Saadia Zahidi
Saadia Zahidi is a Managing Director at the World Economic Forum. She heads the Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society. She co-authors the Forum's Future of Jobs, Global Gender Gap, Reskilling Revolution, and Global Human Capital Reports.
She won the Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for young business authors for her business book proposal, Womenomics in the Muslim World. Zahidi is the author of Fifty Million Rising, which was published by Bold Type Books in 2018 and longlisted for 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
She is honoured in BBC'S 100 Women in 2013 and 2014.
Zahidi grew up in Pakistan. She gained a bachelor's degree in economics from Smith College, a master's in international economics from Graduate Institute Geneva, and an MPA from Harvard University.
