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Mareike Schmidt is Innovation Lead at Innovate UK, the UK’s Innovation Agency driving productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas. Mareike has had a fascinating career.

Susannah Stott, Portfolio and Demand Manager in Shell’s Low Carbon Fuels business, worked offshore for over three years as a Wellsite Drilling Engineer and Well Services Supervisor. After returning onshore, she set up the ‘D&I in Ops’ initiative, which aimed to address gender inequality across Shell’s offshore and onshore operating sites.

POWERful Women and Bain & Company have today published a new report on women in middle management in the UK energy sector. Cultivating Female Talent: what the sector can do to resolve the barriers faced by women in middle management 1 is based on one-to-one interviews and a comprehensive industry survey of more than 4,700 respondents.