BBG Focus Group: Women in Business, 21st October

Event Date: Wed, 21st Oct 2015

Event Time: 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM

Venue: The Oberoi Dubai, Hall B

Location: Business Bay


Member Fee: 131 AED

Registration Closed

The BBG would like to thank members and guests for attending the successful launched of the Women in Business (WiB). For those who missed it please click on this link to hear the inspiring words from BBG UAE Alliances Director, Lubna Qassim, one of UAE’s high achieving Emirati women. As well as BBG’s UAE Alliances Director, Lubna is the Executive Vice President, Group Company Secretary and the General Counsel of Emirates NBD Bank (PJSC). 

The BBG Women in Business (WIB) focus group was formed with a primary aim to encourage and support women in all aspects of business and leadership. The plans for the group are:

* To provide support to a dynamic, diverse and ambitious group of women who are pursuing professional careers in business - building upon and diversifying from the existing strength of the BBG.

* To provide opportunities for networking and contact-building across the BBG membership - actively helping members to make the contacts that they want to make for business and personal professional growth.

* To provide relevant insights from influential and inspirational business leaders.

* To provide development opportunities for BBG members to help them to fulfil their aspirations in a competitive business marketplace.

* To support positive change initiatives and effective working policies for women in business.

* To embrace gender equality by making this group ‘inclusive’ and open for men and women to attend and actively contribute.


The WIB focus group would love to hear of ideas for topics and speakers from members. Please email BBG on [email protected] with your thoughts (for example discussions on UAE quotas for women on the board, the UAE Gender Balance Council, the challenges of finding Board-ready women, encouraging women to embrace careers in business alongside family commitments etc.)

Bio


Lubna Qassim is the Executive Vice President, Group Company Secretary and the General Counsel of Emirates NBD Bank (PJSC). She is also, at present, the first female EXCO member of Emirates NBD. Previously, Lubna has held positions as Director of the Department of Economic Legislations at the UAE Ministry of Economy and the Executive Director of the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Department at Dubai Economic Council; and was solely responsible of establishing the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Department at both these institutions. Prior to that, Lubna was at both the Dubai and London offices of Clifford Chance.


Lubna is the first UAE national to have worked at the World Bank as the Public Sector Consultant and at the House of Lords, Parliament of the UK. She was also elected and invited by the White House to participate at the US Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in April 2010. Lubna was selected by William Hague former United Kingdom’s First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for her leadership skills to participate in the Future International Leadership Programme which took place in London in October 2013.

With an advisory role, Lubna has worked with the local and federal Government on numerous local and federal economic legislations such as UAE Foreign Investment Law, UAE Companies Law, UAE Labour Law, UAE Commercial Agencies Law, UAE Industry Law, UAE Competition Law and laws and regulations regulating the real estate sector and at present working on policies to promote entrepreneurship in the UAE.

In 2012 she was nominated to sit on the UAE-US Economic Policy Dialogue Committee and be a Board member of the UAE Competitiveness Council. In 2008 she was elected by the Dubai Executive Council to be a member of the UAE Company Law Reform Committee and sat on the Strategic Steering Committee of the Ministry of Economy and was appointed to represent Dubai Government on the Legal Committee of the Ministry of Economy. Lubna is a fellow at Dubai School of Government and also sits on the Global Economic Symposium Fellows Advisory Committee of the Kiel University of the World Economy and a member of the Advisory Committee of Dubai Women’s Establishment.

In 2011 she was elected to sit on the Boards of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI) and Injaz UAE Foundation. Lubna was also the first national to sit on the Committee of the British Business Group in Dubai and Northern Emirates in 2009 and in 2013 the British Business Group of Abu Dhabi as the UAE Alliances Director. 



Women in Business Focus Group
Co-chaired by: Clair Hattle and Susie Isaacson
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