Aarti Joshi is a Tax Director at a leading UK-listed FinTech company based in the City of London that provides finance to small and medium-sized enterprises. She has held senior tax roles at large-cap Technology and Media companies and at start-ups and her expertise is on the taxation of fast-growing digital businesses. She has advised… View Article
Bruce Buckland is an RIBA Chartered Architect, SME Property Developer, and podcaster. He runs his own architectural practice, Buckland Architects, based in rural Hampshire, primarily working in the super-prime residential sector. He also runs a podcast called ‘Theory of Architecture’, which is a series of in-depth conversations with architects and academics about architecture and the… View Article
Deema Khunda leads the safety studies and risk assessments program at Europe’s largest liquified natural gas terminal in Kent, a critical national infrastructure site with the capacity to supply 25% of UK’s gas demand. Prior to her current post, Deema held various energy roles within fortune 500 companies including Cummins and ConocoPhillips, and Siemens as… View Article
Tom Beardsworth is a barrister at 2 Hare Court Chambers. He prosecutes and defends serious crime and works in related fields such as professional discipline, asset forfeiture, and public inquiries. He has advised the government on various aspects of criminal law and procedure. He has a developing interest in the exercise of investigative powers and… View Article
Barnaby Spink is a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group, one of the leading global management consultancy firms. Since joining BCG in 2022, he has worked across industries including Consumer, Energy and Industrial Goods. Barnaby is a core member of the firm’s Corporate Finance & Strategy practice area, part of the business focussed on helping clients… View Article
Harry Gillow is a barrister at Monckton Chambers, practising in public and commercial law. He has appeared in a wide range of courts and tribunals, including on a number of key cases on the interpretation of assimilated EU law post-Brexit. He has worked on secondment at the Bank of England assisting with issues around Brexit… View Article
Maria Higson is a Director of Transformation in the NHS and is keenly interested in the future of health and social care. Her work has spanned a variety of programmes, most notably in the introduction of ‘group’ models into the NHS to achieve the benefits of scale demonstrated by large companies. Maria recently gained a… View Article
Fabio Richter is the founder of the Hot Meal Challenge, a charity fundraising platform tackling food insecurity in the United Kingdom. He is an internationally published writer covering economics, technology and culture in The Toronto Star, The South China Morning Post, Inc. Magazine, and Investment Monitor. Fabio holds degrees from the London School of Economics… View Article
Jack Simpson is a senior associate within the corporate finance arm of a professional services firm. He is based in Belfast, providing M&A advice to businesses in the Industrial Products & Services sector. Jack is a qualified chartered accountant with a background in auditing private and publicly listed companies. In 2018, he graduated from the… View Article
Jamie is an English venture capitalist investing in UK-based, early-stage technology businesses. He is currently an Investment Manager at Committed Capital and previously worked for the Asia-based conglomerate, Jardine Matheson, where he spent 7 years starting, growing, and acquiring businesses across Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. He hopes to use the Thatcher Fellowship to bridge… View Article
Laurence has worked for ten years in the international energy and commodities trading sector, where he’s witnessed first-hand the importance of open, free markets to economic growth, and the paramount need for business goals to be supported by responsible, well-aligned, and unencumbering regulation. He currently helps run a traditional refinery, targeting the sourcing of sustainable… View Article
As I approach almost a decade in the City, I have seen first hand the power of private enterprise in solving some of the world’s largest societal and environmental challenges. My work in sustainable finance gives me a unique perspective into this, and how business can be a force for good. And while Britain was… View Article
Tim is an accomplished financial services expert with over 15 years at Morgan Stanley, where he held senior roles in Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets, advising institutions through complex market shifts. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, with early experience at PwC, he now leads a consultancy helping firms… View Article
