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Nicola Ehlermann
Nicola Ehlermann
Ms. Nicola Ehlermann is an international development advisor for the development of inclusive and competitive economies ; she was until recently the Head of the MENA -OECD Competitiveness Program. In a career spanning over more than three decades, she has held leadership, technical, coordination, and advisory positions in various regions and in areas such as promoting gender equality, fighting corruption and improving integrity, developing the private sector through mobilizing foreign investment, and developing financial markets.
Ms. Ehlermann is lecturing “Doing business in emerging economies” at Sciences Politiques Paris (France) ; “Good governance and fighting corruption” at Sciences Politiques Strasbourg (France) as well as “Sustainable Development Through Good Governance in the Arab Counties” at Sciences Po Menton (France). She is a member of various associations supporting ethical and economic development.
Fatima Al Dirbasti
Fatima Al Dirbasti
Fatima I. Al Dirbasti is a young female Qatari entrepreneur, passionate about sustainability and supporting women owned businesses. She founded and serves as the CEO of Match & Style, an e-commerce consignment and sustainable fashion platform. In addition to a number of other businesses, she further co-founded Paper Bear, supporting women owned stationary and office supplies businesses.
Fatima has simultaneously built herself a successful career in corporate banking, at one of the biggest institutions in the region, following her graduation from CMU-Q, swiftly rising through the ranks to become the youngest female in her organization to manage a portfolio of some of the largest companies in Qatar and the wider region.
Hanan Alshareef Farhat
Hanan Alshareef Farhat
With over 25 years of oil and gas industry experience, Dr. Hanan Farhat is one of the leading experts on Corrosion and Materials Engineering in the region. She is a Senior Research Director at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, and the founding director of the Corrosion Center. The first center of its kind in Qatar. Her resume also includes technical service management, as well as senior inspection and lead corrosion engineering positions. She also held a faculty of Engineering position at the College of the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNAQ) and was the lead corrosion researcher. She has a PhD in Corrosion Engineering and a Masters in Materials and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her bachelor degree is in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from Tripoli University, Libya.
Dr. Farhat is an advocate for women rights and gender equality. She is the founder and former Chairperson of the Qatar Women Engineers Association (QWEA). She also founded the MENA Women in Engineering, and currently acting as the chairperson of the group. Dr. Farhat received the distinguished women engineers contribution award from the Canadian Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientist in 2005 for her work in promoting engineering profession to young females. She was also awarded the Women of Change Award on engineering creativity by the Doha Women Forum this year.
Abeer Abulhuleiqa
Abeer Abulhuleiqa
An engineer, wife, and mom of three blessing kids. She gained her bachelor’s degree from TAMUQ as Petroleum Engineer back in 2011 and her Masters degree on Women, Society, and Development in 2020 from College of Humanities & Social Sciences (CHSS,HBKU). Abeera is the founder and Vice Chairperson of Qatar Women Engineers Association alongside being a board member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, Qatar sections ( SPE-Q). She is a member of Qatari Women’s Affairs Steering Committee for HBKU and the Advisory Board for CHSS.
She is currently working as Reserves Engineer with Petroleum Resource Management team to assure and deliver Qatar Energy reserves and resources volumes according to international reporting standards (SPE-PRMS). She presented her Masters thesis paper ‘Qatari Women's Leadership in Oil and Gas Industry' at the World Conference for Women Studies July 2020.
She has won several awards. In 2021, she was awarded the Qatar Energy Female in Engineering Champion.
Laurie R. Weingart
Laurie R. Weingart
Laurie R. Weingart is the Richard M. and Margaret S. Cyert Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory and co-director of the Collaboration and Conflict Research Lab in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. She has served as CMU’s interim provost/chief academic officer, as well as senior associate dean and as director of the Accelerate Leadership Center in the Tepper School. Coauthor of The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work, Weingart specializes in team collaboration, conflict, and negotiation, with a focus on how differences across people both help and hinder effective problem solving and innovation. An elected Fellow of the Academy of Management and of the International Association for Conflict Management, and recipient of the Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup), her award-winning research appears in top management and psychology journals.
Nada Al Mahmeed
Nada Al Mahmeed
Nada Abduljalil Al-Mahmeed is the Director of Translation and Training Center, at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She joined the College as a Senior Project Leader in 2016, where she has led strategic planning, stakeholders’ relationships, as well as marketing and communications on the College level.
Al-Mahmeed previously worked at Qatar Development Bank as a Corporate Planning Supervisor where she was involved in corporate planning and strategy execution governance for more than four years. She revolutionized the organization's planning and enabled it to have a full and successful implementation of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Her work has influenced the active implementation of the Bank’s strategy and improved overall performance on corporate and employee levels.
Al-Mahmeed holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and minor in English Studies from Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Cambridge - UK.
Christine Schiwietz
Christine Schiwietz
Dr. Christine Schiwietz is an assistant dean at Georgetown University's branch campus in Qatar. An expert in sociology and international higher education, Christine has spoken at the UN Women’s Guild and has been quoted on NPR and in outlets like the New York Times, Harvard Political Review, and the Gulf Times. She is, a member of the board of governors for Qatar’s American Chamber of Commerce, the chair of the Georgetown Women’s Alliance in Qatar, and a former president of the District of Columbia Sociological Society.
Her recent book released summer 2022, entitled, "America’s Higher Education Goes Global” gives an inside look at the Georgetown University branch campus in Education City, internationalization in academia, and first-hand insight on global learning and the multiversity concept.
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