APEC Women and the Economy Summit

September 13 - 16, 2011 | San Francisco, CA

Featuring Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

 

 

 

 

 

The APEC Women and the Economy Summit is the premier event bringing together senior private and public sector players for a dialogue on fostering women’s economic empowerment among the APEC economies. The dialogue will support a set of policy recommendations that will be delivered to the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting, scheduled for November 12-13, 2011 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Click here to view the agenda for the APEC Women and the Economy Summit. Please note that the agenda is subject to change.

summit themes:

Access to Capital

Access to Markets

Skills and Capacity Building

Women's Leadership

Invited Attendees Include:

Top level U.S. Cabinet members

CEOs and leaders of America's largest corporations

The top Secretaries or Ministers of APEC economies including Australia, China, Japan, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, Russia, Vietnam, among others

Top global leaders on women's initatives

Leading women innovators from 21 economies

Summit Topics Include:

Creating empowering environments

Financial inclusion for women-owned business

Women and green jobs

Public/private partnerships that empower women

Fostering women entrepreneurs and small-businesses

Closing the gap in the world of information and technology

The new wave: fostering innovation

Girls to women: developing young leaders

Confirmed Speakers:

Rona Ambrose - Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for Status of Women, Canada
Dorothy Attwood – Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy, Walt Disney Company
Michelle Bachelet – UN Under Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Women
Cherie Blair – Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, UK
Rebecca M. Blank – Acting Secretary of Commerce and Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce
Beatriz Boza - Founder and Executive Director, Ciudadanos al Dia, Peru
Beth Brooke – Global Vice Chair of Public Policy, Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement, Ernst & Young
Tina Brown – Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast and Newsweek
Elim Chew - Founder & President, 77th Street Pte Ltd, Singapore
Eileen Claussen – President, PEW Center on Global Climate Change
Hillary Rodham Clinton – Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Weili Dai – Co-Founder, Marvell
Amanda Ellis – Deputy Secretary, International Development Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand
Anne Finucane – Global Strategy and Marketing Officer, Bank of America
Sue Fleishman – Executive Vice President of Corporate Communications, Warner Bros.
Maria Luisa “Lulu” Flores – Partner, Hendler Law, PC, and President, National Women’s Political Caucus
Lorraine Hariton – Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Kathy Hill – Senior Vice President of Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Robert D. Hormats – Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agriculture Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Chris Jansing – Anchor and Host of ‘Jansing & Co.,’ MSNBC
Valerie Jarrett – Senior Advisor to the President of the United States and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls
Pacita Juan – Chief Executive Officer, Figaro, and President, Women’s Business Council, Philippines
Shinta Kamdani – Managing Director, Sintesa Group, Indonesia
Jeni Klugman - Director, Gender and Development, The World Bank
Karen Kornbluh – U.S. Ambassador of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Anne Ladky – Executive Director and Founding Member, Women Employed
Christine Lagarde – Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Yang Lan – Co-Founder, Sun Media Group and Television Host for "Yang Lan One On One," China
Ilene Lang – President & Chief Executive Officer, Catalyst
Carol Massar – Anchor, Bloomberg TV
Marissa Mayer – Vice President of Location and Local Services, Google
Sheri McCoy – Vice Chairman and Executive Committee Member, Johnson & Johnson
Melody Meyer - President, Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production Company
Karen Mills – Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration
Dong Mingzhu – Vice Chairman of the Board and President, Gree Electric Appliances Inc., China
Marty Natalegawa - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia
Barbara Orser – Founding Chair of the Canadian Taskforce for Women’s Business Growth, Canada
Mari Pangestu – Minister of Trade, Indonesia
Hekia Parata – Minister of Women’s Affairs and Acting Energy Minister, New Zealand
Sharon Thomas Parrot – Senior Vice President External Relations and Chief Regulatory Compliance Officer, DeVry Inc.
Kathleen Rogers – President, Earth Day Network
Sheryl Sandberg – Chief Operating Officer, Facebook
Carolina Schmidt – Minister of Women's Affairs, Chile
Senator Shahrizat Abdul Jalil – Minister of Women, Family and Community Development, Malaysia
William M. Sheedy – Group President, Americas, Visa Inc.
Megan Smith – Vice President of New Business Development, Google
Gene Sperling – Director, National Economic Council, White House
Haslina Taib – Chief Executive Officer, BAG Network, Public Private Partnership between Accenture and Brunei Government IT consulting, ABAC Advisor, Brunei
Tina Tchen – Executive Director, White House Council on Women and Girls, and Chief of Staff to the First Lady of the United States
Su-Mei Thompson - Executive Director, The Women’s Foundation, Hong Kong
Claire Tomlin – Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley
Blanca Trevino - CEO and President, Softtek
Melanne Verveer – Ambassador-at-Large of Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State
Cher Wang – Chairman, HTC, Chinese Taipei
Telle Whitney – President and Chief Executive Officer, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
Sheryl WuDunn – Co-Author, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Meng Xiaosi, Vice President, All-China Women’s Federation
Perry Yeatman – Senior Vice President, Corporate and Legal, Kraft Foods Inc and President, Kraft Foundation