G100: Group of 100 Global Women Leaders

H.E. Rosalía Arteaga Serrano 

She is the Former President of Ecuador and the first woman to have held the positions of President and Vice President of the Republic of Ecuador.

A lawyer, a Juris Doctor, a graduate of journalism and postgraduate of anthropology, she is currently the Executive President of FIDAL Foundation, a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Board of Directors of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Europe and chair of the board of directors of the Panamazonia of Manaus—Brazil.

She has published 14 books of essays, poetic prose, poetry, short stories, children’s and youth literature. She has influential opinion spaces in audiovisual media.

Above all, a dear Soul Sister who is ever available for advice, guidance and mentoring, with a most positive outlook and deeply generous spirit of caring and sharing.

Dr. Maya Morsy  

She is the President of Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW), she’s holds the national award of one of the 100 most influential women in Egypt. Prior to this presidential role, Dr. Morsy served as UNDP’s Gender Regional Advisor, and Head of the Egypt Country Office United Nations Fund for Women, as also Country Director of UNIFEM.

Dr. Morsy has over 24 years’ experience with National, Regional and International organizations, through her work in the National Council for Women, the United Nations Agencies, USAID, Academia, and Private Sector. Her work experience has strengthened the strategic partnership with the League of Arab States, European Union, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, African Union, Union for the Mediterranean, Government Organizations, Civil Society, Academia and Private Sector.

She managed and led more than 50 programs and widely authored more than 45 training manuals, books, articles, research and policy papers. With a Ph.D. in Public Policy, her areas of a focus are: Public Policies, Public Administration, Social and Economic Policies.

Farzanah Chowdhury

She is the MD & CEO of Green Delta Insurance Company Ltd, the largest non-life insurance company in Bangladesh, she has led their pioneering initiatives notably microhealth insurance. She is recognized by UN Global Compact as a Local SDG Pioneer for Women’s Economic Security for her initiatives committed to financial and health inclusion of women, especially through Nibedita which is a comprehensive insurance scheme for women.

She is Co-Chairman of the FBCCI Standing Committee on Capital Market and Bond of FBCCI for the term 2021-2023. She’s board member of Bangladesh German Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Earlier at her work in Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Farzanah was exposed to the opportunity of closely analyzing the micro finance sector and, as a result, was successful in establishing a link between micro finance and insurance.

H.E Violeta Bulc 

She is Former Deputy Prime Minister of Slovenia, and EU Commissioner for Transport. As Deputy Prime Minister of Slovenia, she held ministerial responsibility for development, strategic projects and cohesion.

As EU Commissioner, she placed priority on digitalization, decarbonization, innovation, people focus and global collaboration in transport. Excellency Bulc is an academic, author, innovator, systems architect and entrepreneur. She is the founder and advocate for the unique concept of Ecocivilisation imbued with a vision of Earth as an eco zone of our galaxy and transparent, participatory engagement of all stakeholders in society and economy.

She has held senior positions in the telecoms industry, including Telekom Slovenia and Telemach. Former owner and Chief Executive Officer, Vibacom, she is engaged in work on sustainable and innovative business solutions.

Above all, a dear Soul Sister who leads with courage, foresight and wisdom and seamlessly serves all with the generous sharing of her phenomenal experience, exposure, energy and optimism.

Alex Okoroji   

She is a Nigerian Actress and creative powerhouse navigating the world of Art, Media and Entertainment for almost two decades as an Artiste and Creative Businesswoman. She is the Founder & President of The BRAG Media Group, a creative communications company and owns several platforms including – The BRAG Media Company, BRAG! Magazine, The BRAG Club, The BRAG Radio Network, The BRAG Shop and The BRAG Media Foundation.

Listed among the Most Influential Women in the World by Richtopia, in their Top 250 Power list’ as one of only 5 Nigerians on the list (alongside Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Oby Ezekwesili, Abike Dabiri, Amina J. Mohammed).

Alex Okoroji has been featured and mentioned in over 250 Media Platforms around the World like Huffington Post, The Guardian, CNN, The Telegraph, Mogul, The Sun, The New York Journal, Fox, ABC, NBC, Market Watch. She was the first African Woman to be featured in the Women Rock Project in 2016.

