Judith Ugwumadu

Executive Communications Press & PR at Motability

United Kingdom

Judith has extensive journalism, communications and business support experience, she held positions on business titles and in the national press including the Financial Times’ Financial Advisor, the Express, Insurance Age and Public Finance. Graduating from City University London in 2012, she earned a master’s in international journalism. She also has a bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance.

In 2019, she completed a course on public relations/imagine management at PR Academy. Judith joined Motability, the Charity, in 2021 and is responsible for a broad range of research activities to support the organisations work in a number of areas including awareness raising and its rapidly expanding innovation work.

Portfolio
Chartered Insurance Institute
12/03/2018
Multicultural and International Role Models in Insurance

iCAN teamed up with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) to create a book, “Multicultural and International Role Models” that would highlight some of the individuals who have played a key part in advancing the ethnic minority/international discussion within insurance.

Public Finance
06/01/2015
Nigeria's taxing problem

More taxes and better collection rates would allow Nigeria to fund the social programmes being promised by new leader Muhammadu Buhari, Judith Ugwumadu reports.

Public Finance
10/03/2015
Learning the lessons of Ebola

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa underlined the importance of preparedness – those countries with plans and systems in place contained the disease relatively successfully. Judith Ugwumadu reports on work underway to ensure the world’s poorest nations are better prepared next time.

Irmagazine
24/01/2019
SSGA expands diversity engagement in GCC countries

Judith Ugwumadu looks into State Street Global Advisors’ (SSGA) Fearless Girl campaign – which has inspired companies and shareholders in the last 22 months worldwide to focus on bringing more women onto their boards.

The Conversation
01/04/2021
How the pandemic will shape the workplace trends of 2021

The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that the amount we work would gradually shrink to as little as 15 hours a week as technology made us more productive. Not only did this not happen, but we also began to spend extra time away from home due to commuting and suburban living patterns, which we often forget are recent historical inventions.

The Conversation
02/02/2021
High street closures: how private equity helps push firms to the brink

With long-established names like Debenhams, Topshop and many others vanishing from the town centres across the UK, it would be easy to blame the rise of internet shopping - spurred on by the pandemic - for the decline of the high street. But there are also more hidden forces at work.

Insurance Age
28/11//2016
Taking on talent

Judith Ugwumadu investigates diversity in broking and examines the new skills required by underwriters.