Jasmine Birtles is a TV personality, ‘money guru’, speaker, journalist, author of 38 books and founder of consumer website MoneyMagpie.com.

A regular commentator on money matters on TV and radio, she appears on BBC TV, ITV News, Sky News, BBC Radio 4 and 5. She is also a personal finance, property, fintech and lifestyle contributor for The Mail on Sunday, The Telegraph and The Mirror and has a monthly column in Moneywise and Platinum magazines.

Jasmine is Patron of the charities Fair for You and Community Money Advice.

See her website www.jasminebirtles.com and follow Twitter @jasmine and Instagram @jasminebirtles

Juliette Foster is a journalist and founder of the media services company Magnus Communications with over 30 years-experience in news and current affairs.

Juliette has worked for some of the leading names in broadcasting including Sky News, Bloomberg Radio & Business Television and BBC World Service Television.  

As a conference moderator, Juliette has worked with many high-level organisations including The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation & Development (OECD), PWC, Swift International Banking Operations Seminar (SIBOS) and King Salman Relief.

Juliette is a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce) and a trustee of The Big Issue Foundation.

Bukola is a senior Governance, Risk and Controls experts who has held leadership roles in global organisations such as HSBC, RBS, JP Morgan and Deloitte.

Bukola is also the founder/CEO of Career Masterclass which is a platform dedicated to enabling the progression of Black and Minority Ethnics (BAME) professionals in the workplace. Through webinars, live events and the annual STRETCH conference, Bukola teaches practical career tips to a varied BAME audience which has resulted in tangible career progress for the participants.

She was recently listed in the 2020 PowerList which celebrates the achievements of senior professionals from an African background.

Hira Ali, CEO of Advancing Your Potential and Managing Director of International Women Empowerment Events is a multi-faceted career coach. Her leadership articles have been published in Huff Post, Thrive Global, Women @ Forbes, Ellevate Network and many more. Her podcast, 8 Minutes of Learning With Hira Ali, featured as one of Huff Post’s top 100 rising podcasts.

Her recent book ‘Her Way to the Top: The Glass Ceiling is Thicker Than It Looks’ has earned reviews from global influencers like Cherie Blair and Ziauddin Yousafzai (Malala’s dad) and received a letter of appreciation from the London Mayor.

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Sonya Barlow is the founder of Like Minded Females – an inclusive social enterprise and a diversity consultancy – as well as a TEDxSpeaker and public speaker. Sonya has been recognised as a Rising Star (2017); UK Tech Business Woman of the Year Finalist (2018) and Winner of Pitchfanzine (2019).  Her efforts have led her to lead global workshops on topics of business, diversity, entrepreneurship, finance, personal growth and branding. She is passionate about encouraging inclusive cultures, educating on life skills and enabling people to achieve success. Her Ted Talk is now on YouTube titled “Failures come before Resilience”.

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JP Dallmann is a Sustainable & Impact Investing (S&II) champion, advocate and thought leader. JP is the CEO of ILA & Partners, helping Investment Managers to transition into Sustainable & Impact Investing. 

JP also supports various initiatives to help scale S&II and raise awareness about the SDGs. These include the renowned IMPACT LEADERS podcast, participating as host and panelist at relevant events, and partnering with major organsisations to push this important agenda.

Connect with JP via LinkedIn at bit.ly/JPDLinkedIn

Trisha de Borchgrave is a freelance writer based in London. She writes on current affairs and culture and her work has been widely published by online and print publications, including HuffPost, Chatham House’s “The World Today”, Vogue UK, Tortoise Media, Arab News, ABS Spain, The World Weekly and The Big Smoke Australia. She is a senior associate at Global Women Leaders Strategic Philanthropy and regularly chairs panel discussions on philanthropy, entrepreneurship, the development and humanitarian sectors, digital, gender and art.

Anne Marie is Managing Director, Marketable Assets at Cambridge University Endowment Fund. She previously spent 12 years as a Portfolio Manager with GIC (London), a sovereign wealth fund. Prior to this, she was a Vice-President at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and began her career at Deloitte. She is a co-founder of GAIN (Girls Are Investors) and is an Ambassador to the Diversity Project.

Fiona is a Partner at Addleshaw Goddard specialising in complex Commercial, Technology, Payment and FinTech arrangements. Her practice focuses on guiding clients through large scale disruption, business transformation and strategic risk management, particularly in the intersection between regulation and technology. Fiona is one of The Lawyer’s 2020 Hot 100 recognising her contribution in these fields.

Her expertise also includes outsourcing and other complex commercial arrangements.  She leads in strategic advisory work, multi-jurisdictional business process outsourcings (back and middle office) platform integration, facilities management and global administrative services for multinational corporations, banks, asset managers and global insurers. 

Kimberly Gire is the Founder of Global Women Leaders Strategic Philanthropy and the Chair of the Centre for Global Equality at Cambridge. A career banking and finance senior executive, she was previously the CFO for the retail, business and private banking divisions of Westpac Banking Corporation and has worked extensively in the international capital markets with Citi. Kimberly donates her professional skills and experience in capital markets, treasury, structured finance and philanthropy to support humanitarian and development and organisations, including as a pro bono Special Advisor to the World Bank, the Centre for Disaster Protection, and the Education Outcomes Fund.

