Date & Time: Thursday July 8, 2010 – 7:30 PM
Location: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009 ( Get Directions, Campus Map )
Speaker: Ms. Nadereh Chamlou
Gender equality is often advocated from a rights-based approach, leaving many with the perception that it gender equality is for the sake of being nice to women. But, gender equality is far more important for higher and more sustainable economic growth, which is what every nation needs. Advancing gender equality is more urgent and for business reasons and any other consideration. In this presentation will present some recent research and where Iran stands vis-a-vis peer countries.
Nadereh Chamlou is Senior Advisor to the Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. In her 29 years with the World Bank, she has worked in technical, advisory, and managerial positions across the organization in such areas as economic management, private and financial sector development, infrastructure and environment, corporate governance, and the knowledge economy. Her experience also extends to Latin America, East Asia and Pacific, and Eastern Europe. She co-authored a World Bank flagship report, “Corporate Governance: A Framework for Implementation,” in 1999, and was co-founder of the World Bank/OECD-sponsored Global Corporate Governance Forum, which she headed from 1998 to 2000. She was the principal author of “Gender and Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region–Women in the Public Sphere” in 2003, and of “The Environment for Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa Region” in 2008.
She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tunis-based Center for Arab Women’s Training and Research (CAWTAR); a founding member of the Steering Committee and the Advisory Committee of the Gender Economic Research and Policy Analysis (GERPA) initiative and Chair of the Friends of the Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund, a scholarship fund for women from developing countries. She is Adjust Professor at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Policy and a member of the International Steering Committee of Nyenrode, The Netherlands Business University. She was a member of the scientific committee of the Dutch Gender Task Force–24orMore. She is a graduate of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and the Graduate School for Economics.
Fee (including dinner): $5 Students, $15 Public