Jury
Jury
The Jury for the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards is composed of 30 high-profile individuals and is divided in 6 regional juries. They are chosen on the basis of their entrepreneurial experience, their business achievements and their commitment to supporting women entrepreneurs. They play a key role in reviewing the candidates’ applications and selecting the finalists and laureates during the Awards competition. The jury members then give feedback to the laureate and finalists and thereafter provide additional support and connections to the entrepreneurs.
Read about the jury members by clicking on their profiles below.
Latin America
Julio Noriega Cabrerizo
PERU
Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer at Grupo El Comercio, Director of Business Unit in Education and Entertainment, and Member of Corporate Investment and Digital Committees
North America
K. Shelly Porges
UNITED STATES
Serial Entrepreneur, Investor and Global Entrepreneurship Advocate & Managing Director, Reservoir Q Global LLC
Nell Merlino
UNITED STATES
Founder of Count-Me-In for Women's Economic Independence. Chair for the Personal Data Independence Trust at Personal BlackBox.
Europe
John Dickinson
FRANCE
Founder of Financial Networking and Chief Corporate Development Officer of Gene Signal
Filipe Castro Soeiro
PORTUGAL
Senior International Professor and Researcher at Laureate International Universities
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigest Haile
ETHIOPIA
Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Accelerated Women's Economic Empowerment (CAWEE)
Oulimata Sarr
SENEGAL
Regional Advisor Women Economic Empowerment UN Women, Founding Member and Gender Champion of Africa2.0
Middle East & North Africa
Asia-Pacific
Joy Sohn
SOUTH KOREA
Center for Scholarship Development Communications Director & Research Professor at the State University of New York, Korea
