The recent news that women hold 5.2 percent of board seats across the UAE and 10.8 percent of seats in the UAE, from the inaugural GCC Board Gender Index 2024 by Aurora50 and Heriot-Watt University Dubai, was widely covered by the media across the region
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Interviewed on Asharq Business Bloomberg after a quota of one woman per listed UAE board was mandated by the Emirates and Securities Commodities Authority (ESCA), Aurora50 co-founder Diana Wilde said: “We have a clear message from the government in the UAE that the economy will grow substantially if gender balance is achieved. The challenge lies in creating a pipeline of women, and the extent of women’s access to boards.”
Speaking to Dubai Eye’s The Business Breakfast after the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority announced a quota of one woman per listed board in March 2021, Aurora50 co-founder Diana Wilde said the quota was “not tokenistic”.
Aurora50’s Diana Wilde writes in The National about how diverse boardrooms are both fairer and more profitable.
