Times Power Women 2018 Honour Shabana Azmi, Schauna Chauhan & Other Achievers With Heart Of...







Autoplay Autoplay 1 of 13 Women Of Worth Women empowerment doesn’t just mean gender equality. It is also about having the authority and power to do something and becoming aware of one’s rights and privileges as well as the ability to control one’s life in a more meaningful and fulfilling way.



The Times Power Women – West India 2018, held at The Sofitel, powered by Vinay Aranha, celebrated such women who have brought about positive changes in society.



The event was graced by chief guest Amruta Fadnavis, actor Shabana Azmi, celebrity entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty, Masaba Gupta and more.



The event had Landmark cars as the auto partner, Maison des Perfumes as gifting partner and Horra as accessories partner.



In pic: Parle Agro's Schauna Chauhan (L) and actress Shabana Azmi (R). Ruling The Stage The Times Power Women Awards celebrated women achievers who have made it their mission to serve society. Actress Shabana Azmi (R) presented the Theatre Veteran award to Raell Padamsee (L). Star Power Marathi actress Mrinal Kulkarni was felicitated as the Leading Actor in Marathi Cinema. In pic: Kulkarni receives the award from Raell Padamsee. Young Achievers Club The Times Power Women Awards celebrated women who have brought about positive changes in society. Actress Sai Tamhankar (L) was felicitated as a Young Achiever in Marathi Cinema. Founding Dean of the Indian School of Management & Entrepreneurship Indu Shahni (R) presented the award. Social Media Star In a world being run by social media, bloggers play an important role. Zeba Kohli honoured celebrity video influencer Scherezade Shroff (L) with the Social Media Blogger title.

Gita Gopinath, Pinelopi Goldberg: Women Economists Who Rule The World







Autoplay Autoplay 1 of 6 Banking On Women In a changing world, women are matching strides with men, breaking barriers and setting new boundaries. As workplaces become more inclusive and diverse, we see women taking charge across the sectors.



The world of finance and economics, too, has seen the rise of woman power. Women economists, across latitudes, are calling the shots in leading global financial organisations. From the World Bank to the International Monetary Fund, it's women all the way.



Here's looking at these power bosses, and their inspiring journeys to the top.



In Pic (l to r): Anshula Kant, Gita Gopinath and Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg. The Power Of Perseverance State Bank of India (SBI) Managing director Anshula Kant recently made history when she was named MD and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the World Bank. The appointment makes her the first woman CFO of the international body.



Born on September 7, 1960, Kant - who grew up in Roorkee - has been with the SBI for over 35 years, having joined the bank in 1983 as a probationary officer. A Lady Shri Ram College and Delhi School of Economics alumna, Kant rose through the ranks during her tenure at SBI, where she previously also served as CFO. As CFO, she managed USD 38 billion of revenues and total assets of USD 500 billion. The mother-of-two, she has a son (who lives in New York) and a daughter (based in Singapore) with her CA husband, also served as the CEO of the Singapore unit of SBI.



In her new role, Kant will be responsible for financial and risk management of the World Bank Group and reporting to its president David Malpass.





Also Read: Isha Ambani has a plan to empower women, digitally, with some help from Jio The Stuff Of Dreams India-born Gita Gopinath’s appointment as the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in October 2018 made her the first woman, and second Indian after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, to hold the position.



Born on December 8, 1971, in then Calcutta, during the Bangladesh war, Gopinath’s family moved to Mysore when she was nine – and enrolled her in Nirmala Convent school. She later joined Mahajana PU college in Mysuru and pursued science, before moving to Delhi to study economics at Lady Shiram College and later at the Delhi School of Economics – where she met her now-husband Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal, with whom she has a son.



Having completed another M.A. from the University of Washington, Gopinath – who at one time loved athletics but gave it up to concentrate on her studies - did her PhD in Economics from Princeton University.



