Sindi is a medical scientist who was the first Saudi Muslim woman in the Middle East to get a PhD in biotechnology, was one of the first female members of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia, and is the co-founder of Diagnostics For All; an NGO that works to provide medical care in remote impoverished areas.
Ms Kimie Iwata is Chairman at Japan Institute of Worker’s Evolution.
She graduated from the Faculty of Education at the University of Tokyo and joined the former Ministry of Labor in 1971, where she was engaged in support for working women and international labour issues.
Sheila Dinotshe Tlou is a Botswana specialist in HIV/AIDS and women’s health and a nursing educator. She was Minister of Health from 2004 to 2008.
Joyce Banda formerly known as Joyce Hilda Ntilda was born on the 12th day of April 1950 in a little village called Malemia under Zomba district of Malawi. She was a mother of three children, once married to Mr Roy Kachale and they lived in Kenya. After her abusive marriage with Mr Roy ended in 1981, she fled with her children back to Malawi. There she met Mr Richard Banda who is a one-time Chief Justice of the Republic of Malawi. Their marriage is blessed with two children.
Zaina Erhaim is a Syrian journalist and the 2015 winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism.
Nawal El Saadawi is a leading Egyptian feminist, sociologist, medical doctor and militant writer on Arab women’s problems. She is one of the most widely translated contemporary Egyptian writers, with her work available in twelve languages.
Yoani Sanchez, a University of Havana graduate in philology, migrated to Switzerland in 2002, to build a new life for herself and her family. Two years later, she decided to return to Cuba, promising herself to live there as a free person. Her blog Generation Y is an expression of this promise.
