“It’s not just that women aren’t being listened to enough, it’s that their voices aren’t being heard in the first place.”

Mary Ann Sieghart is a distinguished journalist, radio presenter, former Chair of the Social Market Foundation and a visiting professor at King's College London.

Much of her journalism career was spent working for The Times, The Independent, The Economist and the Financial Times, writing on politics and social affairs. She spent a year as a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she researched and wrote her best-selling book  The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It.

“Her confidence is legendary” – The Independent"