Speakers
International Colloquium
  Empowering Women in Engineering  and  Technology
 

 

Opening Session Speakers

 

Kamel Ayadi

kayadi@wfeo.org

Mr. Kamel Ayadi served as a Secretary of State in the Tunisian government from 2004 to 2006. .He served as President of the Tunisian National Authority of Regulation of Telecommunications from 2001 to 2004. After having served in leadership positions in numerous engineering societies, he was elected in October 2003 as the president-Elect of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations and became President in October 2005. Since 1999, he has also been Vice President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and President of WFEO's Committee on Information and Communication. He is an expert in information and communication technologies (ICT) and in particular, the regulatory issues of ICT. He is a member of the Strategy Council of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT Development. He is also a member of the United Nations Task Force for Science and Innovation. He has been closely involved several UN global events such as the World Summit on the Information Society. He has organised more than 10 international events within the frame work of the WSIS and was elected in 2002 as a member of the WSIS Civil Society Bureau representing the Science and technology family. He carried out several international studies on telecommunication pricing .As the president of the regulatory authority he settled several disputes between telecommunications operators.
Kamel Ayadi was formerly Head of the International Cooperation Department at the Waste Water Department (ONAS) and Director of Technical Cooperation at ONAS. He served as President of the Tunisian Order of Engineers from 1998-2002 and as Secretary-General from 1990-1998. He wrote and authored more than 50 papers in several issues ,particularly ICT,science and technology ,education ,capacity building etc. He has organized, and lectured in, more than 60 congresses and conferences on ICT and environment issues. He holds a civil engineering degree from the Tunisian High Institute of Engineers and a post graduate degree in law from the Tunisian University of Law. He was born in 1960.

 

Claudia J. Morrell

Executive Director: C W I T-   cmorrell@umbc.edu

Claudia Morrell is the executive director of the Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).  Under her leadership, the Center’s programs and resources have expanded dramatically, including the development of a CWIT Scholars program which retains 94% of its students; increased funding of $8 million in scholarships, research, and program funding to support girls’ and women’s participation and advancement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers in education and industry; and the expansion of personnel from two to forty-one staff, students, teachers, and faculty.  She also served as the executive producer for an international award-winning women and technology video entitled, You Can Be Anything.  Ms. Morrell effectively maintains an active 25-member advisory board with CEOs, CIOs, and high level executive women and men representing business, education and government leadership across the U.S.  Currently she is directing several major initiatives that will increase the participation of girls and women in IT, from middle school through the college and university to the workforce and technology entrepreneurship.  Ms Morrell was instrumental in drafting legislation that was signed in to law on May 26, 2004 that established the first statewide Governor’s Taskforce on the Status of Women and IT.  She served as co-chair of the Taskforce that recently released the highly endorsed Report entitled, In the Center of the Storm: Addressing the Challenges of Maryland’s Tightening IT Labor Market.  The Center’s award-winning website, www.umbc.edu/cwit, is recognized internationally as “the best resource for women and IT on the web.” In 2006, Ms. Morrell was recognized by the Daily Record, the region’s business-focused newspaper, as one of the 100 top women in Maryland. 
Ms. Morrell speaks at state, national and international events, including recent presentations at the United Nations and World Bank.  She serves on the Champion’s Network of the UN Global Alliance for ICT for Development.  CWIT hosted the first International Symposium on Women and ICTs in June 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland that established the International Taskforce on Women and ICTs.  She also led a second international meeting of world experts on this topic by invitation only at UNESCO in Paris, France in November 2006.  With CWIT serving as the secretariat, the International Taskforce on Women and ICTs has been recognized as a Community of Expertise by the UNGAID and has been asked to lead the Global Colloquium on Women and Technology in Tunis in June 2007 and one of the three focuses (gender and ICT4D) at the Global Knowledge Partnership Conference in December 2007.
Claudia Morrell received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Arts degree from Loyola College of Maryland, and a Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  She lives in Maryland with her husband and three daughters.  Her eldest daughter recently completed a computer science degree and is working in the field.

 

 

Barry Grear

WFEO President Elect: bjgrear@netadvantage.com.au

Barry is an Electrical Engineer with a long experience in Government Executive positions covering many appointments related to the built environment. As a past National President of Engineers Australia he has had extensive experience in Professional engineering requirements for graduates and practicing engineers. Barry was the inaugural Chair of the APEC Engineer Coordinating Committee and is the current Chair of the Australian Monitoring Committee for APEC (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation) and EMF.

Barry has been active in the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) and the Federation of Engineering Institutions of South East Asia and the Pacific (FEISEAP) for more than a decade. Following active involvement in three Standing Committees, at the General Assembly of WFEO in 1999 Barry was elected as a National Member on the Executive Committee, in 2001 was elected as a WFEO Vice President, and in November 2006 Barry was elected as the President Elect of WFEO.
 

 

Ellen Sauerbrey

    US Assistant Secretary of State

    Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

Ellen Sauerbrey became Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees,   and   Migration in January, 2006.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration provides protection, assistance,     and sustainable solutions for refugees and victims of conflict, and advances U.S. population and migration policies.
Mrs. Sauerbrey formerly served as U.S. Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. In that capacity, she headed the U.S. delegation to the Baltic Sea Conference on Women and Democracy in Estonia and spoke at numerous international women’s conferences. She represented the U.S. at the 2003 World Family Policy Forum in Provo, Utah, the International Congress on the Family in Mexico City and World Family Congress III. She also held conferences on family issues in Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica, and led the U.S. delegation to the 2004 Ninth Annual Conference of Women in Latin America. She has also undertaken international missions to train women on the nuts and bolts of political campaigns and democracy building.
President Bush also appointed Mrs. Sauerbrey to represent the United States at the March/April 2001 session of the UN Commission on Human Rights and to the U.S. delegations to the 2002 and 2003 substantive sessions of the Economic and Social Council and the UN General Assembly. During the 2003 session of the General Assembly, she led the negotiations that culminated in the successful adoption of the U.S.-proposed resolution on Women and Political Participation, with 110 co-sponsors.
Mrs. Sauerbrey has served as the Minority Leader of the Maryland House of Delegates and was the 1994 and 1998 Republican nominee for Governor of Maryland. A former teacher, she was elected to represent her northern Maryland district in the Maryland Legislature from 1978-1994, and served as Minority Leader from 1986-1994. An expert in economic, budget, and fiscal issues, she served on the Economic Matters, Ways and Means, and Appropriations Committees, among others.
From 1990-1991, Mrs. Sauerbrey was National Chairman of the American Legislative Exchange Council, the largest voluntary membership organization of state legislators. As chairman, she launched Project Freedom, to promote ideals of personal and economic freedom in emerging democracies.
Mrs. Sauerbrey was born and raised in Baltimore. She graduated summa cum laude from Western Maryland College.

