Today, the seminar "Leadership, governance and globalization: Forum for strategic impact” has come to an end. It was organized by the Women for Africa Foundation in collaboration with Yale University with backing from Banco Santander via Santander Universidades.

1. The seminar for African women leaders in Yale
University ends
• The initiative was organized by the Women for Africa Foundation (Mujeres por África) in
collaboration with the prestigious university itself with the support of Banco Santander
via Santander Universidades. It will be continued in coming years.
Washington, May 14th, 2015. Today, the seminar "Leadership, governance and globalization:
Forum for strategic impact” has come to an end. It was organized by the Women for Africa
Foundation in collaboration with Yale University with backing from Banco Santander via
Santander Universidades.
The seminar, which will continue in coming years, was attended by women leaders, mostly
ministers and former ministers from five African countries. The aim is to create a network of
women politicians united by the will to strengthen democracy and equality on the continent,
focusing on human development and contributing to good governance, peace and,
ultimately, people’s dignity and well-being.
For this reason, all the participants have made a commitment to hold a seminar of this kind
with a university in their country to help extend the network among African women leaders.
Along with the president of Women for Africa, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, African
women leaders from five countries also took part in the seminar at Yale: from Ghana, Naana
Jane Opoku Agyemang, the Minister of Education, and Nana Oye Lithur, Minister of Gender,
Children and Social Protection; from Mali, Maiga Sina Damba, Vice President of the Network
of Women Ministers and African Parliamentarians, and Ramatoulaye Diallo Ndiaye, the
Minister of Culture; from Morocco, Nouzha Skalli, a parliamentarian, and Asma Chaabi from
the International Women's Forum; from Nigeria, Obiageli Ezekwesili, former Minister of
Education, and Oluremi Sonaiya, candidate for the country’s presidential elections in 2015;
and from Kenya, Martha Karua, former Minister of Justice, and Naisula Lessuda, a senator.
The seminar was divided into two parts. The first comprised five days of intensive sessions
on the Yale campus. Issues were addressed such as the nature of leadership, the unequal
Comunication Yale University
Shana Schneider
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Communication Women for Africa
Ana Salado
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ana.salado@mujeresporafrica.es
http://www.mujeresporafrica.es/
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Ana Núñez / Sonia Pérez / Marta Gallardo / Ignacio Marín
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2. access of women to decision-making positions, development economics, strategy in politics,
governance, strengthening democracy and institutions, and the great challenges of our time.
These sessions, headed by Professor Elizabeth Bradley, Director of the Global Health
Leadership Institute at Yale, included the participation of distinguished lecturers from the
university. They ended with a lecture by its president, Peter Salovey, one of the pioneers in
the concept of emotional intelligence, who spoke of this matter and its relation to
leadership.
After this first phase, the ten African leaders studying in the seminar travelled to New York
and Washington to hold a series of meetings with United States’ leaders of the highest level.
These included John Kerry, the Secretary of State; Catherine Russell, Ambassador-at-Large
for Women's Issues in the same department; Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the
United Nations; John Negroponte, former Deputy Secretary of State and Director of National
Intelligence; Janet Yellen, Chair of the Federal Reserve System; and Sonia Sotomayor, a
Justice of the US Supreme Court.
Banco Santander backs this endeavor through its Santander Universidades’ corporate area
(www.santander.com/universidades). The bank has worked for over 18 years with
universities and academic institutions through an initiative that is unique in the world and
which sets it apart from other banks and financial institutions. It maintains a stable alliance
with over 1,200 academic institutions worldwide, including the Women for Africa
Foundation and Yale University, and by 2018 it will have allocated a total of € 1,700 million
to support projects in higher education. In the US, the bank has so far set up a total of 39
agreements with universities and research centers.
Comunicación Universidad de Yale
Shana Schneider
(+1) 203 432 1345
shana.schneider@yale.edu
http://www.yale.edu/
Comunicación Mujeres por África
Ana Salado
+34 659 90 86 24
ana.salado@mujeresporafrica.es
http://www.mujeresporafrica.es/
Comunicación Global Santander Universidades
Ana Núñez / Sonia Pérez / Marta Gallardo / Ignacio Marín
+34 615 90 29 46 | +34 615 90 74 04 | +34 615 371 838 | +34 615 901 256
comunicacionsantanderuniversidades@gruposantander.com
www.santander.com/universidades / Twitter: @bancosantander
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