UAE Gender Balance Council selected as knowledge partner by World Economic Forum

The move recognises the Emirates’ influential role in promoting gender balance in the Arab world.

The recognition also reflects the Gulf country’s Gender Balance Council’s significant achievements to create an environment that empowers and enables women to succeed in their chosen fields and contribute to national development as equal partners.

The announcement of the Council’s selection as a knowledge partner for WEF was made at a meeting attended by Professor Klaus Schwab, WEF founder and executive chairman, and the UAE Gender Balance Council delegation headed by Mona Ghanem Al Marri, Vice President of the Council, on the sidelines of the Forum’s meeting in Davos on Wednesday.

Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the UAE Gender Balance Council and President of Dubai Women Establishment, said that being selected as WEF’s knowledge partner is an endorsement of the UAE’s ability to set a global example for advancing gender balance and its emergence as a role model for the region in the field.

“Since its establishment in 2015, the Council has launched many initiatives and projects in cooperation with organisations both in the UAE and across the world to accelerate the country’s gender balance journey that began more than 50 years ago,” she said.

Professor Klaus Schwab expressed his appreciation for the pioneering role played by the UAE in promoting gender balance.

“The UAE is leading the region in women’s empowerment, and it has once again achieved the highest level of gender parity in the Arab world according to the Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2022,” he said.