 

Keynote  Speakers

  

Claudine Hermann

claudine.hermann@polytechnique.edu

Claudine Hermann (born 1945) is retired Professor of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique, the most renowned French engineering school. Her research domain was optics of solids. She is alumna of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles and her PhD (1976) is in solid state physics. She was the first woman ever appointed Professor at Ecole Polytechnique (1992).
 Since then, in parallel with her activities in physics, she has been studying the situation of women scientists in Western Europe and promoting science for girls, by papers and conferences, in France and abroad. She has worked in team for many years with the late Huguette Delavault, a retired Mathematics Professor at Paris University. She was a member of the expert group that produced the so called 'ETAN report' ('Science policies in the European Union : Promoting excellence thourhg mainstreaming gender equality') of the Directorate General Research of the European Commission on women in research in academia in Western Europe (2000). She was one of the two French members of the group of civil servants on Women and Science at DG Research  (Helsinki group) (1999-2005). She is a member of the Board of Administration of the European Platform of Women Scientists.
She is a co-founder and the first president of the association Femmes et Sciences (French Women and Science association), she is now the vice-president of the association.
She is a member of the Board of administration of the EADS Foundation and a member of the Scientific Board of the Science Museum La Villette (Paris).
She is the author of 80 referred papers in Physics and 30 in the field of Women and Science. She is frequently giving conferences, in France and abroad, on the scientific and technical education of girls and on the situation of women scientists, in Europe and in France.
She is married, mother of three sons, and grand-mother of three grand-sons and a grand-daughter.

 

Johanna M.H. Levelt Sengers

                                                                johanna.sengers@nist.gov

Johanna M.H. Levelt was born in the Netherlands, where she obtained her doctorate in physics at the University of Amsterdam in 1959.  In 1963, she and her husband Jan Sengers emigrated to the United States, where they assumed research positions at the National Bureau of Standards, presently the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She became a US citizen in 1977. At NIST, Levelt Sengers and her collaborators have worked on the thermophysical properties of fluids and fluid mixtures, particularly near critical points, both for scientific and practical applications.  She was a Group Leader in the Thermophysics Division from 1979 to 1987.  She was elected a NIST Fellow in 1985.  Since her retirement in 1995, she has been a Scientist Emeritus in the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory at NIST.  She and her husband raised two sons, one of whom an electrical engineer, and two daughters, one of whom an assistant professor of information science. 
Levelt Sengers is a recipient of the US Department of Commerce Silver and Gold Medals.  She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was an Alexander von Humboldt researcher at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany in 1991.  She holds an honorary doctorate of the Technical University Delft, Netherlands, 1992.   She was the North American Laureate of the 2003 L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.  She serves on the jury for the L’Oréal USA Fellowships awards for women postdoctoral researchers. She won the ASME’s Yeram S. Touloukian Award in 2006.  
Levelt Sengers recently co-chaired the advisory panel “Women for Science” of the InterAcademy Council. The panel’s report (June 2006, www.interacademycouncil.net) advises the world’s science academies on including women in science, engineering and technology.  The InterAcademy Panel, encompassing all science academies in the world, has begun with implementation of the report’s recommendations.

 

  

Karima Bounemra Ben Soltane

 

                               kbounemra@uneca.org

Since August 2004, Mrs. Karima Bounemra Ben Soltane has been the Director of the Office for North Africa of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), United Nations, based in Morocco. The overall objective of the Office is to promote the harmonization of national policies in various sectors of the economic and social development in support of integration efforts towards the consolidation of regional economic communities (RECs).
From May 1997 to August 2004, Mrs. Bounemra Ben Soltane was the Director of the Development Information Services Division at ECA, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, responsible for “Harnessing Information for Development”. DISD programme aims at promoting the use of knowledge and Information and Communication Technologies for Africa’s economic and social development. Among her various achievements, she has been coordinating the realisation of the objectives of the AISI (African Information Society Initiative), supporting African member States efforts to formulate ICT policies and implement corresponding actions plans. This recently culminated in a very good participation of African countries in the first phase of the WSIS (World Summit on Information Society) and their commitment to an improved contribution to the second phase (Tunis 2005). She consolidated a network of partners interested in ICT in Africa and mobilised technical and financial resources needed to move the AISI agenda forward.
Before, she was the Director General of IRSIT (Institut Régional des Sciences Informatiques et des Télécommunications), the Tunisian research and development centre on information and communication technology, where she had executive responsibilities for ICT and computer science policy, planning, technical implementation, research and staff management.
She was involved in national and international activities relating to scientific research and ICT. During that period, she participated in several committees responsible for the design of national and regional policies in the area of telecommunication and informatics. She also served as advisor to the European Commission for the selection of ICT research proposals.
From 1992 to 1995 she was Director of IRSIT's Department of Telecommunications and Networks responsible for multimedia, network management, and standardisation.
She was also selected as a member of the high-level Working Group that was established at the request of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Conference of Ministers to prepare the Africa Information Society Initiative. This initiative set out the blueprint for Africa's entry to the information age and the use of information technology for development. AISI forms the basis for ECA's work programme in information and communication technology.
Mrs. Bounemra Ben Soltane participated in initiatives to develop bilingual ICT tools, to set up a national research and technology network. She taught ‘Computer Netwoking’ and supervised various multimedia and telecommunications research and development projects.
She was chairperson of the Tunisian technical committee for standardisation on information technology issues.
Before that, she was an international expert in ICT standardisation. She also chaired an expert group on Information technology and network management in AFNOR (the French standardisation organisation) and represented the organisation to international bodies.
Mrs. Bounemra Ben Soltane is a published author and member of numerous professional organisations on telematics and information technology. She earned a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI - France) and a Computer System Design Engineering degree from the University of Tunis (Faculté des Sciences de Tunis).
 

