My Refugee Family in Exile
- 👤 Speaker: Dame Stephanie Shirley 🔗 Website
- 📅 Date & Time: Saturday 24 September 2016, 18:00 - 19:00
- 📍 Venue: Old Library, Pembroke College
Abstract
Dame Stephanie Shirley (83) arrived in England as an unaccompanied child refugee in 1939 and became a successful IT entrepreneur turned philanthropist. In the 1960s, she founded a pioneering all-woman software company in the UK, which made millionaires of 70 of her team. Since retiring in 1993, her focus has been increasingly on philanthropy, focused on IT and her late son’s disorder of autism.
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Dame Stephanie Shirley 
Saturday 24 September 2016, 18:00-19:00