In 2012 business woman and member of the House of Lords Margaret McDonagh read an article that said corporate UK had lost 40% senior female executives in the previous decade. It drove her to co-found The Pipeline, an organisation which aims to increase the number of women at the most senior levels of large organisations.

MARGARET MCDONAGH

Margaret ran Labour’s 1997 and 2001 General Election campaigns which saw the most successful results for any party in Britain’s history. She was the first female and youngest General Secretary of the Labour Party. She’s had a successful corporate career serving as a NED for both Standard Life and Spanish based infrastructure company Abertis – TBI (global airports). Margaret was also the founding Chairperson of Smart Energy GB.