 

Julie Hammer

JULIE HAMMER AM, CSC, FIEAust, EngExec, FRAeS, GAICD


National Deputy President, Engineers Australia
Chair, Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management

Air Vice-Marshal Julie Hammer, an electronics engineer, served in the Royal Australian Air Force for over 28 years in the fields of aircraft maintenance, technical intelligence, electronic warfare, and information and communications technology (ICT) systems. She was the Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy during 2002 and 2003. At the time of her transfer to the Reserve in August 2005, she was the most senior woman in the Australian Defence Force.
She was the first serving woman to achieve One Star rank in 1999 and is the only  woman in the history of the Australian Defence Force to have achieved Two Star rank. She holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics, a Masters degree in Aerosystems Engineering and a Graduate Diploma in Strategic Studies.
Julie was the first woman to command an operational unit in the RAAF, the Electronic Warfare Squadron, and was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross for that command. She served for three years from 1996 to 1998 as one of the Prime Minister’s representatives on the Governor General’s Australian Bravery Awards Council. She was awarded the 2001 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial Medal by the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 2002, she was appointed by the Government to be one of Australia’s Honouring Women Ambassadors. The University of Queensland named her the 2003 Alumnus of the Year and she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2004 Australia Day Honours List. She was the 2005 ACT Australian of the Year.
Within EA, Julie was one of the inaugural Board Members of the Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management (CELM) and took over as Chair of the CELM Board in November 2005. She has led the development of advanced competencies for leadership, management and business skills. She is the National Deputy President for Engineers Australia in 2007. julie.hammer@bigpond.com

  

Plenary Speakers

 

Lueny Morell

              Hewlett Packard Company   -               lueny.morell@hp.com 

Lueny is Director of University Relations for Latin America for Hewlett Packard Company responsible for developing and strengthening HP’s ties to a select number of institutions in Latin America. Current coverage countries include: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Uruguay, with activities in other countries in the region. Her job is to engage with the higher education community and leading academic institutions in many ways, from research interaction and student recruitment, to customer and government relationships and policy advocacy. Her responsibilities include extend the reach of Labs through programs that organize engagement with the external research community in alignment with HP technology strategies; broaden funding opportunities through public/private partnerships, participate in major sales efforts to build HP business and brand, and facilitate access to top talent in key growth areas; partner with industry, government and academia to improve collaboration, accelerate knowledge transfer, and foster capacity-building in support of economic development; and, work with leading research institutions and education organizations around the world to drive innovation, quality assurance and diversity in engineering-and-science education.
Before joining HP in 2002, Lueny had a 24 year career at the University of Puerto Rico, holding various positions at the Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) as well as at the system level. A full professor of Chemical Engineering, during her tenure at UPRM she was Director of UPRM’s Research & Development Center, elected member to the Academic Senate and Administrative Board, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and the Dean of Engineering in charge of strategic alliances, new educational initiatives and outcomes assessment, including coordinating the ABET 2000 accreditation responsibilities. At the UPR system, Lueny was part of the staff of the Vice President of the University of Puerto Rico System, coordinating the implementation of a UPR system-wide institutional research function, and Director of the Curriculum Innovation Center of the Puerto Rico Alliance for Minority Participation (PR-AMP) Project. Lueny was also Project Director for various NASA and NSF multidisciplinary curriculum innovation grants involving strong industry partnerships. A licensed professional engineer, and certified ABET evaluator, she has done professional consulting work and is member of various professional and honor societies, among them Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Alpha Delta Kappa, ASEE and AICHE. A founding member of the Puerto Rico TechnoEconomic Corridor, a multi sectorial initiative to foster economic development based on high technology, she is member of the following local, national and international advisory boards: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo CoE Advisory Board, Worcester Polytechnic Board of Trustees, the Southern States Technology Board (appointed by the PR Secretary of Economic Development), Northeastern University’s NSF-sponsored Connections Project. More recently Lueny has provided leadership in Puerto Rico in the Island’s quest for a knowledge based economy creating the island’s Science and Technology Trust Fund which provides funds to sponsor competitive R&D in CIT and Life-sciences for universities and corporations. She is co-founder and member the Engineer of the Americas Task Force, a group leading quality assurance and mobility of professionals in the Americas, and selected to participate in developing the engineering action agenda for the US by National Academy of Engineering.
With over 45 scientific and education papers, Lueny is a member of the Capacity Building Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies, the US NSF International Advisory Committee for Science and Engineering, the Pan American Academy of Engineering, the Women in Engineering Programs Advocates Network (WEPAN) Board of Directors and has received various honors during her academic career, including the prestigious Bernard M. Gordon Prize for innovation in engineering and technology education given by US National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

  

Barbara Waugh, Ph.D

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barbara.waugh@hp.com

 

 

Barbara Waugh is the author of The Soul in the Computer: the Story of a Corporate Revolutionary.  A longtime radical activist, she joined Hewlett-Packard 24 years ago, and used her successive positions as company recruiting manager, and personnel director and worldwide change manager for the renowned HP Labs to transform HP's corporate culture. Along the way she invented and discovered a set of "radical tools" for introducing practical change and energizing altruism at all levels of the organization.  The book has received enthusiastic reviews from Dow-Jones to Fast Company to the San Francisco Chronicle; and has been the subject of dozens of talk shows and interviews. It is now available online for free at  http://web.hpl.hp.com/personal/Barbara_Waugh/  
Barbara’s work has been featured in many publications on organizational change, including The Dance of Change; The Rebel Rules; The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, Surfing the Edge of Chaos; Fast Company, Business 2.0,  Strategy & Business and Fortune. In 2004, her work was featured in Fortune senior editor Marc Gunther’s Faith and Fortune; Lisa Marshall’s Speak the Truth and Point to Hope, and in the Stanford Innovation Review.  In 2005, her work will be a chapter in the Linkage/Jossey-Bass Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership; and she will be on the cover and featured in Business Ethics magazine.

