Bloomberg New Voices: Expanding Representation

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00:00Good evening, everyone. As you could just see there from that video, Bloomberg's New Voices

00:08program is very important for us as a company. It started back in 2018 to help make our coverage

00:15more inclusive and more representative of the countries we are reporting on. The program

00:21itself, it funds intensive media training for senior female executives and male executives,

00:27as we saw there, across the finance industry in 18 financial hubs across the world, including

00:32here in Johannesburg. A number of alums have appeared on Bloomberg Television with me, and

00:38the program has already helped quadruple the percentage of women experts that we have had

00:44on Bloomberg Television, which is very important for us. I can say firsthand that a number of

00:49the alum have been fantastic guests for me since I've been here in South Africa. I interview

00:55a number of them often, including Dana Lee Massia, who is the chief economist for Deutsche

01:00Bank, who was recently on with me. I don't know if she's here today, who helped make sense

01:05of the inflation target, which was a very important milestone for South Africa. Also to the chief

01:10economist at Investec, Annabelle Bishop, who despite a live time on TV of 6.30 a.m., which

01:17for most people would be early, Annabelle reminded me that women in finance and people in finance,

01:226.30 is not early, and she is always happy to get up, as most of our alum always are. Already,

01:29we have 24 women at the top levels of South African business and finance that have participated

01:35in New Voices, and I'm excited to let you know that today we are launching a new cohort here in

01:41Johannesburg. You can find the application, I think it will be up here soon, but if not,

01:47www.bloomberg.com slash newvoices. We really welcome everyone to apply. If you want to apply

01:55yourself, if you know someone who you think should be included in our coverage, please,

02:00please try and apply to New Voices, because we want to continue to expand a lot of the voices that

02:07we have as part of our programming, as you did see there. So without further ado, we're going to

02:12continue on with the evening today and see New Voices in action. We have Emery Brown, who is here

02:17with me. She is the CEO of Rand Merchant Bank, and I think really embodies a lot of that expertise

02:23that we're looking for in the finance industry for a brief conversation. So please welcome Emery to

02:29the stage now.