Beena Unnikrishnan   

She is an Artpreneur, high profiled professional, artist and serial entrepreneur in India. Beena brings extensive experience of 28 years of diversified multi-functional arts and industries. An ardent believer in economic empowerment and financial independence of all artists, craftspeople and rural artisans, her successful career is testimony to the synergies that can be unleashed between art and mart.

She envisions fostering a culturally vibrant nation through accredited growth of Art and bringing financial freedom to all artists. She has curated her drive into a robust national campaign supported by art veterans and industry stalwarts and launched none other than by Union Cabinet Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari.

Under the aegis of his Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, this project for economically independent artists will develop Art & Craft based industries across the rural – urban artistic clusters, creating 1000 women-owned enterprises. Training and support programmes will be conducted in 700 districts of India to create a million entrepreneurial opportunities for women artists by Dec 2022.

Dr. Anita Davis DeFoe 

She is an African-American leadership and social entrepreneurship consultant from the US Virgin Islands, fostering over two decades of social entrepreneurship and capacity building for the Youth in the Caribbean, Africa with a global outlook and outreach.

She holds a Ph.D. in Organization Behavior and Leadership Development from the University of North Carolina and Antioch University, and Social Entrepreneurship coursework from the Copenhagen School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

 A National Career Development Association Accredited Career Services Mentor, Anita has created and crafted unique programs for leadership, expeditionary learning, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts/Agriculture, Mathematics (STEAM), entrepreneurship, employability and training skills that have served youth from ages five to 24, assisting a great diversity of people across genders and generations to discover their innate greatness and unique strengths.

Patricia Gonzalez    

She is Independent Board Member of The American Society of Mexico, Britcham, WEF Iberoamerica edition, she is Vice-Chair of Global Summit of Women in Mexico. Patricia is also on the advisory council of the EBC College, EXEB Foundation, Women in Finance and several non-profit organizations.

Patricia was a tax services partner at PwC for 30 years and the first female partner in Latinoamerica in 1989. She successfully headed various areas, including Tax Policy, Financial Services, Client Tax Services, and Corporate Responsibility. She has 40 years of experience in business, risk management, automation, robotics for processes, financial services, finance, innovation, consumer products, strategy, and international and national taxes, She sat on PwC Global Board for more than four years (on which there were only 16 seats) representing 10,000 worldwide partners; Patricia is a mentor of several talents in Mexico, as well as members of the Hispanic community in the United States. Patricia has extensive knowledge of strategy & development business, diversity, equity, and supporting and fighting for women’s equity, equality, equal pay, and opportunities for them. 

Carolina García

She is a women’s football evangelist and leader in the Soccer industry with more than 20 years of management experience especially with organising funding and sponsorships for women’s soccer, becoming the first woman in Argentina dedicated to a business that was earlier the sole reserve of men. A passionate soccer lover and an active seeker of challenges, she was a senior executive in a mining company and then one day soccer knocked on her door along with the world of sales.

A prestigious newspaper put as the headline in their editorial on her: The Woman who best sells soccer in Argentina. In 2008 she was summoned by the Pachuca Club of Mexico, due to her expertise and way of relating to the main players in the industry, to take charge of the Communication of the Club’s History during the landing in Argentina.

Creator with the Foundation of Social Defense (FUDESO) of the First Forum of Development for Sports Equity (FID) supported by private companies and institutions like Buenos Aires Sports, Sports and Recreation of La Plata, etc, Argentina.

Jennifer Randive

She is the Maverick CEO, she elaborates CEO as a Consciousness Empowering Orchestrator. The Maverick CEO then stands for Being The Change as The Catalyst, The Paradigm Buster, The Mindset Shifter, The Coach, The Mentor, the Counsellor and The Consultant. 

As the owner and CEO of focus direct Management Consultants which focused on Executive Search and Recruitment, she has questioned, contributed, created, empowered and reformed many a position, person and company focus on what and who is a valuable contribution to businesses and individuals alike. 

She has been privileged to work with some of the most prestigious Government and Semi-Government, Private and International and Multinational companies, assisting them with their talent search. She enables empowerment of people, to look beyond what they have defined themselves as and what their businesses are and inspires them to see possibilities for them to step into. 


