Last updated: 18 June 2019
![[VIDEO] Women In Leadership Series: Refugee-Turned-IT-Pioneer & Billionaire, Dame Stephanie Shirley, Shares Her Extraordinary Story... & Why Women Have Flat Heads](https://d28ufb1dgqfiui.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/dame-stephanie-shirley.jpg "[VIDEO] Women In Leadership Series: Refugee-Turned-IT-Pioneer & Billionaire, Dame Stephanie Shirley, Shares Her Extraordinary Story... & Why Women Have Flat Heads")
Dame Stephanie Shirley arrived in the UK as a child refugee at the age of 5. It was 1939, and her Austrian parents had sent her to the UK to escape the Nazi regime. Placed into foster care, she was given a second chance at life – which she embraced wholeheartedly. So much so, after READ MORE
