Biography

Zamila Skingsley (née Bunglawala) is a successful former Cabinet Office Director with extensive UK and global experience leading policy, strategy, trade/commercial portfolios including #25BN education portfolio, large transformation projects and EDI. Zamila now holds a portfolio of Non-Executive Director/Advisor roles with leading organisations including UNICEF, Lord Jeremy Heywood Foundation, Department for Transport, TORUS Foundation, Julia Gillard?s Global Institute for Women Leaders at King?s College London and is Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. Former boards include US-UK Fulbright Commission, UNESCO and Concern Worldwide, and Fellowships at the Brookings Institute and University of Manchester. Zamila was formerly International Director at the Department for Education leading the #25BN trade portfolio, Erasmus/Turing programmes, partnering with universities and governments including in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Zamila was Deputy Head of the No.10/Cabinet Office Race Disparity Audit where she was the founding architect of the world-leading Ethnicity Facts and Figures website, a transformational data project tackling ethnic disparities. Zamila has world for the United Nations in conflict countries in Darfur Sudan and Kathmandu Nepal.