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Join women leaders in business and government from eve-

ry corner of the world at the leading forum for women im-

pacting the global economy since 1990.

2021 Global Summit of Women

Lisbon, Portugal

October 28-30, 2021

2021 Global Summit of Women Women: Transforming Economies Globally

What the Summit Offers Insight into women driving business growth as consumers and business leaders post-

COVID;

Numerous sessions to help ‘grow’ your leadership skills, your business, and your network;

Information on doing business in Portugal and the European Union;

Inspirational role models from every continent among our impressive roster of over 70 presenters;

Ample networking opportunities at breakfasts, lunches, and receptions.

Summit Features

Pre-Summit Roundtable for Women

Government Ministers on best

practices in public/private sector

partnerships for advancing women’s

economic opportunities;

Plenary sessions which cover post-

COVID Megatrends;

Discussion Forums with Male CEOs

and Women CEOs;

Creative tips from women

entrepreneurs succeeding in the

global economy.

Skills-building sessions in three

tracks: Leadership Development,

Entrepreneurial, and Issues;

42% of Portugal’s Cabinet is made up of women minis-ters & 40% of Portugal’s Parliamentarians are women.

Portugal has a 30% quota for women board directors, pushing its percentage of women on board from 16.2%

to 26.6% in just 2 years. Portugal focuses on entrepreneurship and ranks 6th globally in the 2019 Mastercard Index for Female Entre-

preneurship.

Portugal has a talented female labor force with women holding 60% of higher education degrees.

About Portugal

THE 2021 GLOBAL SUMMI T OF

WOMEN IS OPEN TO VACCINATED

PARTICIPANTS ONLY FOR THE

SAFETY AND HEALTH OF ALL

DELEGATES.

Meet some of the leaders participating in the 2021 Global Summit of Women

HON. MURIEL PENICAUD

Former Minister of Labor; Ambassador to

OECD (France)

KOBKARN

WATTANAVRANGKUL

Former Minister of

Tourism and Sports

(Thailand)

LORENA DELLAGIOVANNA

VP, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer,

Hitachi (Italy)

ALEXANDRA PALT Chief Corporate Re-

sponsibility Officer and EVP, Fondation L’Oreal

(France)

MONICA LOIAZA Board Member, AmEx

Mexico, Devlyn Holdings, Coppel (Mexico)

CARLA GRANT-PICKENS

VP, Chief Global Diversity and Inclu-

sion Officer, IBM (USA)

LAURA GONZALEZ MOLERO

President, APD; For-mer CEO, Merck

Spain (Spain)

MARGARET JOHNSTON-CLARKE

Global Chief Diversity Officer, L’Oreal (France)

DIANE DE SAINT VICTOR

Board Director, Natixis and Transocean

(Switzerland)

NORIKO HARADA CEO, AI Cross

(Japan)

PILITA CLARK

Associate Editor and Business Columnist, Financial Times (UK)

IAN BORDEN

President, Interna-tional, McDonalds

(UK)

NURIA GARCIA

President, Europe, Middle East Africa,

MetLife (France)

ALAIN SIMONET

Managing Director, Western Mediter-

ranean, 3M (France)

WERNER HOYER President, European

Investment Bank (Germany)

SABINE KOHLEISEN Member of Board of

Management, Human Resources and Labor Relations, Mercedes-Benz AG (Germany)

HON. ROSA MONTEIRO Secretary of State for

Citizenship and Equality (Portugal)

Honorary Chair,

Portugal Host Committee

TANYA MOSS Founder, Tanya Moss

Jewelry (Mexico)

H.E. VJOSA OSMANI President of Kosovo

HON. ELISABETH MORENO

Minister for Gender Equality,

Diversity and Equal

Opportunities (France)

More leaders participating in the 2021 Global Summit of Women

MARIE CHRISTINE OGHLY

Founder, Enginsoft France ; Chair, Femmes

Chefs Entreprises Mond-iale (FCEM) (France)

CLAUDIA FREED CEO, EALGreen

(USA)