 Determined from the beginning to put teeth into the idea of "doing well by doing good," Barbara developed HP’s breakthrough programs for women and minority recruiting, mentored outstanding people throughout HP, and received Management Legacy awards from both the HP Technical Women's Conference and the HP Deaf and Hard of Hearing Forum. She co-founded HP’s Sustainability Network, as well as e-inclusion, a business initiative and program to provide the four billion people at the bottom of the global economic pyramid access to the social and economic opportunities of technology. Barbara is currently a director for strategy and change in University Relations, and focuses on diversity challenges and opportunities in the US, and on engineering education for economic development in Africa.
Among her early accomplishments, Barbara wrote the first feminist newspaper column in the United States.  She directed the Center for Women and Religion of the Graduate Theological Union; directed a campus of Cogswell Technical College; taught English, German, Psychology, Sociology and Philosophy in various universities and colleges; and worked as a machinist, an Equal Rights investigator, an actress and a therapist. 
Barbara has a PhD in Psychology and Organizational Behavior from the Wright Institute in Berkeley (with honors), an MA in Theology and Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago (as a Danforth/Kent Fellow), and an MA in German Literature from Florida State University (Phi Beta Kappa).  She has served on the Board of Directors for the State of the World Forum, the Board of Directors for the Pacific Cultural Conservancy International, and the Board of Advisors for the Global Fund for Women. She is currently in the founders’ circle of Corporation 2020, on the Board of Advisors for Engineers for a Sustainable World, the Board of Advisors for the Global Women’s Leadership Center,
She lives with her family in Northern California.
 

 

Marina Larios

                                                     mlarios@inovaconsult.com

Marina Larios is President of WiTEC (European Association for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology) which is based in 13 countries across Europe and has been successfully working towards the promotion of and support for women in SET for the last 20 years. Marina is also Director of Inova Consultancy, an organisation providing consultancy services in the field of diversity and equal opportunities. Inova specialises in the field of gender and SET (Science, Engineering and Information Technology) and entrepreneurship, aiming to redress the imbalance of women in non-traditional courses and careers.
Marina has been a speaker at various international conferences presenting positive actions to increase the representation of women in SET, including recent presentations at the United Nations in New York. She is currently an advisor for the Cambridge Centre of Gender Studies, a consultant expert in European project management and evaluator of national and EU initiatives.  In addition she is Trustee of the South Yorkshire Women’s Development Trust and Co- Director of MEXWII- Mexican Women Inventors and Innovators.
Marina holds an MA Communication Studies and an MSc in Organisational Development and Consultancy, giving her a valuable insight in the implementation of change programmes and a sound knowledge of organisational culture. Her main research interests are mentoring, equal opportunities, diversity, intercultural programmes and the management of change.
 

 

Monique (Aubry) Frize

                                    President INWES  -    mfrize@connect.carleton.ca

Dr. Frize joined Carleton University, as a Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment at the University of Ottawa as a Professor in the School of Information  Technology and Engineering, in July 1997. She graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Electrical Engineering),  received an Athlone Fellowship and completed a Master's in Philosophy in Electrical  Engineering (Engineering in Medicine) at Imperial College of Science and Technology  in London (UK), a Master's of Business Administration at the Université  de Moncton (New Brunswick), and a doctorate from Erasmus Universiteit  in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Monique Frize worked as a clinical engineer for 18 years, and then as Professor in the Electrical Engineering Dept at the University of New Brunswick.
Monique Frize was the First Holder of the national Northern Telecom/NSERC Chair for women in engineering (1989-1997), then Ontario Chair (1997-2002). She Chaired the APEC Gender, Science and Technology Working Group (1997-2001). Monique Frize was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 1992 and as Officer of the Order of Canada in October 1993. She received five Honourary degrees and has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at Coventry University in the UK.  
 

 

Russel C. Jones

 RCJonesPE@aol.com

Russel Jones is a private consultant, working through World Expertise L.L.C. to offer services to a select clientele.      He  is Editor of the International Engineering Education Digest, a periodic electronic newsletter.
Prior to forming World Expertise L.L.C. as Managing Partner, he served as Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Engineers, an individual member society for the licensed professional engineer with offices in Alexandria VA.
Dr. Jones received his education at Carnegie Institute of Technology, earning degrees in civil engineering and materials science. Prior to returning to Carnegie for his doctoral study, he worked as a practicing civil engineer. He has spent much of his career as an educator, starting with engineering education and broadening to higher education as a whole. After completing his doctoral degree in 1963, he taught for eight years on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then served in a succession of administrative posts in higher education, for several years each: Chairman of Civil Engineering at Ohio State University, Dean of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Academic Vice President at Boston University, and President and University Research Professor at the University of Delaware.
Long active in the engineering profession, Dr. Jones has served as a national officer of the American Society of Civil Engineers, has chaired major task committees for such groups as the American Society for Engineering Education and the American Association of Engineering Societies, and has served as President of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. He was General Chairman for  the biannual meeting of the Pan American Association of Engineering Societies, and has served as Co-chairman of the UNESCO Steering Committee on Human Resources Development for Technical Industry Stimulation. Prior to becoming its Executive Director, Dr. Jones was active as a volunteer in the National Society of Professional Engineers, and served as President of its Delaware Engineering Society. He has been an elected member of the Council of the Delaware Association of Professional Engineers, the state PE registration board. He is licensed as a Professional Engineer in several states, and as a Euro Engineer with FEANI. He currently represents the American Society of Civil Engineers on the US National Commission for UNESCO.
Dr. Jones has been honored with the Collingwood Prize and the Friedman Professional Recognition Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and was elected to Honorary Member status in ASCE in 2004. He has been awarded the International Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Education of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, and has been honored as the Outstanding Delaware Engineer of the Year for 1994. Dr. Jones has been honored as the recipient of the 2005 Chair's Award of the American Association of Engineering Societies. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce. He was a Senior Fellow of the American Council on Education in 1988-90.
Currently, Dr. Jones is most active in consulting on the enhancement of engineering education in developing countries, and in chairing volunteer activities in that area. He is President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) Committee on Capacity Building, developing programs to build technical capacity in developing countries in order to stimulate economic development there. He is also Chair of the International Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and has recently served as President of the Committee on Engineering Education of the Pan American Union of Engineering Associations (UPADI).
 

