Sofía is a Spanish naval engineer who has risen through the ranks of Europe's fifth largest naval company, Navantia, to become its Commercial & Business Development Vice-President and one of three women on the board of directors…
Rebecca Emerson-Keeler
Rebecca stands apart amongst the women I've interviewed thus far because she deals with the end-result of conflict and fragile states: the refugees, the victims, human trafficking, terrorism…
Dr Eneka Idiart-Barsoum
Eneka Idiart-Barsoum is a specialist in optronics and, more specifically, lasers. So, when she tells me that she got there because of her passion for music I'm taken aback. She laughs. “When I passed my science baccalaureate at the age of 17 I really wanted to be a sound engineer,” she explains…
Rochell Tersia Booysen
Rochell, a “coloured” (as she describes herself) South African “from a very humble background” whose mother tongue is Afrikaans, “never had any ambition to join the defence force” but now finds herself as the Director Defence Commitments, providing Defence Minister Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula with legal and policy advice regarding troop deployment…
Former Wing Commander Sophy Gardner
Royal Air Force (RAF) veteran Sophy Gardner is not yet 50 but has already had four distinct lives: doctoral student, politician, entrepreneur and wing commander. Currently a doctoral student at Exeter University, the PhD she hopes to submit by autumn 2019…
General Monique Legrand-Larroche
Monique Legrand-Larroche is a petite woman whose kind blue eyes and very long hair, habitually worn in a ponytail, belie the iron determination which led her to becoming France's first 4-star General... and the holder of a private helicopter pilot's licence…