Filipina cited as ‘Global Visionary’ by Swiss giant bank UBS

Swiss financial institution UBS recently released their inaugural list of Global Visionaries, and a Filipina was listed as one of them.

EMPOWERING WOMEN AND GIRLS EVERYWHERE. Womensphere CEO and Founder Analisa Balares is one of ten UBS Global Visionaries. Image grabbed from Womensphere Foundation

Analisa Leonor Balares was one of 10 individuals from across the globe handpicked by UBS as one of their inaugural Global Visionaries. Based in New York, she is the chairperson and founder of Womensphere Foundation as well as the CEO and Founder of Womensphere, a global social enterprise that aims to empower women and girls “to lead, create our future, and transform our world.”

Balares came from humble beginnings in the streets of the Philippines. She has since attended an Ivy League institution (MBA from Harvard Business School), worked at Microsoft (Global Marketing Manager for MSN’s blogging/social networking platform), and Wall Street companies Goldman Sachs, and Milestone Capital.

“I owe this to the support I received from my family, institutional support from the schools, and my network of friends that encouraged me to keep going. I wanted to replicate and spread this type of empowerment to women and girls across the world. It was with this goal that I created Womensphere,” she said in her interview with UBS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EG61sKn8kw

Womensphere is a social enterprise that takes an ecosystem and community approach to empowering women and girls, using technology and media to create solutions unique to whatever community they are focusing on, whether that may be through the internet or partnerships with local organizations.

UBS provides financial advice solutions to wealthy, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as private clients in their home base of Switzerland.

 

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer, UBS Global Visionaries