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 Foreword by Aude Zieseniss de Thuin
Our
theme for the third edition of the Women’s
Forum for the Economy and Society, «Building
Trust in our Societies», is a crucial subject.
In our era, economic, social and environmental issues
are such that experts, philosophers, financiers, researchers
and sociologists have trouble defining conditions that
could create a better, more secure, and trustworthy
world. At the same time, the world’s citizens
are observing global changes live on the Internet and
can exchange information, share their doubts and their
questions.
It is therefore more vital than ever to bring practical and realistic answers to these questions, no matter where
they come from. And it has become essential to stray
from pat answers to favour tangible results and find
alternative responses either in terms of new ethical
standards or new social networks, while reinforcing human
rights for a new kind of justice and rethinking cultural
identity for a global world. Few issues can avoid reform,
and few escape scrutiny. In light of this, we must redefine
each and every assigned role for nations, companies,
associations and individuals.
In this massive redistribution of roles, women are taking
centre stage and assuming their responsibilities—alongside
men, of course. Women's support is essential. Not only
because they are a key element of social cohesion, but
also because they are inventive and innovative, and the
results of their actions show the pertinence of their
approach. There will be intense moments in Deauville
this year!
By
choosing to address the theme of trust, we aim to show
that the greatest wealth that men and women can offer
is the capacity to exchange experiences, create a connection,
build relationships, the respect of others and the
respect for commitment. Trust is a virtue, but one
that must be deserved. In order to restore trust in
our societies, it is essential to make a pact of clarity
and truth. This is the choice of women I meet throughout
the world and in all domains—and
this is no coincidence. In Deauville, we will listen
to women who are clearing the path, those that live the
spirit of entrepreneurship every day, that defend the
rising power of civil society or are actors in international
organisations.
By
gathering the most varied panel of women with professional,
political, associative and human experience, the Women’s
Forum will show than in just three years it has become
an indispensable venue for meetings and debates which
our changing society direly needs. It is a meeting place
for people active in domains as varied as business, culture,
politics and assocations—a unique gathering for
differing voices and visions.
Ever
more international and unexpected in its open-mindedness,
more original in its approach to the issues, this new
edition of the Women’s Forum
will be an exceptional vintage. For three days the Forum
will gather together women and men, opinion leaders,
intellectuals and exceptional individuals who are the
real vectors of change in today's world. Interested
in the experiences of others and concerned about the
future of our population, they come from around the
world to share the same ambition: to restore trust
in our societies.
Aude Zieseniss de Thuin
Founder and President
Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society
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Last
call for registration
DEADLINE
FOR INDIVIDUALS REGISTRATION
IS SEPTEMBER 28TH.
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The
registration fee is 5,000 euros H.T. per person.
This covers all Forum activities, including documentation
and official meals. The contribution is exclusive
of travel and accommodation.
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Specific
fees are available for:
- Men:
2,500 euros H.T.
- Participants
from developing countries / SMEs /
NGOs: 2,500
euros
- Company
packages:
- 2
persons: 9,000 euros H.T.
- persons: 12,000 euros H.T.
Click here to register online
THE PROGRAMME
Chinese Delegation
Ever
more international and unexpected in its open-mindedness,
the Women’s Forum is
making news this year in Deauville by inviting a delegation
of 50 Chinese women representing the role
that women aim to achieve in China. This delegation
will participate notably in the creation of the programme of
the first Women’s Forum Asia, which will take
place in Shanghai from May 15 - 17, 2008.
The delegation includes: CHEN Xiurong, Permanent Committee
Member of the National People’s Congress of China
and Vice-President of the All-China Women’s Federation;
Nora SUN, Chairman of Nora Sun Associates Ltd.; Dr.
LI Qingyuan, former director of Research Institute
CSRC (China Securities Regulatory Commission); LIU
Ting, Chairman and President of Asia Link Group; ZHANG
Xin, Co-founder and CEO, SOHO China; ZHANG Lan, Chair
and President, South Beauty Group; YAN Lan, Partner,
Gide Loyrette Novel; LAN Zhenzhen, Vice President of
L’Oréal China; MEI Yan, Chief Strategy
Officer, News Corporation China; HU Shuli, General
Manager, Caijing Magazine; Vera TSU, Violonist.
The
delegation will follow a tailor-made programme: meetings
with renowned women from France and abroad, discussions
with Forum partners on key economic and social themes
concerning China.