 

Soukeina Bouraoui

Professor of Law at the Legal, Political and Social University of Tunis.    Doctoral thesis,   in 1982   she’s got the Civil law and criminal sciences aggregation.
 She  has  been,   from  1987  to  1991,   the  Manager  of  the  Civil  law  & criminal  sciences department,  and  put  in  place  an   “Environment  Diploma”  taken  before  completing  a PhD   on   ‘’Development  - Town  Planning’’  at  the  university,    which  is  a  pioneer  project  in  the  Arab  and  African  world.
She  had  founded  and   was  in  charge  of  the Center  of  Research,  Documentation  and  Information  on  Women  (CREDIF).  She  has  been,  as  well,  Chairman  of  the  Women  development  plan  committee  for  the  8th  plan  of   the  Tunisian  Economic  and  social  Development  plan.
At  the  moment,  she  is  the  Executive  Manager  of  the  “ Center  of  Arab  Women   for Training   and  Research ”   (CAWTAR).
She  had  teach  several  subjects  as :  Criminal  Law,  Criminal  politics,  Civil  law,  Environment  Law   and  Human  Rights,  She  had  made  several  studies  and  publications  of  which  many  of  them  were  relating  to  Environment  Law   and  Women  rights.
 Associated  lecturer  of  several   foreign  universities,  She  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of :    

  1. Tunisian Association of the Criminal Law, 

  2. International Association of Economic Law,

  3. International comparative Law of Environment Center

In  1997,  She  has  been  elected  as  Regional  Governor  of  the  International  Environment  Council.
Since 2000, she a member of the International Court of Environment Arbitration
 

  

Anny Joseph

    Anny Joseph:     Water Savings Specialist

    anntonette.joseph@deus.nsw.gov.au 

Anntonette Joseph is the Young Engineers Australia National Chair-elect with a membership base of almost 40,000 young engineers. She is also the Vice-Chair of the Australian Young Water Professionals. In 2005, Anny was recognised as one of Australia’s 30 Most Inspiring Young Engineers for her commitment to the young professional movement. She coordinated and was Conference Chair for the 1st National Summit of Young Engineers in Australia. Recently Anny has represented young engineers in Chicago at the World Federation of Engineering Organisations Executive meetings and as a representative in Malaysia for the Asian Federation of Engineering Organisations.
 Anny is a Water Savings Specialist at the Department of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability. She works with high water users in Sydney to facilitate the completion of Water Saving Action Plans and technically assess these Plans against Government Guidelines. She is also part of the funding team that reviews applications into the $120 Million State Government Water Savings Fund for Sydney and the Central Coast.
On a lighter note, Anny is a passionate space enthusiast taking on leadership positions in the space community in Australia and overseas and is currently the National President for the National Space Society of Australia as well as the Financial Director for the organisation. She has the long term dream of becoming a space traveller (most likely as a tourist!) and has attended significant events in the United States. You are most likely to find Anny in a pub singing and dancing or debating the latest rugby union game, of which she is a proud supporter of the Wallabies and Springboks.
 

  

 

Breakout Sessions  Speakers

 

Raoudha Ben Othman
Raoudha Ben Othman is lecturing linguistics and technology at the university of Tunis. I have been carrying research on the students' perception of learning, teaching, research and careers. This research I am using for my presentation is investigating where the students' self and other images come from. The overall aims of this research is to pave the way for a thoughtful decision making when it comes to enhancing the quality of education at the Tunision universities.  R.benothman@fshst.rnu.tn

 

Carola Blazquez

Dr. Carola Blazquez received her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria in Valparaiso, Chile (1996). She earned a M.S. degree (1998) in Construction and Engineering Management and a Ph.D. degree (2005) in GeoSpatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In 2006, Dr. Blazquez joined the Engineering Science Department faculty at the Universidad Andres Bello located in Santiago, Chile and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Her research interests include Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Spatial Database Management, GIS for Transportation (GIS-T), and Web-Based Mapping Applications. In recognition of her research, Dr. Blazquez won the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development Competition for a three-year period (2007-2009) awarded by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research Institution, which belongs to the Education Ministry of the Chilean Government.
Dr. (c) Pamela Alvarez earned her undergraduate degree in Forest Engineering from the Universidad de Chile, Chile in 2000. Currently, she is finishing her doctoral degree in Operations Research at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Dr. (c) Alvarez joined the Universidad Andres Bello faculty in the Engineering Science Department in 2005. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to Operations Research. Among her research interests are Supply Chain Management, Optimization, Integer Programing, and Robust Optimization. cblazquez@unab.cl

 

Carla Giovana Cabral

Carla Giovana Cabral is journalist, have master degree in Brazilian Literature and doctorate in Scientific and Technological Education. She works with researches respect gender, science and technology and scientific journalism. Last five years, she writed papers about women and technology in Brazil and Engineering (scientific journalism). Member of a editorial council of "Gender and Technology Notebook", Carla collaborate like researcher in Technology Education Studies and Researches Group (NEPET/UFSC).  carla@ctc.ufsc.br

 

Peggy Layne

Peggy Layne is currently the Advance Program Director at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Prior to accepting her current position, Ms. Layne worked as a diversity consultant for the American Association of Engineering Societies and as director of the program on diversity in the engineering workforce at the National Academy of Engineering. Ms. Layne has degrees in environmental and water resources engineering from Vanderbilt University and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. She spent 17 years as a consulting engineer with several firms, and was formerly a principal at Harding Lawson Associates in Tallahassee, FL, where she managed the office and directed hazardous waste site investigation and cleanup projects. She served aspresident of the Society of Women Engineers in 1996-97 and is currently chair of the editorial board of SWE magazine. She is also an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, currently chairing the Committee on Communications and the National Energy, Environment, and Water Policy Committee. She is a registered professional engineer.

