Previous Jury members
Cheikh Tidiane Mbaye
SENEGAL
President of the SONATEL Foundation
Cheikh Tidiane MBAYE, 50 years old, is a specialist in the Telecommunications sector. He was Director of the Post and Telecommunications office in 1984. He has been Chief Executive Officer of the Senegalese National Telecommunications Company (SONATEL) since 1988, a position which he still holds.
Essma Ben Hamida
TUNISIA
Co-Founder and Executive Director of Enda Inter-Arabe
Essma Ben Hamida is director of Enda Inter-Arabe (Enda), which she co-founded in 1990 with Michael Cracknell and President of the microfinance network of Arab countries Sanabel.In 1995, Enda launched the first microcredit institution in Tunisia, which today reaches around 40,000 active clients, mainly women, in the poor areas of Tunisia.
Judy Malan
SOUTH AFRICA
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Judy qualified with a master's degree in law, after studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and then at Oxford. On finishing her studies in 1998, Judy however forsook the law to join management consultancy McKinsey & Company, out of curiosity to learn more about the business world.
Saloua Karkri-Belkeziz
Manager of GFI Informatique Maroc
Saloua Karkri-Belkeziz (Morocco), began her career creating Professional System, a data processing service company acquired later by the French group GFI and later renamed GFI-Maroc.
Kamal Ahmad
President and CEO of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation
Kamal Ahmad currently serves as the President and CEO of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation. Educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Ahmad has combined a career in private transactional law practice and international development.
Sung Joo Kim
Chairperson and CEO of Sung Joo Group & MCM Products AG
Sung-Joo Kim is the Founder of Sungjoo Group, which consists of Sungjoo International Ltd. (SJI), Sungjoo Merchandising Inc. (SMI) and Sungjoo Design Tech & Distribution Inc. (SDD). She is also Chairperson of MCM Products AG.
Galia Albin
CEO of Almedia Group
Galia Albin is one of Israel's most powerful women and her mission is to influence and empower other women throughout the world.
Agatha Ruiz De La Prada
Designer
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada (Madrid, 1960) begins her professional path in 1981 in Madrid presenting her first women collection at the Local, Design Centre.
Danica Purg
Dean and Director of the IEDC-BLED School of Management
Professor Danica Purg is the founding and current Dean and Director of the IEDC-BLED School of Management, Slovenia, and the founding President of the Central and East European Management Development Association (CEEMAN).
Antonella Nonino
Director of External Relations & Marketing of Nonino Distillery
Antonella Nonino, thirty-nine years old, follows her parents footsteps and works in the company with her sisters, Cristina and Elisabetta, and represents the fifth generation of distillers in the Nonino family, it can certainly be said that she was born "in the pomace".
Lynne Franks
Entrepreneur & lifestyle guru
Author, entrepreneur and lifestyle guru Lynne Franks has a communication reach that stretches across the world. As a high-profile business woman and founder of the SEED empowerment programmes for women, she is either featured in or writes for many of the UK's top publications, as well as regularly appearing in international media.
Roberto Artavia Loria
President, INCAE School of Business
Roberto Artavia Loria has been keynote speaker in more than 40 national or international conferences, on topics of competitiveness, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and social entrepreneurship in 16 countries including all the nations in Central America, U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Thailand and Croatia.
Xavier Leroux
Principal, McKinsey & Company
Xavier Leroux is a Principal in the Mexico City office of McKinsey & Company, which he joined as an associate in 1999. His practice focuses on serving clients in the oil and gas and the telecommunications sectors. He has also served several branches of the government sector in Mexico.
Rosemary Winters
Founder of Winters Media Consulting
Rosemary Winters is the founder and Executive Director of Winters Media Consulting a firm that specializes in providing consulting for publishing groups in the areas of integrated marketing programs in print, online and event coordination.
Ricardo Zisis Drinberg
Publisher & Editor of Harvard Business Review América Latina
Ricardo Zisis is the Publisher & Editor of Harvard Business Review América Latina. Besides being a seasoned business editor, Ricardo is also an entrepreneur himself. In 2002 he founded Impact Media, a publishing and education company which publishes Harvard Business Review in Latin America and develops conferences and executive education programs throughout the region.
