History Futures Forum – Working in Government & Politics, Tuesday 26th February 6 – 8pm, Graduate Centre GC601
If you are would like to know more about working in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Civil Service FastStream, working for an MP or joining the House of Commons Communications team…, this is your chance to get insights from previous QM History graduates, who are now pursuing these careers. Our guests will talk about their jobs and their experiences since leaving QM as History graduates, which in Tom’s case, has taken him all the way to leading the UK’s negotiations in the United Nations Security Council!
Reserve your place here: https://qmul.targetconnect.net/leap/event.html?id=5697&service=Careers+Service
OUR GUESTS:
Thomas Phipps
Tom is a British diplomat currently working as the Head of the East Africa Team at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). During his ten year FCO career he has been posted to the Philippines and Afghanistan where he led on UK support to the Mindanao Peace Process in the southern Philippines and on steps to encourage a peace process between the Afghan government and the Taliban. His roles in the UK have included responsibility for coordinating the UK government response to overseas terrorist attacks, kidnaps and threats, and as a climate change and energy policy lead in the run up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009. In May this year he will take up the position of First Secretary at the UK Mission to the UN in New York, with responsibility for leading negotiations in the UN Security Council. Prior to joining the FCO he worked in the Private Sector for five years.
Mamataj Begum
Mamataj joined the Civil Service FastStream in 2017 and is currently an EU Exit Policy Advisor on Brexit in the department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Prior to joining the FastStream, she did a 6 month communications internship at Bank of America Merill Lynch and she is the Faith & Belief Forum’s Youth Council Chair and a campaigner for UK Youth Climate Coalition.
Hannah Olbison
Hannah is currently studying for an MSc in Public Policy at QM whilst also working for the Students’ Union in communications & marketing. In the spring she will be joining the Civil Service and taking up a Communications role in the House of Commons. She has previously worked as both a parliamentary intern and a parliamentary assistant for an MP, as well as working for the Labour Party.
