News 2011 News ->Miriam
Clegg shines at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2011
Miriam Clegg shines at
the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2011
19th May 2011
Miriam
Gonzalez Durantez, wife of UK Deputy Prime Minister
Nick Clegg, nearly upstaged a bevy of Asian beauties
in her stunning pastel pink saree at the Asian Women
of Achievement Awards 2011 held at the London Hilton
Hotel on 19th May 2011. The ceremony, which was
compered by BBC presenter Riz Lateef (a former award
winner herself), was attended by the Home Secretary
Theresa May, The Rt Hon Tessa Jowell, James Caan
- entrepreneur and former TV 'Dragon', ITV newsreader
Mary Nightingale, executive producer of Bollywood
smash 'West is West', Shaana Diya and HRH Princess
Badiya bint El Hassan. Princess Badiya, stood-in
for patron of the awards Cherie Blair QC who was
unable to attend, and conducted an impromptu walk
about among the five hundred guests, nominees and
celebrities.
The Asian Women of Achievement
Awards - held in association with Lloyds Bank
Corporate Markets for the last seven years and
hosted by Real Business and Caspian Media - celebrate
the achievements of Britain's most inspiring Asian
women and their contribution to our society in
a range of sectors. Pinky Lilani OBE, entrepreneur
and founder of the awards, said: "Each of
this year's winners are a credit to the British
Asian community and are an inspiration to the
next generation of women. In
1999, when we started the Asian Women of Achievement
Awards, a handful of Asian women enjoyed prominent
positions in British life. Today, with Lord Davies'
report ringing in our ears, there is an unprecedented
opportunity for Asian women to push for, and achieve,
opportunities they may never have previously considered."
The AWA
judging panel 2011 included:
Chair
of judging panel- Sir Nicholas Young, chief
executive, British Red Cross
Sharon
Bamford, CEO, Association of MBAs
Lady
Cynthia Hall, headmistress, Wycombe Abbey
David
Harrison, vice president, Visa Commercial, Visa
Europe
Phil
Hooper, corporate affairs director, Sodexo
Kamel
Hothi, Asian markets director, Lloyds Bank Corporate
Markets
Ben
Hughes, global commercial director and deputy
CEO, Financial Times
Chet
Kuchinad, people director, Asda
Janie
MacLellan, UK sales director, Colefax and Fowler
Jane
Martinson, women’s editor, Guardian
Ruby
McGregor-Smith, CEO, MITIE Group
Andrew
Moss, CEO, Aviva
Helena
Morrissey, CEO, Newton Investment Management
Tulsi
Naidu, group operations director, Prudential
Margareta
Pagano, business editor, Independent
Zarin
Patel, chief financial officer, BBC
Farah
Ramzan Golan, executive chairman, AMV BBDO
Andrew
Roscoe, managing director, Egon Zehnder International
Phil
Smith, CEO, Cisco UK & Ireland
Dame
Joan Stringer, vice chancellor, Napier University
Air
Vice-Marshall David Walker MBE, MVO, RAF, Master
of the Royal Household
News
| Business
| Films
|
Galleries
| Music
| Theatre
News |
Business |
Money |
Property
| Views
