Advisory Board

Bob is an award winning industry expert, has an undergraduate degree in Mathematical Modelling, an Executive MBA and recently completed his PhD in Social Mobility and the Graduate Labour Market. Bob began his career as Students Union President. After this he worked for companies such as Tesco, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, graduate-jobs.com, RWE npower, University of Leicester and Skyscanner. Bob is a regular International conference speaker and co-author of the first book in the UK written on Graduate Recruitment and Development.

Ashley Hever is the Assistant Vice President of Talent Acquisition for Enterprise Mobility. In this role, he has oversight of company-wide strategies encompassing all external and internal recruitment functions. He supports Enterprise Mobility’s Talent Acquisition team by providing resources, technology, and tools to ensure they provide the best talent in the right places to support current business needs, growth and the future. Enterprise Mobility has been recognized with top honors for campus recruiting, careers website, diversity recruitment and candidate experience.

Shalin Ledwaba stands as a pre-eminent architect of African human capital, a visionary HR executive whose career has been defined by the strategic orchestration of future-fit workforce ecosystems. With an unparalleled mastery of emerging talent and workforce transformation, she has become a definitive force in recalibrating how global and continental organisations identify, cultivate, and empower Africa’s next generation of leadership.

Her legacy is built upon the design and execution of sophisticated, large-scale talent infrastructures across the continent’s most complex markets. From pioneering pan-African graduate and management trainee frameworks to high-impact bursary and learnership initiatives, Shalin has systematically dismantled the barriers between education and employment. By forging elite institutional partnerships and creating rigorous pathways into scarce-skill domains, she has successfully transitioned thousands of young professionals into the economic mainstream, balancing hyper-local nuance with scalable, sustainable excellence.

In her current capacity as Head of Talent Acquisition, Shalin directs a comprehensive human capital portfolio that integrates the critical pillars of organisational vitality: from performance, reward, and learning to sustainability, employee experience, and structural transformation. Her leadership is characterised by a rare synthesis of data-driven workforce analytics and a profound social-purpose lens, ensuring that talent strategies serve as both a catalyst for aggressive business growth and a vehicle for systemic youth employability.

A distinguished thought leader on the frontier of the “Future of Work,” Shalin is a sought-after voice on the intersection of AI, inclusive labour markets, and evolving workforce trends. Her contributions to the profession have earned prestigious accolades, most notably her recognition as the IPM (Institute of People Management) Future HR Leader of the Year. Driven by a commitment to equitable and resilient talent ecosystems, Shalin Ledwaba continues to redefine the standards of excellence for human capital investment across the African continent.

Joan Moore brings over two decades of recruitment experience, beginning her career in agency recruiting before moving into higher education as part of the Careers and Employability Service at Kingston University, giving her a grounding in the talent landscape from both sides of the equation.

In 2011, Joan joined Accenture, progressing from Senior Recruiter to Head of Early Talent for the UK. She led an award-winning team hiring up to 750 apprentices, interns and graduates each year, driving a significant transformation in how the firm attracted the best and most diverse talent. A strong advocate for the role technology plays in recruiting innovation, Joan is equally passionate about balancing this with genuinely human experiences believing the best recruitment is frictionless, high-impact, and memorable for all the right reasons.

In September 2025, Joan joined Sage as Global Early Careers Director, taking overall accountability for the attraction, hiring, onboarding and development of early careers hires across ten global locations.

A firm believer in cross-industry collaboration, Joan joined the Institute of Student Employers (ISE) Board in January 2021, serving as Treasurer before becoming Chair in March 2024. It is this same spirit that draws her to the Global Emerging Talent Forum. With youth unemployment a growing concern, she believes this is a critical moment for the industry to come together, sharing knowledge, challenging the status quo, and creating meaningful opportunities and clear pathways into employment for all. Joan is excited to bring her experience to an international stage and help shape the future of early careers on a global scale.

Kelly Pfeffer is Graduate Talent Lead at Suncorp (Australia & New Zealand based Insurance Company) with a strong focus on early careers programs and emerging talent development.

With 20+ years’ experience supporting graduate and early career cohorts, Kelly is passionate about designing structured, engaging programs that enable individuals to successfully transition into the workforce. She partners with leaders and stakeholders to deliver end-to-end early careers initiatives, including onboarding, capability development, performance support, and employee engagement.

Kelly has worked in both domestic and global organisations across a variety of industries. Using this experience, Kelly has a deep appreciation for both the similarities and differences across each market and region.

Kelly is an elected Director of the Australian Association of Graduate Employers (AAGE) and has been a member since 2006. Kelly is also a member of the New Zealand Association of Graduate Employers (NZAGE).