Founding W20 Chair, 2015
The Forum has been organized by the courtesy of government of Russia with auspices of President Putin. The award is organized for the recognition of the achievements of women in their work and for their contributions towards the sustainable development of the society. The Second Eurasian Women’s Forum Award embodies…
No Going Back: Making Gender Equality Happen was the title of the policy forum organized by Chatham House and took place on July 9-10 in London. The title is not only eye catching, but also quite controversial. Is there anybody suggesting that we need to go back? This was addressed…
During the 2015 G20 Presidency of Turkey, in April 2015, the Women 20 (W20) group was created to increase women’s participation in the business world. The W20 will operate similarly to the Business 20 (B20) group and will act as an engagement group with a Secretariat responsible for preparing a…
Aysen Savcı studied Industrial Engineering at the Middle East Technical University. “Back then Industrial Engineering was not a classical discipline, but a fairly new discipline” says Aysen. After school she worked at Ericsson, later she joined the Swedish Trade Council as the Trade Commissioner of Sweden to Turkey and still…
Every year United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) holds a series of meetings about the recent topics, developments and prospects for gender equality in a sustainable world. This year it was the 62nd year of these meetings. And it is recognised as CSW62. Every year since…
According to World Economic Forum’s (WEF) November 2017 paper, Pakistan ranks 143 among 144 countries of the study in gender gap index, whereas neighboring Bangladesh ranks 47- which represents the best rank in the region. Taking the current ranking into consideration, the opportunity for improvement seems to be huge for Pakistan. World…
Brenda Trenowden, Global Chair of 30 Percent Club was in Turkey on March 30, 2018. In 2015, Brenda took over from Helena Morrissey as Global Chair of the 30% Club. Brenda has experience in the capital markets, banking and in financial institutions as well as the Boards she has been serving. Among many…
WEF 2018 Meetings in Davos In Davos, the concept of the year was “women.” But, the topic that followed or perhaps even somewhat surpassed the topic of gender equity was the fact that President Trump was coming to Davos for the first time and “what shall he be saying to…
World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2017 tells the women NGOs and Platforms that they need to work harder
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, Report of Global Rankings and the Gender Gap by country, 2017 we have below rankings for G20 countries:
I have visited Pakistan during the first half of November 2017 for a few days and attended the Launch of Pakistan Women Entrepreneurs’ Network for Trade (WE-NET) in Karachi. The heroes of this Launch were World Bank Group and the High Commission of Australia and Yasmin Hyder. It wouldn’t have…
World Bank and IMF every year hold joint meetings to bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives as well as civil society and academicians to discuss global issues of concern in order to increase global awareness and attention about them and eventually to solve them.…
APEC APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) is a regional economic business association organization that aims to increase the trade and investments of the countries, coastal to the Pacific Ocean from Asia and America. Established in 1989 by 12 founding countries, APEC now consists of 21 member economies that produce about 60% of the…
TÜSİAD ve Dünya Bankası’nın 12 Haziran 2017 de Istanbul’da düzenlediği toplantıda Dünya Bankası’nın “Haziran 2017 Küresel Ekonomik Beklentiler” raporu tanıtıldı. TUSIAD in cooperation with the World Bank Group has presented the report of the World Bank called “Global Economic Prospects: a Fragile Recovery” on June 12, 2017 in Istanbul. In…
