Speaker Biographies
Dame Carol Mary Black DBE FRCP is Principal of Newnham College Cambridge,
Adviser on Work and Health at the Department of Health, England, Chair of the
Nuffield Trust, and Chair of the Governance Board, Centre for Workforce
Intelligence.
Michael Bromley is Professor in International Journalism at City University London.
He has taught at universities in the UK, USA and Australia. Michael has published
seven books and more than 50 chapters and articles. Prior to working at City
University London he was head of the School of Journalism and Communication at
The University of Queensland, Australia.
Caroline Criado-Perez is a journalist, author and founder of “The Women's Room”.
Caroline has been involved in high profile campaigns for women to gain better
representation in the British media and to be depicted on banknotes.
Robin Elias is the Managing Editor of ITV News. The former roving reporter, who
joined ITV from Fleet Street in 1980, was programme editor of News at Ten for more
than five years and was in charge of output during the death of Princess Diana in
Paris and the World Trade Centre attacks in New York.
Suzanne Franks is Professor of Journalism at City University London. Suzanne’s
publications include Women and Journalism and Having None of it: Women, Men
and the Future of Work.
Helen Goodman is MP for Bishop Auckland and a Shadow Minister for Culture,
Media and Sport, with specific responsibility for media reform, arts, culture and
heritage.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy is a journalist and presenter for Channel 4 News and the
foreign affairs documentary series Unreported World
Mary Hockaday is Head of the BBC Multimedia Newsroom. Mary is responsible for
the editorial leadership and overall management of content that includes news
bulletins on BBC One, radio networks, the BBC News Channel, BBC World and the
BBC News website.
Kerry Hopkins is Managing Editor at Broadcast Ready.
Lis Howell is Director of Broadcasting and Deputy Head of the Journalism
department. Lis is a major award-winning journalist and broadcasting executive who
has worked for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky News. Liz is co-founder of the Expert
Women campaign.
Dame Tessa Jowell is MP for Dulwich and West Norwood. In a distinguished
political career, she has served as Minister for the Olympics, Minister for the Cabinet
Office, Minister for London, and Minister for Women, Secretary of State for Culture,
Media and Sport, and Paymaster General.
Cordelia Lynch is a reporter for Channel 4 News. Previously she was a presenter of
ITV News West Country.
Penny Marshall is Education Editor for BBC News and Visiting Professor of
Journalism at City University London. Previously Penny was Social Affairs Editor for
ITV News. Penny was the first woman in Britain to be appointed as a foreign
correspondent based abroad for the national TV news. She has won an EMMY, a
BAFTA and an RTS award for her work in Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1990s.
Anne Morrison is Director of the BBC Academy, the BBC's centre for training. Anne
is on BAFTA’s Board of Trustees, Chair of Learning and Events and a member of the
Television Committee. Previously she was Programme Director of the Network
Supply Review and Controller, Documentaries and Contemporary Factual at the
BBC.
Shaminder Nahal is Deputy Editor for Channel 4 News. As Deputy Editor at
Newsnight, Shaminder was responsible for the first programme recorded inside a
prison and the first all-female edition of Newsnight.
Deirdre O’Neill is Associate Principal Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University. Her
research interests include news values, news access and news sources, focussing
on newspapers.
Stewart Purvis is Professor of Television Journalism at City University London.
Previously Stewart was Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive of ITN. He is now a nonexecutive director of Channel Four and a Vice-President of the Royal Television
Society.
Kat Stanczyszyn is BBC Political Reporter in West Mids and a Newsreader on 5
Live.
Minnie Stephenson is Entertainment Reporter for Channel 5 News. Previously
Minnie was an ITN producer.
Sarah Whitehead is Head of Home News at Sky News. Previously Sarah was
responsible for Sky News's widely acclaimed foreign news coverage.
Rebecca Williams is Home Affairs reporter and presenter at BBC South East Today.