Emily Kasriel — Head of Editorial Partnerships & Special Projects at the BBC World Service

As well as a long-standing supporter of Jasmin Vardimon Company, Emily is the Head of Editorial Partnerships and Special Projects, BBC World Service Group. She has been a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School, University of Oxford. She set up and ran The Forum, the landmark weekly interdisciplinary ideas discussion show on the BBC World Service (where Jasmin was guest speaker twice) and has reported and produced for the BBC across five continents. Emily has written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph and the Financial Times, and chairs panels, hosts events and interviews. Emily is also a BBC Executive Coach and on the board of The Wingate grant-giving Foundation.