Postponed | Business Ethics and Sustainability

6.30pm

Welcome

6:45pm

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Panel:

Alexander Woollcombe, Head of Campaigns, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

2004 MA History

Alexander Woollcombe leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Campaigns and Strategic Partnerships team. He has 10 years of experience in EU, UK and Australian Government Relations at the Gates Foundation, Bono’s ONE campaign and Oxfam. Zander has also worked for Oxfam in Ethiopia and Senegal. Prior to that, Zander worked for the Conservative Party, the EU and the charity his parents’ founded, Peace Child International, in West Africa, Brussels, India and Peru. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in History in 2004.

Shelly-Ann Gajadhar, Co-Founder of OneMemoir

2015 MSc International Business and Emerging Markets

Shelly-Ann is an attorney and business entrepreneur of a sustainable fashion startup founded in Edinburgh, Scotland. During her time as an attorney she worked as a State prosecutor advising on law enforcement and the ethics of prosecution and later went on to pursue her Masters in International Business and Emerging Markets. During the latter part of her program, One Memoir was founded with a German classmate which focusses on upcycled fashion and creating economic opportunity for emerging designers. The company’s first collection was upcycled by designers from the developing country of Trinidad and Tobago and the collection was launched in August in Edinburgh, Scotland. It’s second collection of upcycled pieces will be undertaken by Scottish designers nationwide always putting transparency and sustainability at the forefront of the production process.

Amelia Whitelaw, Executive Director of Global Outreach, London Business School

2011 MBA

Amelia heads up a new department at London Business School, Global Outreach, that brings together global elements of LBS, namely relationships with business, student recruitment, and exposure of students to dynamic experiences.  Amelia created, developed and delivered the first Global Business Experiences portfolio for the MBA 2013 class; and has since been responsible for the leadership of the GBE portfolio. In collaboration with senior faculty and colleagues across the School she has developed a portfolio of programmes in Boston/New York, Johannesburg, Mumbai/Pune/Aurangabad, Hong Kong/Shenzhen, Istanbul,  Tel Aviv/Jerusalem and Lima for second year MBA students; and the UAE Global Business Assignment for the Leadership Programmes.

Prior to LBS, Amelia graduated from The University of Edinburgh Business School with an MBA with Distinction. Prior to her MBA, Amelia held the position of Deputy Director, International Strategy and Alliances at The Australian National University (ANU) where she provided policy support to the Vice Chancellor (President) and other senior executives of the ANU in relation to its identifying and pursuing global strategic opportunities. As Director IARU, she developed the management frameworks for the secretariat of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), established in 2005, between the world’s ten leading research universities (UC Berkeley, Yale, NUS, Beida, Todai, University of Copenhagen, ETH Zurich, Oxford, Cambridge and ANU).

7:45pm

Networking

9:00pm

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