 

Veronica Hisado
Veronica Hisado
- M.Sc. Telecommunications Engineering and M.Sc. Mathematics Polytechnical University of Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain (2005)
-  Presently Gender Consultant :
o Assessment and guidance in Equality policy for SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises). 
o Training,  report developing and assessment in Gender and Equality Policy.
-  Gender and ICT expert at UN-INSTRAW (United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women) in 2005-2006
-  Member of Engineering without Borders Catalunya (EWB).  Wide experience in Human Development cooperation projects in South America and India.  veronica.artau@coac.cat

 

Nadia Ghazzali

Dr. Nadia Ghazzali is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université Laval Québec. Her research program deals with discriminant analysis and classification methods for modelling and characterizing, for recognition purposes, large databases derived from the fields of signal processing and shape recognition. Dr. Ghazzali has held a variety of administrative offices at Université Laval, including Director of the Undergraduate Program in Statistics, Vice-Dean for Research and Development in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Assistant to the Vice-President for Research, and Associate Vice-President for Research. She currently holds the NSERC/Industry Chair for Women in Science and Engineering in Quebec. She is also member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technology of Morocco, and the recipient of the Quebec Arabic Women Trophy in teaching and research.  Nadia.Ghazzali@mat.ulaval.ca

 

Olga Loffredi

CEO for Landmark Education Business Development (LEBD) in Latin America, responsible for the star-up of the operation, design and implementation of corporate initiatives.
Has developed her career focusing on the creation of alignment and commitment among executives, managers and staff. Has a significant experience in supporting corporations in the creation of their goals and in dealing with cultural change and differences. Has led large-scale initiatives with federal and state governments in the areas of education, public administration, and auditing. In the private sector, her work has focused on privatization processes as well as the cultural transformation required by global competition, mergers, and productivity gains.
Olga is fluent in five languages and holds a Ph.D. in learning psychology from the University of Minnesota. She was a full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Large experience as a corporate Senior executive officer for Johnson’s Wax, Lojas Americanas S.A. and The Coca-Cola Co.Coach for senior executives in large Latin American operations.
Guest – lecturer both at universities regular and executive programs and corporate meetings.

 

Issie Gueye

MS Gueye holds actually the position of Chargée de Mission at CIE ( the electric power utility company of Cote d'Ivoire).
Working for 24 years in the electric power utility companies of Cote d'Ivoire , she has gotten extensive experience in Power systems planning and operations, rural electrification ,control and auditing as well in total quality, working for various projects and in different departments.
Ms Gueye is president of Synergy for women emerging and leadership (SELF) and is representant of the Ivorian Federation of Engineers for WFEO.
Finally, MS Gueye is co-founder of the association "20000 women for a bank" which run a micro-credit structure actually working in Abidjan . guguisis@yahoo.fr/cifisats@yahoo.fr

 

Monique Moutaud



Monique Moutaud spent her whole career at the international bank Société Générale during 36 years. During her most recent position, she was in charge of the Information System Strategic research at the corporate level after carrying out duties in International export finance, Information system management on strategic data bases of the bank.
She is an alumna of the Ecole Polytechnique Feminine (EPF), a famous French engineering school which hosted only women until 1995.

In parallel to her career, she has always been active in the promotion of women engineers in the society and she had different responsibilities in the French Engineering World:
- She was President of the association of EPF alumnae from 1992 to 1996 and was involved in the board of this engineering school during this period ; from 1998 to 2006, she was an executive member of the EPF board.
- She was member of the board of CNISF (Conseil National des ingenieurs et scientifiques de France) which is the Federation of all associations of engineering school alumnae at the national level from 1995 to 2001
- In 2001, she became President of the French Association of Women engineers named FI until 2007
- In 2005, she was nominated by INWES (International Network of women engineers and scientists) as the Chair of the 14th international conference of ICWES which will be held in France in 2008.
During her whole professional life, she has been investing a lot of time to promote the engineering careers in high schools and to develop more women engineers in decision making positions in different organizations.
Her motto is: “to be present each time the women engineers community appear as a minority” in engineers communities as well as in the professional world.  mmoutaud@yahoo.fr
 

 

Suzelle Barrington


President, Canadian Memorial Engineering Foundation Canada

Department of Bioresource Engineering, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Quebec

Professor Barrington is fluent in French and English and speaks some Spanish, as well. She is from the Cornwall area of Ontario where she helped manage the family farm (250 acres with a herd of 100 Holstein cattle). She then worked as a consultant for 11 years before joining the Faculty. She has nearly 30 years of work experience, during which she attained the following notable distinctions:

  • First and third woman in Quebec and Canada, respectively, to obtain a BSc in Agricultural Engineering.
  • First woman in Canada to obtain a PhD and to become a university professor in Agricultural Engineering.
  • Third woman in Québec to be hired as a university professor in Engineering.
  • First woman to be elected President of the Canadian Society of Agricultural Engineering in 1996.
     

