(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, MAY 31 - The 2012 Global Summit of Women
will be held in Greece this year, opening in Athens on Thursday
with the theme "Women: The Engine of Economic Growth", as Athens
News Agency reports. Women from all over the world, leaders in
government and business, scientists, professionals and
academics, personalities in the Society of the Citizens and the
global women's movement, will gather in Athens for the three-day
Summit, which has been taking place for the last 22 years. "We
deliberately chose Greece to host the Summit this year because
we strongly believe that we should always be there where we are
needed most," Irene Natividad, president of the Global Summit of
Women, told ANA. "The Summit will bring new ideas, and
prospective alliances, through the meetings between Greek
entrepreneurs and Summit participants, while it will also
provide an opportunity for talented Greek women to present
themselves and get to know people of international prestige,
giving a different picture of Greece," Natividad added. The
Global Summit of Women was conceived as the nexus at which all
sectors - public, private and non-profit - would come together
under the common vision of dramatically expanding women's
economic opportunities globally through exchanges of working
solutions and creative strategies forged by women leaders in
different parts of the world. It is a business Summit, whose
'business' focus is women's advancement in the global economy.
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