Gopinath worked at the University of Chicago in 2001 as an assistant professor, before moving to Harvard where she became a tenured professor in 2010. Gopinath is now on leave of public service from Harvard University’s Economics department where she is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics. The 46-year-old is the third woman, and second Indian after Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to be made a permanent member of the economics department at Harvard.



In 2016, Gopinath was appointed by the CPM-led LDF government in Kerala as financial advisor to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, but she stepped down from the position in 2018. Making A Mark When Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg was appointed the World Bank’s Chief Economist in April last year, she became just the second woman – and first Greek – to hold the position. But the 56-year-old Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University (she joined the faculty in 2001) was once rejected from the bank for an internship, according to a report in The National Herald.



As an undergraduate student in Germany, Goldberg had applied for an internship at the World Bank, but got a letter saying that she wouldn’t even be considered till she had a doctorate. And that pushed Goldberg to leave home for the US to pursue her PhD.



Born in Athens in 1963, she studied at the German High School of Athens, and gained a Diploma from the University of Freiburg, Germany, before getting her Ph.D from Stanford University.



Goldberg’s illustrious career included various roles in academia (she has previously served on the economics faculty at Princeton and Columbia), apart from her several roles in the economic community.



From 2011-2017, she was also the Editor-in-Chief of the American Economic Review. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is a recipient of both Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Sloan Research Fellowships, and also won the Bodossaki Prize in Social Sciences - among her various awards and recognition.





(Image:Yale University) Shattering Stereotypes In its recent appointment of Beata Javorcik, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD) got its first woman chief economist. The Polish national, who has a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale, will join the bank on September 1. Javorcik was also the first woman to hold a Statutory Professorship in Economics at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford, she worked at the World Bank in Washington DC. She is also a managing editor of the quarterly Economic Policy, and a member of the Royal Economic Society’s Executive Committee, apart from being a Director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.

NEW YORK: Four Indian-origin women have been named by Forbes among America's top 50 female technology moguls, a list that includes tech heavyweights IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and Netflix executive Anne Aaron.Padmasree Warrior, former chief technology officer (CTO) of Cisco; Komal Mangtani , senior director at app-based cab aggregator Uber; Neha Narkhede , chief technology officer and co-founder of streaming platform Confluent; and Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan , CEO and founder of identity-management company Drawbrige; are in the list."Women don't wait for the future. The 2018 Inaugural Top 50 Women In Technology list identifies three generations of forward-thinking technologists leading more than a dozen tech sectors across the globe," Forbes said in its 'America's Top 50 Women in Tech 2018'.Warrior (58) served in executive positions at both Motorola and Cisco and is now the US CEO of the Chinese electric-autonomous-vehicle startup NIO.At the USD 138-billion Cisco Systems, she had help Cisco the tech giant grow in influence through acquisitions. She is also on the boards of Microsoft and Spotify."Warrior still finds the time to mentor other women in the tech industry, stay in touch with her 1.6 million Twitter followers and follow a nightly meditation routine," the business magazine said.Mangtani, an alumnus of Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology in Gujarat, heads business intelligence at Uber. Currently, she serves on the board of nonprofit organisation Women Who Code and led Uber's USD 1.2-billion donation and partnership with Girls Who Code to increase access to computer science.Narkhede, who studied at Pune university, had as a software engineer at LinkedIn helped develop Apache Kafka -- which can process the huge influx of data coming from the site in real time. The data-processing software has become the heart of Confluent, an enterprise Narkhede founded with her LinkedIn co-workers to build tools for companies using Apache Kafka, Forbes said.The 32-year-old's firm counts Goldman Sachs, Netflix and Uber as customers.Forty-three-year-old Sivaramakrishnan's company, Drawbridge, uses large-scale artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify the different devices people."As the number of devices people use on a daily basis -- computers, laptops and smartphones -- increase, advertisers need a way to show ads to a person across all their devices. Facebook and Google already offer these services to advertisers, but now they have a competitor with Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan's Drawbridge," Forbes added.