ANA MUNOZ Board Director,

Tubos Reunidos, Natura, and Grupo

Lantera (Spain)

ROCIO HORTIGUELA CEO, Entiba Energy

(Spain)

MERCEDES ERRA Executive President,

Havas Worldwide (France)

CHRISTINA HABIB

Global Vice President, Consumer & Market Insight, Foods & Re-

freshment (UK)

ANDIE ZHANG Global Product Man-ager, Robotics, ABB

(Germany)

IDAR KREUTZER CEO, Finance

Norway (Norway)

MARIANA BOZESAN Co-Founder and Man-aging Director, AQAL

Capital (Germany)

MARY ANN PIERCE Founder and CEO, MAP

Digital (USA)

MARGUERITE SOETEMAN-REIJNEN Chair, Aon Holdings &

Aon Group International NV (Netherlands)

JESSICA APOTHEKER Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consult-

ing Group (France)

TONGJAI THANACHANAN

SVP, Chief of Sustaina-ble Business Develop-

ment, ThaiBev (Thailand)

MARIETTE RUPS-DONNELLY

Founder, Powerhouse Presentations

(Australia)

HENRYKA BOCHNIARZ Chair, Polish Confed-

eration Lewiatan (Poland)

DELIA DOMINGO-ALBERT

Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Philippines)

ISABEL UCHA CEO, Euronext Lisbon

Stock Exchange (Portugal)

Co-Chair, Portugal Host Committee

MARIA JOAO CARIOCA

Board Member, Caixa Geral de Depósitos

(Portugal)

BARBARA BARROSO

Founder and CEO, MoneyLab (Portugal)

DUARTE PITTA FERRAZ Professor @Nova SBE and Partner @ IVENS Governance Advisor,

Former Managing Direc-tor, Banco Comercial Portugues (Portugal)

SOFIA COUTO DA ROCHA

Chief Transformation Officer, Lusiadas Saude

Hospital (Portugal)

PAULA PANARRA

CEO, Microsoft Portugal (Portugal)

MADALENA TOME

CEO, SIBS (Portugal)

MAGDA COCCO

Partner, Vieira de Almeida (Portugal)

PEDRO CARAMEZ

LinkedIn Consultant (Portugal)

MARGARIDA COUTO

President, GRACE (Portugal)

ALEXANDRA SERRA

CEO, AdP-Valor; COO, AdP International

(Portugal)

INES DOS SANTOS COSTA Secretary of State for the

Environment (Portugal)

ANA SOFIA ANTUNES Secretary of State for

Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities (Portugal)

HELENA RODRGUES Founder, allby

(Portugal)

Co-Chair, Portugal Host Committee

Meet some of Portugal’s Leaders participating in the 2021 Global Summit of Women

HON. ROSA MONTEIRO Secretary of State for

Citizenship and Equality (Portugal)

Government Leaders

VERA PINTO PEREIRA

Board Director, EDP Energias (Portugal)

RITA MARQUES Secretary of State for

Tourism (Portugal)

VANDA JESUS

Founder, Digital Portugal (Portugal)

JOANA RAFAEL

COO and Co-Founder, Sansei (Portugal)

DANIELA SEIXAS

Founder and CEO, Tonic App (Portugal)

AMMJE- Asociación Mexicana de Mujeres Jefas de Empresas (Mexico)

Femmes Ingenieurs (France)

KAGIDER—Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey

Mongolia Women’s Association (Mongolia)

National Association of Women Business Owners – NAWBO (USA)

Philippine Women’s Economic Network

Reseau des Femmes d’Entreprises du Congo—REFEC (DR Congo)

Vietnam Women Entrepreneurs Council of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry

2021 Summit Global Members

International Partners

Across Cultures – AC (USA)

AFAEMME (Spain)

African Femmes Performantes

AMEXME (Asociación Mexicana de Mujeres Empresarias)

Association of Business Women of Kazakhstan

AWEP Namibia

Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Chittagong Women’s Chamber of Commerce and

