (e.g. Afghan women). Paola is a mentor for the young generation of marketers, she has been invited to join as a speaker to external events, such as WomenXImpact, an event dedicated to women empowerment where she had the chance to be a role model for marketing community.

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Europe, Middle East, Africa and India Commercial Director Dow Consumer Solutions

Dow

Margherita was named the Global Leader for the Dow Women's Inclusion Network (WIN) Employee Resource Group in 2020. For four years prior to this she led Dow WIN in the EMEAI Region, helping to move the needle for female representation at leadership levels to 50%. Margherita was responsible for developing and implementing the group’s strategy, including setting up a Female Sponsorship Program. Established in partnership with INSEAD Business School, it was the first ever sponsorship program for female talent in the EMEAI region. Within 18 months 50% of the female talent who participated had been promoted to leadership roles. Last year Margherita developed the second cohort of the program, which is aiming to help promote 80% of the 36 women participating within 24 months. In 2023 the 3rd edition of the Female Talent Sponsorship program will be run, to continue the focused efforts in developing Dow Female talents across the organization. Other initiatives she has headed up have included attaining an Equal Pay Certification for Dow Switzerland and sponsoring the role model stories of Dow’s ‘Hidden Heroes’.

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Partner & Director, Regional Lead, Financial Restructuring & Sustainable Financing

Boston Consulting Group

Ricole is a committee member of SEA Women@BCG Network and leads the Women@BCG Network in Singapore. She organized internal and external events to promote gender equality, such as International Women's Day celebrations, mothers’ appreciation, and panelist discussions with senior women business leaders on career navigation. Ricole encourages internal women affiliation and support through creating open and transparent communication channels amongst all women staff in BCG Singapore. She collaborates with the recruitment team to ensure women hiring and acts as a mentor to younger women colleagues of BCG. Furthermore, Ricole has participated in various seminars and discussions on gender equality and inclusions within the industry, such as women in shipping, demystifying gender in restructuring, the role of men in mentoring women, and personal branding for professional women.

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Principal

Oliver Wyman

In addition to her role as a Principal in the firm’s Financial Services and Digital practices, Rainie leads the Hong Kong chapter of Women at Oliver Wyman (WOW), an employee resource group focused on promoting, supporting, and empowering gender diversity both within the firm and for the local community. An advocate for coaching, mentoring, and learning, Rainie is passionate about crafting sustainable career paths for young women as well as driving broader education, D&I and social impact initiatives in and outside of Oliver Wyman. She also serves in various volunteering capacities at not-for-profit and/or public sector organizations, including the Hong Kong PropTech Association, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, the Hong Kong Blockchain Society, and the Cherie Blair Foundation, providing coaching and mentorships to female entrepreneurs and students.

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Senior Vice President for Business Development

Teleperformance Philippines

Michelle is the new SVP, Business Development of Teleperformance. In her previous organization, Accenture, Michelle led the company’s Women’s Network in the Philippines, with a group objective to make women and women advocates feel empowered, connected, and valued. Key initiatives she spearheaded included the monthly Women’s Talk and the #SELFMADE TALK SERIES – a quarterly podcast that features inspiring and #SelfMade women. For Accenture in the Philippines’ International Women’s Day 2022, Michelle and the community ran the Designing for Inclusion virtual learning session. Since March 2021, she has also served as a sponsor for Google’s #IAmRemarkable initiative that strives to empower women and underrepresented groups to speak openly about their accomplishments and promote themselves to others, breaking gender-related modesty norms. Michelle is grateful for the opportunity to drive her I&D advocacy in her previous org and looks forward to making an impact in Teleperformance.

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Research and Development Engineer

The Pennsylvania State University - Applied Research Laboratory

Meghan co-founded the Women’s Strategic Synergy Group at ARL Penn State, which identifies issues and advocates for positive change. Efforts under her leadership include hosting events to build employee retention, promoting a positive and inclusive work culture, facilitating listening sessions for women, and successfully advocating for parental leave. Within WSSG, she helped develop a new mentorship program for all new employees who started remotely due to COVID, and mentored three women across two different mentorship programs. She also advises on action plans to increase workforce retention and diversity in recruitment. In 2021, she served as a panel member on a DEI-focused empowering women Intelligence National Security Alliance event, where she provided perspective on fostering a sense of belonging to underrepresented groups, including women in technical fields and leadership positions. She is a vice-chair of the Board of Directors for Centre Safe, a not-for-profit that empowers survivors of domestic violence.

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Head of International Disputes - Europe

Vinson & Elkins

Louise is the president of Arbitral Women and is the office lead for the Women's Initiative (WI) at Vinson & Elkins, placing her at the forefront of the WI's activities in London. Her responsibilities have included organizing internal skills training and client events; writing on the topic of diversity; spearheading a cross-office senior female networking and mentorship program; mentoring women colleagues herself both formally and informally; and acting as talent lead for her practice group. She is also the office lead for the Practice Group Talent/Diversity Team, a role which has seen her drive D&I efforts including a schools outreach mentoring program; internal training on topics such as implicit biases and DISC assessment; cultural and religious celebrations; and a London office Book Club to discuss race and gender issues. Together with Human Resources and graduate recruitment teams Louise has worked to ensure the diverse hiring, retention and promotion of lawyers at the firm.

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Senior Vice President (SVP)

Silicon Valley Bank

Catherine is a strong advocate for DE&I and this year Co-Founded SVB’s first EMEA Gender Employee Resource Group (ERG), engaging with over 500 colleagues to drive change towards a gender-balanced, inclusive and equitable workplace. Alongside Senior Leadership, Catherine led the launch of 6 Gender-ERG working-groups: Talent, Inclusion, Ecosystem, Working-Families, Comms/Events and Allyship, with KPIs aimed at moving the needle for female senior leadership representation to 50% by 2030. She also collaborates on cross-ERG initiatives to improve representation, beyond just gender. For IWD, Catherine chaired multiple NPS leading internal & public events to over 400 people, promoting gender equality among clients/employees in the Finance & Technology Sectors. Catherine is Founder of The Women in Business Society, a free global community serving over 1000 women, providing opportunities to share knowledge, network & create connections. She also mentors women and delivers masterclasses in addition to publishing a monthly magazine including professional development resources.

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Head of Lending, Transaction Management and Mujeres al Mundo

HSBC Bank Argentina

Melisa is Co-Founder of HSBC’s Mujeres al Mundo (MAM), a program aimed at accelerating the economic inclusion and empowerment of women, based on four pillars: training and networking, mentoring, international connectivity and financial services. From 2021-to date, HSBC Argentina has disbursed US$350million in loans for women-led SMEs. Over 4,000 businesswomen/entrepreneurs have already signed up as part of MAM community, which has recently been expanded to Uruguay and Mexico, consolidating a regional strategy to unlock the potential of women’s market, highlighting the important role they play in the economy with a comprehensive proposition to help them thrive. For MAM, Melisa trained +125 relationship managers and developed an ambassadors network to embed gender perspective in the business. Melisa chaired Balance ERG for three years (2017-19), engaging +100 colleagues to promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the workplace. She is women’s mentor at Vital Voices and Cherie Blair Foundation and member of DEI committee at BritCham.

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Director, Global Travel, Events and Ground Transportation

Fidelity International

In 2021, Carol developed and launched a certificate-accredited two-year apprenticeship scheme for young adults from minority groups, collaborating with Fidelity suppliers within the Corporate Property Services (CPS) business area. She is proactively involved in promoting intersectional D&I within Fidelity and being a role model by supporting the Social Mobility strand and Cultural Diversity Network Focus Group. Carol has also been a panellist on various internal webinars on D&I topics, especially promoting and championing mental health and invisible illness inclusion, and Black History Month. Additionally, she has featured in the internal “Senior Leaders going back to Grassroots” campaign to promote diversity and inclusion in CPS. She is a TAMS Diversity Equity and Inclusion Advisor and founding member and Advisory Board member for LEVEL all Women's Travel network.

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Head of UK&I Chief Risk Office

AXA UK

Caroline chairs AXA’s Balance Network, which focuses on gender equality and supporting working families. Over 2 years, Caroline has supported the release of a Home School Hub, to support parents home-schooling their children during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the launch of a Women’s Wellbeing Hub, to provide a supportive resource for women and help educate those across the organisation. During this time, over 15 ‘People Like Me’ vlogs have been released, spotlighting those who don’t let prejudice, stereotypes or perceived shortcomings prevent them from achieving their goals. In addition, over 5 Virtual Speed Mentoring sessions have been run which connect mentees and mentors to have conversations around career progression, networking and interview skills. Caroline also supported with the update of the Menopause Policy and the creation of a Domestic Abuse Policy and Hub, with the aim of increasing awareness and creating a safe and supportive environment for anyone suffering.

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Head of Global Banking Sales - Global Trade and Receivables Finance

HSBC

As Head of Global Banking Sales at HSBC, Selma supports gender inclusion within different groups and committees inside the bank, has mentored upcoming women within HSBC since 2019, and has been establishing partnerships with stakeholders to advance gender inclusion. Selma is an ally of the LGBT+ community and a co-founder of a start-up that created a blind recruiting app, to avoid discrimination in the recruiting process, accelerating the diversity agendas of corporates in Europe. In addition, she has moderated interviews with female executives who support diversity efforts in their organizations.

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Corporate Director of Sustainability

Dow

Alongside her role as Corporate Director of Sustainability, Eunice actively mentors across Dow’s ten Employee Resource Groups. Specifically, the Women's Inclusion Network’s (WIN) +5 program, matches up-and-coming female employees with potential mentors. For this affinity network, she has provided mentoring and coaching support for women across functions and regions including Supply Chain, Purchasing, Commercial, R&D and Manufacturing. Through these engagements, female leaders have successfully been able to position themselves for broader accountability within their current roles as well as for promotions. As the keynote speaker for Dow WIN’s partnership with EY, Eunice actively shared her personal experiences throughout her career as an African American woman, wife and business leader. As a result of authentically telling her story, many young female leaders asked Eunice to serve as their mentor for her to coach them through challenging business and personal situations, whilst male leaders in attendance recognized the importance of allyship.

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Content Marketing Manager, Middle East & Africa

Kantar

As Content Marketing Manager for the Middle East and Africa and Chairperson of the South African Transformation & Sustainability Forum, Leigh works closely with the company’s regional I&D champions to ensure I&D is woven into cultural DNA. She has crafted communications about South African results from the WFA’s first census into diversity, equality, and inclusion issues in the global marketing industry and industry-specific Kantar findings on gender diversity and the power of inclusive portrayal. As Communications & Engagement Lead of the Women at Kantar Employee Resource Group (ERG), she ensured their relaunch tied in with the global International Women's Day 2022 theme #BreakTheBias with a live internal Disruption Talk session. Externally, Leigh partners with Women in Research (WIRe) and has served as advisor for the Women in Marketing Africa chapter since being panel moderator for their ‘Female representation in the media: who controls the narrative’ continental launch at Loeries 2018.

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Head of Repowering & Life Extension

RES

Karen Anne’s a founding member of RES' Global Gender Affinity Network, which promotes gender equality in RES across 11 countries and which was recently awarded the Culture Change Award at the Scottish Renewables Young Professionals Green Energy Awards. In addition, she’s the Leader of the Career Progression workstream that aims to eliminate barriers to progression that different genders face. Karen Anne’s currently leading a review of Gender Pay Gap Reporting (GPGR) to identify opportunities for improving RES' GPGR. She’s also been mentoring, and advised on changes to the internal communications campaign that resulted in a 75% increase in female mentors this year and improved the gender diversity in RES' internal mentoring program. Since 2022, Karen Anne’s been working on an internal sponsorship program that addresses the under-sponsorship of women and non-binary people, alongside a return to work program which will support people of all genders to return to work after an extended career break.

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Head of Operations Risk Management

Capital One

When Jennie joined Capital One over two years ago, it was with the understanding that she would continue to drive a gender lens in the Financial Services sector. She is currently the UK Chapter co-lead for the internal gender Business Resource Group empowHER, as well as serving on the UK Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Partners forum which pushes for progress with initiatives such as getting more women into senior leadership roles. She brings a gender lens to all activity and conversations including those within the REACH ethnicity network, and frequently takes part in collaboration between REACH and empowHER such as Career Pathways to build community support outside of the organization, actively engaging in local school career sessions. Some of the key initiatives Jennie has been responsible for have included establishing safe space meetings to discuss key challenges; running regular bite-sized sessions where senior women share their five guiding principles; and expanding the mentoring program to include reciprocal mentoring.

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Product Development & ESG Sr. Associate

WisdomTree Asset Management

Heather leads WisdomTree’s Women's Initiative Network (WIN) and has been actively involved since the group was founded in 2019. She developed an internal mentoring program launched in 2022 to connect women at WisdomTree with leaders who can help them achieve their career goals. Heather joined WisdomTree in 2018 as part of the firm’s Product Development team focused on managing the launch of new exchange traded funds (ETFs) and overseeing relationships with key service providers. As of February 2022, Heather also began co-leading the firm’s Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiative. Outside work, Heather serves on the Associate Board for Rising Ground, a charitable organization that supports children and families in the NYC-area. At her previous firm, BNY Mellon, she was an active member of the firm's women’s network.

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Senior associate of the Charities, Social Business & Human Rights practice

Mattos Filho

Juliana is a lawyer at Mattos Filho, an international Law Firm based in Brazil, and part of 4Women, a group that works to boost gender equity and promote women to leadership positions through training, mentoring, and the creation of an increasingly strong and welcoming professional network. In 2019, the 4Women program was recognized by Valor Econômico and Women in Leadership Latin America (WILL) in the ‘Women in Leadership’ category, and in 2022, it was one of our internal programs that has granted us with the “Work-life balance” recognition by Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Awards. Juliana is a feminist lawyer who is concerned with promoting gender equality and inclusive environments in her team, in her relationship with stakeholders and in the legal solutions she proposes to clients. Recently, Juliana became a mother and has carried out actions aimed at a more inclusive motherhood and integrated into the corporate environment. Juliana is also involved in pro bono initiatives offered by the firm to feminist and women’s organizations in Brazil, such as Instituto Alziras, Instituto AzMina, Me Too Brasil, Casa Sueli Carneiro ( an important institution that honors Sueli’s black feminist activism).

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Treasury Business Partner and Co-chair of Gender Network

NatWest Group

Siona has been Co-chair of the Gender Network since 2021 and oversaw a review of the Male Allies Network in early 2022, providing scope, coaching, and supporting review leaders, re-launching it with new aims and objectives in May 2022. Siona also directed the re-launch of the recruitment process for volunteers to give more people the opportunity to be involved in the network. This led to the publication of 36 vacancies in May 2022 alone, with most of these filled by people new to volunteering, enhancing their professional development opportunities. Furthermore, she championed change for the maternity returners process, collecting feedback and liaising with the Family & Carers network and senior leaders. This has provided HR with the direction to enable change. Lastly, Siona aims to create cultural change through influencing for policy reviews, including, for example, women's safety when traveling.

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Vice President, Data Operations & Client Services

S&P Global

Ashlee founded Women in Maritime, a women’s networking group in the Maritime and Trade business line at S&P Global. Under Ashlee’s leadership, IHS Markit (now S&P Global) was the seventh company to gain Charter certification by Maritime UK for efforts to address gender fairness, equality, and inclusion within the maritime sector. The company actively achieved a 50/50 gender split through its Early Careers program for the Maritime & Trade business for the past three years, and Ashlee’s team comprised of 40% women in 2021. Additionally, Ashlee is a global board representative of WINS Global (Women's initiative for networking and success) at S&P Global, responsible for communication strategies, raising awareness, ensuring the value of diversity in the workplace is understood and communication is inclusive. Externally, Ashlee is a volunteer and mentor for the 'Y's Girls program', an early and effective mentoring initiative in East Surrey for girls aged 9-14 years.

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Legal Manager, Disputes

Herbert Smith Freehills South Africa LLP

Plaxedes is an experienced Disputes lawyer in the Alternative Legal Services (ALT) team at Herbert Smith Freehills. She was integral in the set-up of ALT Johannesburg in 2017, which forms part of an innovative team of 350 lawyers, technologists and legal analysts operating across 11 global locations. As well as serving on the "Pro Bono" and "Race Champions" Committees, Plaxedes was instrumental in setting up ALT's Social, Diversity, CSR and Mental Health Committees. In addition to managing complex cross-jurisdictional projects, Plaxedes’ responsibilities include recruitment of legal analysts, as part of the market-leading International Legal Development Programme. Plaxedes champions individual uniqueness and diversity and as a result, more than half of the legal analysts recruited in 2021 were women. Outside of work, Plaxedes founded "Pink Power", a charity raising funds for breast cancer patients' treatment. She has also fundraised to enable a Biokinetics student to complete her second year of studies.

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Senior Creative Learning Lead

Media Zoo

Yasmine is passionate about creating safe and supportive spaces for women, and has hosted workshops on 'Exploring the Female Experience' for IWD, as well as chairing Allyship events to enable male employees to become better allies to women. Yasmine has developed training to ensure recruiters remove biased language in the recruitment process, to encourage female applicants. She has also championed a company-wide showcase that celebrated unsung women and their contributions. She set up and now leads the Inclusion Group at Media Zoo. Yasmine developed the first parental coaching program while working at News UK. This enabled women to quickly reintegrate into the workplace, reducing anxiety and imposter syndrome. Furthermore, she set up the first internal business-wide mentoring program, with a particular focus on championing women to mentor other women. Yasmine was the Gold winner of the Rising Star Award in 2021 for the impact of her Diversity and Inclusion work

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Senior Manager, Communications

VMLY&R

Jacquie is co-chair of Lumina, an internal employee resource group for those who identify as women, that creates an environment where all people are valued and treated equally. It promotes engagement in policy creation, forward-moving education, opportunities to connect, personal development, professional recognition, and support. In March 2022, Jacquie spearheaded a movement to change VMLY&R's bereavement policy to allow for pregnancy loss to be included and available for both parents to use. In 2022, Jacquie has been an outspoken voice for gender diversity and women's inclusion. In March, she was a speaker on a panel about "Motherhood and Bias," and in May, she assisted in running multiple panels about Reproductive Healthcare. The sessions, available for all U.S. agency employees, provided 650-plus attendees with education and a safe space to share concerns about the leaked supreme court ruling.

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Head of PR and Campaigns

NOW: Pensions

Samantha has DEI at her core, and she is a member of several groups, including the Diversity Project and internal D&I Steering Committee and the Working Parents And Carers Network, of which she is also the founder. In addition, Samantha is a member of the Pride network, Race and Culture network and Gender Inclusion Network. Since 2019, she has been campaigning to raise awareness of pension wealth inequality. She has produced four industry-leading reports since 2019, which have gained international media coverage, reaching an audience of 2 billion +. For years, Samantha has been promoting DEI activities within and outside of her organization and pushing to create greater equality for all. As a recently qualified financial adviser, Samantha is passionate about helping women to understand their pension gaps and how they might close them to reach their retirement goals.

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Vice President, Islamic Marketing

Ogilvy Consulting

As one of the few high-profile women of color at Oglivy Shelina plays an active role in pushing the company’s D&I agenda, sitting on the Inclusion boards of both Oglivy and WPP. As well as chairing key public and internal sessions, such as industry discussions on unconscious bias and women, Shelina has represented Ogilvy at International Women's Day events. In the past she has hosted a women’s speed mentoring scheme, and today she mentors junior talent herself with a focus on women and women of color. She is the bestselling author of the memoir Love in a Headscarf about her experiences as a Muslim woman. Her children’s book debut was ‘The Extraordinary Life of Serena Williams’. In May 2022 she published “BeYOUtiful” an illustrated book for empowering girls to understand what it means to be beautiful and to decide for themselves.

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Project Manager at Oliver Wyman Dubai

Oliver Wyman

Amal co-led Women at Oliver Wyman (WOW), the employee resource group for gender equity, at the India and Middle East office. In 2021, she led a team of 14 to organize a large program around International Women’s Day which lasted for 30 days and offered talks and discussions and semi-weekly newsletters. The program saw increased engagement compared to previous years, tripling the number of event attendees. Outside Oliver Wyman, Amal worked with Nama Women Advancement Establishment in the UAE. This included moderating two panel discussions on business and entrepreneurship, coaching upcoming Emirati women entrepreneurs, and delivering workshops on business ideation to 200+ women. Amal’s first work on gender was creating a dance installation around gender roles which she performed at the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival 2012. Amal’s inspiration is her mother, who dedicated her life to support women in Palestine and is working relentlessly to champion women in legislation and society

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EMEA Application Engineering Manager & North Europe STEM Champion

3M

Sarah initially trained in ballet until an inspirational teacher steered her towards a rewarding career in STEM, a story she recently shared in a TEDx talk entitled “Why we need STEM role models who are a bit less brilliant” which challenged the genius scientist stereotype. A Technical Manager at global science-based technology company, 3M, and working parent, Sarah is a role model and champion for diversity in STEM. She chairs the 3M EMEA Technical Women's Leadership Forum which has delivered #IAmRemarkable workshops to over 500 people and was recently appointed as North Europe STEM Champion enabling her to take her STEM volunteering to a new level and support 3M’s pledge to create five million unique STEM and Skilled Trades learning experiences for underrepresented individuals by the end of 2025. A governor at Farnborough College of Technology, she was recognised as a ‘Rising Star in Education’ in the WeAreTheCity Rising Star Awards 2022.

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Head of ESG Client Experience

BlueBay Asset Management

Koycheva contributed to the establishment of BlueBay’s women’s forum, which she subsequently restructured to bring greater intersectionality. Now, as co-chair of the RBC BlueBay Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Forum she works on creating a DEI vision and strategy, organizing various work streams and establishing a diversity data initiative. She actively collaborates with the Employee Resource Groups of BlueBay's parent company, RBC, and other financial organizations. In addition to spearheading the firm’s partnerships with GAIN, 100BlackInterns and SEO London, Elena has led BlueBay's International Women’s Day events over the years. Elena is a member of the RBC BlueBay Corporate Responsibility Committee, Charity Forum, and RBC’s RWomen ERG. Externally, Koycheva leads the CFA UK Job Profiles working group and is a member of the CFA UK Volunteering and  Networking Steering Committees. She promotes greater D&I awareness as the CAIA London chapter head. Koycheva is a member of the 100 Women in Finance MidCareer Committee, mentors in cross-industry mentoring programs and is a Diversity Project Ambassador.

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Senior Associate

King & Spalding LLP

Sarah is a member of the firm-wide Women's Affinity Group, which plans and hosts a number of events each year to promote leadership training and mentoring. As well as being a member of the Hiring Committee and helping to give platforms to diverse women candidates, she also serves, through the firm's formal mentoring program, as a link with new associates, meeting them on a frequent basis in order to ensure their success, and making introductions to partners and other associates. As part of the firm's pro bono program, Sarah has worked with numerous organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Youth About Business, and Street Law. Sarah also leads the Credit Abuse Resistance Education program in the Atlanta area. Externally, she is a member of the Junior League, which helps to promote voluntarism, develop women leaders, and inspire people to positively impact the community. Moreover, Sarah works directly with victims of sex trafficking through a Junior League partnership with Wellsprings Living.

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Co-Founder

Mazuma

Lucy is Co-Founder of Mazuma, has led a women's management training program and has been actively promoting women in tech. She also led a campaign to improve female healthcare in the UK, which resulted in the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health updating their guidelines and the NHS reviewing training. The petition reached almost 35,000 signatures. Lucy’s campaigning for better minor gyno care hit the headlines, and she appeared on BBC Breakfast, and ITV on numerous radio channels, as well as being featured in Vogue, The Daily Mail, and the BBC. Lucy was also involved in writing the Women's Health Plan for Wales.

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Director, Business Manager

Standard Chartered Bank

Throughout her 10 year international career working across Zambia, UK and Germany, O’Brien has been an advocate and champion of D&I both at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and externally with a focus on increasing representation of female leaders and minority ethnic groups. At SCB, she is the co-chair of the Gender Network in Germany and has played a significant role in advocating for important role that mentorship, sponsorship, coaching has in one’s career. In July 2021, was nominated as one of the 20 current and future Black Leaders at Standard Chartered, amplifying their voice by sharing life experiences, knowledge, and advice as part of Black Leaders Awareness Day. O'Brien is passionate about women empowerment and is also a Director at When Females Lead, a not-for-profit organization that aims to empower and raise confident women leaders across the African continent and beyond through Mentorship & Career Guidance (mentoring over 200 young female professionals) and uplifting vulnerable children.

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Customer Journey Developer

NatWest Group

At the NatWest Group Gender Network; Lauren has taken on the role of Initiatives & Partnerships Lead and sits on the Leadership Team board. Her DEI work includes building an award support hub including an Awards Pairing Programme to encourage more women at NatWest to nominate themselves for awards. As a result, since 2020 the bank has seen almost 100 women being shortlisted for awards externally. Additionally, she developed Woman’s Worth to support c.2000 women with managing their finances, and the Lean In Circles she launched currently has 30 circles running with 400 people involved. Other initiatives Lauren has kickstarted include Google’s #IamRemarkable with 30 facilitators delivering workshops to over 1500 colleagues 13 months. Also launching MentorHER; a Gender-based reciprocal mentoring programme with over 350 matched colleagues. Lauren was a winner of the bank’s 2021 Amethyst Award for Gender Inclusion and is a finalist in the Women’s Recognition Awards 2022.

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Managing Director, Strategy, M&A and Partnerships

S&P Global

In addition to her role leading the Content Partnership team within the Strategy, M&A and Partnerships function at S&P Global, MiRan is a UK-based member of the Women's Network. She mentors women, supporting their continued development and professional advancement to strengthen the diversity of SPGI’s talent pipeline. She also served as a co-mentor to IHS Markit's CEO, Lance Uggla, in 2021 under its inaugural Collaborative Mentoring program whose objective was to allow participants to exchange personal experiences and perspectives while respectfully sharing information that challenges biases and assumptions through a structured program. She supports early career programs such as SEO London through mentoring and interview programs to drive diversity and inclusion. In addition, MiRan amplified people resource groups around mental health and participated in panel discussions to raise awareness. Outside of S&P Global, MiRan is a board member and ambassador at Outstanding Global, an executive coaching and leadership development program provider, where she spoke in events designed to support women's leadership development.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Executive Director- Regional Head, Financial Markets Client Management

Standard Chartered Bank NY

Sonia is a member of the Gender Equality Network and has a leadership role at BOLD, the Black Organization Leadership and Development network. Through Mentorship and her network, she shines the light on talented women that are yet to be given an opportunity to showcase their talent and potential by creating support lean-in circles within the firm to allow women to get advice and guidance. Sonia also created a platform called For Women by Women, an educational platform that aims to encourage, support, and elevate Women across the globe through different experiences. Furthermore, she delivered workshops and Masterclasses on Leadership, Imposter Syndrome and Personal Brand and actively engaged in events that elevate women. However, Sonia also brings difficult conversations to the table, such as panel discussions on career paths for Women and Women of Color, on "Women by Banking," or as a board of advisor for WOMENICE.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Senior Director - Global Head Market Data

Fidelity International

Martina is a Senior Director in Fidelity’s ISS COO office. Within her department, she plays a key role in embedding D&I and is the business sponsor of Fidelity’s Returner Programme. She authored the article “Breaking bias and building balance” and in April presented “Breaking the Bias” at a primary school to act as a female role model along with her fellow rising stars. She coined the acronym SHOW - a concept that highlights the need to encourage women to join and stay within STEM by ‘SHOW’ing them how. It stands for School, Home, Office, and Workplace. At Fidelity, she is implementing unconscious bias training and the “shifting the dial 2022/2023” gender-balance focused programme to help develop talent in ISS COO. Externally, she was part of the Women in Finance Summit 2022. Leading FISD women’s group and participating in and moderating panels across the industry about gender balance and D&I initiatives. Martina is part of mentoring schemes and facilitates workshops for Fidelity’s menopause support policy.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Head of Operations Trading & Implementation

Wickes

Chloe launched the Wickes Balance for the Better Network in 2019 and continues to lead it. She holds colleague listening events, mentors two women internally and uses the network to amplify women's voices. Chloe has worked with the leadership team to understand their role as gender allies and sponsors of female talent, launching the Gender Ally program open to all colleagues. Since launching in September 2021, they now have over 120 allies. In December 2021, she launched Wickes’ period positive campaign aimed to normalize conversations on the topic, remove the stigma around it and make period products available free of charge to those who need them. Wickes is also trialling flexible working for Retail Managers. In May of this year, she was recognized in the 2022 Role Models for Inclusion in Retail Index for her contribution to Inclusion in Retail by working with companies that have signed their charter to drive their gender diversity and make meaningful changes for women.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

IT Program and Portfolio Leader

Corteva Agriscience

Lauren has been the Global Leader of the Women's Inclusion Network since 2021 and has managed to grow membership by over 20% in the last year. She expanded representation by a growing number of chapters, including the installation of a virtual chapter in North America, and has hosted events around advocacy and allyship but also hosted the first global International Women's Day celebration in 2022. Lauren and her teams are assessing how Corteva can become a preferred employer choice for women by setting up focus groups and developing recruiting best practices. In addition, many initiatives are taken outside of Corteva to directly impact local communities across the globe, including toiletry drives for women's shelters and partnerships with local STEM organizations for girls and girl scouts. In 2021, WIN members volunteered more than 300 hours of their time, benefiting 21 external organizations with 31,000+ people impacted.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Business Change Manager

Bank of England

As co-chair of LGBTQ+ Staff Network, Shelley has stood up as an ally for all her colleagues. She has worked on the Trans Equality Policy and Transitioning at Work guidance with the Networks Trans reps, standing up for Trans colleagues in senior management meetings and pushing for change. Shelley is a vocal ally for women in the Bank and frequently calls out microaggressions. She led the project team for the Stonewall WEI submission 2022, which resulted in the Bank moving up 100 places to 57th. The work has supported the Bank to become a more inclusive place to work in and for women of all kinds to be themselves. Shelley has been part of the Gender Network for five years, sitting on the steering committee and driving intersectional change. She has also worked with the Disability Network, creating management guides and training with HR.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Head of EMEA ETF Portfolio Management

BlackRock

As a member of the Women In Investments EMEA Committee, Dharma partnered with the global sponsor to launch the APAC (2021) and AMRS (2022) chapters which have the primary objective to retain women investors, grow careers and facilitate networks. Some examples are several panels in the past two years two of which Dharma hosted, including one on Internal Mobility and another on the Women Development Programs. Dharma also partnered with WIN Japan to launch the WIN for Men initiative after co-leading this for EMEA in 2018. She also co-led the ‘Taking the Stage’ program in 2019. Furthermore, she directly and indirectly always contributed to promotions for women through mentorship and sponsorship and, in the past two years, appointed several women team leaders. Outside of her firm, Dharma has served as a mentor on the Migrant Leaders Mentoring Program and CityHive Mentoring, launched on the back of the #TalkAboutBlack campaign.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Program Manager Carbon Management Research Initiative

Center on Global Energy Policy

As an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner, Hadia has been an active proponent of mainstreaming gender-equity and social justice in climate action, sustainability and national disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy-making, and highlighting the lived experiences of women and minorities on the front lines of energy poverty and climate change in academic research and flagship reports. Most recently, Hadia was one of 10 employees at Columbia University selected to help search for Columbia Climate School’s first Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Bias who will play an instrumental role in shaping the DEIA culture and influence key hiring decisions at this new school. Hadia has also served as an Ambassador for Girl Rising, was named a "Global Champion for Women's Economic Empowerment" by UN Women’s EmpowerWomen team, and invited to the first United State of Women Summit by The White House Council on Women and Girls as a "Nominated Changemaker."

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Learning & Development Manager, GroupM University

GroupM

For the past two years, Daniela has been the Chair of GEN GroupM's gender ERG and has worked with fellow ERG Unite, representing LGBT+ employeed to raise awareness of gender diversity, including trans and nonbinary. She also has been supporting the Visible Start returners program that welcomed 45+ women from diverse backgrounds back into work or a first career. She is currently working with two of these women in her team. Daniela will continue to champion the program, work on the launch of the next iteration and serve as an ally to challenge ageist attitudes and those against parents, carers, and disabled people, to create opportunities for those underrepresented in the industry. Daniela also pitched and designed a Listening Project, qualitative 1-on-1 interviews providing insight on barriers to gender parity, and the annual WPP Belonging Survey data, which provides key insights. Furthermore, Daniela is a member of the Bloom women's network as a mentee, enabling her with confidence, gravitas, and the skills to build a network of allies to push for gender equity.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Manager, Culture and Wellbeing | Global Co-Lead - LSEG Accessibility Network

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

Natasha is a strong advocate of Diversity & Inclusion and is involved in enabling, supporting, and promoting a disability-inclusive environment. She has been invited to speak at several industry events to share best practices, and has advised many corporates, NGOs and individuals, focusing on redefining, and breaking stereotypical mindsets of what the disabled community can achieve. She initiated and rolled out a people leaders handbook to creating a disability inclusive workplace. She has played a significant role in contributing towards the wellbeing of the disabled community through many inclusive initiatives, such as ensuring subtitles in global corporate videos as well as focusing on digital and physical accessibility. Natasha received the prestigious NCPEDP-Mindtree Helen Keller Award-2021 and was a Finalist for the D&I Champion of Change Award-2020 by Community Business. She was a speaker at FICCI -Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry-Innovation Summit,2022, focusing on creating diversity in organizations.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Well Delivery Lead, Shearwater Asset

Shell UK Ltd.

