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Surbhi Vedhara
Surbhi Vedhara is a Senior Partner at Sweeney Miller Law, a Newcastle based law firm renowned for providing quality legal services to clients across the country. She grew up in Mumbai, India and in 2002 she moved to Newcastle with her husband Ashish. Following her move to the UK, she studied Law at Northumbria University and went on to qualify as a solicitor, eventually becoming a partner in Sweeney Miller. Surbhi now specialises in Commercial Property
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Sharmishta ChatterjeeBanerjee
Sharmishta ChatterjeeBanerjee is Head of Corporate Connections and Internationalisation at Newcastle University Business School. With extensive experience in the UK higher education sector and travel, retail and advertising industries, in her current role she is responsible for developing a portfolio of strategic partnerships with high quality institutions, professional bodies, and commercial organisations and leading on the award winning Global Experience Opportunities programme. Sharmishta holds a BA (Hons) in Political Science and International Relations from Jadavpur University, India and a MA in Marketing Management from Nottingham Business School. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, an alumna of the Santander UCLA W30 leadership programme and has recently completed Advance HE’s Aurora Women in Leadership programme. Sharmishta is passionate about equality, diversity, and inclusion, and serves on the University’s Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic (BAME) Advisory group. star Sunny Leone to sell the stars range of products at her business.
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Ranjana Bell MBE
Ranjana has over 35 years’ experience in the field of Equality and Diversity. She has been a teacher for children with special needs; a Race Equality Officer for a local authority; an Equal Opportunities Officer for a university; a Non-Executive Director for a design company and has held the position of Director for her own company, rba Equality & Diversity since 1998. She has been on many Boards and committees and is currently Chair of the Northumbria Police SIAG, PCC Independent Member for Police Misconduct Panel and Chair of Young People in Conversation. She was a government appointed Commissioner for the Women’s National Commission for four years and Co-Chair of the NE CPS Scrutiny Panel for Racist and Religious Hate Crime. She has been a Lay Member of Employment Tribunals since 1999. She has also been a Board member for The Cyrenians (Changing Lives); SAHELI and The Angelou Centre. She has won several awards, which include a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to Equality and Diversity by CULTURES CIC and not forgetting awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Honours for her work with the police and BME communities in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.
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