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

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

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

Nick Harrison
Nick Harrison was a lecturer at Cambridge and then UCL before moving to King’s College London, where he is Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies.

Alveena Malik
Alveena has over 25 years’ experience of working nationally on equalities and cohesion issues, as well as delivering social innovation projects. For the past five

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

Tristan Trehan
Tristan has worked in the Royal Navy and Strategic Command since 2016, having been deployed multiple times in support of UK Strategic and foreign policy

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)