TEDxWestminster School

Speakers

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• Asoka Woehrmann

  Dr. Asoka Wöhrmann is the CEO of PATRIZIA SE, one of Europe's largest real estate firms, with over €56 billion in assets under management. Before that he led DWS Group, one of the world's leading asset managers, overseeing close to €1 trillion. Born in Sri Lanka and educated in Germany, he built a career at the very top of global finance — but holds firmly to the belief that leadership is about responsibility, and that success is meant to be used for more than personal gain. That conviction runs through his philanthropy: the PATRIZIA Foundation has opened educational opportunities for more than one million children worldwide.

• Charlotte Mak

  Charlotte Mak is a student at Harris Westminster Sixth Form with a rare gift for making art feel urgent. For her, art is never distant or decorative — it's history, emotion, rebellion, memory, and identity, and one of the few forces still capable of connecting us across the politics, algorithms, and outrage that pull us apart. She speaks about it not just with passion but with deep humanity, inviting audiences to see the world through a more colourful, more meaningful lens.

• Dr Aradhana Khowala

  Dr. Aradhana Khowala is one of the world’s most influential voices in travel, tourism and luxury hospitality. She has advised more than 85 governments and as CEO of Aptamind Partners, she is deeply committed to turning tourism into a serious instrument of regeneration, resilience and enduring economic value. Her most recent TED Talk went viral, amassing over 700,000 views.

• Justin Levene

  Days before his 21st birthday, Justin’s life changed irrevocably. A cough caused a herniated disc with subsequent surgeries all failing, resulting in paralysis and almost 18 months in hospital. Sport has always been a key aspect of Justin’s life and it promptly became a lifeline and career. In Wheelchair racing, Justin has won 29 marathon titles across the globe. Justin is also the World and European Champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Winning his 2nd World championship this year in Abu Dhabi. In 2022 Justin and a friend completed the 1st non supported crossing of the USA by handbike, towing his wheelchair behind him. The over 3000mile journey was completed in 48 days raising over £200,000 for a disabled children’s charity. A staunch activist for equality and human rights, Justin works tirelessly to see fair treatment for everyone. A mentor to newly injured civilians and veterans, in 2019 Justin was named in the Top 10 most powerful and influential disabled people in the UK.

• Leyla Spiteri

  Leyla Spiteri is an Old Westminster now studying at the University of Oxford. Beyond her studies, she has volunteered with Survivors of Torture, a UK charity that supports people who arrive in this country at their breaking point, helping them through the slow, difficult work of rebuilding a life and finding community.

• Marcello Gramignni

  Marcello Gramigni is a student at Harris Westminster Sixth Form drawn to one of the biggest questions there is: what if society behaves less like a machine and more like a living organism? His thinking moves easily across technology, biology, philosophy, and social theory, tracing how human systems emerge not by design but through cooperation, adaptation, and connection. Curious and quietly ambitious, Marcello is interested less in how things appear to work than in the deeper patterns underneath — and in what they suggest about the kind of future we are collectively building, and each person's place within it.

• Ziu Choi

  Ziu is a student at Harris Westminster Sixth Form, drawn to the politics of language and belonging — how the small words we use to define "us" quietly decide who counts as "them," and what it takes to remember the histories others would rather erase.