Exceptional Women of Excellence Award 2018 Dr. Carmen M. Castro, D.B.A. Women Economic Forum 2018 Ne

It is with great pride that we announce that our Founder & CEO Dr. Carmen M. Castro, will be awarded the Exceptional Women of Excellence Award 2018 at the Women Economic Forum 2018 in New Delhi, India. Dr. Castro´s Profile link for the Economic Forum: wef.org.in/dr-carmen-m-castro-d-b

Dr. Castro will be presenting on the following topics listed below:

Award Session: Exceptional Women of Excellence Award 2018

Session No: 26B

Date: DAY 1: Thursday, 26th April, 2018 Session Timings: 10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Session Name: The Economics of Goodness in Creating Business & Social Impact.

Parallel Session Detail :

Session No: 2672

Date: Day 1: Thursday, 26th April, 2018 Session Timings: 3:30 PM-4:30 PM

Session Name: Solving local problems: the global opportunity.

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Event Information

The gala annual WEF 18 is in New Delhi, India at Hotel Pullman- Aerocity from 26th April to 1st May 2018 with the over 2000 women and men from 150 countries participating across the six days on the overall theme: “The Economics of Goodness: Empowering Potential, Engineering Change."

We have 500+ sessions in 40+ sectors across the six days. View Full Program.

The Guest of Honor at the formal inaugural of WEF 18 is the most distinguished and legendary Nobel Peace Laureate 2015, Mrs. Ouided Bouchamaoui who is also President of UTICA, the Tunisian Employers' Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, Mrs. Bouchamaoui played a historic role by spearheading and steering the peaceful transition of Tunisia to a democratic constitution with transparent elections, becoming an exemplar of vibrant democracy in the region.

We also have two Forbes listed businesswomen speakers who are among the most powerful Arab businesswomen: H.E Fatima Al-Jaber; and H.E. Dr. Raja Al-Gurg. We’ll also have the head of National Council of Women of Egypt, Dr. Maya Morsy. We will likely be joined by Rick Goings, Chairman and CEO of Tupperware, as also two Mayors from Europe and North America. We are also in touch with the World Bank and the UN for their senior-most representation. Of course, we have many more dignitaries and inspiring leaders joining from global institutions, governments, companies, chambers and start-ups. Five business chamber delegations and university delegations are also confirmed.

We already have 250+ confirmed and committed speakers from 60+ countries including from Australia, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland , France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, UAE, UK, USA, Zimbabwe.

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Select Dignitaries in WEF Events

Annual WEF India 2018

Ouided Bouchamaoui, Nobel Peace Laureate 2015, President, UTICA ,Tunisia

Dr. Anabela Freitas, Mayor of Tomar, Portugal *

H.E. Mr. Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïga, Prime Minister of Mali *

Ms. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania *

Dr. Maya Morsy, President of the National Council for Woman, Arab Republic of Egypt

H.E. Fatima Al Jaber, CEO, Al Jaber Group, UAE

H.E. Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg, Managing Director, Al Gurg Group, UAE

Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog, (National Institution for Transforming India)

Diarietou Gaye, Country Director at World Bank for Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda & Eritrea, Africa Region

Rick Goings, Chairman and CEO of Tupperware, USA *

Dr. Anna Neistat, Senior Director ,Research at Amnesty International, United Kingdom

Iman Mutlaq, Founder/CEO, Sigma Investments, Bahrain

Tracey Chambers, CEO, The Clothing Bank, South Africa

Sabrina Natasha Habib, Co-Founder & Chief Exploration Officer, Kidogo Early Years, Kenya

Iman Al-Damen, Board Member, Jordan Commercial Bank, Jordan

Dr. Linda Girgis, Family Medicine Doctor, USA

Stacey Schieffelin & Debbie Saviano, Founders, Women's Leadership Live, USA

Rebecca Branham, Co-founder and Managing Director, B & L Group China, China

Assita Kanko, Belgian Politician and Women's Rights Activist, Belgium

Jennifer Reynolds, CEO Women in Capital Markets, USA

Farzanna S. Haffizulla, Assistant Dean for Community & Global Health, College of Allopathic Medicine (MD College), USA

