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Saudi Arabia’s First Female CEO Makes Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women

By Working Woman Report

Posted on December 13, 2019

Arab News

WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Rania Nashar, the CEO of Samba Financial Group was ranked 97th in the list.

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s first female CEO is named in Forbes 100 most powerful women in the world for a second time.

Rania Nashar, Samba Financial Group CEO, was ranked 97th in the list that also included 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

The list also included the United Arab Emirates’ Raja Easa Al-Gurg ranked at 84. The Emirati, who is a Board Member of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was also featured in the list in 2017.

The top 10 in the list included German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde, who was newly appointed president of the European Central Bank.
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