Oana Bîzgan is the first woman in Romanian politics to join the global community of emerging Young Global Leaders

MP Oana Bîzgan is the first woman in Romanian politics to join the global community of emerging leaders, “Young Global Leaders”, a program initiated by the World Economic Forum. The forum announced on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, the official list of new YGL members, the 2018 promotion – http://widgets.weforum.org/ygl-2018/.

Young Global Leaders identifies leaders from all walks of life and from all continents who dedicate their time and skills to helping the world become a better place. Community members collaborate over a five-year term to explore and identify solutions to global problems. Each year, thousands of candidates from around the world are nominated and evaluated according to rigorous selection criteria; only about 100 of them become Young Global Leaders.

Oana Bîzgan will join an exclusive community, including personalities such as Emmanuel Macron, David Cameron, Jacinda Ardern, Amal Clooney, Charlize Theron, Ashton Kutcher, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Marissa Mayer.

“I am happy, proud and honored to be selected by the World Economic Forum to join the Young Global Leaders community 2018. I am confident that I will work with exceptional leaders and will tackle important projects at a European and international level. I propose to bring on the agenda of this community the specific problems we face in Romania. I will also continue to support gender equality, as I do in the Parliament every day,” said Oana Bîzgan, YGL 2018.

Oana Bîzgan has been a deputy in Bucharest since 2016, a member of the Commission for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men and the Committee for Economic Policy, Reform and Privatization of the Chamber of Deputies. Her work was noted through a series of ambitious legislative initiatives, such as: punishing street harassment as well as moral harassment in the workplace, civil partnership, setting up the National Automated Registry of juvenile offenses, sexual and harassment offenses and raising the age when children in the protection system are sent to residential services to 7 years old. Before taking office as parliamentarian, Oana Bîzgan was part of the technocratic government; after more than 10 years of experience in strategic management, she was a counselor to the deputy prime minister – the minister of economy, trade and relations with business affairs, as well as the Chief of Staff of InvestRomania. More information here: www.oanabizgan.com.

The Young Global Leaders program started in 2004 as a way to help emerging leaders address complex and interdependent issues. The YGL vision involves a global community of new generation leaders, capable of contributing to decision making through new perspectives on modern challenges and sustainable development at a regional and global level.