Industry (Bangladesh)

Consortium of Women Entrepreneurs of India

Egyptian Business Women Association

Filipina CEO Circle

Future Boards (Norway)

Girls in Tech Indonesia

Girls in Tech Singapore

Greek Association of Women Entrepreneurs (SEGE)

International Council of Women

International Federation of Business & Professional

Women

International Women’s Federation of Commerce and

Industry Mongolia

Jamaica Association of Rural Women Producers

(Jamaica)

Leading Women of Africa (South Africa)

Malta Association of Women in Business

Mongolia Women’s Federation

Mongolia Women’s Employment Support Foundation

National Association of Women Entrepreneurs of

Malaysia (NAWEM)

Organization of Women in Trade (OWIT)

PWN Global

PWN Lisbon (Portugal)

PWN Madrid (Spain)

PWN Vienna (Austria)

Union of Business Ladies (Georgia)

Women Engineers of Portugal

Women for Africa International (France)

Women for Africa Cameroon

Women in Technology (Global)

Women Power Union (Russia)

Women Presidents Organization—Portugal

Zonta International

Global Summit of Women International Planning Committee

Kimberly Admire, Former Executive Vice President,

Chief Human Resources Officer, SAIC (USA)

Rohini Anand, Former SVP, Corporate Responsibility

and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo (USA)

Umran Beba, Partner, August Leadership; Former Presi-

dent, Asia Pacific and SVP, Chief Global Diversity and

Engagement Officer, PepsiCo (Turkey)

Jonina Bjartmarz, CEO, Iceland Europe Travel Partner-

ship; Former Minister of Environment, Iceland

Henryka Bochniarz, Chair, Polish Confederation of Pri-

vate Employers, Poland

Margarita de Cos, Board Member, WWF Spain

Alice Dear, Former U.S. Executive Director, African De-

velopment Bank

Delia Domingo-Albert, Senior Advisor, SGV/Ernst &

Young; Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Philippines

Patricia Espinosa Torres, Counselor, Coordinating Coun-

cil of Business Women; former Undersecretary of Labor,

Mexico

Denise Evans, Vice President for Diverse Partner Devel-

opment, IBM (USA)

Sakie T. Fukushima, President, G&S Global Advisors

(Japan)

Siv Hellen, Former Chief Compliance Officer, Nordic In-

vestment Bank (Finland)

Sung Joo Kim, Chair and Chief Visionary Officer, MCM

Holdings AG (South Korea)

Tess Mateo, Managing Director, CXCATALYSTS (USA)

Margaretta Noonan. Co-Founder and CEO, ngage

(USA)

Muriel Penicaud, French Ambassador to OECD & For-

mer Minister of Labor, France

Ursula Schwarzenbart, Chief Diversity Officer, Daimler

AG (Germany)

Ann Sherry, Advisor and Former Chair/CEO, Carnival

Australia

Anna Wu, Chair, Competition Commission of Hong Kong

SAR

Irene Natividad, Chair, International Planning Committee;

President, GlobeWomen Research and Education Institute

PORTUGAL HOST COMMITTEE

HONORARY CHAIR

Rosa Monteiro, Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality

Helena Rodrigues (CO-CHAIR); CEO, Allby; Chair, Women Presidents Organization – Portugal

Isabel Ucha (CO-CHAIR), CEO, Euronext Lisbon

Fatima Aveiro, Vice President, Out-of-Home and Refreshment, Unilever

Cristina Campos, CEO Novartis Portugal

Isabel Canha, Editor-in-Chief, Executiva

Margarida Couto, President, GRACE

Paula Panarra, General Manager, Microsoft Portugal

Duarte Pitta Ferraz, Prof. of Governance and Banking, Nova School of Business & Economics

Clara Raposo, Dean, ISEG

Ana Sofia Silveira, CEO, Aguas do Tejo Atlantico

Madalena Tome, CEO, SIBS

Conceição Zagalo, Former City Hall Counselor and Founder, Portugal’s Women Leadership Council