Programme:
4.15pm
Tea – Informal welcome over tea and cake

5.00 – 6.00pm
Panel discussion with Keble alumnae reflecting on the opportunities and challenges faced as women in their respective fields

Chair:
Dr Sabrina Martin, Equality and Diversity Fellow and Politics Tutor at Keble

Members of the panel:
Kate Varah (Theology 1994) Executive Director of National Theatre

Ruth Herbert (Physics 1998) Managing Director, Business Development & Strategic Initiatives, Essar Energy Transition

Rehana Azib KC (Jurisprudence 1998) Head of Employment Law at 2 Temple Gardens

Hannah Gladman (Biological Sciences 2011) Strategy Principal in the Office of the CEO at Google DeepMind

All are very welcome. Alumni (guests), current Keble students from the JCR and MCR, and College staff are invited to join the audience. This is an open session and free of charge.

Afternoon programme will be followed by dinner in Hall for women only:

6.00 – 6.45pm
Drinks reception – an opportunity for networking with alumnae and female students from the JCR and MCR, female members of the College academic and non-academic staff.

7.00pm
Dinner in Hall with alumnae (and a female guest) presided by the first female Warden Prof Dame Averil Cameron with guest speaker Zina Etheridge (Modern History 1990). Current female students, female members of the College academic and non-academic staff are very welcome (dress: smart, not black tie)

Zina Etheridge has been Chief Executive of NHS North East London which is the integrated care system for east and north east London. Zina was previously the Chief Executive of the London Borough of Haringey (since 2017) and was chair of the London Council’s Chief Executives network. In the latter position she co-ordinated many aspects of the local government response to Covid-19 across the Capital. Before joining Haringey as Deputy Chief Executive in 2013 she was a senior civil servant in a number of roles in Government including as Executive Director of Civil Service reform in the Cabinet office, and in senior roles in the Home Office and department covering science and higher and further education.

9.30pm
Drinks in the Keble bar

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