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Keegan Flynn is an MBA student at London Business School.

He has been playing music for almost 20 years, and writes and performs original indie/folk music. He is also a member of several London Business School bands that play shows locally in London.

Prior to his MBA, Keegan spent 6 years working in finance, startups, and venture capital in New York and Southeast Asia.

Tobenna Osuala is a 14-year-old, Black British secondary school student living in Tottenham. He has a passion for writing, art, evangelism, and business.

Despite a number of physical, emotional and psychological issues, including autism and asthma, Toby has always had an excitement for education and the pursuit of knowledge. However, social interaction with his fellow pupils was sometimes difficult due to a feeling of awkwardness and reticence, caused in part by Asperger’s syndrome [ASD]. However, Toby has learned the importance of decision-making and believes that you can make up your mind to be confident and bold.

Toby is currently attending secondary school in my area and getting ready to prepare for his GCSE’s, making friends along the way and working to improve his world using his new-found boldness and confidence.

Rangle Punjab De is a UK based Bhangra group that specialises in the folk dance of Punjab. We aim to represent this dance form at a wide variety of corporate events, classes, showcases and national events.

We are extremely proud of our Punjabi culture and hope to inspire and educate others about this amazing dance form. We are extremely grateful be given a platform such as TEDx to showcase our passion for Bhangra, to inspire others and to represent our community!

Sabrina is a singer/songwriter who has a degree in International History from The London School of Economics. She began writing songs and gigging across London at age 14, and has supported bands such as Autoheart and The Bathers.

When she was signed to Man in the Moon Records Sabrina released two singles, Write You Down and Babysit Your Happiness. Sabrina was also part of the 2020 Roundhouse Music Collective who opened for Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal on the main stage at the Roundhouse.

Rob Percival is a writer, campaigner and food policy expert. His commentary on food and farming has featured in the national press and on prime time television, and his writing has been shortlisted for the Guardian’s International Development Journalism Prize and the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Food Sustainability Media Award.

His first book, The Meat Paradox, which explores the cognitive and cultural complexity of animal consumption, was published in 2022. Described by the Financial Times as ‘provocative, original and electrifying’, The Meat Paradox was serialised by BBC Radio 4 as their ‘Book of the Week’ in January of 2023.

Rob works for the Soil Association, an organisation advocating for organic and regenerative food and farming. As the organisation’s Head of Food Policy, he leads campaigns and influencing in support of dietary change and food system transformation.

Spandana is the Founder of ZoEasy, an award-winning social enterprise that matches blue-collar job seekers with ethical employment opportunities. The focus is on sustainable job creation at fair wages and reducing inequalities via technology and government / skill development partnerships.

Spandana has established 20+ partnerships with a variety of stakeholders including State Governments, youth organisations such as One Young World, World Economic Forum Global Shapers, UN SDSN, and has raised funding from the likes of Credit Suisse via the UN Lead2030 Program and Expo 2020 Dubai. She has also won several awards including Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Enterprise for Peace Scholarship by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has been featured by prominent platforms such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Financial Times.

Outside of work, she has also led the WEF Global Shapers Dubai Hub as Vice Curator and has launched several education / employment based projects as a result.

Keily Blair serves as Chief Strategy & Operations Officer at OnlyFans. She is responsible for formulating, driving and communicating OnlyFans’ strategic initiatives and future goals to users, commercial partners, and other key stakeholders. As a practicing attorney, Keily is responsible for the enterprise-wide approach to online safety and leads OnlyFans’ public affairs, human resources, operations and legal functions.

Keily fundamentally believes that creativity, freedom of expression, and connectivity are at their best in a safe online environment and is committed to making OnlyFans the safest platform in the world for creators and fans. As a former “Big Law” partner Keily’s background is in law, operational strategy, and government affairs. Prior to her role at OnlyFans, Keily was a partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and led their Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation practice in London. Keily advised on online safety laws and regulations and helped clients to build effective regulatory relationships including leading internal and external regulatory investigations. Keily has also served as external legal counsel for privacy and financial service regulators. Prior to joining Orrick, Keily was a Director at PwC having been a litigator at international law firms Morrison & Foerster and Allen & Overy.

Keily is ranked practitioner and has represented the private sector at the United Nations and the European Criminal Bar Association. She is committed to improving diversity and social mobility in the legal and fintech sectors, and has won numerous awards for her contribution to the legal sector.

Georgina Sturge is a statistician at the House of Commons Library, which is the research service to the UK Parliament. She is part of a team that advises Members of Parliament from all parties on the use of statistics, and which carries out research for them in preparation for debates and other Parliamentary work.

Her recent book, Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers (2022), shows where governments past and recent have come unstuck because they relied on flawed numerical data. She writes about how we can take a more critical approach to using numbers in an age in which data plays an increasingly powerful role.

Georgina studied at the University of Oxford, the United Nations University and the University of Maastricht. She is an adviser to the Office for National Statistics and the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory. Before her work in the UK Parliament, she had a career as a primary researcher in the field of global development and carried out data collection through large-scale surveys in several countries.

Phil became Executive Director of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in 2013. Phil leads strategy and outreach globally, working with 80 global team members and allies. Programmes are focused on transforming business and investment models, especially in the just transition to net zero carbon, labour rights in supply chains, and rights in technology and civic freedoms.

Phil sits on several external groups, including the Civil Society Advisory Group for Principles for Responsible Banking, the Expert Review Committee of the World Benchmarking Alliance, Climate Outreach’s Board, and the European Citizen’s Initiative for a Living Wage.

Before joining the Resource Centre, Phil was Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB, joining them after 11 years in Latin America working on human and indigenous rights.

Georges El Khoury is an MBA student at London Business School.

Over the past two years, Georges dedicated much of his time volunteering in Impact Lebanon, an initiative hub for driven Lebanese around the world. During his time, he held several positions in the organization notably as initiative co-lead and board director. His volunteering experience piqued his interest in understanding the impact created by diaspora on their home countries, which drove him to further research the topic for his talk.

Prior to his MBA, Georges worked for 4 years as a management consultant in Strategy& Middle East.