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Gender Equality in Leadership<br />

I Euro-American Women Leaders Forum<br />

Diversity as a key to success<br />

Gender Diversity in Leadership: Key<br />

private and public sector leaders<br />

PRINCIPLE 5: PARTNERSHIP<br />

This forum was held in November 2014 in Costa<br />

Rica, and was a joint effort of <strong>INCAE</strong>, AmCham and<br />

Voces Vitales Costa Rica. The forum aimed to create<br />

a dialogue platform through which public and private<br />

sector leaders (both men and women) from Europe,<br />

North America and Latin America could exchange<br />

ideas and establish new partnerships in order to<br />

strengthen women’s leadership in the business<br />

world. The main speakers included representatives<br />

of the Costa Rican government, Microsoft Latin<br />

America, Intel Corporation, HISPASAT and Talengo<br />

(Spain), Voces Vitales Costa Rica, AmCham Costa<br />

Rica, HSBC El Salvador and <strong>INCAE</strong> faculty members.<br />

II Euro-American Women Leaders Forum<br />

Collaborative leadership as a key to<br />

organizational success<br />

The Center for Collaborative and Women’s<br />

Leadership (CCLW), in partnership with Vital Voices<br />

Costa Rica, offered bimonthly talks from June 2014<br />

to November 2015, with the aim of strengthening<br />

the promotion and training of female leadership.<br />

Main speakers included former Costa Rican<br />

president Laura Chinchilla; former <strong>INCAE</strong> President<br />

Arturo Condo; Elizabeth Odio, Inter-American Court<br />

of Human Rights judge; José Aguilar, founder<br />

of Foundation for Youth Action; Juan Alfaro of<br />

Instituto de Empresas (IE) Madrid; and Patricia<br />

Cauqui, founder of People Motion.<br />

Camelia Ilie, PhD.<br />

Dean of Executive Education. Associate<br />

Professor. Chair of the Center for<br />

Collaborative Wome's Leadership<br />

camelia.ilie@incae.edu<br />

The Center for Collaborative Leadership and Women<br />

(CCLW) and Voces Vitales held this second forum<br />

in November 2015 in Costa Rica, where public and<br />

private sector leaders, along with business students<br />

from Europe (London School of Economics, ESADE),<br />

the United States (Harvard, Georgetown) and Latin<br />

America (<strong>INCAE</strong>) exchanged ideas and defined<br />

proposals to strengthen the inclusion of women in the<br />

business world.<br />

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Camelia Ilie, PhD.<br />

Dean of Executive Education. Associate Professor.<br />

Chair of the Center for Collaborative Wome's<br />

Leadership<br />

camelia.ilie@incae.edu<br />

Professor Susan Clancy and Camelia Ilie, I Euro-American Women<br />

Leaders Forum, November 2014

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