Eve Poole
Eve Poole OBE is interim Chief Executive of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. She has a BA from Durham, an MBA from Edinburgh, and a PhD in theology and capitalism from Cambridge. She has written several books, including 'Robot Souls: Programming in Humanity’ (Taylor & Francis 2023) and 'Leadersmithing: Revealing the Trade Secrets of Leadership’ (Bloomsbury 2015), which was Highly Commended in the 2018 Business Book Awards. She was interim CEO at the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2022), Third Church Estates Commissioner (2018-2021) and Chairman of the Board of Governors at Gordonstoun (2015-2021). Previously she taught leadership at Ashridge Business School, following earlier careers at the Church Commissioners and Deloitte Consulting.
Debora Kayembe
Debora Kayembe was called to the Congolese Bar Association in 2000. A member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (2010-20), she joined the language services of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Court Bar Association in 2016. She served as Scottish Refugee Council board member (2013-16), joined the Royal Society of Edinburgh / Young Academy of Scotland representing refugee minorities, and took her seat as an expert lawyer to the RSE / Working Group for Africa. In 2019, Kayembe became the first African to have her portrait erected at the RSE. In 2020, Kayembe launched the Freedom Walk campaign and is petitioning to the Scottish Parliament in favour of anti-racist education. In 2021, she was elected as Lord Rector of the University, and was awarded two doctor honoris causa for major contributions to science in connection to her commitment to promote peace, justice and advocating for human rights in the making of a better world.
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