Women On The Front Lines - WOFL 2018
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
Beirut, Lebanon
8:30 | Registration
9:30 | Opening Ceremony: Master of Ceremony: Rania Ziade Achkar, MTV Senior Anchor
Welcome Notes:
- Dr. May Chidiac, Founder & President of the MCF-MI
- Patronage Note
Report MCF
10:00 - 10:50 : Panel 1: Women Diplomats: Engaging Women in Political Leadership
- H.E Pernille Dahler Kardel , UN Under Secretary General and Special Coordinator to Lebanon
- H.E Monika Schmutz Kirgöz, Ambassador of Switzerland to Lebanon
- H.E Emmanuelle Lamoureux, Ambassador of Canada to Lebanon
- H.E Christina Lassen, EU Ambassador, Head of Delegation to Lebanon
Moderator : Dr. Nassif Hitti, Former Arab League Ambassador to France, UNESCO, Italy & the Holy See - Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies (Lebanon)
10:50- 11:40 : Fireside Talk : including Q&A via Skype
- Mrs. Rula Ghani, First Lady of Afghanistan (Afghanistan)
Moderator: Tania Mehanna, Independent Journalist, Former News Reporter at LBCI (Lebanon)
11:40 - 12:25 : Panel 2 : Women in Policy Making
- Hazar Caracalla, Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister (Lebanon)
- Dr. Chantal Sarkis, Secretary General of the Lebanese Forces Party (Lebanon)
Moderator: Rabih Chaer, Senior Associate at Alem & Associate Law Firm (Lebanon)
12:25 - 12:40 : Coffee Break
12:40 - 13:10 : Fireside Talk
- Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, Director Emerita, and Public Policy Scholar at the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (USA-Iran)
Moderator: Dr. Sami Nader, Director of Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs (Lebanon)
13:10 - 14:00 : Panel 3: Women in Business and Entrepreneurship
- Neila Benzina, CEO Business & Decision Middle East & Africa (Tunis)
- Sarah Beydoun, CEO & Founder of Sarah’s Bag (Lebanon)
- Rama Chakaki, Founder & CEO of BarakaBits (US-Lebanon)
- Thea Myhrvold, CEO and Founder of EdTech Solutions and TeachMeNow.com (UK)
Moderator: Dr. Fouad Zmokhol, President, Association of Lebanese Business People in the World, RDCL World - Lebanon
14:00 - 14:10 - Presentation: Tania Moussallem, Assistant General Manager BLC Bank (Lebanon)
14:10 - 15:00 Standing Business Lunch
15:00 - 15:20 : Presentation:
- Monique Villa, CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation, Founder of TrustLaw, and Trust Conference. (France)
15:20 - 16:10 : Panel 4: Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery:
- Annie Kelly: Editor of The Guardian’s Modern Slavery in Focus Reporting Project; Journalist on the Global Development Desk (UK)
- Barbie Latza Nadeau: Author “Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast”, CNN contributor, Rome Bureau Chief, Newsweek - The Daily Beast (USA-Italy)
- Dame Julie Okah-Donli: Director General, NAPTIP, Nigeria (Nigeria)
- Princess Okokon: Former victim of human Trafficking (Nigeria)
Moderator: Sam Koplewicz, Harvard Human Rights Satter Fellow (USA)
16:10 - 17:10 : Panel 5: Power of Celebrities and their Influence in Society
- Kinda Allouch, Actress (Syria)
- Nelly Karim, Actress (Egypt)
- Saba Moubarak, Actress/Producer (Jordan)
- Nadine Njeim, Actress (Lebanon)
Moderator: Antoine Khalifeh, Director of Arab Program at the International Dubai Film Festival (Lebanon)