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Emmi Poleliakhoff, 24, was born to a Japanese mother and a half Russian father, and travelled a lot as a youngster, witnessing the end of communism. 'It made me interested in why some people are rich and others poor,' she says.

At 18 Poteliakhoff left her north London state school and went to Cambridge University to study economics. She admits she was competitive with the boys during her A-levels, wanting to assert her ability as a woman. 'Economics involves maths and that is quite male dominated,' she says.

She applied to the government economic service - the civil service fast track scheme for economists - and is now an assistant in the economics division of the Department for Health. 'When I arrived there were two women there,' she says. 'Eighteen months later there are six. Today half the assistants and a third of the advisors are women.

'I really enjoy my work and have not hit any barriers as a woman but it would be interesting to see how men and women progress over the next few years.'

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