Mona Itani | NAWF Women Entrepreneurs

Mona Itani

Mona Itani

Mona Itani
Managing Founder, Riyada

Ms. Mona Itani is the managing founder of Riyada, a social enterprise that aims to provide youth with practice-based social entrepreneurship education to develop solutions for real problems with the use of technology.

She is a social entrepreneur, social activist, and academic of a computer and communications engineering background.

After earning her Masters in Engineering Management degree, she joined the Engineering Management program and the Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut where she served as a lecturer and researcher since 2011.

Due to her work in the field of young entrepreneurship, social responsibility and sustainability, she was selected to be an ambassador for the United Nations Global Compact Network in Lebanon.

Ms. Itani is the chair of IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group Lebanon Section and the co-chair of Arab Women in Computing (ArabWIC) Lebanon Chapter. She won the Inspiring IEEE Women in Engineering Member of the year honourable mention award in 2016, IEEE Lebanon section most active member award for 2015, and was a finalist in the McKinsey Next Generation Women Leaders award for 2015.

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Testimonials

H.E. Dr. Jihad Azour

Just to tell how impressed I was by the sixth annual session of NAWF. It was indeed an extremely interesting conference with excellent discussions. The quality of topics and speakers made this event very successful and contributed to enrich the debate on women's issues in the Middle East.
Mrs. Rana Ghandour Salhab

The group of presenters and panelists this year was very good, and I found the event successful and on topic. I commend you and your team for selecting such an excellent array of women and men leaders from across the region who shared their experiences and their views on the opportunities and challenges for women entrepreneurs in the Arab region. I wish you the best in future events.
Ms. Nadereh Chamlou

Thank you so much for inviting me to join you in this conference. I thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt a great deal.
Ms. Tania Moussallem

The efforts you invested resulted in a great, well organized conference with interesting and inspiring panels and speakers.
Ms. May Habib

Mabrouk on a wonderful conference. We found it inspiring and very useful as a networking event. Your team was friendly and high professional - thank you.
Aurelien LECHEVALLIER

Thank you very much, and bravo for this lovely 5th edition of NAWF! All of us highly appreciate that the event was very well organized, the exchanges (sometimes quite lively!) as well as the quality of the speakers.