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Adenike Adenitire is Education Lead CAREER PANEL
for Tomorrow’s Leaders and deals with Rob
building relationships with schools and MODERATOR Knight
workshop providers to develop and de-
liver impactful sessions for young peo-
ple. She is also founding editor of Future Global Head of Guideline Manage-
Leaders magazine, which in partner- ment & Transaction Reporting
ship with HSBC and the University of
Oxford, annually celebrates 100 of Brit- Rob is a Managing Director for
ain's most outstanding black university Barings, a global asset manage-
students. Adenike has been a profes-
sional journalist for 20 years writing in ment firm with USD 318 billion
publications such as the Daily Mirror under management. She is glob-
and the Guardian. She has interviewed al head of guideline manage-
celebrities such as Will Smith, Kanye ment and transaction reporting,
West, Samuel L Jackson, and Denzel having joined the firm in Sep-
Washington, and has appeared on tember 2000 to create Barings’
BBC News and MTV.Adenike has a global guideline management
BSc in Media and Society and a Post- process which today monitors
graduate Diploma in Journalism. USD 290 billion of assets under
management. This function cov-
Adenike DAY ers client and regulatory data, possibilities from working hard in
and the associated support sys-
Adenitire MODERATOR tems. Rob is a member of Bar- an asset management firm like
ings’ Operations Leadership Barings. In 2007 Rob co-found-
Team and sits on the firm’s Cli- ed Barings’ See the Possibilities
My ultimate mission in life is to inspire ent Asset Oversight Working student programme, which is de-
people to be the best version of them- Group. She is also Chairperson of signed to mentor and motivate
selves. I endeavour to do this through the UK Investment Association’s
sharing my story of the obstacles I’ve Trade and Transaction Report- college and university students
overcome in order to walk in my pur- to realise their full potential. The
pose. Currently I’m a 4th-year med- ing Committee and has written programme has generated pos-
ical student and Co-Founder of The on guideline management and itive feedback from hundreds
Armitage Foundation (TAF) - a chari- operational risk in industry jour- of students in the UK and con-
ty committed to increasing diversity nals. Prior to joining Barings, Rob tinental Europe and Rob is now
across UK medical schools. As a result led a London-based fiduciary rolling it out to Asia and North
of the work I do through TAF, in 2018 risk management team for Citi- America. In 2015 she created
I was awarded the UK Queen’s Young group. Rob has a MBA, holds a the 'Be Positive' mentoring pro-
Leaders award by Her Majesty the professional corporate Chartered
Queen at Buckingham Palace. I be- qualification and the Investment gramme to help female profes-
lieve the healthcare profession should sionals aged 25-35 years old to
reflect the society it serves, and this is Management Certificate. enhance their organisational
the banner I’m committed to waving! profile and navigate the corpo-
She is passionate about student rate ladder in the most effective
INSPIRATIONAL Leanne mentoring within the commu- way. Many participants in this
nity, believing that students can
programme have changed their
SPEAKER Armitage be inspired to achieve more after behaviour and realised better
experiencing first-hand the many
outcomes in their workplace.
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