Lakshmy Shankar 

She is CEO & Founder Kaizen consult, a full-service Consulting Firm with a focus on Family Business Advisory, Diversity & Inclusion, Coaching and Training, Educational Services, Counselling, and a valued support for Women Economic Forum (WEF) events in Chennai and Bangalore.

Formerly she was Head of Elizabeth Arden (A Unilever Company with WJ Towell Partnership in Oman) for Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Export to GCC Countries. She also led Business Development at Al Omaneya Advertising, Ministry of Information, Government of the Sultanate of Oman. With cross-disciplinary Majors and Masters in Psychology, Sociology and Economics, she comes from a scholarly family lineage: her paternal great grandfather was a Vedic Scholar and a revered Guru.

Lakshmy is also an advisor to Chiguru Balavikasa Samasthe an NGO engaged in abolition and Rehabilitation of child Labour from the silk twisting industry of Magadi district near Bangalore, Karnataka. Passionate and purpose-driven, she embodies the infinite resourcefulness of her name – Lakshmy – which verily means wealth in every sense.

Mar Introini 

She is a Barrister, Blogger and Political Analyst. An Italian citizen with a legal background as a former Public Attorney specialized in Minors Offenders as National Secretary position nominated by the Executive Board of the National Presidency with approval from the House of Representatives.

With a strong sense of independent thinking and constant learning and cross-cultural experience of living in different cities, as Montevideo, London, Brussels, Geneva, Malaga, Madrid, she brings an inclusive perspective around multiculturalism.

She’s passionate about developing a reshaped model of globalization with a holistic approach toward building resilience and sustainability around societal vulnerabilities, which should be over and above political perspectives – as she learned in her work with a Political Party for 10 years.

As a leader with global goals, she is focused on building an innovative structure for the youth and open platform of engagement based on authentic connection and ethical leadership.

Mireille Toulekima

She is a senior Energy professional, Petroleum Engineer and Women Empowerment advocate. Mireille is the Managing Director of the Perth Australia-based energy company MT Energy Resources Ltd. Her experience spans 4 continents as she worked on billion dollar projects for multinational, international and government companies across Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe in a range of technical and leadership roles for more than 20 years.

She founded STEM Queens in Uganda and Australia in 2018 and 2020, respectively, with the objective to reach out and sponsor African and Indigenous Australian girls and women to embrace STEM and increase women’s participation in STEM sectors.

STEM Queens has for objective to empower at least one million women and girls in STEM by 2025. She has published three books of which: “Local Content Key Enabler for Oil and Gas projects in Emerging Markets: Investing, Developing and Providing Oversight in Countries of Operation” which is now a reference book in universities and organisations across Europe and Africa.

Linda Pereira

She is Senior partner and President of the L&I Communications Group, she is also the CEO of CPL Events. She was considered one of Portugal’s five most influential people in the industry and has received various international education awards as well as the medal of honour for responsible entrepreneurship for her commitment to promoting culture and heritage and for Social Responsibility initiatives. 

In addition to her long and respected career as one of the most influential voices in the Live Communication Industry, she has been an invited speaker in over 149 countries on all continents. Speaker, consultant, strategic communication expert, writer and educator, Message Architect, Entrepreneur, International Consultant, Trainer & Meeting Industry Expert, she is an expert in strategic communication and corporate diplomacy, and has a vast experience in cross-cultural communication strategies, localisation, and public speaking and as a master of ceremonies. 

Sharon Cittone

She is one of Forbes’ most powerful women shaping the future of food. A visionary entrepreneur, she also sits on the Advisory Board of the World Food Programme in Italy, is a Mentor for both Rockstart Agrifood and the FoodTech Accelerator, and is often invited to speak and write on the topic of Food Innovation.

Sharon understood early on that her passion for healthy food was part of a much larger picture, and that challenges like climate change, food insecurity, waste, water conservation, and soil regeneration were intimately related and ripe for disruption. Using her extensive experience in communications and business, Sharon has been at the forefront of building and growing the global food and agtech ecosystem for the better part of a decade.

