Business Women In China Forum: A Women’s World, A Better World? Go back »
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Time2013-05-20 | 16:00 - 19:00
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Venue:Le Royal Meridien
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Address:789 Nanjing Road East
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Fee:Members: 400 RMB |
Non Members: 600 RMB
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is pleased to announce the series of events Business Women in China Forum, to be held in Guangzhou (17 May 2013), Shanghai (20 May 2013) and Beijing (22 May 2013) and will count with the participation of leading business women, diplomats and entrepreneurs.
Women represent half of the work force, yet only a minority makes it to the top management levels. Many countries have started to progressively implement measures and policies to promote diversity at all level. Is the situation different in China? What do the Chinese think about it? How do the non-Chinese women working in China perceive it? What are the Chinese business women looking for? What are they concerns and aspirations? Do they have more opportunities to reach the Board level?
Muriel de Saint Sauveur, Mazars Group Diversity Director, interviewed more than 100 women from 33 countries asking them “What if? What would you change in the world if you had the power?” and shared the results in her book “A women’s world, a better world?” More involved, more ambitious and less egocentric, their priorities and perceptions are different from those of the men… What would the world look like if women shared power with men?
Speakers
Joanne Wood, Founder and Chairman of Capital Eight
Shi Yincai, Founder of the NGO Dialogue in the Dark
Muriel de Saint Sauveur, Mazars Group Diversity Director
Anna Viktoria Li, Consul General, Consulate General of Sweden, Shanghai
Ioana Kraft, General Manager, European Chamber Shanghai Chapter, will be the moderator
Agenda
16:00-16:30 Registration
16:30-16:35 Welcome Remarks by Ioana Kraft
16:35 -16:50 Speech by Muriel de Saint Sauveur
16:50-17:50 Panel discussion
17:50-17:55 Closing Remarks by Ioana Kraft
18:00-19:00 Networking and drinks
Registrations
Please register through this website (button above).
For any further enquiries, please contact Ms Qi Li at qli@europeanchamber.com.cn or 63852023-119, stating your name and company, by Friday, 17 May 2013 COB.
Speakers
Ms. Joanne Wood
Joanne K. Wood is the Founder and Managing Partner of Capital Eight, an investment banking boutique specialized in corporate finance and headquartered in Shanghai.
Prior to establishing Capital Eight, Joanne worked in senior corporate finance positions with UBS, Jardine Fleming and GE Capital in Europe, the USA and China.
Listing many Fortune 500, FTSE 100 and Sino 400 entities amongst her clients, Joanne continues to advise companies on China domestic and cross-border investment strategies, capital structuring, fund-raising plans and transaction negotiations.
Joanne has been active in representing the Foreign Financial Services Industry in China, engaging in peer dialogue with the Chinese Government and Chinese financial services entities. She is currently Vice Chair of the British Chamber of Commerce Financial Services Focus Group, a former Vice Chair of the Strategic M&A and Private Equity Working Group under the EU Chamber of Commerce in China and also participates in the Australian Chamber’s Financial Services Industry Group. In August 2011, Joanne was honored with unanimous election as the inaugural and founding Chair of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Greater China, a newly established, national peak body that advocates Australian business in China.
Joanne holds an MBA from London Business School, an under-graduate degree from the University of Adelaide, South Australia and reads, writes and speaks Mandarin.
Ms. Shiyin Cai
Ms. Cai, a Chinese national, previously worked as Chief Technology Officer of General Electric Infrastructure Asia-Pacific based in Shanghai. In her 13-year professional experience, Ms. Cai worked for GE, Siemens, AIG and Roland Berger in New York, Atlanta, UK, Mexico, Singapore and China. She was speaker addressing at the TEDxShanghai 2012, TEDxNanjing 2012, 37th and 38th St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland, 2008 Hamburg Summit and chosen as the BMW Foundation Young Global Leader in 2010 and 2011. She was awarded as the “Big Ben Award - Top Ten Young Chinese in Germany” in Jan 2011 and also selected as the “2011 Rising Talents” (one of the 17 globally) of the Women’s Forum at Deauville. Shiyin is a member of Young President’s Organization (YPO). Ms. Cai got her MBA with full-scholarship at the State University of New York and was also educated in Chinese Art (Diploma) at SOAS, London University and International Business Management at Fudan University in Shanghai. After the encounter with Sabriye Tenberken who founded the blind school in Tibet (Braille without Borders), Shiyin was inspired and started working as a volunteer advisor for the blind school in charge of the communications, marketing and PR. The work with blind people brought Shiyin to the Dialogue Inthe Dark exhibition in Atlanta. She was so intrigued by the concept and decided to take the global COO role for Dialogue Social Enterprise in April 2010 and therefore started her full-time work in social sector. After almost two years running the global social franchising network, Shiyin decided to move back to China and successfully founded the “Dialogue in the Dark” social enterprise China which has expanded to Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and Shenzhen focusing on changing the stereotype and discrimination against marginalized people in mainland China.
Ms. Muriel de Saint Sauveur
Muriel de Saint Sauveur has been working for Mazars for 20 years. Today, she is the director of the International Marketing and Communications Agency and is also Group Diversity director. She leads a team dedicated to the integration of new countries, advises countries on their marketing and communications strategy and is also in charge of the implementation of Mazars’ global gender equality and diversity policy. In 2011, she published the book “A women’s world, a better world?’’ where she interviewed 100 women from 33 countries, asking them what they would change in the world if they had the power. She gave many debates about women empowerment in several countries. Already published in French, English and Russian, the book will be released in China soon.
Ms. Anna Viktoria Li
Ms. Viktoria Li has previously served at the Embassy of Sweden in Beijing as Head of Political Section. Before that, she was the Head of Section West Africa and Horn of Africa in Stockholm, and she has also worked at the Department for International Law and Human Rights in Stockholm, at the Swedish Representation to the EU in Brussels, at the Embassy of Sweden in Rome and the Embassy of Sweden in Zagreb. Viktoria Li is a lawyer and political scientist. She studied in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Paris. Since 2012, Viktoria has been serving as Consul General of Sweden in Shanghai.