• PRESENTATION BY MS. NARUEMOL SUTHAWAREE, Thailand

    Introduction

    “In the old days, it was unheard of for a woman to hold a position equal to men. It used to be the woman’s role to be by her husband’s side outside the home. The home was seen to be the only place where she can wield authority.
  • MYRNA T. YAO

    Date of birth: July 28, 1951
    Married with 4 children

  • PRESENTATION BY MS. JUNG JAE WOOK, Korea

    Ms Chair-Person, distinguished delegates,

    My presentation will focus on reviewing the status and prospect of the existing micro-credit institutions and facilities and presenting some ways for reinforcing micro-credit with the view to expediting the rapid growth and development of women-owned micro enterprises (ME).

  • Jung Jae‐Wook

    Pen name: Hyun Yang

    Date of Birth: November 6, 1942


  • PRESENTATION BY MS. CAI SHENG, China

    Promote Entrepreneurship of Women in Cities by Micro-Credit

  • Cai Sheng

    Title: Deputy Director-General, International Liaison Department, All-China Women’s Federation.
  • DATO’ KALSOM ABDUL RAHMAN

    DATO’ KALSOM BINTI ABDUL RAHMAN, is the Chairman of Small and Medium Industries Development Corporation (SMIDEC), an agency under MITI, responsible for the development of SMEs and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Invest-In-Penang Berhad.
  • PRESENTATION BY MS. IRINA GORBULINA, Russia

    Women’s small and medium entreprises – path to overcome poverty and to ensure sustainable development
  • IRINA GORBULINA

    Date of birth: 09/03/1961
  • Dr Patrice Braun

    Patrice Braun is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Regional Innovation & Competitiveness (CRIC) at the University of Ballarat, which has a focus on small business and community capacity building; the adoption and use of ICT technologies; regional clustering and networks; demand and integrated resource management for regions.
  • Dr Patrice Braun

    Patrice Braun is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Regional Innovation & Competitiveness (CRIC) at the University of Ballarat, which has a focus on small business and community capacity building; the adoption and use of ICT technologies; regional clustering and networks; demand and integrated resource management for regions.
  • PRESENTATION BY MS. CHUN FANG HSU, Chinese Taipei

    Business operation modes have changed dramatically due to trade liberalization, globalization and the development of the knowledge-based economy. These changes have in turn changed the kinds of employment and start-up venture opportunities for women, so that women can play a bigger role than before in economic and social development.
  • Chun-fang Hsu

    Education:
    Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan: BA Public Finance (1969)
  • PRESENTATION BY MS. TATIANA PORTNOVA, Russia

    “Development and Introduction of the Legislation Facilitating Progress in Business and Consideringthe Interests of Business Ladies. Improved Activity of Business Ladies in the Globalization Context”
  • TATIANA PORTNOVA

    Date of birth: 05/11/1951
  • PRESENTATION BY MS. PHAM CHI LAN, Vietnam

    Policy environment in Vietnam promote enterprise development

  • PHAM CHI LAN

    Ms. Pham Chi Lan is an economy expert. She was a member of the Prime Minister’s Research Board since 1996 and became a full–time expert of the Board from May 2003 until the Board’s closing in August 2006.
  • Virginia Littlejohn

    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.
  • LIN LEE, LEE

    Current Position: Founder and President of MedicalChain International orporation

  • INGRID ANTONIJEVIC HAHN

    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.
  • Nafis Sadik, M.D.

    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).
  • PRESENTATION BY DR. NAFIS SADIK, UNAIDS, New York/Hanoi

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


  • HOANG THI DZUNG

    Name: Hoang Thi Dung ( Dzung)

  • Hope Ong

    Corporate Affairs Director

    Legal & Corporate Affairs department, Microsoft Taiwan
  • PRESENTATION BY Ph.D. MARSHA FIRESTONE, USA

    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.
  • Dr. PHAM THI THU HANG

    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 L. WRIGHT

    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.
  • RAPPORTEURS REPORT

    The third plenary session chaired by Ms Ton Nu Thi Ninh started with the presentation of the Outcome Reports by the three (3) rapporteurs on the three (3) sub-themes, followed by the discussion of common issues and ended with the Chairperson’s Summary.

