Miranda Brawn
Miranda Brawn is a barrister, Patron of the Black Cultural Archives and founder and CEO of the Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation.
A multi-award winning legal business and diversity leader, she is a regular business and diversity expert on television and radio and has been named one of the most powerful women in London by City AM.
She was selected by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 BAME business executives striving to make the world a more equal and diverse place.
She has also been named one of the top 30 most inspirational women in the city who are champions of diversity in the Brummel Magazine 2015. She sits on the board of several organisations and is active in philanthropic and diversity issues where she has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts for her outstanding contribution.
Miranda is a board member of the Cancer Research UK Women of Influence, City Women Network and Thomson Reuters Business Law Consultation Advisory Board. The first Patron of the Black British Academics, which aims to increase the number of black professors in the UK, and co-founder of Color In Tech which helps increase race diversity within the technology sector.
In addition, Miranda has founded the ‘Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation’ supporting the Black Cultural Archives and the Prince’s Trust to increase race diversity and equality within the UK workforce.
She is responsible for the derivatives, regulations and securities financing business within Legal and Transaction Management for Europe at an investment bank.
Her staunch dedication to her academic education led her to triumphantly completing her MBA degree which is central to her interests in the business sphere and has studied political philosophy at Cambridge University. Miranda is also a barrister where she has been called to the Bar of England and Wales at The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and is a renowned international public speaker.
To see what she has been up to recently see updates at @brawnm.