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United Kingdom

Ashwin Soni

Doctor

Dr. Ash Soni is a fully qualified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon. Following medical school at Imperial College London, Dr. Soni relocated to the United States and completed a research fellowship at the world-renowned Weill Cornell’s New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Subsequently, Dr. Soni was selected by the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the leading hospital in the United States for surgery, where he completed his intern year in General Surgery. Dr. Soni continued his rigorous training in the US, where he specialised in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at one of the most competitive training programmes in the country. Dr. Soni then completed a one and a half year fellowship at the prestigious Royal Marsden Hospital in London, sub-specialising in Microvascular and Oncoplastic Surgery. Dr. Soni is the founder and owner of his plastic surgery private practice, The Soni Clinic

Grace Spicer

Student/Writer

Grace Spicer is a young person based in Milton Keynes, previously studying business, film and television production in sixth form. She actively participates in voluntary and social change projects, which have impacted her perspective of how individuals reach out for opportunities and define their search - especially after her experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic halting her education. She has been featured on BBC and other local media outlets speaking out about young people’s rights, employment and social issues. In 2021 Grace published her first book ‘Generation Covid – How Young People Responded to the Covid-19 Crisis’, a compilation of young people’s personal life stories and experiences during the UK lockdowns.

Olamide Dada

Doctor

Dr Olamide Dada is an award-winning junior doctor, charity leader and social entrepreneur. Having started her leadership journey at a seemingly young age, Olamide is passionate about supporting young leaders as they navigate their leadership journeys. She actively leads a national charity called Melanin Medics, that is focused on promoting diversity in Medicine. Her interests lie in utilising opportunities to bring about change and put forward solutions to benefit the health sector, particularly in the areas of widening access and tackling health inequalities. Olamide has been the recipient of multiple awards including the We are the City Rising Star in Healthcare 2020 award.

Shabina Begum

Lecturer/Law Consultant

Shabina is a Lecturer at Law at the University of Buckingham, she is also an international family law consultant at Dawson Cornwell, a leading specialist international family law firm. Shabina was called to the Bar in 2009 and admitted as a solicitor in 2013. He graduated with a LL.B from Greenwich University and completed her LL.M at Cornell University. Shabina is featured in Management Today 2020’s “35 under 35” list of Britain’s brightest young businesswomen. Shabina participated as a speaker at the 16th session of the Commission on the Status of Women held by United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in New York March 2016. She is a UN recognised expert on child, early and forced marriage and was invited by the UN in October 2016 to participate in an expert workshop in Geneva.

Trevor Ray

Lecturer

Growing up on a farm gave Trevor a love of the natural world and it was almost inevitable he went on to study biology at university. He remained in academia long enough to gain his PhD in Molecular Biology before joining the marketing department of an international biological reagent company. It wasn’t long though before the entrepreneurial side of him broke through and he started his own reagent distribution company. Having sold his share in that business, Trevor co-founded a pharmaceutical testing company; both organisations still thrive today. After 20 years in the commercial world, Trevor realised the thing that drove him was not growing a business, it was his desire to grow the people within the business. This passion led him to go back to the classroom and re-skill before starting his own international training company. Over the past eleven years, Trevor has travelled globally, delivering personal development programmes to an international corporate client base.