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Welcome to She Writes, a monthly newsletter featuring women whose ideas deserve wider attention. In each issue, we highlight women to watch and share a selection of Project Syndicate's most incisive woman-authored commentaries from the previous month.
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Aubrey Hruby and Saadia Zahidi
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Aubrey Hruby, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, is a co-founder of Insider, a public relations firm that works with African entrepreneurs, and the Africa Expert Network (AXN), an information-brokerage and expert-connection service. She is the former managing director of the Whitaker Group, an advisory firm that has facilitated more than $2 billion in capital flows to Africa. A term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Milken Institute Young Leader, Hruby also teaches at Georgetown University.
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Hruby and Aubrey Rugo show how better roads and trucks are essential to enable the continent to weather the COVID-19 crisis.
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Saadia Zahidi is a member of the World Economic Forum’s managing board, head of its Center for the New Economy and Society, and a co-author of its Future of Jobs, Global Gender Gap, Reskilling Revolution, and Global Human Capital Reports. A rising star at the WEF, Zahidi has been on the BBC’s 100 Women list twice, and won the first Bracken Bower Prize from the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company.
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Zahidi argues that governments' emergency measures must continue to have strings attached – and more should be added.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says rebooting the World Trade Organization will require political will, determination, and flexibility from all its members. Read more.
Mariana Mazzucato and Antonio Andreoni show why governments can and should attach mandatory conditions to state aid to private businesses. Read more.
Stephanie Hankey asks why growing reliance on digital surveillance technologies to tackle crises has met so little resistance. Read more.
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