Funke Abimbola, MBE
Thu 01 Mar
|Wadham College
Part of our Inspiring Speakers series, Funke is a leading BAME lawyer and diversity campaigner, focusing on gender equality, race diversity and social mobility within the legal profession and wider business community. She was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to diversity.
Time & Location
01 Mar 2018, 17:00 – 18:30
Wadham College, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PN, UK
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OxWIB is delighted to welcome Funke Abimbola for our Inspiring Speakers series.
Funke is a solicitor and senior leader for Roche, the world’s largest biotech company. Her team provides legal support to Roche’s pharmaceutical operations in the UK, Ireland, Malta and Gibraltar. In addition, she also leads the financial compliance function for the UK pharmaceutical business. Outside of her day job, she is a notable diversity campaigner, mainly focusing on campaigning for more gender equality, race diversity and social mobility within the legal profession and wider business community.
Currently the most senior black lawyer in her field, she is ranked as being a top 15 BAME leader globally (Financial Times), one of the 100 most influential leaders of African/Afro-Caribbean heritage in the UK (The Powerlist) and the…