Top 10 Women Corporate Leaders - 2025

Women have continued to make exceptional advances as corporate trainers, chief legal officers (CLOs), and financial leaders across Asia and in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with Abu Dhabi being a focal point of female leadership. Women Leaders excel when it comes to communication, empathy, and flexibility. They play key roles in influencing organizational culture, developing leadership, and training teams of employees on the necessary skills needed to adapt to complex and unpredictable business environments. Women can create open learning opportunities that engage the entire workforce which fosters collaboration and openness to innovation, when personal styles of learning can be accommodated.

"Empowered women leaders build empowered teams, stronger companies, and better societies"

As chief legal officers, women across Asia are transforming legal and compliance practices. To lead as a CLO takes two special skills; vast amounts of legal knowledge in multiple jurisdictions while integrating a strategic business perspective that allows their organizations to remain compliant and agile to meet regulatory changes. Women at this level are innovating corporate governance, accountability, and corporate ethics programs that allow corporate social responsibility and sustainability, along with improving diversity and inclusion work in the legal profession.

Women finance leaders are redefining financial strategy, capital allocation, and operational excellence across the GCC country, thereby continuing to drive their organizations forward. They serve in important and influential positions within a broad spectrum of the finance sector including banking, investment, fintech and more. Women finance leaders are influencing the path toward digital transformation, innovation and sustainable financial practices. Their representation within boardrooms indicates a shared commitment toward gender balance and economic diversification. Women finance leaders are known for their combination of technical expertise with people focus allowing organizations to prosper through resilience and long-term value.

Abu Dhabi is uniquely positioned as a center for women leaders across industries, including parts of government, sovereign wealth funds, healthcare, energy and technology. Women have made major strides to grow the Emirates and bring a diverse perspective to its global position. They are innovative leaders guided by integrity while enabling social impact initiatives, youth development, economic development and sustainability. The prospect of women's finance leadership roles inspires others to expand women's contributions to Abu Dhabi's growth trajectory. These women and finance leaders constitute a new type of leadership, redefining possibilities across geographies and industries. They demonstrate the value of differences in perspective to enhance business value with an inclusive, resilient organization. 

In this issue, the Women Entrepreneurs Review magazine brings a spotlight of 'Top 10 Women Corporate Leaders - 2025', featuring leaders who are domineers of change in the corporate realm of the country. This list of ten leading and inspiring women is crafted by a team of CEOs, VCs, and the editorial board, delivering inspiring stories of their journey and the contributions & roles played by them in the creation and empowerment of an economically powerful nation.