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UPC judge: ‘Expectations of you as a woman are the challenge’

In the first of a series of interviews with women UPC judges, Ingeborg Simonsson talks to Sarah Speight about her career highs and lows, including defying expectations of women in the profession and why having a clear goal is key.

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