Caroline is a role model because she tirelessly works to empower individuals within her team and the wider company. She leads by example to encourage an environment where there is trust, respect, and freedom of speech. Caroline always appreciates the diverse development needs of others, always looking for opportunities to elevate and recognize, whether through their work, through visibility and opportunities to present at internal or external meetings, or through award nominations for the team and individual members, ensuring everyone feels valued. She encourages flexible working for those with childcare commitments. She fosters a diverse and inclusive working environment, allowing team members to feel welcome, valued, and able to perform at their best. Caroline has been an active member of OEUK's Diversity and Inclusion Task group since 2019, which brings together senior leaders and D&I champions to promote and develop best practice within the energy industry.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Senior Vice President, Senior Business Support Manager

Bank of America

Dipti Kulkarni is a business support manager for a global technology team at Bank of America. An advocate for diversity and inclusion for almost a decade, she was the recipient of Bank of America’s Global Diversity and Inclusion award in 2019 and 2021. She put her passion for inspiring and mentoring women to work in 2021 through her active support and participation in several events such as the "Innovation Challenge" to promote innovation, as a panelist for the "Diversity Series" in celebration of Women's History month, as a speaker at LEAD's (Leadership, Education, Advocacy and Development for Women) "The Power of Your Authentic Voice" event, and as one of the organizers of an enterprise event, "Courageous Conversation: Coming together against racism," in partnership with the Asian Leadership Network, Black Professional Group and Hispanic/Latino Organization for Leadership and Advancement. She also mentored young professional women to help them advance in their careers.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Director, Corporate Technology

BNY Mellon

As Director at BNY Mellon, Diane is an empathic leader and a change agent who goes above and beyond in transforming Women's leadership at BNY Mellon. She is IMPACT's (which supports DEI) Co-Chair and a leader with the Women In Technology NY. Having always advocated for gender equality, Diane, through company-wide meetings and events, leads three significant initiatives to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace. The first initiative includes her and tenured employees sharing career journeys and advice to new employees and interns. Through COVID, these events helped employees create a network of mentors. The second initiative focuses on Women's Career Advancements to provide career planning and coaching sessions and internal website posting of photos and stories to advocate for more women in technology and careers. The third initiative celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Months through sharing the different Asian cultures and hosting events featuring Asian American leaders.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

TSTS Associate Technical Service Engineer

Fujitsu Technology Solutions S.A.

As a volunteer and organizer of the Diversity and Inclusion group at Fujitsu, Rocío actively collaborates on activities and awareness-raising proposals. She is a facilitator of Google’s #IAmRemarkable campaign, and managed to teach online workshops this year even with the difficulties presented by the pandemic, to help empower women and minority groups to break the glass ceiling. In addition she has put together a Spotlight blog and prepared a Brave, Bold & Brilliant podcast together with Tulia Lopes to inspire and help other women. Rocío has also had the opportunity to collaborate externally with other companies, and made an inspirational presentation ‘Hangout’ for people from both Fujitsu and other companies to learn about all the activities she is undertaking. For International Women’s Day this year, Rocío was involved in putting together events including inviting a female Spanish scientist to give a speech to inspire the company’s employees.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Global Vehicle E-Commerce Manager

Jaguar Land Rover

Since becoming Vice Chair and Event Lead for Jaguar Land Rover Gender Equality Network, Jane has focused on women's development and health requirements by raising awareness, empowering people, and advocating for change in the workplace. In March 2021, she designed and developed a company-wide virtual events platform to which she invited internal and external experts to educate, storytell and role model. In addition, Jane created multiple series of events on topics such as self-development and growth, health and wellbeing, and confidence and ways of working. She also led a Menopause Awareness Campaign, events on men's mental health for International Men's Day, and delivered an inspiring Break the Bias programme for International Women's Day. Her work has helped, grow the Network by 40% to over 1,400 members, and by providing feedback and insights, has successfully influenced business priorities within the D&I agenda. Jane is a changemaker and continuously innovates to create a workplace where women are visible.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Service Delivery Associate Director

Accenture

Deepa has demonstrated passion for driving gender equality in leadership through various programs. She is the Founder-Lead of Women Leads of Future program, and Program Advisor for the Women Leadership Development Program for which she helped conceptualize and design the structure and construct. She has exceeded the overall gender diversity target and has increased women leads in her span. She executes various engagement and retention programs for women in Accenture Chennai Life Science team. As a part of CSR @ Operations, Deepa leads projects that support education for underprivileged; through one of the school adoption programs, she helped schoolgirls participate in state and national sports tournaments. Deepa is a recipient of young scientist award from the Indian Science Congress Association and the Van Slyke International Travel Grant Award from the American Association of Clinical Chemistry. Being a passionate leader, she invests quality time in mentoring and coaching budding women leads.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Associate Director, Business Development

The Business of Fashion

Hannah set up BoF’s Female Empowerment Network with the mission to cultivate a workplace where women feel nurtured, empowered, equally represented, and heard. Hannah and her Network stand for career advancement, support, education, and the development of women. The network works to dismantle any structures that prevent women from progressing in their roles. She organised a monthly speaker series inviting outstanding women in their field, ranging from women's health experts to C-level executives and founders. The series opened up conversations on race, fertility, anxiety, micro-aggressions, and violence against women. These successful events brought the women of the company closer together, helping them to highlight and address what work still needs to be done within the workplace.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Retail Account Manager

Benefit Cosmetics (LVMH - Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton)

Amanda championed DEI by raising awareness about 'National Arab American Heritage Month' in 2021 with Benefit Cosmetics/LVMH to promote a more inclusive and diverse company culture. This positively impacted LVMH senior executives as she was given the opportunity to present on the positive influences of Middle Eastern culture and her personal testimony as an Arab-American. She joined and collaborated with the EllesVMH Resource Group to bring awareness to NAAHM and was featured in EllesVMH Newsletter and LinkedIn to encourage female empowerment and D&I. Amanda also joined the ‘LVMH New Moon APAHM Closing Celebration’ as a panelist to commemorate Asian Pacific American traditions and shed light on how allies can help support underrepresented cultures and communities. Additionally, Amanda participated in EllesVMH AllyLunch! a pilot program that provides LVMH employees with community and mentorship opportunities; her feedback and suggestions to the creators helped expand the program and drive mentorship for future executives.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Partnerships and Business Development Manager

RepRisk

Maryse’s work supporting the development of RepRisk’s D&I strategy comes from her years of experience as Vice Chair New York Women's Inspired Network (WIN) at LSEG. Maryse supported over 100 members in bringing opportunities to enhance career and personal development, in parallel to LSEG Benefits Committee, Charity Committee, and Black Employee Network. This work enabled her to fully understand the needs of women throughout the organization and target advocacy and activities to support them. During the pandemic’s lockdown, she ensured that LSEG women still received career development opportunities through networking, learning, and development in the virtual space. Maryse organized workshops, networking, and speaker events to address topical issues such as parenthood and well-being and linked in other employee networks for cross-pollination. Her platform within the WIN helped her launch the Black Employee Network in 2020, which added a new lens on the need for all Women in the workplace.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Software Developer

Credit Suisse

Julia is a career changer and people person dedicated to philanthropic endeavours, holding committee seats for Credit Suisse Inspire, the Credit Suisse BAME Network and Credit Suisse Financial Inclusion Advocates Network. She has an effervescent, endearing spirit that shines through in all that she does and the connections she forges with others. She willingly gives her time and effort to causes large and small. Her ethos is to give back and build a better society for all. In her two and a half years at Credit Suisse, Julia has impacted the lives of numerous individuals, from primary school children, school leavers to mature returners, encouraging them to take STEM careers. She is involved in impactful and strategic changes projects, value creation, that aligned to the long-term vision and success of the firm. Julia is also the founder of Aray Wellbeing CIC, a personal & career development charitable organization and Nerve2Serve, a community food bank, as well as a Charity Trustee for CORE Clapton.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Senior Management Support

Credit Suisse AG

Despite an already challenging work-life driving operative and strategic initiatives across the Middle East with her team of 4, Esther stepped up to the Business Area Middle East & Turkey D&I Board, helping to define the DEI Mission Statement: “No fear – to look different, speak different, think different. Difference creates opportunity. Inclusion creates value.” Esther understands that difference creates opportunity and inclusion creates value. Her priority is to increase women's representation at the senior level, and she established a Female Talent Coaching Program and, with HR support, launched a Women Network. She also contributed to the re-launch of the Employee Recognition Program and organized various Panel discussions. Esther is responsible for 4 DEI newsletters annually and presents DEI themes as part of the "Welcome day" for new joiners in Switzerland. Esther sees the advantages of reverse coaching where the young generation coaches the older and initiated a pilot program in this area.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

ADAS Lead Software Quality Engineer

Jaguar Land Rover

Huijie is Chair of the Inclusion Council and holds leading forces from all networks in promoting and delivering D&I projects. She hosts regular meetings with (GEN + WiE&A) and REACH Network members, creating a forum for their issues to be raised and delivering projects to improve them. She also constructed and maintained a DEI website to promote business, unity force, and drive action. Furthermore, Sophie planned and delivered the Mother Nature Lockers initiative, which supplied free sanitary products, menopause support, and personal care items for all women in the factory; now, the project is being rolled out to all plants. She created and presented the Network Lunch & Learns on Awards to promote women's work and discuss colorism, to promote understanding and inclusion of people from different ethnicities. Additionally, Huijie has been leading a Pregnancy & Maternity focus group, creating a process and materials to streamline actions and turn pregnancy into a development privilege.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Chief Administrative Officer

State Street

Marion strongly believes in the power of education and visibility when it comes to making the workplace more inclusive. She therefore acts as a role model for LGBTQI+ women, regularly appearing on panels to discuss the specific issues faced by this part of the LGBTQI+ community in the workplace. This has included featuring on the EUROUT Conference’s “Corporate activism: the second full-time job” panel and the LBTQIA Women’s Visibility in Business conference organized in Gdansk, Poland in November 2021. In 2019, Marion founded Women of Interbank, a women’s group within Interbank, the network of LGBT+ networks for financial services firms in the UK. In this framework, she regularly organises educational and networking events with a view to increase women representation and visibility within the network and ensure there is a safe space for LGBTQI+ women in financial services.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Group Vice President

Avigna Group

At Larsen and Toubro, Richa supported the CSR's activities surrounding both internal and external communications and also had a crucial role in devising programs such as Digital Sakhi (for women) for the company on financial inclusion to people at the grassroots levels. Richa has always been an active speaker. She was invited as a guest speaker for the national conference organized by We Citizen Foundation on Girls' education and leadership under the aegis of the Government of India, on the topic "How Laws, Security and Safety can impact girl education?". She was also a speaker at the National Law Institute University in Bhopal to speak on 'Role of GC in corporate governance and beyond…' specifically targeting the inclusion of women on board. Richa also has worked for the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in a pro-bono legal aid capacity, helping underrepresented and underprivileged women to understand their fundamental rights.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Head, HR Strategy and Transformation

Kantar

Tejal chairs the Women at Kantar ERG globally which she re-launched on International Women’s Day in 2022 with a “Disruption Talk” on Breaking the Bias and spotlighting employees who were breaking the bias at Kantar. She has developed the Women at Kantar strategy focusing on promoting gender equality in the workplace and building an inclusive community of women and allies by creating safe spaces for sharing experiences and learnings to help create an environment where women are comfortable bringing their whole self to work. Women at Kantar now has 750 members with chapters for Women in Tech and Women in Retail. Tejal is passionate about hardwiring positive change into Kantar’s DNA to improve its workplace for women through increasing data transparency to bring more impactful focus and providing input on people policies to ensure they are inclusive. Tejal mentors underrepresented minorities inside and outside work helping them realise their full potential.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Senior Associate, Invention+

Mindshare

Allison is the U.S. communications lead for Mindshare Collective, an employee group that drives intersectional diversity within Mindshare and clients' media plans, with identity groups including the LGBT+ community, women, Latinx, and more. She drives numerous events year-round in partnership with media companies like Paramount and senior leaders that highlight women/minority voices and create a sense of belonging for people at Mindshare. Allison also worked on the launch of Mindshare's Latinx private marketplace that drives clients' ad dollars to support the voices of Hispanic & Latinx journalists and content creators across the U.S. She was instrumental in working with media vendors and Mindshare's programmatic & planning teams to create a catalog of sites that prioritize and amplify LatinX journalism. Thanks to Allison's work, thousands of dollars were donated to nonprofits that support women and other marginalized communities on behalf of Mindshare.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Deadly Weapons Protection and Political Violence underwriter

Beazley

Lucy founded Beazley Families Network and it’s committee to ensure working parents feel supported and empowered at Beazley both taking parental leave and successfully returning to the workforce. Following maternity leave she interviewed 40 women from across her company about their experiences around parental leave. Additionally, Lucy interviewed 10 external companies to ascertain what their internal protocols were and how Beazley compared. Using the initial research she then led a working group that identified a formal structure for pre and post-leave, designed internal communication plans, internal web pages, a parental handbook, a buddy system and manager training. She also set up the network and engaged with HR, D&I, and communications to ensure a minimum standard is adhered to. The whole process is accessible to all. In May 2022 she was able to present it to the executive committee and successfully got it formally agreed with an annual review signed off.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Director of Product and Platform Operations

Xaxis

Filiz co-founded and co-chairs Xaxis UK's Rise Women Network with a mission statement that aims to create networking opportunities for Xaxis Women. There has been an enormous response and enthusiasm for Rise amongst women in Xaxis. After getting their feedback, Filiz and her team put together a plan on the most burning topics such as financial advice, salary negotiation, Imposter Syndrome, returning from Maternity leave and more. Whilst there are a growing number of women in leadership at Xaxis, Filiz plans to continue strengthening Rise with a vision one day to make it a fully inclusive workplace where women have equal opportunities. Outside of work, she is very active in human rights, including supporting several charities such as Nadia's Initiative, which works to rehabilitate the Yezidi community in Iraq.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Organisation Design & Operating Model Consultant

(formerly PwC)

At PwC Anusha set up and ran a ‘Forward from Maternity Leave’ networking group to support new mothers returning from maternity leave. Returning from her second maternity leave she was acutely aware of the difficulties in transitioning back into the world of work and using her experiences she developed the objectives, set up sessions to focus on core topics, including confidence building and flexible working, and successfully helped to connect women of different grades across the organisation. Anusha is passionate about supporting women of colour in the workplace and has coached and mentored over 20 more junior colleagues providing advice, guidance, and support with career progression. Outside of work Anusha is an Advisory Group member for the Action for Trustee Racial Diversity (ATRD) and is currently using her experience to advise on the establishment of a mentoring scheme for new and existing trustees to share experiences; she is also a mentor for the Girls Network since 2022.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Pro bono senior associate

Mattos Filho

Bianca has conceived and implemented a pro bono service in favor of the defense of human rights, with focus on women's rights, the rights of immigrants and refugees, the LGBTQIA+ community and racial justice, promoting lawyer's training to deal with these issues. She works with a team of 10 talented and dedicated people who are part of a reference pro bono practice in Brazil. They were recently awarded the Chambers pro bono recognition for their work inspiring other women in the firm to achieve their goals through meaningful work and have also been recognized by Latin Lawyer and Lumen Award. In addition, she has supported and participated in the initial constitution of some of the firm's affinity groups, especially of LGBTQIA+ and racial inclusion, and is the point of contact for conversations on a professional career and personal development.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Senior Director of Database Product Management

Oracle

Kay is a member of Oracle's ERG, Alliance of Black Leaders for Excellence. Dedicated to using technology to make a difference, Kay partnered with the Oracle Diversity and Inclusion team to support their work with HBCUs and HSIs. She leads a team dedicated to helping customers build innovative solutions on Oracle Database, in the cloud and on-premises and is the creator of Oracle LiveLabs, a platform to increase access to Oracle Cloud technologies with 3M+ views. Her team launched an Applied Database Systems course at Howard University that taught modern data management topics, working with several Oracle Database PM weekly guest lecturers. Kay hosts the podcast Lashes.Love.Tech and uses every opportunity to pursue her passion for increasing minority and women representation in STEM careers – both at Oracle and the tech industry at large. Her goal: to create a more robust, diverse talent pipeline into the engineering organizations at Oracle.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Senior Manager, Global Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability

Criteo

Justine is a trusted advisor and sponsor of Criteo’s Employee Resource Groups: Women, Pride, BIPOC, Critenable, Education, Parents, and Green. When she joined Criteo's Comms team, she instantly gravitated towards initiatives around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), diversity, inclusion, and environmental sustainability – which led to her promotion to CSR lead. In her role, she developed a strategy for Criteo’s CSR program and Criteo Cares, the employee engagement branch which aims to develop empowerment and leadership. In 2021, Justine helped lead Criteo's signatory to L'Autre Cercle – an LGBTQIA+ charter that outlines the firm’s commitment to an inclusive environment. She also led the launch of Criteo’s global GIVING platform, which focuses on volunteering and charitable projects for employees to participate in. Furthermore, in 2022, Justine launched IMPACT week, where employees volunteered in clean-ups for Earth Day. Today, she is working to enrich Criteo's environmental sustainability strategy

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Partnerships Manager

Shopify

Carlotta is dedicated to having a positive impact on society through helping more women and underrepresented groups access roles in tech and growing in the industry. An advocate for social mobility and equitable opportunities, Carlotta holds multiple positions in addition to her Partnerships role at Shopify. On top of her contribution as Communication & Operations Lead on the Women at Shopify Leadership team where she creates content that goes out to nearly 3000 women globally, Carlotta also regularly facilitates #IamRemarkable sessions that help women and underrepresented groups learn the importance of advocating for their achievements. Outside of Shopify, Carlotta is a mentor for women-focused networks like Bloom UK and a Tech Career Coach for School16, a NYC-based startup that helps individuals from all over the globe get into tech no matter their background. Carlotta is also a Visiting Professors at Sussex University, a career development speaker and a 2021 TechWomen100 award winner.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Senior Account Lead

Yahoo!

Irene, AuDHD, is the Global Lead for the company’s Neurodiversity ERG, working on creating a more inclusive workplace for neurodivergent employees while collaborating with all ERGs to cover intersectionality. The ERG looks at each office to see how it can be more inclusive of Neurodivergent people and reimagines their structure to become more Neuro friendly, and it also ensures recruitment, hiring, interview, and onboarding processes are inclusive. In addition, the Neurodiversity ERG, creates awareness in the company by hosting events related to Neurodiversity. Previously the ERG hosted a panel for Parents and Caregivers called: A Community of Care: Caring for our Autistic families and caregivers. Irene tirelessly works to educate the company on Neurodivergences and how to be more inclusive and recently did an event for Autism in the Workplace where we had the amazing Joan McDonald in to talk about how we can be allies to Autistic people.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Director and Assistant General Counsel

National Grid

Besides her Director and Assistant General Counsel responsibilities, Tanya is the co-chair of the National Grid DEI committee in US Legal. Playing a vital role in driving the diversity agenda in the General Counsel Group, Tanya organized a trial reenactment of the historic case James Meredith vs. Ole Miss, spotlighting the achievements of Constance Baker Motley, the first black woman attorney on the Southern District of New York (SDNY) federal bench, for the group’s global Black History Month Program. Tanya spearheads and is a frequent speaker on DEI as well as employment law panels on pay equity, parity and gender bias. Recently, she spoke for the SDNY Federal Bar Association’s – “Grab Them by the Workplace: Understanding Sexual Harassment in the #MeToo Era” program as well as for the NYC Bar Association’s "Preventing and Addressing Sexual Harassment Post Cuomo” program. Tanya is currently a 2022 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity fellow.

Can be viewed on: 2022 Top 100 Women Future Leaders

Wealth Management Advisor

Northwestern Mutual

Barbara serves as the Education & Community Outreach Chair of the Northwestern Mutual Women's Council in Los Angeles that seeks to elevate women of all tenures and roles by acknowledging their unique strengths and challenges as they strive for academic mastery and career excellence. It fosters ways to achieve optimal work/life balance in pursuit of personal, professional, and financial goals through formalized programs, events, educational opportunities, and philanthropic efforts that attract ideal candidates and clients. Under Barbara's leadership, the council has created an environment to build bonds between women across the six network offices in Southern California and Nevada, starting with the Big Sister Program, which connects all women joining the network with a woman mentor to help bring them into the fold. Barbara's role is to help women articulate their goals and connect them to the tools available to bring those goals to fruition.

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Office & Corporate Communication Manager

Fiserv Polska S.A.

Magdalena is an active member of the Women's Impact Network community in Poland. As the PR & Communication Manager, she pays special attention to promoting women in the technology industry by delegating experts working for Fiserv Poland to the media and internal communication. In addition, she created an Employer Branding strategy, which some of its strong points are, among others, positioning women in the organization as industry experts and mentors, support for women in the recruitment process, and a partnership program for female students of technical universities. Furthermore, Magdalena organizes webinars for women in her organization, aiming to give them motivation and courage to reach for more, acquire new skills, and develop personally and professionally, as well as nurture their self-confidence and appreciate their talents.

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Managing Director

Deutsche Bank

Since 2016 Gillian has supported maternity leave returners, sharing her experiences as a returner through her internal blog as a Mental Health First Aider by co-hosting quarterly maternity returners meet-ups, building a community amongst working parents. Over 50 maternity returners have been supported through this initiative in the UK & it's now extending to other locations globally. In 2021, Gillian took on a volunteer role as a program leader for the Diversity pillar of Technology, Data & Innovations People Strategy. She has supported women in technology by championing inclusion and educating staff about how to work inclusively. She created a new regular employee-led cross-division speaker series sharing tips on how to make meetings inclusive & having inclusive conversations. She is also raising awareness of violence against women through employee-led events, promoting allyship, and inspiring colleagues, especially male colleagues, to become active bystanders, challenge peer culture & support survivors.

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Senior Account Executive

FiscalNote

Every day Molly meets with companies to help them report on their DEI initiatives and ESG goals. She also supports them in tracking the diversity of women on their board, the diversity of their suppliers, their governance policies, and labor practices. Molly strongly believes that companies must be focused and committed to reporting on, diversity, inclusiveness, and belonging within their organizations. She meets with global sustainability leaders, ESG directors, DEI officers, and inclusion directors to help track the great work they are responsible and accountable for, so they can report on what they are doing to create an inclusive culture and company. Additionally, from 2020 to 2021, Molly was a volunteer coach and mentored for Girls on the Run for girls from 3rd - 5th grade.

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Senior Innovation Policy Advisor

UK Government

Jess has used her diversity and inclusion ambassador role to recognize the intersectionality of culture and gender across the British Government. She was responsible for organizing the rollout to over 400 colleagues across the Government of the #IAmRemarkable training, a Google initiative encouraging women to speak openly about their accomplishments. She has also supported broader D&I practices by volunteering to be on recruitment panels at all levels, ensuring that a diverse and inclusive culture was being realized across a number of Departments. Through utilizing a positive, proactive, and solution-focused view, Jessica has also managed to commit to several pro-bono initiatives in her spare time, including launching both, The Standard Brain, a platform designed to challenge the perceptions faced by under-represented groups around self-promotion, unconscious biases and imposter syndrome and Yogi Bants, a global community changing the narrative of inclusion in wellness with laughter.

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Design Director

Snap Finger Click

Joanna takes an active role in recruitment, ensuring job adverts appeal to a diverse audience. As a result, Snap Finger Click is 40% women, well above average in Technology. At Snap Finger Click, they create games designed to appeal to a diverse audience outside of hardcore gamers; Joanna is responsible for the design of these games. When she arrived at the company in 2017, she helped create a flexible working policy so that staff could work from home, choose their hours, and choose to work part-time. This new policy benefits, especially parents. Joanna promotes Limit Break, a mentorship for underrepresented groups (including women), to the staff and encourages them to apply as mentors and mentees and has been a mentor herself since 2020. Furthermore, she has worked with the social media manager to create content promoting the work of women employees and dispelling myths about women in games.

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Regulatory Policy Manager

National Grid (Electricity System Operator)

Adelle is passionate about creating an environment of belonging at National Grid. She has been part of the Women in National Grid (WiNG) leadership team since 2019, helping the ERG grow to serve its 900 members. She now co-Chairs the group leading 50 diverse volunteers to challenge stereotypes and promote equal opportunities for female professional development and personal success. Through her roles in WiNG she has enabled support for the female talent pipeline through launch of WiNG’s mentoring programme, a development planning support package, leadership talks, networking opportunities, and professional qualification events. She also mentors a diverse group of women and advocates for inclusion in the organisation. Her work enables WiNG’s inspiring events and social media campaigns for key celebrations including International Women’s and International Men's Day, alongside targeted campaigns including a series on gender-based violence and a newly launched menopause initiative, helping colleagues bring their whole selves to work.

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EMEA Corporate Citizenship Program Manager

Fiserv

One of the ways Sinead has pushed to create an environment that celebrates inclusion in the workplace has been through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). She is an active member or ally of all the ERGs in region and continuously looks for ways to support and promote them. The ERGs she is involved in include the LGBTQ Community UNITY, the Asian Leadership Council, the Women's Impact Network (WIN), the Young Professional Leadership Council and the Black Leadership Council. Together with some colleagues, Sinead is also leading an initiative to form groups across EMEA called Culture Circles, based on a tried and tested model first established in Ireland. The aim is to bring employees from all backgrounds together to network, have fun, celebrate different cultures and festivals and educate others along the way. Within the last 18 months five Culture Circles have been set up in office locations across EMEA under Sinead’s guidance.

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Cyber Security Engineer

DWS

Every day, through her work and outreach activities, Ria tries to create an inclusive environment within technology. She is a Gold Tier Facilitator as part of Google's #IamRemarkable initiative, which aims to provide women and underrepresented groups with self-promotion skills. In addition, she is part of various Employee Groups such as Women in Technology, the UK&I D&I Council, the Junior Network, and the D&I Retention Pillar. During her time working with these groups, she has organized, led, and participated in many initiatives, including training on bias within hiring, manager community drop-in sessions, and 'Share the Tech' talks. Furthermore, Ria has participated in graduate recruitment events, including speaking at various universities, on panels, and through 1:1 mentoring, aiming to encourage more BAME students (primarily women) to apply for roles within Technology and Finance. She is also a mentor with the Stemettes, an organization that enables women and non-binary individuals between 11 and 25 to partake in STEM.

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Vice President, Division Merchandise Manager

Dollar General Corporation

Pooh values inclusion and ensures each team member in the company is 'seen,' exposed to other areas of the business, and participates in cross-function meetings. She develops working relationships between teams to ensure critical synergies and partnerships. Pooh also encourages and supports her team's involvement in Dollar General's various Employee Resource Groups and meets with her mentees at least every month to talk through challenges, career advice, and how to navigate DG. Furthermore, Pooh helps coach minority and women-owned businesses and recruits and hosts female and minority interns from several colleges, serving as a mentor and providing counsel, experience opportunities, and career skills. She is a member of WPN: Women's Professional Network and IGNITE that strive to cultivate and further an inclusive and empowering women's network, supporting leadership development and workplace transformation to achieve gender quality and NextUp Nashville which advances all women, growing business and transforming workplaces through the power of community.

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Sales Enablement Associate

Calastone

Chimmy believes that in the workplace, we must actively create inclusive and empathetic environments so that employees are comfortable sharing and bringing their different life experiences. For this reason, in 2020, thanks to Chimmy’s advocacy and engagement with senior leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) became part of the corporate objectives, and Calastone made unconscious bias training mandatory throughout the company. The same year, she organized a panel entitled Stereotypes of Technology, which allowed women across the organization to share their experiences and barriers faced within the industry. Chimmy also decided to create a resource page to educate employees on gender equality and empower women by raising awareness of various charities, podcasts, books, and videos. In 2021, she started work on an initiative to teach coding to female students as well as leadership, teamwork, presentation, and CV skills.

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Senior Associate

Vinson & Elkins

Ciara has been a London office lead for the Firm's Diversity Team Committee for seven years and is a stream leader for two sub-committees of the Women's Initiative. She uses her diverse experiences and kind, giving nature to inspire a future generation of disputes lawyers to take on the construction and engineering worlds. Ciara's commitment to driving DEI is evident through her mentoring junior colleagues, her role as communications chair for Young ITA, her development of women contacts in business and law, and the low-key and generous support and encouragement she offers women and diverse attorneys on a day to day basis around the firm. Additionally, Ciara is an active member of Arbitral Women, attending events, contributing to the newsletter, utilizing her role as Young ITA Communications Chair to ensure gender diversity on panels, and championing female reporters for events.

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Manager - FS Strategy

KPMG

Since joining the team, Harriet has worked hard to create the infrastructure to help promote gender diversity. She is a founding member and Co-Chair of SheCan, a network within KPMG, and has organized internal events on topics including healthy masculinity, financial planning, and career coaching. The committee also releases a monthly newsletter, has a workstream focusing on improving allyship, and a group identifying tangible change initiatives to share with the broader team. Harriet felt the need and took the opportunity, thanks to her expertise in building a network, to create an umbrella network where she and other networks can work together and utilize increased scale to widen their focus areas. She has also been involved in several external recruitment initiatives promoting diversity in deals and opportunities in the FS Strategy Team as she believes that building a strong and diverse recruitment talent pool is key to increase and maintain diversity.

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Sr Director, Connections

Anheuser-Busch InBev

As Senior Director of Connections at Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI), Stephanie is a female leader in a male-dominated industry, one of a select group of female partners at the company. She is dedicated to creating an inclusive space within the beer industry for all. Her efforts to advocate for gender diversity in advertising and employment within the beer industry include working with recruiting teams to ensure a minimum of 50% of candidates for new positions on her team are diverse; partnering with external agencies to ensure the teams supporting the organization are diverse; and recruiting on college campuses to attract more women into the company. Stephanie has worked to promote and develop female leaders within the company by providing one-on-one mentoring to six women and hosting informal group mentoring through Women in Beer get-togethers and career panels. She also serves as a ‘Captain’ for the Network of Executive Women within ABI, an educational non-profit committed to advancing all women through the power of community.

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Founder

Mind Over Money

Krystle has been empowering women through mentoring for over ten years and actively encourages financial independence. She is the Board Director of an all-women board of not-for-profit organization Abianda, which supports women and girls connected with gang violence and county lines. Krystle has actively hired women within her organization, Mind Over Money, and provides financial education and training as a benefit. Krystle is a mentor at Women of Colour Global Network and Like-Minded Females and runs her female-only personal and financial development community The Growth Assemble. In 2022, she was added to the D-List platform as a diverse entrepreneur. Krystle has been an active advocate for women by being a panelist at several events within the last two years, including the Female Founders Lead Today Shape Tomorrow Flagship event, The Female Lead and AllBright: The Road to a Shecovery and the Hatch Presents - Women in Business Achieving Economic Empowerment.

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Director - Wealth

Redington Ltd

Since joining Redington in 2021, Laura has been a very active and engaging mentor both in and out of her firm. She has been mentoring and coaching young women within her company to help them gain confidence in navigating the financial services industry. She is passionate about increasing the number of women and other diverse talent representing the industry at conferences, running initiatives to build public speaking skills. In her previous role at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Laura was also a mentor, guiding students in the JP Morgan School's Challenge – an initiative encouraging young people to think about careers in STEM while starting to build professional networks. It was an excellent opportunity to showcase the range of roles within financial services and the different skillsets needed. Additionally, she mentors through the charity Migrant Leaders, specifically helping an A-Level student by introducing him to the different facets of the finance world.

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Advocat, head of pro bono department

Clifford Chance

As a human rights lawyer, Sylwia believes in and fights for diversity, equity and inclusion, especially in the LGBTQ+ community, which she represents in court. For example, she has successfully brought a motion to a Polish court which ordered the conservative newspaper Gazeta Polska to halt the distribution of "LGBT-free zone" stickers (acting together with attorney Michał Wawrykieiwcz) Another instance sees Sylwia representing both at the police station and in court LGBT activists arrested for confrontation with the police during the protest against the arrest of the LGBT activist argot in Warsaw in august 2020. Sylwia also received the award Badge of Advocacy for the Distinguished from the Polish National Bar Association and the award from the "Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka Foundation" for outstanding achievements in representing minority rights and combating discrimination on the grounds of age, race, ethnic origin, religion, faith or lack thereof, disability or sexual orientation.

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Financial Advisor

Northwestern Mutual

Although her career background is in the entertainment industry, she developed an interest in financial planning and now works at Northwestern Mutual as a Financial Advisor. Heather strives to help as many women as possible by guiding financial planning so that women can take control of their financial future. With an exhaustive knowledge of the financial services industry, and a compassionate, person-centered approach, she helps clients feel secure, educated, and in control. She once produced an ABC special called "Un-broke: What You Need to Know About Money" alongside Mellody Hobson. She saw firsthand how the entertainment career could have many phases, shifting from short-term contracts to loan-outs to vested corporate positions, making it much harder to map out personal financial plans. Hence, her goal is to guide people, especially women, in taking control of their finances to plan for the future.

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Chief Operating Officer

State Street Corporation

Since 2017, Lou has served as Executive Sponsor of State Street's Professional Women's Network, an Employee Resource Group providing professional development opportunities for women across the company. He regularly encourages colleagues and peers to participate in the network’s events, as he strongly believes that networking and conversations are critical to help to foster a strong pipeline of female talent. As well as launching and continuing to lead the PWN's Global Advisory Board, who advise on policies that drive diverse hiring and promotional practices, Lou has made a number of female leadership appointments at the Senior Vice President or Executive Vice President levels. In 2020, the firm reached 30% female representation across leadership roles, and approximately 68% of promotions at Manager Director level and above were women. PWN initiatives Lou helped with in 2020 included authoring a blog on ‘Allyship and Equal Pay Day for Black Women’ and hosting an event focused on Women in IT.

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Managing Director & Senior Partner and People Team Chair of Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East

Boston Consulting Group

Under Georg’s leadership over the past 2 years, BCG has defined a clear business case as to why gender diversity is important for BCG, and has ensured that this is constantly communicated to leaders and to all staff. As well as setting goals on the hiring and retention of female talent, Georg and his team have stated their ambition to continue to advance BCG’s women representation in the region. The programs they have implemented include family support, extended paternity leaves, women leadership programs, and participation in external thought leadership publications. Georg personally oversees the retention and career progression of CEMA’s senior women including a strong focus on female share in succession planning for leadership roles. Alongside that commitment he also sponsors 14 senior women to ensure they are successful in advancing through the ranks, by making regular check in calls and advocating for them internally.

