Purpose
The Student Forum is an advisory body which was launched in September 2017. The purpose of the Forum is to enable a formal and constructive relationship between the ICSA and the student body in the UK, to provide feedback on the UK student experience, act as a sounding board to the learning team about how ICSA can enhance what it offers and to facilitate a student member network.
Structure
The Student Forum consists of nine student members to best represent a wide cross-section of the student body including ICSA qualifying programme and short course students, masters students, university graduates, people becoming a governance professional as their second or third career and those with a mix of age, background and gender. There are also three ex-officio members of the ICSA team.
| Forum Members | |
|---|---|
| James Wickham (Chair) |
Company Secretarial Assistant, British American Tobacco |
| I. Stephanie Boyce |
Director, Stephanie Boyce Consulting Limited |
| Samira Chambas |
Company Secretarial Assistant, Aviva |
| Arun Hothi |
Corporate Secretary, Deutsche Bank |
| Bhavini Kundaiker |
Assistant Company Secretary, AngloGold Ashanti |
| Joe McManus |
Senior Corporate Secretarial Consultant, EY |
| Charlotte Mepham |
Company Secretarial Assistant, Indivior |
| Stuart Riddick |
Senior Company Secretarial Assistant, Royal Horticultural Society |
| Amber Tighe |
Company Secretarial Manager, World Remit |
What the Forum has achieved so far:
- December 2017 - The Forum provided feedback during the decision process to source a new London exam venue
- July 2018 - The Forum was invited to join the ICSA branch chairs summit
- July 2018 - The Forum is now holding student-focussed sessions at the ICSA Annual Conference
- October 2018 – The Forum organised a student member networking event at the ICSA headquarters in London which was attended to full capacity
- November 2018 – The Forum had an article published in the Governance and Compliance magazine
Timing
The Student Forum meets twice a year, shortly after each exam session. The next meeting will take place on Friday 14 June 2019.
Get involved
The ICSA Student Forum gives student members the opportunity to get involved and strengthen the student voice.
Please take advantage of this and attend one of our student events, meet your peers and develop your profile. You can also get in touch by contacting us at studentforum@icsa.org.uk.
The Forum is holding a networking event on 11 June.
Notice
Due to Forum members qualifying, two positions are now available on the Forum. We would like to appoint one student from the qualifying programme and one student from one of our validated masters programmes.
If you’d like to be a part of the Student Forum, please write a short note to the Chair, James Wickham, saying how and where you are studying, what you would bring to it and what you think should be top of the agenda for the next meeting. Please send your thoughts to James at studentforum@icsa.org.uk by Wednesday 20 May 2019.