  • PRESENTATION BY DR. KIM KYO CHUNG, Korea

    Recommendations from APEC Forum on Digital Economy for Women 2006

    “Innovation and Leadership”

    Ha Long Bay September 16—17, 2006
  • MARGARET HO POH YEOK

    Academic Qualification: Bachelor of Economics (Honours), 1974, University Malaya.

  • Kristy HSU Tsun-Tzu

    Kristy Hsu is an associate research fellow at the Chinese Taipei WTO Center, Chung Hua Institution for Economic Research in Chinese Taipei. Before she joined the Center in August 2003, she was the Executive Secretary of Chinese Taipei APEC Study Center, and served as the APEC Gender Focal Point of Chinese Taipei from 1998 to 2003.
  • Francine Whiteduck

    Francine is owner of Whiteduck Resources Inc. a company with over 20 years experience in designing, managing and delivering evaluation and analysis for various organizations in Canada with special expertise in education, business and economic development.
  • Report Workshop 2

    Title: “Creating a business enabling and gender sensitive legal environment for women to develop business in the context of globalization”.

  • Ambassador TON NU THI NINH

    M.P for Ba Ria – Vung Tau

    Vice-chair, Foreign Affairs Committee

    National Assembly of S.R. Viet Nam

  • Long An: Nearly 32,000 women were supported with loans for production

    In 2006, women's union at all levels in Long An province mobilized and managed VND 160 billion and supported nearly 32,000 households with loans for production.

  • PRESENTATION BY Dr. AMELOU BENITEZ REYES, Philippines

    This year marks the beginning of the second decade, being the 11th anniversary of the Women Leaders Network (WLN) which was launched in Manila in October 1996. Since then we have worked together as an effective international network to promote the integration of gender as a cross-cutting issue within the context of APEC processes, programs, projects and systems.

  • Dr. Amelou Benitez Reyes

    Dr. Amelou Benitez Reyes, president and life-time trustee of The Philippine Women’s University, continues the Benitez tradition of service to the nation as the University’s 8th president and 4th Philwomenian alumna to occupy this top post. She is also the 2nd president of PWC of Davao.

  • María de la Luz Silva

    Brief introduction: Gender expert with comprehensive experience in the conceptualization, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of gender included planning and programs in the educational system, reproductive health supply and working women’s organizations. Extended experience in mainstreaming gender perspective into national and international policies and planning, with comprehensive experience in the academic field, in research and teaching, and as a consultant for project evaluation.

  • PRESENTATION BY MS. HAN MI-YOUNG, Korea

    This year, we cerebrate the 11th year of the Women Leaders’ Network. Every year, women leaders in APEC regions have met to discuss and prepare recommendations and have submitted to the Ministerial Meeting. I believe that these activities have played a role in informing the importance of recognizing gender in government policy, in particular, in economic policy. However, the functions of the WLN are still at a conceptual level and cannot exercise specific impacts.

  • Han, Mi Young

    Date of birth: December 2, 1953
  • PRESENTATION BY MS. KANDA VAJRABHAYA, Thailand

    Conceptual Framework of Thailand’s Proposal

    Joint (HRD) Programme on E-women Leadership Development Training Network (E-WLTN)

  • KANDA VAJRABHAYA

    Mrs. Kanda Vajrabya currently serves as the Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDSH), Thailand.
  • MO Wenxiu

    Professional experience:

    - From March 1983 to March 1990: President of Huaihua prefectural Women’s Federation, Hunan Province; the Head of the Huitong County;

    - From January 1990 to December 1994: Vice-President of Hunan Provincial Women’s Federation;

    - From December 1994 to September 1998: Member of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress in Hunan Province; President of Hunan Provincial Women’s Federation;

    - From September 1998 to September 2003: Member of the Secretariat, All-China Women’s Federation

  • PRESENTATION BY MS. TRAN MAI HUONG, Vietnam

    Her Excellency Mme. Ha Thi Khiet,

    Distinguished Delegates.

