Speakers
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Charlie Robertson Head of Macro-Strategy, FIM Partners
Charlie worked for 12 years at ING Barings and 12 years at Renaissance Capital before joining the buyside firm FIM Partners. His second book The Time Travelling Economist was published in 2022 and was runner-up in BCA’s Business Book of the Year award. He was the top-rated Frontier Analyst for 2016-20 and top-rated Emerging Europe Analyst from 2007-10. He previously worked in parliament, a defence think-tank and an economic research house.
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Jenny Segal Motivational Speaker and Author
Jenny is passionate about improving workplace culture and has written three books on motivation at work: Building Better Workplace Culture, Purpose & Hybrid Working and Board Effectiveness & Culture.
Jenny has had a long and varied career in finance, with a Mathematics degree from Oxford University, qualifying as an actuary and working as a pensions and investment consultant. With her flair for management and communication, she specialised in leading sales teams for asset management companies, most recently as Global Head of Distribution for Fidelity International.
A spat with cancer gave her a new perspective on purpose, and she now enjoys a portfolio career, encompassing public speaking, writing, consultancy, non-executive directorships, lecturing at King’s Business School and is an ambassador for The Diversity Project and Chief Investment Officer for Nesta Trust. Jenny spends her free time preparing for a piano diploma, running half-marathons and taking (what she hopes are) beautiful photographs.
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Dr Junaid Mubeen Mathematician and Author
Junaid is a TEDx speaker and the author of Mathematical Intelligence: What we have that machines don’t (Profile Books, 2022), which explores the creative edge that maths gives us over AI. He writes and speaks on a range of topics at the intersection of mathematics, education, and innovation.
Junaid has worked in EdTech for over a decade, advising schools and governments around the world on how to use technology to drive better learning outcomes. He is currently partnering with bestselling science writer Simon Singh to develop an online academy of maths excellence.
Junaid has a doctorate in mathematics from Oxford and a Master’s in Education from Harvard, where he studied as a Kennedy scholar. He is a keen runner, a board game enthusiast and an amateur card magician. He is perhaps best known for winning Series 59 of television game show, Countdown
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Professor Lewis Dartnell Astrobiology Researcher, Science Communicator and Presenter
Lewis is a science researcher and writer, and holds a Professorship at the University of Westminster. His research is in the field of astrobiology and the search for bacterial life beyond the Earth. Lewis explores how microbial life, and signs of its past existence, might survive the bombardment of cosmic radiation on the surface of Mars, and what are the best ways to try and detect it.
Alongside his academic research Lewis is a science writer. He has won prizes from the The Daily Telegraph, Oxford University Press, New Scientist and The Times Higher Education. Lewis’ books include the Sunday Times bestsellers The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch, which discusses how to reboot civilisation after an apocalypse, andOrigins: How The Earth Shaped Human History is a deep dive into how features of the planet have influenced the course of history. Origins has been translated into twenty-six languages, and a copy of The Knowledge even exists on the surface of the moon.
Lewis has appeared on BBC Horizon, Wonders of the Universe, Stargazing Live, and Sky at Night, as well as on the DVD extras for the sci-fi film Monsters. He acted as scientific consultant and scriptwriter for films including a full-dome planetarium show We Are Aliens, and documentaries with Brian Cox. Lewis has been interviewed on the BBC World Service the Guardian Science Weekly podcast, talkSPORT and on Lauren Laverne’s show on BBC Radio 6 Music.Lewis has delivered lectures at the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Institution, and the Natural History Museum.
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Dr Tim Gregory Planetary Geologist
Tim works full-time as a Nuclear Chemist in the heart of the British nuclear industry. He spends his workdays in the lab measuring the chemistry and radioactivity of nuclear materials, taking him to the forefront of nuclear energy, net zero, and nuclear medicine.
Tim’s background is in academia. After completing a PhD at the University of Bristol researching the formation of the Solar System using meteorites, Tim became a postdoctoral researcher at the British Geological Survey in Nottingham.
In 2020, Tim’s debut book – Meteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World — was published by John Murray to critical acclaim. Before this, in 2017, Tim surpassed thousands of applicants for a place in the six part BBC2 series Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?, where he was put through the full rigours of astronaut selection and reached the final three.
Since then, he has gone on to present a segment about meteorites on BBC4’s The Sky at Night and has made live television appearances on BBC Breakfast, BBC Look North, and BBC Points West. He frequently features on local and national radio to talk about events in the world of space, science, and nuclear.
