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Manufacturing is entering a transformative phase known as New Manufacturing, where technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, advanced materials, and digital design are reshaping how industries create value.
Asia has emerged as the central driver of this transformation. An often overlooked advantage behind this momentum is Asia’s strong female talent pipeline in STEM fields, with several economies reporting high shares of female researchers and science graduates.
While women are well represented in universities and research roles, they are still underrepresented in executive positions across the technology and manufacturing sectors. Global Women Asia (GWA) works to bridge this gap by supporting female innovators and connecting them to leadership opportunities shaping the future of New Manufacturing.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Global Women Asia hosted its first ever online reunion of fellows. Bringing together leaders across fields of Sustainability, STEM, and Health Innovation, GWA continues to foster a global network of leaders working to address the world’s most pressing challenges. Nominate a fellow to help invest in the next generation of leaders.
Global Women Asia co-hosted a roundtable with Stanford University’s Taiwan Hub, convening tech leaders, investors, and researchers to discuss New Manufacturing Innovation in Asia. As we continue exploring the relationship between humans and technology during the fourth industrial revolution, we invite you to nominate women for the New Manufacturing Innovation Fellowship.
As GWA introduces our 2026 focus theme of New Manufacturing Innovation, we kicked off January with a series of roundtable discussions in Singapore, Shenzhen, and Taipei.
From November 5-8, Global Women Asia hosted its annual Fellowship Summit. This year, the theme was Women in Health Innovation, and the program took place in Boston, Massachusetts. With visits to MIT Whitehead, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Takeda, Massachusetts General Hospital, and more, the week was full of learning, leadership building, and forming lasting bonds.
At its September 17 gathering in London, Global Women Asia (GWA) reaffirms a mission that feels both urgent and fragile: creating bridges across borders at a time when long-held values around gender equality are under pressure. The idea is simple but ambitious: if global challenges are to be met with credible answers, they need the perspectives of those who live closest to the problems.
From January to June 2025, Global Women Asia piloted GWA Learns: a two-tier program centered on creating valuable mentor-mentee relationships between volunteer Advisors and 2023-2024 Fellows and university students who were part of the Foundness Hatch Accelerator program. We explored how structured mentorship can accelerate learning and leadership at every career stage.
Global Women Asia (GWA) is delighted to announce Erika L. Moritsugu as the newest member of its Board of Directors. Erika brings valuable experience as the Deputy Assistant to President Biden and the Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Senior Liaison at the White House. GWA is honored to have Erika on our team and looks forward to her leadership in strengthening GWA’s efforts to build leadership with Asian perspectives.
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.