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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.
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.
More taxes and better collection rates would allow Nigeria to fund the social programmes being promised by new leader Muhammadu Buhari, Judith Ugwumadu reports.
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.
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.
Should corporates be more interested in ‘ideological diversity’ in the boardroom? Judith Ugwumadu reports.
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 Brexit deal has failed to have any major effect on the exchange rate of the pound since January 1. The pound has held steady against the US dollar at US$1.36 and has strengthened slightly against the euro to €1.12. This was very much consistent with the modest expectations of the markets.
Investors are looking deeper into company ESG performance, with MSCI suggesting that firms' use of plastic is coming under greater s
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.
Judith Ugwumadu investigates diversity in broking and examines the new skills required by underwriters.
