Saadia Zahidi

• Senior Director, Head of Gender Parity and Human Capital, World Economic Forum

BA (Hons) in Economics, Smith College; Master's in International Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. With World Economic Forum: former Economist, Global Competitiveness Programme, responsible for economic analysis for the Global Competitiveness reports, Arab World reports and other topical and regional studies; currently, Head of Constituents, responsible for the engagement of religious leaders, NGOs, labour leaders, women leaders and gender parity groups; also leads research on gender issues. Founder and Co-Author, Global Gender Gap Report series, benchmarking countries according to the size of their gender gaps on health, education, economic participation and political empowerment.