Julia Gillard is the only woman to serve as Australia’s Prime Minister and received worldwide attention for her speech in Parliament on the treatment of women in professional and public life. She is the Inaugural Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College, London, working towards a world in which women of all backgrounds have fair and equal access to leadership.

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Julia Gillard’s career has been dedicated to improving access to quality education and healthcare, and empowering women to take up positions of leadership across all areas of society. She has written two books about women in leadership and a life in public service, as the first woman to serve as Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister in Australia.  Julia is Patron of the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED). She is the Inaugural Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London and Chair of Beyond Blue, a mental health charity in Australia. In 2017, she was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia for services to economic and social development in Australia. She was named one of BBC’s 100 Women in 2018.  Julia hosts a podcast about the lives and stories of global leaders – both women and men – from business, media, sports and politics. Her memoir My Story was published in 2014 and in 2020, she published her second book, Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons, which she co-authored with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. 

Cianne Jones is a committed Gender Equality Advocate, Lawyer and Guest Lecturer on Gender and International Human Rights at Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Cianne is currently a PhD candidate at UCL researching policing of black communities with a specific focus on violence against women and girls and the metropolitan police force. Cianne is the Founder of Women in Leadership, a grassroots, female led, feminist organisation in Uganda that is tackling inequality and supporting rural women and girls to access their human rights. 

Raakhi Shah has over 17 years’ experience in international development having worked at Unicef UK and Oxfam covering fundraising, communications, advocacy and campaign initiatives. She has worked with high-level supporters to lobby for change at the G8, G20, Downing Street and African Union, and has led over 30 field visits including to Bangladesh, Lebanon, Jordan, Philippines, Pakistan, India, Malawi and more, bringing the voices of those with lived experience to the forefront. She is also a trustee for Reclaim, a youth leadership and social change organisation in the UK. 

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