Research interests: Dr Barrington has extensive field experience in waste management, environmental impact, renewable resource management, structures, soil conservation, and drainage. Her present research interests are centered on organic waste storage and treatment, heavy metal mobility in soils and plants, bioremediation, nutrient displacement and transformation in soils, and odour control and measurement.
Courses: Surveying, Planning Structures, Organic Waste Management, Structural Design, Bio Systems Engineering Project , Biological Treatment for Organic Wastes,  Climate Control for Structures, Ventilation of Agricultural Structures.     barrington@macdonald.mcgill.ca

 

Sylvie Béland

Sylvie Béland est présentement détachée de l'Agence spatiale canadienne aux  Affaires étrangères où elle occupe le poste de Conseiller aux Affaires spatiales à l'Ambassade du Canada à Paris. Elle est la représentante permanente canadienne auprès de l'Agence spatiale européene. Dr Béland a gradué avec un baccalauréat, une maîtrise et un doctorat en génie mécanique de l'Université de Sherbrooke. Elle a travaillé comme chercheure scientifique au Conseil national de recherches du Canada pendant une dizaine d'années puis a joint l'Agence spatiale canadienne où elle a occupé différents postes: ingénieur d'intégration, gestionnaire des systèmes de vol et de lancement, gestionnaires des relations internationales et Conseillère au Vice- Président des Sciences, Technologies et Programmes. Dr Béland a également contribué à la création du Comité des femmes en sciences, technologie et gestion de l'Agence spatiale canadienne.

 

Carlien  Dorcas Bou-Chedid

Carlien Dorcas Bou-Chedid is a Civil Engineer with 22 years of experience covering a wide breadth of activities including the design, supervision of construction and management of engineering projects and the design and implementation of training programs for engineers and non-engineers. She also has specialist knowledge of Earthquake Engineering and has authored technical papers on the subject.
She holds an MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, UK and a BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering from the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. She is also a Fellow of the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE)
Carlien currently serves as the Ag Executive Secretary of the GhIE. She worked as a Consulting Engineer with CBC Consult, a Director, Education and Training with the Ghana Institution of Engineers, a Structural Engineer with the Architectural and Engineering Services Corporation (AESC), and a Software Developer in the University of Surrey, UK.. Carlien has served on a number of Boards and Councils of engineering organisations in Ghana . carlien@idngh.com

 

Santibanez Claudio
Born in Santiago of Chile (1968), at the age of 3 travelled to Montevideo, Uruguay where his father worked for UNDP for 6 years. Back in Chile, he finished his primary and secondary education. He pursued undergraduate studies in Economics at Universidad de Chile and graduate studies in Economics at University of Cambridge, specialising in welfare and development economics. He has worked in academic and governmental positions, collaborating in several projects, research and policy making decisions on issues on poverty, inequality and social policies, among others. He has specialised in topics of poverty and social protection policies, conducting some novel improvements in governmental framework against poverty while acting as Director of the Social Division of the Ministry of Planning of Chile and advising governments of the region in their social policies, poverty reduction and social protection strategies. He has gained experience in advising governments with different levels of political, institutional and economic framework. He is used to discuss with governmental officials, researchers and authorities of different countries, private sector, political representatives and other social actors to make possible agreements and initiatives toward concrete economic and social goals: including negotiations of loans for technical assistance projects, negotiation of yearly . claudiosan@iadb.org

 

Cecilia Castaño

Cecilia Castaño
-Full Professor of Applied Economics at Complutense University of Madrid
-Director of Research Program on The Women and the Information and Communication Technologies, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona.
-Member of the Scientific Committee of Open University of Catalonia
-Member of the Advisor Committee of the Complutense University of Madrid.
-Teaching in both Undergraduate and Graduate Programs
-Co-Director of a PhD Program in Gender Perspective in Social Science
-Director of a Master Program on Gender Equality
-Research interest include technical change and its economic and social effects, especially the labour market effects of the knowledge-based society from a gender perspective. Author of Tecnología, empleo y trabajo en España (Technology, Employment and Work) and Las mujeres y las tecnologías de la información. Internet y la trama de nuestras vidas (Women and Information Technologies. Internet and the Fabric of Women’s Lives). veronica.artau@coac.cat 

 

Margarita Artal

-Graduated in Pedagogy, majored in Educational and Professional Orientation from the University of Barcelona.
-Master´s Degree in University Management and Policies
-Expert in Equal Opportunity Policies
-Expert in development and management of projects at European level aimed to improving equal opportunity among men and women in many educational and professional areas
-Wide variety of experience over 10 past years in the field of equal opportunity as Director of the Women´s Program at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC)
-Presently Director of CIREM-Barcelona ( Foundation Center for European initiatives and research in the Mediterranea )
-Member of the Research Program on Women and the Information and Communication Technologies, Open University Catalonia (UOC).
-Several publications (books and articles) about equal opportunities and participation in different seminars and workshops related to Gender Equality.

 

André Beraud
-Doctorat in French Litterature
-Professeur agrégé Docteur à l’INSA until 2005
-Scientific coordinator of WOMENG (European research project, 5th PCRD - 2002-2005)
-Presently Researcher and Networking manager for ECEPIE (Egalité des Chances dans les Etudes et la Profession d’Ingénieur en Europe), partner of PROMETEA, a European research programme (2005-2008)
-Field of interest: training of engineers and gender
-Member of ECEPIE (Association for the promotion of women in engineering field) since its creation in 2002
-Several papers published presented in congresses and conferences (Journées de la science, SEFI, Conférence des Grandes Ecoles. ..) and author of Methodological tools for research in gender and technology, Ed. ECEPIE, Paris, 2005
-Reviewer for The European Journal of Engineering Education, American Journal of Engineering Education and Journal of Engineering Education (Research Journalfor Engineering Education)

 

Al-Fadala Sharifa Bader

 Senior Research associate working in Building & Energy Technologies Department, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research since 1997
- Msc, Bsc Civil Engineering from Kuwait University
- Published several Papers in Local & international Conferences
- Member in Kuwait Engineering Society (KES). sfadala@safat.kisr.edu.kw

 

