This week’s target is Judith Shepherd, a corporate partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s London office. Cool, calm and collected, this writer will be an especially difficult subject to faze. Her critical faculties are well honed and her thinking is both independent and highly objective.

Blessed with a superb sense of timing, she generates lots of energy that will need constant release as it continu-ally builds. The somewhat overused term ‘doesn’t suffer fools gladly’ applies to perfection here, for her, small-talk is just that and very tiresome to boot. Problem solving is one of her major strengths; her powers of observation and logic will be unassailable… incidentally if she drives, she will be very, very good!