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Join the King’s Global Institute for Women's Leadership to explore how empowering women both in and out of the workforce can drive economic growth.

Bringing together leading experts, we'll examine barriers to women's economic participation and explore policy shifts that could foster a fairer and more resilient economy.

This event will celebrate the winners of the Brenda Trenowden Feminist Analysis Essay Prize, an annual award offered by GIWL, the Gender Studies Network and Feminist Perspectives, which recognises exceptional feminist research and analysis from King's College London students.

Speakers

Isabel Berwick, Host and Editor, Working It podcast and newsletter, Financial Times
Pavita Cooper, UK Chair, the 30% Club
Eka Ikpe, Professor of Development Economics, King's College London
Erin Mansell, Head of Communications and Public Affairs, Women's Budget Group
Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Chair, the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership (chair)

About Brenda Trenowden

Brenda Trenowden was an exemplar of inclusive leadership. She used her intellect, kindness, passion and energy to bring people together to help make the world a better place. She had a stellar career that was driven by purpose. Brenda was a tireless advocate for gender equality. In tandem with a successful career in financial services in Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Bangladesh and the UK, she spearheaded efforts to improve diversity and advance feminism not just in business and sport, but across the range of charities and interests in which she was involved.

As Chair, first of the City Women’s Network and then of the 30% Club, she oversaw the achievement of the goal of 30 per cent female representation on FTSE 100 corporate boards. She established a new goal of 30 per cent representation of women on FTSE 350 boards as well as an increased focus on broader diversity goals, such as LGBT inclusion, and the launch of 30% Club sister organisations in countries including the US, Australia and in southern Africa.

Her support for diversity initiatives went well beyond the world of UK plc. Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, she was the first generation of her family to go to university, and she campaigned throughout her career for greater access to opportunity for the less privileged. She was a trustee of the EY Foundation, helping young people into employment, the senior independent director of the England and Wales Cricket Board, improving access to the game and advancing all its work, and a trustee at the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. Her interests ranged more broadly, from literature, to art, to politics and music. She maintained strong links to her homeland, and was awarded an honorary degree by her alma mater, Queen’s University Canada, as well as a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2018, for services to the financial sector and gender equality.

Women's Contributions to Economic Growth