“I think before talking to you I would just have highlighted the people who interested me the most rather than thinking about balancing the impression being given to the students. Small examples but I think lots of us doing this would make quite a difference.”

“I included your project in my PDR and recommended that my entire department sign up for it. I said that it made me aware of unconscious bias which we can address by being aware of it but, because the curriculum and the text books we use rather reinforce it we have to be aware and take steps to change them too.”

An OBU Lecturer in Accounting (December, 2016)

Cuffay is known for his leadership in the British Chartist Movement in the 1840s and his political activism in Tasmania after his transportation.

Recognized as the world’s first charter of human rights.

Since the 1950s, Edhi and his wife Bilquis Edhi have provided under the auspices of the Edhi Foundation a comprehensive welfare service in Pakistan and international humanitarian relief.

Entrepreneur known for the Black Farmer food range, political campaign and TV documentary.

Henrietta Lacks' tissue was taken without her knowledge, and later led to breakthroughs in science and medicine.

Farley is a mathematician who is well known for ordered sets and lattice theory, and developing a maths theory for counterterrorism. He also provides consultancy work for TV and film.

Lewis was an industrial economist known for developing the Lewis Model (Dual Sector Model) - an explanatory tool often used for studying the BRICS. He was also joint winner of the Noble Memorial Prize in Economics (1979).

Majumder is a mime artist whose work fuses different genres and has been used in social awareness-raising campaigns in Bangladesh and internationally.

Nasrin is a strong advocate for freedom of thought, women’s global emancipation and human rights. Her published work (e.g. essays, articles, books, poetry) considers a wide range of topics, namely secularism, rationalism, humanism and feminism.