Open Door, Open City is a webinar series from The Inclusion Initiative at the LSE hosted by Karina Robinson. In this webinar series, Karina typically interviews a single guest - often leaders of business in London—on the benefits of bringing behavioural science and data science together to create more inclusive cultures at the organisation level.
Catch up on the webinars in our series so far
2021
Karina Robinson in conversation with Poppy Jaman OBE
Event hosted by TII on 10 March 2021
Poppy Jaman OBE (@poppyjaman) is a global voice of authority on workplace mental health, CEO of the City Mental Health Alliance, Director at Re=Balance and Trustee at the Centre for Mental Health. In 2018, Poppy was awarded an OBE in recognition of her services to people with mental health issues and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gloucestershire. In 2019 she won Woman of The Year at the GG2 Culture & Diversity Leadership Awards and was named a Game Changer in the FT women of 2019 list. Poppy also founded Mental Health First Aid England and served two terms on the PHE Advisory Board.
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Karina Robinson in conversation with Tom Ilube CBE
Event hosted by TII in association with The Entrepreneurs Network, on 17 February 2021
Tom Ilube CBE (@tomilube) is CEO and founder of London based Crossword Cybersecurity plc, a Non Executive Director of the BBC and a Non Executive Director of FTSE100 company WPP, the world’s largest advertising group. Previously he was Managing Director of Consumer Markets at Callcredit Information Group, founder/CEO of Garlik, a venture capital-backed identity protection company, sold to Experian and Chief Information Officer of Egg plc, the pioneering British internet bank.
Tom is Chair of the education charity, African Gifted Foundation and launched the African Science Academy, the first girls’ science and technology school on the continent. He is an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and an Advisory Fellow at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, as well as being awarded Honorary Doctorates by City, University of London and the University of Wolverhampton. He was named as Britain’s most influential Black person in 2017 and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to Technology and Philanthropy.
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Karina Robinson in conversation with Alderman Timothy Hailes JP FKC
Event hosted by TII on 26 January 2021
Timothy Hailes FKC (@HailesTim) is a multi-award-winning international capital markets lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in derivatives, securities and wholesale markets. He is an Alderman of The City of London and served as Sheriff in 2017/18 - making him eligible for election as Lord Mayor of the City of London, the international ambassador for the UK's financial and professional services sector. His commitment to public service started in 1988 when he was Parliamentary Assistant to two Cabinet Ministers in Her Majesty’s Government aged just 20.
Tim is currently Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of Five Islands Capital Limited a specialist FinTech company focused on payments, trading and capital markets.
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2020
Karina Robinson in conversation with Vivienne Artz talking about conclusions from the TII/WIBF Inclusion study and the tensions between privacy and data.
Event hosted by TII on 11 December 2020
Vivienne Artz (@VivienneArtz) is the Chief Privacy Officer at Refinitiv, leading the global Privacy Office and overseeing global privacy strategy and practice.
Previously, Vivienne was a Managing Director and Global Head of Privacy Legal and Head of International for the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Group at Citi. Prior to joining Citi in 2000, Vivienne worked in private practice in London.
Vivienne placed in the top 20 Executive Women Role Models in the HERoes List 2020, was awarded “Woman Solicitor of the Year” in the Law Society Excellence Awards in 2020, and has many years of experience leading a broad range of diversity initiatives and groups both within firms and across sectors.
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Karina Robinson in conversation with Dr Alice Maynard talking about Inclusion, the Financial Conduct Authority and the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act.
Event hosted by the TII on 7 December 2020
Dr Alice Maynard is Director of Future Inclusion, working across sectors increasing inclusion through improved leadership and governance.
Alice is a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of the Financial Conduct Authority, HMRC and Transport for London. She has been a member of the expert challenge panel for the Williams Rail Review, the Committee on Fuel Poverty and the Human Genetics Commission, and she chaired a NICE guideline committee on improving the experience of adult social care users.
She has worked in the field of diversity and inclusion for 30 years and now coaches senior leaders in inclusive leadership alongside her Board and advisory roles.
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Karina Robinson in conversation with Lord Karan Bilimoria talking about the CBI’s Change the Race Ratio, entrepreneurship and UK-India commerce.
Event hosted by the TII on 24 November 2020
Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE, DL (@Lord_Bilimoria) is the founder of Cobra Beer, Chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited, a Joint Venture with Molson Coors, and Chairman of Molson Coors Cobra India. In the Monde Selection, one of the most prestigious quality awards in the world for beer, the Cobra range have collectively been awarded a total of 110 Gold medals since 2001, making it one of the most awarded beers in the world. Lord Bilimoria is the Founding Chairman of the UK India Business Council, a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London, a former Chancellor of Thames Valley University (now the University of West London); he was the youngest University Chancellor in the UK when appointed.
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