Alison Maitland: Why Women Mean Business

Alison Maitland is a writer, speaker and conference moderator who specialises in leadership, women in business, corporate responsibility and the changing world of work.

She is Director of The Conference Board’s European Council for Diversity in Business and is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Management at Cass Business School, London.

Alison is a King's member of 1973 and is coming to King's on 6th March to participate in the 2010 annual Women's Event, Women at Work. Her other recent engagements have included speaking at the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. and the first Women’s Economic Summit in Lowell, Massachusetts, and moderating at the European Gender Equality Conference in Brussels.

Alison regularly contributes articles and columns to the Financial Times, The Conference Board Review and other media. She is co-author of the acclaimed book Why Women Mean Business, now out in paperback (publisher: John Wiley). Why not watch an interview with Alison and her co-author, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox?

To purchase your tickets for the King's Women's Event, please visit the Women's Event page. Tickets available until noon on Friday 19 February.