Economic Reporter :
Maliha Quadir, the founder of the Bangladesh’s first online travel ticket purchasing platform, has been named as Young Global Leader of 2017 by World Economic Forum (WEF).
The WEF is a Swiss non-profit foundation that works “to improve the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”. It is best known for its annual meeting at the end of January in Davos.
Each year, it selects 100 young leaders, under the age of 40, who are tackling the world’s “most complex challenges with innovative approaches”.
Among the current and former Young Global Leaders are heads of government and Fortune 500 companies, winners of Olympic medals and Academy Awards, and “people who have overcome towering adversity to positively change the world we live in”.
Maliha is the founding Managing Director of Shohoj Limited that owns and operates Shohoz.com, a premium online travel ticketing and reservation service provider.
“A businesswoman and a technology entrepreneur whose startup has done breakthrough work in digitising the transportation industry in Bangladesh,” the WEF said in its website about Maliha while announcing this year’s names.
They include a tech entrepreneur whose mobile app has helped over 100,000 smallholder farmers in Africa; a Yale graduate who shunned a big-city salary to help millions of villagers in rural China; a micro-insurance pioneer who is providing a safety net for the most vulnerable segments of society and transformative scientists who are pioneers in gene therapy, artificial intelligence, experimental psychology and mathematics.
Maliha Quadir, the founder of the Bangladesh’s first online travel ticket purchasing platform, has been named as Young Global Leader of 2017 by World Economic Forum (WEF).
The WEF is a Swiss non-profit foundation that works “to improve the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”. It is best known for its annual meeting at the end of January in Davos.
Each year, it selects 100 young leaders, under the age of 40, who are tackling the world’s “most complex challenges with innovative approaches”.
Among the current and former Young Global Leaders are heads of government and Fortune 500 companies, winners of Olympic medals and Academy Awards, and “people who have overcome towering adversity to positively change the world we live in”.
Maliha is the founding Managing Director of Shohoj Limited that owns and operates Shohoz.com, a premium online travel ticketing and reservation service provider.
“A businesswoman and a technology entrepreneur whose startup has done breakthrough work in digitising the transportation industry in Bangladesh,” the WEF said in its website about Maliha while announcing this year’s names.
They include a tech entrepreneur whose mobile app has helped over 100,000 smallholder farmers in Africa; a Yale graduate who shunned a big-city salary to help millions of villagers in rural China; a micro-insurance pioneer who is providing a safety net for the most vulnerable segments of society and transformative scientists who are pioneers in gene therapy, artificial intelligence, experimental psychology and mathematics.