Her work with start-ups, corporations, investors, policymakers, institutions, and youth landed her the coveted Forbes title. Cittone believes in connecting the dots, creating opportunities for others, and facilitating the collaboration that will lead to systemic change within the food system.

Annabella Nassetti

She is an international luxury interior and product designer born and educated in Italy and living in London since 1997. She has worked on projects across the world and achieved a world-class reputation in delivering unique interiors for private clients and property developers for some of the most notable addresses in the UK and abroad viz.

in the EU, California, Switzerland, and Indonesia – including that of Chalerm Yoovidhya, founder of the Red Bull energy drink; Sir Patrick Head, co-founder and former Engineering Director of the Williams Martini Formula One team; Patrick Crowley, Hollywood film producer of Bourne Ultimatum and Jurassic World; Pranav Trivedi Head of Skadden UK; Celebrity Chef, Judy Joo; and Sanaz Zaimi, CEO, Bank of America Europe.

Annabella’s international background influences the way she sees things, as she understands and appreciates different cultures and their icons. Her design studio, A Living Concept, is a noted architecture atelier that specializes in transforming luxury properties in the UK and abroad.

Bodil Valero

She is a former Member, Swedish Parliament, and European Parliament from 2014 until 2019. She is a member of the Green Party, part of the European Green Party. At the EU Parliament, she served as the green coordinator in the Security and Defence Committee, and was also responsible for migration and foreign affairs, and later of global justice issues such as climate, peace, aid, trade, arms exports and more.

She is committed to finding open, decent and humane policies as solutions to issues of economic migration including refugees, human rights and especially rights of minorities.

She aspires to reduce the risks of conflict, fight against poverty, and encourage fair trade and climate justice. Part of her past lies in Catalonia, where she started one of the very first ecological, organic crop farms high up in the mountains.

Bodil normally divides her time between Sweden and Catalonia where she also runs a sustainable hotel with the farm and is involved in an environmental organization with her husband.

Datin Hartini Binti Osman

She is the Director/Group MD, PRIHATIN EHSAN HOLDINGS SDN BHD, an Investment and Property Development company owned by Yayasan Bina Kesejahteraan (YBCare) and Seri Mendapat Project Management Sdn Bhd (SMPM) which was established in 1998. 

Prihatin Ehsan has invested and managed YBCare and SMPM business with 50% owned equity in Permodalan YBK Sdn Bhd (PYBK). PYBK has a land bank about 1,624 acres in Mukim Serendah. The land has been approved for mixed development with potential value of about RM8 billion. It also has wholly owned equity in Wana Properties Sdn Bhd (WPSB), a company involved in the HOTELIER AND PROPERTY INVESTMENT and owned a 3 star hotel i.e. Tun Fatimah Riverside Hotel. 

She is the Group CEO for PERMODALAN YBK SDN BHD (PYBK) (Investment arm for Yayasan Basmi Kemiskinan Selangor (YBK) (Poverty Eradication Foundation), a non- profit organization/foundation established in 1990 to eradicate poverty programmes in the State of Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and whole of Malaysia. PYBK owned approximately 1,624 acres of land with approved mixed development in Bukit Tasik Serendah, Mukim of Serendah, District of Hulu Selangor, Malaysia. 

Sonia Bashir Kabir

She is the Founder of SBK Tech Ventures, a licensed Venture Capital Fund and the Founder of SBK Foundation, a not for profit which empowers rural communities with technology in Bangladesh.

She was earlier Managing Director of Microsoft for Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal Bhutan & Laos, where she also won the highly prestigious Founders award given by Bill Gates. Educated & Trained in Silicon Valley, Sonia lived for 20 years in the Valley and worked for Fortune 500 companies Sun Microsystems & Oracle, in addition to working with Microsoft and Dell.

Sonia is also currently serving as Vice Chair & Governing Council Member of United Nations Technology Bank appointed by the UN Secretary General; Board Member of UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Education and Peace; Dell CXO Advisory Board member for Asia Pacific & Japan; Steering committee member, International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA); BRAC University Bangladesh, board member; Banglalink, a Telecommunications company owned by VEON; IPDC, a Non Banking Financial Institution (NBFI) and Shakti Foundation for disadvantaged women, a Micro Finance Institution (MFI).