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The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has released a report on the modernisation of the Middle East, which specifically refers to the partnership between Aurora50 and the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) as it points out that Middle Eastern women-led initiatives are “driving positive change and equality”.
Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, co-founder of Aurora50, has been appointed by the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center to its Women Leaders in Energy and Climate Fellowship, the first woman from the GCC to do so.
![[Aurora50 template] Hind Al Ali](https://aurora50.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022_06_03_EWD_1-Hind-Al-Ali.jpg "[Aurora50 template] Hind Al Ali")
Hind Al Ali has been made an independent board director at National General Insurance.
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.
![[Aurora50 template] Mariam Balfaqeh](https://aurora50.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022_06_03_EWD_8-Mariam-Balfaqeh.jpg "[Aurora50 template] Mariam Balfaqeh")
Mariam Balfaqeh, board member of Takaful Emarat, talks about graduating from Aurora50’s Pathway20 board accelerator programme and how it helped her gain her first independent board seat.
![[Aurora50 template] Fatima Al Fahim](https://aurora50.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022_06_03_EWD_3-Fatima-AlFahim.jpg "[Aurora50 template] Fatima Al Fahim")
2020 Aurora50 alumna Fatima Abdalla Al Fahim is appointed to the board of Arkan Building Materials.
A new ownership governance law has come into effect for family businesses in the UAE, which account for 90 percent of private companies.
