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European Year of Skills

Saadia Zahidi

Managing Director, World Economic Forum (WEF)

Saadia Zahidi

Saadia is the Managing Director World Economic Forum and Founder & co-author of the Forum's Future of Jobs Report, Global Gender Gap Report and Human Capital Report. She is the author of Fifty Million Rising, longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2018. Saadia was selected as one of BBC's 100 Women and won the inaugural FT/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for prospective authors under 35.  BA in Economics Smith College, MPhil International Economics Graduate Institute of Geneva; MPA Harvard Kennedy School.

Featured in: Panel 1 ‘Skills-first’ – what is it, what added value, and which way-forward - 8th of June, 11:30 – 12:30