The arts, fashion and design (Unranked)
Chi-Chi Nwanoku, OBE – Founder, Artistic & Exec Director Chineke!;
Duro Olowu – Fashion Designer
Dr Shirley J Thompson, OBE – Composer, Artistic & Music Director, Writer, Educator, University of Westminster
Pat McGrath MBE – Founder, Pat McGrath Cosmetics
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – Artist
Francesca Hayward – Principal Dancer, Royal Ballet
Grace Wales-Bonner – Founder and Creative Director at Wales Bonner
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith – Actor/Founding Member Act for Change
John Boyega – Actor
Idris Elba OBE – Actor, Producer
Business (Unranked)
Alan Smith – Global Head of Risk Strategy and Chief of Staff, Global Risk, HSBC
Camille Drummond – Vice President, Global Business Services, BP
Eric Collins – CEO and Founding Member, Impact X Capital Partners
Jason Black – Co-founder of Crep Protect and Co-Owner of Crepe and Cones
Lindelwe Lesley Ndlovu – CEO, AXA Africa Specialty Risks, Lloyd’s of London
Netsai Mangwende – Head of Finance for Great Britain, Willis Towers Watson
Pamela Hutchinson – Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Bloomberg
Sandra Wallace – UK Managing Partner, DLA Piper
Tevin Tobun – Founder and CEO, GV Group (Gate Ventures)
Yvonne Ike – Managing Director and Head of Sub Saharan Africa region, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Paulette Rowe – CEO, Integrated and E-commerce Solutions, Paysafe Group
Nadja Bellan-White – Global Chief Marketing Officer at VICE Media Group, former Executive Partner, WPP Team Leader at Ogilvy
Roni Savage – Managing Director, Founder of Jomas Associates
Dean Forbes – President, The Access Group
Dame Sharon White – Chairman, John Lewis Partnership
Tara Lajumoke – Managing Director, Financial Times
Adrian Joseph – Managing Director, Group AI and Data Solutions, BT Group
Femi Bamisaiye – Chief Information Officer, HomeServe UK
Yemi Edun – Founder and CEO, Daniel Ford & Co and Daniel Ford International
Emeka Emembolu – Senior Vice President – North Sea at BP
Tunde Olanrewaju – Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Media, Publishing and Entertainment (Unranked)
Akala – Educator, Rapper, Poet, Activist
Anne Mensah – Vice-president of Content UK, Netflix
Amma Asante MBE – Writer, Director
Charlene White – ITN News Anchor
Femi Oguns MBE – Agent, Founder and CEO of Identity Theatre
Education (Unranked)
Gary Younge – Journalist; Author; Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
Lorna Clarke – BBC Controller of Pop Music
Marcus Ryder – Executive Producer of Multimedia, Caixin Global
Paulette Simpson – Executive, Corporate Affairs and Public Policy, Jamaica National Bank; Executive Director, The Voice Media Group
Reggie Yates – Writer; Director; Broadcaster
Reni Eddo-Lodge – Journalist, Author
Sir Lenny Henry – Actor, Writer, Campaigner
Vanessa Kingori MBE – Publisher, British Vogue
Bernadine Evaristo – Writer, Professor of Creative Writing, Brunel
Hugh Muir – Senior Assistant Editor, The Guardian
Annette Thomas – CEO Guardian Media Group PLC
Dorothy Koomson – Author
Kamal Ahmed – Editorial Director, BBC News
Politics, Law and Religion (Unranked)
David Lammy – Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Member of Parliament for Tottenham
Dr Sandie Okoro – Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel, World Bank
Joshua Siaw MBE – Partner, White & Case
Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku – Director, Politics and Governance, Overseas Development Institute
Martin Forde, QC- Barrister
Rose Hudson-Wilkin – Bishop of Dover
Segan Osuntokun – Managing Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Harry Matovu QC – Barrister
Marcia Willis Stewart QC – Director, Birnberg Peirce & Partners
Stephanie Boyce – Deputy Vice-President, Law Society of England and Wales
Patrick Vernon OBE -Political activist and social commentator
Public sector and politics
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon – MBE CEO and Co-Founder, STEMettes
Dr Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE – Chair, Shakespeare’s Globe; Chancellor, Coventry University; Non-Executive Director, Co-op Group
Marvin Rees – Mayor of Bristol
Dr Nira Chamberlain – President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Professor Funmi Olonisakin – Professor of Security, Leadership and Development at King’s College London; Founding Director of African Leadership Centre
Lord Simon Woolley – Co-founder/Director, Operation Black Vote
Sonita Alleyne OBE – Master, Jesus College, Cambridge
Professor Patricia Daley – Vice Principal at Jesus College Oxford
Science, Medicine and Engineering (not ranked)
Dr Emeka Okaro- Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Dr Ian Nnatu – Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Joy Odili – Consultant Plastic Surgeon
Dr Sylvia Bartley – Senior Global Director, Medtronic Foundation
Samantha Tross – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Professor Laura Serrant OB – Head of Department and Professor of Community and Public Health Nursing at Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor Jacqueline Dunkley Bent OBE – Chief Midwifery Officer, NHS England
Martin Griffiths – Lead trauma surgeon, Royal London & National Clinical Director for Violence Reduction, NHS
Dr Paula Franklin – Chief Medical Officer at Bupa Global and UK
Dr Jacqui Dyer MBE – President, Mental Health Foundation
Sport (Unranked)
Anthony Joshua – World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Dina Asher-Smith – World champion sprinter
Raheem Sterling – Footballer
Marcus Rashford – Footballer and campaigner
Tech (Unranked)
Ebele Okobi – Public Policy Director Africa, the Middle East & Turkey, Facebook
Ije Nwokorie – Senior Director, Apple
Nneka Abulokwe OBE – Founder and CEO, MicroMax Consulting
Jacky Wright – Chief Digital Officer & Corporate Vice President, Microsoft, US