Stephanie Pow
AUTHOR: Mike Butler DATE: 06.09.07 ISSUE 1, 2007
Bringing it all back home
Thanks to an outstanding HSC performance, Stephanie Pow could have gone to any university in the country but, for her, the choice of UNSW was obvious. “My parents studied Commerce at UNSW and both had great experiences. But, for me, it was really the Co-op Programme. No other university offers anything like it for Finance.”
Stephanie was not sure what she wanted to do but she saw the program as an excellent way to get taste of the real world while studying. It also took her into areas she might not have gone herself.
| UNSW Co-op Scholarship recipient Stephanie Pow has created Capital W, UNSW's 300-strong undergraduate women's business club. |
“For example, my placement with UBS in 2006 put me on the equity derivatives trading floor,” says the 20-year-old. “It was chaotic, fast paced and very male dominated so, for me, coming from an all-girls school it was something I wasn’t used to at all … I enjoyed it so much that I stayed there for another six months,” she says.
Experiences like this and an exchange program with The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has led her to form Capital W, UNSW’s now 300-strong undergraduate women’s business club.
“Wharton has a very well run women’s business club that I benefited from and when I got back to UNSW I thought we could really benefit from something like this here.”
Capital W is about developing leadership by building business skills through networking and workshops.
Stephanie was awarded the Investec Prize for the Most Outstanding All-rounder at UNSW this year. “I was really honoured to be the UNSW recipient and even more thrilled that part of the prize money could be used to fund the launch of Capital W in August,” she says.