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Saadia Zahidi is the head of Gender Parity and Human Capital of the World Economic Forum.
She signed a book deal with Nation Books and was Bracken Bower Prize for young business authors for her business book proposal, Womenomics in the Muslim World. Zahidi is the author of Fifty Million Rising.
She is honoured in BBC'S 100 Women in 2013.
Zahidi grew up in Pakistan. She gained a bachelor's degree in economics from Smith College, a master's international economics from Graduate Institute Geneva, and an MPA from Harvard University.