  • Tran Mai Huong

    Background of study: Mathematics-Physics, Political science, Management

  • Contact list

    List of Heads and focal points of WLN 2006 delegations
  • 2006 APEC WLN–related documents

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  • Closing session

    Content in this session
  • Workshop on SME models

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  • Dr. Kio Chung Kim

    2005-Present: Executive Director, APEC Women’s e-Business Center

    1998- Present: Executive Director, Asian Pacific Women’s Information Network Center

    1986- Present: Professor, School of information science, Sookmyung Women’s University

  • PRESENTATION BY DR. KIO CHUNG KIM, Korea

    The initiative aims to expand informatization and e-Business opportunities for current and prospect women entrepreneurs, thus promoting more start-ups, micro-enterprises and SMEs led or owned by women. The initiative is based on a holistic, systematic and continuous approach and is comprised of four collaborating parts that will be carried out annually from 2005 to 2009, namely 1) research, 2) capacity building, 3) e-community building, and 4) policy forum.

  • PRESENTATION BY MS. DIANA ABRUZZI, Australia

    Capital Formation for Women in Trade

    When we talk about Trade, most people automatically think big. But, the global reality is, the SME’s are now the new economic Leaders. And, SME’s contribute 1 trillion US dollars a year which is 30% of trade in APEC

  • Diana Abruzzi

    Ms. Abruzzi is the Chairman and Founder of the International Women's Federation of Commerce and Industry (IWFCI); the first Chamber of Commerce for women in the world at the time of its inaugural meeting in 1992 in Melbourne.

  • Nguyen Phuong Minh

    Biodata of Ms. Nguyen Phuong Minh,VWU Vice President
  • PRESENTATION BY MS. NGUYEN PHUONG MINH, Vietnam

    WLN Meeting Vietnam 2006: contents and priorities

  • Tran Thi Thu Hang

    Mrs. Tran Thi Thu Hang was born in Thanh Hoa, a province in northern center part of Vietnam. She studied International Trade at the Hanoi Foreign Trade University, Development Economics at CERDI, France and Public Management at National University of Singapore and Kennedy of Government respectively.

  • PRESENTATION BY MS. TRAN THI THU HANG, Vietnam

    APEC 2006: Priorities and expected outcomes

    It is a privilege for me to address such distinguished audience from governments, private sector, academics, unions and NGOs at this meeting of APEC Woman Leaders’ Network.
  • Heather Gibb

    Heather Gibb is Senior Researcher at The North-South Institute, an independent policy research institute based in Ottawa, Canada that addresses relations between industrialized and developing countries.
  • PRESENTATION BY MS. HEATHER GIBB, Canada

    Women Leaders Network of APEC: From Call to Action to Our Second Decade

  • Opening Session

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  • PRESENTATION BY MR. VO HONG PHUC, Vietnam

    Distinguished Delegates of the Women Leaders Network, Distinguished Guests,

  • OPENING REMARKS BY MS. JEONG MYEONG KEUM, Korea

    Honorable President of the Viet Nam Women's Union Ha Thi Khiet, distinguished women leaders from each economy and honorable guests,

  • PRESENTATION BY Ms. NGUYEN TAN DUNG, VIETNAM

    Dear delegates,

    Dear distinguish guests,

    It is a great pleasure for the Vietnamese women in particular and our country in general to host the 11th APEC Women Leaders’ Network Meeting in the framework of APEC 2006 in Vietnam. On behalf of the Vietnamese government and people, I would like to express my warm welcome to all delegates from member economies to Hanoi to attend this significant meeting.
  • PRESENTATION BY Ms. HA THI KHIET, VIETNAM

    Dear Delegates,
    It is with great joy the women and the people of Vietnam welcome you to the 2006 APEC Year in Vietnam. Today, at the Hanoi International Conference Center, the Vietnam Women’s Union, in the capacity of Chairwomen of APEC Women Leaders’ Network, solemnly host the 11th APEC WLN Meeting.
  • First Plenary session: 11th APEC WLN

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  • PROGRAM

    11th Meeting of APEC Women Leaders’ Network (WLN)

    19–22 Sep. 2006

    International Conference Center – Hanoi, Vietnam

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