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Steven Bartlett                                                         Dawn Dixon
                  Co-Founder, The Social Chain  Cynthia Erivo                             Author, Consultant Solicitor,
                                            Actress, singer, songwriter                   PDC Legal Solicitors
                  Dr Robert Beckford
                  Academic, Theologian,     Cynthia is best known for her                 Magnus Djaba
                  Professor                 performance as Celie in the 2015              Global President, Saatchi &
                                            Broadway revival of The Color                 Saatchi and CEO, Saatchi &
                  Darcus Beese              Purple, for which she won the 2016            Saatchi UK
                  President, Island Records  Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
                                            and the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater   Dame Linda Dobbs DBE
                  Alphege Bell              Album. She is also received widespread acclaim for her   Former High Court Judge
                  Barrister
                                            portrayal of Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence   Steve Douglas
                  Dr Akintunde Bello        (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the movie) in the UK tour   Partner, Altair Consultancy
                  Head of Clinical          of Sister Act. Since appearing in the Powerlist in 2016, she   and Advisory Services Ltd
                  Pharmacology and          has made the smooth transition from theatre to movies,
                  Pharmacometrics,          appearing in Steve McQueen’s Widows, and she is set to   Sokari Douglas Camp
                  Bristol-Myers Squibb      star in Harriet, a biopic about abolitionist Harriet Tubman.  Artist, Sculptor
                  Jason Black                                                             Didier Drogba
                  Co-Founder, Crept Protect   Damon Buffini       Executive Director and Chief   Professional footballer
                                          Former Head, Permira,   Administrative Officer – Legal
                  Abigail Blackburn       Governor, Wellcome Trust   and Compliance Division,   Jourdan Dunn
                  Head of Content and Social                      EMEA, Morgan Stanley    Fashion model
                  Marketing, TUI Group    Dawn Butler                                     Sarah Ebanja
                                          MP Brent Central, Shadow   Noel Clarke          Owner, SEE Associates,
                  Karen Blackett          Women and Equalities    Actor, Writer, Director  Management Consulting
                  CEO, MediaCom           Minister
                                                                  Patrick Clarke          Consultant
                  Malorie Blackman        Naomi Campbell          Director of Network     Carolann Edwards
                  Author                  Fashion model, Actress   Operations, UK Power   Global Director of Learning
                                                                  Networks
                  Mary Boakye             Tim Campbell                                    and Organisational
                  Africa Consultant, Dentons  Head of Client Services,   Paul Cleal       Development, Norton Rose
                                          Emerging Talent at Alexander   Strategy & Leadership,   Fullbright
                  Ozwald Boateng          Mann Solutions, Founder,   Non-exec Director & Mentor,
                  Fashion Designer                                                        Diane Edwards
                                          Bright Ideas Trust      Former Partner, PwC
                                                                                          President of Jamaica
                  Lord Paul Boateng       Rene Carayol            Colin Cook              Promotions Corporation
                  Life Peer               Author, Speaker, Former   Director of Clerking, Garden   (JAMPRO)
                  Abib Boceresion         Board Member, IPC, Inland   Court Chambers      Joel Edwards
                  Head of Market Risk, Barclays   Revenue, PepsiCo  Garth Crooks          Director of Advocacy
                  International           Clark Carlisle          Former professional     Christian Solidarity
                  Johan Bowes-Little      Chairman, Professional   footballer, Broadcaster  Worldwide, Former General
                                                                                          Director, Evangelical Alliance
                  Founder and Manager,    Footballers’ Association.  Taio Cruz
                  Bracket VC              Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford  Brit Award-winning Musician,   Althea Efunshile
                                          Art Historian, Curator,   Entrepreneur          Deputy Chief Executive,
                  Ron Brooks                                                              Arts Council England
                  Former CEO, CLM (Olympic   Director, National Museum of   Kwadjo Dajan
                                          African Art
                  Delivery Partner)                               Producer & Creative Director,   Chiwetel Ejiofor
                                          Peter Casely-Hayford    Sugar Films             Actor
                  Yvonne Brewster         Co-Founder and former
                  Co-founder, Talawa      Managing Director,      Jackie Davidson         Gary Elden
                  Theatre                                         Music Manager           CEO, SThree plc
                                          TwentyTwenty Television
                  Constance Briscoe       Sophie Chandauka        Alesha Dixon            Paul Elliott
                  Former Barrister                                Singer, TV personality   Former professional
                                                                                          footballer, Anti-racism
                                                                                          campaigner
                    Adrian Joseph                                                         Michael Emenalo
                    Partner, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Big Data, EY          Former professional
                    Before his role at EY, Adrian – who has appeared in the               footballer, Technical Director,
                    Powerlist’s Top 10 – was the head of Client Services, Google          Chelsea F.C
                    Analytics, EMEA. His career at Google was a decade long and           Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
                    saw him holding positions such as Head of Search Advertising          Businessman, Farmer,
                    for Northern and Central Europe and Managing Director of Google       Founder, The Black Farmer
                    Enterprise EMEA. Prior to this he had 15 years of sales, marketing
                    and general management experience gained within industry and management   Jessica Ennis-Hill
                    consultancy. This included six years at Ford Motor Company, where he held sales and   Track and field athlete
                    brand management roles in Europe, was a principal consultant at AT Kearney and was on   (retired), Olympic Heptathlon
                    the main board of Trafficmaster Plc. Adrian took up his appointment as a non-executive   champion
                    director for the Home Office in September 2015. He is chair of Race for Opportunity, the   Ivor Etienne
                    race campaign of Business in the Community, a Prince of Wales charity, which strives to   CEO and Founder,
                    ensure that all ethnic groups are appropriately reflected in the UK workforce.
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