The Women2Women program was designed to provide young women around the world with the opportunity to learn, network and acquire leadership and professional development skills. Participants learned first-hand about the benefits, challenges and responsibilities associated with leadership from established women leaders in government, community, media and business. The Conference was created to empower young women to become future leaders.

Held at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the third year of Women2Women had 81 young women from 15 countries attend the conference. Delegates came from Australia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Tajikistan, the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, the United States and Uzbekistan.

The Conference took place from August 9, 2008 thrugh August 16, 2008. The delegates attended workshops on the Art of Negotiation, Building a Career, Journalism, Women in the Legislature and a Global Women Panel discussion.

Speakers included Victoria Budson, founding Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Susan Hackley, the Managing Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, award-winning journalist Jane Christo, Andra Friedman the Vice President and Senior Counsel for the Global Justice Center  and Farah Pandith the Senior Advisor for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.

To see a complete list of speakers, please click here.

To see the W2W 2008 schedule, please click here.