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Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE U.S. Department of State and FORTUNE's Most Powerful
Women to Host New Mentoring Initiative for Emerging Women Business
Leaders
The U.S. Department of State and FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women will co-host the International Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership April 30 through May 25, 2006. As part of the Department's International Visitor Leadership Program, this initiative will place emerging women business leaders from around the world in one-on-one, three-week mentoring programs with FORTUNE's most powerful women leaders. The visitors will have unique opportunities to develop their business and management skills while experiencing the cutting-edge U.S. business world. Following an orientation week in Washington, D.C., the participants will begin their mentoring programs in cities around the country. "Working with the American private sector to boost U.S. public diplomacy's positive impact around the globe is a Department of State priority," said Dina Habib Powell, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. "Through the FORTUNE-Department of State International Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, we are tapping into one of the nation's richest sources of skill, determination, and exemplary achievement in business in order to inform and empower women throughout the world." The twenty international women participants, ages 26 to 41, hail from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America and the East Asia Pacific region. They are early- to mid-career professionals in business, who may be interested in launching their own regional enterprises or in expanding existing businesses. For more information about the FORTUNE-Department of State International Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, please contact the Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs: Nicole Deaner, 202-203-7613 or
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