Speakers

Ian Proudfoot leads KPMG's Consumer/Industrial Markets and Agribusiness lines of business. He provides audit and transaction services to clients in a wide range of sectors, including agribusiness, retail and distribution. Ian joined KPMG in London and transferred to KPMG Auckland in 1996. Since that time he has undertaken a diverse range of client assignments including a 12 month secondment managing financial reporting and consolidation for a major New Zealand company.

Ruth Hobday is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Blackwell & Ruth. She has worked on a
number of award-winning books, five of them by the late Nelson Mandela including The
New York Times bestselling Conversations with Myself, Dare Not Linger: The Presidential
Years – the sequel to his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom – and The Prison Letters
of Nelson Mandela. She is the co-author of 200 Women: Who Will Change the Way You
See the World, and an editor and producer for I know this to be true, a multi-media
leadership initiative created in conjunction with the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

www.blackwellandruth.com 

200 Women: Who will change the way you see the world
200 Women is a book and exhibition project inspired by a belief that you can’t empower
women without listening to their stories. So we set out to persuade two hundred women
in different parts of the world – whether they be rich or poor, black or white, educated or
uneducated, famous or unknown – to sit or stand in front of a plain sheet of fabric and to
be photographed and filmed while answering five fundamental questions.
Our goal was not to make a book about just successful and powerful women – those
stories are important – but we wanted diversity, and above all, authenticity. Two hundred
'real women', with ‘real stories’, including ten of our own very inspiring New Zealanders.
The result is 200 Women: Who will change the way you see the world – a book,
audiobook and exhibition founded on original interviews and accompanying photographic
portraits that is the realisation of an epic global journey to find two hundred women with
diverse backgrounds, and to ask, what really matters to them.