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Woman In Charge Of Football

The first female chair of the Football Association (FA) is to visit Nottingham to deliver a lecture. Debbie Hewitt will speak at Nottingham Business School for the second of its Business Leaders Lectures series. Ms Hewitt will talk about her career at household names including White Stuff Ltd and Marks & Spencer, as well as her time as the first female managing director of RAC.

Attendees will be able to ask her questions at an open Q&A session. In 2021, British Vogue listed Ms Hewitt in the Vogue 25 –its annual list of the UK’s most influential women and she took on her current FA role in January 2022.