Gender diversity works both top-down and bottom-up, Aurora50’s Suzanne Locke tells The National as new quota is announced for private company boards.
Fast Company Middle East recently reported on this important topic and invited Aurora50 to comment.
Recent news that women hold 5% of GCC board seats, from Aurora50 and Heriot-Watt University’s inaugural index, received widespread coverage.
Aurora50’s The Inclusion Summit 2023 was widely reported in the press MENA-wide in both English and Arabic.
Aurora50’s network for corporate women, NOORA, launched in July with founding partners Accenture, EGA, The Emirates Group, ENOC and TAQA; news of the launch was covered by publications across the Middle East.
The Ras Al Khaimah Chamber of Commerce hosted an Aurora50 roadshow on national youth initiatives for diversity, equality and inclusion, reports Al Bayan.
In its launch issue, new magazine Sustainability Middle East asked Aurora50 co-founder Diana Wilde how she was creating a sustainable future for the region and what the biggest challenges were.
Aurora50’s Diana Wilde told an Emirates Society event that some of the UAE’s biggest companies were making progress on inclusion, Arab News reported.
