An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words.
Julia Gillard (Author)
Julia Gillard was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia
on 24 June 2010 and served in that office until June 2013. Ms
Gillard is the first woman to ever serve as Australia's Prime
Minister or Deputy Prime Minister.
As Prime Minister and in her previous role as Deputy Prime
Minister, Ms Gillard delivered nation-changing policies including
reforming Australian education at every level from early childhood
to university education, creating an emissions trading scheme to
combat climate change, improving health care, commencing the
nation's first ever national scheme to care for people with
disabilities, addressing the gender pay gap for social and
community sector workers and delivering an apology to all those who
had suffered through the practice of forced adoptions.
In October 2012, Ms Gillard received worldwide attention for her
speech in Parliament on the treatment of women in professional and
public life. She currently serves as the inaugural Chair of the
Global Institute for Women's Leadership at Kings College in London,
which through research, practice and advocacy, is addressing
women's under-representation in leadership.
Ms Gillard is the Chair of Beyond Blue, one of Australia's leading
mental health awareness bodies; is Chair of global funding body for
education in developing countries, the Global Partnership for
Education; and is Patron of the Campaign for Female Education
Ms Gillard's memoirs, My Story, were published by Random House in
September 2014.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Author)
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is an economist and international
development expert with over 30 years of experience. She is Chair
of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and of the African Risk
Capacity (ARC). She is Co-Chair of The Global Commission on the
Economy and Climate. She also sits on the Boards of Standard
Chartered PLC and Twitter Inc. She was recently appointed as AU
Special Envoy to mobilise International support for the fight
against COVID-19 and WHO Special Envoy for Access to COVID-19 Tools
Accelerator.
Previously, Dr Okonjo-Iweala was a Senior Advisor at Lazard from
September 2015 - October 2019. She served twice as Nigeria's
Finance Minister, from 2003-2006, 2011-2015, and briefly as Foreign
Minister, the first woman to hold both positions. She spent a
25-year career at the World Bank as a development economist, rising
to the No.2 position of Managing Director, overseeing an $81
billion operational portfolio in Africa, South Asia, Europe and
Central Asia.
Dr Okonjo-Iweala was named Minister of the Decade, People's Choice
Award (2020) by Nigeria's This Day newspaper. In 2019, she was
named one of Transparency International's 8 Female Anti-Corruption
Fighters Who Inspire. She has been ranked by Fortune as one of the
50 Greatest World Leaders in 2015, by Forbes as one of the Top 100
Most Powerful Women in the World consecutively for four years, by
Time as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the World in
2014, and by the UK Guardian as one of the Top 100 Women in the
World in 2011.
Dr Okonjo-Iweala holds a Bachelor's in Economics from Harvard
University and a PhD in Regional Economics and Development from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an Angelopoulos
Global Public Leader at Harvard University Kennedy School, a Fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received over
fifteen honorary degrees, including from Yale University, the
University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Tel Aviv University
and Trinity College, Dublin. She is the author of numerous articles
on finance and development, and several books including Fighting
Corruption is Dangerous- The Story Behind the Headlines (MIT Press,
2018) and Reforming the Unreformable- Lessons from Nigeria (MIT
Press, 2012).
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