Saadia Zahidi
Saadia Zahidi | |
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سعدیہ زاہدی | |
Zahidi in 2009 | |
| Senior managing director at the World Economic Forum (WEF) | |
| Assumed office 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Pakistani & Swiss |
| Alma mater | Smith College Graduate Institute Geneva Harvard University |
| Awards | Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World (2018) - longlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award |
Saadia Zahidi (Urdu: سعدیہ زاہدی) is an economist and senior managing director at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and co-authors the WEF's Future of Jobs, Global Gender Gap and Global Risks Reports. She has served on the United Nations Secretary General's high level panel on women's economic empowerment and on the European Space Agency's (ESA) high level advisory group on human and robotic space exploration. Zahidi is also the author of Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World (2018).