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UK Chief People Officer

KPMG

In his role as Chief People Officer at KPMG Kevin has executive accountability for the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion strategy and policies, and in this capacity has set clear expectations about the proportionality of all promotions, and the outcomes of performance reviews and reward processes. Since joining he has initiated a review to ensure that annual D&I targets and the associated plans are sufficiently stretching, and that KPMG are on target to achieve their publicly quoted gender targets. As well as requesting the organization develop more ambitious gender targets that go beyond current 2022 goals, Kevin has also required a D&I review of all new policies being implemented as part of the transition to hybrid working, to ensure there will be no adverse gender impact. He has been a member of the KPMG Inclusive Leadership Board since starting at the firm, and along with the CEO he sets the agenda for this group of external advisers.

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Partner, Global Head of Intellectual Property

Allen & Overy

David is an active force in promoting D&I at A&O. In 2019, David established a Women in Intellectual Property initiative amongst partners and staff globally. The group, which David still sponsors, hosts events for women clients; runs CPE sessions with women-only speaker panels; encourages women to publish thought leadership; and promotes women's achievements within and outside the firm. As a result, lawyers at Allen & Overy have felt empowered to take the spotlight and talk on topical IP issues in front of clients and peers. The group also runs a mentoring program connecting female lawyers across offices and seniority levels, which benefits not just the junior staff but also the mentors, who gain valuable experience and insights. David was also responsible for organizing a study of the language used in quotes for legal directories. With the findings he published guidance on avoiding gendered language when providing feedback on barristers, which is now used across the firm’s London Litigation department.

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Managing Director and Senior Partner, Global DE&I and Leadership Chair

Boston Consulting Group

Matt is the DEI and Leadership Chair for Boston Consulting Group. He is responsible for the firm’s global Women@BCG program whose purpose is to increase the recruitment, retention, advancement, and satisfaction of women. The program is focused on outreach, increased flexibility and mobility offerings, bias reduction, pipeline planning, and customized professional development. Under Matt’s leadership BCG has increased women as a percentage of entry level hires from 29% to 42% and has retained men and women at equal rates over the last eight years. The number of female Managing Director & Partners at the firm has also grown at three times the rate of male MDPs, resulting in the percentage of female MDP representation doubling since 2013. In order to support caregivers at BCG during the pandemic, Matt worked with his team to develop a flexible work model that has provided caregivers with a 70% salary while working at 60% capacity across all cohorts and levels of the company.

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Chief Information and Operating Officer

AMTD Digital Inc

Continues his relentless effort across Singapore, Bangladesh as well as his new company, AMTD Digital Inc. through his advocacy to those 'men of position' and the HeForShe platform. Osman also leads the D&I Council. He personally mentors several mid-career women leaders within the Banking and FinTech industry and serves as Sponsor for the Women in FinTech initiative, which offers graduating students educational visits and internships to FinTech's to connect them with other women in tech and access to AMTD Digital SpiderNet ecosystem. Bangladesh was one of the first Muslim markets to launch a HeForShe network through Osman, and the Singapore HeForShe network he kickstarted currently has over 200 senior male leaders committed to helping hundreds of female executives pursue their personal and professional ambitions. In addition to the HeForShe networks, Osman has been supporting the Lead the Women initiative in Singapore, which reviews the hiring of women at each grade and identifies opportunities to drive progress towards a target of 30% women in key leadership roles.

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Midwest Market Unit Lead

Accenture

Lee serves as Senior Managing Director and Midwest Market Unit Lead at Accenture, and has been a driving force behind the company's partnership with Women in Cloud (WiC), a community-led economic development organization dedicated to advancing gender equity in the technology industry. In addition to sponsoring and empowering a female Managing Director at Accenture to serve on WiC's Board of Directors, Lee serves on a core team of advisors and influencers helping the not-for-profit organization drive its mission to generate $1 billion in net new global economic access for women entrepreneurs by 2030, through partnerships with corporations, community leaders and policy makers. He spearheaded the creation of Accenture Midwest’s partnership with The Mom Project to provide career opportunities for people from that organization, and is also a champion of Accenture's Women's Employee Resource Group with nearly 6,000 members who participate in networking, work/life balance, recruiting and community access opportunities.

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Downstream Director and member of Shell's Executive Committee

Royal Dutch Shell

As a passionate advocate for D&I, believing that diverse teams are better in conversation, decision and outcome quality, Huibert has set clear expectations with his leadership for creating gender balanced teams, with lasting improvements to gender diversity increasingly evident across his organization of 32,000 people. Operating in 150 countries, with revenues of $150 billion in 2020 and net earnings of $7 billion, women now hold almost half of all senior roles in Downstream: 44% up from 23% in the 18 months since Huibert was appointed. Under his leadership, women now run many of Shell’s leading and largest businesses, including Lubricants, Aviation, Marine, Low Carbon Fuels, Customer Operations and several Trading divisions. Further, women also lead the Mobility retailing businesses in Europe and the US as well as some of Shell’s largest and most complex chemicals plants and refineries in Asia and the US. Huibert’s other actions have included pushing Shell's brand campaigns to advocate for greater personal mobility for women, with messages of empowerment, support and celebration for achievements.

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Senior Managing Director, Lead - Accenture's Advanced Technology Centers in India (ATCI)

Accenture

As the Executive I&D Sponsor for Accenture’s Advanced Technology Centers in India, Mahesh has taken bold steps to create an inclusive and barrier-free culture. In order to champion continuous learning and help women technologists achieve fulfilling careers, Mahesh spearheads several strategic women-centric initiatives across ATCI. He is deeply committed to is achieving a gender-balanced workforce and growing the percentage of women directors in the team to 30% by 2025. Mahesh believes in technology being an equalizer and has been instrumental in developing pathbreaking programs, such as the Apex Leadership Crescent Program, Cloud Elevate, Grow Women in Leadership Program, Quantum Impact and High-Tech Women Edge, which are collectively geared towards enabling 25,000 women across career levels to build their technology skills and become stronger leaders of tomorrow. As the Accenture Technology Accessibility Co-Sponsor, Mahesh has also launched a virtual Accessibility Center; a dedicated place with a suite of assistive technologies to empower colleagues with disabilities.

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Partner

Simmons & Simmons

Colin has used his 10 years a senior partner at Simmons & Simmons to ensure that improving gender diversity is a key business priority for Simmons & Simmons with a focus on progressing women through to the partnership and into senior management positions. In those ten years, he has sponsored two female Managing Associates in their route to partnership; chaired quarterly gender balance meetings; sponsored the cost of two film screenings to mark the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act; supported the launch of email signature guidelines for the inclusion of personal pronouns; and started reverse mentoring with the firm’s female race and ethnicity partner lead to gain an insight into the challenges and opportunities faced by ethnic groups across the firm. Since Colin became a partner the percentage of firmwide female partners has increased from 11% to just below 25%. This year, six of the thirteen new partners at the firm were female. More recently, Colin has been a lead male advocate for demystifying the female menopause.

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Partner and Senior Vice President

IHS Markit

At IHS Markit, Ed is Lead Advisor to the DEI team and a participating Sponsor within the Women's Sponsorship Program. As well as contributing to the Program’s panel events, he has sponsored a budget in 2021 supporting the launch of three new Women’s Career Development & Retention programs covering almost 300 women across all titles. These programs have since contributed to a meaningful increase in female promotions. In addition, Ed also plays an active role in early careers and IHS Markit’s campus recruiting programs, which have led to encouraging results including in some of the highest female representation in IHS Markit’s 2020 intern class. Ed and his team’s efforts have resulted in numerous Diversity & Inclusion awards for IHS Markit, including recognition from Mogul Top 100 Workplaces, Human Rights Campaign, and Forbes. Outside of IHS Markit, Edward is an active participant as a coach, teacher and fundraiser with several organizations focused on improving educational programs and career development opportunities.

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Vice President, Board of Directors

YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago

B sits on the Board of Directors of the YWCA, an organization whose entire purpose is to empower women. In 2020, B and their team acquired an additional YWCA location that was in danger of closing, ensuring that women and children in a more suburban area of Chicago had their programs maintained. The YWCA also acquired Streetwise, an organization that allows individuals to become independent workers and develop their own income. With COVID, those individuals were given additional training that supported programs like vaccination registration, food assistance programs, and childcare. The YWCA also stepped up and provided 1000s of meals to Chicagoans who had lost their jobs due to COVID, as well as providing grants to support housing assistance. Outside of the YWCA, B speaks nationally and internationally on gender diversity and women's inclusion including talks with companies such as British Airways, McMaster University, and Crunchyroll so far in 2021.

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Executive Vice President and Head of Wealth and Personal Banking

HSBC Bank Canada

Larry Tomei is a passionate advocate for Diversity & Inclusion. As a first generation Canadian, Larry knows the challenges faced by newcomers, and it was this experience which led to his devotion to promoting D&I. Larry is a strong supporter of empowering women in the workforce. At HSBC Bank Canada, he has achieved a 50% gender balance on his leadership team and has championed three-year diversity and gender promotion objectives. Within WPB, Larry created a platform for female leaders to raise their profiles. He often designates women leaders to represent him in business and speaking engagements, and leverages communication channels to promote women as role models for upcoming employees. Larry mentors and sponsors women, ultimately leading to career advancement and transition into more progressive, important and impactful roles. He hosts “Women Only” exchange sessions to facilitate their feedback and to identify opportunities not only for improvement, but also for creating a pipeline of top talent

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Group Managing Director

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group (part of RELX)

Dean believes an inclusive culture is a true differentiator and a fundamental pillar of a high performance organisation, overseeing two organisations which together have a 45.7% female representation across the workforce, and a 50/50 gender balance at leadership level. Dean has championed D&I initiatives including unconscious bias training for employees, gender balance leadership, psychological safety along with mentoring and sponsorship initiatives for women, all of which have driven employee engagement, retention and employee satisfaction. Dean believes that for diversity to be sustainable, first you must have inclusion. The diversity of backgrounds, experiences and beliefs drive the best decisions, innovation and results as the business continually strives for everyone to bring their best authentic selves to work. Dean regularly sits on panels and promotes the business’ Employee Resource Groups and is currently working with industry leaders to set up a D&I forum for the Energy and Chemical markets.

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SVP & Partner, Financial Services Solutions

IHS Markit

This year, Andrew and the rest of the executive leadership team at IHS Markit launched and sponsored three new Women’s Career Development and Retention programs which saw hundreds of women enroll for mentoring, sponsoring and 1:1 coaching. In addition to directly mentoring ten women as a participant in those programs, Andrew has also placed a focus on building recognition of female members of his team and encouraging them to take on a more public persona. In 2020-21, IHS Markit has seen a significant increase in female promotions at the VP level and SVP level. 2020 also saw an increase in female hires, specifically in the intern program that reached an all-time high of female participation. These outcomes have received public recognition from Mogul Top 100 Workplaces, the Rewards & Benefits Association and Forbes’ list of America's Best Employers for Women.

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CEO

IHG

As Chief Executive Officer, Keith has been instrumental in defining IHG’s culture as one of inclusion, and to the sense of belonging colleagues feel and the freedom they have to be themselves. A commitment to champion a diverse culture where everyone can thrive is at the heart of IHG’s ‘Journey to Tomorrow’ 2030 Responsible Business plans, and the company has a set of targets to help achieve this, including driving gender balance and a doubling of under-represented groups across our leadership. Throughout the pandemic, recognising the pressures it has placed on all IHG colleagues, Keith has ensured that colleagues can prioritise wellbeing and manage family and work needs, including with the introduction of new global flexible working guidelines and recharge days to allow colleagues to recuperate.

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Head of Asia ex-Japan, BlackRock Investment Stewardship

BlackRock

Shinbo is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of BlackRock Singapore's Male Allies program, a role through which he is tasked with growing the pool of male champions who advocate for the empowerment of female colleagues. The position also involves supporting the broader Women's Initiative Network (WIN) in fostering diversity, equity and inclusion. The Male Allies program is focused around building awareness of biases and behaviors that act as barriers to achieving gender equity in the workplace, while sharing experiences and practices that help build a more inclusive culture. In his role at BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship, Shinbo and his team have strengthened the expectation of board diversity, including gender diversity, by newly implementing a voting policy in 2021 which BlackRock holds existing members accountable for a lack of women on the board by voting against the re-election of directors. Outside of BlackRock, Shinbo has been appointed as Male Champion of the Financial Women's Association (FWA) of Singapore.

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Chief Executive

Diageo

Since becoming Diageo’s Chief Executive in 2013, Ivan has championed Inclusion and Diversity across the whole of the organization, as well as the wider drinks and hospitality industry. As well as ambitious 2030 goals to increase the representation of women in Diageo leadership roles and the percentage of suppliers from female and minority-owned businesses, Diageo is also amongst the first companies to have created a clear link and direct accountability for ESG commitments with its senior management community. In February 2021, Diageo announced 20% of the Diageo Long-term Incentive Plan will be linked to ESG measures, including Inclusion and Diversity, ensuring that every senior leader is incentivized to make progress on this agenda. This year the firm has continued to empower women and to lean into taboo subjects: in March 2021 Global Menopause Guidelines were launched to offer strengthened support and flexibility and to encourage employees to build their understanding of how the menopause impacts individuals.

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CEO

WPP

As CEO of WPP, created two new roles of Chief People Officer and a Global Head of Culture to continue to improve diversity and build an open and inclusive culture at the company. Women now make up 51% of senior managers and 40% at the most senior executive level. Last year, WPP launched an updated online ethics training, including unconscious bias modules which are mandatory for all staff, and a new Conscious Inclusion training program to embed DE&I into hiring processes, performance management systems and leadership development. For the third year running the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index has listed WPP, and last year Forbes ranked the company sixteenth in its Best Employers for Women in the US List. In 2020, of a total $94 million had been spent by WPP on diverse suppliers in the US, 64% of which went to women-owned business enterprises and 14% to minority women-owned business enterprises.

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Partner/Managing Director, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities Company Limited, Co-Head China Investment Banking Division

Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities Company Limited

Sean’s actions to foster workplace diversity at Goldman Sachs include serving as a member of the Asia Pacific Inclusion and Diversity Committee, where he focuses on developing and implementing D&I strategies across the region; ensuring the inclusion of women during recruitment and promotion processes; hosting roundtable sessions with diverse vice presidents including women to enhance visibility and connectivity with leadership; and serving as an active sponsor for high-potential professionals across Asia to ensure the progress of diverse representation. He also sponsors the China Diversity Network, where he is a frequent speaker at women empowerment events, such as ‘When Women Lead – Perspectives on Women in Business’ and the ‘Lean in China Young Leaders’ Program’, where he shared his belief in gender equality. Sean also played a key role in driving Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Equity’s incremental diversity hiring results.

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CEO, Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking and CEO, Europe & Americas

Standard Chartered Bank

As Global D&I Council Chair for Standard Chartered Bank, Simon has initiated a major shift in the organization’s Diversity and Inclusion agenda. His leadership has accelerated the pace of change, resulting in Inclusive Leadership workshops for over 16,000 leaders and in CEOs taking more accountability for the delivery of local D&I plans and objectives. Simon has also overseen the introduction of initiatives such as a global Fair Pay Charter; the disclosure of the Gender Pay Gap in key markets; and the implementation of safety and security initiatives in 21 markets, in order to support female colleagues living and working in countries with a history of heightened violence. David’s approach to engage the organization has resulted in a positive trend across several indicators, including female representation in senior roles, which increased from 27.7% in 2018 to 30.14% today, and employee inclusion index scores, up from 78% in 2019 to 82% in 2020.

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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

State Street Corporation

Under Ron's leadership, State Street has continually focused on female leadership in the companies it invests in, including by launching a Fearless Girl initiative which saw more than 860 companies appoint at least one female board member where they previously had none. Within State Street, Ron has introduced company-wide diversity goals which are tied to executives’ compensation, and diverse talent slates for all open positions including on the board. Three women have been added to State Street’s Management Committee by Ron, bringing female representation to 29%, and last year approximately 68% of promotions at Managing Director level and above were women. State Street has featured on Working Mother's 100 Best Companies and Best Companies for Dads, as well as on the Diversity Best Practices Inclusion Index. For seven consecutive years the firm has received a score of 100% on the HRC Equality Index.

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CEO

Nielsen

David’s achievements as CEO of Nielsen include launching Gracenote Inclusion Analytics in order to identify, including by gender and sexual orientation, groups on TV and in the audiences watching. He heads a leadership team in which four of the nine members are women, and this year he appointed a female Chief Diversity Officer. In light of the additional pressures being placed on women due to COVID, David launched a mental health and self-care program including Mental Health Days Off and a spotlight on childcare and counselling benefits. As well as launching a company-wide e-learning session, ‘From Witness to Advocate’, on allyship and recognizing microaggressions, David also gave a keynote speech at Nielsen’s Women’s History Month where he spoke about challenging bias and encouraging women at all levels to take on leadership roles. For the third consecutive year, Nielsen has featured on Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index.

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President and Chief Financial Officer

Dow

Howard has served as Executive Sponsor for the Women’s Inclusion Network ERG since 2017, a role which involves supporting over 7,000 participants. As well as sponsoring a POWER UP program and career portfolio toolkits with over 1,300 Dow women, Howard has also championed Sponsor to Success in Finance, advancing women and U.S. minority talent development by pairing participants with a senior leader advocate who enhances exposure and visibility. He has a track record of enforcing expectations for recruiting gender-diverse talent across all levels, including transparently posting all roles internally, and he has cultivated a strong female talent pipeline across the organization by providing external coaches for female employees globally. In another of his roles, as Executive Sponsor of the Total Rewards Assessment program, Howard has reinforced his commitment to offer equitable opportunities by establishing a global minimum standard of 16 weeks paid time off for new parents regardless of gender.

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Chief Executive Officer

Man Group

As CEO of Man Group, Luke oversees the D&I strategy alongside the Group COO. Together they re-launched Drive, the internal D&I network, which today is comprised of the gender balance network Women at Man alongside several others. In his position on the Senior Executive Committee, which is responsible for championing D&I, Luke pushed for the implementation of a policy to incorporate a systematic review of diversity within talent and succession planning reviews. Man Group's commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, for which Luke serves as Executive Sponsor, has seen the proportion of women in senior roles increase from 16% in 2016 to 25% in 2020, meeting their Charter target. The firm’s consistent efforts to support and develop women have now led to increased targets to reach 30% female representation in senior roles by 2024, whilst the board achieved gender parity in 2020.

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Vice Chairman and Co-Chair of Human Capital Committee

BlackRock

As the Co-chair of the Human Capital Committee and Talent Sub-Committee, Robert has led and sponsored a number of initiatives aimed at increasing gender equality in the workplace. He helped launch BlackRock’s Women Leadership Forum, established extended maternity/paternity leave and a flexible time-off policy, and sponsored numerous senior women, through investing in helping them find broader, more impactful careers at BlackRock. As Interim Global Head of HR, Robert expanded adoption assistance and new surrogacy and egg freezing benefits for all employees. Robert is also one of the founders of the first chapter of BlackRock’s Women’s Initiative Network based on the East coast. As one of BlackRock Women's Leadership Forum Chairs, Robert has been a Global Executive Committee sponsor of the program for many years and has been instrumental in involving other Global Executive Committee members as sponsors of women in the program.

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CEO, Hong Kong , Taiwan and Thailand

Edelman

Adrian serves as CEO of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand for Edelman, and a founding member and Co-chair of Male Allies, a charity under The Women’s Foundation. The raft of policy changes and engagement initiatives introduced under his leadership have led to a reduced turnover from 35% in 2017 to 19% in 2021. The firm has also seen an increase in the percentage of women on the leadership team from 30% up to 50%, and on the management team from 40% up to 55%. Pay has also been equalized, and 100% of working mums have been retained for the third year running. The many DEI initiatives Adrian has overseen have included a dynamic working policy for all; increased holiday allowances; balanced panels for hiring and reviews; the replacement of paternity and maternity benefits with primary and secondary carer benefits; and a partnership with The Women’s Foundation that provides mentoring and training.

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CEO-Elect and Chairman of Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Managing Director & Senior Partner

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

In his current role as Chairman of the Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East (CEMA) region at BCG, Christoph Schweizer has made Women@BCG one of his four top priorities. Christoph has set clear goals related to the hiring, promotion, and retention of women, working closely with leaders and teams in the region to advance this critical agenda. Not only has there been a rise in the percentage of female entry level hires for BCG in CEMA, from just over 30% in 2019 to over 40% in 2021, the firm also continues to uphold equal men and women retention rates, with the ambition to continue to advance BCG’s women representation in the region. In May 2021, Christoph was elected as BCG’s next CEO, effective October 1, 2021, and diversity, equity & inclusion in particular is a strong pillar of his global agenda going forward.

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Group Chief Executive

Halma

Andrew’s work to improve the gender balance in leadership positions at Halma has resulted in more diversity at all levels of the organization. From July this year, the Executive Board will be made up of 78% women, including one Black woman. Additionally, 46% of graduates in the last four years have been women, and more than 50% of Halma’s senior leadership team are women, including on the plc Board, the Executive Board and the Divisional Chief Executives. As part of Halma’s commitment to building inclusive businesses, last year the firm launched its first ever global paid parental leave policy to support new parents to look after their new family, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation or the market in which they live or work. The policy aims to remove career impediments for mothers, and to enable fathers to enjoy more time with their new family.

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Managing Partner Europe

Oliver Wyman

When promoted to Managing Partner Europe earlier in 2021, Christian enacted two policy changes. The first was aimed at talent acquisition, allowing business leaders to go beyond their hiring targets if they managed to attract female talent. This initiative allowed Oliver Wyman to hire five additional highly talented female colleagues. The second policy, which was implemented after a strong correlation was observed between the sponsorship of women and their career progress, asked each member of the European Leadership Team to sponsor two female colleagues. Christian has also been working closely with the HR team to ensure Oliver Wyman creates a ‘back to office work’ policy which allows employees to retain the benefits of hybrid working. The Men4Change program he co-founded two years ago has run workshops with many clients on the topic of gender balance, as a forum to share experiences and as an opportunity to get to know like-minded peers.

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CEO

AXA UK & Ireland

Claudio has placed gender equality as a key, strategic priority for AXA UK&I with the result that the organization has been listed as a coveted 2021 Times Top 50 Employer for Women, and the gender seniority gap has been significantly reduced. Under his leadership female representation on the Executive Committee has increased from 19% in 2018 to 50% in 2021, and the percentage of women in executive roles has risen from 32.1% in 2020 to 39.9% in 2021. Claudio is actively involved in the sponsorship of female talent across the AXA Group, and on International Women’s Day 2021 he used his LinkedIn platform to spotlight three AXA female future leaders he is currently supporting. He regularly participates in internal D&I initiatives, which in 2021 have included an internal panel discussion to celebrate International Women's Day and a virtual speed mentoring event hosted by AXA UK&I’s gender equality network.

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Chief Executive Officer

Time Out Group plc

Throughout his career and at Time Out Group, Julio has always surrounded himself with a team of mixed genders, races and ethnicities. The leadership team Julio currently heads at Time Out has a 50:50 gender split. In addition, 58% of the whole workforce is female and there is no gender pay gap. The company’s HR recruitment process involves practicing blind recruitment, to avoid unconscious bias around hiring men over women, and insisting on a 50% minority candidate long list from any agencies used. During 2020, in response to the issues faced by working parents over the pandemic, Time Out created a family resource center as a support to help with mental health and the time off needed while working and caregiving simultaneously. Every year Time Out celebrates International Women's Day, both internally and through the company’s media megaphone, and Julio actively encourages his editorial team to spotlight female owned businesses as well as minority-owned businesses.

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Chief Executive

KPMG

Since being elected as Chief Executive of KPMG in April 2021, Jon has put Inclusion and Diversity at the heart of his strategy. He is responsible for the firm's progress against Inclusion, Diversity and Social Equality (IDSE) targets, as well as pay gaps and action plans, and he ensures that these are regularly discussed and challenged by the Executive Committee in order to drive action and progress. He also sets the tone for all people processes, making sure that colleagues apply a gender and ethnicity lens to achieve the right outcomes and drive sustainable change. In his previous role as the Head of Audit, Jon developed IDSE goals for all Audit Partners and Directors, and initiated IDSE awareness sessions for all 7,000 of Audit’s employees, and since 2017 he has been a member of the KPMG Inclusive Leadership Board, which serves to challenge the firm on progress and bring in external views regarding best practice.

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Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder

FiscalNote

As Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at FiscalNote, Gerald has driven a number of initiatives to improve gender diversity at the company. Last year, after speaking with over 25 DEI experts on how to shape the company’s programs, he launched the first Diversity and Inclusion company-wide survey and led the creation of the 2020 State of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report released internally to the entire international organization. Gerald also built the structure and recruitment of the company’s DEI Task Force. Furthermore, he organized Senior Leadership Team enablement sessions around DEI, integrating incentive goals for leaders. This year has seen him sign onto the CEO ACTION for Diversity and Inclusion, bring women onto the Advisory Board, and coordinate with the Head of CSR to create monthly themes related to DEI.

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Chief Executive Officer

Bridgewater Associates

David is the CEO of Bridgewater Associates and has spearheaded the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion initiative as a top priority since 2017. David appointed Bridgewater’s first Chief Diversity Officer and full-time team, reporting directly to him. Under David’s leadership, the firm instituted pay equity reviews; launched affinity networks, including the Women's Influence Network; implemented equal parental leave; publicly released representation and pay equity data; ensured gender representation was a key consideration in designing a new governance structure; and increased the number of women in senior leadership. Throughout David’s career the advancement of women has been deeply personal to him – as a public servant focused on getting the best out of his team, as a business executive responsible for developing the next generation of leaders, and as a father of six daughters with his wife Dina Powell McCormick. David is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, has a Ph.D. from Princeton, and is a veteran of the First Gulf War.

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Investment Consultant

Lane Clark & Peacock LLP

Suman is a Committee Member of Lane Clark & Peacock’s Women’s Network and helped lead the firm's ‘Let's talk about Gender Equality’ four-week educational program covering a range of topics such as ‘The History of Women's Rights’, ‘Celebrating Differences’, ‘Women in the Workplace’ and ‘Legislation and the Gender Pay Gap’. Information was shared internally and discussed with the rest of the firm in weekly discussions. In addition, Suman and her team have now held three Women's Talent Academies which are unique mentorship schemes giving undergraduates access to women working within investment consulting with the aim of improving gender diversity in the investment industry, in pensions and at LCP. Suman also sits on the Gender Equality workstream of the Diversity Project and has recently set up a podcast called “Spotlight on Women in Investment” which offers female students a chance to voice their opinions on D&I related topics such as the Imposter Phenomenon and EQ vs IQ.

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Head, Model Risk Management, Risk technology

Standard Chartered Bank

Following the launch of Standard Chartered Bank's Diversity and Inclusion strategy in 2018, Ankita has continually raised awareness of D&I within the organization through means such as hackathons, virtual trainings, and D&I forums. She founded the Women on Work (WOW) team which aims at supporting teams to improve their gender balance so that they can contribute to the Bank's overall female ratio target, as well as identifying allies, promoting inclusivity, and conducting virtual trainings to address cultural gaps. In addition to her work with WOW, Ankita is one of the mentors for the Bank’s ASCEND program, which aims at creating and enabling a platform for learning, mentoring and coaching in order to nurture future senior female leaders in the Technology and Innovation space. As someone active on both internal and external professional networking sites, Ankita made a LinkedIn video for International Women’s Day 2021 promoting diversity in all its forms.

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IT Audit Assistant Manager

KPMG LLP UK

Preeti was a graduate when she joined the IT's Her Future programme in 2017, an initiative to improve gender diversity at KPMG. As part of the programme, she dedicated herself to driving inclusion for women, both within and outside KPMG. Since 2019, Preeti has led the Juniors workstream which is aimed at younger women outside of KPMG, to help tackle the gender diversity issue within technology. Preeti leads various events for students aged 10-18, such as bespoke primary school technology workshops, insight events with a long-term mentoring scheme and reunion events to ensure that students are kept engaged. Preeti has also supported and promoted the national roll-out of the internal KPMG mentoring for IT audit females. Preeti is an inclusion and diversity ambassador at KPMG, training and advocating existing and new D&I workstreams and supporting IT’s Her Future’s mission, which, in the past 5 years, has seen its efforts result in an increase in female headcount from 26% to 42%.

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Regional Head of Customer Experience – Wealth & Personal Banking EMEA

HSBC

After almost 20 years of experience in the industry, Haydi noticed that the inclusivity of women in the workforce has been an ongoing battle. Once in a managerial role she felt she had the capability of making a change, and now leads an all-female team. Within the last two years she has received women from the global graduate program on to her team so that they can learn and move up the ladder of success, with her priority being to make sure that they have a voice and are heard. Haydi has also been driving and managing a transformational Customer Experience Strategy at the bank for the last two years, in an attempt to encourage a culture shift across all layers of the organization. She is driving this change through the SMILE Program (Service Magic through Innovation, Listening & agile Execution) and has already started seeing signs of success in the first two years of the program.

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Senior Associate

Clifford Chance

Amy took over as Co-Chair of the UK arm of the Accelerate Gender Parity network in February 2021, and since then has implemented a number of initiatives including running an International Women's Day month of events to drive forward discussions and educate colleagues on achieving cultural change; influencing the content of the firm's new Code of Conduct, including principles around inclusive environments and respect for flexible working; and calling for enhancements to family leave/benefits, to embrace shared parenting culture. She also created a working group on work culture and campaigned to adopt true agile working. She was instrumental in establishing the firm's principle of up to 50% home working, serving on the steering committee with senior management to drive through this cultural change, with the potential for generational impact. Since autumn of last year Amy has also been on the firm’s ESG Board and as an employment lawyer works with clients to maximise the impact of their own D&I work.

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Legal Manager, Disputes, Alternative Legal Services

Herbert Smith Freehills South Africa LLP

Plaxedes is an experienced Disputes lawyer in the Alternative Legal Services (ALT) team at Herbert Smith Freehills. She was integrally involved in the set-up of the Johannesburg ALT team in 2017, which forms part of a market-leading, innovative global team of 350 lawyers, technologists and legal analysts operating across 11 international locations. As well as serving on the Johannesburg Pro Bono Committee and the Regional Race Champions Committee, Plaxedes was also instrumental in setting up the Social, Diversity, CSR and Mental Health Committees. In addition to managing complex cross-jurisdictional international disputes projects, Plaxedes’ responsibilities include the recruitment of legal analysts as part of the market-leading International Legal Development Programme. When recruiting, she ensures that she and her colleagues are championing individual uniqueness, and that the teams they recruit are diverse. As a result, more than half of the legal analysts recruited in January 2021 were women. Outside of work, Plaxedes has raised funds for a breast cancer patient who could not afford treatment and for a Biokinetics student to be able to register for her second year of studies.

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ESG Institutional Portfolio Manager

BlueBay Asset Management

Koycheva contributed to the establishment of BlueBay’s women’s forum, having led the restructuring of the forum’s activities to become the diversity and inclusion forum, building greater intersectionality. She has contributed to a D&I vision and strategy and organised working groups on data, volunteering, and interview practices. As vice chair of the D&I Forum she sets its agenda and chairs its meetings while collaborating with the Employee Resource Groups of BlueBay's parent company, RBC, and other financial organisations. In addition to spearheading BlueBay's participation in the inaugural summer internship programs with GAIN and 100BlackInterns, Elena led BlueBay's International Women’s Day panel with senior females from across the business. In 2021 she became a member of the BlueBay Corporate Responsibility Committee, Charity Forum, and RBC’s RWomen ERG. Externally, Koycheva leads the CFA UK Job Profiles working group and supports greater D&I awareness as the recently appointed CAIA London chapter head. Koycheva mentors in cross-industry mentoring programmes and is a Diversity Project Ambassador.

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Founder & CEO

Curaty

Over the last two years Sneha has built a database of over 3000 artists, 72% of which are female. She has created paid opportunities for female artists to show their work across the commercial sector, and curated an all-women exhibition of recent art-school graduates titled ‘Resilience’ in the prime location of Oxford Street. One service Sneha and her team launched for their art rental client businesses was curated collections of artwork for the walls of workplaces, commenting on the importance of diversity and inclusion. The artworks stood as a daily reminder to employees and visitors of the company's commitment towards this goal. Over 30,000 individuals have experienced, interacted and engaged with these exhibitions and art programs. Sneha has personally mentored over 40 female artists on their public image and on pricing their artwork, after it was proven discovered that female artists tend to undervalue their works in comparison to their male counterparts.

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EMEA Corporate Citizenship Program Manager

Fiserv

One of the ways Sinead has pushed to create an environment that celebrates inclusion in the workplace has been through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). She is an active member or ally of all the ERGs in region and continuously looks for ways to support and promote them. The ERGs she is involved in include the LGBTQ Community UNITY, the Asian Leadership Council, the Women's Impact Network (WIN), the Young Professional Leadership Council and the Black Leadership Council. Together with some colleagues, Sinead is also leading an initiative to form groups across EMEA called Culture Circles, based on a tried and tested model first established in Ireland. The aim is to bring employees from all backgrounds together to network, have fun, celebrate different cultures and festivals and educate others along the way. Within the last 18 months five Culture Circles have been set up in office locations across EMEA under Sinead’s guidance.

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Distinguished Engineer

IBM

As a recently appointed technical executive and the first Filipino-American Distinguished Engineer at IBM, Virginia joins an elite group of innovators and pioneers of today’s modern digital infrastructure built for the future. In her technical leadership role, Virginia acts as a mentor to many up-and-coming top female technical talents, both within her own IBM business organization and outside it. She believes in 'outcome-based mentoring' is most effective, so she works with her protégés on achieving specific career goals rather than meeting for the sake of meeting. A frequent speaker on diversity in senior leadership roles at IBM, Virginia was the Keynote Speaker for the IBM Innovation Centers' 2021 International Women's Day in Hungary, Czech Republic, and South Africa. The event was attended by over 1,000 professionals ranging from entry-level employees to senior professionals.

