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Women are underrepresented in the C-suite and Boards throughout Europe.. Change is gently happening : be part of the change.

Join us to hear Hedwige Nuyens, Managing Director of the International Banking Federation,  talk about her career in banking and her work as chair of European Women on Boards to get more women into C-suites and Board rooms across Europe. 

Presentation by Hedwige Nuyens, Chair of European Women on Boards (EWOB), and Managing Director of the International Banking Federation, talking about her career and the work done by EWoB to increase the number of women in  C- suites and Boards of organisations, followed by questions and discussion. Hosted by Catherine Guillou for iwibdus

Hedwige Nuyens has more than 30 years of experience in the Banking Industry and in Finance.

She currently heads the International Banking Federation representing the banking industry at international level. Previously she was Head of Group Prudential Affairs at BNP Paribas, Chief Financial Officer of the Catholic University Louvain and Chief Risk Officer of ABN Amro Bank in Belgium.

Hedwige is a longstanding advocate for gender diversity. Elected Businesswomen of the Year in 1999, she mentored hundreds of women so far, helping them build the career they want. She wrote a book in 2005 on the glass ceiling. In 2013 she was elected Chairwoman of the BNP Paribas’ Women network.

Hedwige holds a Faculty of Law and a Master’s in financial sciences from the Catholic University Louvain, a Master’s in business administration and finance from the EHSAL Brussels. She followed courses on Digital Transformation at Insead, on Sustainable Finance at Cambridge, on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at MIT and on Cyber Security at Harvard.