As of today, six major companies are partnering with
this key delegation: Groupe Carrefour, Lafarge, Mazars,
Schneider Electric, Sodexho Alliance and Standard Chartered
Bank.
Student
Delegation
In partnership
with Citi & Hudson, the Women’s
Forum has invited a student delegation to Deauville
to represent a selection of the world's top business
schools. As tomorrow's leaders, the delegation will
contribute to the richness of the Forum by bringing
new perspectives.
Each delegation is made up of three students — two
girls and a boy.
During the three-day Forum, the students will attend
and actively participate in all programme sessions.
They will be in charge of writing the Women’s
Forum's blog by bringing together all of the themes
addressed and will comment on and offer proposals for
the debates. The blog's theme is «Reinforcing
trust through the next generation».
Download the updated programme here
THE SPEAKERS
H.E. Phumzile Gloria Mlambo-Ngcuka, Vice President
of South Africa, has confirmed her presence at the Forum. She will be among our 130 renowned speakers coming from all over the world.
Download the updated list of confirmed speakers here
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Our new partners
We are pleased to welcome the following partners who signed up in June and July for the third Edition of the Women’s Forum:
- Event & Discovery
Partners: Paul Hastings
- Sudent
Delegation: Hudson
- Asian
Delegation: Groupe Carrefour, Standard Chartered Bank
A total of 50 companies will be Partners of the third edition of the Women’s Forum.
Ongoing
Projects
 Rising Talents
In partnership with JPMorgan
and with the support of Egon Zehnder International
Late July,
the Selection Committee, composed of representatives of the Women’s
Forum, JPMorgan and Egon Zehnder, have selected 19 young women who emerge,
in their respective countries, as “rising talent” because they
are already exemplary leaders, model citizens, and have demonstrated particular
passion, commitment and social involvement thus making them inspiring entrepreneurs
for the future in all their respective areas.
Business
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Gabriela CARVALHO, 35, Brazil, Director of Business Development, Latin America; Manager, Strategic Planning, American Express
- Yseulys COSTES, 34, France, CEO and co-founder
Millemercis
- Marina FLINDELL, 32, Russia, Executive Director,
Special Credits Group and Partner, Special Situations
Investing, JPMorgan
- Emilie GOODALL, 25, UK, Analyst, New Philanthropy Capital
- Tamara MALHAS, 29, Jordan, Managing Director, Mashrek International School
- Mona MOURSHED, 35, Egypt/USA, Partner, McKinsey
- Agnès PANNIER-RUNACHER, 33, France, Deputy manager,
Finance & Strategy, Caisse des Dépôts & Consignations
(CDC)
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Melissa SMITH, 34, USA, Executive Director, Debt Capital Markets, JPMorgan
Non-profit
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Jobeda ALI, 32, Sri Lanka, Managing Director, Fair Knowledge
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Catalina COCK, 31, Columbia, Chairwoman, Association for Responsible
Mining
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Maryana ISKANDER, 31, USA, Executive Vice President, Planned Parenthood
Federation of America
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Hasina KHARBHIH, 36, India, Founder and CEO, Impulse NGO Network
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Joana
LOUREIRO, 30, Portugal, CEO, JA Portugal
Scientific
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Prudence MUTOWO, 31, Zimbabwe, PhD student
(biology), University of Nottingham, UK
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Pardis SABETI, 31, USA, Post-doctoral fellow
(biology), Harvard University
Arts & Sports
- Abha DAWESAR, 33, India, Writer
- Maud FONTENOY, 29, France, Navigator
- Renata POKUPIC, 34, Croatia, Singer
- Thea
SHARROCK, 32, UK, Theater Director
The profiles of the 19 Rising talents can be consulted on:
www.womens-forum.com
www.jpmorganchase.com
www.egonzehnder.com
Women for Women’s Education
In partnership with Fondation d’Entreprise ELLE, ELLE,
Aide & Action, Renault and Groupe La Poste
In
the context of this joint operation, NGOs were encouraged to
submit an economic insertion project based on women's education.
The three NGO finalists are:
The
finalist NGOs are invited to participate in the
Women’s
Forum in October where the winning project will be awarded a prize
of €100,000, granted by Renault and Groupe La Poste.