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Partner

Vinson & Elkins

Louise is the Office Lead for the Women's Initiative (WI) at Vinson & Elkins, placing her at the forefront of the WI's activities in London. Her responsibilities have included organizing internal skills trainings and client events; writing on the topic of diversity; spearheading a cross-office senior female networking and mentorship program; mentoring women colleagues herself both formally and informally; and acting as talent lead for her practice group. She is also the Office Lead for the Diversity & Inclusion Committee, a role which has seen her drive D&I efforts including a schools outreach mentoring program; internal training on topics such as implicit biases and DISC assessment; cultural and religious celebrations; and a London office Book Club to discuss race and gender issues. Together with Human Resources and graduate recruitment teams Louise has worked to ensure the diverse hiring, retention and promotion of lawyers at the firm.

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Programme Manager, Risk Functions

Standard Chartered Ltd.

Swastika is an active contributor to the fourth Pillar of Standard Chartered Bank’s new Global Functions initiative: People. The People pillar includes both Diversity and Inclusion, primarily focusing on retaining, attracting, developing and engaging female talent, and Championing Wellbeing, a workstream which concentrates on awareness, mental health and wellness sessions held by expert external agencies. Since becoming part of the Women on Work, and Wellness teams in early 2021, Swastika has been mentoring upcoming women leaders within the organization, and has also been involved in supporting and empowering Risk Functions women at all stages of their career. Outside of Standard Chartered Bank Swastika is Co-Founder of a community 'Livia and it’s Events' in Singapore, which organizes activities, whether a trek, a talk show or cultural events, to bring out awareness among races. Swastika strongly believes that these creative and cultural events are the best way of spreading the right message in communities.

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Compliance Paralegal

LVMH-Moet Hennessy USA

Kyoshia has been a driving force in raising awareness of the Black experience at Moët Hennessy USA (MHUSA) and reinforcing the company’s commitment to foster a more inclusive workplace. Over the last four years, she has organized cultural celebrations and thoughtful discussions to help celebrate diversity and increase the visibility of underrepresented populations, specifically women of color while working to drive policy change that focuses on equity. Her influence has extended beyond MHUSA and has permeated throughout LVMH. She was a panelist during one of LVMH's D&I events and a founding member of the MH Noir Assemblage, MHUSA’s ERG, that advocates for the inclusion and advancement of Black employees at MHUSA/LVMH. In December 2020, she was the recipient of MHUSA’s Spirit & Stars Award and was nominated for the Women at MHUSA’s Everyday Inspiring Women award. Most recently, Kyoshia was selected by EllesVMH, LVMH’s women’s ERG, to participate in their pilot allyship program.

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Senior Sales Manager, Small and Medium Business

Vodafone UK

Caroline assumed the role of the Chair of the Women's Network at Vodafone UK at the end of 2020, with the purpose of re-invigorating an inactive network by engaging a broad and diverse workforce. To date she has established an operating model; recruited 40 voluntary roles to form the network committee; and held sessions with the CEO and the Network’s Executive Sponsors, to gain support and to highlight how the company can better support its women employees. Under Caroline’s leadership the Women’s Network has gathered feedback from its membership and defined a program of activity in 2021 based on their insight and input. This has involved taking an intersectional approach with other D&I networks and using events to target key topics such as imposter syndrome, the menopause, and striking a work-life balance throughout COVID. Caroline has also worked with HR and the D&I Team, highlighting 'gaps' in Vodafone's employment policies and support materials relating to women and working in collaboration to develop and launch new support tools.

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Director, Head of XVA Trading

SMBC Nikko Capital Markets (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation)

At Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation’s (SMBC) Nikko Capital Markets, Eunice is an active Committee Member of the BALANCE network, a group which supports gender balance and aims to empower all female and male colleagues. Through BALANCE, Eunice organized and hosted the Learning from Leaders session in September 2020, where she interviewed the CEO of SMBC Nikko Capital Markets in front of an audience of more than 150 colleagues. Eunice’s other work championing diversity has seen her actively mentoring and tutoring for the “Young Women into Finance” programme and Career Lead to help develop the female talent pipeline for the finance industry, as well as participating in D&I initiatives such as women’s networking and support groups. Outside of SMBC Eunice founded and now leads the Lean In Circle for Women in Banking & Finance, connecting and empowering women who have career ambitions in finance. She runs monthly and sometimes bi-monthly events for the Circle’s more than 230 members.

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Head of Investment Management Technology

Man Group

Rachel became Co-Chair of Women at Man (WAM) in 2020. Under her leadership, engagement in the WAM working group has improved and a focus has been placed on retention and personal growth, empowering women at the firm to reach their full potential. The Mentoring Circles she introduced provided women with an opportunity to share their varied experiences on topics like 'Getting Out of your Own Way' in a facilitated environment, whilst the Development Workshops focused on offering support in areas commonly highlighted as gaps for women, starting with impact, authority and presence. In addition to running interview sessions with Man Group’s three new female board members, whose presence took the board to gender parity, WAM has also been investigating the ways it can build ally support from male colleagues, and how this can lead to sponsorship opportunities for women.

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Business Integration Manager

Centrica plc

At Centrica Sherena is the Head of Communications and Engagement for the VOICE Network, a role through which she works to care for all colleagues, including female ethnic minority women. In this role she led the Network’s relaunch, creating a distinct platform as a forum for colleagues to support one another. This included promoting a 'Hidden Figures' event, which focused on allowing female ethnic minority colleagues to be heard across the organisation. Sherena has also brought a fresh perspective to conversations including gender diversity by producing the 'Amplify' newsletter to promote a message of inclusion, share best practices, and encourage readers to engage with the conversation. Sherena helped co-ordinate the inaugural Diversity and Inclusion event for Centrica’s Legal function. This event facilitated the discussion on how the future of the legal industry could be more inclusive, especially for women. This event, featured within industry magazines, committed 14 leading law-firms to initiatives providing more inclusive workplaces for employees.

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Vice President

State Street

Marion strongly believes in the power of education and visibility when it comes to making the workplace more inclusive. As Co-Chair of the State Street UK Pride Network and Chair of the Interbank’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, she acts as a role model for LGBT+ women, regularly appearing on panels to discuss the specific issues they face. This has included featuring on the “Corporate activism: the second full-time job” panel organized in the framework of the 2020 EUROUT conference, and the “Inclusivity in the workplace” event organised by Out in Business. She has also been responsible for organizing events herself, for instance featuring women’s stories from the birth of the modern LGBT+ movement at Stonewall to the present day. Marion is also credited for setting up a diversity committee within Interbank, the network of LGBT+ networks for financial services firms in the UK. Tremendous progress has been made in women representation and visibility in the wake of this initiative.

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Head of Technical Innovation

Thales UK

Working in Engineering, Frances is very aware of the severe under-representation of women in the sector. At Thales she speaks out to advocate for flexible working and for adapting the workplace environment to become truly inclusive for all. Most of Frances’ work in aid of gender diversity and women's inclusion, however, has been done externally through the non-profit she founded, Speak Out Revolution. Speak Out Revolution has a mission to cancel the culture of silence on workplace harassment and bullying. Frances and her team decided that the best solution to these issues was to create the 'Glassdoor' of workplace harassment and bullying: a place to provide insights for individuals to help them navigate the poor systems in place, and to spotlight the challenges faced by different people. The non-profit has now launched their Speak Out Survey and Speak Out Dashboard designed to capture and present data on these behaviors, to raise awareness and drive positive change.

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EMEA Application Engineering Manager

3M

As a well-respected, full-time Technical Manager at a global science-based technology company, Sarah is a role model for women in STEM careers. As a manager, she has always championed flexible working and leads by example as the mum of two young children. Sarah was appointed Co-Chair of the EMEA Technical Women's Leadership Forum after returning from maternity leave and has led many campaigns to support diversity and inclusion, such as facilitating #IAmRemarkable workshops for more than 200 people, mostly from underrepresented groups. Her work as a Gold level #IAmRemarkable trainer and recruitment of new facilitators to support the roll-out was recognised at 3M’s internal International Women’s Day event. 3M has pledged to create five million unique STEM and Skilled Trades learning experiences for underrepresented individuals by the end of 2025 and this is something that Sarah is wholeheartedly supporting through her award-winning STEM volunteering and advocacy work. Sarah mentors numerous female colleagues and is also a mental health first aider.

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Client Service Delivery Senior Manager

Accenture India

Gunjan is currently leading a Diversity & Women Retention initiative for Software & Platform client businesses under Accenture India Operations. Her efforts in this role include creating Location Wise Women Retention Champions, to strengthen women’s engagement networks and activities and to engage with high potential women employees expressing their desire to quit; launching a Women Retention Roadmap across all India sites; and creating business-wide visibility around weekly, monthly and year-to-date Diversity and Women Attrition Gap numbers to further create awareness and develop mitigation plans. She has also been engaging with Internal Staffing Teams to find alternate career opportunities for female employees quitting due to relocation or the nature of their work. The other programs Gunjan has driven forward include a mentorship program, a platform to support women employees to speak about their challenges and seek help, and a Women Centric Engagement Survey to empower females employees to voice out their opinions about their experience at work.

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Business Liaison Manager

UWE Bristol

At the University of the West of England, Aimee’s achievements in promoting gender equality include spending a year as a Co-ordinator for the Women’s Forum, where she implemented and managed their social media. During her tenure, membership almost doubled and event attendance tripled. Aimée facilitated a partnership with the Red Box Project resulting in every campus hosting a donations box. She contributed to UWE's Engineering Our Futures and Inclusivity and Diversity blogs. Aimée hosted sessions at other campuses to ensure a cross-campus approach and organised collaborative events with the Disabled Staff Forum and the Parents’ Network, to promote intersectionality. Aimée founded and manages the Aurora Alumnae Network. Outside of work Aimée wrote articles for the City Girl Magazine, providing careers guidance, leading to the creation of a Careers segment. Aimée spent a year as Head of Communications & Engagement for the Women’s Higher Education Network, where she contributed to a significant increase in social media following and recruited many volunteers.

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Behavioural Finance Specialist

Barclays

Maya is dedicated to having a positive impact on society and championing inclusion. She does this in various ways at work and beyond, such as through her podcast, That's My Name, which focuses on lived experiences of bias related to names and identity, leading LMF Network's Social Mobility programme, and mentoring young people to raise their aspirations. Maya has multiple leadership roles within Barclays' Gender Network, Win. She is Founder and Leader of the Charity Mentoring Programme, one of Win's flagship offerings, which supports the professional development of network members and staff at charities. In 2019, the programme formed 43 mentor partnerships which ran formally for 6 months. This grew to 257 partnerships and 19 charity partners in 2020. The programme has had a positive impact in developing the leadership and coaching skills of over 500 mentors and mentees. Maya also co-leads Win's community-focused committee, which develops campaigns to raise money for charity partners and skills-based volunteering.

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Managing Director

Mindshare

At Mindshare, Valerie has led a number of client campaigns promoting gender diversity and inclusion. In the Chicago office she works to keep the Director level community, which is 80% female, connected through peer mentorship, training opportunities, knowledge sharing, and support. In light of the pandemic and remote working, she launched a monthly series to this effect, keeping Directors across different teams better connected, and uplifting future women leaders across the office. She also personally mentors and guides junior-level women in their careers at the agency, developing and implementing plans to help them succeed. Valerie’s work with General Mills has resulted in programs that drive diversity and women's empowerment across the media industry and society at large. In the past year, her work won in the Multicultural and Social Good categories at the MMA's Smarties, and was shortlisted for the Inclusive Campaign of the Year category at the Festival of Media Global.

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Senior Consultant

Powerscourt Group

In her previous role at MS Amlin, Ngozi initiated the first celebration of International Women's Day, organizing for the Chairwomen and Chief People Officer to talk about why the day was so important and what it meant to them, and encouraging others in the organization to do the same. Believing it was important for women to be known for being excellent at their day job as well as for being D&I champions, Ngozi started a women's visibility PR programme to externally promote the work that senior female leaders were doing outside of the D&I area. She also organized a number of journalist meetings with the Chief People Officer in order to actively promote the company’s emerging policies aimed at helping women work more flexibly and encouraging equality in the workplace. In her current position at Powerscourt Group, Ngozi continues to be responsible for addressing gender and diversity issues. She is also currently Vice President of Women in PR.

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Associate

King & Spalding LLP

Sarah is a member of the firm-wide Women's Affinity Group, which plans and hosts a number of events each year to promote leadership training, mentoring, advocacy, and inclusion. As well as being a member of the Hiring Committee and helping to give platforms to diverse women candidates, she also serves, through the firm's formal mentoring program, as a link with new associates, meeting them on a frequent basis in order to ensure their success, and making introductions to partners and other associates. As part of the firm's pro bono program, Sarah has worked with a number of organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Asian Americans Advancing Justice and Street Law. Externally she is a member of the Junior League, which helps to promote voluntarism, develop women leaders, and inspire people to positively impact the community. Her role in the organization is to help with fundraising, leadership trainings, and other educational and community service events.

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Associate Director

CBRE GWS

Hannah was appointed Co-Chair of the Proud Network at CBRE GWS 12 months ago, and has already grown the network to over 500 members in that time. This year the network is focusing on underrepresented subjects such as trans awareness and allowing conversations to happen in safe spaces , and aspiring to be a role model for employees to come out at work. To help progress this agenda Hannah published an online interview with a male colleague and his trans son, who transitioned female to male. The interview went out to 30,000 employees and represented a huge advancement within the business as something which had never been tackled before. Hannah’s proudest moment so far is hearing the volume of people who have now come out at work, , as well as having three employees who will be transitioning following the education, awareness, and freedom promoted by the Proud Network. Hannah is also involved in the Executive Steering Committee supporting the wider DE&I action plan for CBRE GWS.

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Associate Technical Services Engineer

Fujitsu Technology Solutions

As a volunteer and organizer of the Diversity and Inclusion group at Fujitsu, Rocío actively collaborates on activities and awareness-raising proposals. She is a facilitator of Google’s #IAmRemarkable campaign, and managed to teach online workshops this year even with the difficulties presented by the pandemic, to help empower women and minority groups to break the glass ceiling. In addition she has put together a Spotlight blog and prepared a Brave, Bold & Brilliant podcast together with Tulia Lopes to inspire and help other women. Rocío has also had the opportunity to collaborate externally with other companies, and made an inspirational presentation ‘Hangout’ for people from both Fujitsu and other companies to learn about all the activities she is undertaking. For International Women’s Day this year, Rocío was involved in putting together events including inviting a female Spanish scientist to give a speech to inspire the company’s employees.

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Senior International Policy Adviser

UK Government

Jessica has used her role as a Diversity and Inclusion ambassador in her directorate to recognize the intersectionality of culture and gender. She was responsible for organizing the rollout to over 400 colleagues across government of the #IAmRemarkable training, a Google initiative that encourages women to speak openly about their accomplishments. She has also supported wider D&I practices by volunteering to be on recruitment panels at all levels, ensuring that a diverse and inclusive culture was being realized within the broader department. Through utilizing a positive, proactive, and solution-focused view, Jessica has also managed to commit to several pro-bono initiatives in her spare time, including launching both Growth & Grace Collective, a global community changing the narrative of upskilling, learning and development, and Gosling & Co., a platform designed to challenge the perceptions faced by under-represented groups around self-promotion, unconscious biases and imposter syndrome.

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Senior Communications Specialist

Deloitte

As a volunteer member of the Panel & Proposal Promise team at Deloitte, Tamara pushed for all panels and teams to have at least 40% women, 40% men and 20% people from underrepresented groups. For one of the team’s events, Tamara created promotional text and materials and developed the event flow and content, including putting together questions and discussion points for panelists. She also created 'How to' guides, highlighting everyday inclusion actions. Another of Tamara’s D&I efforts this year has been voluntarily delivering Inclusive Leadership labs to senior leaders, involving over 100 attendees to date. During these labs she shares proven approaches to increase gender diversity and inclusion, giving participants time to reflect, share stories and create action plans, and sharing insights with trainers from other geographies so that they can run their own local labs. Since 2018, Tamara has also been leading the public speaking training initiative she co-founded, offering special programs tailored to female colleagues

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Senior Analyst

Oliver Wyman

Teneeka joined Oliver Wyman as Digital specialist in Data and Analytics in 2019 after graduating with a degree in Physics from the University of Oxford. She founded the Women of Oliver Wyman (WOW) Digital group in late 2020, where she leads a team which focuses on three core pillars: development, inspiration and community. To drive these initiatives, she has organised a variety of events including speaker events, networking sessions, discussion groups, and working with the global team on reverse mentoring. The group regularly engages with senior stakeholders and colleagues across the Digital practice, spanning multiple offices across three continents and collaborating with other I&D groups within the firm. Outside of work, Teneeka has an interest in social impact and has volunteered her skills with an organisation that supports other charities to generate operational insight from their existing data. In 2021, she was also recognised as a Rising Star in Digital by WeAreTheCity.

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Lead Technical Project Manager

Nestle

In 2019, Kathryn re-launched the Nestle USA Women in Engineering (WiE) Network, growing membership and attendance 300% in the first year. She leads a team of nine women with two executive sponsors to organize multiple development and connection events per month. The number of event offerings per year has risen from 1 prior to 2019 to 35 in 2021. Kathryn also led the WiE support of the Nestle Black Employee Associates by launching 10 trainings and listening sessions on allyship over the summer of 2020. In 2021, Kathryn developed an Unconscious Bias and Allyship workshop for the senior leaders of the Nestle USA engineering team. Kathryn’s success with WiE meant her team set the global benchmark on how to create Women in Engineering Employee Resource Groups, and she was invited to present their results to the global Engineering Chiefs. In addition to her other activities Kathryn acts as a one-on-one mentor to multiple WiE members.

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Director of global client development

GroupM I Xaxis

During her time at GroupM, Stephanie has been involved in numerous diversity initiatives. She participated in WPP’s award-winning global female empowerment program Walk the Talk, which has been rolled out to GroupM and WPP globally, and engaged over 10,000 women to increase the number of senior female leaders. Stephanie stayed involved in many diversity programs by being responsible for global communications working together with WPP’s senior leaders. With her gained experience, she rolled out other local initiatives. She co-founded the Future of Work program to drive change by setting up Employee Resource Groups focused on gender, sexuality and ethnicity. The aim was to build better teams, to enrich talent pools, and to create more inclusive and diverse strategies together with clients. Another role Stephanie is committed to is Chair of Gender Equality Network (GEN), where she creates awareness for the gender gap and takes actions accordingly, making sure it’s each and everyone's responsibility to build a gender equal business.

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Head of Salesforce Platform

Centrica

After being an active member of the Centrica Women's Network since 2018, Joanne became Co-Chair from September 2020. One of her focuses is on ensuring an intersectional lens is applied to everything the Network does. For International Women’s Day 2020, the Network commissioned articles from diverse female Centrica employees sharing their experiences, whilst the main event featured a panel of women from different ethnic backgrounds. At a joint event with Centrica’s ethnic minority network, Joanne spoke about the importance of being an ally to BAME women. Other efforts Joanne has undertaken include introducing the Google #IAmRemarkable program in 2020, for which she facilitated workshops for over 180 people, as well as co-drafting and championing the 2021 D&I objectives with key targets cascaded as measures through the Technology directorate. Joanne has served as a main stage speaker at both the London Women of Silicon Roundabout and the Panasonic Toughbook Innovation Forum.

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Technologist & Founder

Young Ambitious One

As a Technologist and the Founder of Young Ambitious One (YAO), a learning and career development company, Yanique also serves as an advocate and mentor for women in business, technology, and entrepreneurship. She is deliberate about creating pathways and opportunities for success that develop and promote women leaders, adopting the motto ‘empowered women, empower women’. The annual women empowerment workshops Yanique and her team co-created, are called ‘Ambitious Women In The Workplace’ and ‘Women At Work’, both have impacted over 1500 attendees in the past four years. The programs aim to accelerate professional and career development, and enhance the technical skills of aspiring diverse women leaders. Several attendees have landed jobs, secured promotions, and started businesses. Yanique specializes in information security and data privacy, over the past five years she has served as a guest instructor and career advisor at several universities, MPACKU.org, and the National Association of Black Accountants’ Eastern Region Student Conference, to co-lead these impactful YAO workshops.

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Senior Manager, Talent Development

London Stock Exchange Group

Jennifer joined LSEG to support Talent Development in the Americas, but quickly stepped forward to offer support to the Women’s Inclusion Network and broader D&I efforts. In 2019 Jennifer established a partnership with the Ellevate Network, securing over 50 memberships for LSEG women in 2020, which allowed them to participate in hundreds of career development events, including cross-company mentoring. Her other biggest achievements have included co-developing a global Breaking the Bias course, which featured women’s stories of bias as course audio recordings; identifying women for executive coaching and leadership development programs, which led to promotions or expanded roles in several instances; and serving as the global Workplace Choice Co-Lead, a role through which she developed flexible working policies with a particular focus on attracting and supporting female talent. After serving as a mentor to several women at LSEG, Jennifer was nominated in 2020 for the Inspirational Mentor of the Year award.

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Senior Consultant

EY

As part of the D&I TaskForce within EY Luxembourg, Patrícia has been working to promote inclusion and equality amongst the workforce. Beginning back in February 2020 with the advent of the Covid pandemic, the TaskForce asked its employees to share their views on D&I. Then on International Women's Day 2021 women within the organization were asked to share the successes they enjoyed throughout their careers. Patrícia is currently involved in the committee organizing the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, to ensure equal representation and raise awareness of LGBT+ inclusion. She and her team are also organizing a diversity day event, where they will share with their external community the ways they have been supporting companies throughout Europe to move the dial on their inclusion agenda. The TaskForce is also working together with EY’s talent team to prepare D&I metrics and a roadmap to measure their work.

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Head of Sales Enablement and Business Management for iShares Canada, BlackRock Asset Management

BlackRock Asset Management

Divya was Chair of the Canadian Chapter of BlackRock's Women's Initiative Network from 2015 to 2020. During this period, network membership grew by 23% overall, with male membership increasing by 83%. Over her tenure Divya placed a deliberate focus on providing educational opportunities to support career advancement. Divya’s primary contributions to the network included piloting a two-year facilitated training program focused on developing important tools in career progression such as building influence, enabling engagement and presenting effectively. She also made sure the network continued to offer virtual programming to support its members over the COVID pandemic, including a three-part wellness series focused on Nutritional and Physical Health while working from home and a session on achieving Financial Wellness. In 2020, Divya piloted a career and personal development program for working mothers called ‘The Sophia Project’, and in 2021 she transitioned to the role of DEI Business Lead for the Canadian office.

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Programme Director - Market Data

Fidelity International

Martina co-founded the Fidelity Women in Technology Network so that women in all stages of their career could come together and discuss relevant topics such as STEM, personal branding and women in leadership. She is currently active in setting the strategy and driving the group, including organizing webinar discussions of topics such as personal branding, mentoring and career journeys which have reached thousands of people, and establishing career roundtables in which groups of 15 men and women meet senior female leaders to learn how careers are not linear. The ‘Let's get ready to rumble’ article Martina wrote for WiT addressed the importance of having a gender balance in the Technology sector, and in 2020 she won the network’s Technology award. Since 2017, Martina has actively enlisted both male and female mentors to support women, a scheme which has led to more women progressing to senior roles.

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Analyst, Institutional Sales Fixed Income

JP Morgan Chase

Shivani has recently started a new role at JP Morgan & Chase, coming from an Investment Banking Associate role at Avendus Capital. Shivani goes beyond her everyday work in order to sign up for initiatives to improve gender diversity in investment banking. She has volunteered for every campus recruitment fair and careers fair that Avendus Capital attends, so that she can address some of the concerns that young women have regarding banking as a career and demonstrate that there are women working in these domains. Shivani has also mentored an intern, who was struggling to network as the only female intern at her previous organisation. She had an informal chat and shared some of her workplace experiences to put her mentee at ease, acknowledging the struggles that exist for women within the industry. This year Shivani was selected as an ‘Ambassador of Change’ by Women in Private Equity, a not-for-profit helping to create more opportunities for women and pioneering a platform to transform mindsets in favor of gender diversity in the PE industry.

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Associate

Latham & Watkins

Chidi has successfully led Latham's award-winning Black Lawyers Group (BLG) in London for two years. Based on this success and on her track record as an associate, Chidi made history as Latham's youngest affinity group global leader. In this role she has been instrumental in the recruitment, retention and promotion of Black women. Her efforts have included mentoring and training each group of BLG trainees since 2017; hosting events focusing on Black female excellence; assisting in creating safe communities and housing for orphans impacted by the Rwandan genocide; establishing an internal system within the London Women Lawyers Group to nominate exemplary female attorneys for awards; co-founding The Ultimate Guide Group to empower and educate the Black community on careers, finances, wellness and property; and assisting the expansion of Latham’s pro bono partnerships with organisations supporting the Black community, including the Making of Black Britain and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants to help individuals impacted by the Windrush scandal.

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Investment Associate

Bridgewater Associates

Elena Gonzalez Malloy is an Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates, a team lead in the group that runs and develops systematic strategies for investing in Commodity Markets and is a founding member of the firm’s Hispanic/Latinx Network. Elena helps advance Bridgewater’s D&I initiatives by working with Bridgewater's investment recruiting team to help engage previously untapped pools of minority talent, with a particular focus on women STEM candidates. She regularly represents Bridgewater at recruiting conferences where she advises on how to prepare for careers in the financial services industry, covering topics like application processes and finding mentorship and how to create immediate impact when starting a new role. Elena has led efforts to examine Bridgewater's investment training program to ensure it was optimal and inclusive for all. Externally Elena is a volunteer with the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs where she helps immigrant members of the Hispanic/ Latinx community through educational programs on their legal rights and available pathways to citizenship.

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Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution

Clifford Chance LLP

At Clifford Chance Anne is responsible for helping to ensure the firm is targeting pro bono support towards issues that particularly affect women and girls. She jointly led a global team of lawyers on a pro bono project for an international NGO in support of its campaign for the reform of national laws and practices regarding protections against violence and harassment at work. These efforts were significant in promoting engagement across Clifford Chance's global gender parity Accelerate>>>> network. For the past two years Anne has also acted for a not for profit sporting organization which supports women and girls, seeking protection and justice for female players alleging systemic sexual abuse by officials. Last year Anne was a finalist in both the Inspirational Women Awards in the Under 35 category and the Law Works Pro Bono Awards in the Best Contribution as an Individual category.

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Corporate Director, Environment, Health & Safety and Sustainability

Dow

Alongside her role as Corporate Director of Environment, Health & Safety and Sustainability, Eunice is actively engaged in the Women's Inclusion Network’s (WIN) +5 program, which matches up-and-coming female employees with potential mentors. For this scheme she has provided mentoring and coaching support for women across functions including Supply Chain, Purchasing, Commercial, R&D and Manufacturing. Through these engagements, female leaders have successfully been able to position themselves for broader accountability within their current roles as well as for promotions. As the keynote speaker for Dow WIN’s partnership with EY, Eunice actively shared her personal experiences throughout her career as an African American woman, wife and business leader. As a result of authentically telling her story, many young female leaders asked Eunice to serve as their mentor for her to coach them through challenging business and personal situations, whilst male leaders in attendance recognized the importance of allyship.

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Chair and Champion advocate

Sussex EDS and Hypermobility Group

Jane promotes accessibility issues in all areas, including with a gender lens. She believes we need 360-degree insight into accessibility issues, which has been particularly relevant during Covid. Jane designed Covid19 alert cards, free, as all the main charities were in lockdown and unable to help. They now sit on the DHSC. Also online cards so women could be fully included in virtual meetings by offering different means of communicating. Jane founded and Chairs the multi award winning charitable social enterprise and chronic ill/disability group mainly for all women, plus theAutismConnected for autistic/neurodivergent adult women and non-binary, who have historically been left out of any support or belief. The first autistic Trustee for the Social Care Institute for Excellence, sits on the DEI Gender Equality, Diversity Steering and co-production group. Recently, CoChair for the National Institute of Health research, policy lead for autism health training medical students, leads the content on the new hypermobility SchoolToolkit UK and oversees health strategies.

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Business Manager

LSEG

At LSEG Sarah participates in and promotes all the Women Inspired Network’s internal and external events, ensuring new joiners are connected to this network if they wish to be. During the pandemic and the summer of the Black Lives Matter protests, Sarah and her team swiftly recognized the impact external events were having on Black colleagues and their experience working in the city. They sourced relevant external partners to support coaching and counselling for Black colleagues, and following a successful pilot they have now had approval to develop this into the current Employee Assistance Program, which ensures Black, Asian and other ethnic minority colleagues have a counsellor or coach they can relate to and connect with. In 2020 Sarah facilitated a virtual panel event with LSEG’s COO and the COO of their external partner City Mental Health alliance, where they talked about mental health, race, and Diversity and Inclusion.

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Associate Dean of the UCD College of Business, Director of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and Professor of Accounting and Taxation

University College of Dublin

As Director of the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Gerardine was responsible for leading the School's first dedicated female recruitment campaign, which is aiming to increase the number of women on MBA and MSc Finance programs up to 40% within three years and 50% within five years. Since 2018, the percentage of women in these programs has already increased from 49% to 54%. As well as creating a new Executive MBA program designed specifically with women in mind, in order to address key barriers including flexibility, confidence and cost, Gerardine also established three new scholarships for women and one new EDI scholarship, the first of its kind in an Irish Business School. Additionally, the Smurfit Women Inspiring More initiative founded by Gerardine was designed to raise awareness of challenges that women face when transitioning from education to a professional environment, and to form a network where these topics can be safely discussed.

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Head of client solutions - RPOne

Morson

Samantha is the Founder of the Morson Group Diversity Champions. Her achievements in promoting gender equality include launching a series of reverse mentoring sessions for directors from the company’s population of future female leaders formalizing a partnership with Women in Rail including sponsoring its Big Rail Diversity Challenge and its mentoring program; and extending the group-wide Diversity Champions network to ensure it is gender balanced and includes all under-represented groups. She was also responsible for launching a Women Leaders in Transport network together with telent, Siemens, Crossrail and TfL. Most recently Samantha has introduced an ‘inclusion moment’ for every meeting, put in place plans for inclusive meeting training, and finalized and promoted the BAME Inclusion Report. Her work on gender inclusion within the Morson Group and its client base played a pivotal role in their awards recognition, receiving the accolade for the Best Diversity and Inclusion Strategy by the Firm Awards.

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Director, Global Digital Commerce

Fiserv

Lara is Director, Global Digital Commerce and Head of the Women's Impact Network (WIN) in EMEA at Fiserv. She has overseen the launch of WIN in Ireland, the UK and Poland, with Germany, Slovakia and the Netherlands launching later this year. Under Lara’s leadership the network is dedicated to building gender equality by empowering, supporting, developing and advancing the careers of women, and cultivating an environment where women are represented at every level and in every corner of Fiserv. Lara’s activities are primarily focused on building a platform for networking and career development; partnering with external organizations to support women-owned businesses; spotlighting topics previously taboo in the workplace like menopause, fertility and maternity; and funding women-specific development programs. Lara has always been passionate about empowering women in her industry and making a difference to women's enjoyment of their work and their belief in their ability to develop, progress and thrive both professionally and personally. WIN provides a forum for women to discuss challenges and share experience without judgement, and to relate to and support one another in a meaningful way. Lara also mentors five associates at Fiserv, with the objective of making an impact on others which lasts even in her absence.

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Head of Marketing & Communications, GroupM and PR & Marketing Director, WPP - Italy

GroupM

Paola is the Operations Director on the Winspire leadership team, a cross-agency WPP Italy local project whose aim is to support female talent into leadership positions, build gender balance, and undertake D&I activities with internal and external audiences and stakeholders. After WPP’s participation in the Female Employment Manifesto, organized by Valore D, Paola mentored through ‘Quick Fix Training: speed mentoring for colleagues to discuss how to become a future leader’. Moreover, Paola was instrumental to organize a series of activities, such as the training program for WPP women carried out with industry player as Facebook Italia and called ‘Fast Forward’, and she implemented a ‘I’m Remarkable’ workshop with Google Italia. Paola has been collaborating with numerous associations within the industry to develop D&I strategy and activities and embedded into the company. Externally, she has been invited to join as speaker to industry events and she has contributed to the ‘Women4Women: Hack your campaign’ bootcamp on digital media, among other initiatives.

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Project Manager

Aon

At Aon Sabrina is Co-Chair of both the Gender Inclusion Network and the Gender IQ Business Resource Group. She has played a pivotal role in Aon UK's mission to strive for gender parity by running events for International Women's Day, International Men's Day and Non-Binary Day across the UK. As well as developing key D&I goals and initiatives, Sabrina has been working with HR on the gender pay gap and women's issues, particularly women's safety. She has spoken out about men’s rights, toxic masculinity, the andropause and menstrual leave, and has changed the narrative at Aon for non-binary colleagues, including by sharing how this narrative change could benefit clients. Sabrina’s work running the industry-wide Gender Inclusion Network has seen her create a gender strategy from ideation through to execution. She has helped use the network’s position within the sector to offer insightful events and informative content to advocates, allies and mentors.

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Geomatics Consultant

Shell

Sophie’s achievements as Chair of Shell’s Balance Employee Network have included delivering programs to develop female talent with the overall goal of achieving gender balance. The mentoring scheme had 52 joiners to 5 mentoring circles, and the staff development program resulted in reviews of career development plans of over 60 employees. Sophie’s teams' initiatives to retain female STEM talent included a dedicated session on 'Accelerating Technical Careers’ and two panel sessions on International Women’s Day and International Women in Engineering Day. Likewise, Sophie served as a focal point for female staff after long career breaks in the government 'Return to Work' program. In order to take further steps to transform company culture, Sophie and her team organised the 'Role Model Awards', where 412 staff voted to recognised their D&I Champions, and celebrated International Men's Day, creating 200 information packs on men's health. Collectively these initiatives contributed to Shell's application to become a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.

