18 December 2020
Rosemary is a Non-Executive Director of HSBC UK PLC and YouGov PLC, an international online Market Research and Data Analytics company and currently advises and invests in a number of technology businesses in Europe and North America including Data Analytics, IOT, Internet Infrastructure and Fin Tech. She is a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society most recently leading an Exec Education Course for Board Chairs and NED’s on Cybersecurity.
She is a Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation and has been the Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Internet Security. Rosemary is an Advisor to Motive Partners a US/UK Fintech PE Fund and Glasswing Ventures, a VC focusing on AI for consumer and enterprise and a Member of Rasbperry Pi Foundation (overseeing commercial operations of Raspberry Pi). She is an Advisor to a number of Academic Institutions in the UK and Canada and is a regular attendee
How the coronavirus sent women back to the 1950s
As the UN says the pandemic has turned the clock back decades on gender equality, Laura Bates explores the long-term implications for women
15 December 2020 • 6:00am
Research from the UN has led to warnings that the turmoil caused by the pandemic could last longer than the immediate public health crisis
Credit: Anais de Busscher
Before the pandemic hit, 2020 was going to be the year Melissa went back to work. “I had taken four years off to raise two children and I was itching to use my brain again,” she says. “There are only so many nursery rhymes one can remember and only so many tantrums one can lovingly endure.”