Saadia Zahidi

Saadia Zahidi is a Member of the Managing Board and Head of the Centre for the New Economy and Society at the World Economic Forum. She is a founder and co-author of the Forum's Future of Jobs, Gender Gap, Human Capital and Towards a Reskilling Revolution Reports. Her interests include the future of work, the impact of technology on employment, education and skills, income inequality and using big data for public good. She was named one of BBC’s 100 Women driving change in economics, politics, and society. She is the recipient of the Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Brower Prize, promoting young authors writing on emerging business themes. Her first book, Fifty Million Rising, covers the rise of working women in the Muslim World and how economics trumps culture in this unique revolution. It was longlisted for the FT/Mckinsey Book of the Year 2018.