For more detailed information, visit blogs.elle.fr/fondation/
Orange:
bringing people together
Orange
believes that life is better without walls between
places, people, information and entertainment.
In that respect, social community
networks enable each one of us to establish closer links with other
people, and also discover new ways of expression.
Building
on its strength as a leading provider of mobile, Internet, TV, video and fixed line services in markets across the world,
Orange’s aim is to further develop networking services such
as Pikeo (to share photos) and Bubbletop (to organise and share web
page). Orange wants to support people, and especially
women, to transcend the frontiers of time and space and help
them create their own social community. Through innovative new
communications tools, Orange offers new ways for women to share interests
and express themselves, especially in places where they have
less visibility. The key difference with Orange is that these
services are accessible to communities whenever and wherever
they are needed.
Orange
contributes to building communities. Because it is its mission to
bring people together to enable them to go further.
Women Action for Leading Change
In partnership with Reporters d’Espoir
and Caisse d’Epargne
Produced
with Reporters d’Espoirs and the Women’s Forum, and
thanks to the support of Caisse d’Epargne, this project will allow outstanding
women to talk about what they have done to change the world around them and
to motivate each and all to become involved and create links to instigate
change in their regions and throughout the world.
Sci
Tech Girls
In partnership with L’Oréal, Orange, Centrale School of Engineering (France and Beijing), Ecole Normale Supérieure, and with the support of Cisco, Suez, Thales, Total and the City of Deauville
A
special message from L’Oréal
 The
world need science… Science
needs women 
This
conviction has united L’Oréal and UNESCO since
1998, when they joined forces to promote women
in scientific research by creating the For Women
in Science partnership.
Please help us to identify the perception of women scientists in order to change mentalities by filling in the online questionnaire before October 5th:
http://forwomeninscience.seitosei.fr/survey07.php
Thank
you very much in advance!
Titouan Lamazou, Women of the World
In partnership with the
Fondation L’Oréal
After
six years of globetrotting, encounters and
a long creative process, Titouan Lamazou (Unesco’s Artist for Peace) has revealed «Femmes
du Monde» (Women of the World). His deeply original vision
shows more than 200 portraits of women in a large-scale exhibition
at the Musée de l'Homme (Natural History Museum) in Paris,
from October 11, 2007 to March 30, 2008.
A selection of his portraits will be displayed
at the Women's Forum.
Titouan will give a conference in the Writers Corner
introducing the book “Femmes du Monde” published by
Gallimard and the serial of films broadcasted by France 5.
New
in the Discovery Programme
This
year’s Discovery Programme – the
Forum’s «side» programme—will grow in stature
with a «Discovery Hall» combining networking and discovery
areas. The Discovery programme is centred this
year on the main themes related to trust: education,
design, the environment, travel, writing, health
and well-being. The area will feature innovative and down-to-earth
workshops moderated by artists, writers, scientists and renowned
experts.
Design
Corner, in partnership with Euro RSCG, Lenovo and Nelly
Rodi
Conceived
by trend office Nelly Rodi, this corner offers a sensorial and
entertaining journey on the theme, «In Design We Trust».
Creations by Lenovo, such as the Olympic flame, will be highlighted.
Two series of sessions will be organised: Euro RSCG's programme «Creating
Business Ideas» and the presentation of upcoming trends by
Nelly Rodi and Lenovo.
Environment
Corner, in partnership with Suez
We
cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
These
words are written above the entrance to the “World of
the Future.” Far from being bravely optimistic, they represent
a commitment, and a responsibility. The history
of SUEZ and its companies is marked by this conviction
of shared progress.
In the current project SUEZ constantly come across themes that are
dear to the Group: innovation, creativity, vision and sustainable
development.
These are all exciting challenges. But first and foremost they are
very real solutions that affect our everyday lives, in our homes
and in our day-to-day experience. This is what SUEZ find so fascinating
about the wonderful Living Tomorrow project: showing how we can save
energy, conserve resources and make sustainable development an everyday
reality.
Think & Share
Hosted by McKinsey & Company hosted this June edition...
«Women in
business as vector of change»
The
Think & Share breakfast debate organised by the Women’s
Forum on June 5, brought together Nicole Notat,
CEO of extra-financial analysis agency Vigeo
Group, and Laurence Parisot, president of Medef.
The discussion was moderated by journalist and author Christine
Ockrent.
