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New Theatre
New Theatre
George Street
Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2AG
United Kingdom

Abhishek Parajuli

Abhishek is a graduate student at the University of Oxford studying the impacts of taxes and foreign aid on development. His research shows that foreign aid may hurt development by making citizens care less about corruption and explores ways of making aid spending more effective. He has lived and worked in Nepal, India and Hong Kong before moving to the United States where he graduated as class valedictorian from Dartmouth College in 2015.

Catherine Mallyon

Catherine Mallyon is Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is passionate about the importance of art in our daily lives and introducing new ideas through the RSC.

David Casale

David Casale has been all over the technology of energy from developing gas fields and battery technologies, to Open4Energy, a non-for-profit energy supplier. He is also the director of Turquoise, a merchant bank specialising in energy, environment and efficiency. His focus is on renewables and energy storage, and has argued that solar power could revolutionise the global energy market.

David Troy

Dave Troy is the CEO and co-founder at 410Labs, and creator of Mailstrom. He has been working on mapping out social relationships and discovering patterns in data that affect societal behaviour.

Emma Lawrance

Emma is a student in Clinical Neuroscience, using modelling and brain imaging to understand more about how our brains learn, make decisions, and pay attention to the things that are currently important; and how these processes are altered by anxiety. She is also interested in science communication, having joined a travelling science circus to tour Australia and share her passion for science developed in her undergraduate physics and chemistry career. On a mission to connect to those experiencing mental illness and show that we are never alone, Emma co-Founded the ‘It Gets Brighter’ campaign, which brings video messages of hope and support to those struggling with mental health issues. She is also passionate about environmental conservation, and enjoys spending time in nature as much as possible.

Jo Boaler

Jo Boaler is an award winning writer and educator, a professor at Stanford and co-founder of youcubed.org. She leads a movement to change the ways teachers and students think about and experience mathematics.

Mannat Malhi

Mannat is a second year law student at Wadham College, Oxford University. She incorporates the quote "to define is to limit" in all aspects of her life whether it be from her quirky shoe collection to her passion for women's rights and racial equality.

Nikki Eberhardt

Nikki Eberhardt is a second year executive MBA student at Balliol College, University of Oxford and is completing her PhD in Global Sociology at the University of Utah. Her research explores and advocates for refugee youth access to academic social capital. Particularly passionate to empower girls in developing countries, she was co-founder and president to a United Nations Women Chapter. She campaigns to end extreme poverty with Global Citizen and drives communication strategy and charity partner activations for Delta Air Lines.

Prisicilla Nagashima Boyd

Priscilla is a young technologist, passionate about innovation that can make a difference to people's lives. She specialises in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), acting as the Honorary Secretary for the Women in ITS (ITS UK) industry group and is also a STEM ambassador.

Rosalind Watts

Dr Rosalind Watts completed her clinical psychology training at University College London. After six years of practicing psychotherapy in the NHS, she joined a clinical trial at Imperial College, investigating psilocybin (magic mushrooms) as a treatment for depression. Her research explores patients' positive views of this intriguing therapy.

Steve Whitla

Steve Whitla is the founder of Visual Meaning, a company that helps large organisations make sense of how they work, and how they need to change, using conceptual maps. His main passion is understanding how people make meaning, and using that understanding to make the world a more meaningful place. He lives and works in Oxford, and blogs about visual language at http://rich.pictures.

Tom Toumazis MBE

Tom Toumazis MBE is focused exclusively on the digital and start-up world. He is a founder investor and Chair of three start-ups – Tagsmart, TVbeat and Fusebox Games – as well as Non-Executive Director of TheLADbible Group. Tom has worked in the media and entertainment industry since 1983, spending the first 18 years within advertising sales at ITV, Eurosport and Emap. He made the transition into TV and film programme sales, marketing and distribution in 2001 as Head of Disney-ABC-ESPN Television EMEA. In 2009 was appointed Chief Commercial Officer of Endemol Worldwide, joining the main board. He was Head of Partnerships EMEA for Yahoo and prior to that, CEO of Mecom Group. Tom is also Chairman and Founder of the ChildLine Board, part of the NSPCC and a member of the charity's National Volunteer Board. He was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2015 for services to Children.