(L.to R.) Dato’ Dr. Norraesah Mohamad, Chairman of WIEF Businesswomen Network, HH. Sheikha Hissah Saad Abdulah Salem Al-Sabah, Vice Chairperson of the Women Affairs Committee and Chairperson, Arab Businesswomen Council Kuwait, and Dato’ Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, Former Minister of Women, Family and Community Development of Malaysia.

A regional Forum will also be convened annually to tackle specific issues of interest to the region concerned. Priority will be given to holding such a regional Forum in South Asia, Europe and Africa.Invariably, the relevant topics of such regional Forum would be region-specific, tackling issues that are pressing in that particular region at that particular period.