Winner
Neveen Galal
Legal Practice PgDip, 2002
Neveen Galal is an immigration human rights lawyer. Her career has focussed on fields including immigration, refugee and human rights law, representing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and victims of trafficking and slavery. She was promoted to Head of Department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors within three years of graduating, and a year later became a director and board member. Neveen was recognised in Who’s Who of Britain’s Young Business Elite for being one of the youngest directors of a multimillion-pound company, where she also helped mentor and train graduates at the start of their career.
Neveen later founded Amnesty Solicitors, a UK immigration and human rights law firm. Within two years she has had a number of judicial review cases against the UK Government and cases in the Court of Appeal, even successfully judicially reviewing the Ministry of Justice.
Finalists
Darby Dorras
Radio Production BA, 2012
Darby Dorras is an Executive Producer at Somethin' Else. His current work includes Exec’ing two weekly BBC Radio 4 strands, audio drama, and hit podcasts. Darby has made documentaries for BBC Radio 2 and 4, produced audio for brands from Penguin Random House to The Economist, and was the founding producer behind the cross-industry Mental Health Minute initiative which broadcasts simultaneously on every UK radio station to raise awareness about issues of mental health. This work saw Darby receive the prestigious Gold Award at The Audio Production Awards (APA) 2019.
Darby is a Radio Academy 30 Under 30 alumnus and multiple APA and ARIA nominee. Darby has a physical disability and is extremely passionate about creating a more accessible and diverse industry. He’s the founder of the Disabled People in Audio movement.
Dr Nuha Eltinay
International Planning and Sustainable Development MA, 2012
Nuha was Senior Urban Development Specialist at World Bank. Before that, she was Director of Urban Planning and Sustainable Development at the Arab Urban Development Institute. Working closely with the United Nations offices for the Arab States, Nuha worked on applying Urban Resilience Assessment for pre-and-post disaster situations in the Arab region.
Focused at World Bank on providing policy advisory services, Nuha led and contributed to policy dialogue and advisory work in the areas of urban development, to help enhance the capacity of national and sub-national governments in responding to urbanisation challenges. She recently completed her PhD, working towards developing a Policy Guidance for Building Urban Resilience in the MNA Region context of ‘Climate Change, Conflict and Displacement’.
Rajinder Tumber
Computer Science BSc, 2005
Rajinder Tumber MBE is an award-winning cyber security specialist, author, mentor and a world record-breaking poet. He has over a decade of experience in cyber security. His work has revolved around governance, risk, compliance, and mergers and acquisitions. He has worked on projects for entities such as the Cabinet Office, the Home Office, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Heathrow Airport, TalkTalk, E.ON, Eversheds, Prudential Group and British Telecom.
He has devised a unique framework called CyberDD6®, which addresses the lack of cyber due diligence in the mergers and acquisitions process. He is also a contributor to Forbes, and founded Women’s History Month series ‘THE VOICE’.