*New York’s acclaimed WIE Symposium to launch in the UK in March 2012 *Lunch attendees include Jo Malone, Lily Cole, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Jacquetta Wheeler, Liberty Ross, Emma Freud, Lynne Franks, Baroness Scotland, Sydney Ingle Finch, Edith Bowman, Dawn Porter, Margherita Taylor, Kathy Lette, Alice Temperley, Noreena Hertz, Shingai Shoniwa, Carla Buzasi, Editor-in [...]
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- on Nov 8th, 2011
WIE announces 2011 dates and speaker lineup
August 22, 2011 Nicole Kidman, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Serena Williams, Rita Wilson, Jane Fonda, Christy Turlington Burns, Glenda Bailey, Rose Byrne, Petra Nemcova, Tamara Mellon, Fran Drescher, Rosario Dawson, Mika Brzezinski, Deborra Lee Furness, Van Jones, Victoria Jackson and many more join the second annual WIE [...]
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- on Sep 26th, 2011
Fora TV – Getting Women off the Sidelines – panel highlights
See highlights from WIE 2011
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- on Aug 18th, 2011
To Entrepreneurially Minded Women: New York Welcomes You!
June Sarpong, one of the most recognizable faces of British television (she even co-hosted Nelson Mandela’s 90’th birthday party), and Dee Poku, former head of international marketing at Paramount Pictures, have one thing on their minds: empowering women. They pulled together some of the biggest names in media and started the Women: Inspiration and Enterprise [...]
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- on Aug 9th, 2011
Huffington Post blog – Dee Poku
In my Africa, Barack Obama is very much the norm. In my Africa, fellow Ghanaian Kofi Anan led the United Nations as Secretary-General, and writer and poet Wole Soyinka is a Nobel Laureate. My African heroines include Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia and the first elected female Head of State in Africa, and [...]
