President | Alexa Netty
I'm a fourth year veterinary student who is passionate about interdisciplinary collaboration. I look forward to working with the rest of the incredible CGE-SS team to create an event where people working across a range of subject fields within the University and beyond can come together to discuss. |
Secretary | Sarah Strickland
I study Human, Social and Political Sciences at Churchill College and am on the Speakers Team of CGE-SS. I was initially drawn to the topic from studying development at school and within my degree, and have since become particularly interested in understanding the different forms inequality takes in today’s world. I am keen to find practical ways to engage with these pressing issues and promote wider understanding within the student body and beyond. Previously, I have been involved in attracting speakers for small-scale social issue campaigns in my local area, so am excited to get involved with a bigger event! |
Events and Logistics Officer | Anna Gibbons
Hi I’m Anna, a graduate student at Murray Edwards College. Having just completed my history degree, I have returned for another year to complete an MPhil in Modern British History. I was initially drawn to CGE because I like the idea of using academia to a broader public use. I was specifically drawn to Events and Logistics because I love getting things done. In the past, I have served on the college JCR as Logistics Officer, as well as captaining the Modern Pentathlon Team, so I have experience organising an array of events in different contexts. |
Speakers Officer | Maya Chandran
I am part of the speaker’s officer team and I am currently second year HSPS undergraduate at Girton College. What especially interested me in CGE was its focus on those below the poverty line and its inclusive collaborative approach to tackling this inequality. I think that encouraging discussion and education on the diverse range of efforts to improve inequality is crucial to engage everyone in what is a global issue. |
Speakers Officer | Katriya Bulutoglu
I’m Katriya and am currently in my second year studying Geography at Emmanuel College. I have been interested in studying development for many years with many aspects of my degree focusing on these issues. What particularly interested me about CGE is the approach it takes looking at development from a number of different angels. As an event encouraging debate and discussion of real and pressing issues I am really excited for the conference - understanding further some of the practical solutions to reducing inequality on a global scale. |
Speakers Officer | Leena Meneely
Leena is a second year Geographer at St John’s and a Speakers Officer on this year’s CGE Student Committee. Studying geography it would be difficult not to see inequality as one of the most pressing and significant issues requiring tackling globally. Having previously volunteered for the peacebuilding NGO International Alert, she is interested thinking about how conflict and other obstacles which, while perhaps not the most obvious, significantly limit equality. |
Sponsorship Officer | Haowen Kwan My name is Haowen Kwan and I'm a 4th year medical student at Girton. I am serving as one of the Sponsorship Officers on this committee. My interest is in public and global health and I recognised that health inequality around the world is a product of global inequality in general. This drew me to the CGE which aims to provide a platform for multidisciplinary approaches and partnernships that is required to tackling health inequality. |
Digital Officer | Jacob Arbeid I'm a second-year History and French student at Trinity Hall. What interests me is the potential that global health and international development projects have to make a tangible difference to people's lives. However, I believe that only a multidisciplinary approach, drawing together communities and experts from across the arts, sciences, business and government can work together to bring about long-term changes, and the ability of every citizen across the world to live a fulfilled and dignified life free of poverty and coercion. This desire to engage critically with issues of development has attracted me to the CGE and CamIDC. |
Treasurer | Rachel Wang
I am Rachel Wang, the current treasurer of the Center for Global Equality Student Society and also a second-year Economist at Newnham College. Being born and raised up in China gave me a unique perspective to observe and explore how economic development helps equality to be achieved in different areas of society. Through my voluntary teaching experiences in the past three years, I realized the importance of education in promoting equality within our society. The determination to broaden the access of education draw me into this field. |
Sponsorship Officer | Lucian Lee Global equality is a pertinent issue that deserves more attention than it is currently receiving, especially amongst the modern discursive violent sociopolitical climate we live in. I hope to bring my experiences from my undergraduate degree, as well as my voluntary work on higher education access inequalities, into this CGE Conference. |
Network Officer | Octave Masson I’m Octave, a third-year Geography student at Selwyn College. As Network officer, I'm responsible for establishing and maintaining contact with like-minded student organisations in Cambridge. This summer, I had the chance to work in Social entrepreneurship in Uruguay with an organisation named Socialab. I was extremely inspired by all the people I met during my time there. I believe that social entrepreneurs are driving forces for community-driven development, and key players on the path to global equality. I look forward to be able to help put on a great conference! |
Publicity Officer | Zoe Jennings
Zoe Jennings is studying for a PhD in English Literature at Newnham College. Zoe’s interest in global equality originated in her training in human rights law, firstly as a barrister and subsequently as a commissioning editor for Public International Law at Oxford University Press. Since then she has become interested in development economics and the role of universities in influencing policy. Zoe has run impact evaluation programmes for Camsight and Cambridge Hubs; she is Communications Officer for Effective Altruism and she has designed rehabilitation programmes for violent and sexual offenders for the UK Prison Service.
Zoe Jennings is studying for a PhD in English Literature at Newnham College. Zoe’s interest in global equality originated in her training in human rights law, firstly as a barrister and subsequently as a commissioning editor for Public International Law at Oxford University Press. Since then she has become interested in development economics and the role of universities in influencing policy. Zoe has run impact evaluation programmes for Camsight and Cambridge Hubs; she is Communications Officer for Effective Altruism and she has designed rehabilitation programmes for violent and sexual offenders for the UK Prison Service.