Leading The Way: Saudi Arabia's Dr. Hayat Sindi

In 2007, Dr. Sindi founded and became the Director of Diagnostic for All, a non-profit initiative that creates low-cost diagnostic devices designed for the developing world. In 2011, she founded and chaired the Jeddah-based Institute for Imagination and Ingenuity (i2institute) through which she aims to promote science education and innovation to young people. To successfully pursue these entrepreneurial endeavors and make a lasting social impact, having selfconfidence and a clear goal in life is crucial, she says.

When it comes to women in science, statistics certainly don’t paint a positive picture according to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women, despite the male-to-female ratio among PhD students and younger post-doctoral graduates being roughly 50:50.

“If you look at statistics, we miss women in leadership positions in science to decide on the direction of science, where we should invest money and on what type of innovation,” Dr. Sindi says. “Because I believe that if we have women in decision-making positions, we won’t have fast cars and nuclear weapons as much as more cures, medicines, more humanitarian goals achieved, and so on.”

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