Karin Ireton, Non-Executive Director, Aureus Mining Inc., South Africa

Ellen Langer, Professor at Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA

Rosalind Lockyer, Executive Director & CEO, Paro Centre for Women's Enterprise, Canada

Alexandra Pascalidou, Journalist, Producer, Writer, TV- & Radio-Hostess , Sweden

Debbie Farah, CEO/Founder, Bajalia International Group, USA

Nabilah Al-Tunisi, Chief Engineer, Engineering, Engineering Services at Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia

Vicki Saunder, Founder, SheEO, Canada

Mona Zulficar, Founding Partner & Chair of Executive Committee, Zulficar & Partners Law Firm, Egypt

Ciara Donlon, Founder and CEO, THEYA Healthcare, Ireland

Eliza Livadiotou, Finance Director at Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus

Janet L. Robb, Senior Education Advisor/Independent Consultant, USA

Deepak Bagla, Managing Director & CEO, Invest India, India

Sanjeev Chopra, Addl. Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture, West Bengal, India

Regional WEF-British Columbia Canada 2017

Hon’ble. Maryam Monsef, Minister of Status of Women, Canada

Mobina Jaffer, Canadian Senator

Dianne Watts, Former Mayor of Surrey, Canada

Huma Qureshi, Indian film actress

Manjit Gill, Former, Darman Recycling Canada

Shahnaz Rahman, Manager of Family Law Project - West Coast Leaf (Legal Education and Action Fund), Canada

Dr. Babra Rana, Psychiatrist , Canada

Raj Arneja, Director of Corporate Engagement & Philanthropy at Nanak Foods, Canada

Taslim Samji, Canadian interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator, Canada

Jas Janda-Wiseman, Regional Director , Scotiabank, Canada

Regional WEF - Iceland 2017

Frú Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Hon'ble Ex President of Iceland, Iceland

Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs , Iceland

Hon’ble Minister Þorsteinn Víglundsson, Minister of Social Affairs and Equality , Iceland

Gudbjorg Linda Rafnsdottir , Professor, University of Iceland.

Rakel Sveinsdottir, Chairman, FKA in Iceland

Edda Hermannsdóttir, Director of Communications, Íslandsbanki , Iceland

Hrönn Margrét Magnúsdóttir, Co-Founder and CEO, Feel Iceland

Margrét Pála Ólafsdóttir, CEO, Hjallastefnan, Iceland

Jónína Bjartmarz , CEO, Iceland Europe Travel Partnership & IET Study Visits to Iceland

Berta Daníelsdóttir, CEO, Iceland Ocean Cluster, Iceland

Soffía Elín Sigurðardóttir, Psychological assessment and treatment for children and adolescents, Iceland

Gudrun Jonsdottir, A biologist and a social worker, Iceland

Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir, Chief of Police in Reykjavík Iceland

Regional WEF - Portugal 2017

H.E. Kirsty Hayes, British Ambassador in Lisbon

H.E. Bahia Jawad Al Jishi, Kingdom of Bahrain Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium

Isabel Costa, Ambassador for Peace, Federation of Women for World Peace Portugal

Eduardo Cabrita, Deputy Minister, Portugal

Luìza Cristina Fernandes Palma, Founder, Gender Parity Certification Label, Portugal

Marina Sa Borges, Managing General Secretary of Family Business Association, Portugal

Lurdes Carvalho , World Heritage Committee at National Commission for UNESCO

Regional WEF, Delhi –Dwarka 2017

CR Chaudhary, Hon'ble Minister of State of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution, India

Arvind Lal, Chairman & Managing Director ,Dr. Lal PathLabs Ltd, India

Ashok Amritraj, Chairman and CEO, Hyde Park Entertainment Group, India

Amit Sharma, Managing Director and CEO at Tata Consulting Engineers Limited, India

Sally Holkar, Founder, WomenWeave Charitable Trust, India

Sandeep Singh, Managing Director, Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Co Pvt Ltd., Bangalore,India

Cheryl Kumar Templeton, Founder, The Chocolate Log (cafe) and Wine Oaks (winery), India

