50 Women in Technology

About Georgina Ferry

Georgina Ferry is a science writer biographer author and broadcaster. She lives in Oxford UK and writes about science and scientists past and present. She writes mainly about the life sciences then and now and also has a particular interest in women in science. She is fascinated by the lives of scientists and their interactions with the society in which they live. Since 2018 she has made something of a speciality of writing scientific obituaries which include: Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998); The Common Thread: A story of science politics ethics and the human genome with John Sulston (Bantam 2002); A computer called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the world's first office computer (Fourth Estate 2003); Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (Chatto & Windus 2007); EMBO in perspective: A half-century in the life sciences (EMBO 2014) Ines Almeida has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and during her degree she worked at a local radio station interviewing people from several fields including technology. After graduating she moved to Macau SAR (China) where she worked as a reporter at first and progressing to become editor for a local newspaper. During the six years she worked in Macau she covered events such as an annual Start-up Weekend for women in technology and the launch of two new State Laboratories (one for the Internet of Things and Smart Cities and another for Sciences of the Moon and Planet). She also had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of tech giants such as Tencent and DJI in Shenzhen (China) and to interview some of the companies' executives. In September 2021 after working in China she moved to London to pursue a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Roehampton which she completed with merit in 2023. She currently works for Aurora Metro and Supernova Books. Bridget Greenwood is the founder of The Bigger Pie an award-winning organisation focused on supporting women in blockchain and emerging tech. She is also co-founder with Dr Amber Ghaddar at The 200Bn Club an accelerator programme to help female led start ups match successfully with investors. Bridget is an Ethical Finance Awards Winner and Crypto Currency Diversity & Inclusion Organisation of the Year 2022