Global Summit of Women 2009: A Resounding Success
Santiago, Chile * May 14 - 16, 2009
Setting New Paradigms for Business and Political Leadership
A History of Excellence
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2009 Summit At-A-Glance

2009 Summit Grants

 

Program

Speakers

 

Partners

 

Ministerial

 

Press

 

Planning Committee

 

Host Committee

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Sponsors

SERNAM

Presenting Sponsor:

Wal-mart

Qiagen
Avon

 IFC-GEM Program

 McDonald's Latin America
Sercotec
UNDP

Eve-Olution Foundation
AMCHAM
Global Summit of Women 2009
Media Partners





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El Mercurio website





TVN website




 

America Economia website

 

Summit 2009 through the eyes of the media


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Summit President Ms. Natividad discusses what the Summit is about. (CNN Chile)


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CNN Chile covers the Summit's
Opening Ceremony

Laura Albornoz, Chile's Minister of Women, at the 2009 Summit.
(CNN Chile)


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Doing Business with Chile
(CNN Chile)


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TRT reports on the the Ministerial Roundtable

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Global Summit of Women Closing (CNN Chile)


2009 Summit Photo Album

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Images  from the 2009 Summit 
 
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Summit President Irene Natividad formally  kicks off the Summit at the Opening Ceremony.
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H.E. President Bachelet formally greets Summit delegates.

At the Opening Reception, President Bachelet welcomed delegates at the Circulo Espanol, in the heart of Santiago

Best Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility Forum:
Julio Malo, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank; Maud Pagel, Senior VP, Corporate Social Responsibility, Deutsche Telekom (Germany); Daniela di Fiori, VP, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Wal-Mart Brazil; Liz Alicea-Velez, Executive VP for Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Western Union (USA); Paula Escobar, Editor, El Mercurio (Chile)


U.S. Summit delegates with Ambassador Paul E. Simons and Victoria Simons.



Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams announcing the launch of the Nobel Women's Initiative.

 
CEO Forum:
Laura Gonzalez Molero, President , Merck Spain; Carmen Mur, President/Executive Chairperson , Manpower Spain; Marcela Perez de Alonso, Executive VP, Human Resources , Hewlett-Packard; and Mardia Van Der Walt-Korsten, CEO , T-Systems South Africa; Sandra Yachelini, CEO, Microsoft Argentina

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Peru's Minister of Justice, Hon. Rosario Fernandez




South African students
Irene Natividad and six high school entrepreneurs from South Africa who were welcomed to the Summit as part of the annual Parade of Leaders
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Norah Al Faiz, recently named Saudi Arabia's first-ever female Minister , with Salama tu Suleiman Nigeria's Minister of Women.



Irene Natividad and women Ministers of Government from throughout the world at the Gala Dinner. 
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Members of the delegation from
Spain gather onstage following the
Gala Dinner.



President Bachelet greets Ministers from China and Singapore who took part in the Ministerial Rountable.  (Deputy Mayor of Beijing, Hon. CHENG Hong, left and Singpore's Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports Hon. YU-FOO Yee Shoon)
 
The Chinese delegation singing at the closing ceremony.  The Global Summit of Women will be held in Beijing, China in 2010. 
 
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 Recognizing Global Leadership

Global Women's
Leadership Award


Summit President Irene Natividad presents the 2009 Global Women's Leadership Award to President of Chile Michelle Bachelet at the Summit's Welcoming Dinner.

Chilean Women's
Leadership Award


Irene Natividad and Minister of Women's Affairs of Chile Laura Albornoz present the Chilean Women's Leadership Award to Cecilia Medina, the first woman President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

 


Global Summit of Women's President Irene Natividad explains what the Summit is all about on PBS' Foreign Exchange
with Daljit Dhaliwal. 

Summit President

Mission Statement

2008 - Vietnam


Media Forum: M. Smiley (Enterprising Women), S. Montiero (America Economia) R. Vassileva (CNN) and M. Rincon (TVN) discuss Media and how it defines businesswomen.

 

What the Participants are Saying...
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Lo que las Participantes
Dicen...

 

"Participating in the Global Summit in Chile was a fantastic experience.  The warmth and receptivity of the women there was inspiring."

  

 -Jody Williams,

Nobel Peace Prize Winner (USA)

 

"Congratulations on a highly successful event. My 'take-aways' are substantial, and will take several days to digest...It was a pleasure and a privilege to form part of the Leadership panel on risk taking, and to share and learn from others."

 

-Krista Walochik, CEO, Norman Broadbent (Spain)

 

"It was a pleasure and honor to be able to participate in this summit. I admire Irene Natividad's dedication, commitment and leadership to 'change the world'."

 

-Adriana Mendizabal, Vice President and General Director,

Herbalife Mexico

 

"I always enjoy the Women CEO Forum, especially when young women CEO like Mardia van der Walt-Korsten and others are speaking. I can take this back and really encourage Japanese women in this age group for both corporates and entrepreneurs."

 

-Ann Sado, President, NPO Gewel (Japan)

 

"La pecularidad de esta cumbre global de mujeres es tener la posibilidad de aprender de las experiencias de mujeres de otros países, su desenvolvimiento en el sector económico, su fortaleza y lucha por seguir adelante y vencer todos los obstaculos y su capacidad de obtener beneficios económicos en forma personal o en asociatividad."

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"The uniqueness of this Global Summit of Women is found in the opportunity it gives to learn from women from other countries; to learn from their experiences, their development of the economic sector, their strength, their struggle to push forward and to overcome all obstacles; their personal and corporate economic gains"

 

-Nimia Ana Aquino, Ministra de la Mujer (Paraguay)

 

Thank you for allowing us to participate in this greatly important Summit.  I think that in these hard times in the globalized world that we live in, strategic alliances are increasingly important to strengthen us and help us."

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"Gracias a Usted por hacernos partícipe de esta gran e importante Cumbre, creo que en estos tiempos bajo  el mundo globalizado en que vivimos, las Alianzas Estratégicas son cada vez mas importantes para fortalecernos y ayudarnos."

 -Cecilia Aguilar, CEO, Empresas Incosec (Chile)

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