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Helena has worked in financial services for over three decades, originally as a fixed income fund manager. She was CEO of Newton Investment Management for 15 years and Chair of the Investment Association from 2014-17. Helena now chairs Fidelis, a specialist insurance company and the Altum Group, which offers fund services to family offices and corporates. She is a Fellow at Eton College, and chairs Eton’s Endowment Committee.

Helena is well known for her work on inclusion and diversity. In 2010, she founded the 30% Club, a campaign for better gender-balanced boards. Since then, the representation of women on FTSE350 boards has risen from less than 10% to over 40%. There are now twenty 30% Clubs globally. Helena chairs the Diversity Project, aimed at improving diversity across all dimensions in the investment industry. She has spearheaded a new ‘Pathway’ programme to create more female fund managers, the first of its kind worldwide.

Helena entered the House of Lords in September 2020 and was appointed a Dame in 2017 for her work on diversity in financial services. She was named the FT’s ‘Person of the Year’ at its 2017 ‘Boldness in Business’ awards.

Harbir is currently the Global HR Business Partner for Biopharmaceutical R&D function of AstraZeneca. He has more than 16 years of experience in varied HR leadership roles at Deloitte and AstraZeneca across multiple countries (UK, Singapore and India), post MBA with specialization in HR from XLRI Jamshedpur.

In his previous role of HR Business Partner at AstraZeneca UK, he partnered with senior leaders responsible for $600+ million business. He was also deployed to Singapore as the Talent and Inclusion Lead for AstraZeneca Singapore. He has also held the role as interim HR-Head of the AstraZeneca India factory.

In his previous stint at Deloitte he’s led a team of 15 HR professionals, as the Talent leader for one out of the five business-units of Deloitte.

He has been a keynote speaker at HR Next Generation Summit at Croatia in 2024, a speaker at the Connect-HR Leadership Summit at London in 2023, and also at Annual HR Conclave of IOCL in 2015. He is passionate about making an impact to the lives of people around him.

David holds a Graduate Diploma in Law, an M.A. from Oxford, and is a qualified Data Protection Professional with ISEB qualifications in Data Protection and Freedom of Information. He is also an IAPP Certified Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional. As AI Sector Lead, David advises clients on deploying AI systems and compliance with global regulations, notably the EU AI Act.

David has more than a decade’s experience in implementing and monitoring data protection compliance in the healthcare sector, Government, and private sectors.

Vanessa is a Lead Data Manager at the BBC and Co-Chair of the Women in STEM staff network; with a background in Linguistics and Information Management, her career has spanned from content discovery and recommendation systems to analytics and data management. At the BBC, she has been able to marry together her experience and passion for data in both her day job looking after data quality and her involvement with WiSTEM and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion data.

Miranda Sharp works with people to solve data problems and focuses on creating and capturing sustainable value from the sharing of data.

She is part of the DfT College of Experts, a trustee to the Centre for Cities think tank and advises clients on financially resilient and well governed ways of sharing data.    Miranda has also acted as a NED at TRL (the Transport Research Laboratory), secondee to DSIT on the value of data policy, and worked with the National Digital Twin programme, Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail on data as infrastructure.

For over 20 years she has been an independent facilitator supporting people and teams from diverse sectors through the Windsor Leadership Trust.

Rebecca joined local government in 2020 at Bristol City Council. She has worked across the public, private and non-governmental sectors as well as doing a range of consultancy and coaching work. She has set-up gender networks within Central Government and across the European diplomatic services and was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to gender equality in the workplace. As well as equalities work she has a background in international affairs and diplomacy, sustainability and climate change and studied at postgraduate level at the School of Oriental & African Studies.

Helena has worked in financial services for over three decades, originally as a fixed income fund manager. She was CEO of Newton Investment Management for 15 years and Chair of the Investment Association from 2014-17. Helena now chairs Fidelis, a specialist insurance company and the Altum Group, which offers fund services to family offices and corporates. She is a Fellow at Eton College, and chairs Eton’s Endowment Committee.

Helena is well known for her work on inclusion and diversity. In 2010, she founded the 30% Club, a campaign for better gender-balanced boards. Since then, the representation of women on FTSE350 boards has risen from less than 10% to over 40%. There are now twenty 30% Clubs globally. Helena chairs the Diversity Project, aimed at improving diversity across all dimensions in the investment industry. She has spearheaded a new ‘Pathway’ programme to create more female fund managers, the first of its kind worldwide.

Helena entered the House of Lords in September 2020 and was appointed a Dame in 2017 for her work on diversity in financial services. She was named the FT’s ‘Person of the Year’ at its 2017 ‘Boldness in Business’ awards.