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Ex-Wall Street executive founds community for sovereign women

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

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Sefi Shliselberg
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:

The founder of a new women-focused organization explains its rationale and goals to Opalesque.

Sefi Shliselberg worked on Wall Street, at Moody's and Deutsche, for many years and got to meet many people from the sovereign financial sector; she realized that the few women working there did not know each other, and there were no networking associations in place for them. So she founded Women in Sovereign Entities (WSE), the first women-focused organization for the sovereign financial sector, in 2011.

She recently explained on Opalesque TV that the "sovereign financial sector" includes organizations such as central banks, ministries of finance, sovereign wealth funds, public pension funds, development banks and multilateral financial institutions.

"WSE recognizes the leading role that many of these women who are underrepresented in sovereign financial entities play in the sector," she explains to Greg de Spoelberch during the interview. "Our mission is really to provide them with a forum for connection and affiliation, for sharing best practices, and for supporting their leadership and development."

"We call that Connect, Inform and Empower," she adds.

WSE’s aim is ambitious. By supporting women in this sector, the organization helps the......................

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