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Business Manager

LinkedIn UK

Namita Singh Thakur leads Global Strategic Accounts for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions in UK. She is also Co-Chair of the Women@LinkedIn Employee Resource Group (ERG) for EMEA, co-leading the operations across ten countries in EMEA where LinkedIn has a presence. The ERG's mission to create an inclusive community that empowers women to advance their careers whilst being their authentic selves. LinkedIn has made great strides in gender diversity and currently prides itself on achieving gender parity across all levels of the organization. Throughout the year and across EMEA, Women@LinkedIn has found ways to bring its mission alive through a line-up of events, L&D Programs, workshops and speaker series. Besides her formal involvement in the ERG, she regularly participates in speaking engagements related to women's education, empowerment & endorsement. She is particularly perceptive about women & their role in corporate life & personal experiences that have shaped their journeys. This has enabled her to help & create impact for women around her.

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Senior Director, Account Management

FiscalNote

At FiscalNote Lillian co-founded the DEIB Task Force, which, among a number of initiatives, facilitates cross-company discussions around equity and gender diversity in the workplace. As well as actively seeking women candidates for open roles as a hiring manager, Lillian has mentored younger women professionals on career development, supporting two internal promotions. She has also pressed senior leadership to expand the Board of Advisors/Directors to include more women, with the addition of two new female members. Externally, Lillian is a member of the DC Young Leaders Council of Vital Voices, the local chapter of a global organization which invests in the women leaders who are taking on the world's greatest challenges. She also served as a judge on the WE Empower United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Challenge, assessing applications to help advance participants to the next round in an international competition for funding for women entrepreneurs. Lillian is also a sustaining member of the centre for Feminist Foreign Policy.

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Digital Engagement Manager

Barclays Bank

Aisha is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Council of Barclays, as well as the Black Professional Forum and the Women’s Inclusion Network. She has hosted various events including ‘Women In Business’ conferences held at the head office of the bank. These events were hosted internally but open to external female entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs. The impact of the events on the bank’s reputation and income included on-boarding over 20 new female business clients who were impressed by the offering. Aisha is also part of an initiative titled ‘Ethnically Diverse Founders’, a program launching in 2021 aimed at educating businesses on a variety of things including access to finance, digital engagement and growth. She has pioneered the program to ensure that the selection process includes a 50:50 male to female ratio. Externally Aisha runs a Youtube channel titled ‘The Hustle Table’ which aims to empower young women in their career aspirations.

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Performance Leader

KPMG

After joining KPMG’s Network of Women (KNOW) in 2014, Sarah became the National Co-Chair in 2021. She is also the Chair of the Leeds network, where she drives events covering important but often overlooked topics such as impostor syndrome and the menopause, as well as tackling issues around women's safety. Sarah represents KNOW on the MyLeeds committee which runs events for International Women's Day, International Men's Day and Mental Health Awareness Week. She hosted KPMG's flagship International Women's Day 2021 event which saw over 800 attendees globally. In her Performance Leader role, Sarah actively challenges leadership to consider diversity, leading to the recent promotion of three women to Director roles, where previously there was no female representation. She was also responsible for arranging for KPMG Leeds to support Smart Works, a national charity which helps women to re-enter the workplace after an absence or due to difficult background circumstances by providing clothing, coaching and interview preparation.

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Associate Director, Business Development

WPP

Mamaa has led Roots, WPP's Ethnic and Cultural Diversity employee network since 2019. The group actively amplifies ethnic minority voices within the business, particularly those of ethnic minority women. Mamaa’s work to expand Roots and embed inclusive thinking throughout the global network has led the community to grow by over 400% since 2017, with 160% more agencies participating. In 2020, Roots expanded to Amsterdam and Canada, with ongoing expansions into Australia and Asia. Rallying WPP’s people and leaders to support women in the business through times of distress and grief has been another of Mamaa’s priorities. In response to Sarah Everard's murder, rising Asian hate crimes and India's COVID Crisis, Mamaa built and hosted educational resource libraries and held safe room discussions to encourage judgement-free conversations. She is committed to ensuring female voices are overrepresented both at Roots events and in speaker nominations for WPP townhalls.

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Senior Director, Inventory Accounting

Dollar General Corporation

Mary Alice served as the first President of Dollar General's Women's Professional Network (WPN), one of five Employee Resource Groups that work to leverage differences and build a more inclusive culture consistent with the Company’s mission and core values. The WPN strives to cultivate an inclusive and empowering women's group through networking, leadership, and educational opportunities, as well as partner with national and regional chapters of the Network of Executive Women. Mary Alice also launched ‘Ignite’, a women’s development program designed to boost WPN participants’ career progression and was instrumental in expanding the WPN company-wide. Additionally, Mary Alice promoted support for women in the workplace through an internal #ChoosetoCelebrate campaign during the 2021 Women's History Month, empowering and inspiring women and their allies. She also regularly participates in a mentorship program, providing guidance to upcoming female leaders at Dollar General.

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Senior Associate / Founder

Moore Barlow / Women Back to Law

As Co-Founder of Moore Barlow's Women in Leadership group, as well as Co-Chair of its Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Amandeep played a key role in the firm's application to a gender pilot program run by the Law Society for its Diversity and Inclusion Charter. In the process, she secured senior buy-in; created a 'self-assessment' team; and helped to prepare a submission which involved collecting, analysing and presenting gender diversity data, in addition to researching benchmarking statistics from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Her contribution is now helping the Law Society to develop a final version of the Charter and the firm has since then celebrated a milestone at leadership level, with its equity partner female to male ratio now sitting at 50:50. Outside of Moore Barlow, Amandeep plays an active role as a Committee Member of the Law Society's Women Lawyers Division and as a mentor within the Reignite programme, and has been heavily involved in high-profile projects that promote gender equality.

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Senior Associate (Lawyer)

Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados

Since 2019 Ligia has been one of the three leaders of the Women of the Arbitration and Litigation Team, a support group of 80 whose main purpose is to provide a space of comfort, encouragement and debate about the main challenges that women face within society and the legal business. Besides having conversations where women of different levels of seniority share their personal experiences, Ligia also brings outside guests to speak to the group. She is particularly responsible for coordinating the monthly meetings, suggesting topics of common interest, and inviting speakers who can contribute to the gender diversity and women's inclusion discussion. Since the group was created in 2019, Ligia and her team have noticed a deeper engagement of all associates, including men, and a greater commitment to gender equality within the organization. They have also recognized an increased in the number of female associates hired, now representing more than 50% of the Litigation and Arbitration Team.

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Vice President

Bank of Ireland

Catherine is Co-Chair of the Bank’s Corporate & Markets Gender Balance Network and also Chair of the UK Network where she is involved in managing a number of initiatives, including organising I&D focussed events, whilst engaging with key stakeholders to grow the bank's inclusive culture. As part of International Women's Day, Catherine spearheaded a series of high-impact Women in Business & Finance webinars with a diverse group of industry leading panellists, including female Chairs and CFO’s across the corporate sector, achieving the highest NPS of any bank event. Catherine formally mentors upcoming women within the organisation and is also a UK Representative of the Psychological Safety working group, where she has been developing ideas and taking action to help women feel psychologically safe. Externally, Catherine supports and empowers millennial women through bespoke mentorship and coaching. In 2021, she founded The Women in Business Society, a global membership community providing opportunities for professional females to share knowledge, network & create impactful connections.

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Head of Business Case and Benefits – Help to Grow Digital

Department for Business

At the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Rabi initiated and set up working groups to address issues on allyship, women's health, and women's safety including sexual harassment. After developing a program of work to engage colleagues, and in particular men in Senior Leadership positions, to better understand gender equality, the Women Empowered Network saw an increase in membership from allies. Rabi was also responsible for launching 'Allies Hours', which invites a diverse range of speakers to discuss effective allyship to women and individual actions to promote gender equity, in cross-thematic conversations related to women in business and women in STEM amongst others. In 2020, Rabi had strategic oversight of the network’s first interactive 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence across the department. Rabi champions a safe space for awareness-raising discussions focused on women's health, aiming to better equip staff to have honest conversations about conditions that predominantly affect women and the impacts in the workplace.

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Senior Program Manager, Global Military Affairs

Amazon

Gillian is a Royal Navy veteran and military spouse who joined Amazon three years ago with the objective of increasing military hiring at the company. When she arrived she immediately realized that solely increasing the number of veteran hires would do little to impact diversity, so she instigated specific measures to attract female candidates and those with different backgrounds and education. Working with recruiters and hiring managers, she dispelled myths regarding the perceived lack of transferable skills that military personnel, and their spouses, bring to business. In addition to designing and executing tailored events, some exclusively for women, to ensure that military leavers understood the breadth of roles available at Amazon, Gillian also managed Amazon’s sponsorship of the Women's Army and Navy rugby game at Twickenham in 2018, highlighting the company's commitment to the female military community. In 2020, 33 female veterans joined the company, making up 11% of hires.

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Barrister

No 5 Chambers

Sultana is a human rights, international law and criminal justice barrister. She is the first Chair of the new Religious Discrimination Task Force at the Bar Standards Board, supporting the delivery of the BSB's statutory objectives to improve equality of outcomes for those in the profession. As a hijab wearing female from an ethnic minority background, Sultana has consistently encouraged candidates from diverse backgrounds to enter the legal profession, speaking at dozens of events every year to promote diversity, including at universities and other institutions. Sultana has mentored scores of aspiring barristers throughout her career, most often female mentees from diverse racial, ethnic, religious and socio-economic backgrounds. As Chair of the Muslim Lawyers Action Group, Sultana is spearheading a mentoring program for the hiring, retention and progression of minorities in the legal profession, including a new program for increasing the number of Judges and QCs from racial, ethnic and faith minorities, with a particular emphasis on supporting gender diversity.

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Director of Research and Insight

InsTech London

Rebekah joined InsTech London in July 2021 having previously worked for almost 15 years for IHS Markit. One of the key features of Rebekah's time at IHS Markit was a focus on proactively seeking out opportunities to progress female talent within the organization, in partnership with HR. During her time at IHS Markit, she mentored senior leadership on issues that predominantly affect women, such as the menopause and flexible working, culminating in the implementation of global awareness programs focused on both those issues and an award from TimeWise in recognition of her efforts. As Chair of Parents@IHSMarkit, Rebekah worked with HR to launch a Global Parental Leave Support program and Global Parental Leave Buddy Scheme. She was also an active mentor for the latter, as well as the Women in Tech program. Additionally, as co-lead of the Innovation Month she was able to facilitate a 50% increase in the representation of female and minority groups in the program over 2020.

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Managing Director & Partner

BCG

In addition to her role as a partner in the firm’s Consumer practice, Caroline leads Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Women@BCG for BCG Australia & New Zealand. In 2019, BCG Australia moved to equalize leave for all new parents regardless of gender or caregiver status. Under Caroline’s leadership, the program has grown to over 90% participation from eligible staff. Caroline has championed the de-gendering of working parenthood, with 20% of female and 10% of male managers working on flex models. To complement existing Women's and Pride networks, Caroline amplified employee action groups around Culture & Ethnicity, First Nations and Disability Inclusion. They run intersectional programming and affiliation activities such as a ‘True Colours’ storytelling series where diverse individuals are invited to share their lived experiences with colleagues, and a Women@BCG conference with over 150 attendees. Under Caroline’s leadership the local diversity network has more than quadrupled, with over 100 employee champions across 6 engagement pillars driving grassroots change.

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Customer Journey Developer

NatWest Group

At the NatWest Group Gender Network Lauren has taken on the roles of Strategy Committee Lead, East Regional Lead, and Comms & Marketing Deputy Lead. Her D&I work includes building an internal awards support hub to encourage more women at NatWest to nominate themselves for awards. As a result in 2020 the bank saw an uplift of over 40 women being shortlisted for awards externally. In addition the financial capability program she developed to support women with closing financial gaps helped almost 1000 women with managing their finances, and the Lean In program she launched currently has 13 circles running with 200 people involved. Other programs Lauren has kickstarted include Google’s #IAmRemarkable initiative, which involved 31 facilitators delivering workshops to over 400 colleagues in less than three months. As well as being an Inclusion Champion, Lauren was a winner of the bank’s 2021 Amethyst Award for Gender Inclusion.

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UK Risk Reporting Manager

AXA UK

Caroline chairs the AXA Balance Employee Network, which focuses on gender equality supporting and working families. In 2021, the network released a flexible working hub designed to help employees understand what flexible working arrangements were available; to normalise taking advantage of them; to empower employees to start conversations with managers; and to escalate issues. Caroline also supported the creation and launch of a Women's Wellbeing Hub, to allow men and women across the organisation to understand and engage with the issues faced by women in the workplace, and to provide a supportive resource for women. A 'People Like Me' vlog series was also created, spotlighting those living the life they choose and not letting prejudice, stereotypes or perceived shortcomings prevent them from achieving their goals. Later this year, the domestic abuse policy and hub that Caroline has helped to design will go live, with the aim of helping employees to normalise conversations and create a safe environment for anyone suffering.

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Managing Director - US head of Market Strategy within the Strategic Advisory Solutions team in Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Goldman Sachs

Candice is a dedicated manager, mentor, diversity recruiter, and advocate for women, committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment throughout the firm. She developed an investing framework titled ‘EMPOWER the Female Investor’, in order to help women gain confidence in investing and take control of their finances, and she conducted, produced, and published research for the firm on the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on the gender gap. As the Co-Head of the Asian Professionals network, she ensured that the group took an intersectional approach to its programming so it would address issues specific to women within the Asian Community, such as breaking the bamboo ceiling and addressing the model minority myth. Candice also participates in mentorship pods supporting Asian women, promoting their continued development and professional advancement, and strengthening the diversity of Goldman Sach’s talent pipeline. She leads diversity recruiting efforts for the Asset Management Division.

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Portfolio Manager

J.P. Morgan Asset Management

At J.P. Morgan Asset Management Olivia instituted and chaired EMEA Women on The Move in Asset Management, and EMEA Women on The Move in Fixed Income. The ‘Innovate & Inspire’ conference series she organized for internal and external attendees included ‘Investing in your Connections’ - designed to encourage the building of networks - while ‘Investing in your Future’ highlighted mentoring, ESG, technology and being 'board-ready’. The fourth annual ‘Defining Success’ panel facilitated an opportunity for junior employees to hear from senior female and male leaders, including the CEO, and a parental leave discussion held with male leaders aimed to increase awareness and encourage male take-up. Olivia is a partner for the ‘Male Ambassador Program’, a cohort of 50 senior male Managing Directors committed to being allies for female employees, mentoring young emerging female talent, and encouraging their teams to do the same. Externally Olivia chairs the CFA UK Inclusion & Diversity Committee and is personally committed to various diversity initiatives.

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Senior Policy Advisor

department for business energy and industrial strategy (BEIS)

In her role as joint Head of Events, L&D and Volunteers for the Women Empowered Network at BEIS, Yasmine has raised the profile of the Network internally and externally by aligning Gender equality initiatives with departmental strategy and increasing collaboration with cross-government and private sector allies. Throughout the pandemic, Yasmine revamped the Network’s events offer to accommodate new ways of working with a focus on community. This involved creating a bespoke programme called 'Elevenses', which provided safe spaces to discuss challenging issues including Gender pay gap and returning to work while breastfeeding. She also led the Network's delivery of the first 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, where she curated thought-provoking sessions on topics ranging from sexual harassment in the workplace to victims’ safe access to justice. Externally, she provides pro-bono legal advice at the Waterloo Action Centre where she particularly focuses on representing victims of domestic violence and those affected with respect to their legal rights.

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Project Developer

Windlab

In November of 2019, Jeanette joined Windlab as the only Black female Project Developer working on Africa’s first of its kind renewable power project, Meru County Energy Park. The $150 million project is an innovative 90 MW power project that combines wind turbines, solar PV technology, and battery storage capabilities. The multimillion-dollar project involves over 1,700 landowners with approximately 27% of the owners being women who will receive income over the lifetime of the project. Jeanette has successfully worked with senior management to ensure that women empowerment and women led companies are given preferential procurement during feasibility and construction phases, in addition to ensuring that women’s voices will be represented in the Community Trust which is responsible for developing projects in Education, Health, Agriculture, and Access to Clean Water. This year, Jeanette was chosen out of 200 candidates to represent the Kenyan emerging market at this year's Women in Wind Global Leadership program hosted by the Global Wind Energy Council.

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Transformation Manager

NatWest Group

Currently a Transformation Manager at Natwest Group, Nikki has taken on additional roles to progress the D&I agenda. She is an Inclusion & Gender Champion, Lead for the Intergenerational Workforce, member of the Gender Balanced Steering Group and as LGBT, Disability, Ethnicity & Neurodiversity Ally. She’s coached and mentored many women including Executives, Senior Managers, Software Engineers and Graduates. These experiences led to opportunities to speak “Women in Technology” events, including ‘Neuroscience during Covid-19', and ‘Resilience and Positive Mental Health in Women’. In both the all-female ‘Bereavement Café’, and in a panel looking at ‘Mental Health in Women and the Return to the Office’, Nikki shared her advice and experience of loss. During lockdown, she took two additional female graduates onto her team, coaching them on soft skills and strategies they’ll need to succeed in a complex and largely male environment. Lastly, she is coaching ‘women with Autism’ - having (finally) disclosed she has Aspergers as well as Multiple Sclerosis.

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Vice President, Senior Business Support Manager

Bank of America

Dipti is a business support manager for the Consumer, Small Business and Wealth Management Technology team. As a decade long advocate for diversity and inclusion, she received Bank of America’s Global Diversity and Inclusion award in 2019. A member of the bank’s Leadership, Education, Advocacy and Development for Women employee network, she was a panelist at their ‘The Power of Your Authentic Voice’ event to inspire women to raise their voice and recruit male allies. She mentors young, diverse female talent through many bank partnerships to encourage their interest in and pursuit of careers in technology. Other efforts to promote gender equity include Dipti: championing the inaugural Chief Operating Office Innovation challenge to continue to promote inclusive workspaces and foster innovation, as well as her involvement in organizing the ‘Courageous Conversation: Coming together against racism’ event cohosted by the Asian Leadership Network, the Black Professional Group, and the Hispanic/Latino Organization for Leadership and Advancement at Bank of America.

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Managing Director

Willis Towers Watson

Amanda is a senior leader at Willis Towers Watson and advises clients on organisational transformation, gender equity, inclusion and diversity, climate, talent management, rewards and leadership. Amanda launched an I&D programme within the firm to drive employee experience and a culture of inclusivity. The programme includes ‘diverse diversity’ to encourage broader thinking about diversity, an educating matters series, promotion coaching, mentoring scheme, diversified hiring processes, recognition, and community impact through a partnership with Inspiring the Future. Amanda is passionate about mental health issues, a gender balanced workforce, environmental, social and governance issues. Amanda founded the mental health charity, Mike’s Mates and sits on the board of Global Women 4 Wellbeing. Amanda regularly publishes industry thought leadership, provides commentary to the UK press and social media and is an active public speaker. Amanda recently led a lecture masterclass series across Europe communicating key issues about the future of work to tens of thousands of delegates.

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Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Technology

BNY Mellon

As Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Technology, René has made a tremendous impact so far in her four-year tenure at BNY Mellon, to include hiring and coaching 11 women of varying ethnic, educational and professional backgrounds in support of the firm’s Digital and Product Management efforts. She successfully promoted high performing women on her team, ensuring their compensation was commensurate with their contributions, and has advocated for and mentored women on a formal and informal basis. René also sits on the invitation-only IMPACT Black Leadership Forum (BLF), a group of senior Black leaders across BNY Mellon who serve as catalysts for promoting a diverse and inclusive

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Executive Director

Goldman Sachs

Lin is a multi-award winning thought leader, keynote speaker, an original thinker in delivering the intersection of diversity, culture and psychology to business. Alongside her Executive Director role at Goldman Sachs, Lin informs management about East Asians’ experiences, led a Lunar New Year event for the Asian Pacific Network, where she delivered the keynote on ‘China – A Personal Journey’, and a ‘What did you hear me say?’ diversity session, where she partnered with senior female clients to drive changes across the industry. She articulates East Asian professionals' experience and leads discussion on Stop Asian Hate and Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, focusing on intersectionality of gender and race. She has created ground-breaking talk series such as “If the World listens to China” to inspire vital curiosity about China and the influence it will have, and “How to find your voice” to empower more women. She influences via leadership positions at Diversity Project, UK Chinese Women Connect, and Rising Network.

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Partner & Director

Boston Consulting Group

As only the second woman to be recruited into Boston Consulting Group India, Seema pioneered the Women@BCG India program, driving a rigorous agenda from recruiting to retention as well as mentorship and enablement. As the group’s membership has increased, the focus has now evolved into supporting women to aim for larger leadership roles, an objective orchestrated through bold aspiration setting and individually focused mentoring. Today, BCG has over 35% female representation including over 20% at leadership levels - significantly higher than BCG's peer group and directly comparable to the best-in-class in India. Seema is also the Asia Pacific Leader for the Social Impact practice at BCG. This leadership position sees her regularly deliver lectures, host discussions and be a part of senior panels within and outside BCG – inspiring scores of women via these channels. Seema’s biggest focus externally has been on inspiring young female students – to this end she speaks at more than 10 Indian University campuses every year.

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Senior Systems Analyst (Co-Chair, Culture Club network)

LGIM | Legal & General

Bola has worked tirelessly to empower women and ethnic minorities both in the Tech sector and within the workplace. As a member of the C-suite led Women in Technology (WIT) forum, she has represented the company at cross industry events such as the Women of Silicon Roundabout, where networking opportunities are promoted and best practices and insights shared. Her appearances at these events have encouraged other junior women in Tech to stay put and to look to their role model for guidance as they navigate a male-dominated industry. Bola is also Co-Chair of Culture Club (Ethnicity workstream) where she works to ensure an inclusive workplace by collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, gaining buy-in, and aligning D&I initiatives with overall business strategy. Her experiences with Culture Club have led her to mentor and coach other ERG Leads, to build an effective intersectional D&I outcome.

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Technology, Data & Analytics Senior Associate

PwC

At PwC Nina is an active member of the Midlands' committee and the national communications team of the Gender Balance Network (GBN), where she regularly contributes to the weekly digests and monthly newsletters to talk about gender-related issues. She has organized many successful events to raise awareness of gender equality within the firm and also with clients, including International Women's Day events, Discussion Clubs and Everyday Sexism initiatives. Nina is also part of the Women in Technology, Data & Analytics (WiTDA) team, which aims to create an environment where everyone feels empowered, inspired and supported to bring their authentic self to work. The special initiative she supports within WiTDA helps women at the manager level break the glass ceiling and progress further in their careers. Nina has spoken at many internal and external events and conferences, including for the Diversity Network, Generation Success, Females of the Future and Women in Tech.

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Interim Head of MuleSoft Global Customer Support.

Salesforce

Having always been an advocate for gender equality, including being the co-founder of Salesforce Women’s Network (the Company’s first ERG), Marilyn recently shifted her DEI focus to address the challenges and struggles faced in the workplace by those who identify as belonging to more than one underrepresented group. Over the last two years she has started shining a spotlight on intersectionality in one-on-one discussions with Executive Leaders at Salesforce, helping them understand the importance of having representation up and down the organization beyond just gender. In light of recent events, Marilyn has shared her experiences of anti-Asian hate as an Asian American woman through company-wide meetings and external events. Both in and outside of Salesforce, Marilyn serves as a mentor and coach to several individuals each year, including former direct reports, and she is often contacted via her social network to share her career journey and to guide women on how to navigate their own career changes.

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Programme Lead

Amazon Web Services

At Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ramat leads the AWS GetIT education programme in the UK and Ireland. It is designed to inspire young students aged between 12 and 13, especially girls, to consider a career in tech, by challenging them to design an app which could help their school or local community. AWS GetIT simultaneously empowers female talent within the business to build confidence and leadership skills through a 10-month executive speaker training program. The women, known as AWS GetIT ambassadors, go on to use some of the skills they learn to mentor students at the schools involved in the school stream of the AWS GetIT programme. This year Ramat increased the total number of AWS GetIT ambassadors to over 150 women, from across a variety of business units. For Amazon UK’s Black Employee Network, and in collaboration with the Women@AmazonUK, Ramat curated a series of financial wellbeing workshops, after recognizing the importance of financial literacy especially for women.

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Delivering Deal Value Director

PwC Mexico

In addition to her commercial role, she is also the Director of the Firm's first D&I Staff Council. As part of her work within the council, she leads the gender inclusion efforts to reduce gaps, stereotypes, and unconscious bias both inside the Firm and within our process, through conversations with senior leaders. She supports women who suffer, or are at risk of suffering, any forms of gender-based violence inside PwC and her communities by providing tools and a support network. Diana co-founded the Deals Women Network (DWN), which promotes networking and skills development for women. To reduce female turnover in the DWN group, she advocates improving existing benefits for working mothers too. Another program she co-founded was Women in Mergers & Acquisitions Consulting. Her involvement in this project includes speaking in online forums focused on inviting female students and graduates to apply to Deals' open positions.

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Operations Manager, Digital Acceleration

National Grid

Amrit Teja is an Operations Manager in the Digital Acceleration team at National Grid. Over the past eighteen months Amrit has driven the Inclusion agenda within National Grid, was appointed as Co-chair of the Women in National Grid (WiNG) employee resource group and embarked on her current role helping to shape National Grid’s digital future.Co-led by Amrit, WiNG promotes gender equality and the professional development of Women. The diverse Steering Committee spans eight teams delivering projects across the business. The network has 400 members with 650 on Yammer and a further 150 in the Families Group.Whether it’s offering training and development, professional accreditation support, events, networking, mentoring, lean in circles, Allyship or Inclusive Culture; WiNG is a powerhouse network. During the pandemic, working full time and home schooling her children, Amrit ensured the continued success of WiNG and is now excited to focus on future projects around women in science, technology and the green workforce of the future.

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Head of Lending TM and MAM Argentina

HSBC Bank Argentina

For three years (2017-19), Melisa chaired the BALANCE network at HSBC Argentina, engaging over 100 colleagues to drive change towards a gender-balanced, inclusive and equitable workplace. As well, Melisa is Co-Founder of HSBC’s Mujeres al Mundo (MAM), a program aimed at accelerating women's economic inclusion and empowerment by way of providing training, networking, mentoring and financial services to female customers. For MAM, Melisa has trained over 100 relationship managers and developed a network of 30 women ambassadors to embed gender perspective in business positions. Up to date, over 2,000 businesswomen and entrepreneurs already signed up as part of MAM community, from which they have free access to an online training program of 21 masterclasses on key business topics, along with mentoring days and networking meetings. Also, from March’21 to date, as part of MAM financial proposal, HSBC disbursed USD 40 million, with lower interest rates, to boost female-owned commercial projects. MAM is certainly changing the way we talk about gender across the financial system.

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Vice President, Islamic Marketing

Ogilvy

As one of the few high-profile women of color at Oglivy Shelina plays an active role in pushing the company’s D&I agenda, sitting on the Inclusion boards of both Oglivy and WPP. She has served as a panelist next to the WPP CEO and the WPP UK CEO to discuss anti-racism and allyship in an internal WPP-wide 'safe room’. As well as chairing key public and internal sessions, such as industry discussions on unconscious bias and women, Shelina has represented Ogilvy at International Women's Day events. In the past she has hosted a women’s speed mentoring scheme, and today she mentors junior talent herself with a focus on women and women of color. In August 2020 Shelina published a children's book called ‘The Extraordinary Life of Serena Williams’, serving to highlight strong female role models. In the same year she received Advertising Week's Future is Female award.

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Product Director

IHS Markit

Alison founded Women@Englewood in order to help women at IHS Markit arrive at their full potential; to identify and connect with supporters of women at the firm; and to break barriers in the realm of Diversity and Inclusion. Attendance of the group has now grown to over 50 participants each month, with increased awareness, braver discussions, and a strong enthusiasm for the space to learn. Each meeting intentionally 'shares the mic' with women that might not have visibility, and intersectionality is emphasized through partnerships with other affinity groups. Women@Englewood’s work prompted the publication of gender diversity stats at each level in the company, and led to discussions about the need for systemic changes. In another role as Americas Region Champion for the whole of the Women's Network, Alison has helped collaborate on activities across North and South America, including working on global programming such as the celebrations for International Women’s Day, which over 400 people attended.

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Vice President

Edelman

An advocate for coaching, mentorship and learning opportunities, Leya has chaired the Global Women's Equality Network (GWEN) China at Edelman since 2017 - an internal initiative with a mission to continue to foster an environment where women and men of all backgrounds can enjoy equal opportunities to grow, lead and succeed in and beyond Edelman. She was Global lead for Mentorship programs, APAC representative at International Women’s Forum (IWF) World Leadership Conference Milan and China Lead for APAC DE&I Council. Amongst the initiatives Leya has launched to engage more than 200 GWEN members was a SHERO Showcase, where strong female leaders in China are invited to Edelman offices to inspire colleagues. Achievements so far include helping Edelman reach 49% gender parity amongst senior leaders compared to 30% three years ago in this region. Leya is named HERoes 100 Women Future Leaders List 2020 and shortlisted in Top 5 for Women Empowerment Awards in China - Outstanding Woman Leader of the Year 2021.

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Head of Operations Risk Management

Capital One

When Jennie joined Capital One over two years ago, it was with the understanding that she would continue to drive a gender lens in the Financial Services sector. She is currently the UK Chapter co-lead for the internal gender Business Resource Group empowHER, as well as serving on the UK Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Partners forum which pushes for progress with initiatives such as getting more women into senior leadership roles. She brings a gender lens to all activity and conversations including those within the REACH ethnicity network, and frequently takes part in collaboration between REACH and empowHER such as Career Pathways to build community support outside of the organization, actively engaging in local school career sessions. Some of the key initiatives Jennie has been responsible for have included establishing safe space meetings to discuss key challenges; running regular bite-sized sessions where senior women share their five guiding principles; and expanding the mentoring program to include reciprocal mentoring.

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Business Information Security Officer

IBM in support of Kyndryl

Whilst security organizations typically have 8-12% women, Rhonda's direct reports are 50% women and across the herentire organization 24% of employees are female. Rhonda is the Executive Sponsor of the Women in Security Excelling (WISE) network, which boasts over 400 members, and has been an active mentor to more than 30 women holding various positions throughout IBM, with 50% of these women achieving their primary outcome. Furthermore a third of women recently appointed to the role of Distinguished Engineer, the second highest technical rank, were directly mentored by Rhonda, as were 25% of the women appointed to the highest technical rank of IBM Fellows. Externally, Rhonda mentors girls in a computer class at a high school in Austin, where her positive impact has included successfully encouraging a student to enrol in community college. For the Austin Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, Rhonda serves as Social Media Leader and helps organizes events.

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Sr Director, Connections

Anheuser-Busch InBev

As Senior Director of Connections at Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI), Stephanie is a female leader in a male-dominated industry, one of a select group of female partners at the company. She is dedicated to creating an inclusive space within the beer industry for all. Her efforts to advocate for gender diversity in advertising and employment within the beer industry include working with recruiting teams to ensure a minimum of 50% of candidates for new positions on her team are diverse; partnering with external agencies to ensure the teams supporting the organization are diverse; and recruiting on college campuses to attract more women into the company. Stephanie has worked to promote and develop female leaders within the company by providing one-on-one mentoring to six women and hosting informal group mentoring through Women in Beer get-togethers and career panels. She also serves as a ‘Captain’ for the Network of Executive Women within ABI, an educational non-profit committed to advancing all women through the power of community.

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Business Manager, Strategic Growth

Adobe

As Global Executive Co-Chair of Women at Adobe, Katy launched the group’s Strategic Pillars within UK&I, including establishing 23 women across tiger teams with a lens on Professional Development, Recruitment, Social Impact, Women's Health and Communications. Each team has set a strategy and KPIs to help move the dial on key indicators of diversity in the business and its leadership. After accepting the Executive Co-Chair role in May this year, Katy has been partnering with stakeholders to advance the mission of women at Adobe globally. Another way Katy has advanced the group’s mission has been through a Women at Adobe Speaker Training, which saw 25 women participate in a three-month training to enhance their skills and gain opportunities for internal networking. Each participant filled out a profile, which were then referred to Adobe’s marketing and communications teams, expressing their interest in participating in future internal and external speaking opportunities.

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Vice President, Assistant General Counsel - Employment

Dollar General Corporation

At Dollar General, Melanie is Executive Sponsor of the Women's Professional Network Employee Resource Group (WPN), which aims at empowering female colleagues and allies within the company. She has been instrumental in the company-wide rollout of WPN and has led quarterly events to highlight women and the impact they can make at DG and beyond. Additionally, she has moderated panels including one of male executives who spoke on the significance of being an ally for workplace diversity and another for the company's largest annual internal meeting where board members and senior leaders discussed the importance of female leadership. As well as leading an all-female team, Melanie has served as a mentor to female colleagues and contributes to the formation of the company's Diversity and Inclusion strategy, mission, and goals at quarterly Diversity Champions committee meetings.

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Director, Brand, Marketing & Communications

EY Japan

Janelle Sasaki leads the strategy and initiatives of EY Women Athletes Business Network (WABN) for 200 women athletes and entrepreneurs globally, which has received several external recognitions. With her 10-year experience as a gymnast, she addresses the needs of businesses to find diverse talent and women athletes on realizing their leadership potential in the business world. As a well-known expert on gender diversity, Janelle is invited to speak at international events including the American and British embassies in Tokyo. Most recently, as an ally of LGBT+ community, Janelle facilitated a WABN workshop at Pride House Tokyo. Internally, she is a Committee Member of EY’s Women. Fast forward Steering Group. As the group’s leader for Asia-Pacific, Janelle manages campaigns and provides skill-building workshops for high potential female managers. Janelle is a third generation Japanese American. Prior to EY, she served as the D&I Leader for a technology company in Asia-Pacific, where she launched the company-wide D&I strategy and addressed workplace challenges.

