The 18th Global Women in Leadership (WIL) Economic Forum will provide a setting for 500 global stakeholders to tackle the pervasive issues surrounding gender parity, support female leadership, and pave the way to a more equal and inclusive future.
Organized by multinational business facilitation company Naseba and held with the support of the UAE Ministry of Economy for the third consecutive year, the forum has championed economic gender parity for the past seven years.
The future of everything is the forum theme that will bring together innovators, disruptors, entrepreneurs, business leaders and leaders of social change, as well as key figures from the public sector, at the Ritz-Carlton DIFC in Dubai on Oct. 24-25.
The forum will feature over 65 speakers from around the world, including Sultan bin Saeed Al-Mansouri, minister of economy for the UAE; Ketevan Bochorishvili, vice minister of economy and sustainable development for Georgia; Elena Kountoura, alternate minister for tourism for Greece; Nadir A. Mohammed, country director-GCC Countries at the World Bank; and Aisha bin Bishr, director general of the Smart Dubai Office.
The barrier-breaking women who will be sharing their stories at the forum include Chetna Sinha, founder and chairwoman of the Mann Deshi Foundation, which is providing vital microfinance services to women in rural India; Lina Khalifeh, founder and owner of SheFighter, a self-defense club for women that has become a sensation in Jordan; and Monique Marrow, CTO at CISCO and technology evangelist.
Al-Mansouri commented: “Women are vital drivers of the UAE’s vision of building a knowledge-based economy where the talent and skills of both men and women are valued equally.”
Sophie Le Ray, CEO of Naseba, said: “The Global WIL Economic Forum is not about diversity and inclusion initiatives, and female hiring quotas — it is about working together to reach a point, where those initiatives and quotas are no longer necessary.”
Organized by multinational business facilitation company Naseba and held with the support of the UAE Ministry of Economy for the third consecutive year, the forum has championed economic gender parity for the past seven years.
The future of everything is the forum theme that will bring together innovators, disruptors, entrepreneurs, business leaders and leaders of social change, as well as key figures from the public sector, at the Ritz-Carlton DIFC in Dubai on Oct. 24-25.
The forum will feature over 65 speakers from around the world, including Sultan bin Saeed Al-Mansouri, minister of economy for the UAE; Ketevan Bochorishvili, vice minister of economy and sustainable development for Georgia; Elena Kountoura, alternate minister for tourism for Greece; Nadir A. Mohammed, country director-GCC Countries at the World Bank; and Aisha bin Bishr, director general of the Smart Dubai Office.
The barrier-breaking women who will be sharing their stories at the forum include Chetna Sinha, founder and chairwoman of the Mann Deshi Foundation, which is providing vital microfinance services to women in rural India; Lina Khalifeh, founder and owner of SheFighter, a self-defense club for women that has become a sensation in Jordan; and Monique Marrow, CTO at CISCO and technology evangelist.
Al-Mansouri commented: “Women are vital drivers of the UAE’s vision of building a knowledge-based economy where the talent and skills of both men and women are valued equally.”
Sophie Le Ray, CEO of Naseba, said: “The Global WIL Economic Forum is not about diversity and inclusion initiatives, and female hiring quotas — it is about working together to reach a point, where those initiatives and quotas are no longer necessary.”
