The Women in Business Award panel of judges represents a wealth of knowledge, from a wide variety of regions and industry backgrounds. They include 12 women and 8 men working in enterprise development who are familiar with the business environment in developing countries. Their independent judgement is based on working knowledge and experience of what it takes to develop a small business with an impact on local communities, product or process innovation, and the ability to break into new markets domestically and abroad.

Piero Formica Professor of Economics with a special focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. Jönköping International Business School, Sweden	Pierre Kunz Member of the Great Council of Geneva, Switzerland & President of GENILEM, Geneva
Patrizia Carlevaro Head of the International Aid Unit at Eli Lilly	Simona Marzetti Secretary General, International Network for SMEs Association (INSME)
Nigel Chanakira Group CEO, Kingdom Financial Holdings Limited (KFHL), Zimbabwe	Mamta Mishra Executive Director, World Literacy of Canada
Cécile Molinier Director, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Geneva	Nayef Z. Stetieh President, The Business Development Center (BDC), Jordan
Jannie Tay Managing Director, The Hour Glass Ltd., Singapore	Karen Wilson Founder of GV Partners & Advisor to the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research (EFER)
Christine Thompson Policy Issues Manager, SABMiller PLC, London	Robert Ahomka-Lindsay CEO, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre
Judith Cone Vice-President, Emerging Strategies, Kauffman Foundation	Haifa Al Kaylani Founder & Chairwoman, The Arab InternationalWomen’s Forum (AIWF), London
Patricia R. Francis Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC), Geneva, Switzerland	Khalil Hamdani Special Adviser, The South Centre, a Geneva-based inter-governmental organization
Thomas Knecht Deputy Head, Private Sector Development Division, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)	Virginia Littlejohn CEO, Quantum Leaps, Inc., a Washington D.C. based NGO helping women’s businesses grow
Joyce R. Aryee CEO, Ghana Chamber of Mines	Constantine Bartel Assistant Programme Director, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)