• Salma Abbas: Enabling Youth Inclusion

    Salma Abbas: Enabling Youth Inclusion

    Tell us a bit about yourself and your journey that culminated in where you are today? I have an educational background focused on business. I was lucky to obtain my master’s degree majoring in strategy and marketing from abroad which enlarged my contact with students from different backgrounds and...
  • Celine Gajnik: Making Waves in Cybersecurity

    Celine Gajnik: Making Waves in Cybersecurity

    Meet Celine Gajnik, Head of International Marketing, ThreatQuotient, a dynamic, results orientated Marketing leader, highly accomplished at developing and implementing a marketing strategy. In this Q&A, Celine Gajnik talks us through her career progression, how she landed a career in marketing and what excites her about cybersecurity. Celine has...
  • Samar Baba: Enabling The Youth Digitally

    Samar Baba: Enabling The Youth Digitally

    Tell us a bit about yourself and your journey that culminated in where you are today? My name is Samar Baba, from Tunisia, in the Middle East & North Africa and I am currently the Lead Developer Advocate responsible for the IBM Z Global Student Hub. I hold an...
  • Melissa Sassi: Accelerating Innovation In Tech

    Melissa Sassi: Accelerating Innovation In Tech

    Tell us a bit about yourself and your journey that culminated in where you are today? I studied International Business Management and Linguistics in undergrad, got two Masters in Supply Chain and Finance and started my career in procurement. I found that this career path did not fire me...
  • Driving Gender Parity in Finance

    Driving Gender Parity in Finance

    Tell us a little bit about yourself and the journey that led you to ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)?  Accounting is in my blood. My father was an ACCA member and ran a successful accounting practice in the UK, providing professional financial services to a variety of clients who...
  • Enabling Pakistani Women in Ecommerce

    Enabling Pakistani Women in Ecommerce

    The number of Internet users in Pakistan has increased by 11 million between 2019 and 2020 states the Digital 2020: Pakistan report by Simon Kemp. With 76.38 million Internet users in Pakistan by January 2020, the digital landscape promises immense economic potential. And it certainly is not rocket science...
  • Blindness: A Gender Issue?

    Blindness: A Gender Issue?

    Tell us a bit about yourself, your journey that led to The Fred Hollows Foundation I live in Melbourne, Australia and I have lived here all my life. I am married to a guy who I met when he was on holidays here from Germany. He’s a Chef and...
  • Sustainable by Design

    Sustainable by Design

    Who is Laila Al-Yousuf? Tell us a bit about yourself. I was raised in Dubai and educated in the US and I think this combination of cultures has given me a unique perspective on designing for clients in the Middle East. I worked for the global design practice Perkins...
  • On Reconstructing Humanity

    On Reconstructing Humanity

    The year 2020 has ushered in a time that unreservedly urges humanity to look within itself and seek answers, if not solutions, to the plethora of intersecting crises and burning global questions. Triggered by mankind’s gluttonous greed, the world has come to a screeching halt and is now on...
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