McKinsey & Company hosted this June edition of Think & Share, and this
year the company joined the Women’s Forum as Worldwide Partner. Eric Labaye,
director of McKinsey & Company France, explains this partner's commitment
through the fact that «100% of talent should contribute to the creation
of wealth, and half of this talent comes from women.»
McKinsey & Company
is also conducting a study on women and corporate performance, whose results
will be revealed in October at the Women’s Forum.
Aude Zieseniss de Thuin
announced that Ian Davis, Global CEO of McKinsey & Company, has joined the
Women's Forum's Global Council.
The discussion centred on three axes:
- How do Nicole Notat and Laurence Parisot see the nature of social
dialogue?
- How much impact does diversity have in a company when it comes
to negotiating and doing business?
- Does having women in key management positions reinforce trust?
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Women's Forum Team
Bruno
Vinay joins the Women’s Forum
for the Economy
and Society
Bruno
Vinay (Master Business, Marketing & Finance
- Paris Dauphine University) has joined the Women’s
Forum team as Chief Operating Officer alongside
President and Founder Aude Zieseniss de Thuin.
Bruno Vinay started his business career in 1986 as a Publisher, founding the
trade magazine Droit et Technologies Nouvelles (New Technologies and Legal
Issues). In 1989 he joined NMPP (French Leader in Newspapers & Magazines
Distribution - 50% owned by Lagardère Media Group) as Business Manager
in the Publishers Trade Relations Department before being appointed to Hachette
Books (Lagardere Group) to conduct various International Development
Missions and then to create the Marketing Department for Dictionaries within
Hachette Education.
In 1995, Bruno Vinay left Hachette for Métrobus Group (former Vivendi-Publicis
Joint Venture) to hold the position of Strategy Development Director, then
joined Prisma Presse Group (Grüner & Jahr – Bertelsmann) where
he was Associate Publisher for weekly magazine VSD and monthly business magazines
Capital and Management.
In 2000, he co-founded with prominent French TV journalist Christine Ockrent
and business radio BFM, the BtoC website bfmbiz.com providing Business
News, Career and Asset Management Services.
In 2002, Bruno Vinay left Paris for Sydney, Australia, to take over the Associate
Publisher role for 15 Women’s Magazines at local frontrunner Australian
Consolidated Press. In 2004, he left ACP for Telstra (Australian Telecom) where
he led the Marketing & Product IPTV team until August 2007.
Isabelle Fernandez sets up shop in Shanghai to
launch
the first edition of the Women’s Forum
Asia (May 15-17,
2008).
Isabelle
Fernandez (Sciences Po Paris - ENA Condorcet
class of 1992) has joined the Women’s Forum
team as International Director alongside Aude Zieseniss
de Thuin.
Isabelle
Fernandez began her career at the French Ministry
of Finance where she was responsible for bilateral
economic and commercial relations between France
and Eastern Europe, when the region opened to
the West. At the Department of Economic External
Relations she represented France at the PHARE and
TACIS committees, which were in charge of community
financing for these countries as well as the CIS.
She then began progressively working her way towards
Asia, and was in charge of ASEAN and multilateral
issues at APEC and ASEM (Europe/Asia).
In 1996, she was named deputy manager of the Economic
and Financial Mission at the French Embassy in Beijing,
where she tracked China's admission to the WTO and
relations between the European Union and China.
In 1999, she was named to head up the Economic Mission
in Shanghai, where, apart from her economic diplomatic
role with the Chinese authorities, she became a
strategic consultant for French companies. In Shanghai
she created the first AFII office in China (Invest
in France).
In 2003, she returned to France as International
Director in Lyon, where she oversaw decentralised
cooperation and participated in networking for major
European (Eurocités) and worldwide cities
(UCLG). In 2006, she obtained Coach certification
(Coach&Team -Vincent Lenhardt).
Before
joining the Women’s Forum for the Economy
and Society in August 2007, Isabelle Fernandez was
inspector at the international network of the Economic
Missions at the Ministry of Finance.
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Save these dates!
Third
Edition of the Women’s Forum
Deauville, France
2007, Thursday October 11 - Saturday October 13
“Building Trust in Our Societies”
Women’s Forum Asia – Shanghai, China
2008, Thursday May 15 – Saturday May 17
“Women’s
new responsibilities in balancing growth and sustaining development”
Look
out for our next newsletter on November 16, 2007
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