Virginia Littlejohn is co-founder, President and CEO of Quantum Leaps, Inc., a non-profit global accelerator for women’s entrepreneurship based in Washington DC, which uses technology to develop and disseminate knowledge and facilitate the sharing of best practices. Ms. Littlejohn has been the OECD’s Senior Advisor for Women’s Entrepreneurship since 1995.

Current Position: Founder and President of MedicalChain International orporation

At the beginning of her career she worked in financial areas, in companies as Indugas and Corporacion de Televisión of Universidad de Chile. Later in banking market, Republic National Bank of New York. Then she was dedicated at marketing activities, Indus S.A.

Dr. Nafis Sadik, a national of Pakistan, is Special Adviser to the UN retary-General and his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Educated at Loreto College (Calcutta) she received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Dow Medical College (Karachi).

HIV/AIDS – a Threat to Women and Girls in the Asia-Pacific Region

Name: Hoang Thi Dung ( Dzung)

Corporate Affairs Director

Legal & Corporate Affairs department, Microsoft Taiwan

In 1965, when I graduated from college, life for women in the United States was extremely different than it is today. At that time when those women graduated from the university, they often immediately took a secretarial course so that they could become secretaries to male bosses while they spent most of their time strategically planning how to meet a man to marry.

Director of the Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Center of VCCI (SME PC)

Director of entreprises Development foundation (EDF)

Vice-Excecutive Chairwoman of Women Entrepreuneurs Council of VCCI ( VWEC)

Dr. Lorna Wright is Associate Professor of International Business at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, and also currently Visiting Professor at School of Commerce and Accountancy, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand.