Brasenose women working for global and local change in the voluntary and public sectors
Join Principal John Bowers in conversation with Brasenose alumnae Sarah Castle, Sarah Jackson, Debba Jenkins and Liz Padmore.

Speaker profiles:

Liz Padmore (PPE 1974)

Liz was previously a strategy partner at Accenture where she created and ran their global strategic think tank specialising in scenario planning, strategic communications, corporate social responsibility and relationship management. She is currently is Chairman of Hampshire Hospitals NHS FT; a member of the Board of IPSA; a governing body fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford where she chairs the Remuneration Committee; a director of YBI (Prince of Wales’ Youth Business International) where she also serves on the audit committee and chairs the accreditation committee; trustee and member of the F&GP Committee, Ditchley; a member of the Foundation Trust Network Board of Directors. She is a co-founder and a member of the Global Board of Enablis, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to creating a viable SME sector in Africa and South America.

She is a member and previous vice chairman of Forum UK (part of the International Women’s Forum); a member of Women Corporate Directors and an elected FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufacturing and Commerce).
Debba Jenkins (Modern Languages 1977)

Deborah is particularly interested in the development of partnerships to address complex problems. She has held leadership positions in organisations from tiny third sector projects to major healthcare providers and provided consultancy to organisations in the UK and abroad. She was a founder of the city leadership programme Common Purpose, has been a NED and Chair in the NHS for more than 25 years and set up and ran two experimental children’s companies transforming failing children’s services in Sunderland and Reading for the DfE. Currently Deborah is CEO of TDI, a charity finding practical solutions to manage the risk of sexual offending, and chairs NCFE, the UK’s third biggest vocational qualifications awarding body, the Northern Neonatal Clinical Network, and Cultura (formerly the North of England Civic Trust). She is also an executive director of Trades4Care, a CIC she co-founded to provide work experience and coaching for young people interested in a career in trades, and runs her own consultancy, Kindling Ltd.

Sarah Jackson (Classics 1977)

As a charity CEO, Sarah was at the forefront of making change for working parents, including new rights to flexible working, maternity leave, and leave for fathers. Her career covered campaigning, parliamentary lobbying, research, policy development and practical work with employers, earning her an OBE for services to quality of life. Today she offers advisory services to employer around hybrid and flexible working, is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University School of Management and is a trustee of three charities: Parents and Carers in Performing Arts (which she chairs), Rosa fund for women and girls, and Scottish Opera.

Sarah Castle (Geography 1981)

Sarah has over twenty-five years’ monitoring and evaluation experience of reproductive health programmes in low and middle income countries. She also has considerable expertise in policy analysis and programme development with an emphasis on gender and social inclusion. Having been educated at BNC and Harvard, she spent eight years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine doing research, teaching and student supervision. Sarah has spent much of her life in Mali, West Africa where she likes nothing better than sitting under a mango tree talking to women about family planning! Her consultancy clients include UNFPA, USAID, WHO and The World Bank.
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Brasenose College
Organiser contact email address: anu.dawson@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose
Booking required?: Required
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Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Anu Dawson