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EMEAI Region Purchasing Director

Dow

This year, Margherita was named the Global Leader for the Dow Women's Inclusion Network (WIN) Employee Resource Group. For four years prior to this she led Dow WIN in the EMEAI Region, helping to move the needle for female representation at leadership levels to 50%. Margherita was responsible for developing and implementing the group’s strategy, including setting up a Female Sponsorship Program. Established in partnership with INSEAD Business School, it was the first ever sponsorship program for female talent in the EMEAI region. Within 18 months 50% of the female talent who participated had been promoted to leadership roles. Last year Margherita developed the second cohort of the program, which is aiming to help promote 80% of the 36 women participating within 24 months. Other initiatives she has headed up have included attaining an Equal Pay Certification for Dow Switzerland and sponsoring the role model stories of Dow’s ‘Hidden Heroes’.

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Client Experience Operations Senior Manager

Accenture

Michelle leads Accenture Women’s Network (AWN) of Accenture in the Philippines’ Client Experience Operations. The group’s objective is to make women and women’s advocates feel empowered, connected and valued, something that Michelle pushes for through a number of key initiatives such as the monthly Women’s Talk events, which average between 100 and 150 attendees, and provide an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences. Other initiatives have so far covered themes around working parents, men championing women, and mental health and wellness. For International Women’s Day 2021 a special Stand Up and Stand Out event was held, which challenged gender misconceptions, and had an attendance of nearly 350 people. Since March 2021, Michelle has also served as a sponsor for the Google’s #IAmRemarkable initiative that strives to empower women and underrepresented groups to speak openly about their accomplishments and promote themselves to others, breaking gender-related modesty norms.

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Performance Manager

Irish Life

Margaret leads several gender equity initiatives at Irish Life, including the Women@Work Gender Networking Group, the Women@Work Steering Group and the Female Leader Development Group. She has successfully instigated Gender Balance Targets, winning Board approval for her approach and managing an action plan that not only delivered these targets but exceeded them. Subsequently, Margaret has gone on to create Irish Life’s inaugural Gender Dashboard, which now includes recruitment data, and has authored board papers highlighting the progress made. Her other achievements include raising the engagement and attendance on the company’s flagship Women@Work Programme with 80% of female employees actively participating; leading International Women’s Day company celebrations; working with cognitive diversity assessments to understand leader preferences; introducing group-wide mentoring and reverse mentoring programs; and mainstreaming D&I into Talent Management. All of which has contributed to a substantial increase in the inclusion score within Irish Life’s annual engagement survey.

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Lawyer

Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados

Juliana is a lawyer at Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados, an international Law Firm based in Brazil, and part of 4Women, a group that works to boost gender equity and promote women to leadership positions through training, mentoring, and the creation of an increasingly strong and welcoming professional network. In 2016, the 4Women program was named by Chambers and Partners as ‘Best Gender Diversity Initiative’ and in 2019, the same program was recognized by Valor Econômico and Women in Leadership Latin America (WILL) in the ‘Women in Leadership’ category. Juliana is involved in several pro bono initiatives offered by the firm to feminist and women’s organizations in Brazil, such as Instituto Alziras, Instituto AzMina, Me Too Brasil (that is starting in Brazil), Reprograma, Mulher em Construção, Mães na Luta, LeME (Leite Materno na Escola), DIVAM (Debates Integrados pela Valorização e Atendimento das Mulheres), Empodera and Coletivo O Berço. All these projects are focused on women’s rights or offered to vulnerable women. Among them, Juliana contribution to the creation of Casa Sueli Carneiro should be highlighted, since it is an important institution that honors Sueli’s black feminist activism.

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Senior Technology Strategist, Corporate Technology

BNY Mellon

Jennifer is BNY Mellon’s Sr. Technology Strategist, Agile Transformation Lead. She has been instrumental in developing the Women in Technology (WIT) brand, serving as the Americas lead and overseeing programming for New York, New Jersey, Pittsburgh and LATAM. In June 2020, she was recognized as a DEI Champion at BNY Mellon for her efforts launching the #SitWithMe internal campaign, focused on driving awareness of WIT through conversations about global diversity. Most recently, Jennifer organized a virtual mobility event for hiring managers to meet directly with the WIT talent pool to increase diverse hiring and improve the attrition of women technologists at BNY Mellon.

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Vice President

BlackRock

KC’s achievements to promote gender equality at BlackRock include founding the Women in RG network; establishing a next generation leadership development program; and placing a focus on bridging the retirement gender savings gap through career development, community building and industry engagement. Over the last few years KC has had the responsibility of leading BlackRock’s global campaign for International Women’s Day, engaging thousands of employees in a gender equality pledge, orchestrating regional events, and curating the firm’s social media presence. She has also spearheaded 23 small-group discussions, which generated more than 1,000 ideas on developing female leaders at BlackRock. In 2021, KC was the inaugural recipient of BlackRock’s DEI Leaders Award, which recognizes employees for their dedication to DEI outside their day job and is awarded based on impact achieved within the firm. Her work on DEI initiatives has also previously won KC the Heart of BlackRock award.

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Chief Financial Officer, LATAM

BNY Mellon

As Chief Financial Officer, LATAM, Patricia leads a high-performing team made up of 70% women. Her efforts to further gender equality have included leading the LATAM chapter of BNY Mellon’s Women's Initiatives Network (WIN), as well as serving as a member of the LATAM DEI Council and the DEI Champions Award Council. Patricia has also acted as a mentor for women as part of the Finance Mentoring Program, which supports the development of younger professionals from different regions to include LATAM, EMEA and APAC. Externally, she has represented BNY Mellon in such groups as BE TOGETHER that focus on increasing female inclusion and empowerment in the Brazilian financial

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EMEA Deputy Chair and General Counsel

BNY Mellon

Susan is the EMEA Deputy Chair and General Counsel and serves as the Global Co-Chair of BNY Mellon’s Women's Initiatives Network (WIN) having previously been its EMEA Executive Sponsor. She is responsible for developing and executing the strategy for furthering the WIN mission of advancing female potential. In 2020, Susan initiated the EMEA Business Inclusion Council at BNY Mellon, and she currently sits as its Executive Sponsor and Chair. The council brings together over 30 volunteers to ensure Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the core of the firm’s talent experience and embedded in all strategies.

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Vice President Wealth Sales

BlackRock

Alicia is Co-Founder of Mujeres en Finanzas, (MEF) the first network of women in the financial industry in Mexico. A non-profit organization with the aim of empowering women to achieve a more diverse, inclusive and equitable Mexican financial sector. Over the past 8 years Alicia, at BlackRock her former employer, led the efforts of Women’s Initiative Network and Allies Network for the Latin America region. In this capacity, she has helped launch numerous initiatives enabling women to advance their careers. The group’s efforts have expanded outside the firm too, connecting with the local community. Last year, through the launch of a sustainable local fund, the business and WIN donated around $1.3 million to a local organization focusing on women’s development, which funded technical training for 250 Mexican women. She is currently pursuing a new adventure in Fin-tech, she believes that through technology more people can experience financial well being.

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Preferred Lending & National Operations Executive

Bank of America

At work and in her communities, Shim has built an exceptional track record for advancing women’s careers, mentoring and developing women leaders, and working to dismantle the barriers built by unconscious bias. She founded the Preferred and Consumer Banking & Investments Executive Women's Forum in 2020, bringing together senior executive women from across the country, providing them exposure to education, expansion and advancement opportunities. She has served as executive sponsor of the company’s Consumer Banking & Investments Employee Engagement and Inclusion Council, and founded the Consumer Investments Women's Forum where she served as executive sponsor for two years. Widely known for her passion for women’s parity and gender equality, she has addressed global audiences and has served as a keynote speaker at various forums and events to discuss inclusion and women’s empowerment. In 2021, she was named to the “INDIA New England News” List of Outstanding Women and in 2020 to the EMpower/Yahoo Finance Ethnic Minority Executive Role Model List.

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President

Man GLG

Carol is an active member of Drive, Man GLG’s D&I network; WAM, the Women at Man network; and Pride@Man, the LGBT+ network, which she co-chairs. During 2020 she introduced Man Group to Girls Are INvestors (GAIN), which resulted in the firm supporting their first internship program and a number of colleagues to speaking at their events. As a panelist at Drive's event on leadership, which featured the firm's female COOs, Carol shared insights on what makes a good leader, how to lead teams through difficult times, and the importance of diversity. In 2020 she held a firm-wide virtual talk based on LGBT+ facts and figures which resulted in increased engagement with the internal Pride@Man networking channel. As well as leading the Diversity and Inclusion efforts aimed at hiring, promoting and retaining talented, diverse individuals, Carol also serves as a mentor to two women as part of Man Group's mentorship program, an initiative which aims to develop the talent of high-potential female individuals.

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Global Head- Technology, Media, Telecommunication Practice

Boston Consulting Group

As BCG's Global Leader of TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) Practice, Vaishali is passionate about creating a gender-balanced business world and has been intentional in recruiting and retaining female talent. 25% of her global leadership team, and 25% of TMT Managing Directors and Partners in Asia are female. During Vaishali’s tenure as BCG's Head of Southeast Asia, the number of women hired increased by 40% and the female attrition rate dropped by 10 percentage points. Vaishali is proud to have enabled an environment which allows employees (male and female) to manage their work-life balance, with more women taking up flexible working hours under her leadership. Her position as part of the global Executive Committee at BCG has seen Vaishali mentor senior women across the organization, and in 2018 she formally set up the Women@BCG Sponsorship Program for Southeast Asia, a program in which over 30 senior women have participated in over the last 2 years.

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Global Head of Legal Personnel

Reed Smith

In her position as the Global Head of Legal Personnel at Reed Smith, Casey has responsibility for the firm's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Program; the Women's Initiative Network; and Recruiting, Retention and Hiring Programs for lawyers and staff. In 2021 she oversaw the launch of the Family Network, which included the introduction of benefits such as childcare, tutoring, and peer to peer networking, as well as resources to achieve a work-life balance across all family stages. Meanwhile the Family Support Initiative, which was launched in 2020 to address COVID-19 family challenges, was also enhanced. Other policies implemented under Casey’s leadership include a global flexible working policy to provide for agile work; expanded maternity and adoption leave policies; and a Declared Pronoun policy focused on communicating preferred pronouns. Of the firm’s partner promotions in 2021, 42% have been women and 22% have been ethnic minorities.

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Country Head - Ireland

Northern Trust

As the Country Head for Northern Trust Ireland, Meliosa is responsible for driving strategy across the business. Under her leadership the Executive Gender Balance Group (a subset of the executive leadership group focused on ensuring gender parity) have developed a number of programs and interventions to support female development and to remove biases from all levels of the employment lifecycle. As of May 2021, 51.85% of the Irish workforce was female, along with 40.4% of senior leadership. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Meliosa has connected regularly with the firm’s Women in Leadership Business Resource Council to share advice on how women can continue to progress their career and network effectively whilst working from home. In addition, recognizing the challenges that diverse women face, Meliosa is driving an initiative via Northern Trust to support refugee and immigrant women who are looking to obtain employment within financial services.

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Executive Vice President, Head of Underwriting & Portfolio Management

Citizens

Jessica has served in leadership roles in the Citizens Business Resource Group, Women's Impact Network (WIN), since its inception in 2017. From 2019 to 2021 she served as the Chairperson of the group, growing the organization to reach 2,000 members, aligned under the mission to help women advance their careers through professional development and networking opportunities. Jessica also helped initiate the development of the Women in Commercial Banking Group, an internal organization at Citizens that provides networking opportunities and encourages local connections in the Greater Boston area and across Citizens' footprint in North America. Externally, Jessica is involved with the Center for Women and Enterprise, a 501C3 organization that provides education and support to female and minority business owners throughout New England and she is co-chair of the Boston chapter of 50/50 Women on Boards, a global advocacy organization that promotes gender diversity for corporate boards. This year Jessica was named by FinTech Magazine as one of the Top 100 Women in FinTech.

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Chief Marketing Officer

BigCommerce

As well as serving as the Executive Sponsor of BProud, BigCommerce's Employee Resource Group (ERG) supporting LGTBQ+ employees, Lisa is actively involved in the women's ERG BEmpowered, where she has spoken to the group about the value of diversity and the importance of investing in mentorship and sponsorship relationships. Lisa has also played an integral role in shaping the company's approach to diverse recruiting: she routinely looks for ways to attract more diverse candidates -- one of her first moves at BigCommerces was to have her team remove education requirements where possible for candidates applying to marketing roles, a decision which significantly broadened the pool of qualified candidates. Additionally, Lisa served as a core member of the team that built out the DEI framework for the company. She is a frequent speaker on issues of passion for her. As a parent of a transgender child, she is increasingly involved in organizations that support LGBTQIA teens.

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Global Business Development and Marketing Partner

Linklaters

Always hugely passionate and supporter of the value of the diversity at every strand, within Linklaters Claudia acted as global champion for gender and has sponsored internal initiatives and programmes to support female talent. In 2021, Claudia ran for the role of Senior Partner for the Firm, representing an example for women inside and outside her organisation. Claudia is the founder of Breakfast@Linklaters, considered by many the largest female business community in the country and the Italian Ambassador of Inspiring Girls, a project launched in Italy with the Ministry of Education. In the past she was President of Valore D, the largest Italian association of companies for gender inclusion. Claudia serves as sponsor, mentor and role model for women and young people and she is often invited to deliver inspirational speeches to support and motivate. In 2020 Claudia published with Il Sole24Ore the book “Meravigliose. Tour guidato all’interno di noi stesse” dedicated to gender issues, young women and talent.

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Group HR director

Kier

As a leader at Kier, Helen has been instrumental in promoting Diversity and Inclusion as a strategic imperative, resulting in full, active support from senior management, who are committed to making a real difference and driving change across the industry. Her achievements in this position have included appointing Kier's first head of D&I; upskilling and mentoring women to encourage career progression; and leading the creation of the Kier Inclusion Network. The Future of Work workstream Helen sponsors aims to drive an agile approach in a historically traditional employer, encouraging more flexibility in working patterns for those with caring responsibilities. As well as chairing the Kier D&I committee, where she helps to steer the agenda at the company while championing employee voices, Helen is also the Executive Sponsor of the firm’s newly created Gender Inclusion Network, and was heavily involved in the introduction of Kier's first D&I audit.

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Founder

World Crisis Forum (WCF)

Danielle is a tech and social entrepreneur and a champion of inclusion and diversity in the workplace and beyond. Danielle advocates and supports the recruitment and retention and engagement of a diverse body of talent, mentors colleagues globally and organises company-wide initiatives to drive inclusion. As the founder of WCF she puts the values of DEI at the forefront of any activity and as a constructive value from day1. Outside of WCF, Danielle founded Parliament51, a non-profit organization which inspired the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to publish a statement pushing for gender equality and the alleviation of discrimination in the workplace. Following further guidance from Parliament51 the MFA later published an implementation guide. Danielle is working to ensure that the partner companies of P51 are a model employer for women through the hiring, retention and promotion process, as well as the provision of support on best practices designed to create an inclusive workplace. Danielle hopes that this will pave the way for more companies and other governmental and international organizations to follow their lead and adopt the same approach towards creating an equal and safe working environment for women.

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Founder & CEO ET Solutions, Board/Advisor, Non-Executive Director, Co-Chair UK Government Diversity & Inclusion Board, Military Ambassador

ET Solutions

Emer was very proud to receive an OBE in the recent Queen’s birthday honours for her services to Equality and Diversity. Emer is Co-Chair of Leaders as Change Agents, a UK Government Diversity and Inclusion Board, which represents the FTSE 350 Chair’s and CEO’s as well as the 150 largest privately owned businesses, to lead the change in promoting diversity and inclusion across all businesses. At ET Solutions, Emer leads the Women's Mentor and Sponsorship program. During COVID-19, she allocated time every week to host internal and external calls and workshops.

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President Shell Aviation

Shell

Anna is responsible for Shell's global sales of fuels and lubricants to the Aviation industry. Anna ‘s career spans a wide spectrum of leadership roles and she is an inclusive and inspirational leader with international experience. Anna serves as a mentor and has been an active participant to a number of Women’s Networks, she has spoken at events to raise awareness on gender issues and to share her personal experience (most recently at the International Transport Forum during International Women's Day 2021). Anna has had a positive impact on mentees’ next career choices, their chances at promotion and their work-life balance. She has inspired many women within Shell and beyond to be confidence that change is possible. Anna takes pride in leading gender balanced leadership teams and has taken courageous steps to drive gender balance throughout the organisations she has led.

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VP & GM, Verywell Health

Dotdash

Sara's main contribution to Diversity and Inclusion at Dotdash has been as the Chair of the Events Committee for the organization’s Women's Council. Sara has helped see this group through its infancy, growing from 30 to nearly 160 members in under two years. One of her roles within the Council has been to lead monthly roundtables on a range of topics relevant to women, including exploring imposter syndrome; the impact of COVID-19 on women in the workplace; how women can better support each other; and a recent panel in collaboration with the Dotdash Pride ERG around family planning, which centered the experience of trans women and folks. As a result, women have been provided with an empowering space to connect, raise their voices, and share experiences. The discussions have established a forum for women's perspectives that wasn't present at Dotdash before, and has helped carve out a meaningful model for DE&I programming across the organization.

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Partner & Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific Account Management Team

IHS Markit

Partnering with IHS Markit Academy and the Marketing & Communications teams, Bo Zhou initiated the global IHS Markit Academy ‘Women in Leadership’ series. This series invite external female leaders to dialogue with IHS Markit internal female leaders and male advocates. Since its inauguration in December 2020, the series has had over 50 external and internal D&I advocates involved globally. Bo’s other roles include serving as a sponsor of IHS Markit’s internal leadership discussions and initiatives such as mentorship and sponsorship programs. In addition, her position as a woman in one of the top posts at the organization has allowed her to serve as a role model for other women at the firm. This year, Bo has served on the judging panel of the event ‘Kindness and Leadership - 50 Leading Lights in Asia Pacific’, in order to support the broader Diversity and Inclusion conversations happening in the region.

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Partner; co-Chair of Firmwide Diversity Committee

Boies Schiller Flexner

Since joining Boies Schiller Flexner in early 2020, Tracey has played an integral role in bringing inclusion, equity and diversity to the very center of the firm’s business strategy. She has led on multiple initiatives in the past year, including committing BSF to the Law Society Women in Law pledge, which involved setting meaningful and sustainable targets that will address issues relating to gender equality within the firm; committing BSF to the Equal Representation in Arbitration pledge to promote women's appointments as arbitrators on an equal opportunity basis; and developing the BSF women in law video series in order to promote and assist women rising up through the legal profession. In addition to initiating monthly meetings for all BSF women, Tracey has also arranged spotlight panels for women from different backgrounds across the firm to talk about their career aspirations, and has organised fireside chats and presentations with senior female clients and renowned motivational speakers.

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Vice President, Partnerships

Getty Images

For the last five years, Cassandra has grown Getty Images’ Content Partnership business to add authentic, diverse and inclusive content, so that all communities are accurately represented in the visual content on gettyimages.com. In June last year, as Getty Images grappled with how to address systematic racism in support of the Black community, Cassandra worked tirelessly, taking a leadership role to support employees. She received the Getty Images Leadership Principle Award, nominated under the principles ‘We are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences’, and ‘We care, are kind, courteous, and respectful’. Cassandra is Co-Chair of Getty Images' first Employee Resource Group, The Multiculture Network which is open to those who are considered a minority based on race or ethnicity within the country they reside. The group was formed last summer as a grassroots effort to build a community of support for those who were impacted by racism or discrimination.

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Founder and CEO

Luminary

Cate founded and self-funded Luminary in 2018 with the mission to uplift, upskill, and propel women forward through all phases of their professional journeys. In order to achieve its purpose of gender diversity and women's inclusion, Luminary has led more than 1,500 events, sessions and workshops; built a digital library with over 400 hours of downloadable content; and set up a work and social space in New York, together with a virtual platform, so that members can connect. The company has grown to include more than 2,500 individual members in 36 countries, as well as boasting over 40 corporate members. Luminary also runs a Fellowship Program which supports both women-owned businesses and women impacted by the 'She-cession'. Last year the company acquired Declare, a premier leadership platform for women, and partnered with Bolster, to make it possible for more women to join private boards.

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Executive Vice President, Data & Intelligence, Canada & Latin America

Edelman

A marketing, communications, and media research industry veteran, Catherine oversees research, analytics, and performance & paid media teams that drive business intelligence, activation, and impact. Catherine is passionate about supporting women in the workplace, volunteering as a member of Edelman’s Global Women’s Equality Network (GWEN) global steering committee that helped the firm achieve parity of senior women leaders. Catherine also leads GWEN regionally, promoting events and initiatives across Canada which help women from all backgrounds lead and succeed. In 2021, Catherine volunteered to champion a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative for Edelman’s global Data & Intelligence unit of 400 employees, establishing a new DE&I vision, team, and plan to promote equality across four strategic pillars: Education, Community & Inclusion, Recruitment, and Retention. Catherine is also a member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Council Working Group for Women’s Advocacy, bringing the voice and perspectives of women to national policies and advancing the gender equality agenda to drive meaningful action.

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Chief Executive Officer

Coqual

Lanaya is the CEO of Coqual, a 17-year-old global think tank that conducts research and advises corporate companies on diversity, equity and inclusion. Coqual’s research aims to bring visibility to the barriers and inequity faced by women and other underrepresented groups in the workplace. A global thought leader, Lanaya promotes gender diversity and inclusion outside of the organization as well. Not only do they serve as co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Advisory Council, they also sit on the Advisory Board of the Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Inclusion, the Board of Directors of Outright Action International and the Board of Lesbians Who Tech. Lanaya’s thought leadership has been featured in Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Marketplace, and Business Insider.

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General Manager, Head of Commercial Banking, HSBC UK

HSBC UK Bank PLC

Appointed as HSBC UK’s first female Head of Commercial Banking in 2017, Amanda has initiated a number of gender diversity programmes which have since thrived. This includes the re-design of job adverts to ensure that they now attract both men and women, changing the recruitment process so that there is a requirement for gender-balanced interview panels, and embedding a new practice whereby the shortlist for every senior role includes both male and female candidates. Amanda has also focused on HSBC UK’s Employee Resource Groups, which she considers instrumental in opening up awareness of the issues that impact colleagues and creating a more inclusive workplace. Meanwhile, UK Commercial Banking’s flagship cultural programme continues to promote the benefits of a gender inclusive workforce and the importance of developing colleagues so that they can be at their best and over the last 12 months, more than 100 female colleagues across UK Commercial Banking have achieved promotions

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Chief Information Security Officer

Danone

Naina is the Chief Information Security Officer at Danone where she is responsible for developing cybersecurity strategy and delivering transformation. She is the co-sponsor of Inclusive Diversity for the IT & Data team and has worked with the CIO, IT Leadership and HR to develop the first-ever transversal strategy for diversity for IT & Data with a strong focus on getting leadership roles to gender parity. For the first time, inclusiveness targets have been a part of the annual leadership team objectives, and an ‘Inclusive Diversity Engine’ is being developed to drive forward this global initiative. Naina is also the winner of the Financial Times, 30% Club and Henley Business School Women in Leadership Award, 2020. Before arriving at Danone, Naina was the founder of the Cybersecurity D&I initiative for EMEA at EY. There, she set up a new network of Diversity Champions in each region for cybersecurity. This work earned her the EY Inspirational Role Model Award in 2020.

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Managing Director and Senior Partner, Chief Marketing Officer & Global Chair of the Client Team

Boston Consulting Group

In 2000, Sharon became the first ever head of the Boston Consulting Group’s Women's Initiative. Working hand in hand with the firm’s leadership, including the CEO, she set a global ambition for women's inclusion and promotion. This included leading fundamental research regarding why women stayed at BCG and why women left, with the findings resulting in increased training and support for women as well as gender bias coaching for male colleagues. As a consequence of setting clear recruitment and retention targets, and developing a strong female talent pipeline, 23% of the BCG's leadership are now women, with the number of female managing directors and partners growing at three times the rate of male managing directors and partners over the past five years. 2020 marked the 10th year that BCG has retained women and men at equal rates at all career steps in the consulting team.

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UK Managing Director

American Express

As an Executive Sponsor of American Express’ Women’s Interest Networks, Charlotte has championed the Company’s ‘Ambition Project’ as a means of raising awareness of the role ambition plays in women's professional success. She has also overseen initiatives including the roll out of self-identification amongst colleagues to help drive I&D changes across the company and the introduction of I&D training to over 5,000 employees in order to combat unconscious bias, As colleagues moved towards working from home during the pandemic, American Express also initiated a range of company-wide internal communications and initiatives intended to support colleagues, particularly those shouldering caring responsibilities during the pandemic. By signing the HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter, Charlotte pledged American Express’ commitment to achieving a 50:50 gender balance in senior management, a target which was reached this year. Under her leadership American Express has been recognized over the past two years as a top employer by the Financial Times, LinkedIn, Working Families and Glassdoor.

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Group Chief Innovation Officer

Barclays

Mariquit is a Senior Steering Committee Member of the Women in Technology group at Barclays, a group whose aim is to recruit, retain and empower women in technology across the company. In this role, she hosts both large- and small-scale talks and events to inspire the female population across Barclays to progress in their careers, and leads a workstream to identify opportunities for external recognition of female talent at Barclays, including helping leadership identify top candidates. Her representation of WIN externally includes speaking regularly at events where she actively supports efforts at recruiting female talent. Mariquit is also Executive Sponsor for Barclays and Anthemis’ Female Innovators Lab which has a mission to identify female founders at the earliest stage of their journey, provide them with an initial investment, and match them with the resources and mentorship required to bring a business concept to market.

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Member of the Management Board, and Americas CEO

Deutsche Bank

Christiana is a leader of the Schneider-Lenné Cadre at Deutsche Bank, a group of senior women at the firm who are selected to act as role models, drive cultural change, and help develop diverse talent. Her actions to promote gender equity have included announcing equal parental leave for primary and non-primary caregivers, signing the CEO Action Diversity & Inclusion pledge and the UN Principles of Responsible Banking, and implementing changes in hiring practices with immediate results. In a reflection of the changes Christiana has pushed for, Deutsche Bank's regional graduate intake for this year was 41% female and 10% Black, a 13 and 6 percentage point increase from last year respectively. Deutsche Bank’s other recent D&I efforts include partnering with 11 minority-, woman- and service-disabled veteran-owned underwriters to issue a $750 million D&I bond to help finance the business in the US.

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Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer

Virgin Money PLC

As a member of Virgin Money’s Balance Network and its Gender Balance Committee, Lucy has participated in numerous internal events, ranging from podcasts to focus groups, deep dives, jams, inclusion events, discussions and panels. In addition to mentoring and coaching a long list of senior women at the company, she has also sponsored female rising star talent across different functions. Her active involvement in promoting diversity has led to the deployment of targets for gender and ethnic minority inclusion on Executive and Business Unit scorecards, as well as several significant internal promotions for talented women, and an external hiring process for ethnically diverse female talent. Outside of Virgin Money, Lucy has been passionately and actively involved in a long list of groups, events and actions addressing gender inequity for over 20 years.

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Global Head of Trade

Solvay SA

Mayra has been part of numerous gender diversity initiatives at Solvay SA. These include Solvay-X, an Employee Resource Group aimed at improving the culture of DEI, by ensuring the company attracts, retains, and enables women; Solvay One Dignity, a program that sets ambitious DEI targets; and the former Women Leaders@Solvay, a group responsible for developing proposals aimed at strengthening the visibility of female talent. Externally, Mayra is the Belgium Leader for the Harvard Kennedy School Women's Network, which aims to enable community building, to advance the understanding of local issues, and support the work of women and gender nonconforming individuals. In February 2021, Mayra hosted a conference on leadership with Solvay’s CEO, in which they discussed the role of women at Solvay and beyond. In addition, Mayra is an instigator at Trade Experettes, a global network with over 200 individuals committed to shining a light on women working in trade, whilst also aiming to empower them to achieve their goals.

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Managing Partner and Global Consulting Principal at The Sustainability Practice

Ogilvy

Since 2020, Aisling has been the Managing Partner of Ogilvy Growth and Innovation’s Sustainability Practice. Alongside this commitment she has been heading WPP’s relationship with the United Nations and acting as the WPP Executive Sponsor for UN Women. For the past year she has led the Ogilvy team in working with UN Women and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop #ActForEqual, the official campaign for the Generation Equality Forum, which brings together cross-sector stakeholders to secure commitments to gender equality. Aisling was also responsible for coordinating the process to make WPP a GEF Commitment Maker, specifically to champion diverse voices in media through technology innovations. Since 2012, she has mentored a number of female CEOs of conservation and climate NGOs and advised them on strategy, communications, fundraising, career development and maximizing their impact. For the past two years she has spoken at the Women in Smart Energy Forum.

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Chief Executive Capita Experience Division

Capita

As an Executive Committee member at Capita, Aimie takes mentoring seriously, supporting many leaders including the mentoring of women in our organisation. She is co-sponsor of Capita’s wellbeing network and has highlighted topics such as mental health and support through the menopause. In addition to her work for Capita, Aimie also advises start-ups such as TechPixies, a digital learning organisation that helps women to change jobs or start businesses using digital technologies. Aimie has previously been recognised as a Business Woman of the Year 2012 and Kindness & Leadership, 50 Leading Lights from Women of the Future in 2018.

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Partner and Co-Head of Fundamental Equity, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM)

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

As a senior woman leading an investing team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Katie organizes a lot of her time and efforts around ensuring that more women will have the opportunity to lead investing businesses in the future. She is a member of the Steering Committee for the Asset Management Division Diversity and Inclusion Council, where she has responsibility for substantially improving the diversity of senior hires, and she has been successfully pushing for more diverse representation in the C-Suite and on the boards of companies in Goldman Sachs Asset Management portfolios. Additionally, Katie sits on the Advisory Board of Launch With GS, a $1 billion capital commitment from Goldman Sachs to invest in diverse entrepreneurs and fund managers. Katie is a passionate believer that diverse teams outperform, and has consequently built and led one of the industry’s most gender diverse investing teams: female portfolio managers in the Fundamental Equity group manage 40-50% of assets under management, up from 30% in 2016 and compared to an industry average of 11%.

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Executive Vice President - Head of Corporate Development and Strategic Alliances

IHS Markit

Sally founded the Women’s Affinity Network at IHS Markit 10 years ago. Her efforts to improve gender equity at the firm include maintaining a 50% female gender balance in the Strategic Alliances business line she manages, in accordance with firm-wide recommended KPIs. The company saw female promotions at VP level rise by 7% in 2020, whilst those at SVP level increased by 3%. As well as participating in Collaborative Mentoring as a partner mentee, Sally has chaired the VP Promotions Committee for the last two years, with a specific focus on equal opportunity promotions. During Sally’s time in her role, IHS Markit has been recognized as a top employer by Mogul, the Human Rights Campaign and Forbes, who included the firm on their list of America’s Best Employers for Women. Outside of IHS Markit, Sally is a member of an informal CEO female leadership group which helps promote gender representation in finance.

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EVP, Head of International

Audible, Inc.

As Executive Sponsor of Women@ Audible, Audible's largest global impact group, Susan has had the opportunity to guide future leaders in their commitment to career development. In addition to the US and London-based chapters, this year the group grew stronger after launching a Berlin-based chapter, Women@Audible EU. In heading up Audible in nine marketplaces outside the US, Susan and her team have been intentional and purposeful with their responsibility as a content creator. In the past year, they established a multi-million dollar fund designed to identify, produce and elevate local, diverse voices. Despite the challenges of producing under COVID-19, every international Audible marketplace delivered highly-rated titles under this initiative. In addition to her work for Audible, Susan is Co-Chair for the NYU Alumni Association's Awards Committee, a role in which she oversaw the implementation of a D&I metric for awards deliberations, and updated the language in materials to take representation into consideration.

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Chief Client Officer

WPP

Lindsay sits on WPP’s Inclusion Council, a body which gives a voice to under-represented groups, advises on appropriate DE&I goals, recommends new systems and strategies and identifies barriers to progress. The group’s impact has included introducing DE&I goals into the annual bonus plans of leaders across WPP, a critical step forward in the push for gender equality at the top of the industry, which is expected to have a ripple effect through all levels of seniority. Lindsay also sits on WPP’s Diversity Review Subcommittee, which set up an alert mechanism for WPP's 100,000+ employees to report harmful stereotyping, and also created the Inclusivity Playbook, a best practice industry guide for marketers. Since 2007 Lindsay mentors between five and ten women annually, and in June 2020 she launched WPP’s inaugural Next Gen Internship Program with a talk on gender equality. The program reached 850 participants, and over 50% of applicants were women.

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CEO & Founder

Jomas Engineering & Environmental

As CEO of Jomas, Roni is committed to ensuring her employees achieve their full potential, and that the company provides an inclusive environment where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive and excel, irrespective of who they are. She recently set up an internal buddy system, which aims to support new graduates as they build their careers with the company. The system is particularly commended by women who receive mentoring and support by other women who are further along in their careers. Roni also offers herself as a mentor, and has created strict company policies ensuring there is no discrimination and that the recruitment process is not biased. Her other efforts to promote diversity include running events and getting heavily involved in outreach programs. Roni’s approach has resulted in a 40% female workforce at Jomas, in a sector where only 12% of the workforce is female.

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Global Vice President of Cloud Services

SAP

As a fierce advocate for equality, Jennifer served until 2020 as the Global head of SAP’s Business Women’s Network, an Employee Resource group, boasting more than 14,000 members and over 85 chapters. She is a member of North America Diversity & Inclusion council and mentor for SAP’s Corporate Social Responsibility pro-bono programs. Jennifer helped foster economic equity for Black-owned businesses and worked to fight poverty and build capabilities with vocational training institutes to skill the youth of Uganda. Her accomplishments in these roles include encouraging children and women in the poorest countries to join STEM; increasing the number of women in leadership roles; and expanding the impact and influence of women across the company. In her current organization, Jennifer has increased female talent from 9% to 23%. Jennifer is also a mentor for the Global Give Back Circle. In this role, she provides at-risk adolescent girls with support to move from a mindset of marginalization, to one of empowerment.

