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Jun 5
1 min

Rory Writes for WEF's AGENDA

Rory's article on how the virus has resulted in social, economic and educational insecurity for young people in UK was published on Agenda

Mar 24, 2019
1 min

Baillie's charity, Spark Inside's recent success

We're thrilled that Global Shaper Baillie Aaron's charity, Spark Inside, was listed as one of the top 50 Female-Founded Companies in Lon...

Jan 21, 2019
1 min

Yang talks undies with Eric Schmidt

Global Shaper Yang Liu was fortunate to sit with Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and Chairman of Google, at a private roundtable along wi...

Jan 21, 2019
1 min

Baillie publishes on The Agenda

Our Hub Co-Curator, Baillie Aaron has published not one but TWO pieces on the WEF's The Agenda. Check them out: Prisons are failing. It’s...

Nov 3, 2018
1 min

claudine announces partnership with O2

We are thrilled to share the news that new Global Shaper, Claudine Adeyemi, has announced a partnership with her organisation CareerEar a...

Nov 3, 2018
1 min

kike in the evening standard

New Shaper Kike Oniwinde has received £25,000 in funding from Sky to develop her app, BYP Network, to help black young professionals netw...

Nov 3, 2018
1 min

Abi Ramanan wins Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Award

Global Shaper in both London and San Francisco, Abi Ramanan, has won the Unilever Young Entrepreneur Award for the company she has starte...

Nov 3, 2018
1 min

Gemma's writing a book

Gemma Milne, who is a freelance science and tech writer has only gone and got a book deal! Gemma will be spending the next 7 months inves...

Nov 3, 2018
1 min

Yang Liu wins Deloitte People's Choice Award

Global Shaper Yang Liu, who is the cofounder and CEO of Just Wears has been awarded the "People Choice" at The Pitch 2018 Final, organize...

Nov 3, 2018
1 min

Daisy's funding & award wins

Dr Daisy Fancourt, who is a a Senior Research Fellow at UCL, has received a £1.25 million pound investment in a new national research pro...

Oct 11, 2018
1 min

Tat-Seng joins the tech4good zinc programme

Tat-Seng was recently selected tech-for-good business builder Zinc as one of a cohort of 50 entrepreneurs on Zinc's next impact mission –...

Oct 11, 2018
1 min

Shwetal's Innovate UK & AwarDs galore

Shwetal Shah has been busy! She works at Erase All Kittens, and are thrilled to announce they recently won a grant from Innovate UK for a...

Apr 30, 2018
1 min

Daisy's busy stint with the bbc talking arts and health

Daisy Fancourt, who joined Shapers in 2017, has been gracing the BBC left right and centre! Daisy has an ongoing position as a BBC New Ge...

Apr 30, 2018
1 min

Katie's report on systems change for the charity sector

Global Shaper, Katie Boswell, Deputy Head of Funders at NPC, launched a new report on systems change for the charity sector. Thinking Big...

Apr 26, 2018
1 min

Maxine's data science successes

Maxine Mackintosh, who joined the Shapers in 2016, is doing a PhD at UCL at the intersection of data science and dementia, where she is m...

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