Saadia Zahidi
سعدیہ زاہدی
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Saadia Zahidi in 2009
Born
Pakistan
CitizenshipPakistani & Swiss
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsWorld Economic Forum

Saadia Zahidi (Urdu: سعدیہ زاہدی) is a managing director at the World Economic Forum.[1]

Education

Zahidi holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Smith College, a master's in international economics from Graduate Institute Geneva, and an MPA from Harvard University.[2]

Career

Zahidi started her career at the World Economic Forum as an economist in 2004. She was the youngest person to be appointed managing director and board member at the World Economic Forum in 2018.[3]

She heads the Forum's Centre for the New Economy and Society responsible for economy, human capital, development and equity agendas at the Forum. She co-authors the Forum's Future of Jobs, Global Gender Gap and Global Risks Reports. She also leads initiatives on growth, innovation, skills, jobs, equity and social mobility.[4][5][6][2]

She served on the UN Secretary General's high level panel on women's economic empowerment and on the European Space Agency's high level advisory group on human and robotic space exploration.[7] [8]

She published the book Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World in 2018.[9]

Awards

Her book Fifty Million Rising was longlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.[10][11] Her book proposal won the inaugural Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for young business authors in 2014.[12]

She was honoured in BBC's 100 Women in 2013 and 2014.[13][14]

Personal life

Zahidi was born and raised in Pakistan and is a citizen of Pakistan and Switzerland. [5] She speaks four languages.

References

  1. ↑ "Saadia Zahidi - Agenda Contributor". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Saadia Zahidi - Agenda Contributor | World Economic Forum". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  3. ↑ How WEF's youngest executive overcame imposter syndrome, retrieved 22 January 2023
  4. ↑ "Bracken Bower winner Saadia Zahidi snags book deal". Financial Times. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Seeking a finer balance". Harvard Gazette. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Zahidi, Laura Tyson and Saadia (31 October 2014). "The Slow March to Gender Parity". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment – Reports and toolkits". UN Women – Headquarters. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  8. ↑ "ESA to embolden Europe's space exploration". www.esa.int. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  9. ↑ Zahidi, Saadia (27 June 2017). Fifty Million Rising. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-56858-590-1.
  10. ↑ Zahidi, Saadia (2017). Fifty Million Rising: How a New Generation of Working Women Is Revolutionizing the Muslim World. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1568585918.
  11. ↑ "Business Book of the Year 2018 — the longlist". Financial Times. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  12. ↑ Zahidi, Saadia (13 November 2014). "'Womenomics' is starting to transform the Muslim world". Financial Times. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  13. ↑ "100 Women: Who took part?". BBC News. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  14. ↑ "Who are the 100 Women 2014?". BBC News. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2018.


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