Speakers

  • Selima Ahmad
    Founder and President, Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry
  • Shehla Javed Akram
    Founder and President, Central & North Punjab Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry
  • Barbara Barrett
    President and CEO, Triple Creek Guest Ranch
  • Michelle Bekkering
    Women's Democracy Network Director, International Republican Institute
  • Shari Berenbach
    Director, USAID Microenterprise Office
  • Taryn Bird
    Manager, Global Corporate Citizenship Program and Corporate Relations, Business Civic Leadership Center
  • Nancy Bocskor
    Senior Advisor for the Center for Liberty in the Middle East
  • Shari Bryan
    Vice President, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
  • Camelia Bulat
    Romania Office Director, Center for International Private Enterprise
  • David Chavern
    Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  • Lynda Y. de la Viña
    Dean and Peter Flawn Professor of Economics, University of Texas-San Antonio College of Business
  • Stephenie Foster
    Professor, American University
    Board member, Women Thrive International
  • Angel Fraile
    Sustainable Development Manager, ENDESA
  • Suzanne Garment
    Visiting Scholar, Indiana University
    Former board member, National Endowment for Democracy
  • Barbara Haig
    Deputy to the President for Policy & Strategy
  • Assilah Z. al Harthy
    Founder & CEO, Group 6 LLC
  • Richard Holwill
    Vice President of Public Policy, Alticor
    Chairperson, Asia Task Force at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  • Rumiana Jeleva
    Vice President of the European People's Party and former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria
  • Eileen Kohl Kaufman
    Executive Director, Social Accountability International
  • Karen Kerrigan
    Chairman, Center for International Private Enterprise
    CEO, Women Entrepreneurs Inc.
  • Henriette Kolb
    CEO, Cherie Blair Foundation
  • Kathleen Kuehnast
    Director, Gender and Peacebuilding Center, United States Institute of Peace
  • Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
    Deputy Director, Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
    Author, The Dressmaker of Khair Khanna
  • Marne Levine
    Vice President for Global Public Policy, Facebook
  • Nancy Mills
    Interim Executive Director, American Center for International Labor Solidarity
  • Diana Villiers Negroponte
    Non-resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
  • Patti Petesch
    Consultant and author of the World Bank’s Voices of the Poor and Moving out of Poverty
  • Maja Piscevic
    Executive Director & President of the Board, Serbian Association of Manufacturers
  • Charlotte Ponticelli
    Former Senior Coordinator, International Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State
  • Shelly Porges
    Senior Advisor of the Global Women’s Business Initiative, Office of Commercial and Business Affairs
  • Jean Rogers
    Deputy Director for Programs, Center for International Private Enterprise
  • Virginia M. Seitz
    Senior Director for Social and Gender Assessment, Millennium Challenge Corporation
  • Mary Schnack
    National Founding Partner and on the executive advisory board for Women Impacting Public Policy
  • Sandra Taylor
    Senior Director, La Pietra Coalition
  • Melanne Verveer
    U.S. Special Ambassador for Global Women's Issues
    Founder, Vital Voices
  • María del Carmen Aceña Villacorta
    Researcher, Center for National Economic Research (Guatemala)
  • Alexandra Wrage
    President, TRACE
    Author, Bribery and Extortion: Undermining Business, Governments and Security
  • Randa al Zoghbi
    Egypt Office Director, Center for International Private Enterprise