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Another Pathway20 alumna has been appointed to an independent board role: Hind Abdulrahman Al Ali has been made a board director at National General Insurance. Ms Al Ali, a senior supply chain manager for Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), was appointed to NGI, which is listed on the Dubai Financial Market, in April 2022. 

The Aviram Awards - Tech for Humanity - gave away $650,000 in its inaugural awards, which Aurora50's Diana Wilde helped judge. She talks about the funding issue for women-led start-ups and how it relates to boards.

Boards look first to human capital but it is social capital that will take you all the way to a board directorship, says Prof Heather McGregor, executive dean of Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University, who sits on three boards herself.

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.

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

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.

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.

2020 Aurora50 alumna Fatima Abdalla Al Fahim is appointed to the board of Arkan Building Materials.