Lula Mohanty

Dr.Lula Mohanty has been with IBM for over 10 years now. She leads the Electronics delivery organization at IBM India. Her job entails managing delivery for more than 30 global electronics clients from IBM India, engaging close to 1500 IT practitioners. Lula has vast experience in Strategy and IT consulting, has managed large scale IT implementations and long term annuity projects. She has been instrumental in spearheading several diversity initiatives at IBM.. and has also participated in many of IBM India women leadership council activities. She has been an active mentor for women leaders and budding talent at IBM

 

Bethany Jones

 

Bethany Jones  Oberst is James Madison Distinguished Professor Emerita at James Madison University in Virginia, USA. Recently she served as Professor and Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE She has served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and as Executive Director for International Programs at James Madison, Dean at Southwest Missouri State University, Assistant to the President of the University of Delaware and Chair at Cleveland State University. Dr Oberst is co-editor of the International Engineering Education Digest, a monthly summary of published articles of importance to those interested in engineering education. bethanysjones@aol.com

 

Anupama Pande

Anupama Pande is a computer science engineer from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, one of the premier colleges in India. She completed her Bachelors with honors as the topper of the Computer science and Information Technology department. During her college years she also published a paper in the International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE) in the journal Review of Business Research (RBR) in November 2006. She then joined India software Labs of IBM and is presently working under a software development team of DB2 as a analyst and a software engineer. anupamapande@in.ibm.com

 

Prabhakaran Sandhya
I hail from Kerala in India. I had my initial education from The Indian High School, Dubai, U.A.E and then moved to India for my higher studies. I have done my Bachelors in Computer Engineering from College of Engineering, Chengannur in 2001. Subjects that interested me ranged from Database Design and Operating Systems to Artificial Intelligence.
I have been a mainframe professional for the past 5 years. I have worked 3 years on mainframe application programming and am currently involved with its system programming at the IBM India Software Labs, Bangalore. I have done technical presentations and written technical articles. I have authored a children’s fiction and am currently working on bringing out another title as well as a book on C programming language. Currently I am featured at the 'Ask an Engineer' site hosted by The National Academy Of Engineering (http://www.engineergirl.org).  sreevidhya12@yahoo.com

 

Malathi Subramanian and Anupama Saxena

Dr. Malathi Subramanian is former Principal, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi, India. She has taught Political Science for over three decades and her research interests include gender studies with a special focus on women's political participation, ICT and gender, and E-Governance.
Dr. Anupama Saxena is currently Head, Department of Political Science and Public Administration and in charge Director Women’s Studies and Development Centre, Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. Her research interests include gender and ICT, and e- governance and its equity dimensions in the context of India.
Recent Presentations of Duo in the relevant area include:
1. A seminar paper on "Gender Dimension of E-Governance: Some Observations from an Indian State of Chhattisgarh" presented in an International Conference on E Governance (ICEG 2006) held at Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi, India during 17-19 December 2006 . For details please visit the following site : www.iceg.net/2006/program.pdf
2. A seminar Paper on "Women and Information Communication Technologies in Taiwan: An Indian Perspective", presented in an International Conference on “ Taiwan Today: Perspective from India " , Organized by Centre for East Asian Studies , University of Delhi , Delhi , India during 19-20 January 2007. For details please visit the following site  www.allconferences.com/conferences/20060907111658/
3.A seminar Paper on "Language and Cultural Identities in the Information Age" presented in a National Seminar at Daulat Ram College , University of Delhi ,Delhi, India during 17-19- November 2006
4.  A tutorial session on “Gender Mainstreaming of ICT for Development Projects” is to be conducted on 11th March 2007 in an International Conference on “ ICT Solutions for social economic development” in Bangalore , India. For details please visit the following site www.cdacbangalore.in/ised2007/tutorial1.php
Following are other notable recent academic engagements of both Article co-authored by Dr Malathi Subramanian & Dr. Anupama Saxena on Gender and ICT published in 2006 in the Gender and ICT Encyclopaedia published by the Idea Group Publications, Pennsylvania U.S.A. Completed a research project on " Gender Mainstreaming of ICT policies and programmes In an Indian State of Chhattisgarh, sponsored by gender caucus of world summit on Information Society (WSIS AWARDEE).
Dr. Anupama Saxena participated by invitation, in the inaugural meeting of Global Alliance for ICT and Development organized by UNO and hosted by Malaysian Government on 19th and 20 June 2006. http://www.unicttaskforce.org/,             anupama66@rediffmail.com

 

Margaret Ajibode

Margaret Ajibode graduated in Mechanical Engineering and went on to subsequently gain an MSc (Eng) in Manufacturing Engineering & Management and an MSc (Eng) in Information Systems Engineering. She has several years of successful varied working experienceacross a number of industry sectors, including (private, public and non-profit sectors). She has been responsible for managing and successfully delivering multi-disciplinary projects to deliver business and system change. This involved Strategic planningand monitoring project progress, team and resource management.
Margaret who is of African origin recently joined AWEI – a new subsidiary of Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GWIIN). Margaret as Operational Director,

 

García Guevara Patricia
PhD. Education Department- CUCSH, University of Guadalajara, México. I have been an feminist activist since my teen years. I strongly believe that equal opportunities should be implemented in the educational system in my country, but the public policy process runs very slow here.
My presentation is an  exploration of some of the many dilemmas which face scientists women and the development of science an technology in a “Third World country” leads us into the field of the problematic posed by gender.
This current proposal is part of a broader study in progress. It is not an analysis of global capitalism in poor countries. On the contrary, it is a qualitative study in the area of innovation from a gender perspective examining the question of patents. guevarap@cencar.udg.mx

 

Yvette Ramos


Yvette Ramos, native from Portugal with French nationality has a Master’s in Engineering in Electronics from the Ecole Polytechnique Feminine ; she holds also a MBA with speciality in Human Resource and Change Management. She worked 10 years in the private sector in international companies such as Schlumberger and Ascom in the Electronic Transaction business. She joined the UN system four years ago as an expert in Human Resource & Change Management, mainly working with the ITU, International Telecommunications Union. She is married with three kids and lives next to Geneva.