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EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0paid tribute \u00a0to the work done by the Global Board Ready Women (GBRW)\u00a0Task Force<\/strong> which came into being in 2012 to support the directive to apply 40 % Gender Diversity Quotas for all publicly listed corporations in Europe proposed by former EC Vice President Viviane Reding, \u00a0during her third mandate from 2010 \u2013 2014\u00a0as Commissioner for European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The GBRW Task Force<\/strong> brought together executive women leaders from the private, academic, and public sectors who refused to let stand the remark frequently made at the timethat \u201cthere were not enough qualified women to fill the Board Positions\u201d.\u00a0By enlisting top European Business Schools with their alumnae lists of C-level executives, corporate governance professors and Boards of Governors, filled with industry captains from around the world, they created a data base of more than 8000\u00a0Board Ready women, thus dispelling the myth that there were not enough women to fill the board positions.\u00a0They also created the first global criteria for Independent Board Members, regardless of gender and applied these criteria in vetting the board ready women candidates\u00a0presented for consideration by the European publicly listed corporations.<\/p>\n

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UWE President Anne N\u00e8gre<\/em>,<\/strong>\u00a0who is\u00a0member since the beginning of the GBRW, joined this tribute taking place on the eve of the \u201cGlobal Board Ready Women Leadership Conference\u201d organized by Fort\u00e9 Foundation<\/a> and Phoenix Executive<\/a> in Brussels on 08 November to analyze the progress made by the initiative and to prepare the next generation of women corporate leaders.<\/p>\n

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Besides the Business Schools, the GBRW worked tirelessly with professional women associations, the Association of Executive Search Consultants, and the Forte Foundation to promote the \u201cWomen on Boards\u201d Directive<\/a> ,\u00a0<\/strong>which came into law ten years after the GBRW began their work on 22 November 2022,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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