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L eadership Dinner

Director of Studies Mr Jack Tan and Luci Ronai meet Ms Lauren Sach and students From the JCR to the SCR: Graduate students
Rosie Yates, Lily Brougham, Lucinda Ralph and Tessie Chang from MGGS May Dunn Scholar Kelly Widdows and AM
White Scholar Kirsten Sugden
They can be put off when they have ethical issues that have to be considered. Jack: Can you tell us about one person
completed their degree, but when they With the huge wealth and consumerism who has really inspired you.
go out into the world, they don’t get the that young people are coming into, we
work they wanted, because the jobs have to learn how to manage the level Gillian: The living public figure who
aren’t available, or the competition for of waste and the level of acquisition. has inspired me is Roslyn Higgins. She
those jobs is too strong. So I think one Their lives could be richer if they could was the President of the International
of the challenges is to know how to go be more disciplined about what they Court of Justice and I first got to know
around these roadblocks and search acquire. her when she was a Professor of Public
for other ways of negotiating your and International Law at the London
professional career. Certainly in my own Jack: Can you tell us what you favourite School of Economics. I’ve always been
life I’ve found myself doing very strange book is? enormously impressed by her crystal
things, one of them being the legal clarity of thinking about the law and her
adviser to the Dallas Police Department Gillian: I have two. One is Anna ability to write quite short books that
in my late 20s. You never know where Karenina by Tolstoy. It is the most explain the legal principles involved
these experiences are going to lead extraordinary analysis of the in a particular issue. I greatly admire
you. I’ve found that every experience psychological breakdown of a woman. her intellectual discipline and clarity of
is worthwhile. Everything is a building I read it when I was young and I still thought. She is for me the preeminent
block to give you the platform to go in go back to this fascinating narrative world leader and thinker in public and
the direction that you want to go. One from time to time. How Tolstoy got international law. I also admire her
thing I say to young people who come to into the mind of that woman and wrote humanity, and she is definitely my hero
see me is, don’t say no to opportunities. about the tragic outcome is remarkable or somebody I look up to in my field.
If they come up, take them, even if they particularly for the times when there
are not on the direct route of where you wasn’t much known about psychology. Jack: If you could meet a famous figure
want to go, they will always be valuable In more modern times, and in a way also from history, who would that be?
experiences and you will learn a lot psychological, are Hilary Mantel’s books
from them. I think flexibility is the key Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, Gillian: The person I would most like
characteristic. both winners of the Booker Prize. Her to meet is Elizabeth I. She had this
writing is absolutely phenomenal in her astonishing courage and leadership
I also think that these are very exciting psychological insight into Cromwell, in very cruel times but she had a very
times where we have access to so much who we’d all learnt to hate, but she genuine concern for the people that she
information. When I was at University, has also provided this fleshed-out represented as sovereign. She is also a
you really had to go to the library to psychological person who we can all minor character in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf
get information, whereas it is so readily understand. I think the quality of her Hall. She is the dismissed child of Henry
available today. When you want to hear writing and her insights into human VIII. Her mother was Anne Boleyn. In
other people’s views, or wish to know behaviour are almost without precedent. those times children were very much
whether something works or not, you I have read Wolf Hall three times and out in the countryside and nobody had
just have to google it. So overall, the Bring up the Bodies twice and I don’t imagined that Elizabeth would ever be
challenges are being outweighed by usually read books a second time. I Queen of England!
the opportunities of the age in which am also looking forward to the third
young people are getting out into the book, in which unfortunately Cromwell
job market. I think there are also some ultimately loses his head.

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