
Women On The Front Lines - WOFL 2018
- Thursday Mar 01 2018 from 08:30 pm until 05:00 pm
- Phoenicia Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon [See map]
- Conferences & Workshops
Women On The Front Lines - WOFL 2018
The WOFL conference features influential women who have inspired leadership, change, and sustainability in their respective fields. WOFL has been able to gather the most stimulating and audacious women who are:
– Winning people’s respect and support for being motivational, consistent, and for realizing peace through strength.
– Optimizing solutions for community building, economic and political development, as well as safeguarding ethical and moral standards for a lasting difference.
– Fulfilling their promises in giving back to society and taking charge in delivering sustainable goals and ensuring durable milestones.
– Leading through example and being exemplars for eventual emulation.
May Chidiac Foundation
“Women on the Front Lines” Conference | WOFL 2018
Agenda
Beirut, Lebanon
8:30 | Registration
9:30 | Opening Ceremony: Rania Ziade Achkar
Welcome Notes:
Dr. May Chidiac, Founder & President of the MCF-MI
10:00 - 10:50: Panel 1: Women Diplomats Empowering Women representation in Parliamentary elections
*HE Pernille Dahler Kardel , UN Under Secretary General and special coordinator to Lebanon
*HE Monika Kirgoz, Switzerland Ambassador to Lebanon
HE Emmanuelle Lamoureux, Ambassador of Canada to Lebanon
*HE Christina Lassen, EU Ambassador, Head of Delegation to Lebanon
Moderator : TBD
10:50 - 11:20 : Fireside Talk
Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, Director Emerita, and Public Policy Scholar at the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Moderator: Sami Nader, Director of Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs (lebanon)
11:20 - 11:50 : Panel 2 : Women in Policy Making
- Chantal Sarkis, General Secretary of the Lebanese Forces
- Hazar Caracalla, Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister
Moderator: TBD
11:50 - 12:05 : Coffe Break
12:05 - 12:30: Fireside Talk:
Monica Maggioni, (Italy) President of RAI TV
Moderator : Ricardo Karam, TV show host, head of RK Productions & TAKREEM
12:30 - 13:20 Panel 3: Women in Business and Entrepreneurship
Neila Benzina, (Tunisia), CEO Business & Decision Middle East & Africa
Dr. Nadine Haram Hachache, (Lebanon), Surgeon, Lecturer, Clinical Entrepreneur and Founder of Proximie
Rana Kaliouby, (Egypt), Co-Founder, CEO of Affectiva (TBC)
Thea Myhrvold, (UK) CEO and Founder of EdTech Solutions and TeachMeNow.com
Moderator: Dr Fouad Zmokhol, President, Association of Lebanese Business People in the World, RDCL - Lebanon
13:20 pm- 14:10 Standing Business Lunch
14:10- 14:50 Fireside Talk : including Q&A via Skype
Mrs. Rula Ghani, (Afghanistan), First Lady of Afghanistan
Moderator: Tania Mehanna, Former News Reporter at LBCI
14:50 - 15:00 : Presentation:
- **Monique Villa, CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation, Founder of TrustLaw, and Trust Conference.
15:00 - 16:00 : Panel 4: Human Trafficking and the Enslavement of Women and Girls:
Annie Kelly: Editor of The Guardian’s Modern Slavery in Focus reporting project and a journalist on the Global Development desk
Barbie Latza Nadeau: Author “Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast”, CNN contributor, Rome Bureau Chief, Newsweek - The Daily Beast
Dame Julie Okah-Donli: Director General, NAPTIP, Nigeria
Princess Okokon: Former victim of human Trafficking
*Rachel Witkin: Helen Bamber Foundation, Counter-Trafficking Lead
Moderator: TBC
16:00 - 17:00 Panel 5: Power of Celebrities
Kinda Allouch, Actress (Syria)
*Rita Hayek Actress (Lebanon)
Nelly Karim, Actress (Egypt)
Saba Moubarak, Actress/Producer (Jordan)
*Nadine Njeim, Actress (Lebanon)
*Hind Sabri, Actress (Tunisia)
Moderator: Antoine Khalifeh, Director of Arab Program at the International Dubai Film Festival
Book your free ticket here: https://ihjoz.com/events/3015-women-on-the-front-lines-wofl-2018