Executive MBA Scholarships for Women profiles

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Our Executive MBA scholars have all received funding in recognition of their past successes (both academic and professional) and their potential to become future leaders. Saïd Business School is committed to supporting exceptional female candidates to encourage an increase in women considering senior leadership roles.

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January 2024

Stephanie Baaklini

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Commericial Leader, NielsenIQ
Belgium

With a decade's experience in diverse roles at NIQ, Stephanie currently leads Sales in Belgium as well as volunteering at Lead Network. Oxford aligns with her ambition for impactful industry change and community contributions. Leveraging its excellence, Stephanie aims to elevate her career's leadership impact.

 

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Bruna Estevanin

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Partner Solutions Lead for Europe, Middle East and Africa
Brazil

Bruna heads a team of senior consultants at Meta, collaborating with content creators in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. With 8 years in the tech industry, she's an executive member of Women@Tech UK, offering extensive experience in launching operations in emerging economies.

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Duygu Gozeler Porchet

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Founder and Managing Partner of Gaia Impact Ventures
Turkey

Duygu, Managing Partner at Gaia Impact Ventures, leverages a global career in investment banking and wealth management, coupled with a strong academic foundation in mathematics and finance, to champion impactful investments. She is a dedicated advocate for gender equity and empathetic leadership.

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Iustina Ilisei, PhD

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Product Manager in Strategic Operational Intelligence department, Roche
Romania

Iustina Ilisei's career comprises an array of academic and IT consultancy experience, spanning the realms of artificial intelligence (AI) across diverse sectors. Currently, her vibrant energy and focus is on product management and strategic AI business transformation.

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Nghiem Linh Phuong (Emily Nghiem)

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Innovation Lead, Meta
Vietnam

Emily is a Harvard alumna and has worked in the tech industry around the world for more than a decade. She's currently focused on Innovation in Trust & Safety with AI at Meta and a start-up at the same time. She strongly believes the Oxford EMBA will make her a better entrepreneur and leader

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September 2023

Alvina Burgazli

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Director of Analytics and Business Intelligence, AYTM
Ukraine

Being passionate about data-driven decision making, strategy development, process optimisation and transformation, Alvina has helped various businesses grow and develop for over a decade. She has a solid academic background and is advocating for gender equity, diversity and inclusion.

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Jeongmi Dozono-Kim

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Managing Director, State Street
South Korea

Jeo has been in the global financial industry focusing on governance, risk and cultural excellence. She is a member of the Board at State Street Trust and Banking Japan, and chairs the Inclusion Diversity and Equity forum as a passionate advocate making difference in achieving great things.

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Sophie Evans

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Associate Director, Centre for Disaster Protection
United Kingdom

Sophie leads the advisory services at the Centre for Disaster Protection, an organisation focused on more impactful and equitable global disaster risk finance. She brings her experience in risk, climate and innovative financing in emerging economies, across public and private sectors.

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Isabel Vimbai Makwara Gora

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Director of Transformation and Business Excellence
Germany

Isabel is an experienced leader in large-scale global transformation and strategy initiatives. She is skilled in international collaboration and strategic partnerships. An alum of Mercedes-Benz, Deloitte and Rolls-Royce, Isabel is an advocate for women in leadership, diversity and inclusion, and passionate about business in Africa.

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Kristie Rogers

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Director, Visa
Australia

 

Kristie Rogers is a Delivery Director at Visa. She is a founding member of one of Visa's newest and fastest growing services that has grown from $1m to $10m annual revenue in the past three years. Kristie is passionate about creating equity and equality in the world is honoured to be a Forté Fellow.

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Rachel Sibande

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Senior Programme Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Malawi

Rachel established Malawi's first technology hub and incubator, mHub, in 2014. The hub incubates emerging innovative entrepreneurs and provides financing and investment readiness support. She has been listed twice by Forbes as one of 30 promising entrepreneurs in Africa and as a new wealth creator.

