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Emilie Vanpoperinghe

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Emilie runs a social enterprise tackling food waste and helping people reduce their impact on the planet with London’s first wonky veg box subscription scheme. She co-founded and is CEO of Oddbox, which delivers boxes of misshapen fruit and veg to be sold in supermarkets. She started Oddbox in 2016 after discovering that over three million tonnes of food waste is generated every year in the UK…

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Sonja Vernes

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Sonja is a global expert in the study of the genetics of vocal communication in mammals as a way to understand the evolution and biological basis of human speech and language. This will have huge benefits for people with severe speech disorders. She leads the Neurogenetics of Vocal Communication Research Group at St Andrews University. She has been recognised with a prestigious Blavatnik Awards…

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Chloë Volz

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Chloë has improved the lives of many young people with the most severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and their families. She is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and overall Team Lead of the Children and Adult Mental Health (CAMHS) OCD and Related Disorders Service where she works with some of the hardest to treat young people. What makes her approach stand out is that she supports…

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Elaine Warburton OBE

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Elaine is a healthcare and biotechnology entrepreneur. She has over 25 years’ healthcare and biotechnology experience with a background in nursing, genetics, accounting and running hospitals. She founded a pioneering British life sciences company QuantuMDx Group. The company has excelled in medical innovation, developing a low-cost handheld molecular lab with inbuilt DNA sequencing to address…

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Jackie Waring

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Jackie is an expert in the investment community in Scotland across a wide range of sectors who has enabled thousands of women to launch their own businesses. She is founder and chair of AccelerateHER, an organisation that supports female business owners to launch and grow. She has a wealth of experience in helping innovative female founders to scale up their businesses and reach their full…

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Jonathan Waxman

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Jonathan is the founder and president of what is now Prostate Cancer UK. In 1996, he established The Prostate Cancer Charity, the first United Kingdom national organisation promoting research and patient support for prostate cancer. The organisation has since merged with Prostate Action, becoming Prostate Cancer UK, the biggest organisation of its kind in the UK. The charity lobbies for change…

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Scarlett Westbrook

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Scarlett is a British climate activist, the youngest ever policy maker and a coordinator and head of political engagement for Teach The Future, a youth-led campaign that aims to transform education around the climate emergency and ecological crisis. She joined the climate movement aged 10 and became the youngest person to pass an A level in government and politics at just 13. As part of her…

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Dame Sharon White

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Dame Sharon is the first ever female chair of John Lewis Partnership having previously made history as the first woman – and first black person – to be Chief Executive of the media regulator Ofcom. Prior to these roles, she had a stellar career in the civil service, rising to become a Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, the first black person to hold the position and only the second woman in the…

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Joe Wicks MBE

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Joe is the familiar face who helped countless people during the pandemic lockdowns to brighten up their lives and keep fit with his exercise regimes. His daily PE with Joe livestreams on YouTube during lockdowns encouraged participants to stay active and was viewed by over a million users worldwide. He won a Guinness World Record for “most viewers for a fitness workout livestream on YouTube”…

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Rui Xu

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Rui is the founder of FreshTag and a winner of Innovate UK Young Innovator Award for an invention which could change the world. Her breakthrough idea will allow consumers to see at a glance whether the food they buy is safe to eat. Rui’s motivation is her dislike of food going to waste and the ruinous environmental damage that occurs through the carbon emissions released during the manufacturing…

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