Scholarship for the 2025 Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators
The Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions (CoE) together with Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii), are jointly sponsoring the participation of an insurance supervisor and a high-potential woman leader in the Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators 2025. The program is taught by Women’s World Banking and Faculty from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School.
It is intended to support insurance supervisors in developing policies that close the gender gap in inclusive insurance and in developing women’s leadership capacity in regulatory organizations. About the ProgramThis multi-week blended learning program equips senior officials and high-potential leaders from central banks and other regulatory agencies in emerging markets, with the skills to create an enabling environment for women’s financial inclusion and advance gender diverse leaders within their institutions. Participants come together for interactive online classes, team assignments, 1:1 advisory sessions and peer learning. They will also connect with peers from across the globe for intensive in-person learning at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School in June 2025. Participants will also be invited to present their Capstone presentations at the 2025 Alliance for Financial Inclusions’ Global Policy Forum (location TBC) in September 2025. Why is this program unique?For nearly 20 years, Women’s World Banking has trained leaders from more than 80 countries. This is the only program for financial regulators at the intersection of leadership development and women’s financial inclusion. It equips participants with technical and strategic know-how to design gender-inclusive policy, and leadership skills to affect change. With a specific dual-track approach, senior officials gain the tools to sponsor women leaders, modelling an approach for building a pipeline of gender diverse talent within their institutions. |
What do participants gain?
Leadership Skills: Learn core skills such as change leadership, persuasion, negotiation, emotional intelligence, and unconscious bias.
Women’s Financial Inclusion Knowledge: Understand global challenges and best practices in gender-inclusive policy design and implementation.
A Global Network: Engage in an action learning methodology that leverages peer-to-peer learning and support. Upon successful completion of the program, graduates join our Alumni Network, gaining access to a wealth of experience, expertise and opportunities for further learning and support.
Scholarship Opportunity
The CoE scholarship to senior officials (m/f/d) and high-potential women leaders who intend to develop policy initiatives focusing on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance solutions (e.g., agricultural insurance, risk transfer solutions for the most vulnerable, and similar) against the backdrop of increasing risk of climate change impacts in countries of the Global South.
The scholarship, will cover the tuition fees of the program and offering the opportunity for individual coaching sessions for the professional development of each senior official and the high-potential woman leader.
When is the program?
The program will run from April 2025, to September 2025
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Complete the APPLICATION FORM by 30 November 2024