Tina Fordham, the founder of Fordham Global Foresight, was previously chief political analyst at Citigroup. She has also been named one of Financial News's 100 Most Influential Women in Finance.

International Women's Day, observed on 8 March and dating back to the early 20th-century battle for women's suffrage, has shot from relative obscurity in the West to becoming a mainstay in the corporate diversity calendar.