Baroness Sandip Verma is chair of Higginson Strategy’s in-house gender equality campaign, EMPOWER. She has been a member of the House of Lords since 2006 and is a former Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas and chair of UN Women National Committee UK.
Sandip served as a Minister for Energy and Climate Change under the coalition government, and later for International Development. She has a background in business and is an advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion across the private sector.