Day: 18 December 2022

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  Women on listed UAE boards: From 3.5% to 8.9% in two years, our research report shows

  Reach the top in five career steps – how to take one of the UAE’s 808 listed board seats within a decade. Download Aurora50 and MBRSG’s 2022 research report, sponsored by ADNOC, Non-executive board careers in the UAE: A path to gender balance.

  Suzanne Locke
  16th June 2022

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  Press release: Diversity on the rise for UAE boards

  Research undertaken reveals that 6.7% of board seats in the UAE are now held by women, up from 3.5% in 2020.

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  16th June 2022

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  RAK women – empowered to network

  The women of Ras Al Khaimah have a new venue to network in the RAK Women’s Empowerment Conference – and are being advised to become skilled networkers.

  Diana Wilde
  9th June 2022

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  Alumni news: Hind Al Ali appointed to board of National General Insurance

  Hind Al Ali has been made an independent board director at National General Insurance.

  Suzanne Locke
  8th June 2022

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  Social capital for board directors – how networking takes you the last mile

  It is social capital that will take you all the way to a board directorship, says Prof Heather McGregor CBE.

  Suzanne Locke
  23rd May 2022

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  Sheikh Khalifa: A legacy of women’s advancement

  Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, co-founder of Aurora50, pledges to continue her family’s work to enable women’s advancement after the death of her grandfather, the late HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

  Suzanne Locke
  23rd May 2022

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  Two candles for Aurora50, many more projects to come

  This month Aurora50 turned two and what a couple of years it has been since our launch in April 2020.

  Diana Wilde
  26th April 2022

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  Six new UAE companies sign SDG 5 pledge

  Some 24 private local and international companies have now signed the UAE Gender Balance Council pledge to ensure women take 30% of C-suite positions by 2025, including DP World.

  Suzanne Locke
  17th March 2022

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  Zawya: How are UAE-listed firms progressing towards gender equity?

  Aurora50 co-founder Diana Wilde tells Zawya the UAE will not know what progress has been made in putting women on boards until after the latest round of company AGMs this month.

  Suzanne Locke
  9th March 2022

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  Alumni news: Mariam Balfaqeh, board member of Takaful Emarat, talks Pathway

  Mariam Balfaqeh, board member of Takaful Emarat, talks about graduating from Aurora50’s Pathway board accelerator programme and how it helped her gain her first independent board seat.

  Suzanne Locke
  8th March 2022

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