Speakers

View our best in class line-up of world’s leading experts, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and advocates; read their biographies; download their presentation slides; and watch on demand their presentation videos.


  • Alison Johns
    Chief Executive, Advance HE, UK

  • Sarah Dickinson-Hyams
    Assistant Director – International Charters, Advance HE, UK

  • Tom Welton
    President, Royal Society of Chemistry & Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK

  • Pavel Ovseiko
    Principal Investigator & Senior Research Fellow, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

  • Anne Pépin
    Senior Policy Officer, Gender Sector, Unit Democracy and European values, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission, Belgium

  • Karine Morin
    Director, Policy and Interagency Affairs, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Dimensions: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Canada

  • Gillian Cowell
    Global Lead, Gender & Inclusion, British Council, UK

  • Ross Woods
    Senior Manager, Centre of Excellence for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Higher Education Authority, Ireland

  • Travis York
    Director, Inclusive STEMM Ecosystems for Equity & Diversity, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA

  • Wafa El-Adhami
    Chief Executive, Science in Australia Gender Equity Ltd (SAGE), Australia

  • Nisha Mendiratta
    Head & Advisor/Scientist ‘G’, WISE-KIRAN Division, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

  • Nathalie Podeszfinski
    Project Manager for the implementation of Dimensions: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Canada,
    Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada


  • Beth Ruedi
    Associate Program Director, Inclusive STEMM Ecosystems for Equity and Diversity (ISEED), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA

  • Jenna Ardagh
    Program Manager – Athena Swan, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia

  • Maxine Carter
    Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer, Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology, Canada

  • Vanessa McKean
    Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager, Institute of Cancer Research, UK

  • Deirdre Ní Eidhin
    Senior Technical Officer, Department of Physics, University of Limerick, Ireland

  • Laura Richards
    Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Research Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, UK

  • Darla Thompson
    Project Director, SEA Change Biomedicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA

  • Dani Glazzard
    Head of Athena Swan UK

  • Sarah Fink
    Head of Athena Swan Ireland (Acting), Ireland

  • Arun Verma
    Head of Race Equality Charter UK

  • Eleanor McDavis
    Founding Chair, Russell Group Athena Swan Practitioners’ Working Group; EDI Manager, Queen Mary University of London, UK

  • Jennifer Chapin
    Gender Equality and Athena Swan Policy Adviser, University of Oxford, UK

  • Claire Hann
    EDI Knowledge Hub Co-ordinator, University of Oxford, UK

  • Kevin Coutinho
    Athena Swan Manager, University College London (UCL), UK

  • Daisy Hung
    EDI Manager, Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division & Race Equality Task Force Programme Manager, University of Oxford, UK

  • Emma Taylor-Steeds
    Head of Diversity and Inclusion, UKRI Innovate UK KTN, UK

  • Polly Williams
    Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK

  • Jessica Kitsell
    EDI Consultant, Jessica Kitsell Consulting, UK

  • David Bass
    Interim Associate Director for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Advance HE, UK

  • Louise Bryant
    Professor of Psychological and Social Medicine, University of Leeds, UK

  • Alvin Leung
    Monitoring and Evaluation Co-ordinator, University of Oxford, UK

  • Helen Mott
    Consultant, British Council, UK

  • Charoula Tzanakou
    Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Oxford Brookes University, UK

  • Nicole Lotz
    Senior Lecturer in Design, Open University, UK

  • Angie Makri
    Teaching Associate, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK

  • Claudia Wascher
    Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

  • Claire Donovan
    Research Professor of Higher Education, Deputy Head (Research and Knowledge Exchange) School of Education, University of Greenwich, UK

  • Lorna Henderson
    Senior Manager and Deputy to the Chief Operating Officer, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), UK