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Julia Onslow-Cole is a partner, legal markets leader and head of global immigration at PwC Legal. She leads the largest immigration network of its kind, with more than 1500 experts in PwC offices in over 154 countries.
With over 25 years’ experience, Ms Onslow-Cole is regarded as the UK’s “Experts Expert” and has been the recipient of several nominations and awards, including most recently Woman of the year: Business Growth at the Citywealth Power Women Awards 2016. Supported by a first-class multinational team of lawyers, as well as global mobility, tax and employment experts, she truly understands the issues clients face in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape. This is illustrated by the unique immigration services she led during the Arab Spring and Algeria hostage crises.
Ms Onslow-Cole leads the immigration debate representing businesses concerns. She represented business at the prime minister’s immigration stocktake meeting and acted as an adviser to the Home Office on business, investment and growth. Ms Onslow-Cole led the joint PwC report on the economic benefits of overseas students and is one of PwC’s panel of experts on geopolitical impacts on clients especially in Europe.
Most recently she was appointed as a key expert in PwC’s Brexit Taskforce and has been liaising with Government and business on immigration outcomes post the referendum.
Ms Onslow-Cole regularly speaks at conferences across the globe regarding the impact of the refugee crisis and geopolitical instability on global mobility, including most recently speaking with Kofi Annan in Monaco. She liaises with Governments overseas and has recent meetings with Governments in Australia, Europe and the Caribbean.
She is chair of London First’s working party on immigration and the IBA’s human rights institute charitable trust.
