Aspen UK Faculty
Aspen UK’s faculty of moderators is made up of individuals who bring diverse experience and expertise to our seminar programmes.
Collectively, they shape and develop the curriculum and lead our seminars. They have been selected for their leadership insights and varied experiences to ensure our seminars are relevant, thoughtful and reflective of the most important issues faced by leaders, their organisations and communities.
Aspen Uk FACULTY
Ruth Girardet
Ruth is a non-executive director of the University of Edinburgh, and an Executive Coach with over twenty years of professional experience in corporate responsibility and
Mary Boakye
Mary Boakye, a capital markets and investment expert and one of UK’s leading authorities on Africa, has had an international career with global firms, Allen
Omar Christidis
Omar is immersed in the world of technology trends and innovation. In 2009 he founded ArabNet, organising the first conference in the Middle East focused
Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Shoshana is a senior member of the Pears Foundation staff team in London, where she leads on the foundation’s international development grants, interfaith projects, and
Yegor Lanovenko
Yegor is a global financial services leader experienced in growing and transforming securities services businesses across both private and listed markets. His career spans executive,
Alveena Malik
Alveena Malik has over 25 years’ experience of working nationally on equalities and cohesion issues, as well as delivering social innovation projects. Alveena is Chief Executive
Patrick Moriarty
Patrick is an educational consultant and Anglican priest. For 12 years he was Headteacher at JCoSS, the UK’s only pluralist Jewish Secondary School, after a
Radostin Popov
Radostin has spent his entire career in the fields of transportation, infrastructure, energy and global trade. For the last 15 years his main focus has been M&A
Suzanne Raine
Suzanne is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London and works at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University. She is a member of the
Shayan Talabany
Shayan is an expert in geopolitics, with a special emphasis on the Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf countries and British foreign policy towards the Middle East. She is an analyst
Lucy Zwolinska
Lucy lives in Gateshead, where she works with a range of people and organisations, exploring how to devolve power and decision-making to communities. Previously she
“Leaders are increasingly confronted with moral dilemmas not technocratic problems. These seminars address head on these moral questions, providing structured space for reflection, and help individuals to understand their own moral compass. It’s a life changing experience.”
Sir Stuart Etherington
Chief Executive, The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)