Whether walking with the world’s leaders in U.S. Congressional corridors, along Davos’ icy streets or Oxford’s cobblestone paths, there has been one constant: I have been one of a handful of women in a crowd of men. Sometimes I have been the only woman in the room. So when I recently received notice that I was selected by the World Economic Forum as a 2012 Young Global Leader it was a strange sensation to see that a remarkable 41 percent of my new community — 78 of the 192 leaders — are female. How unique. And how good for the world. Given the severity of challenges confronting our global society, we can no longer afford to leave half our brains or half our resources on the sidelines. To use a sailing analogy, we need all hands on...

For the third time, in 2012,the King Abdullah II Fund for Development hosts the prestigious Harvard Executive Education Program in the Dead Sea. The “Leading for the Future: The Arab Region in a Changing World” program provides an important forum to hone skills, expand knowledge, and gain unique perspectives on the challenges facing the region and the world. Intense interaction with world class faculty and other participants, who hold the most senior leadership and policymaking positions in their countries, will provide an unparalleled opportunity for discussions and reflection on the challenges facing the region. The Program encourages the transformational skills of leaders and will enable participants to return to their countries with an enhanced...