Your Career Journey, Leadership, and Emotional Resilience

About this webinar

This International Women’s Day 2021 lecture is organised by the School of Law, University of Bradford, to celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of Mel Nebhrajani CB, a woman lawyer and Director of litigation in the Government Legal Department.

Her lecture entitled “Your Career Journey, Leadership, and Emotional Resilience” will reflect on her experiences in a way that inspires law students and professionals from diverse backgrounds:

(a) to achieve their potentials;

(b) sensitize them to the opportunities available to them in the current environment;

(c) advise them on the knowledge and skills that they require to maximize these opportunities.

Speaker’s Bio:

Mel heads Government’s litigation, leading 600 people litigating key cases of the day and having the UK’s largest caseload in the Supreme Court.

Mel started life as a barrister and since joining government in 1998 has worked in a variety of departments including the Cabinet Office and Number 10. Most recently at the Department of Health and Social Care, Mel led the legal work across Whitehall to deliver Government’s COVID-19 response. She also led on EU Exit, NHS reform and such ground-breaking ethics cases as the Charlie Gard case.

Over a 23 year career as a government lawyer Mel has advised on key constitutional changes such as the Human Rights Act, devolution, House of Lords reform and freedom of information, and a range of policies of national significance such as the Civil Partnership Act, academies and free schools and airport expansion.

Mel was highly commended in the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2020 and appointed Companion of the Bath in the 2021 New Year’s Honours List. She is also a non-executive director for an adult education organisation.