Expertise: Eeconomics,politics, Women’s Rights

Languages: Arabic - English

Bio:Fawzia Nasher is considered one of Yemen’s pioneers of women’s economic empowerment. She has experience in both the private and public sectors. Her expertise combines the fields of business and marketing with women and development and she is considered one of the strongest advocates for Yemeni women’s economic empowerment. She co-founded the Women Arab Investors Union in 2005 in Egypt and is one of its board members and is one of the first businesswomen to join theChamber of Commerce in 1996, where she founded the Women Section at the Chamber in 2003. In 2005, she was appointed as head of the Women’s department at the Federation of Chambers. In 2007, Fawzia founded the Yemeni Businesswomen Councilas the first independent organized body for Yemeni businesswomen, which she has been running since. In 2010 she was elected by Yemeni businessmen to became member of the Arab Working Women Affairs Committee affiliated with the Arab Labor Organization.In 2013 she co-founded the Economic Empowerment Network in Yemen and co-founded the Yemeni Forum for Businesses and the Alliance for Women’s Rights Advocacy.She was honored by the Union of Female Arab Investors and the Arab Association of Businesswomen for Development as well as by several Businesswomen councils across the region. Fawzia represented Yemen on many regional and international platforms and has been a strong advocate for Yemeni women’s rights especially economic empowerment. In addition to herpersonal achievement as a successful Yemeni businesswoman, she has been able tohelp hundreds of Yemeni businesswomen thrive and was instrumental in lobbying for policy change to facilitate Yemeni women’s entry to the economic sector as well as promoting enabling regulations to increase women’s economic participation nationally. She has also conducted and supervised many research studies on gender and economic development in Yemen as well as created the first database of Yemeni businesswomen. In addition to her degree in Psychiatry from Cairo University, she has a degree in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo, and a High diploma in business management from the American university in Cairo as well as another from the London School of Business and Management.

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