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Managing Partner EME

Reed Smith LLP

Tamara is a member of Reed Smith’s WinRS Business Inclusion Group. She has chaired two Female Legal Leader roundtables for General Counsel as well as the opening panel of Reed Smith’s 2020 DEI Summit. Tamara is responsible for the firm’s gender pay gap reporting, and in 2019 she made Reed Smith the first UK law firm to voluntarily report its equity partner pay gap. It was also one of the few firms to report that the mean pay for female equity partners was actually greater than for men. As well as serving as an active advocate, mentor, and sponsor for the career advancement of female associates, counsel and partners, Tamara has been instrumental in achieving a 40% female Executive Committee and 50% female representation in Senior Management. Several Reed Smith women Tamara has nominated have been shortlisted or winners of female leadership awards including from Rising Star, Citywealth PowerWomen, and Asian Women of Achievement.

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Partner & Head of D&I Leadership Group

DWF

Seema is one of just thirteen female partners at the highest tier of DWF, and she is the first person from an ethnic minority to hold this position. Seema is also a Partner Director on DWF's Plc Board. Over the past two years Seema has grown the D&I Leadership Group into a global group with over 50 members across all DWF's offices. She has pioneered D&I best practices, such as the implementation of blind CVs and inclusive hiring training, to increase the recruitment of underrepresented groups. In addition, she has designed and obtained board approval for gender and ethnicity targets for the Plc Board, the Executive Board and the senior leadership team. For her intersectional approach to advancing women's careers, Seema’s gender equality roundtables were recognised by The Times Top 50 Employers for Women report, and in March 2021 she was invited to speak at the United Nations live conference ‘Target Gender Equality, Target Ethnic Diversity’.

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CEO, HSBC, Channel Islands and Isle of Man

HSBC

Sue is the Lead Executive Sponsor of the D&I Allies Group at HSBC. Through this role she raises the profile of the group’s work and helps to cement an inclusive culture at the bank. In by-monthly ‘Ask Me Anything’ townhalls hosted and sponsored by Sue for over 1,200 colleagues, she regularly raises issues of diversity, inclusion and equality, actively encouraging people to discuss and ask challenging questions about gender bias in the workplace. Since 2018 Sue has also been a Global Ambassador for BALANCE, HSBC’s gender diversity Employee Resource Group, made up of over 48,000 members across 20 countries. For International Women’s Day this year she hosted a virtual panel event and wrote an internal thought leadership article about gender equality, sharing her own experiences of trying to climb the executive career ladder in a male dominated sector and highlighting the struggles women still face today.

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CEO

SUSE

Melissa is SUSE’s first female CEO and has driven transformational change for the company since her appointment in August of 2019. In addition to becoming the first woman in the 21st century to take SUSE, a multibillion-euro company public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, representing the largest software IPO in Europe in 2021, Melissa has focused on enhancing SUSE’s inclusive culture. As a passionate supporter of D&I, Melissa created two employee resource groups, the Women in Technology Network and Pride @ SUSE, to foster inclusion at the company. She has also made a concerted effort to increase female representation in leadership positions in addition to focusing on developing and nurturing the growth of SUSE’s employees. Beyond her work as CEO, Melissa is the co-founder of inner wings, a charity she created to help girls aged 6-12 build confidence, to create a world with more determined women, and more gender balanced leadership. She is also the author of three children’s books.

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Global Head of Strategic Investor Group Sales

Standard Chartered Bank

When Souad first joined Standard Chartered Bank she was the first female head of Financial Markets in the UAE. Despite the fact that all her peers and superiors were male, she set herself the aim of increasing the absolute number, as well as the influence, of women at the organization. Souad achieved this goal in part by chairing talent reviews, implementing career sessions, and becoming a mentor to over 25 female colleagues. Her efforts saw the percentage of female MENA Financial Markets promotions rise to a record 54%, and Souad’s suggestions for diverse interview panels and exit interviews when women resign were both implemented globally. Souad is a regular speaker at global events, and often intentionally chooses to use her voice on topics typically considered ‘male’: at SCB’s 2021 CreditConference she moderated an entirely male Islamic Finance panel. Amongst numerous external engagements, Souad serves as a girls’ STEM role model for the non-profit GLAM.

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Chief HR Officer

Diageo

As the Executive member of Diageo responsible for the design and implementation of the company’s Inclusion and Diversity strategy, Mairéad has been instrumental in driving numerous gender diversity initiatives. Diageo’s 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' ten-year sustainability plan included the bold target of having 50% female representation across leadership positions by 2030. In addition, for the first time the organization’s Long Term Incentive Plan included gender diversity as one of its selected measures, ensuring every senior leader is incentivized to make progress on the D&I agenda. Under Mairéad’s leadership Diageo has also improved the balance of its executive leadership team: whilst eleven years ago, Diageo's Executive Committee was all men, it is now made up of 38% women. In March of this year, Mairéad led the introduction of Menopause Guidelines, which offer strengthened support and flexibility and encourage all employees to build their understanding of how the menopause impacts individuals.

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Global Chief Creative Officer

VMLY&R

Debbi credits VMLY&R’s 2020 revenue increase in part to the strong female creative teams she has built. In December, she added two female CCOs to her ranks, each charged with leading one of the agency's most important and high- profile accounts, the latest in a long list of senior female appointments she has made. As well as being a champion of creativity and a mentor for women across VMLY&R and the industry, Debbi is proud to serve as a founding member of ‘Time'sUp/Advertising’, leading and paving the road for women in her industry. She consistently drives her teams to create advertising that makes a difference, particularly in the crusade for gender equality, and has been recognized by Ad Age as their 2020 Chief Creative Officer of the Year. She has also featured on Business Insider's 30 Most Creative People in Advertising and Adweek’s Creative 100.

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CEO, Aon UK Limited

Aon

Through her position on the Aon Global Inclusive Leadership Council (GILC), Julie drives the company’s Diversity & Inclusion strategy. Her belief in the importance of a diverse workforce is reflected in the gender diversity of her leadership team, which she continues to build upon with senior female appointments, including most recently to the position of Chief Broking Officer. By sponsoring and coaching other female leaders in her team, Julie has supported them to grow and realize their potential, helping them into external roles on the Board of BIBA and the CBI London Committee supported and enabled them to extend their influence across the industry by taking up external roles with business influencing bodies and associations. The implementation of a diversity dashboard based on aggregated, anonymized colleague self-identification data has been a game changer for Aon, allowing the company to identify and improve opportunities for diverse talent. Julie further contributes to these efforts through regular touch points with leaders in the business, introduced to identify and support high potential female talent.

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Director of Group Strategy, Corporate Brand & Reputation

Centrica plc

Having too often been the only woman in the room in a male dominated industry, Joanne cares about improving diversity and inclusion, both at Centrica and more generally. Having always admired the great work done by the Centrica’s Women’s Network to support women and drive change, Joanne was delighted when she was asked to become the group’s Executive Sponsor earlier this year. Since then she has taken part in a panel event for International Women's Day as well as participating in the CWN ‘Empower’ series, where she spoke about her own personal career and life journey. Joanne has mentored three women in Centrica over the past three years and has also been a mentee as part of a reverse mentoring programme, from which she learned a lot about the challenges some women face which can hinder their development and career progression. Outside of Centrica Joanne has served as a mentor for the 30% Club and also has been a strong advocate of the importance of mental health awareness and support in the workplace.

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Chief Information Officer

Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Ltd

Jaine is a champion of diversity within the Standard Chartered Bank in Kenya and also within the Technology Function. In Kenya, she serves as a member (and former Leader) of the Women's Employee Resource Group, a position which has seen her mentor many women throughout the organization resulting in more women being promoted into senior roles. In the last two years she has been active in ensuring her team continues to hold virtual events to enhance career progression and improve colleagues’ wellness and work-life balance. Within SCB’s Technology Function, Jaine has supported increasing African female talent, including championing 12 women from the region to join female leadership programs since 2020. Last year Jaine became the first woman to be voted as East Africa's CIO Of The Year at the 2020 annual CIO100 Symposium and Awards, an accomplishment which served as a major coup for women technologists in the region.

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Senior Vice President, Global Communications

Philip Morris International (PMI)

As a long-time advocate of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Marian has made smart use of her global platform to advance positive change. Notably, she been active in two PMI Employee Resource Groups: EMBRACE Global (focused on racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity) and the Women's Inspiration Network (WIN). One of her roles within these groups has been hosting and serving as a panelist on several company-wide webcasts devoted to DEI issues, including in November 2020 an EMBRACE Global Inclusive Conversations event ‘Delivering on Race Delivers Results’. At the company's Women Who Lead event, Marian and three other female members of the Senior Management Team discussed their personal journeys, offered advice, and shared their visions for gender equity and diversity. Another means by which Marian promotes the advancement of women in business is through regular local and international bylines, interviews and columns for Forbes and Medium, offering her insights and guidance for the next generation.

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Chief Privacy Officer

London Stock Exchange Group

As Gender Sponsor at Refinitiv, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, Vivienne supports all aspects of the organization’s D&I strategy regarding gender. She has been responsible for leading for Legal & Compliance on the new global Inclusion initiative, and was successful in securing Refinitiv and then LSEG as one of the three HMT Women in Finance Charter sponsors. As well as providing leadership, sponsorship and privacy advice on a new initiative to collect and analyze D&I data globally to enable deliberate interventions, she has also been involved in supporting and speaking at Gender Network events, including contributing to a series of senior leader role model stories for International Women’s Day. Outside of LSEG, Vivienne is an Advisory Board member and ex-CEO of Women in Banking and Finance, a nationwide, not-for-profit organisation connecting, challenging and inspiring individuals and institutions across the industry to increase women's visibility, participation and engagement in financial services at all levels.

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senior vice president digital science and engineering, bp

bp America

Morag is the Executive Sponsor for the bp America Women’s International Network and the global Women in IT Network, as well as serving as a member of the D&I Steering Committee. She mentors numerous women at bp, offering them practical and tangible actions to advance their career progression, and was a key leader in the inspiration and creation of the bp Group Disability Forum, an assistive technology portal providing technologies to increase productivity for workers of all abilities. Morag’s team is one of the most gender diverse in bp, with 50% women in leadership positions and a high percentage of women across the wider team. Morag is a founding member of the Women's Innovation Council and Curated Pathways, which developed a web-based app designed to create an opportunity for students, particularly for young women and minorities, to unleash their potential to pursue careers in STEM and Computer Science.

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Chief Transformation Officer

MediaCom

Sue has been involved in a number of major initiatives to drive greater gender diversity and equality at MediaCom. These include serving as Executive Sponsor of the Gender Employee Resource Group and serving as a member of the new Global Belonging Council, a diverse mix of senior people from different areas of the business who meet on a regular basis to drive sustainable change in all areas of DE&I. She is also actively involved in the company's Leadership Reverse Mentoring, a program which sees junior employees act as mentors to senior global leaders. On International Women’s Day, Sue hosted a Safe Room discussion, and she has been a frequent participant in, and promoter of, the company’s ongoing learning initiatives around allyship and microaggressions. MediaCom’s work on gender equality has had the result of bringing their gender pay gap down to 3.08% compared to 6.59% a year previously, and against a national average of 15.5%.

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Chief Executive Officer

Federation of Small Businessses

At the Federation of Small Businesses, Julie founded a new cross-organization Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Steering Group, which includes both leading staff and a set of elected FSB volunteer members, including female business owners and staff. Last year she created a new full-time EDI Coordinator role, which means that for the first time FSB has a specific person charged with looking after each diversity strand and community, advising the elected board and supporting staff, volunteers and members. Meanwhile Julie has also been building a program of activity across the business which involves collecting data, drawing together what internal reforms are required, and deciding what policy work should be looked at externally. Julie is proud to lead a majority female senior management team, recognizing that this sends the message throughout the organization and beyond that women succeed at FSB, and reach the very top.

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Chairperson and Non Executive Director

Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service

Carmel drives the gender diversity agenda within the Service. She is also an Equality Commissioner for NI. Carmel spearheads the NIFRS Equality sub Committee which is chaired by her board member colleague who is committed male Ambassador for the Equality Diversity and Inclusion agenda. Carmel's profile as a female role model ,has involved close collaboration with her colleagues and has resulted in NIFRS achieving the Diversity Chartermark and receiving a nomination at the 2021 National Diversity Awards. Carmel has also won numerous accolades nationally internationally for her work as an inspirational female leader who promotes and encourages others to reach their full potential. Her other activities include serving as a member of an internal NIFRS working group, which aims to promote a female pipeline of aspiring leaders through mentoring and coaching. In her capacity as an Ambassador with Women in Business (WIB), she is a volunteer coach and mentor to a number of rising star female entrepreneurs and leaders, and she was recently recognized for her work by winning the 2021 WIB’s Mentor of the Year award.

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Chief Diversity, Inclusion and People Officer

Chipotle

Marissa has always prioritized inclusion and fostered a culture of well-being at Chipotle. The listening sessions she conducts across the organization help with understanding how Chipotle could evolve as a company and provide equal opportunities for all. She helped develop its Multicultural ERG called UNIFIED (United Network of Influencers Furthering Inclusion and Ethnic Diversity), is activating a company-wide minority mentorship program, conversing with inspirational speakers for her Real Scoop series, developing partner relationships with aligned mission and values, organizing roundtables, leveraging data for change and ensuring compliance and communication around diversity and inclusion training. Marissa has also spearheaded a partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to build a pipeline of diverse talent, and has expanded the debt-free degree program to include a HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), Paul Quinn College. Marissa was this year named one of Business Insider's Most Innovative HR Leaders.

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Executive Vice President - Global Customer Delivery

MasterCard

Jennifer is Executive Sponsor and Co-Developer of a women’s mentoring program at Mastercard which aims at developing junior female talent. Now in its second year and with 2000 participants, the Mastercard Women's Mentoring Series is delivering statistically significant improvements in the retention, promotion, development, and engagement of participating mentees. The men and women who serve as mentors in the program also report higher levels of engagement as a result of their participation. Jennifer also leads work to support the advancement of more senior women at Mastercard, including a drive towards flexible work locations for senior roles. Providing women (and men) with the opportunity to advance without requiring a physical move opens more potential career paths, supporting growth and retention. In addition to these initiatives, Jennifer sponsors and participates in several business resource groups, a women's leadership development series, and a program that readies women for non-profit board seats. Outside of Mastercard she regularly speaks about gender issues at external events.

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Global CEO, Profiles Division, Kantar

Kantar

As part of Kantar's most senior Inclusion and Diversity Steer Committee, Caroline is responsible for ensuring a culture that embraces diversity. In her senior executive leadership team, she has increased senior female representation by over 40%, and tripled ethnic minority representation - including recruiting Kantar's first Black, female C-suite leader in the UK. Caroline is also a senior mentor for Kantar's 'Empowering Growth For Women' Mentorship Program, which sits at the heart of the I&D strategy, supporting and empowering Kantar women across the globe to positively progress in their careers by building a strong, authentic personal brand in the workplace. Caroline also serves as the Global Executive Sponsor of the Pride@Kantar Employee Resource Group, inspiring Kantar’s 700+ LGBTQIA+ employees and allies across the globe to flourish at work by embracing and celebrating their individuality. She is also a founding member of Kantar’s 360 Mentorship Program with Special Olympics, supporting people with intellectual disabilities to build successful careers in paid jobs.

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Chief People Officer

The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

When the pandemic resulted in childcare and many offices shifting to remote work, Frances realized that working parents would suffer and that working mothers would disproportionately shoulder the burden. Partnering with Bright Horizons and their own clinical testing lab, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard opened a childcare facility for all employees and affiliates. By testing all teachers and parents every three days for Covid-19 they were able to run the childcare center all summer with zero transmission. The fees were heavily subsidized in light of the fact that many parents had other childcare costs they were still paying. In addition to providing flexible working models and a supportive culture to keep women in the workforce throughout the pandemic, the organization has also been looking at promotion decisions and pay equity to ensure that women are not disproportionately impacted. Externally, Frances speaks regularly on the topic of D&I and particularly on women in the workplace.

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partner and China chairman

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Teresa has long been a leading proponent of diversity including gender diversity in all walks of life. After initiating the process that led to mandatory disclosure of diversity policies by listed companies while serving as the first female to chair the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s Listing Committee in 2009, Teresa recently issued a call for gender quotas for the boards of Hong Kong listed companies. She continues to lobby for mandatory diversity requirements to help accelerate the pace of change. As executive sponsor of Freshfield’s Asia Women's Network, Teresa is passionate about supporting and developing Freshfields’ colleagues both professionally and personally to maximise their potential. She is also a staunch believer in using one’s influence to bring about positive change, whether as trusted advisors to clients or mentors to colleagues and business partners. Teresa is a co-Chair of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s Listing Review Committee, a vice-chair of the IFRS Foundation, a founding member and steering committee member of The 30% Club Hong Kong as well as a member of the advisory board of Women in Law Hong Kong.

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Chief Human Resource Officer

Citizens

Susan LaMonica is the Chief Human Resources Officer & Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and serves on the bank’s executive committee. She is responsible for developing and driving people strategies to further Citizens’ growth plans while working to enact sustainable and systemic change leading the company’s ESG efforts. As the Executive Sponsor of Citizens’ Business Resource Group, Women’s Impact Network, she understands the challenges that exist for female colleagues, customers and community members while advocating for efforts to attract, retain and support women inside and outside of Citizens. She led the development of initiatives aimed at increasing accountability in Citizens’ hiring process and the deployment of programs such as TalentUp which focuses on talent acquisition, reskilling/upskilling, and expanding the talent pipeline. Outside of Citizens, Susan is a board member of Oasis, a non-profit whose mission is to change the lives of women and children by breaking the cycle of poverty.

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Chief Human Resource Officer

Unilever

As Chief Human Resource Officer at Unilever, Leena is an executive sponsor on the Global Diversity Board. In this position she has proudly helped the Unilever achieve its goal of a 50:50 gender balance in managerial roles globally, using historical data to set targets for business functions. In partnership with Harvard University, the company has also launched a metric called the Gender Appointment Ratio, to present senior leaders with their gender appointment track record and provoke meaningful conversations about gender biases. Other initiatives sponsored by Leena include MAPS, Unilever’s flagship Maternity and Paternity Support program, which has achieved a 24% reduction in attrition by supporting employees going through the transition to parenthood. Outside of Unilever, Leena sits on the World Economic Forum Steering Committee on the Future of Education, Gender and Work and on the Leadership Council at the International Centre for Research and Women.

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Chief People Officer

Audible

In her role as Chief People Officer at Audible, Anne has consistently partnered with the CEO to drive diversity in the leadership team, including reaching 55% female representation in the executive team in 2021. Thanks to Anne’s work to intentionally grow women into leadership roles, the proportion of women at VP level and above has risen by 11 percentage points from 2020 to 2021. As well as informing the creation of a D&I strategy which includes targeted, bespoke plans for each business, Anne encouraged the formation of formal affinity groups, renamed ‘impact’ groups, with one key aim being to increase diverse representation in Audible's content offerings. In April 2021, Anne spoke at the Human Resource Development Virtual Summit and highlighted the large number of women who lost jobs or left the workforce due the pandemic, and the critical need for advocacy and policy to address the problem.

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Chief of Staff to State Street Chairman and CEO, Global Head of Internal Communications, and Head of Global CEO Experience Program

State Street Corporation

Yvonne sits on State Street’s Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (ID&E) Council and serves as Executive Sponsor of the firm’s Latino Professional Affinity Group. Under her leadership, State Street earned a spot on the ‘Top 10 Companies to Work For’ by Latina Style Magazine. In 2020, Yvonne helped to define the firm’s 10 Actions Addressing Racism and Inequality. In addition to her work for State Street, Yvonne is the Chair of the Association of Latino Professionals for Advancement (ALPFA) Advisory Board, and the Executive Director of Small Business Strong, a coalition of leading firms in Massachusetts supporting women and minority-owned businesses impacted by the COVID-19 economic downturn. Yvonne also serves on the Advisory Board for the Greater Boston Chamber’s Women’s Network.

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President of Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure (II&I) + oversight for Dow Asia Pacific

Dow

Jane leads a diverse global leadership team at Dow, comprised of 30% women. She has used her senior role to set clear expectations about the importance of I&D, emphasizing inclusion as one of the top priorities in the business segment. As Executive Sponsor of the Veterans Network Employee Resource Group she has provided advocacy for Dow's active service members and military veteran population, and in her previous position as Executive Sponsor of the Women's Innovation Network (WIN) she advanced the group’s strategic pillars and conducted town halls globally. Jane’s other speaking engagements have included: a notable keynote speech at the 2019 P.O.W.E.R. Up leadership development conference, co-sponsored by EY and attended by over 200 women; an executive-level industry panel at the March 2019 AFPM International Petrochemical Conference on "How Inclusion Ignites the Workforce in the Petrochemical Industry"; and a company-wide special event, ‘Women and Financial Wellness: Demand More from Your Money’, which she co-hosted.

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Global Chief Executive Officer

Landor & Fitch

Jane is a member of WPP’s Stella network, which aims at addressing barriers that could prevent women from progressing their careers to senior levels within the Group. As well as founding the Building to Belong community, a group within Landor & Fitch designed to promote an inclusive workforce, Jane is a regular participant in London's 'Design Doula' group, a community of mothers from within the firm’s London-based team. In each of the leadership roles Jane has taken on at Landor and Fitch, she has put mentoring in place to support women across the company, prioritized leadership training for women, and actively sought to redress the gender balance through the active recruitment of female talent. She has also promoted internal and external campaigns to celebrate International Women’s Day. Today there is a gender balance across all levels of the company including within global, regional and local leadership.

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CEO, North America

Aon

As Co-Chair of the Global Inclusive Leadership Council (GILC), Jennifer drives the group’s efforts to provide advice, recommendations and accountability for I&D strategy and actions at Aon plc. In her role, Jennifer regularly reports to the newly formed Inclusion & Diversity Sub-Committee of the Aon plc Board. Jennifer’s leadership and commitment to Aon has been instrumental to laying the foundation for the recent announcement of a 50:50 gender balance within the Aon Executive Committee. She has also worked hard to ensure that female representation on her leadership team is higher than average, and she remains connected with Aon’s Business Resource Groups in order to drive equity at all levels of the firm, not just at senior leadership. Over recent years she has mentored a number of female colleagues and clients.

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Global CEO

VMLY&R Commerce (was formerly Geometry)

Beth’s actions to promote gender equality on behalf of WPP include serving on the firm’s ‘SeeHer’ committee, mentoring across the organization, and sponsoring Black women as part of the Safe Space program. Within VMLY&R, Beth ensures commitment to pro-bono work supporting women-run businesses, and works hand-in-hand with the HR department to ensure that there is always a focus on gender diversity across the hiring and promotion of talent. The World Woman Hour she created, showcasing 60 female stories for one minute each, received millions of views on Facebook Live and You Tube where they aired, whilst VMLY&R’s partnership with Luminary has produced content allowing women to hear from others and learn from their stories. During the pandemic, the organization took a very personalized and flexible approach to work hours and locations, and in doing so achieved its goal of retaining women and talent disproportionately impacted.

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Head of Corporate Solutions Asia Pacific

BlackRock

Sitting in the Talent and Culture Taskforce at BlackRock, Lily has been leading efforts to achieve gender equity for the Asia Pacific region via three key pillars: hiring, developing and retaining talent; developing a culture of female sponsorship at all levels, from early career to executive; and upskilling managers to equip them with essential tools. As an Executive Sponsor for BlackRock’s Analyst Ally and WIN China, Lily sponsors several women’s development and career growth programs. This includes ‘Taking the Stage’, an activity which helps Female Directors and VPs build confidence around public speaking and developing a leadership voice. In 2019, Lily created a program called the WIN Power Hour, which features the most talented and accomplished leaders from across the industry with the aim of forming a roundtable for them to share their industry knowledge and career advice, and how they drive gender equity.

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Chief People Officer

Compass Group

Since joining Compass in May 2020, Sarah has sponsored and led the activation of a number of programs and interventions to promote gender diversity and women's inclusion. As well as introducing the LBS scholarship for senior executive women in June 2020, she also launched ‘Babies with Love', which helps Compass colleagues celebrate new mothers and also offers support to a childcare charity. The initiative was introduced alongside a new annual maternity leave policy to help new mothers in their first year back after birth. For International Women's Day 2021, Sarah encouraged hundreds of colleagues in 45 countries globally to demonstrate their support of women, publishing the results both internally and externally, and also led a conversation on women’s gynecological health to educate the organization’s leaders at all levels. As an active member of the 30% Club, Sarah this year introduced the network’s mentoring program at Compass.

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CEO

Colt Technology Services

Keri is CEO of Colt and a champion for inclusion and diversity. On her very first day at Colt, she hosted an event for the women's network, Network 25, and she’s been a strong supporter of the network and its events ever since. Becoming CEO in May 2020, Keri has built Colt’s inclusion and diversity strategy and placed it front and centre. Under her leadership, Colt has launched initiatives such as company-wide inclusivity and bias training, a new mental health and wellbeing policy, and a domestic abuse support policy. The business has signed up to the Race at Work charter and introduced ally training for the LGBTQ+ community. Keri was responsible for forming Colt’s Inclusion and Diversity Council, bringing together all employee groups to drive real change. In 2020, Keri was made Chair of the TM Forum's Diversity and Inclusion Council, a global collaboration project focused on making the telecommunications industry the most diverse and inclusive it can be.

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Executive Director, UK

National Grid PLC

Nicola’s efforts to drive gender equality at National Grid include progressing women into senior roles, including our Electricity division, where women now outnumber men on the executive team. She is an advocate of the Women in National Grid Employee Resource Group, and has championed initiatives including Strategies for Success, a development program helping women navigate the unwritten rules in business, managing the political landscape and maximizing career success; and Lean-In circles where women collaborate to share experiences. In addition, Nicola encourages regular dialog between ERGs and the Executive, participates in diversity lunches to hear directly from women on the challenges of working at National Grid, and is a role model in storytelling sessions for Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. Nicola also mentors senior and middle ranking women within the energy and rail industry, and in the police, and also appears regularly on discussion panels and at conferences discussing the merits of diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace.

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Board Director

CME Group

Throughout Ana’s career she has been an advocate, mentor and sponsor for women, immigrants, Latinos, leaders of color and LGBTQ+ people. She was the Board Member Sponsor for the first Women’s Employee Resource Groups at CME, and today sits on the board of the Women Business Collaborative, where she chairs the Women of Boards initiative, the Latino Corporate Directors Association, the Latino Corporate Director Educational Foundation, and the Women’s Empowerment Network. She has previously served on the boards of the International Women's Forum and the Committee of 200, and remains very active in these organizations to this day. Ana is also a frequent speaker on women and DE&I at organizations like the Federal Reserve Bank, Beta Gamma Sigma, Kellogg business School and others. She has published dozens of research-based articles on topics such as women’s empowerment, leadership development, innovation, succession planning, DE&I and culture transformation.

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Chief Executive

Financial Services Compensation Scheme

As the CEO of FSCS, Caroline sponsors and supports the firm’s work on gender diversity and women's inclusion including the Women@FSCS group and the RISE Women's Development Program. In 2021, FSCS was listed as one of The Times’ Top 50 Employers for Women in recognition of the organisation’s commitment to gender equality and was Highly Commended in the FT Adviser Diversity in Finance Awards for Championing Women’s Equality. By signing the Women in Finance Charter, Caroline committed FSCS to promoting greater gender diversity and setting internal targets for progression. The firm exceeded its first target by reaching 60% women at board level this year and 75% at executive level, making the board and the executive team predominantly female for the first time ever. The RISE Women's Development Programme is another FSCS initiative sponsored by Caroline. Now in its second year, the program enables delegates to articulate their strengths and contributions and explore the challenges they face that hold them back.

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Senior Vice President, Operations

International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Improving diversity and inclusion has been a top priority for Stephanie throughout her 30-year career at the World Bank Group. A passionate advocate for advancing women in information and technology, Stephanie has founded two global women’s IT networks to further that goal. Under Stephanie’s leadership, IFC has made steady progress in diversifying its workforce at all staff levels, increasing the number of females in managerial and technical roles, and also in boosting the number of female nominee directors on boards where IFC is a shareholder. While she served as IFC’s interim Managing Director and Executive Vice President, the organization appointed Respectful Workplace Advisors and launched the hiring process for IFC’s first-ever Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion manager. Stephanie serves as Co-Chair of IFC’s Diversity & Inclusion Council, is an active advisor in IFC’s Sponsorship program, and participates in IFC’s Reverse Mentoring scheme, which has a strong focus on developing millennial staff and boasts 65 percent female participation.

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Chief People Officer

Aviva

Throughout the pandemic, Aviva continued to pay colleagues, regardless of hours worked, supporting parents balancing work with childcare and home-schooling. And, as people return to offices, Danny has championed the female agenda in Aviva and externally; encouraging business to consider the potential future impact of hybrid working on carers and especially women. Aviva’s D&I strategy includes many initiatives supporting women. From its Equal Parental Leave policy and advertising all roles with flexible working to including diversity targets in Executive reward and monthly reporting on gender diversity metrics. Danny sponsors and champions several initiatives including Aviva’s approach to domestic abuse for colleagues and customers, Aviva’s Menopause Support Group, the introduction of the Peppy menopause app for colleagues and their partners, and also its Pride Network. She is a mentor for the 30% Club, and was, until recently the Co-Executive Sponsor of the Aviva Carer’s Community - a global network of predominantly women who support each other to balance working with caring responsibilities.

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Head of HR Operations Asia, Manulife

Chairperson

Kitkat considers Gender Diversity and Women's Inclusion as key to achieving any organizations' purpose. In 2015, with leaders from ANZ, Thomson Reuters, HSBC, Wells Fargo and Deutsche Bank, they established the Women’s Inter-Industry Network (WIN) believing that a much bigger impact could be made if organizations all worked together. Kitkat co-founded this network to foster a corporate industry that would enable and support women’s inclusion and empowerment. The network has grown from 5 organizations in 2015 to over 50 organizations today, and it continues to expand creating an environment where more people will have the opportunity to be involved and take action.

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CEO, Europe Cluster, Vodafone Group

Vodafone Group plc

Since 2014 Serpil has chaired Vodafone’s global Inclusion for All Committee, which has led a pioneering agenda to improve employee rights. The global domestic violence policy the committee launched in 2019 offers affected colleagues HR support, specialist counselling and up to 10 additional days' paid leave, and has been adopted in 27 markets. This year the committee launched a package of support, assistance, training and awareness to help Vodafone employees feel comfortable seeking support when going through the menopause. Serpil is also passionate about increasing the proportion of women in Vodafone's workforce and management, and she has set a target of reaching 40% female leadership by 2025 in the European Cluster countries she manages. In March 2020, Serpil led the development and launch of Vodafone's #ChangeTheFace initiative, which saw the company publish groundbreaking research into the lack of racial, gender and age diversity within the technology industry.

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Partner, Head of UK and Ireland Digital

Oliver Wyman

Deborah is the Executive Sponsor of Oliver Wyman’s Digital Women's Network and, is one of Oliver Wyman’s certified Inclusion and Diversity Champions. She was responsible for leading and sponsoring Oliver Wyman's inclusion in the Tech Talent Charter which resulted in the executive team increasing data collection and monitoring of gender diversity progress, and implementing a targeted female recruitment approach. The flagship sponsorship program Deborah is a sponsor for, Inspiring Leaders, works with employees from historically under-represented communities over 12 months to deliver a leadership spotlight project, and has been successful in helping participants secure promotions. Meanwhile another program led and sponsored by Deborah is Oliver Wyman’s relationship with WeAreTheCity and WeAreTechWomen, which has resulted in the recruitment of more women to the firm through connections made via conferences and awards ceremonies, as well as creating more opportunities for the women on the current team to gain exposure and experience.

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Managing Partner

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP

Natasha is a leading international disputes lawyer, one of few women running a major international law firm, and the only British woman currently running a US law Firm. As is reflected in the London office Natasha built from scratch, she cares passionately about equality – the office topped AmLaw’s UK A-List for diversity and female equity partner representation and was named on the 2021 Global Inclusion Index. Diversity is integral to the firm-wide strategy Natasha introduced last year. She has formed a Diversity Council and appointed a dedicated DEI officer and external consultants to ensure cohesion in addressing DEI at the firm, setting firm-wide diversity targets and introducing a budget to ensure these are achieved. Mandatory diversity training for all staff, and bias interrupter training for evaluations and promotion have also been introduced under her leadership. Natasha supports The Brokerage, a charity creating internship opportunities for disadvantaged candidates. She has been invited to join the Changemakers Board from September 2021.

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Executive Director

Morgan Stanley

Through her leadership on more than a dozen committees internally, Bijna makes impact with a focus on age, gender, ethnicity, race, LGBT, social mobility, mental-health, domestic abuse, intersectionality, empowerment – her effort spans the Americas, EMEA and APAC. Bijna advocates consistently to raise awareness of the Diversity, Equity and & Inclusion (DE&I) agenda and to bridge maturity across different regions in order to obtain consistency in the firm’s approach across the verticals. Forming strong alliances with external partners has been a creative means for Bijna to proactively strengthen awareness and focus across the DE&I umbrella. Externally, to support DE&I strategies, Bijna serves the Boards of The Inclusive Companies Network, Generation Success, Cajigo and Restorative Justice for All. Bijna is featured in the following books: Aspire To (2021), The Ultimate Professional Networker's Guidebook Volume 1 (2019) and Women Kind: Unlocking the power of women supporting women (2018). In 2020, Bijna received an MBE for services to Diversity and Inclusion in Financial Services.