Kathryn is Chair, London Chapter, Professional Risk Managers’ Association and Chair, Risk, Audit and Evaluation Committee of the Microbiology Society. Previously, at RBS, she led a team reviewing customer complaints. Earlier, she had been Head of Enterprise Risk Reporting. She joined RBS from Moody’s Investors Service, where she had held roles in the UK, the US and Singapore. She founded and managed The Paradigm Alliance, a consultancy based in Australia. Kathryn began her career at The Chase Manhattan Bank. Kathryn was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Fez, Morocco. Kathryn holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College and Georgetown University.

Vanessa is a Mathematics student at Imperial College London. She is also the founder of the STEM engagement careers platform ProjectInsight and co-founder of the Hello World hackathon hosted by Imperial to engage young girls into technology. For her work to inspire more young women to take up STEM subjects, she was awarded the Women of the Future Young Star Award 2019 and is one of the finalists for the Booking.com Technology Playmaker Awards 2020.

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Meghna Mukerjee is a senior analyst, wealth management, at Aite Group researching market trends as well as regulatory and digital shifts impacting wealth managers and private banks across Europe and the Asia-Pacific. She focuses on digital transformation, segmentation, and international regulations. Ms. Mukerjee was previously the global editor of Private Banker International magazine, leading a team and covering a variety of topics, such as client experience, client and advisor insight, strategic due diligence. Having lived in Singapore, India and the U.K, and worked for different national broadsheets, she has published work across titles including the New Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, and Hindustan Times.

Michele Poole has 20 years of experience in the digital, payments and financial services space for B2C and B2B. She has executive leadership experience with Canada’s financial institutions (CIBC & National Bank), Fintech experience as Chief Customer Officer at Buckzy Payments (where she helped to build and launch a real time cross border payments ecosystem) and management consulting experience (MJPoole Payments Consulting & PwC). Currently, her client roster includes one of Canada’s key payment networks (Interac Corp) as well as multiple Fintechs where she is very active in her Advisory roles. She is an engaging conference speaker and mentor.

Deborah Somorin ACA – Chartered Accountant and Social Entrepreneur.

In 2018, after completing her accounting exams, Deborah founded a not for profit called Empower the Family (ETF). ETF plan to open student accommodation, in Dublin, with onsite quality childcare for single parents between 18-23 attending university. This social enterprise will support Ireland’s commitment to accomplishing 10 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Deborah’s work in this area earned her a spot on the prestigious 2020 Forbes 30 under 30 list alongside activists like Greta Thunberg. ETF was the only female-led organisation in Ireland to make the list in 2020.

Mahek Vara is a final year undergraduate student at Durham University in United Kingdom majoring in Computer Science and minors in Mathematics, Business and Economics. She has also gained invaluable experience in founding an award-winning charity, Code Camp which has helped reach thousands of young people in India and taught them how to code. She has gained work experience at Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, BNP Paribas and will be a Summer Analyst at Morgan Stanley in their Investment Banking Division. She is interested in how technology, finance and social impact can be linked to make a difference in the world. 

Caroline is Head of Innovate Finance’s Commercial and Business Development where she engages leading firms in the FinTech space including emerging sub-sectors such as Asset Management, Big Tech and Insurance as well as managing engagement for institutional and high growth members, consulting them on their innovation process and connecting them with the wider FinTech ecosystem of startups, capital, policymakers, press and influencers. She formally ran Innovate Finance’s Partner Relation programme, managing the strategic partnership network which included relationships with the global venture capital community, consultants and legal firms. Caroline has more than a decade of experience in the financial and technology sector having spent 10 years at Bloomberg working across the firm, including the EMEA Corporate Communications team and Terminal Sales business in both New York and London.  

Matthew Williamson is the Vice President of Global Financial Services at Mobiquity. 

 Matthew’s career demonstrates his expertise in cashless societies and the future of payments. During his time at Travelex, he won a Sibos innovation of the year for the Geo Payments Network. He was later appointed as Citi Bank’s EMEA Head of Commercial Prepaid Card Technology.  

 Following this, Matthew was instrumental in the merger of Misys into Finastra, leading a successful hyper-growth strategy as the Global Head of Payments and Cash, before working with FORM3, an international payments scale-up, as its Director of Customer Success. 

Basak joined Goldman Sachs in 2011. She is co-head of Emerging Markets Equities and a portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Equity Fund. Prior to that, she was head of Latin America and EMEA Equities with primary research responsibility for the consumer and energy sectors.

Before joining Goldman Sachs, Basak worked at HSBC Asset Management as a portfolio manager for frontier markets, covering Asia and Eastern Europe. Earlier in her career, she was a research analyst at Alliance Bernstein.

Basak earned BA (Hons) in Economics and BA (Hons) Management degrees from Bosphorus University in Turkey.