Women-of-the-Future-Press-Release-2309

The Women of the Future Awards, founded by Pinky Lilani CBE DL in 2006, provide a platform for the remarkable female talent in the UK.. The Women of the Future Awards, in association wi

The Women of the Future Awards, founded by Pinky Lilani CBE

DL in 2006, provide a platform for the remarkable female talent

in the UK The awards recognise the inspirational stars

of tomorrow across diverse sectors We are honoured to have HRH The Countess of Wessex as our Global Ambassador, Cherie Blair CBE as our WOF Awards patron, and Baroness Gabrielle Bertin as Chair of the Awards judging panel.

The Women of the Future Awards, in association with Aviva, is delighted to announce the shortlist for

2019 The talent featured in this year’s shortlist is phenomenal From a scientist who has made a significant contribution to tuberculosis vaccine development to an ocean advocate and skipper who has already spent a decade tackling plastic pollution, the shortlist places the spotlight on incredible women working in the UK today Whilst nominees come from truly diverse sectors, all candidates work tirelessly to empower others, never afraid to challenge traditional hierarchies and stereotypes in order to effect positive change The winners of the Women of the Future Awards 2019 will be announced on 7th November 2019 at an awards ceremony at the London Hilton, Park Lane.

ARTS & CULTURE

Tobi Kyeremateng, Cultural

Producer, Black Ticket Project

Victoria Longdon, Conductor

Alex Ruhl, Director, Cats are not

Peas

Rachel Sherlock, Photographer

BUSINESS

Agnes Auledas, Structural

Engineer, Atkins

Carol Hamilton, Regional Director,

Compliance and Fraud, EMEA,

GBG

Elizabeth Mills, Managing

Director, Bright Young Things

Diana Moldovan, UKI Cyber

Operations Lead, Aviva

Neha Rajesh, Head of Account

Based Marketing and Partner

Marketing, Temenos

COMMONWEALTH AWARD

Dr Joana Cook, Senior Research

Fellow, The International Centre

for the Study of Radicalisation

(ICSR), King’s College London

Dr Siobhan Gardiner, Global

Sustainable Technology Manager,

Unilever

Chloe Harvey, Director, The

Reef-World Foundation

Chayanika Ranasinghe, MBA

Candidate, Cambridge Judge

Business School

Aditi Sahni, Engagement

Manager, Vivid Economics

COMMUNITY SPIRITS

Monica Karpinski, Founder,

The Femedic

Ameya Kilara, Director, South

Asian Leadership Initiative,

Inter Mediate

Peta Koczy, Staff Skipper,

Ocean Youth Trust South

Emily Penn, Director, eXXpedition

Lucy Watts MBE, Founder,

Palliative Care Voices

CORPORATE

Amazon Barclays DPI Google Liverpool FC Pernod Ricard UK

ENTREPRENEUR

Jacynth Bassett, CEO & Founder,

the-Bias-Cut.com

Rachel and Laura Beattie,

Co-founders, Careaux

Hannah Duraid, Founder,

The Great Escape Game

Chantal Epp, Founder and CEO,

ClicknClear

Sharon Zhaohuachen Wang,

Managing Director, Fly Fu Lai Group

MBA STAR

Amelia Cox, Senior

Commercialisation Manager, Visa

Dahlia Farahat, Investment

Associate, CDC Group

Natasha Lakhani, Senior

Executive, Transaction Advisory Services, EY

Tulsi Parida, MBA Scholar,

University of Oxford

Vijaya Shah, Corporate

Strategist, ArcelorMittal

MEDIA

Rocio Dalton, Marketing Manager,

The Economist

Charlotte Hugh, Senior Creative,

Dark Horses

Lauren Mahon, Founder,

GIRLvsCANCER

Lydia Santis, Corporate

Communications Manager, BT

Soraya Sobh, Head of Creative

Development, MassiveMusic

MENTOR OF THE YEAR

David Benton, Partner & Global

Head of International Capital Markets, Allen & Overy

Deborah Bowman, Deputy

Principal and Professor of Medical Ethics, St George’s University of London

Lesley Gregory, Chairwoman,

Memery Crystal

Vanella Jackson, Global CEO,

Hall & Partners

Thor Maalouf, Counsel, Reed

Smith

Katie Lloyd, Development

Director, BBC News and Current Affairs

PROFESSIONS

Louise Hanthorne, Head of HR,

London Stock Exchange Group

Mala Mawkin, Junior Doctor, NHS Dami Oshowo, Associate, DLA

Piper UK

Alison Picton, Head of Office,

Mayor of London