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Chief Executive Officer

Criteo

As CEO of a public company that employees over 2500 people across the globe, Megan is committed to using her platform to shine a light on diversity, equity and inclusion. This year, she has led two major initiatives to help foster a diverse and inclusive workplace. The first was a Pay Parity Action Plan launched in March which closed the pay gap to zero and committed to regular gender pay equity analyses for full pay parity across the organization. The second initiative launched this year was a parental leave policy updated to include additional paid time tailored for both parents, ensuring that new parents can spend quality time with their growing families regardless of gender. In the spring, Criteo hired its first head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to help it build a more robust global strategy, and the organization now has seven active Employee Resource Groups to support its diverse communities.

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U.S. CEO

Edelman

Lisa’s impressive achievements at Edelman include setting DE&I metrics for all U.S. offices, which resulted in women and people of color making up 48% of Edelman’s senior hires since May 2020. Whilst serving as Edelman’s COO, Lisa achieved her goal of having 50% of senior leadership positions occupied by women by 2020, and her efforts to increase the gender diversity of the Washington D.C. office Executive Committee resulted in a team of 67% women and 33% men, reversing the original balance. As well as serving as a member and advocate of Edelman's internal women's group, GWEN, Lisa mentors and sponsors women at all levels throughout the organization and is considered one of Edelman's top external spokespeople on diversity, including gender diversity. Beyond Edelman, Lisa co-created the E3 Network (Empower, Elevate and Engage) to address the lack of diverse women in the C-suite of communications agencies.

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Executive Vice Chair

MasterCard

Ann leads Mastercard’s Gender Steering Committee, presiding over D&I initiatives including a Mentoring scheme, Relaunch Your Career program and enhanced gender-neutral parental leave. She is sponsor of Mastercard’s Boards for Impact scheme matching female executives with NFP boards - now extended to black US executives. She champions Girls4Tech, committed to educate 5million girls in STEM by 2025 and Mastercard‘s lead in a $100m early-stage venture fund focused on one female equity holding executive. Ann is active with UN Generation Equality, where Mastercard pledged to reach 25million women-led SMEs by 2025 as part of their drive to include an extra 1billion people into the financial system. Outside Mastercard, Ann is Global Chair of the 30% Club, a campaign in over 20 countries committed to boosting female representation at board/executive level. She is also Chair of Financial Alliance for Women, working with banks/Fintechs on the SHEeconomy. Ann is the lead director of BEIS, the UK government department for enterprise, net zero and innovation.

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CEO

Standard Chartered Bank Vietnam

Michele has focussed strongly on improving gender representation in front-line banking jobs whilst driving a holistic inclusive D&I culture. She chaired the D&I Council at Financial Markets Singapore across 40markets and member of country D&I. Under her stewardship, the first Financial Markets LeanIn circle in 2019 was born. The coaching program for 50 female directors to support their journey to become Executive Directors achieved 24% senior leadership in front office from 19% in 2019. Michele’s other achievements include introducing ‘balanced hiring’ for FM early careers program and a balanced interview panel / candidate slate. Financial Markets annual MARC awards recognized male colleagues who are true advocates of female leadership to escalate momentum. Outside of her work at Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, Michele has also coached and mentored women on career progression and navigating markets for the Singapore Institute of Management MBA program, and served as an advocate for women on the Executive Committee of the Financial Markets Association SG

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Chair, KPMG UK

KPMG LLP

In 2021, Bina made headlines both in the UK and overseas by becoming the first woman to be appointed as Chair of KPMG in the firm's 150-year history. Since taking on the role, she has hosted ‘In Conversation’ sessions with colleagues in multiple networks, including BREATHE (the firm's LGBT network), the African and Caribbean Network and the Muslim Network. Since 2014, Bina has led KPMG's relationship with Women of the Future, ensuring representation from the firm at the annual summit from a diverse group of females across the global network. She was also responsible for initiating KPMG’s first reverse mentoring scheme, which initially focused on junior female staff, but was so successful it was later expanded to include a scheme focused on Black Heritage colleagues too. Last year she was made a Member of the Advisory Group for the Fawcett Society focused on the Pay and Progression of Women of Colour.

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Executive Vice President - Chief People Officer

Dollar General Corporation

As one of the female executive officers at Dollar General Corporation, Kathy is an active member of the Women's Professional Network (WPN) Employee Resource Group having previously served as its executive sponsor. Serving as chief people officer to the company’s workforce, which is 68% female, Kathy helped to launch a new female leadership program in 2021, participates in lunch and learns with female leaders to share empowering experiences and mentors numerous individuals. Her leadership to advance Dollar General’s diversity and inclusion journey extends throughout the organization and is evidenced by the development of a company allyship guide that helps employees play an active role in creating a more inclusive environment. Thanks to Kathy’s leadership and the Company’s efforts, Dollar General was featured on Professional Women’s Magazine’s list of top LGBTQ+ Friendly Companies in 2020 and was also recognized by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index for ongoing workplace inclusive efforts in support of LGBTQIA+ employees in 2021.

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Chair of the Deloitte Global Board of Directors

Deloitte

Sharon works closely with Deloitte’s leadership to set and meet ambitious goals for the representation of women in leadership roles. She actively promotes and is a sought-after public speaker on the topics of diversity and inclusion, mental health/wellbeing, and sustainability. Sharon is a vocal advocate for allyship and sponsorship in the workplace, for example through her involvement with Deloitte's Women in the Boardroom report and Deloitte’s global 2021 Pride campaign. In 2019 Sharon sponsored the launch of an internal sponsorship initiative designed to develop the talent pipeline and bring more Deloitte women through to senior leadership positions, and she personally sponsors and mentors a number of women. Sharon champions the activities of a variety of internal networks and groups, for example the Deloitte Brazil Women’s network, the Deloitte UK Neurodiversity network and the Deloitte Global LGBT+ network. She regularly engages with groups of women around the world both at Deloitte and externally to share her experiences, and understand theirs, and encourage them to pursue their career ambitions.

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President and Chief Executive Officer

The Progressive Corporation

When Tricia was the Chief Human Resource Officer at The Progressive Corporation she began focusing on the firm’s D&I efforts through the establishment of several Employee Resource Groups. Fifteen years later, Progressive has nine ERGs deeply embedded in its culture, and Tricia’s commitment to D&I has continued in her new position as CEO. The firm ended 2020 with 45% of its leadership represented by women, as well as having increased the representation of people of color. As an active member of Progressive’s Network of Empowered Women, Tricia works to raise awareness of the unique values women bring and the challenges they may face during their career. Through her position on the board of the Business Roundtable, Tricia actively works with other CEOs to help promote change at a higher level, encouraging leaders in corporate America to step up to the challenge of promoting diversity by providing greater transparency on their diversity metrics.

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Chairwoman & CEO

EY ShinNihon LLC

Since being elected as Chairwoman and CEO at EY ShinNihon in 2019, Masami has accelerated her efforts in developing and appointing female talents and nurturing flexible work system. For example, there are four female board members at EY ShinNihon effective July 2021, making up 25% of the board, compared to 7.6% when Masami first joined in 2016. The firm’s recent people engagement survey has shown that female engagement was up 16 percentage points from 2019. Masami also demonstrated the power of diversity in leadership. On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, she reiterated the importance of being oneself regardless of gender and expressed her genuine commitment to be an ally of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Masami has served as a member of EY Global Diversity and Inclusiveness Steering Committee, using the group as a means of advancing D&I efforts worldwide.

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Global President, Novartis Oncology

Novartis

As an Executive Committee member at Novartis, Susanne is a driver of the company’s goal of gender balance in management by 2023. Steady progress has been made, with women in management at Novartis rising to 45%. As well as serving as a member and sponsor on Resource Groups such as Empowering Women to Impact Novartis (eWIN) and Women in Leadership (WIL), Susanne co-sponsors the firm’s Gender Equality Project and its Disability Equity commitment. In 2020, she joined an eWIN event focussed on 'The Power of Inclusive Leadership', where she shared her perspectives and experiences of inclusion. Earlier this year, she launched the Novartis Switzerland second-generation Healthcare Businesswomen's Association ambassador group, where she encouraged the community to check personal biases, find the courage to speak up, and unlock inner potential through self-awareness and self-belief. Passionate about creating inclusive workplaces, Susanne wants everyone to feel safe, respected, and able to be their true selves.

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CEO

AXA Health

Tracy is the Executive Sponsor for Diversity & Inclusion across AXA in the UK and Ireland, and as part of this role she chairs the Diversity and Inclusion Board, which is comprised of senior leaders from across the business. Over the past year successes have included getting AXA UK&I listed as a coveted 2021 Times Top 50 Employer for Women, developing and executing an Ethnicity Action Plan, and launching an allyship program which has been engaged with over 2,000 times to date. Additionally, Tracy was able to strengthen senior leadership commitment to D&I by ensuring all leaders have two performance-related D&I objectives, as well as making D&I a quarterly standing agenda item at Executive Committee meetings. To celebrate 2021 International Women's Day, Tracy starred in a global AXA Group panel discussion on the impact of Covid-19 on gender equality, which was watched by over 3,000 employees across the globe.

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Group Chief Executive - Strategy & Consulting

Accenture

As a Group Chief Executive at Accenture, Annette has sponsored and been closely involved in scaling the company's apprenticeship program to provide under-represented groups access to digital economy jobs. She actively works across the industry to advance Accenture's agenda with key organizations looking to bring change for women in STEM fields. As part of her efforts to take an active role in helping women shape their careers and enlist the support they need to excel in the workplace, Annette introduced Accenture’s 16-week Return to Work program, which assists ‘relaunchers’ with training and an opportunity to sharpen leadership skills as they return to a professional environment. Annette marked Springboard Enterprises' 20th anniversary in October 2020 by honoring four female CEOs for their technological innovation as ‘Women Transforming Industries’. Her ongoing collaboration with Springboard through Accenture Ventures helps advance their mission of accelerating the success of women-led tech businesses.

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Chief People Officer

ServiceNow

Jacqui Canney is Chief People Officer for ServiceNow, the digital workflow company making the world of work, work better for people. Jacqui joined ServiceNow in July 2021 and leads all talent strategies for its rapidly growing global workforce of more than 14,000 employees. Prior to ServiceNow, Jacqui served as the Global Chief People Officer for WPP, a creative transformation company that builds better futures for its clients. In this role, she was responsible for WPP’s global talent organization, making WPP the destination for the industry’s top talent and for leading all aspects of people strategy, rewards, talent management, recruiting, and leadership development and learning. Prior to joining WPP, Jacqui was Walmart's Chief People Officer, where she was responsible for attracting, retaining, and developing talent for one of the world’s largest private employers. Before Walmart, Jacqui worked at Accenture for 25 years where she played a pivotal role in helping support the rapid growth of the business. Jacqui currently serves on the boards of the American Marketing Association and Project Healthy Minds, and on the Board of Trustees at Boston College.

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Chief Executive Officer

Fidelity International

As the Chief Executive of Fidelity International and Chair of Fidelity’s Global Operating Committee, Anne is responsible for setting the firm’s corporate and strategic initiatives with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion. Under her leadership, an Enhanced Parental Leave Policy was introduced, allowing secondary carers to take as much paid leave as primary carers regardless of gender, sexual orientation or working location. Another policy provided all employees with caring responsibilities with at least five additional days paid leave per calendar year. In 2020, Fidelity achieved their target of 30% women in global senior management roles and set a new target to achieve 35% women in senior roles by December 2023. Alongside these achievements Anne also piloted a female leadership program which resulted in a direct increase in female recruitment to senior roles in India, and expanded the firm’s successful New Horizon Returnship Program resulting in 23 female returners.

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Managing Director & Co-Head of US Buyout

The Carlyle Group

Carlyle's Diversity & Inclusion Council launched in 2013 as one of the first groups of its kind in the investment management industry. As well as being a leader on this council, Sandra plays a pivotal role in ensuring at least half of the firm's incoming classes are diverse. In the past year, she led the charge in re-evaluating and refining Carlyle's portfolio board diversity goals, which now includes ensuring that 30% of all directors on the boards of Carlyle portfolio companies are diverse by 2023. As an active leader in Carlyle's Global Mentorship Program, which has had over 800 participants globally within the last four years, Sandra oversees nearly 100 employees, 50% of whom are diverse. She also started Carlyle's Women's Employee Resource Group to help create inclusive environments that support and encourage women to advance their skills and leadership potential through connection, mentorship, collaboration and discussion.

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Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Philip Morris International (PMI)

In July 2020, Suzanne joined Philip Morris International as its most senior female executive. As an active member of the women's Employee Resource Group (ERG), the Women's Inspiration Network (WIN), she participates in company-wide interactive webcasts to discuss gender equality and integrity in the workplace. At the Women Who Lead conference in March 2021, the first WIN event, Suzanne engaged with employees, sharing her personal journey, advice, and vision. She has also been vocal in her support for gender equality, through PMI’s Leaders of Change website. Suzanne considers it a part of her life’s mission to mentor and sponsor the next generation of women in the workplace, providing opportunities for their own journeys. She has also made a mark on her department, and corporate governance, by hiring female and minority talent to her leadership team, as well as promoting and showcasing the contributions of a diverse team to other senior leaders.

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Group Chief Executive

Bank of Ireland

At the Bank of Ireland Francesca set D&I targets to achieve a 50:50 gender balance in management and leadership appointments by 2021. In 2020 the percentage of women represented in senior appointments was already at 41% and by the second half of the finance year this figure had risen to 47%. Under Francesca’s leaderships a number of initiatives were introduced including a policy whereby colleagues having a baby via a surrogate can take paid leave in line with maternity benefits; a female mentoring pilot to improve the visibility of female talent and support professional development; and the launch of a Recruitment Charter for hiring diverse talent. Additionally, Bank of Ireland is the only Irish bank to proactively publish their Gender Pay Gap Report ahead of legislation for second year running, and during the Covid-19 pandemic colleagues unable to work due to childcare or other caring commitments have continued to receive a full salary.

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President

SONIC Drive-In

In 2018, Claudia became the first woman and first Latina to serve as President of SONIC Drive-In, a role she is using to foster a culture with more opportunities for diverse talent. Not only does SONIC Drive-In have many women on its leadership team, but there is gender parity at the level of operators and supervisors within individual franchises too. Claudia frequently shares her experiences and insights on D&I with others in the industry, including being featured in Executive Women's Forums (EWF) International, where she shared her journey and the lessons she learned along the way to help inspire other women. In December 2020 she was named the 2020 LATINA Executive of the Year by LATINA Style Inc., in recognition of her leadership, commitment to the community, impact to the company bottom line, and her ability to build an environment where employees are encouraged to succeed and reach their full potential.

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Global CEO

Wunderman Thompson

Mel began her role at Wunderman Thompson by recruiting female talent, and she now proudly leads a gender-balanced Executive Committee. Not only is Wunderman Thompson the only major marketing agency with women in the global CEO, CFO, CMO, and IE&D Officer positions, it is also the first global network to launch an Inclusive Experience Practice, the aim of bringing inclusive design and accessibility to the marketing landscape. Wunderman Thompson also launched the WT Inspire initiative, including a diagnostic tool, the Inspire Score, which ranks the top 100 inspiring brands in the world today. In 2020, further cementing Wunderman Thompson's commitment to inclusion and diversity efforts, Mel hired Ezinne Okoro as Global Chief Inclusion, Equity & Diversity Officer. The same year saw her speak to Meio se Mensagem, a leading Brazilian advertising and media publication, on the network’s actions for diversity.

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Chief Operating Officer, HSBC Europe

HSBC

Terecina is a passionate supporter of driving gender diversity and inclusion. She strongly supports the creation of a nurturing and sustainable inclusive culture, where differences are acknowledged, appreciated and encouraged, as this will help individuals thrive, support innovation and making the organisation a better workplace.. Terecina is the Global Co-Sponsor of HSBC Balance (an Employee Resource Group promoting gender diversity with over 50,000 members across 48 countries) and HSBC Digital Business Services (DBS) on 'Inclusive Culture’. #Inclusive Europe, an Employee Resource Group covering over 10,000 colleagues across 21 countries was also launched in Europe earlier this year. Alongside sponsoring female talent under HSBC’s talent programmes, Terecina also mentors colleagues around the world and participated in various external events in Europe and Asia supporting wider female talent growth in the community.

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Operations Director

Resource Solutions

In addition to heading the US region for Resource Solutions, Rocki heads the organization’s Global Diversity Council. She has fostered a culture of inclusion and acceptance through diversifying recruitment, mentoring promising talent and leading initiatives to entrench gender equality in the workplace. Her goal is to create cultures that open diverse career opportunities for bold, brilliant career women and advocate for the promotion of women into leadership and entrepreneurial roles. She has single-handedly launched an online platform for women over 40 to support their personal and professional development. Rocki even hosts a podcast that highlights the accomplishments of women. Over the years, she spoken at numerous events and written dozens of articles that advocate for respect and acknowledgment of women in the workplace and beyond.

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CEO & Founder

Jomas Associates (Engineering)

As the CEO and Founder of Jomas Associates (Engineering), and a rare Black woman CEO in the construction industry, Roni is blazing trails for women in business and beyond. She champions diversity and inclusion across the company through strict policies, an unbiased recruitment process and as a mentor to staff members. She also spearheads the D&I campaign across business sectors and the construction industry, sitting on several advisory boards. Named as the Best Consultant & Most Distinguished Winner at the European Women in Construction & Engineering Awards, Roni was the National Lead for Women in STEM at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), and is now the Policy Chair for Construction, representing small businesses across the UK, while also promoting the importance of diversity.

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Managing Partner

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP

Fostering, advancing and accelerating diversity is core to Natasha’s business strategy and at the heart of the London office of Boies Schiller Flexner, which she built from scratch. Natasha is a leading international disputes lawyer, one of few women to head up a major international law firm, and the only UK woman to be running a US law Firm. She has built a UK team with more than 40% female partners and is a supporter of The Brokerage, a charity creating internship opportunities for candidates from diverse and under-privileged backgrounds. As part of her strategic vision for the firm, Natasha has appointed a dedicated Diversity and Inclusion officer, introduced a firm-wide diversity budget and targets for female and minority representation in leadership positions. Committed to the development of young female lawyers, Natasha has made a public stand about how firms can bridge the issue of inequality. Externally, Natasha mentors a number of high-flying women looking to return to the workplace. She has also counselled women through discriminatory dismissals.

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Global Chief People Officer

WPP

As WPP’s Global Chief People Officer, Jacqui is responsible for the company’s global talent organization and making WPP the destination for the industry’s top talent. Passionate about inclusivity and diversity, Jacqui is creating an integrated talent team that will work with leaders throughout WPP to help build a culture that empowers people to do their best work. She serves on WPP’s Executive Committee and is the Chair of WPP’s Charity Committee. Jacqui is a Board member of the American Marketing Association, and she is active in organizations at her alma mater, including the Council for Women of Boston College and the Boston College Women in Business Network. Throughout her career, Jacqui has driven large-scale, people-centered business transformations and she is motivated by the journey to workplace inclusion.

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Chief HR Officer

Diageo

Mairéad leads Diageo’s I&D strategy which has seen Diageo exceed its 2020 target for women in leadership roles and rank first on the Equileap Gender Equality Index. Today, 50% of Diageo’s Board and 40% of Diageo’s Executive Committee are women. In 2019 Mairead spearheaded an ambitious parental leave policy, offering all female employees globally six months fully paid maternity leave and offering the same benefit to men in a majority of markets. Since launch, the average number of paternity leave days taken by men increased from 23 to 105. Diageo is working to increase the number of women in STEM roles through apprenticeships, returnships and a scholarship at Herriot Watt University for female brewers, distillers, and mechanical engineers. Mairead is Diageo’s Executive Sponsor for race, and supports Spirited Women, Diageo’s gender equality employee group. She is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at events focused on gender equality in business.

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Managing Partner, Asia

Herbert Smith Freehills

May is the first woman to become Asia Managing Partner of Herbert Smith Freehill, leading a team of approximately 600 people across nine offices in Asia. She is the partner sponsor of the Gender Equity Matters (GEM) Network and plays an integral part in creating a more diverse and inclusive working environment at her firm, and promoting and protecting individual rights in Hong Kong. May represented Herbert Smith Freehills’ Hong Kong office to sign the Fair Hiring Pledge, encouraging employees in Hong Kong to hire domestic workers fairly. Under May’s leadership, the firm signed a government-led Code of Practice against Discrimination in Employment on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation in 2018. This code was to facilitate self-regulation on the part of employers to eliminate the discriminatory practices. In addition to this, May has been teaching “International Arbitration in the Asia-Pacific region” at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.

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Head of National Operations & Northeast Division

Bank of America

Shim is a role model for women par excellence! At work and in her communities, she has built an exceptional track record for advancing women’s careers, and mentoring and developing women leaders. She serves as executive sponsor of the company’s Consumer Banking & Investments Employee Engagement and Inclusion Council. Widely known for her passion for women’s parity, she has addressed global audiences and has served as a keynote speaker at various forums, panels and events to discuss inclusion and women’s empowerment. She is a tireless promoter of gender equality, and is committed to dismantling perceptions and barriers built by unconscious bias. In 2020, she was named to the “INDIA New England News” List of Outstanding Women and to the EMpower/Yahoo Finance Ethnic Minority Executive Role Model List that honors global leaders who are champions for diversity and inclusion in business.

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President of SAP Latin America and the Caribbean region

SAP Brasil Ltda.

Cristina is an Ambassador of the Employee Network Group and Member of the Business Women Network (BWN) and Black Employee Network (BEN) at SAP Brasil. Under Cristina’s guidance, SAP reinforced the importance of their inclusive employee network models and the number of women at the firm has grown to 35% in two years. As well as being a seasoned panelist and speaker, Cristina is a Board Member of Arcos Dorados and Junior Achievement and is a passionate advocate for women and their professional advancement across industries.

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Co-op Food CEO

Co-op

The CEO at Co-op, Jo champions women's inclusion and gender diversity through colleague networks. Jo served as the Aspire Executive sponsor which is a community of colleagues who believe that all women in Co-op have a right to equality. Recently she has become the new Respect Executive sponsor which support LGBT+ workers at the Co-op. Jo founded the Grocery Girls Network, a trailblazing initiative bringing women together to share experiences, career journeys and inspiration. Jo serves as the Ambassador of Girls Out Loud, a non-profit organization focusing on developing young female talent. Moreover, Jo is the member of Women’s Business and Manchester International Festival. In 2019, Jo was awarded Veuve Clicquot Business Women of the Year award.

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Founder

Genddex

Danielle is the Founder of GenddeX, and champions gender inclusion in the workplace and beyond. She has created and developed new accelerator programs for minorities to enhance their great ideas advancement and works to implement and measure gender equality in work through tailored recruitment, retention and promotion. Danielle founded WCF (World Crisis Forum), a non-political community of global-leaders who gather to identify solutions to global critical challenges operating in the spirit of inclusion, equality and diversity, and she serves at the IVLP- Leadership Program Alumni of the U.S. Department of State. In addition, she is an advisor at the Ministry of Science and Technology to promote women in science. Danielle is Co-Founder at GreenOn Startup encouraging the usage of green transportation.

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Senior Independent Director

Watches of Switzerland

Tea is also the Founder and Chair of WiHTL - Women in Hospitality, Travel and Leisure. Tea’s approach towards D&I includes conducting research, supporting industry collaborations and sharing, and creating tangible action to root inclusion as a core principle within businesses across hospitality, travel and leisure. Tea has implemented cross-company mentoring programmes for women with over 300 participants, a reverse mentoring programme, and in 2020, Tea launched and chairs the Race and Ethnicity in HTL Committee made up of 28 leaders with 57% from a BAME background. The Committee focuses on the creation of best practices, tools, webinars content as well as raising awareness and improving educational programmes. Tea's work is making a positive difference to 2 million people across the industry, and is building great momentum to achieve WiHTL's mission to positively impact 5 million women and people from ethnic minorities across hospitality, travel and leisure by 2025. 

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Member of the Board of Management

Volkswagen AG

Hiltrud serves as the Member of the Board of Management for Volkswagen AG. She is the Women’s Forum internal Mentor for Future Female Leaders at Volkswagen Management Association. Hiltrud is the Member of Initiative Women into Leadership, Women Leaders Global Forum and Women Corporate Directors. She made a great impact for application of young females to work in the automotive industry and for Volkswagen. She was the keynote speaker at the Women’s Conference. A champion advocate for gender equality in the workplace, Hiltrud is the recipient of "Mentor of the Year’ for advancing the careers of women in Compliance in Germany.

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Partner, Head of Healthcare

Eversheds Sutherland Ireland

Aisling is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution and Litigation department at Eversheds Sutherland Ireland and head of the firm’s Healthcare unit. Aisling Chairs Eversheds Sutherland’s CSR Committee and sits on the Diversity & Inclusion Steering Committee. She was a member of ESW (now known as Pathways) – the firm’s gender diversity committee. Recently, Aisling was involved in spearheading the adoption of the firm’s Gender Identity in the Workplace policy. Aisling is also a committee member and Director of Irish Women Lawyers Association (IWLA). Seen in various print mediums and a regular speaker on D&I topics, Aisling has passionately advocated for equality in the workplace throughout her career. Aisling is currently shortlisted in the Insurance category of The Women in Business Law Europe Awards 2020. Aisling was delighted to feature on the HERoes Role Model List 2019.

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Chief Financial Officer

Leo Burnett Group

Accountant by trade, accidental author and Chief Financial Officer of Leo Burnett Group—Anna Gomez’s story is all things inspirational. Originally from the Philippines and mother of three, Anna continuously elevates those around her, pushing for gender diversity inside—and outside—work. At Leo Burnett, Anna is the Executive Sponsor of Shades, an ERG for black colleagues and allies as well as the Executive Sponsor of Sages, an ERG for employees 45+, providing resources essential for colleagues to address challenges of ageism. Outside work, she’s on the Board as Treasurer of the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Organization, which provides leadership development opportunities to youth, and a Board Member of Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, where she supports the next generation of young women entrepreneurs. Most recently, she was a keynote speaker in the 2020 Illinois CPA Society Young Professionals Leadership Conference.

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Vice President

Hitachi ABB Power Grids

The Vice President of Hitachi ABB Power grids , based at their headquarters in Switzerland, Reshma is a D&I keynote speaker and a member of the D&I council. As the Head of Engineering, Reshma has increased the number of women on the leadership team significantly and she also serves as the Founding Member of Divershefy. Reshma coaches and mentors several young women in universities that encouraged them to opt for STEM careers and minority ethnic groups to help them advance in their careers. As an advocate for women in STEM, Reshma actively champions the business benefits of employing an effective diversity strategy and has been a voice of change both inside and outside of the organization.

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Global, CEO

Geometry Global

Beth Ann is the Global CEO of Geometry, WPP’s Creative Commerce agency. Women’s initiatives remain a priority for her. Recently, she expanded WPP’s Stella program to NA recognizing the need for mentorship. Beth Ann is on the board of Geometry’s IE&D Council supporting efforts to globalize programs like WPPRoots to champion greater ethnic and cultural diversity and inclusion. She sponsors high potential talent across the organization. Working with World Woman Founder, Rupa Dash, a program has been conceived to share 60 inspiring leadership stories. Externally, Beth Ann serves on the board of Newhouse at Syracuse University where she mentors and provides a scholarship. Additionally, Beth Ann is on the National Board of Back on My Feet, an organization that uses running to address Homelessness. An advocate in the creative industry, Beth Ann is working to set new models that are fitting of a woman leader and relevant for today's challenging world. 

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Partner and Head of Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Group

DWF

Seema is the head of DWF’s Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Group and is 1 of 8 women, and the first ethnic minority to hold the position of a Career Level 1 Partner. Seema has been appointed as a Partner Director on DWF's Plc board with effect from 22 October 2020. Seema has been instrumental in creating an inclusive culture at DWF and promoting gender diversity, and has grown the Leadership Group into a global board, designed trailblazing gender and ethnicity targets across all levels of the business and pioneered D&I best practice to increase the recruitment of a diverse body of talent. Seema serves as a Senior Sponsor to women and BAME professionals and promotes inclusion through industry leading initiatives by the Gender Inclusion Network for Insurance and Women in Hospitality Travel and Leisure. Seema has been quoted in numerous legal and business publications, including the Sunday Times.

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Non Executive Director

Abstract

Sue champions the importance of diversity and inclusion in all that she does. Sue serves as the Non-Executive Director at ABSTRACT where she works in collaboration with the Board of Directors to deliver the gender equality strategy. This work is focused on increasing the numbers of female and minority associates moving into higher positions. With the support of her efforts, 30% of ABSTRACT's ACCELERATE programme delegates have been promoted or seconded into more senior roles, and 34% of delegates have developed wider roles and responsibilities. Sue also serves as the National BAME and Gender Diversity Lead for NHS England Armed Forces Public Patient Voice Advisory Group. She recently curated an annual TEDx Women event in the City of Lincoln, as well as leads senior women in business forums with female business leaders attending from across Europe.

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NED & Trustee

TLC Lions

An ex-banker with 40 years’ experience and architect of numerous initiatives, Kamel is a NED for TLC Lions and Trustee to a number of charities and organisations. She chairs the TLC Lions Club in Westminster hosted by UN Chair for women UK, helping over 180 companies to collaborate on Inclusion challenges. Is passionate about mentoring and coaching senior businesswomen across industries and an Ambassador to Alzheimer Society helping reach out across the BAME community and the impact of being a carer. She is an advisor to Her Majesty Queen’s Commonwealth Trust supporting 53 countries to find solution to social problems in particular gender challenges. In 2019, Kamel was invited to Chair the Bloomberg summit round table with UN Women in Mumbai and is a regular speaker globally on gender and inclusion. Kamel was awarded an OBE for diversity across banking in 2017

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Head of UK Strategy

National Grid

Claire is a member of the Senior Challenge Group for Women in National Grid and a strong advocate of gender diversity both within and outside the organization, Claire’s primary objective is to help individuals, who are relatively early in their career, identify their aspirations and work at an organizational level to remove barriers to progression and help them succeed. In 2019, Claire introduced a series of external speakers within her organization to provide relatable role models and inspiration to early-career women. She coaches and mentors women inside and outside the organization and is currently establishing an industry wide network to provide support, inspiration and role models to early career women. In addition, she is regularly invited as a role model herself to networking sessions tackling issues regarding equality. Claire has assisted people in gaining confidence to apply for and secure promotions and identify avenues to success within their organizations.

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Chief Executive Officer, UK Savings and Retirement

Aviva

Lindsey is one of the most senior females in the UK Savings and Retirement industry and is a pioneer in making a profound difference to the careers of women. Lindsey recently established the Commercial Leadership Initiative to broaden the opportunities for women within Aviva, by setting up two smaller businesses within her teams to enable women to experience the full breadth of running a business at an earlier stage in their career. Lindsey is an experienced mentor and has mentored over 20 women during the last 5 years; most notably as a lead mentor for the Aviva Women in Leadership Programme which strengthens the learning and development pathway for high potential women. Lindsey is also passionate about creating the right environment for women to prosper and is a lead voice on the Mid-Life MOT campaign externally, which supports over 45s with their work, wealth and wellbeing.

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Head of Barclays Ventures US and Global Rise FinTech Platform

Barclays

Mariquit is an active and vocal champion for firm-sponsored initiatives focused on D&I.  She is on the Senior Steering Committee for Women in Technology (WiT) and is focused on recruiting and retaining women talent in technology at Barclays. In addition to organizing company-wide events, Mariquit launched the Female Innovators Lab by Barclays and Anthemis, a new program based in New York which invests in early stage companies led by women and is aimed at helping female entrepreneurs launch new companies.  She takes part in fireside chats and mentoring for Encore, a 12-week fellowship programme aimed at helping professionals who have taken career breaks return to work. She has been featured in numerous internal and external communications featuring her work to drive greater diversity.  Her work within Barclays and extensive public profile has significantly increased inclusion within the firm and beyond. Recognized in NYC FinTech Women’s Inspiring Females of 2019, keynote speaker for the 2020 WeAreTechWomen global conference and recipient of the Jes Staley CEO Award.

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Country Manager, Switzerland

BlackRock

Mirjam is Co-Sponsor of Elevate, an education programme within BlackRock’s Women’s Initiative & Allies Network (WIN) for emerging female talents. She is a committed mentor and has helped women to overcome professional challenges and supported their career advancement. Named as one of top 10 Business Women and one of the top 50 finance professionals in Switzerland by leading Swiss business magazines and laureate of “GenerationCEO”, she serves a visible role model and actively championing women to excel in their careers. Mirjam is the Founder and Chair of “MBA for Women Foundation”, a charity providing loans and scholarships to women enrolled in MBAs. Mirjam is invested in entrenching inclusion in the workplace and beyond and breaking down barriers to access and success for women.

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Country Head, Ireland

Northern Trust

As the Country Head for Northern Trust Ireland, Meliosa is responsible for driving strategy and has championed gender diversity in the implementation of firm-wide policies. She establish the Executive Gender Balance Group at Northern Trust and have achieved their target gender balance ahead of time, diversifying the talent pipeline and recruitment efforts. A regular speaker, though leader and expert in her field. Meliosa is the Deputy Chair of the 30& Club’s Financial Services sub-group, completing ground-breaking research that provided a benchmark for women’s representation in Ireland. Developing the careers of women in leadership is core to Meliosa’s mission and as an educator, she is deeply committed to creating inclusive businesses across the globe.

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Founder & CEO

Luminary

Cate is the Founder and CEO of Luminary, a global collaboration hub focused on advancing women through community and content. With inclusion at the core of its philosophy, Cate has built a community with thousands of individual members and over 30 corporate members like Goldman Sachs, WW, and MasterCard to elevate women in business across the world. Named as a Top 100 Female Founder by Inc Magazine (2019), Cate sits on the National Board for Girls Inc, the Advisory Board for Pomp and Whimsy, a woman-founded gin brand, as well as WaterAid. Cate’s mission in life is to advance the careers and businesses of women globally and is committed to gender inclusion and equity in the workplace and beyond.

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Director, EU Retail

Amazon

Jacqu