Women chair 15.8% of board positions in 73 listed financial companies in the UAE
Grant Thornton and Heriot-Watt University launch Discovery Series 2025: Women transforming financial services
Heriot-Watt University and Grant Thornton today published a detailed report on the representation of women in senior leadership roles across the UAE’s financial services sector.
Entitled ‘Discovery Series 2025: Women transforming financial services’, the importance of this report lies in its role as an evidence-based benchmark for gender representation within one of the UAE’s most influential economic sectors. As the second edition of The Discovery Series, this report builds on the momentum of the 2024 report by deepening the analysis, expanding the scope of the data, and reinforcing the critical contributions women are making at board and senior leadership levels.
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