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Saadia Zahidi

Director of Constituents at the World Economic Forum

Saadia Zahidi is a Director and Head of Constituents at the World Economic Forum.  In this role, she is responsible for engaging women leaders, gender parity groups, religious leaders, NGOs and labor leaders.  She is also co-author of the Forum’s "Global Gender Gap Report," a benchmark in global research on the gap in parity between women and men. 

Zahidi previously worked as an economist with the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Program. She has a bachelor's degree from Smith College and a master's degree in international economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.