Women of the Future Podcast

Peter Brown is Price Waterhouse Coopers’ Global People and Organisation Leader, managing operations across 157 countries with a workforce practice of over 10,500 professionals. He joined PwC UK as a partner in September 2010 having previously held senior roles at large professional services organisations. With over 25 years’ experience as a Workforce and HR transformation expert, Peter is committe...

**WELCOME TO THE 2024 SEASON!!**  Tanya Patel is a CEO with a greater purpose. Founder of both a sustainable womenswear brand Chapter. London , as well as the specialist maternity and nursing brand Lily and Ribbon , Tanya has combined her business acumen with a passion for creative fashion solutions. Her clothing range has featured everywhere from The Independent, as one of their best maternity je...

Pritha Mehra is Chief Information Officer at the United States Postal Service, describing the role as a ‘privilege to oversee one of the world’s largest and most critical technology infrastructures’. Throughout her near 34-year career with the organisation, Pritha has honed a breadth and depth of expertise across a range of verticals, from marketing to technology, and is frequently asked to stewar...

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is a behavioural scientist whose work is motivated by the need for clear, credible, science communication to urgently and proactively manage the risks that threaten human security and well-being, encompassing everything from climate change to COVID-19. Sweta brings a unique blend of academic, as well as public and private sector expertise, as a communicator and consultant, me...

Dr. Swati Piramal has used her background in medicine, public health and business to change the trajectory of healthcare, education, and public policy in India. She is one of India’s leading scientists and industrialists and is involved in public health and innovation.  Dr. Piramal is also a Director of Piramal Enterprises, one of the leading Indian multinational companies in Healthcare, Financial...

In 2008 Polly Harrar identified a gap in service provision for women who have been, or are at risk of being disowned, and who require long term support towards leading a successful independent life without fear, as a result she set up The Sharan Project : a specialist charity that supports South Asian women affected by abuse or persecution. Amongst her many accolades, Polly is an Associate at the...

Zainab Alema, aka Zee, aka The Bulldozer, is a neonatal nurse by profession and a rugby player by passion. Zainab has been playing rugby for over a decade and as a black, Muslim, mother-of-three, is passionate about getting more people from diverse backgrounds into rugby. Her determination, commitment and love for the sport, has also led Zainab to start ‘Studs in the Mud’, her project supporting g...

Harleen Deol is a consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon for the East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.  She has worked in the NHS for 26 years, as a breast reconstruction surgeon; a supervisor for trainee surgeons; and an advisor, chair and member of numerous committees. Harleen has dedicated her time to championing technological innovations that prioritise patient benefits as well as save cost...

Anila Dhami is an award-winning presenter and journalist who has worked for some of the UK’s biggest media companies for nearly a decade. Currently, she freelances as a presenter and reporter for ITV News, C5 News, and LBC. Unabashedly confident, calm and certainly compelling, Anila has adeptly utilised her professional approach to host live debates on hard-hitting topical issues, interview a dive...

Josephine Lee  is the Corporate Real Estate Lead across Asia Pacific for Cummins, a company which prides itself as a ‘global power technology leader’. Previously as Regional Business Development Director for Asia-Pacific at Knight Frank in Singapore, Josephine managed corporate clients across multiple geographies. With vast experience in the real estate sector, Josephine has won market-defining ma...

Carlotta Zorzi has an enormous amount of strings to her bow. An award-winning, bilingual English and Italian Non-Executive Director and consultant, she has vast experience working with tech start-ups and large blue chip companies.   With over a decade of experience within the media, advertising and tech space, Carlotta is a huge advocate for building connections and paying it forwards. A tech care...

We have a very special #WorldKindnessDay collaboration for you for this weeks’ Women of the Future podcast. We’ve joined up with the wonderful people @teamkind2 (Twitter) and @teamkinduk (Instagram) for KindFest 2022 - the global virtual kindness festival featuring politicians, performers, broadcasters, authors, entrepreneurs and policy makers, now in its third year and advocating for radical #kin...

A Turkish citizen, born in Vienna, Burcin Ressamoglu is an experienced Executive Leader with a passion for gender equality and advocating women's leadership in organisations.   Burcin started her career in marketing with STFA Ogden Services, moving to Siemens, and then joining Philips Electronics for 14 years where she undertook several senior management positions across various European countries...

