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Raha Moharrak –

Always a curious child, for as long as she can remember, Raha dreamt of challenging adventures, seeing the world and perhaps even changeling it. From a young age her eccentricity was obvious, blessed with parents who never asked her to change, teaching her to dream big and live even bigger, and raised her with the…

Dr Linzi Kemp – American University of Sharjah

Linzi is an Associate Professor with the American University of Sharjah, teaching Women in Leadership, Leadership and Organizational Behavior to graduate and undergraduate students. Her research focuses on women in employment and leadership in the United Arab Emirates, and wider Middle East region. Previous experience has been in management, training, and lecturing. Prior to the…

Louise Karim – Mums@Work

Living in Dubai since 2009, Louise has led teams at leading regional and international companies including DABO & Co, The Dubai World Trade Centre and Emirates Airlines. More recently she set up the digital department for two highly successful Dubai-based agencies. Representing a vast number of global brands including Virgin, Coca-Cola and The Four Seasons,…

H.E. Maha Ali – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Ms. Ali served as Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply in 2015/2016. She worked at the Trade Ministry since 1998, served at Jordan’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva in 2002, and was appointed as the Ministry’s Secretary General in 2010. She has a BSc in Industrial Engineering, an MBA and a Trade Policy…

Mariam Farag – MBC Group

Mariam Farag is leading the CSR program at MBC Group, which is responsible for driving its corporate responsibility vision and strategy in the region & globally. Farag brings to MBC Group over 18 years of experience working in the fields of social development, humanitarian relief, communication, corporate & social responsibility in the MENA region. Prior…

Melissa McSherry – VISA

Melissa McSherry joined Visa in 2016 to lead the Analytics and Data Products team. That team serves clients globally with benchmarking products, predictive models to drive customer engagement, and individual projects leveraging transaction data. In September, Ms. McSherry took on the Global Credit team, which builds capabilities to support issuers in growing their credit card…

Menassie Taddese – Pfizer’s Innovative Health Business

Menassie Taddese is the Regional President, AfME, Pfizer Essential Health. Prior to this role, he served as Regional Lead for Pfizer Innovative Health in AfME.  In both roles, he was instrumental in turning around the holistic performance of Pfizer rooted in establishing a winning and organizationally healthy culture.  Mr. Taddese began his career with Pfizer…

Michaela Alexis –

Michaela graduated from Carleton University with Bachelor of Arts degree (with distinctions) with a major in legal studies, and a minor in psychology. Michaela currently works as the President of Grade A Digital, a Social Media and Personal Branding Agency in Ottawa, and has thrived in the content marketing community, successfully managing over 100 brands…

Nada Doumit – Roche Diagnostics Middle East

Nada Doumit has been the Head of Legal Roche Diagnostics Middle East since April 2016, and has joined Roche Diagnostics Middle East in 2012 in the capacity of Legal Counsel, establishing the legal and compliance functions in the Middle East. With a penchant for lucidity and analysis, Nada leads a regional team of legal counsels…