Committee 2024/25
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Eliška Hauferová
3rd Year HSPS
Eliška is a third-year student reading Human, Social, and Political Sciences at Peterhouse. Her primary academic interest lies in international relations, especially public international law, and intergovernmental collaborative institutions such as the European Union.
She became involved in the society as a First Year Representative in the events team and later transitioned into policy paper writing on the topic “Populism and Democratic Backsliding: Protecting the Human Rights System in Europe”. Interest in policy papers has led to her current role as a co-head of policy in charge of publishing various public policy papers produced by the society.
In her spare time, she enjoys reading non-fiction, knitting, and learning languages.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Jess Alder
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Jessica is a third-year Land Economy student at Lucy Cavendish College. She was involved with the Wilberforce Society as the Deputy Head of Policy last year where she implemented the newsletter and took charge of the first Year Representative programme. Her policy interests currently revolve around sustainable finance and innovation. She has a particular interest in emerging economies. She enjoys rowing, teaching herself new skills and travelling with friends in her spare time. She is excited to be serving alongside Eliska as Deputy Director to create the best version of The Wilberforce Society!
JUNIOR TREASURER
Isaac Qing Lee
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Hi! I'm Isaac, a second-year Economics undergraduate at Queens' College. I first became involved with the society as a first-year representative on the events team, and I'm excited to continue contributing as this year’s Treasurer. I look forward to overseeing the society’s financial health and ensuring that all our events are properly funded. My research interests include macroeconomic stabilization policy, tax theory, behavioural nudges, as well as economic development in the East Asian region.
Heads of Policy
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Suchir Salhan
Suchir Salhan is the Head of Policy at The Wilberforce Society. He has been involved in The Wilberforce Society as Head of Events and was the Editor for a policy paper on Cybersecurity and Web 3.0. He has helped organise several speaker events for TWS, including hosting events with the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka and the Russian Editor of the BBC's World Service. Suchir is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science, after completing his BA and MEng at Cambridge. His policy interests include security, technology, media freedom, and geopolitics.
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Ben Cartwright
I am Ben, a third year history and politics student at Christs. I am delighted to be working as co head of policy for the coming year, having previously served as editor for the sustainability paper last year.
Deputy Heads of Policy
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Evan Burgess
Evan is a second year Human, Social and Political Science (Politics and International Relations) student at Magdalene College and the deputy head of policy. In first year, he engaged with the society as a first year representative in the policy team writing for the Policy Memo. His interests lie in international relations, particularly the continued potential of international organisations and cycling
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Ansh Barot
I'm Ansh, and I'm a second year undergrad studying economics at Trinity Hall. I joined TWS as a first year representative and I'm interested in broad applications of political economy analysis to areas such as health financing, industrial strategy and climate policy in advanced economies.
Heads of Conference
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Hannah Jeong
I’m Hannah, a second year Law student at Jesus College. I am interested in applications of AI in government infrastructure and geopolitics in the Asia-pacific region.
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Jacqueline Sin
Hi! I am Jacqueline, a third-year student reading Human, Social and Political Sciences at St. John's. I am interested in public and social policy, especially the topics of sustainable development, education and housing. ion
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Nina Fortikova
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Heads of Events
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Cameron Thomas
Cameron is an economics finalist undergraduate at Girton college. His first interaction with the society was in his first year at the TWS Annual Conference. From there he became involved in research work.
He is interested in infrastracture financing, sovereign debt and civic stability in developing markets, as well as wider foreign policy issues in the regions.
In his spare time he enjoys reading about art history.
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Mari Puttick
Hi! My name is Mari Puttick and I am a second-year HSPSer at Caius. I am so excited to be working on the events committee at TWS this year and I’m really looking forward to helping make policy discussion and analysis more accessible and interesting to fellow students!
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Cameron McIntyre
I'm Cameron, a second-year History and Politics undergrad at Lucy Cavendish. I joined the society as a first-year rep and the policy areas I am interested in include foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific, combating misinformation online and in the media, and avenues for penal reform
Head of Publicity
Head of Alumni
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Christina Huang
Christina is a second year History and Politics student at Christ’s College. Her interests in policy and research lie in international trade, exchange and immigration, with the study of flows of money and of people. She is also interested in international law and governance, and the synergy with emerging regional governance.
In her free time, she loves practicing, performing and listening to music, running and finding the quickest way to finish a game of solitaire.
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Rafa Karapetyan
My name is Rafael Karapetian. I am an Economics undergraduate, in my second year, at Corpus Christi College. My policy interest is understanding how successful global, overarching organisations can be at resolving the problems our society faces. With regards to more specific policies, I am curious about the economic effects of China’s recent policies that put a cap on people’s earnings in the financial industry.