The WIn Fellowship’s 2024-2025 UAE cohort

About the UAE WIn Fellowship

The Women Innovators (WIn) Fellowship is an initiative of the empowerME initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center, held in partnership with Georgetown University since March 2022, which aims to help women entrepreneurs accelerate their startups and acquire new leadership skills.

The fellowship provides a comprehensive, fully sponsored year-long executive training program that includes mentoring from regional and international executives. It also offers networking opportunities with prominent US and MENA business executives, government officials, and policy experts. Top participants are chosen for a fully sponsored trip to the United States, where they benefit from leadership training at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and meet with US business and government leaders.

The fellowship’s objectives:

• Accelerate the leadership and executive skills of women entrepreneurs and provide them with an unparalleled network of mentors, business executives, and policymakers
• Offer US policymakers, academics, and the business community direct insights into the opportunities and challenges faced by women in selected countries
• Develop a top-tier network of WIn fellows across the Middle East region who can support one another and be ambassadors for women’s economic participation

After the success of the inaugural program in 2022 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the fellowship’s expansion in 2023 to include not only the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but also the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the WIn fellowship is returning with a third year with an exciting program and growth opportunities of trailblazing women entrepreneurs from UAE.

2024 – 2025 UAE WIn Fellows

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WIn Fellowship 2024-2025 KSA

The WIn Fellowship, a partnership between the Atlantic Council and Georgetown University, offers a year-long, fully sponsored program for women in the Middle East and North Africa, featuring a custom executive education module designed by McDonough School of Business, mentorship, networking with top US and MENA leaders, and workshops aimed at enhancing women’s economic participation.

The WIn Fellowship 2024-2025 Jordan cohort

The Women Innovators Fellowship is bringing together women entrepreneurs in Jordan with the support of the US Embassy in Jordan.

WIn Fellowship 2023-2024 UAE

Meet our 2023-2024 WIn fellows from United Arab Emirates: a group of dynamic women entrepreneurs poised to expand their leadership and executive skills. They are on a mission to scale their startups to new heights, setting new benchmarks for success.

WIn Fellowship 2023-2024 Bahrain

Meet our 2023-2024 WIn fellows from Bahrain: a group of dynamic women entrepreneurs poised to expand their leadership and executive skills. They are on a mission to scale their startups to new heights, setting new benchmarks for success.

About the WIn Fellowship inaugural cohort

The WIn Fellowship is led by the Atlantic Council’s empowerME Initiative in cooperation with Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business with support from US Embassy Riyadh, UPS, and PepsiCo. The American Chamber of Commerce Saudi Arabia’s Women in Business Committee is the program’s in-person event partner.

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