Barrister Hamna Zain (Bar Professional Training Course, 2012) returned to her home country, Pakistan, after completing her training at The City Law School. Having worked in the legal profession for over a decade, Hamna has made it her mission to provide legal training to those who have the least access and especially women. “Being a…Continue Reading Fighting injustice through legal training
We recently spoke to Mark Joshua Gunalan (MSc Finance, 2011) about his career in real estate, how he reached this position and his time studying at Bayes Business School. Find out more… As you approach your one-year work anniversary at Barclays as the Director – Real Estate in the EMEA regions, we’d love to hear…Continue Reading Mark Joshua Gunalan: A career in real estate
2023 is in full flow! At your University, we have an exciting and challenging year ahead as we put City’s new Strategy, finalised at the end of last year, into action. I am very grateful that so many staff, alumni and students engaged with the consultation. I hope the key messages: ‘leaders for the world…Continue Reading A message from City President, Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein
Dear Alumni, Happy New Year, and welcome to the first Alumni Newsletter of 2023. It has already been a very busy start to the year, and I was delighted to see so many of you again at our alumni reception is Istanbul earlier this month. It has been a while since we’ve been able to…Continue Reading A message from Professor André Spicer, Dean of Bayes Business School – January 2023
LawIRL, a new offering at The City Law School, will help current law students gain important practical experience and connections. Sally Gill, Director of the City Community Legal Advice Centre and LawIRL, hopes City Law alumni will join the effort to support and inspire students to enter the legal profession. “It gives students this ladder,”…Continue Reading LawIRL – Setting up City’s Law students for success
By Jason Barlow The Covid-19 Pandemic affected everyone. Many of the impacts were obvious, others less so. When City’s teaching and learning moved temporarily online, it quickly became apparent that students’ access to digital resources was a far greater issue than had originally been anticipated. Generous donations from alumni gave students access to better technology. The…Continue Reading “I found that I’d been struggling with the phone more than I’d realised” – Alumni donations making a difference
The New Year Honours list 2023 recognises the achievements and services of people across the UK, from all walks of life. We are delighted to announce and congratulate the five City and Bayes alumni who have been recognised for their commitment to various services. Knight Commander of the Order of Bath Vice Admiral Sir Nicholas Hine…Continue Reading Alumni recognised in the New Year Honours list 2023
Ahead of the Great British Businesswoman Awards, we caught up with Palak Tewary (Executive MBA, 2010), who has been shortlisted in the Banking & Finance Businesswoman category. Palak shares insightful information about women in business, her role at chartered certified accountants and chartered tax advisors’ firm, Price Mann, and her studies at Bayes. Find out more… Congratulations…Continue Reading Fostering female leadership
Six years ago, Yasmeen Cohen (BA Journalism and Economics, 2014) attended an event that opened her eyes to the destruction of the environment. Today, she is Sustainability & Climate Analytics Lead at Deloitte and about to publish her first novel, The Helix. A fantasy novel for young adults, The Helix falls into the climate fiction (cli-fi)…Continue Reading Raising climate awareness through cli-fi – An interview with Yasmeen Cohen about her YA novel The Helix
When Oreoluwa Shoyinka graduated in 2021, she found it surprisingly difficult to gain graduate level employment, despite receiving a First Class Honours and The City Law School Certificate of Academic Achievement. As experience seemed to trump grades, Oreoluwa turned to City’s Career Service for advice and is now back on track to becoming a barrister….Continue Reading Experience vs academic achievement – The insights of a recent graduate