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Time Inc.’s Fortune Hosts 2016 Most Powerful Women Summit International in London, June 13 & 14

Jun 7, 2016

(NEW YORK, NY, June 7, 2016)— The fifth Fortune Most Powerful Women (MPW) International Summit London, a Time. Inc. event, will bring together the most prominent global women leaders in business in Europe, along with select leaders from government, media, philanthropy, and the arts, June 13-14 at the Rosewood Hotel. The 2016 agenda will feature one-on one interviews, panel discussions and interactive breakout sessions, as well as a gala dinner.

See here for a current agenda (subject to change): http://bit.ly/1TWtNZe

Featured speakers include: Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Former Prime Minister, Denmark and Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children International; Nicola Mendelsohn, Vice President EMEA, Facebook; Nicky Morgan, MP, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, Department for Education, U.K.; Rona Fairhead, Chairman, BBC Trust; Former Chairman, HSBC North America Holdings Inc.; Frances Osborne, author; Baroness Sharon Bowles, Member, House of Lords; Nonexecutive Director, London Stock Exchange; Miriam Gonzalez Clegg, Partner, Dechert; Baroness Jennifer Jones, Member, House of Lords; Natalie Jaresko, Chairperson, Aspen institute Kyiv and former Finance Minister, Ukraine; Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister of Tolerance, United Arab Emirates; Mary Portas, Founder, Portas; Megan Hine, survival expert and celebrity expedition leader; Yonca Brunini, Vice President, Marketing, EMEA, Google; Juliet de Baubigny, Senior Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women; Jane Griffiths, Company Group Chairman, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson; Neelie Kroes, Special Envoy, Startup Delta, The Netherlands; Former European Commissioner for Digital Agenda; and many more.

Visit http://fortune.com/mpw/ for coverage of the event next week. #FortuneMPW

Topics that will be discussed include the Brexit debate, Eurupose disruptive innovation, new twists in social media, forging new paths in the Middle East, navigating uncertainty in Eastern Europe, setting the EU’s digital course and many more. Sessions will be moderated by Fortune MPW Co-Chairs Pattie Sellers and Nina Easton, MPW International Co-Chair Maithreyi Seetharaman and others. Time Inc. Executive Vice President Evelyn Webster will make opening remarks.

The MPW International Summit is the cornerstone of the global expansion of Fortune Most Powerful Women, which started as a conference 17 years ago and has evolved into the preeminent community of women leaders in business and beyond.

Johnson & Johnson is the Global MPW partner for 2016, including this event. This sponsorship is the first in MPW history that has encompassed the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in the U.S., the International Summits in London and Hong Kong, MPW’s annual New York and Washington D.C. events, and well as MPW Next Gen, which is now in its third year.

Accenture and Korn Ferry are also sponsors of the Fortune MPW International Summit London.

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