Victoria Spilkin, Senior Associate,

Reed Smith

REAL ESTATE, INFRASTRUCTURE & CONSTRUCTION

Kerri-Emma Dobson, BREEAM

Marketing Lead, BRE

Stephanie Gnissios, Managing

Director, Open Path Consulting

Weronika Holt, EMEA Client

Solutions Director, CBRE

Ayesha Ofori, CEO & Founder,

PropElle (Network) and the Black Property Network

Dr Samantha Organ, Senior

Building Surveyor / Senior Lecturer in Building Surveying, National Trust/UWE

SCIENCE

Leanne Armitage, Founder &

CEO, The Armitage Foundation

Rebecca Ballantyne, Senior

Technologist, Sellafield

Bridie Evans, Advanced

Technology Engineering Program Manager, GE Aviation Dowty Propellers

Emma Liu, Volcanologist,

University of Cambridge

Rachel Tanner, Postdoctoral

Research Scientist and Lecturer, University of Oxford

SPORT

Asma Elbadawi, Basketball Player Nikki Henderson, Professional

Yachtswoman

Hazel Jackson-Gaona,

Professional Polo Player

Vicky Jepson, 1st Team Manager,

Liverpool FC Women

Georgina Roberts, Athlete &

Coach, British Shooting

TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL

Marianne Breen-Hart, Associate

Director, Accenture

Hannah Hargreaves, Customer

Experience Manager, Openreach

Isabel Lewis, Associate

Technology, Publicis Sapient

Marily Nika Ph.D, Senior Machine

Learning Product Manager, Google

Hattie Smith, Data Scientist, Aviva

YOUNG STAR

Hannah Barker, Founder &

Performer, Events Ever After

Vanessa Madu, Student, Imperial

College London

Khadijah Mellah, Jockey Bethan Owen, Owner & Instructor,

BKA

“To be a part of Women of the Future is important

to me as it allows often underrepresented, invisible

women, to be given a well-deserved platform to

highlight their amazing achievements For me, being

nominated was an honour and winning was validating

and self-affirming I’m looking forward to being a

part of the Women of the Future network and being

amongst powerful and aspirational women who are

making changes, improvements disrupting the norm

of the world around us.”

Titilola Dawudu, winner of the 2018 Mentor of the Year Award

“It is an honour to celebrate some of the most driven women working in Britain today In all professions and industries, these leaders are forging new paths ahead, bursting open the female leadership pipeline and opening our eyes to what is possible if we collaborate and consciously think

of ways to be a part of a bigger conversation They lead with kindness, hard work and courage, inspiring us all and generations to come.”

Pinky Lilani CBE DL, Founder,

Women of the Future Programme

“The Women of the Future Awards uncovers some phenomenally smart, creative women from a range of

industries and professions –

we look forward to continuing

to support and nurture this talent Aviva is delighted to sponsor these awards for their fifth year in London.”

Caroline Prendergast, Interim Chief

People Officer, Aviva

A life changing experience:

The Women of the Future Awards, founded by Pinky

Lilani CBE DL in 2006, were conceived to provide a

platform to strengthen the pipeline of female talent in

the UK Through the Women of the Future Programme

we have built a remarkable, informal community of

collaborative women determined not only to build

professional and personal relationships with one another,

but to be advocates for an exciting new generation of

talent in all fields and industries.

The Women of the Future Programme, enables

opportunities through our Women of the Future Network

and Women of the Future Ambassadors Programme.

Women of the Future Network

An active network of high achieving women bringing members together, to share experiences and build their own networks Our membership of over

1000, continues to grow each year with the inclusion of the Asian Women of Achievement shortlisted candidates and Women of the Future Awards candidates.

WOF Ambassadors programme

Connecting students with role models and strengthening the pipeline of talent among Britain’s younger women

Ambassadors

Programme