Post by Miss (Dr) Anthea Davy

Last week, I attended my Executive MBA graduation at Hult Ashridge Executive Education. Though a year has passed since I gained my qualification, the ceremony felt like a true closure — a chance to celebrate, reflect, and thank those who made the journey possible. Hearing fellow graduands speak of their own experiences before the ceremony was humbling. Completing a programme of this intensity alongside the demands of real life is no small thing. It was a glorious day, and the words of Dean Dr Hari Mann stayed with me: “you have a licence to be curious for life” — a sentiment that has run like a thread through so much of who I am. My heartfelt thanks go to University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and to Miss Emma Taylor, former colleague and UCLH Director of Education, who first put my name forward for this apprenticeship. I'm enormously grateful to my department colleagues for their support, to my fellow students from the anaesthetic department for those invaluable corridor conversations, and to the wonderful team in GWB Theatre 8 for their help with the final project. My greatest gratitude, however, belongs to my family. We have always celebrated graduations together — and this was the first without the cornerstone of ours. It is almost a year since Edward Davy Esq., LLM passed away: barrister, lecturer, fierce family man, and lifelong champion of learning. He was curious about everything, Socratic in his approach, and he passed that curiosity on to my brothers and me. We miss him enormously — but I know he was smiling that day. As one chapter closes, another opens. I’m excited about what comes next... 🎓 Hult Ashridge Executive Education Dr Robert Davy Roger Davy University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust