Leaders of the Future Summit: Bridging the Gender Gap in Oil and Gas Industry

Managing Gender and Generation Diversity: As a result of GCC nationalization initiatives and current estimates highlighting that over 50% of GCC university graduates consist of women, both government and private sectors are reshaping their recruitment and HR strategies to incorporate more women employees into their organizations. Due to its technical nature and historic “old men’s club” stature, oil and gas sector is facing major challenges in incorporating more women into its workforce and lagging far behind this growing trend.

At the Leaders of the Future Summit you will learn about:

Achieving true nationalization targets: Role of GCC women in the engineering and technical sectors
Employment trends for women in the energy fields: New generation versus old generation requirements
Best practices in minimizing the gender and generation gap
Opportunities and barriers facing women in oil and gas and engineering fields
Role of the academia in educating and training more successful female candidates for technical fields