Siddhartha Mehta, Orthodontics And Dental Surgeon, India

Sanjiv Sarin, Managing Director and CEO at Tata Coffee Limited., Bangalore, India

Amardeep Singh Chandhiok, Senior Advocate and former President Delhi High Court Bar Association, India

Ashish Mathur, Managing Director at JUSCO -A TATA Enterprise, Jamshedpur, India

Rajiv Yadav, IAS, Secretary - Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, New Delhi, India

Kamesh Gupta, Chief Operating Officer at Tata Industrial Services Ltd. India

Praveen P Kadle, Founding Managing Director and CEO of Tata Capital, India

Ulrika Sundberg, Consul General, Sweden in Mumbai, New Delhi, India

Anupriya Patel, Hon'ble Union Minister of State of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India

Select Speakers/Participants from past WEF events

Venkaiah Naidu, Hon'ble Vice-President of India, India

Prakash Javadekar, Hon'ble Ministers Of State (IC) Of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, India

Smriti Irani, Hon'ble Minister of Textiles, India

Suresh Prabhu, Hon'ble Union Minister for Railways, India

Devendra Fadnavis, Hon'ble. Chief Minister of Maharashtra, India

H.R.H. Princess Tessy of Luxembourg, Princess of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Ram Bilas Sharma, Hon'ble Cabinet Minister of Haryana, India

Upendra Kushwaha, Hon'ble Minister of State for HRD in Government of India, India

Alenka Smerkolj, Hon'ble Minister for Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion, Slovenia

Margarida Marques , Secretary Of State for European Affairs, Portugal

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Netherlands

Dr. Shiekha Hissah Saad, Princess of Kuwait, Kuwait

H.E. Judge Sanji Monageng, Judge at International Criminal Court (ICC), Netherlands

H.E. Judge Joyce Aluoch, First Vice-President, International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands

H.E. Dinesh K. Patnaik, Deputy High Commissioner of India to United Kingdom, UK

The Rt. Hon'ble Lord Swraj Paul P.C., Chairman, Caparo Group Limited, UK

Lord Raj Loomba, Founder Of The Loomba Foundation, UK

Mr. Priyank M. Kharge, Hon'ble Minister of State for Tourism, Information Technology & Bio Technology, Govt. of Karnataka, India

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Hon’ble Minister of State, Ministry of I&B, Government of India Col, India

Dr. Ayesha Bin Ali Al Sayyar, Assistant Vice-Minister for Educational and Central Activities Dept. at The Ministry Of Education, UAE

Digvijaya Singh, Hon'ble Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's, India

Huda Al Matroushi, Executive Board Member, Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council, Abu Dhabi

Karsten Klein, Deputy Mayor of Economic Affairs, Harbours, Welfare and Health, Netherlands

Virendra Sharma – British Labour Party Politician and MP, Ealing Southall, UK

Basavaraj Rayareddy, Hon'ble Minister for Higher Education Govt. of Karnataka, India

Kiran Bedi, Retired Indian Police Service Officer, Governor of Puducherry, India

Ms. Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player, India

Anurag Batra, Chairman Business World Group

Madhur Bhandarkar, Indian Film Director, India

Vidya Balan, Indian Film Actress, India

Sonali Bendre, Indian film actress, India

Subhash Ghai, Indian Film Director, India

Aditi Rao Hydari, Indian Film Actress, India

Pernia Qureshi, Indian Fashion Entrepreneur, India

Shilpa Shetty, India Film Actress, India

Krishika Lulla, Indian Film Producer, India

Anuradha Paudwal, Indian Playback Singer, India

Kartikeya Sharma, Founder and Promoter of ITV Network, India

Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Essel Group & Zee, India

Naina Lal Kidwai, Country Head at HSBC, India

Manoj Kohli, Executive Chairman, SB Energy (Softbank Group)

Yasmina Azhari, Managing Partner at Al Yam International for Businessmen Services, UAE

