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Jacky Wright, Senior Partner and Chief Technology and Platform Officer at McKinsey & Company, responds to the question ‘Can technology be society’s great equaliser?’, joined by Professor Sue Black OBE, Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University and Floriane Fidegnon-Edoh, Innovation Consultant at BMNT.
This event provided a unique opportunity to hear from our speakers, who set out their vision for a technology-enabled inclusive future, and what needs to happen to get us there, explored during a fireside chat hosted by Academy CEO, Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE.
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Jacky Wright
Professor Sue Black OBE
Floriane Fidegnon-Edoh
Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE
Hayaatun is CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. She co-chairs with the Science Minister the government’s Business Innovation Forum and co-chaired with Sir Lewis Hamilton his Commission on improving Black representation in motorsport. She is a trustee of various charities, member of the government’s Levelling Up Advisory Council and Digital Skills Council and NXD at construction company Laing O’Rourke. She has been named as one of the ‘Inspiring 50’ women in tech in Europe and one of the most influential women in both UK engineering and UK tech. She has a Masters in Biochemistry (MBiochem) from Oxford and a PhD from Cancer Research UK/UCL. She is a Fellow of the IET, Honorary Professor at UCL and Honorary Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford. She has received honorary doctorates from UCL, Imperial College London, Newcastle, Brunel, Huddersfield and Southampton, as well as a Science Suffrage Award and the Engineering Professor’s Council President’s Medal. She was a finalist for the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award and was made a CBE for services to International Engineering in 2019. Prior to her current roles, she was Deputy CEO at the Academy and served as Committee Specialist and later Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee.