2021 global summit of women
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Join women leaders in business and government from eve-
ry corner of the world at the leading forum for women im-
pacting the global economy since 1990.
2021 Global Summit of Women
Lisbon, Portugal
October 28-30, 2021
2021 Global Summit of Women Women: Transforming Economies Globally
What the Summit Offers Insight into women driving business growth as consumers and business leaders post-
COVID;
Numerous sessions to help ‘grow’ your leadership skills, your business, and your network;
Information on doing business in Portugal and the European Union;
Inspirational role models from every continent among our impressive roster of over 70 presenters;
Ample networking opportunities at breakfasts, lunches, and receptions.
Summit Features
Pre-Summit Roundtable for Women
Government Ministers on best
practices in public/private sector
partnerships for advancing women’s
economic opportunities;
Plenary sessions which cover post-
COVID Megatrends;
Discussion Forums with Male CEOs
and Women CEOs;
Creative tips from women
entrepreneurs succeeding in the
global economy.
Skills-building sessions in three
tracks: Leadership Development,
Entrepreneurial, and Issues;
42% of Portugal’s Cabinet is made up of women minis-ters & 40% of Portugal’s Parliamentarians are women.
Portugal has a 30% quota for women board directors, pushing its percentage of women on board from 16.2%
to 26.6% in just 2 years. Portugal focuses on entrepreneurship and ranks 6th globally in the 2019 Mastercard Index for Female Entre-
preneurship.
Portugal has a talented female labor force with women holding 60% of higher education degrees.
About Portugal
THE 2021 GLOBAL SUMMI T OF
WOMEN IS OPEN TO VACCINATED
PARTICIPANTS ONLY FOR THE
SAFETY AND HEALTH OF ALL
DELEGATES.
Meet some of the leaders participating in the 2021 Global Summit of Women
HON. MURIEL PENICAUD
Former Minister of Labor; Ambassador to
OECD (France)
KOBKARN
WATTANAVRANGKUL
Former Minister of
Tourism and Sports
(Thailand)
LORENA DELLAGIOVANNA
VP, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer,
Hitachi (Italy)
ALEXANDRA PALT Chief Corporate Re-
sponsibility Officer and EVP, Fondation L’Oreal
(France)
MONICA LOIAZA Board Member, AmEx
Mexico, Devlyn Holdings, Coppel (Mexico)
CARLA GRANT-PICKENS
VP, Chief Global Diversity and Inclu-
sion Officer, IBM (USA)
LAURA GONZALEZ MOLERO
President, APD; For-mer CEO, Merck
Spain (Spain)
MARGARET JOHNSTON-CLARKE
Global Chief Diversity Officer, L’Oreal (France)
DIANE DE SAINT VICTOR
Board Director, Natixis and Transocean
(Switzerland)
NORIKO HARADA CEO, AI Cross
(Japan)
PILITA CLARK
Associate Editor and Business Columnist, Financial Times (UK)
IAN BORDEN
President, Interna-tional, McDonalds
(UK)
NURIA GARCIA
President, Europe, Middle East Africa,
MetLife (France)
ALAIN SIMONET
Managing Director, Western Mediter-
ranean, 3M (France)
WERNER HOYER President, European
Investment Bank (Germany)
SABINE KOHLEISEN Member of Board of
Management, Human Resources and Labor Relations, Mercedes-Benz AG (Germany)
HON. ROSA MONTEIRO Secretary of State for
Citizenship and Equality (Portugal)
Honorary Chair,
Portugal Host Committee
TANYA MOSS Founder, Tanya Moss
Jewelry (Mexico)
H.E. VJOSA OSMANI President of Kosovo
HON. ELISABETH MORENO
Minister for Gender Equality,
Diversity and Equal
Opportunities (France)
More leaders participating in the 2021 Global Summit of Women
MARIE CHRISTINE OGHLY
Founder, Enginsoft France ; Chair, Femmes
Chefs Entreprises Mond-iale (FCEM) (France)
CLAUDIA FREED CEO, EALGreen
(USA)
ANA MUNOZ Board Director,
Tubos Reunidos, Natura, and Grupo
Lantera (Spain)
ROCIO HORTIGUELA CEO, Entiba Energy
(Spain)
MERCEDES ERRA Executive President,
Havas Worldwide (France)
CHRISTINA HABIB
Global Vice President, Consumer & Market Insight, Foods & Re-
freshment (UK)
ANDIE ZHANG Global Product Man-ager, Robotics, ABB
(Germany)
IDAR KREUTZER CEO, Finance
Norway (Norway)
MARIANA BOZESAN Co-Founder and Man-aging Director, AQAL
Capital (Germany)
MARY ANN PIERCE Founder and CEO, MAP
Digital (USA)
MARGUERITE SOETEMAN-REIJNEN Chair, Aon Holdings &
Aon Group International NV (Netherlands)
JESSICA APOTHEKER Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consult-
ing Group (France)
TONGJAI THANACHANAN
SVP, Chief of Sustaina-ble Business Develop-
ment, ThaiBev (Thailand)
MARIETTE RUPS-DONNELLY
Founder, Powerhouse Presentations
(Australia)
HENRYKA BOCHNIARZ Chair, Polish Confed-
eration Lewiatan (Poland)
DELIA DOMINGO-ALBERT
Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Philippines)
ISABEL UCHA CEO, Euronext Lisbon
Stock Exchange (Portugal)
Co-Chair, Portugal Host Committee
MARIA JOAO CARIOCA
Board Member, Caixa Geral de Depósitos
(Portugal)
BARBARA BARROSO
Founder and CEO, MoneyLab (Portugal)
DUARTE PITTA FERRAZ Professor @Nova SBE and Partner @ IVENS Governance Advisor,
Former Managing Direc-tor, Banco Comercial Portugues (Portugal)
SOFIA COUTO DA ROCHA
Chief Transformation Officer, Lusiadas Saude
Hospital (Portugal)
PAULA PANARRA
CEO, Microsoft Portugal (Portugal)
MADALENA TOME
CEO, SIBS (Portugal)
MAGDA COCCO
Partner, Vieira de Almeida (Portugal)
PEDRO CARAMEZ
LinkedIn Consultant (Portugal)
MARGARIDA COUTO
President, GRACE (Portugal)
ALEXANDRA SERRA
CEO, AdP-Valor; COO, AdP International
(Portugal)
INES DOS SANTOS COSTA Secretary of State for the
Environment (Portugal)
ANA SOFIA ANTUNES Secretary of State for
Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities (Portugal)
HELENA RODRGUES Founder, allby
(Portugal)
Co-Chair, Portugal Host Committee
Meet some of Portugal’s Leaders participating in the 2021 Global Summit of Women
HON. ROSA MONTEIRO Secretary of State for
Citizenship and Equality (Portugal)
Government Leaders
VERA PINTO PEREIRA
Board Director, EDP Energias (Portugal)
RITA MARQUES Secretary of State for
Tourism (Portugal)
VANDA JESUS
Founder, Digital Portugal (Portugal)
JOANA RAFAEL
COO and Co-Founder, Sansei (Portugal)
DANIELA SEIXAS
Founder and CEO, Tonic App (Portugal)
AMMJE- Asociación Mexicana de Mujeres Jefas de Empresas (Mexico)
Femmes Ingenieurs (France)
KAGIDER—Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey
Mongolia Women’s Association (Mongolia)
National Association of Women Business Owners – NAWBO (USA)
Philippine Women’s Economic Network
Reseau des Femmes d’Entreprises du Congo—REFEC (DR Congo)
Vietnam Women Entrepreneurs Council of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry
2021 Summit Global Members
International Partners
Across Cultures – AC (USA)
AFAEMME (Spain)
African Femmes Performantes
AMEXME (Asociación Mexicana de Mujeres Empresarias)
Association of Business Women of Kazakhstan
AWEP Namibia
Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Chittagong Women’s Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (Bangladesh)
Consortium of Women Entrepreneurs of India
Egyptian Business Women Association
Filipina CEO Circle
Future Boards (Norway)
Girls in Tech Indonesia
Girls in Tech Singapore
Greek Association of Women Entrepreneurs (SEGE)
International Council of Women
International Federation of Business & Professional
Women
International Women’s Federation of Commerce and
Industry Mongolia
Jamaica Association of Rural Women Producers
(Jamaica)
Leading Women of Africa (South Africa)
Malta Association of Women in Business
Mongolia Women’s Federation
Mongolia Women’s Employment Support Foundation
National Association of Women Entrepreneurs of
Malaysia (NAWEM)
Organization of Women in Trade (OWIT)
PWN Global
PWN Lisbon (Portugal)
PWN Madrid (Spain)
PWN Vienna (Austria)
Union of Business Ladies (Georgia)
Women Engineers of Portugal
Women for Africa International (France)
Women for Africa Cameroon
Women in Technology (Global)
Women Power Union (Russia)
Women Presidents Organization—Portugal
Zonta International
Global Summit of Women International Planning Committee
Kimberly Admire, Former Executive Vice President,
Chief Human Resources Officer, SAIC (USA)
Rohini Anand, Former SVP, Corporate Responsibility
and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo (USA)
Umran Beba, Partner, August Leadership; Former Presi-
dent, Asia Pacific and SVP, Chief Global Diversity and
Engagement Officer, PepsiCo (Turkey)
Jonina Bjartmarz, CEO, Iceland Europe Travel Partner-
ship; Former Minister of Environment, Iceland
Henryka Bochniarz, Chair, Polish Confederation of Pri-
vate Employers, Poland
Margarita de Cos, Board Member, WWF Spain
Alice Dear, Former U.S. Executive Director, African De-
velopment Bank
Delia Domingo-Albert, Senior Advisor, SGV/Ernst &
Young; Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Philippines
Patricia Espinosa Torres, Counselor, Coordinating Coun-
cil of Business Women; former Undersecretary of Labor,
Mexico
Denise Evans, Vice President for Diverse Partner Devel-
opment, IBM (USA)
Sakie T. Fukushima, President, G&S Global Advisors
(Japan)
Siv Hellen, Former Chief Compliance Officer, Nordic In-
vestment Bank (Finland)
Sung Joo Kim, Chair and Chief Visionary Officer, MCM
Holdings AG (South Korea)
Tess Mateo, Managing Director, CXCATALYSTS (USA)
Margaretta Noonan. Co-Founder and CEO, ngage
(USA)
Muriel Penicaud, French Ambassador to OECD & For-
mer Minister of Labor, France
Ursula Schwarzenbart, Chief Diversity Officer, Daimler
AG (Germany)
Ann Sherry, Advisor and Former Chair/CEO, Carnival
Australia
Anna Wu, Chair, Competition Commission of Hong Kong
SAR
Irene Natividad, Chair, International Planning Committee;
President, GlobeWomen Research and Education Institute
PORTUGAL HOST COMMITTEE
HONORARY CHAIR
Rosa Monteiro, Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality
Helena Rodrigues (CO-CHAIR); CEO, Allby; Chair, Women Presidents Organization – Portugal
Isabel Ucha (CO-CHAIR), CEO, Euronext Lisbon
Fatima Aveiro, Vice President, Out-of-Home and Refreshment, Unilever
Cristina Campos, CEO Novartis Portugal
Isabel Canha, Editor-in-Chief, Executiva
Margarida Couto, President, GRACE
Paula Panarra, General Manager, Microsoft Portugal
Duarte Pitta Ferraz, Prof. of Governance and Banking, Nova School of Business & Economics
Clara Raposo, Dean, ISEG
Ana Sofia Silveira, CEO, Aguas do Tejo Atlantico
Madalena Tome, CEO, SIBS
Conceição Zagalo, Former City Hall Counselor and Founder, Portugal’s Women Leadership Council