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Anna Zongollowicz

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Team Leader, Swisscontact Myanmar
Poland and Australia

Anna has worked in the international development sector for more than 15 years. She focuses on policy development and impact-driven interventions in support of quality education, skills development and inclusive labour practices in South America, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.

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January 2023

Nicola Clement

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
General Manager Omni Experience, Myer
New Zealand

Nicola has 23 years of digital experience focused on retail and transformation. A change leader, both in business and the wider retail industry, she is an advocate for increasing diversity and representation, developing great leaders, and using technology to solve human problems.

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Rumeysa Kadak

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Member of Parliament, Social Entrepreneur
Turkey

Social Entrepreneur, Member of Parliament, and one of two women in Parliament's Administrative Board. Rumeysa founded six organisations and leads 5000 volunteers to create social impact. She studied her Bachelor’s in teaching and politics, and her Master’s in global diplomacy at SOAS, University of London.

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Sophia Metz

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Founder and CEO, Meltdown
France

Sophia is an entrepreneur who created the concept of e-sports bars and turned it into an award-winning franchise. She chose to join Oxford to expand her business vision and leverage its academic excellence into more professional achievements.

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September 2022

Alexandra Bailey

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Director of Operational Excellence, Babcock International 
United Kingdom

Alexandra Bailey is a Commercial Leader with a track record of developing and delivering large scale (£1bn plus) portfolios of contracts and operational services. She spent twenty years in the public sector delivering innovative and transformative solutions to complex and previously intractable problems. She recently joined Babcock International to lead their Group Transformation. 

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Allison Chandler

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
VP, Compliance and Legal Affairs, Target RWE Health Evidence Solutions
United States

Allison has spent the past five years as a senior leader at a mission driven clinical data company where she has focused on legal compliance. As an advocate for gender parity, she is honoured to be a Forté Fellow and to be studying at Oxford, a historic University which is helping to shape the future.

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Lisa Chung

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Head of Strategy and Planning, International eCommerce, Marks and Spencer
Canada / United Kingdom

Lisa heads up the Strategy and Planning team for International eCommerce at M&S. Previously, Lisa has worked globally across three markets in both consulting and accounting roles in the financial services sector. Championing diversity in the workplace, she has chaired several gender networks.

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Allison Stuckless

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Senior Client Relationship Manager, Essentia Analytics
United States

Allison manages Essentia Analytics' largest clients in Europe, US, and Asia. Prior to Essentia, she spent 11 years at J.P. Morgan as a private banker covering Mexico. In her spare time, Allison is a stand-up comedian. She looks forward to Oxford's outstanding curriculum.

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January 2022

Grace Ning Guan

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Head of Student Recruitment, University of Sydney
China

Passionate about international education mobility, Ning built her career in public and education sectors over three continents. Including a billion-dollar annual revenue education sales role in Australia, UK-China inter-governmental liaison and leading technical and analytical transformation programmes.

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Dr Anne Makena

Forté Foundation Fellowships for Women
Co-director, Africa Oxford Initiative
Kenya

Co-director of the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), a vibrant research network facilitating impactful global research partnerships for Africa’s development. AfOx has built new collaborations with over 100 institutions in 32 countries across the continent.

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Selai Mangal

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Co-founder and CEO, BAHAM
Afghanistan

Selai is the CEO of an Afghan Think-Tank, BAHAM. She is the Managing Director of CELEI, an initiative she established to support Afghan women in the handicrafts sector. She is also the Founder of Adam Foundation, which provides educational support to vulnerable children across Afghanistan.

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Ijeoma Miriam Nwakuche

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
General Manager, Mars Multiconcepts Ltd
Nigeria

Founder of Purple Orchid Projects, a free coaching and mentorship organisation, equipping young female professionals to attain the best versions of themselves. With origins in Nigeria and ambitions for global impact, she joins the cohort hoping to accelerate this work. 

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Sarah Thurston

EMBA Scholarships for Women in association with the 30% Club
Deputy Director, USAID/MOMENTUM Population Services International
United States

Sarah is a sustainability and social impact professional. In her current role, Sarah serves as Deputy Director of the USAID MOMENTUM initiative’s private sector work.

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