AIWF Board Member Hanan Saab, CEO & Managing Director of Pharmamed (Hanan Akram Saab & Co) SAL, Lebanon, was appointed President of the Jury for the MENA region for the Cartier Women Initiative Award in January 2017.
Mrs Saab, as a passionate advocate for women in business and an outstanding business leader in her own right, is a valued Board Member of the Arab International Women’s Forum; a Founding Member of Rawafed, an NGO that trains female high school students in nursing in rural areas; a Founding Member and the Former President of the Lebanese League for Women in Business; and a Founder and Board Member of the MENA Business Women Network where she also served as VP for many years.
Recognised as one of the region’s leading businesswomen in the Financial Times, Mrs Saab was also featured as one of the Arab world’s 200 Most Powerful Women by Forbes in 2014. She has previously been invited to speak on women’s entrepreneurship at high-level conferences and forums worldwide, including at The Woodrow Wilson Conference, the Mediterranean Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, high-profile roundtables held by the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, The Economist and the ILO.
The Board of the Arab International Women’s Forum is very proud to have Hanan Saab’s senior expertise and tireless commitment to the mission and values of AIWF, and congratulates her on all her achievements as a role model for Arab women and a dedicated advocate for the rights, security and empowerment of women in the Arab world and internationally.
