Ep 158: IWD Special: Embracing equity and closing the gender gap

Our flagship diversity event of the year, the International Women's Day Lunch, returned to the calendar for 2023 with a stellar line-up of speakers on this year's theme - #EmbraceEquity. The event, led by our Women in Business Committee, opens with a welcome glass of champagne, kindly sponsored by The Global Collective In this episode, we hear from Christine Amour-Levar, Co-Founder Women on a Mission and Founder HER Planet Earth who discusses how that different resources are needed to address an uneven social system. She also explained how through equity, it would give a voice to individuals of different backgrounds an even playing ground to take a step forward to more better world. Our speakers Christine Amour-Levar, Co-Founder Women on a Mission and Founder HER Planet Earth, Naomi Vowels, Co-Founder and Director of givvable, Godelieve Van Dooren, CEO, Southeast Asia Growth Markets of Mercer and David Jacob, Chief Executive Officer, Marsh Asia also provided their comments and insights where they open questions to the floor during the moderated panel discussion in this podcast. Thank you to our Title Partner, and Official Diversity and Inclusion Partner of the Chamber since 2014, Barclays , along with our Supporting Partners, XCL World Academyn, Santa Fe Relocation, Mercer, Mott MacDonald, Kennedys Legal Solutions, BT and Elliott Scott HR. Subscribe to the BritCham Singapore Podcast on your favourite player, and if you're listening on Spotify or Apple, please take a second to give us a 5* rating if you enjoy the show. Signup to our newsletter for more information and the opportunity to request topics and guests in future episodes, or head to our website. Thanks for listening!