Hanna Naima McCloskey

Hanna founded Fearless Futures because she is a passionate advocate for girls and women and is dedicated to their advancement. She is working for a world where every woman leads a fulfilling life and contributes fully to the world of which she is an equal part.

Daughter to an Algerian mother and a British father, Hanna grew up in Wembley in North West London. After a family trip to Cambridge aged 14, Hanna loved the university town and decided there and then to make sure she got a place. Four years later after much hard work, she was studying English, the subject she adored, at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Over the last 9 years, Hanna has worked and studied in the UK, Israel-Palestine, Syria, Italy, Sudan and the USA across finance, research and communications roles for the UN, NGOs and an investment bank. She has a Masters in International Relations and Economics with a specialism in Conflict Management from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Most recently, Hanna worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment bank. Outside of her roles in derivative sales and as an infrastructure finance advisor, Hanna’s passion to transform business for the better has seen her focus on gender diversity – developing the graduate programmes, informing organisational policy, the women’s network’s strategy as youngest member on its global board, as well as coaching younger women within the business herself. In 2013, Hanna made the final ten of the Women in the City Future Leader award. She was also awarded the Deloitte Chartered Banker Institute’s Young Banker of the Year Award for her innovation, a consequence of the wealth of her experience and grounded in the latest research, with respect to bringing about gender diversity in the work place. It is this thinking and theory that serves as a key pillar for the Fearless Futures' Early Careers programme.

Hanna is Vice-Chair of Governors at inspiring Viking Primary School, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and she has also recently joined the Board of Trustees of newly formed charity, The Artemis Network.

It is through developing corporate policy and the privilege Hanna has had in forming relationships with smart, articulate, ambitious young women that the seeds of Fearless Futures grew, knowing from experience, that by equipping young women early on in their personal and career journeys with practical skills, self-awareness and confidence they will not fail to become fearless women changing the game for themselves, their communities and the wider world.