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Julie joined the Royal Society for Blind Children in October 2023; she is thrilled to be leading such a dynamic and successful charity. Julie is committed to supporting the most vulnerable children and young people in society. In her previous roles, she’s been immersed in children’s services development both in the UK and internationally. Her work has included three CEO-ships with roles in the public sector, including Assistant Director for Children’s Services Greater Manchester, alongside voluntary sector appointments that included national responsibility for the rollout of Extended Schools on behalf of the DCSF (Department for Children, Schools and Families). As CEO at RSBC this is Julie’s first role in the vision impairment sector; her knowledge and understanding are borne from her lived experience, as her daughter has been registered blind since birth.

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Millie Hawes is the Head of Just Purpose at European law firm, Fieldfisher LLP, where she leads the community and pro bono strategy. Her career spans the charity and legal sector, working across civil society to co-create innovative programmes that generate sustainable value and societal impact. 

Millie has a particular focus on disability rights. She founded an award-winning disability employee resource group at Fieldfisher, which works to embed the social model of disability within the workplace. Beyond the legal sector, Millie has been heavily involved in addressing the accessible housing crisis and advises the housing sector on how to create equitable access to housing for disabled people. Millie is part of the Disability in the City Steering Group because she is eager to join the dots between workplaces, housing, transport, amenities, and more, to ensure the City is a truly accessible place to be.

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Ninette Meyer is an actuary whose career has taken her through a range of finance and risk roles in the UK and South Africa. She has spent her career working in capital modelling, reserving, and quantitative risk management, and she enjoys finding practical, evidence-based ways to improve how organisations make decisions. Ninette is currently Head of Underwriting Insights at MS Amlin. She is a Fellow of both the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the Actuarial Society of South Africa, and is also a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary.

Inclusion is something Ninette cares about deeply. Throughout her career, she has been involved in several employee and industry networks, including the LINK LGBTQ+ Network, Open and Out at MS Amlin, and the Actuarial Women’s Committee of the Association of South African Black Actuarial Professionals. She joined the Disability in the City Steering Group because she wants to help create workplaces where people feel able to be open about who they are, and where disability is understood without stigma. Her hope is for a City that works better for everyone.

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Caroline Walsh is a dialogue facilitator, researcher, and consultant specialising in disability, belonging, and conflict transformation in civic and institutional contexts. She is the founder of Sage Resolution, a practice focused on mediation, depolarisation, restorative approaches, and dialogue design across sectors including civil society, healthcare, education, and local government.

Caroline brings over a decade of experience working at the intersection of lived experience, policy, and practice. As a disabled consultant, her work is grounded in a strong reflexive awareness of how systems, power, and narratives shape inclusion and exclusion in public life. She is particularly interested in how disability intersects with belonging, voice, and democratic participation in cities.

She completed an MA in Reconciliation and Peace, awarded with Merit, where her research explored dialogue as a method for rebuilding trust, addressing polarisation, and creating more inclusive civic spaces. Her work integrates restorative practice, peacebuilding theory, affect and belonging frameworks, and participatory research methods. Caroline’s consultancy module as part of her MA was carried out in collaboration with St Ethelberga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in Bishopsgate, where she has been a Guardian for over 10 years.

Caroline has also been involved in the City of London Livery movement for over 20 years and is currently the Almoner at the City Livery Club. The Almoner’s Alliance based at the City Livery Club aims to support Almoners in their roles and in turn, foster belonging across the Livery movement through the pastoral care work of Almoners.

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