Friday, March 15th 2019, 9am-5pm

£8 - includes lunch and teas/coffees

Come and find out about careers that utilise the
knowledge and critical thinking covered in
Development and work for social and
environmental justice, political change and
wellbeing. Hear from those working in NGOs,
campaign organisations, government and media.

Speakers confirmed from: DFID, Centre for Global Development, The Guardian, Global Giving, Crown Agents, Banyak Films and more!

Schedule

9am – 9.30am: Welcome and Refreshments

9.30am – 11am: Session One – Careers in NGOs

11am – 11.15am: Break

11.15am – 12.45pm: Session Two – Careers in Campaigning and Small Organisations

12.45pm – 1.45pm: Lunch

1.45pm – 3.15pm: Session Three – Careers in Media/Journalism

3.15pm – 3.30pm: Break

3.30pm – 5pm: Session Four – Careers in Policy and Government

Speakers:

Session One – Careers in NGOs

Jean-Luc Blakey:

Jean-Luc Blakey is a Senior Campaigner at Global Witness, an organisation that aims to stop environmental and human rights abuses driven by the exploitation of natural resources. Jean-Luc has worked at Global Witness for the past five years, researching and campaigning on the oil, mining and timber sectors of Central Africa. Prior to this he work as a participatory video facilitator, making advocacy films with groups across Europe, Africa and Asia

Rachel Smith:

Rachel co-founded GlobalGiving UK and she leads the organization to make a genuine and sustained difference in people’s lives. She is passionate about challenging the status quo and exploring new ways of working. Previously, Rachel worked for local government, in marketing in the retail sector, and as an archaeologist specialising in later prehistory. She holds an MA from Cardiff University in Archaeology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Birbeck University, London. She has been involved in the voluntary sector, with a particular fondness for fundraising, from a very young age— she organized her first fundraising event (a local coffee morning) at age seven!

Session Two – Careers in Campaigning and Small Organisations

Laura Hill:

Laura is a Project Coordinator for Switched on London, a grassroots organisation that promotes just and democratic solutions to climate change. She works on a project that aims to bring together a range of communities and organisations to develop a vision for a just, rapid and ambitious economic transformation that addresses the climate crisis. Laura previously worked on their campaign for a fair, clean publicly owned energy company in London. Laura holds an MSc from SOAS in Global Energy and Climate Policy and a BSc in Economics from the University of Sussex. She has also worked as a Research Assistant for UCL on the C40 Climate Governance and Climate Action in Megacities Reports, and as a Project Coordinator for Fuel Poverty Action.

Session Three – Careers in Media/Journalism

David Leigh:

Anthony Sampson Professor of Reporting at City, University of London 2006-18, is one of Britain’s best-known investigative journalists. He was head of investigations at the Guardian 2000-15, and at the Observer 1980–9. He was a TV producer at This Week and World in Action 1989–97 and the first Laurence Stern Fellow at the Washington Post 1979-80. He is one of the founder members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists based in Washington DC; was a trustee of the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London 2008-14; and is a director of the independent press regulator IMPRESS. He has won numerous UK and international journalism awards in a 40-year career. His books include biographies of Michael Foot and Howard Marks; an account of Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s relations with the intelligence services; a study of secrecy in British life; and a forthcoming textbook on investigative journalism.

Anson Hartford:

Anson has made films since childhood; whether fiction or documentary the stories they tell always look to reveal the extraordinary in our everyday lives and deliver central messages that challenge our preconceptions. Anson’s Directing and Producing work ranges from commercials to feature length films and everything in-between. Highlights include the BBC’s ‘A World In Photographs’ narrated by Alan Bennett, Al Jazeera’s urgent story of environmental resistance ‘Take The Power Back’ and Film 4’s inspiring feature doc ‘Ping Pong’ which was released in cinemas across Europe, North America and Asia. Based in Dorset and London, Anson develops his films through Banyak Films, a company which he co-founded in 2008.

Session Four– Careers in Policy and Government

Hannah Timmis:

Hannah Timmis is a research assistant at Centre for Global Development Europe (CGD), working on trade, development finance and UK/ EU development policy. Prior to joining CGD, Hannah worked as a research officer at the Institute of Development Studies, where she headed up a DFID “helpdesk” providing research and learning services to policymakers. From 2015-17, she was a project manager in Adam Smith International’s Middle East team, overseeing the delivery of aid programmes in Jordan and Syria for DFID, the EU, and European Investment Bank.

Arthur Baker:

Arthur Baker is a research assistant for CGD Europe. Before joining CGD, he worked with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and Evidence Action, running large scale randomised evaluations in Sierra Leone and Kenya. As a senior research associate and later the research coordinator for IPA Sierra Leone, Baker managed several projects, including studies on primary and general election debates in Sierra Leone, and an evaluation of Ebola recovery work in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. He also developed new projects and worked on capacity building. He has a BAEcon Politics degree from the University of Manchester and a Graduate Certificate in Economics from Birkbeck University.

Noémie Chomet:

Noémie Chomet is an Economist in the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), where she works on making sure that the UK’s aid spending is spent in the most cost-effective way. Previously, she completed a two-year ODI Fellowship in Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance, where she worked on macroeconomic policy-making, budget formulation and public financial management reforms. Noémie holds a BSc in Government and Economics and an MSc in Economics from LSE. She also worked the Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) on the Private Enterprise in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) programme, a DFID-funded research initiative, and has research experience in Burkina Faso, with Innovations for Poverty Action, and in South Africa, with the Economic Policy Research Institute.

More bio's to come!