Kathryn Milligan

CSIA Fellow, National Gallery of Ireland

Kathryn is the inaugural ESB Fellow at the ESB Cente for the Study of Irish Art, at the National Gallery of Ireland. She received her doctorate from Trinity College Dublin in 2015; her thesis examined the depiction of Dublin in visual art in the period 1850-1950. Presently, she is the editor of Artefact, the journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians and also the current chair of the Association.

Amanda Pullinger

CEO, 100 Women in Finance

Ms. Pullinger is the Chief Executive Officer of 100 Women in Finance (previously 100 Women in Hedge Funds). She leads a small staff team and manages over 350 volunteer practitioners globally, overseeing the operations of the organization, which now has over 15,000 members in 21 locations.

Ms. Pullinger is a former principal of Aquamarine Capital Management, where she was responsible, over a period of seven years, for managing marketing, investor relations and back office administration for two private investment funds.

Ms. Pullinger is currently Chairman of the Board of The HALO Trust (www.halotrust.org) and she also serves as a Director on the Oxford University Alumni Board. She previously served on the Boards of SkillForce, NYU Cancer Institute and Girls’ Prep, and was on the founding Board of 100 Women in Hedge Funds (now 100 Women in Finance), serving as its President for two years. She is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Ms. Pullinger graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University in 1987 with an Honours Degree in Modern History. She earned an MBA from La Salle University, Philadelphia, in 1998, and received the Academic Award for MBA student of the year as well as the Beta Gamma Sigma designation.

Carol Widger

Partner, Maples and Calder

Carol is a partner in the Investment Funds Group in Maples' Dublin Office. Carol advises fund promoters and firms providing services to investment funds in relation to the establishment, launch and on-going management of all types of investment funds, including UCITS and AIF products. Carol also has extensive experience in advising on the redomiciliation, mergers and consolidation of investment funds to Ireland and is a member of Irish Fund's Legal and Regulatory Working Group and Real Estate Working Group.

Carol joined Maples in November 2012. She was previously a partner in the Investment Funds practice of another leading Irish law firm. Carol is ranked as highly regarded by leading legal directory Chambers & Partners and clients comment that she is "great with relationship management and Irish funds and structuring" and an "excellent communicator, who is very commercial and prompt". She has expertise in Irish regulated UCITS investment funds and AIF's.

Carol was admitted to the Role of Solicitors in Ireland in 1998 and is a graduate of University College Dublin.

Margaret Clarke

Artist

Irish-born artist Margaret Clarke worked as a primary school teacher before pursuing her gift of drawing with a scholarship to Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. During the inter-war years, Clarke established herself as one of Ireland's most important portrait painters. Among the public figures painted by her were Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid and Irish president Éamon de Valera. After the early death of Harry Clarke in 1931, Margaret Clarke took over the management of his stained glass studios while developing her own interest in still life and landscape paintings. She died in 1961.

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