Speaker Bios

Sir David Bell
Non-Executive Chairman, Rare
Sir David Bell is the current Chairman of Rare and former Chairman and CEO of the Financial Times, Director of Pearson plc, and Chairman of Pearson Inc.
In addition to Rare, David is currently a non-executive Director of the Economist. He is also Chairman of Sadler's Wells, Chair of Council at Roehampton University, Chairman of the London Transport Museum, Chairman of the Transformation Trust, Chair of Bath Mozartfest, Chair of Cambridge University Press and Chair of The Institute of War & Peace Reporting Europe. He is a trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Pearson Group Pension, Worth School, Cornerstone Property Assets, the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, Girl Hub and the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI) and a member of the Honorary Council of the Royal National Theatre.
David was an Assessor on the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press and Chairman of the Millennium Bridge Trust.

Chinwe Odimba-Chapman
Global People and Talent Partner, Clifford Chance
Chinwe is a partner at Clifford Chance specialising in employment law. She is also the Firm's Global Partner for People and Talent and a member of the Firm’s Global Executive Leadership Group.
She has been named as one of EMpower's 100 Ethnic Minority Executives for 2019, was shortlisted as a BAME Future Leader for the Investing in Ethnicity Awards and included in Cranfield University's 50 Women to Watch. Chinwe also sits on the City of London Law Society's Employment Law Committee.

Raphael Mokades
Founder and Managing Director, Rare
Raphael founded Rare in 2005. Today, Rare works with over 100 elite employers including all five Magic Circle law firms, the top three global strategy consulting firms, two of the world’s top three investment banks, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Rare has over 40,000 candidates on its books, and its contextualised recruitment software has processed over a million graduate job applications.
Raphael has a first-class degree from Oxford University. He has written for the Guardian, Times and Financial Times. He has been named in the Economist’s Top 50 Global Diversity List, the FT’s Empower Top 100 Ethnic Minority Executives list, and as Legal Week’s Outstanding Innovator.