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Istanbul's Blue
Mosque
The Bosphorus Bridge connecting Europe
and Asia
Marisa Drew
Managing Director,
Investment Banking, Credit Suisse
Suzan
Sabanci
Chairperson
Akbank
Juliana Oyegun
Chief Diversity
Officer,
World Bank
Angela Titzrath-Grimm
VP,
Executive Management Development, Daimler AG
Ursula Schwarzenbart
Director,
Global Diversity Management, Daimler AG
Sakie Fukushima
Former CEO, Korn/Ferry
Japan
Selen
Kocabas
Vice Director General,
Turkcell | |
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DELEGATIONS
   
   
Seventy-one countries are
represented to date by those planning to take part in the Global Summit of Women
to be hosted by Turkey from May 5-7th in
Istanbul. Large delegations of
women in business are planning to meet their counterparts from every
corner of the world.
The Vice President of Vietnam is leading a delegation of 40,
the majority of whom are entrepreneurs organized by the Vietnam
Chamber of Commerce.
The First Lady of Malaysia comes with 30 women in business
organized by SME Corporation, which promotes the development of
entrepreneurship in that country. From Mongolia, the Deputy
Minister of Justice will be accompanied by a delegation of 25
businesswomen.
From Kazakhstan, the Minister
of Labor will also be joined by 25 entrepreneurs. Greece and Spain similarly will
bring 40 women in business, and both delegations will be led by
women ministers as well.
As the Host of the last Summit, China will come with 50
entrepreneurs led by the Vice Chair of the All China Women’s
Federation.
South
Africa’s Deputy Minister of Trade
and Industry will bring 20 from her country. There are many more
countries sending representatives, while on the private sector side,
corporations such as Pepsico, IBM, Intel and others are also
bringing their women managers from the region.
“We plan to post delegations’ contacts online on the
Summit website, so they can set up
meetings with their counterparts from several countries. “For 21 years, the Summit has
provided a forum for women in business to connect and to learn from
each other.” she adds.
A sampling of some Summit sessions follow, along with
designated presenters.
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MEGATRENDS
To kick off the
Global Summit of Women, a special opening session on major economic
trends affecting economies worldwide will be presented by Marisa Drew, Managing Director
of Investment Banking for Credit Suisse, who is also co-head of the
Global Markets Solutions Group. Recognized by the Financial Times as one of
the most influential women in European Finance, when it named her as
one of FN 100 Women in
Finance, Ms. Drew also heads up Credit Suisse’s efforts to
recruit, retain and promote women in the
company.
Joining Ms. Drew in
this opening session is Suzan
Sabanci, Chairperson and Member of the Executive Committee of Akbank
– one of Turkey’s largest banks -- who will
present her assessment of regional economic trends, as well as give
an overview of the current state of Turkey’s economy. A banker for over two
decades, Ms. Sabanci serves on the International Advisory Boards of
Citibank, Blackstone, the Bank of Kuwait while also serving on the
Board of Directors of the Institute of International Finance.
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LEADING TEAMS
EFFECTIVELY
One of four sessions under the Leadership Development Track
at the Summit, is one focused on leading
teams. Women are often
seen as having difficulty in participating in teams as well as in
leading work teams. A
stellar panel of business leaders will present experience-based and
time-tested techniques to Summit
participants.
Guldem Berkman has
been leading Novartis Turkey as Country
President since 2008 while also serving as a member of the European
Executive Committee. She is one of only five female Country Heads of
Novartis among 140 countries worldwide, where the company has a
presence. She is also
the first female CEO of the top three pharmaceutical companies in
Turkey. In her ascent within
Novartis, she has worked within teams, formed teams herself and is
now the CEO that teams report to. Another CEO joining Ms.
Berkman is Spain’s Ana Garcia Fau, who
heads up Yell Publicidad, responsible for Spain, Argentina, Chile and Peru. Her experience in leading
teams based in other countries is relevant to today’s workers in
multinational companies, who often work with or lead teams across
borders. Prior to her
executive role at Yell Publicidad, Ms. Garcia Fau had worked at
McKinsey & Co., Goldman Sachs and Wolff Olin, giving her
experience in a diverse range of companies. Rounding out the presenters
is Damayanti Vasudevan,
Vice President of Global Diversity & Inclusion at R.R.
Donnelley, based in Chicago. She has nearly three
decades’ experience in talent management, leadership development and
psychometrics, which she will bring to bear on this
topic.
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HOW WORK/LIFE POLICIES CAN IMPROVE THE
ECONOMIC LIFE OF WOMEN
What links women worldwide is the long-standing dilemma of
balancing work with family responsibilities. Labor experts agree that
women cannot get ahead to more demanding leadership roles at work,
if the work culture does not accommodate the reality of women’s
lives that includes raising children. This Summit session
brings innovative programs that attempt to address the work/life
puzzle from different corners of the world.
The World Bank’s Chief Diversity Officer, Juliana Oyegun,
chairs this session and opens with an overview of where women stand
on work/life issues globally.
Then, Daimler’s Vice
President for Executive Management Development Angela
Titzrath-Grimm will be joined by Ursula Schwarzenbart, Director
of Global Diversity Management and Potential Management as
they present a German – as well as European – initiative to give
mandatory paternity leave benefits partly to take the stigma of
women taking parental leave benefits to take care of a newborn or
sick children.
From Europe to Japan, the dialogue is taken up by Sakie Fukushima, former CEO of
Korn/Ferry Japan, who has seen
the efforts to advance work/life benefits in tradition-bound
Japanese companies and can speak as to what it takes to change
mind-sets regarding the importance of this issue to retaining and
promoting women. From
Turkey, Selen Kocabas, Vice Director
General of Turkcell speaks of her company’s initiatives in a
country where many women work and lead businesses, but where some
traditional perceptions of women’s roles still remain. Participants will be invited
to share other initiatives from companies or governments that have
seen some measure of success in allowing women to combine
responsibilities at home and at work.
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NGO LEADS – DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATIONS.
At its 20th anniversary last year in Beijing,
Summit President Irene Natividad announced an initiative to
strengthen women’s nonprofit groups: “Women’s organizations do
important work that governments and businesses cannot do, but many
face challenges regarding programming, fundraising, membership
retention and marketing that hamper their ability to grow or to
continue their work, “ At the Summit in Istanbul, four sessions are
scheduled for leaders of women’s business, professional and
entrepreneurial organizations.
They are the pilot sessions for longer regional offerings to
be scheduled during 2011 in different parts of the world. The sessions will be led by
leaders of other NGOs.
The topics covered are:
·
“Developing Programs that
Realize NGO Mission”
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“Marketing and
Branding Your Organization”
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“Expanding Your
Funding Base”
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“Growing and
Retaining NGO Members”
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