As a part of the Beyond SHETECH Summit 2025, Global Women Asia put together a panel of women to share about health tech, digital ecosystems, STEM education, and AI innovation. Centered on the theme "From Asia to the World: Tapping Regional Expertise for Global Impact," each panelist shared personal experiences with innovation and entrepreneurship, globalization opportunities and challenges, and how being a woman in these industries shaped their journeys.

Global Women Asia (GWA) has launched the Women in Health Innovation Council, a group of health and business leaders with Asian perspectives. The Council will guide GWA’s efforts to spotlight innovators advancing healthcare through technology, policy, community practices, and equity. Members include leaders from India, Thailand, Hong Kong, and the U.S.

Global Women Asia recently convened our board members, fellows, advisors, and new community members in Hong Kong and Singapore to celebrate diverse leadership and allyship.

Global Women Asia’s 2024 Women-in-STEM Fellows convened from around the world for an exclusive four-day leadership program in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

They visited leading tech companies such as Ripple, Google, LinkedIn, and Plug and Play Tech Center to understand the latest trends of crypto currency, the future of semiconductor design, and the venture capital ecosystem in Silicon Valley.

Thank you for supporting Global Women Asia’s inaugural Women-in-STEM Groundbreakers Award. We’re inspired by this year’s honorees, including Neeru Khosla, Mastercard’s Girls4Tech, Pakistani Women in Computing, and Professor Nancy Y. Ip of HKUST.

Global Women Asia convened our London community on September 17 to introduce our 2024 Women in STEM fellow Tee Ganbold and 2023 Women in Sustainability fellow Larissa Pramudita Sidarto. Thank you to our host Baker McKenzie and to Jane Hobson and H. Henry Chang for their generosity.

Global Women Asia (GWA) hosted a discussion with Marine Mallinson of Noetic Fund and Patricia Sun of JLIN LLC and Jeremy Lin Foundation for #MentalHealthAwareness. As GWA continues to focus on #WomenInSTEM in 2024, we highlighted the current state of mental health solutions and breakthroughs.

On April 18th, Global Women Asia held our offline event in China with Bessie Lee, Greater China CEO, JLL and host of Beiwanglu 贝望录 podcast. Global Women Asia 2023 Fellows Olivia Plotnick and Milawen Ding hosted the event at the office of Gusto Collective in Jing’An, Shanghai.

Women in STEM face systemic inequality and bias as early as elementary school, and this continues through higher education and in the workplace. Not only does this impact women personally, but it also has far-reaching consequences for society.

Global Women Asia welcomes Emily Chew as our latest member of the Board. Emily is Executive Vice President of Calvert Research and Management, a part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

Global Women Asia (GWA) received the HK Federation of Women on March 12 as the delegation participated in the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings in New York City.

After launching a year ago, Global Women Asia returned to London on February 12th to convene a meeting at the UK House of Lords, co-hosted by Baroness Mary Goudie and The Lord Leong CBE. Baroness Goudie opened the session by announcing GWA's 2024 Women in STEM Fellowship, encouraging everyone to nominate potential fellows.

Global Women Asia wrapped up a learning-rich week with our Fellows in Sustainability at APEC.

Ahead of APEC, we shared our founding story with CEO Summit Journal.