Activist, writer and speaker, Sangeeta Pillai, is the founder of the South Asian feminist network, Soul Sutras , which is all about tackling taboos within the culture. She’s the creator of the Spotify award-winning ‘ Masala Podcast ’; the show for South Asian women deals with sex, sexuality, shame, periods and much, much more. Sangeeta is also the creator of  the Masala Monologues series of writin...

Caroline Williams is Director of Open Executive Education at Saïd Business School, part of the University of Oxford. She is responsible for the vision and success of their Open Executive Education (OEE) portfolio. Under Caroline’s leadership, OEE is ranked second in the world for quality of executive education by the Financial Times, earning first place in the UK for six consecutive years. Carolin...

Toni Thorne lives by the motto: ‘Be true to yourself’, and as an entrepreneur who started her first business aged 7, it’s certainly a notion that is working incredibly well for her.   The epitome of the ‘multi-hyphen’ career, Toni has been a consultant to both public and private sector entities in her native Barbados, and at 18 was the first Black or Caribbean person to sit on the Global Youth Lea...

Anna Sheppard is an inspirational keynote speaker and the founder and CEO of Bambuddha Group , a social enterprise and community for dedicated learners who want to make an exceptional impact through leadership in business. From humble beginnings, Anna spent most of her childhood fighting prejudice, and entered the care system for a short time before braving the world alone at the young age of 16....

Born and bred in Birmingham, Kalbir Bains is the author of ‘NOT our daughter! The true story of a daughter-in-law.’ A narrative of marriage within a South Asian community, it tells the story of ‘Harleen’ who is trying to settle into her marriage and the challenges faced in doing so.    Reflective of Kalbir’s own personal journey, her story is made all the more remarkable as a dyslexia diagnosis me...

This week we’re bringing you a very special episode of the ‘Women of the Future’ podcast, highlighting the Programme’s ‘Women in ESG: 50 Stars Changing the World’ campaign.   Seeking to acknowledge and celebrate talented female trailblazers and role models, aged 35 and under, who are at the forefront of Environmental, Social and Governance from around the world; each year, the campaign will showca...

Currently Head of Products for Visa across Continental Europe, Patricia Brolly has over 20 years’ experience in delivering large scale programmes as well as revenue, across multiple geographies and business functions.  With immensely strong sales, product, customer service, operations, marketing, business transformation and P&L experience, Patricia has a passion for building high performing teams,...

Sophie Alexander is an award-winning producer, and occasional powerlifter, currently working in International Affairs for Sky News.   In her previous role at ITV News, Sophie was a part of the only broadcast crew in the world to follow rioters into the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. on January 6th 2021 – for which she and the team, including US correspondent Robert Moore and camera operator M...

A Superintendent with the Metropolitan Police, Rhona Hunt is passionate about public service and deeply committed to driving positive change in policing. Determined to ensure communities are at the heart of the service and that people are treated with compassion, dignity and respect, Rhona was the recipient of a Women of the Future Award in the Professions category in 2021.   ---------------------...

In celebration of the Oscars this weekend, we have Bibi Lucille on the Women of the Future podcast. Bibi is an award-winning actress of stage and screen including leading roles in the TV series ‘Purgatory’ and the Amazon Prime drama ‘Trust’. Bibi was nominated for the Pastel Film Festival's Best Actress in 2019 with the film 'All Inclusive', received the Starnow ‘Rising Star’ Award and was the rec...

Duncan Hewett is an industry champion for the representation of women in business and technology. Focused on achieving actionable results for gender diversity in the workplace, he has consistently driven acceleration for women across leadership levels. In the past Duncan led VMware's business in Asia Pacific & Japan, and has left quite a legacy behind. In 2018, Duncan launched VMinclusion Taara, a...

Wafa Jafri is a Partner at KPMG’s Energy Practice and leads for the Energy & Mobility Deals Strategy team. Her entire career has been spent working on the energy transition and decarbonisation: starting her career at RWE where she worked to enable the energy transition across the value chain for the company helping the transition from coal to gas. Wafa then moved to UK Government to advise on the...