Past Events

Second Qatar International Businesswomen Forum

Doha (Qatar) 17-18 May 2011

The second Qatar International Businesswomen Forum will be held in Doha, Qatar on May 17 - 18, 2011 and is organized by the Qatari Business Women Association and Interactive Business Network-IBN.

The forum will resume and expand on the discussion of leading issues of the hour on the economic empowerment of women in the Arab world; focusing on their growing role in business and every other sphere of economic activity, and the challenges and obstacles that they continue to face as they strengthen their leadership and executive positions in an evolving regional business environment. The Forum will also analyze a number of broader business issues that are of particular interest to the Gulf countries and the Arab world.

The Qatar International Businesswomen Forum in its 2011 meet will host a number of leading Gulf, Arab and international speakers, and is expected to attract wide participation from senior government officials, experts and specialists in business, financial and social affairs, as well as representatives of civil society, NGOs, and women leaders in business and other professions and activities.

Main topics on the Forum’s agenda include:

Businesswomen Face-to-Face with the Current Economic Uncertainties: Challenges Converted into Opportunities
Access to Finance for Businesswomen
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Challenges Women Face in Family Business
Interview with the United Nations Representative to discuss the "UN Women" Entity and its Implications for Arab Women
Role of NGOs in Uplifting the Businesswomen and their Achievements
Organizational Capabilities and Strategies in Small and Medium Enterprises
Performing within Cultural Boundaries and Limitation

For more info please visit www.qbwf.net/index.php

Workshop on the Role of Businesswomen in the Economies and Societies of the Arab Region – Gulf Research Meeting

July 6-9 2011, Cambridge University, Cambridge (UK)

This workshop aims at making a distinct contribution to the existing literature not only by bringing together recent and innovative research on female entrepreneurship in the Arab world and the Gulf countries in particular.

The workshop intends to go beyond the rather limited theoretical and analytical framework guiding previous research on business women in the Middle East and North African by linking it with the broader debate on the private sector proper in the Arab countries on the one hand and with the general topic on “Women and Development” on the other hand.

It is hoped that papers to be presented in the workshop will also offer new insights for a better understanding of the above mentioned contrasting views and assessments of the role of businesswomen in the economies and societies of the Arab world.

For further information on the workshop, visit: http://grcevent.net/cambridge2011/