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You're invited! Women in Disputes webinar With guest speaker Felicity Aston MBE, and panellists Polly Wilkins (Kobre & Kim), Ayse Lowe (Bench Walk Advisors) and Joana Rego (Raedas). 9 March, 15:00 GMT. RSVP here. To mark International Women’s Day Raedas invites you to our annual ‘Women in Disputes’ event. This year we celebrate resilience and leading in adversity. Join us as we open the floor to an extraordinary panel of speakers, to reflect on an extraordinary year. We will hear from Felicity Aston MBE, the first and only woman to ski solo across Antarctica. The 1744km, 59-day journey also made Felicity the first person in the world to traverse Antarctica on muscle power alone earning her a place in the Guinness book of records. Felicity will share her inspiring story of navigating across Antarctica and share lessons in personal resilience, pushing boundaries, and ‘keeping on, keeping on’ in the face of extreme adversity, isolation and unimaginable odds. We then turn over to our panel of industry experts. Polly Wilkins (Partner, Kobre & Kim) Ayse Lowe (Director and Head of European Origination, Bench Walk Advisors) and Joana Rego (Founding Partner, Raedas) will shine a light on their own experience in their respective industries and the impact of the past year. Reflecting on the themes of resilience and leading in adversity, Polly, Ayse and Joana will share their views on leading their teams, leading their business, and leading ourselves during times of self-doubt and uncertainty. The event will take place 15:00 - 16:00 GMT on 9 March 2021. The webinar will not be recorded, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end. For questions please contact [email protected] We hope to see you there! Joana Rego Founding Partner Raedas RVSP Meet the speaker Felicity Aston, MBE is the first and only woman in the world to ski across Antarctica alone. In 2015 she was awarded the Queen’s Polar Medal for services in Antarctica and was appointed MBE for services to Polar Exploration. Felicity created and led the Women’s Euro-Arabian North Pole Expedition bringing together women from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Sweden, Slovenia, Russia, France and the UK, who together reached the top of the world by ski in April 2018. Previously, Felicity has led several other notable expeditions including the first British women’s crossing of Greenland, a 35,000km expedition to the Pole of Cold (the coldest inhabited place in the world) and the 38-day, 911km Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition in 2009, the largest and most international women’s team ever to ski to the South Pole. Trained as a physicist and meteorologist, Felicity’s first polar experience was as a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey. Based for three years on a remote research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, her job was to monitor climate and ozone. Meet the panel Joana Rego is a founding partner at Raedas. With 15 years’ experience advising on commercially and politically sensitive disputes, Joana gathers evidence, obtains leverage, and develops strategies in support of complex litigation, arbitration, and high-value asset recovery. She is a founding Committee member of ‘FIRE’ starters, an industry group for leading fraud and asset recovery practitioners, and has represented Arbitral Women at the UNCITRAL Colloquium on Civil Asset Tracing and Recovery. Joana began her career in international development cooperation at the OECD and the United Nations. In 2015, she was voted one of Management Today’s Top 35 Women Under 35. Polly Wilkins is a partner at Kobre & Kim who focuses on advising high-net-worth individuals with global business interests in mitigating business and reputational risks. In particular, she coordinates cross-border asset defense and reputation management strategies arising from allegations of money laundering, fraud and bribery, among other issues. She is a founding board member for Kobre & Kim’s Women’s Leadership and is the Co-Chair of the Women’s White Collar Defence Association Young Professional’s Committee (for those under 40). Ayse Lowe is a Director and Head of European Origination at Litigation Funder Benchwalk where she originates, underwrites, and monitors funding in various litigation sectors including international and commercial arbitration, insolvency, class actions and global litigation. Prior to joining Bench Walk Advisors, Ayse worked as a Technical Manager in Arthur J Gallagher’s dispute resolution team where she worked with international law firms and litigation funders around the world. A recognised leader in her industry, Ayse has been instrumental in the drafting of rules on third-party funding for both UNCITRAL and ICSID. 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