Empowering Women in Business - USA & Canada
Event Information
About this Event
Join IE University and the Global Chamber for an interactive session centered around women in business and empowering others to become global leaders and changemakers.
We will be hearing from IE Professor Christina Stathopoulos, Analytical Consultant at Google, to walk us through the experience and advice for women in tech.
Ana Perez and Lynare Robbins, top female executives, will then join a roundtable discussion in which the three women will share their own professional journeys, answer questions and offer their own wisdom and advice.
Here is the event agenda:
- 1:00 pm ET - 1:20 pm ET: Odd Woman Out – Women in Technology
- 1:20 pm ET -1:40 pm ET: Roundtable - Navigating Stereotypes and Gender Roles
- 1:40 pm ET - 2:00 pm ET: Audience discussion, Q&A and experience sharing
This event will be held jointly with the Global Chamber and we invite women and men from all professional backgrounds to attend.
ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS
Professor Christina Stathopoulos, a US expat living in Madrid, Spain since 2012, is dedicated to the world of data. She is currently an Analytical Consultant at Google and an Adjunct Professor of Analytics at IE Business School. Alongside her corporate and academic work, she is very active in the analytics community and participates regularly as an international conference speaker supporting data analytics, emerging technologies and women in STEM.
Ana Perez is the Senior Gender Advisor and Associate Director of RTI Global Gender Center and is based in Canada. As a successful leader with over 20 years of progressive work experience in both international development projects and large multinationals, she brings a vast array of experience, from a variety of roles and industries, including the launch of new business initiatives, managing large Fortune 500 accounts, finance, project management, marketing strategy, auditing and global business development. Ana holds her MBA with a focus on social entrepreneurship from IE Business School.
Lynare Robbins is the Executive Director of the Global Chamber- Miami Chapter. She is a veteran of the United States Navy and serves on the Florida Advisory Committee for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, an organization which promotes bipartisan support for international development and diplomacy to strengthen national security and foreign relations. Robbins holds an Associates in Arts in Behavioral Science, a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, a Master of Arts in Human Behavior, and a Master of Arts in International Relations and Conflict Resolution. She is the founder and president of Robbins Global Innovations, a boutique international relations consultancy firm. Her research work includes identifying how technology and innovation can promote national and international opportunities