BA in Economics, Smith College; MPhil in International Economics, Graduate Institute Geneva; MPA, Harvard University. With the World Economic Forum: Economist (2003-2005); Head of Gender Parity Programme (2005-2011); Head of Civil Society (2008-2011); Head of Employment and Gender Initiatives (2013-2016); Head of Education, Gender and Work (2016-2018); currently Head of Centre for the New Economy and Society and Member of the Managing Board. Co-Author of Forum reports on Human Capital, Gender Gaps and Future of Jobs. Author, Fifty Million Rising (2018). Recipient of honours and awards, including: BBC 100 Women (2013 and 2014); Financial Times/McKinsey inaugural Bracken Bower Prize (2014); longlisted for FT/Mckinsey Business Book of the Year (2018). Interests: future of work, impact of technology on employment, education and skills, income inequality and using big data for public good.
EU to push for 40% quota for women on company boards. (The Guardian) Why the widening gender gap is a wake-up call for us all. (World Economic Forum) Investment assets that put women ...
World leaders to meet under all-female co-chair team at Davos 2018. (Reuters)
1. The global gender gap has widened for the first time since the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006, bringing to an end a decade of slow but stea...
UK’s Prime Minister urges sexual harassment victims to come forward. (Bloomberg)
World’s largest cities ranked on gender equality. (Next City)
Black women march against racial injustice. (Washington Post)Starbucks, Google assailed by investors over gender policies. (Bloomberg)More mothers working in England than two decades ago:...
Currently, the world has developed only 62% of its human capital as measured by the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Human Capital Index.
U.S. astronaut, Peggy Whitson’s record breaking career. (NPR)
Women charge past men in US job market. (Bloomberg) Cognitive skills are better in women in gender-equal countries. (The Conversation)To close pay gap all UK jobs should be flexible, says...
The first black woman to lead America's West Point cadets. (ABC News)A female sex worker’s Google-style gender equality manifesto. (The Independent)The three women running for South Afric...
1 in 4 Americans thinks time travel will happen before gender equality in business. (Fortune)Men are replacing women as CEOs in a step backwards for diversity. (Bloomberg)Female CEOs hold...
Sheryl Sandberg calls for policy changes to raise women’s pay. (The Guardian)How not to advocate for a woman at work. (Harvard Business Review)Women not on board when companies go public....
BBC journalist confronts boss about the pay gap, live on air. (Quartz)Why women aren’t CEOs, according to women who almost were. (New York Times)How to speed up gender equality in high-gr...
Equal pay laws in the UK may be scrapped after Brexit. (The Independent)Google ordered to hand over salary details in gender equality court battle. (The Guardian)Women of colour face stag...
Welcome to our weekly digest of stories about how the gender gap plays out around the world – in business, health, education and politics – from the World Economic Forum. Carrie Lam swor...
