Many former GSA students have gone on to become successful women leaders in their chosen field.
Bolton School Girls’ Division
Nicola Grinstead
Deputy Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital
Edgbaston High School
Malala Yousafzai
Women’s education activist; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Manchester High School for Girls
Christabel Pankhurst
British suffragette, co-founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union
Kent College
Habiba Balogan (nee Atta)
Social justice activist, working in Nigeria to free the Chibok Girls
Withington Girls’ School
Dr Brenda Milner
Professor – Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal
Notre Dame
Jenny Griffiths MBE
Founder and CEO of Snap Fashion
Wakefield Girls’ High School
Amanda Mackenzie
Chief Executive of Business in the Community
St James Senior Girls’ School
Sahana Gero MBE
Founder & Artistic Director, World Heart Beat Music Academy
Woldingham School
Dame Mary Douglas, DBE
Social Anthropologist
Streatham & Clapham High School
Dame June Whitfield DBE
Actress
Roedean
Zerbanoo Gifford
Writer/Human Rights Campaigner
Sutton High School GDST
Commander Maryla Ingham
Commander in the Royal Navy
Withington Girls’ School
Sonia Passi
Lawyer and Founder NFP FreeFrom, USA
St Mary’s School Ascot
Claire Williams OBE
Deputy Team Principal, Williams F1
St Paul’s Girls’ School
Dame Helen Anne Alexander DBE
CEO of Economist and first female president of Confederation of British Industry
Streatham & Clapham High School
Elsie Owusu OBE
Architect
Stamford High School
Maureen Jones
Bishop of Nairobi
Notre Dame School
Suzanne Ornsby QC
Barrister
Wakefield Girls’ High School
Baroness Usha Prashar
Cross Bench Member of the House of Lords
St George’s School for Girls, Edinburgh
Professor Cordelia Fine
Academic psychologist and writer
Wycombe Abbey
Delphine Gray-Fisk
Pilot
St Mary’s School Ascot
The Hon Mrs Olga Polizzi CBE
Hotelier and Interior Designer
Manchester High School for Girls
Emma Barnett
Presenter, BBC Radio 5Live and BBC Woman’s Hour, Columnist for The Sunday Times
Badminton School
Indira Ghandi
Prime Minister of India (1966-1974 & 1980-1984)
St Mary’s School Ascot
Ana Botín
Executive Chairman of Banco Santander
St Paul’s Girls’ School
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon DBE
Archaeologist
Lady Eleanor Holles School
Annie Nightingale MBE
Broadcaster and DJ
St George’s Ascot
Elizabeth Ward OBE
Founder of British Kidney Patient Association (now Kidney Care UK)
St Helen’s School, London
Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB HonFREng, FRGS, FRICS, FCInstCES, FRSGS, CCMI, CGeog
Founding Co-Chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
