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Women and Work APPG

Professional women: Get involved and have your say on the issues that matter to you – Flick Drummond MP, Co-chair of the Women and Work All Party Parliamentary Group

Lynn Hobson - Houses of Parliament

Helping women to get their voices heard in Parliament – Lynn Hobson, Senior Community Outreach and Engagement Officer (North East, Yorkshire and the Humber) for the Houses of Parliament

Portia Dadley - Hansard

On the record in the House of Commons – Portia Dadley, Hansard Sub-Editor

Catching-the-sun

Change happens one person at a time – Soniya Ganvir, Executive Committee Member of Women in Public Affairs

Growing the economy

Why the smart money is on women to keep the economy growing – Fiona Tatton, Womanthology Editor

Sydney

Banking on gender balance: Why diversity in economics equals better decision making – Dr. Luci Ellis, Assistant Governor (Economic) at the Reserve Bank of Australia

Women in STEM

Realising untapped potential of female STEM innovators to power economic growth and why it’s a good thing that “diversity creates dissent” – Tera Allas, Governing Board Member, Innovate UK

How is India using IT to empower its female tech workforce and can the UK learn to do the same? – Parvati Raghuram, Professor of Geography and Migration at the Open University

Arnold Clark apprentice

Why it makes economic sense to drive diversity in the automotive sector by attracting and retaining the brightest female talent – Lynne McBurney, Arnold Clark Group HR Manager

Feet climbing stairs

Becoming an economist to help societies manage scarcity and to champion social mobility – Professor Anna Vignoles, Economist in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge

Jigsaw

Why job-sharing is a two brainer: Two sets of accumulated experience, and the more productive halves of two people’s weeks for the price of one – Mary Starks, Director of Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority

University lecture

Women in economics are in short supply so we need to demand a change of culture – Dr. Paola Subacchi, Director of the International Economics Department at Chatham House

Leaving the City in order to share my love of economics with the next generation of female talent – Alison Matthews, City Economist turned teacher

Light bulb

Diversity of thought in economics: Why there’s never been a better time for women to contribute their ideas – Yael Selfin, KPMG’s Head of Macroeconomics in the UK

Road

Challenging gender stereotypes in economics and informing decision making in transport – Emma Campbell, Head of Environment and International Transport Analysis at the Department for Transport

EU and Union flags

Why times of unparalleled economic and political change are also times of immense opportunity – Julia Harrison, Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting

Millennium Bridge London

If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: Why positive female role models are vital in economics – Jennifer McKeown, Chief European Economist at Capital Economics