Saadia Zahidi — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board at the World Economic Forum, heading the Centre for the New Economy and Society.
Founded and co-authors the Forum's Future of Jobs Reports, Future of Growth Reports, and Global Gender Gap Reports.
Author of "Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World" (2018).
Her book proposal won the inaugural Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize in 2014, and the book was longlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
Served on the UN Secretary General's high-level panel for Women's Economic Empowerment and the European Space Agency's High-Level Advisory Group.
Honored in BBC's 100 Women in 2013.
Holds an MPhil in International Economics from The Graduate Institute and an MPA from Harvard University.

Biography

Saadia Zahidi is a Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board at the World Economic Forum (WEF), where she leads the Centre for the New Economy and Society. In this role, she partners with business, government, academics, and civil society to advance economic opportunity globally. She also oversees the Forum's engagement with universities, think tanks, academics, and its network of Global Future Councils.