Saadia Zahidi

Saadia Zahidi is a Director and Head of Constituents at the World Economic
Forum. Her responsibilities include the engagement of women leaders, gender
parity groups, religious leaders, NGOs and labour leaders. The Women
Leaders & Gender Parity Programme aims to create awareness and catalyze
change by benchmarking the global gender gap, promoting dialogue and
engaging leaders — women and men— to address the challenges and
opportunities involved in narrowing gender gaps. Zahidi launched and is
co-author of the Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report series. She was
previously an Economist with the Forum’s Global Competitiveness Programme,
where her responsibilities included economic analysis for the Global
Competitiveness Reports, Arab World Competitiveness Reports and other
topical and regional studies. Zahidi holds a cum laude B.A. degree in
Economics from Smith College, Massachusetts, USA and a Master’s in
International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International
Studies in Geneva, Switzerland