The Asian Women of Achievement Awards, founded by Pinky Lilani CBE DL in 1999, celebrate multicultural Britain and the contribution of diverse cultures and talents to UK society. We put on a platform, the phenomenal Asian women across the UK and across industries, who are making a valuable and important contribution to British life. The awards play a key role in redefining the contribution of Asian women; and informing a new, positive, pro-diversity debate.<\/p>\n
ASIAN WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT- Shortlist 2019<\/p>\n
The Asian Women of Achievement Awards, in association with NatWest, is proud to announce the full shortlist for 2019. From a composer, comedian and cardiologist to CEOs of big businesses, a GB wheelchair basketball player and a professor whose groundbreaking work has uncovered a new universal influenza vaccine, the nominees are a shining example of the trailblazing work of Asian women in Britain today.
\nThis year\u2019s Asian Women of Achievement Awards will take place on Monday April 29, 2019, at the London Hilton on Park Lane.<\/p>\n
ARTS & CULTURE<\/em> BUSINESS<\/em> ENTREPRENEUR<\/em> MEDIA<\/em> PROFESSIONS<\/em> PUBLIC SERVICE<\/em> REAL ESTATE,\u00a0<\/em>INFRASTRUCTURE AND\u00a0<\/em>CONSTRUCTION<\/em> SCIENCE<\/em> SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN<\/em> SPORT<\/em> TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL<\/em> YOUNG ACHIEVER<\/em> The Asian Women of Achievement Awards, founded by Pinky Lilani CBE DL in 1999, celebrate multicultural Britain and the contribution of diverse cultures and talents to UK society. We put on a platform, the phenomenal Asian women across the UK and across industries, who are making a valuable and important contribution to British life. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNainita Desai, Film & TV Composer
\nShobna Gulati, Actor, Dancer, Choreographer
\nChetna Makan, Author, Food Writer
\nSara Shamma, Artist
\nSindhu Vee, Comedian<\/p>\n
\nRajinder Bassi, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
\nJune Felix, CEO, IG Group
\nAva Lau, Group Pensions Manager, London Stock Exchange Group
\nManju Malhotra, Co-Chief Operating Officer, Harvey Nichols
\nHemlata Narasimhan, Senior Vice President, Merchant Sales and Acquiring, Europe, Visa inc
\nAnna Sofat, CEO, Addidi
\nWincie Wong, Head of Innovation for Supply Chain Services, Royal Bank of Scotland<\/p>\n
\nHarri Dhokia, Director, Black Interiors
\nYang Liu, Founder & CEO, JustWears
\nShazia Mustafa, Co-founder and Managing Director, Third Door (Co-working & Nursery)
\nDr Yoge Patel, CEO, Blue Bear Group
\nShermeena Rabbi, Founder, Consultant Speech & Language Therapist, Unlocking Language
\nSania Shah, Director, Care Avenues<\/p>\n
\nAnu Anand, Presenter, Marketplace Morning Report, BBC World Service
\nLeyla Boulton, Special Reports Editor and Executive Editor, Financial Times
\nLayla Haidrani, Journalist
\nRuby Lovell, Children\u2019s Author, TV & Film Producer
\nBidisha, Broadcaster, journalist, filmmaker
\nManjinder Virk, Actor, Film maker<\/p>\n
\nPragya Agarwal, Director, KPMG
\nShruti Ajitsaria, Head of Fuse, Allen & Overy
\nProfessor King Kuok (Mimi) Hii, Professor of Catalysis, Imperial College London
\nRanjani Kearsley, Global Head of HR, Fidelity International
\nDr Nitha Naqvi, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
\nPrini Pithouse, Company Secretary and Deputy General Counsel, Legal Regulatory & Compliance, Visa Europe
\nStella Vig, Consultant Vascular and General Surgeon, Croydon University Hospital<\/p>\n
\nAditi Banerjee, Co-founder, SkilIndiGlo
\nParpinder K. Dhatt, CEO, Sandwell Asian Family Support (SAFS)
\nNadia Khan, Co-founder, The Delicate Mind
\nDr Duleeka Knipe, Vice Chancellor\u2019s Research Fellow, University of Bristol
\nDr Mimi Zou, Fangda Fellow in Chinese Commercial Law, University of Oxford<\/p>\n
\nSherin Aminossehe FRICS, Head of Offices, Lendlease
\nVidhya Issac-Langford, Senior Project Manager, Arcadis
\nDoris Lam, Senior Project Manager, Far East Consortium
\nHana Sicander, Cost Manager, Turner & Townsend
\nJudy Zhu, Associate Director, CBRE<\/p>\n
\nYasmin Ali, Technical Energy Specialist, BEIS
\nProfessor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
\nManisha Nair, Senior Epidemiologist and Research Fellow, University of Oxford
\nProfessor Sonia Saxena, Professor of Child Health, Imperial College London
\nDr Tara Swart, Neuroscientist and Author<\/p>\n
\nLeesa Gazi, Co-Artistic Director, Komola Collective
\nGeethika Jayatilaka, CEO, Chance UK
\nBhavna Keane-Rao, Founder and Managing Director, BKR Care Consultancy
\nDeeyah Khan, Documentary Filmmaker\/Founder, Fuuse
\nSalma Zulfiqar, Artist, Activist<\/p>\n
\nNaomi Dattani, Women\u2019s One Day Middlesex Cricket Captain
\nJoy Haizelden, Wheelchair Basketball Player, BWB
\nArchie Kalyana, Producer & Director, Sport Production
\nRashida Salloo, Founder and Director, Ready Steady Active
\nNabila Tejpar, Rally Driver<\/p>\n
\nAgnes Hoffmann, Manager, Programme Management, Publicis Sapient
\nPayal Jain, Managing Director, JCURV and Chair of Women in Data
\nMinal Mehta, Digital Strategy Consultant,
\nIBM iX
\nJacqueline de Rojas CBE, President, techUK
\nSarika Soni, Senior Manager, HSBC<\/p>\n
\nSonia Adesara, Medical Doctor, NHS
\nMonika Plaha, Broadcast Journalist, BBC
\nGeetha Sathi, Electrical Engineer, Arcadis
\nShruthi Vijayakumar, Associate, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
\nAnika Walia, Founder, Anika Food Charity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"