Mariet Verhoef-Cohen, President, Women for Water Partnership (WFWP), Netherlands

Rajive Kaul, Former CII President & Chairman, NICCO Group, India

Sanjay Jhunjhunwala, CEO, Mani Group, India

Betty Devita, Ceo, Mastercard Labs, USA

L.S. Nayak, Ceo, Viacom18, India

Fernanda Vicente, President, Mujeres del Pacifico, Chile

Tabatha Moraes, CEO , Rede Mulheres Que Decidem, Brazil

Agatha Amata, CEO of Inside Out Media Ltd, Nigeria

William N. Bissell, MD at Fab India, India

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder of Paytm Mobile Solutions Private Limited, India

Gina Rinehart, Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting Group and Roy Hill, Australia

Dr. Betty Young President, Hocking College, USA

Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou, MD at Tototheo Maritime Group, Cyprus

Umang Bedi, Managing Director – India & South Asia at Facebook, India

Shri. Swami Ramdev Yoga Guru & Founder, The Patanjali Group Of Institutions, India

Dragana Vujovic Djermanovic, Chief Strategy Officer at Bee Premium Group, Serbia

Rina Dhaka, Fashion Designer, India

Penny Simmonds, CEO of The Southern Institute of Technology, New Zealand

Anurag Batra, Chairman & Editor In Chief – BW Businessworld, India

Prabhu Chawla, Editorial Director of The New Indian Express, India

Bhupendra Chaubey, Managing Editor CNN- Network 18, India

Arundhati Bhattacharya, Managing Director & CEO , SBI Mutual Fund, India

Lalit Bhasin, President, Bar Association of India

Jo Pennycuick, Managing Director, Redesign Group, New Zealand

Mairead Healy, CEO of Future Voices, Ireland

Emanuela Donetti, Director of Urbano Creativo, Italy

Gina Otto, Award Winning Author of Cassandra’s Angel, USA

Marilyn Heib, CEO of Bettervest Gmbh, Germany

Savannah Maziya, Chief Executive- Bunengi Holdings Ptv. Ltd, South Africa

Marie-Noelle Besancon, President of Guests at Festin La Maison Des Sources, France

Nezha Alaoui, Founder Of The Mayshad Woman Lifestyle, Morocco

Marie-Claude Machon, BPW International Permanent Representative to UNESCO, France

Jennifer Lu, Tianjiu Happiness Holding Group, China

Mira Kulkarni, MD, Forest Essentials, India

Batul Dadabhai, Owner, Arabian Neon, Bahrain

Alka Dhillon, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Technalink, Inc., USA

Netta Ness, Owner, Chance Management Ltd, Israel

Reiko Abe, President of Oriental Consultants Part of Ackg Ltd., Japan

Pallavi Gupta, Co-Founder Of Mast Kalandar, India

Debra Langley, Executive Director at Blackrun Ventures, Singapore

Sonal Kalra, National Editor – Entertainment & Lifestyle, Hindustan Times, India

Mehr Tarar, Journalist, Pakistan

Shereen Bhan, Cnn-Ibn Tv18, India

Rita Henley Jensen, Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Women’s ENews and Arabic Women’s ENews, USA

Xenia I. Loizidou, Founder- Director Isotech Ltd, Civil/Coastal Engineer, Cyprus

Tatyana Zrelova, The Committee of 20, Russia

Charity C Lumpa, Board Chairperson, Zanaco Plc., Zambia

Demet Sabanci Çetindoğan, Chairwoman of Mediasa, Turkey

Breege O’donoghue, Executive Director at Penneys/Primark, Ireland

Antonieta Beguerisse, Founder Of Beguerisse Consultores, Mexico

Anat Bernstein-Reich, Chairperson, Israel-India Chamber Of Commerce, Israel

Catherine Cullen, President of UCLG Culture Committee, France

Dr. Ora Setter, Spiritual and Business Coach, Israel

N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian It Industrialist & Co-Founder of Infosys, India

Ketan Makwana, Executive Board Member of Talent finders, UK

Dhruv Agarwala, Founder Proptiger, India Dr. Ora Setter, Spiritual and Business Coach, Israel

N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian It Industrialist & Co-Founder of Infosys, India

Harsh Goenka, Chairman of Rpg Enterprises, India165. Naveen Jindal, Chairman Of Jindal Steel & Power Limited, India

Malvinder Mohan Singh, Executive Director of Fortis Health Care & Religare Group, India

