The Women2Win Speakers Club provides speakers for Conservative Party and non-Party audiences who want interesting female speakers. Evaluation forms will be provided and the audience will be asked to provide constructive feedback to the speaker.
Here is a selection of our speakers:
Emma Barnes
Emma Barnes is co-founder and MD of Snowbooks Ltd, an independent publishing company that won the Small Publisher of the Year at the British Book Trade "Nibbie" Awards 2006 after just two years' trading. [read more]
Locations: London
Specialist Subjects: Big business and the political process. (Anti-Conservative stance, quite possibly); Entrepreneurship
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Elizabeth Campbell
Elizabeth Campbell was born and grew up in Hong Kong. After reading History at Oxford, she began her career at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in 1983. She then worked throughout China and the Far East buying consumer goods (baskets, artificial flowers, Christmas decorations) before being posted to London to head up the UK office. Elizabeth subsequently joined a start up manufacturing and trading company heading up their New Product Division specialising in supermarket own brands. She then moved to France, had four children in six years and took a career break to become a full time wife and mother. [read more]
Locations: Nationwide (with notice)
Specialist Subjects:
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Antonia Cox
Antonia Cox is on the Conservatives' priority candidates list. She is a mother of three from west London - originally from Hampshire – and a governor of a special school. After Cambridge University and a spell as a research assistant in the House of Commons, she worked in investment banking in London and New York. [read more]
Locations: London and the South East
Specialist Subjects: Media work vs political work: how they differ
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Walaa Idris
Nothing is impossible for this German born, Khartoum (Sudan) raised and US educated (BA Psychology, and Sociology at Indiana University) candidate on the Parliamentary List. [read more]
Locations:
Specialist Subjects: Teens & Young Adults,
Single parent families,
Business in the 21 Century, and
The power of staying positive
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Mary MacLeod
Business - Mary Macleod is a management consultant, banker and entrepreneur. She is Managing Director of MCG, her own consulting firm which she launched in 2002 after 11 years of experience as a management consultant with Accenture. [read more]
Locations: Nationwide
Specialist Subjects: Business, communication, banking
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Julia Manning
Julia has worked in the NHS for 16 years as an optometrist and now runs her own optometry business for people who are housebound. Her special interests are in diabetes and multiple sclerosis. She is also the Director of the new internet based, grass roots Think Tank for health and social care, 2020health.org. She has campaigned for improved provision for people with visual impairment and set up a resource directory called MORE for people who have become isolated. [read more]
Locations: Nationwide
Specialist Subjects: Health, social care, optometry
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Nicky Morgan
Nicky, 33, grew up in Surbiton, Surrey and attended Surbiton High School before studying law at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She qualified as a solicitor in 1994 and worked as a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions before taking on an in-house counsel role advising on corporate law matters. [read more]
Locations: Central London (weeknights) - East Midlands (Fri/Sat night)
Specialist Subjects: Experiences from the Loughborough campaign trail; Learning to love running (by a very non athletic person)
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Brinder Seni
Brinder lives in Coventry West Midlands and is married with three children, a LEA School Governor and a qualified further Education Lecturer, Assessor and facilitator. [read more]
Locations: Nationwide (if travelling expenses are re-imbursed)
Specialist Subjects: Employment engagement; Cultural Barriers
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Jill Skalla
I am Jill Skalla, nee Garrod. I grew up in North Devon and Bristol and now live in North London on the edge of the Green Belt. I am married to Bernard and we have 2 children, Sam, 14 and Louisa, 12. [read more]
Locations: London
Specialist Subjects: Health, families, education, children
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Zehra Zaidi
Zehra is a Conservative MEP candidate for the South West of England and Gibraltar. Currently, Zehra is working for the Conservative Party. She is a Solicitor and studied law at Warwick University (LLB), the University of Lille in France (Diploma) and the London School of Economics (LLM). [read more]
Locations:
Specialist Subjects: European Affairs
International Development
Foreign Affairs
Social Cohesion, Female Empowerment and Youth Affairs
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