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Hayat Sindi
Hayat Sindi, is the first Arab woman to receive a doctorate in biotechnology from the University of Cambridge. Cindy was born in Mecca, and spent nearly 13 years in Britain, where she obtained a doctorate degree in measuring instruments electromagnetic and acoustic of the University of Cambridge ancient. And was able to reach to a number of important scientific inventions made her assume a global scientific standing high, where invited by the United States within a delegation that included 15 of the best scientists in the world, to explore the trends and the future of science.
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Hind Hobeika
Hind Hobeika was a student in Mechanical Engineering at the American University of Beirut, also training for the university’s swimming team. She was frustrated not to be able to monitor her heart rate in an effective manner, which led her to create Instabeat: a startup that developed the first waterproof heads-up display for swimming. The goggles track, store and display instant feedback of the heart rate during the swim to optimize the training and achieve peak performance.
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Nazanin Daneshvar
Nazanin Daneshvar is an adaptable, proficient software developer in a wide variety of languages and methodologies. Outstanding Developer and talented software Engineer with proven expertise in object-oriented analysis and design and exceptional record overseeing all facets of Software Development Life Cycle, from analysis and design to implementation and maintenance.
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Ndidi Nwuneli
Ndidi has an impressive background. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA (with Honours) in Multinational and Strategic Management from Wharton. After working as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, she joined and became a Partner at Sahel Capital, a private equity and advisory firm focused on the West African agribusiness sector. She is also Co-Founder of AACE Foods, an agro processing company. In the midst of this exceptional career, Ndidi managed to fulfil her passion of promoting entrepreneurship in Africa by establishing LEAP Africa in 2002, which is a leading non-profit organization focused on leadership and ethics. Nwuneli received a National Honour from the President of Nigeria and was recognized as one of 20 Young Powerful African Women by Forbes in 2011.
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Saloni Malhotra
Saloni Malhotra founded and ran DesiCrew, a for-profit organization focused on creating knowledge-based livelihood opportunities in small towns and rural areas. She stepped down as a the CEO in March 2012, after bringing on board a venture fund and handing over to a professional management team. She continues to participate on the board. Saloni also mentor Traveller Kids, a young start-up that creates edu- taiment toys for 7-12 years olds and is an Advisor to Start Up!, a social business incubator in Delhi and Sevamob, a start-up that serves low income consumers via primary healthcare and insurance.
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Teresa Mbagaya
Teresa is the founder and leader of Econet Education, a system that reduces the cost of textbooks for students by working with producers to distribute e-books via tablets. She previously worked at Google on its Education team and partnered with the Emerging Markets Outreach team to provide free open source education materials to emerging markets. In 2013, she joined Econet Wireless as the youngest executive, where she created her project baptised Econet Education. Since then, Teresa has launched three education services (Econet Zero, EcoSchool and EcoSchool Academy) in Zimbabwe, with further aims for international expansion.
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Wafa Al Rimi
Wafa Al-Rimi, poses at her school in Sanaa, Yemen. The 16-year-old serves as CEO of the student company, Creative Generation. Power outages are a very real issue in Yemen, which is why Wafa and a group of her peers decided to find a solution: solar-powered appliances. They presented their idea to Injaz Association, a non-profit organization funded by USAID with a branch in Yemen. Injaz loved the idea and supported the girls from the start, offering them a course in coordination with Yemen’s Ministry of Education to develop their project.
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Yasmine El-Mehairy
Entrepreneur with experience in web and media projects. Expertise building and leading multinational teams. Open-minded and empathetic leadership approach. Passionate about providing low-budget and fast innovation solutions for business growth. Currently responsible for business development, strategic growth, and start-up financing at SuperMama.
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