Mukul Singhal, Principal at Saif Partners, India

Shekhar Gupta, Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ThePrint, India

S Venkat Narayan, Multimedia Journalist, India

Siddharth Zarabi, Executive Editor at Bloomberg TV India, India

Anton Philips, Founder, Stichting Emergo, Netherlands

Genna Elvin, Co-Founder at Tadaweb, Luxembourg

Madhu Neotia , Food Trendsetter, India

Preeti Goenka, Executive Committee Member of The Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata, India

Sunita Bhuyan , Music for Wellness, Leadership and Change, India,

Krishna Pujara, CEO, Saheli, UK

Bickram Ghosh, Indian tabla player, India

Hemant Kanoria, Chairman & MD, Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd., India

Jan Morgan, Managing Director at Grosvenor International, UK

Sarosh Zaiwalla, Founder At Zaiwalla & Co. Solicitors, UK

Jan Gooding - Brand Director at Aviva, UK

Sophie Walker - Leader of Women’s Equality Party, UK

Janneke Niessen - Co-Founder At Improve Digital, Netherlands

Harsh Mariwala, Chairman, Marico Ltd, India

Lila Poonawalla, Founder, Lila Poonawalla Foundation, India

Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, Founder Chairman of M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India

Shikha Sharma CEO of Axis Bank, India

Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Founder & CEO of Kinetic Green Energy & Power Solutions Limited, India

Marija Ausrine Pavilioniene, Former MP and Activist, Lithuania

Dr. Jennifer Riria, Group CEO, Kenya Women Holding, Kenya

Nishi Vasudeva, Ex - Chairman & Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, India

Kamila Rubaninska, AT&T EMEA Women’s Network COO & AT&T EMEA Director of Operations, Czech Republic

Manoj Kohli, Executive Chairman at Softbank Energy, India

Amit Goel, Vice Chairman, The Pioneer, India

Seema Goswami, Journalist, Author, Columnist, India

Anita Nayyar CEO India & South Asia , Havas Media, India

Parul Sharma, Assistant Vice President, Star India Pvt Ltd, India

S.M. Khan, Director General, Registrar of Newspapers for India, India

Venky Venkatesh, CEO, The Press Trust Of India, India

Rajiee M Shinde CEO at PTC Punjabi, PTC News, PTC Chakde, India

Dr. Blossom Kochhar, Founder, Aroma Magic, India

Sabina Chopra, CEO , RCI :Wyndham Group, India

Anshu Gupta, Founder, Goonj, IndiaDr. Pinky Anand, Indian Lawyer, India

Boutheina Ben Yaghlane Ben Slimane, Chief Executive Director, Caisse Des Depots ET Consignations, Tunisia

Laura Moschini, University Roma3 from Rome, Italy

Lucia Lucka Klansek, Entrepreneur, Business Developer, Investor, Philanthropist, Slovenia

Sunita Kohli, President of K2india, India

Dr. Neslyn Watson Druee, Prof. Executive Coach, UK

Bhanumathi Narasimhan, Director of Women Empowerment and Child Welfare Programs of The Art Of Living, India

Dr. Sumita Misra, IAS Principal Secretary Department Of Tourism Govt of Haryana, India

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, President, Divine Shakti Foundation, Parmarth Niketan, India

Dr. Lalit Khaitan, Managing Director of Radico Khaitan Ltd, India

Ofra Abramovich, Founder Of Mamanet – Mothers League, Israel

Dr. Nisha Agrawal, CEO of Oxfam India, India

Tristan Beau De Lomenie, Country Head, Accor Hotels India, India

Rakhi Sarkar, Founder, CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata, and Biennial CIMA Awards – Kolkata Art Festival, India

Dr. Ashok Seth, Chairman & Cardiologist In Fortis Escort, Delhi, India

Dr. Chiara Hensley, Assistant Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, Eastern Michigan University, USA

Prof John Varghese, Principal, St Stephen’s College, India

Dr. Suman Sharma, Principal, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, India

Dr. Pratibha Jolly, Principal at Miranda House, India

Sister Janet, Superintendent, St. Patricks Junior College, Agra, India