Women Business Leaders come together to advance
women's entrepreneurship
A group of prominent women business
leaders today highlighted the changing landscape of women's entrepreneurship and
its role in the GCC economies, calling for legal and administrative reforms for
the benefit of the society, at a lecture hosted by the Dubai School of
Government (DSG), a research and teaching institution focusing on public policy
in the Arab world.
Organized as part of DSG's Gender
and Public Policy Programme, the panel discussion titled? Growing Aspirations:
Supporting Women's Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf' was co-organised
with Monitor Group and Al-Sayedah Khadijah Bint Khuwailid Businesswomen Center
in Saudi Arabia.
The panel discussions covered a
recent report titled? Businesswomen in Saudi Arabia: Characteristics,
Aspirations, and Challenges in a Regional Context'. Released in Saudi Arabia,
the Gulf's largest economy, the report, authored by Monitor consultants Noura S.
Alturki and Rebekah Braswell captures fresh perspectives on the aspirations and
challenges of businesswomen in Saudi Arabia as compared to other women
entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa.
The DSG lecture emphasised on intra-GCC
relations and frameworks to address important questions for women specially
related to technology integration, legal and administrative reforms as well as
access to regional and international markets.
The speakers and panelists included
Dr May Al-Dabbagh, Director of the Gender and Public Policy Programme, DSG;
Noura Al-Turki and Rebekah Braswell, Consultants at Monitor Group; Dr. Basmah
Mosleh Omair, Executive Director of Al-Sayedah Khadijah Bint Khuwailid
Businesswomen Center; Samia Edrisi, Founding and Board Member of Businesswomen's
Forum in the Eastern Province and CEO and Board Chairman of Eastern Forum
Company for Advancement and Development; Raja Easa Al Gurg, President of Dubai
Businesswomen Council and Managing Director of Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group, and
Fatima Al-Jaber, Chief Operating Officer, Al Jaber Group and Chairman of Abu
Dhabi Businesswomen Council.
