Women, Law, and Leadership: An Interview With Maria-Pia Hope of Vinge
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Join Penn Law Associate Dean Rangita de Silva de Alwis in conversation with Maria-Pia Hope, CEO and Managing Partner of Vinge Law Firm in Sweden. This conversation delves into the various initiatives that Maria-Pia Hope implemented to increase diversity at the senior levels of her law firm, and how that diversity led to higher profitability for the firm.
Maria-Pia Hope
Maria‑Pia Hope specialises in banking and finance, insolvency and reconstruction. She is Managing Partner and CEO of Vinge as of April 2012. She is the Chair Emeritus of Lex Mundi’s Managing Partner’s Committee, and she was on Veckans Affärer’s list of the 125 most Powerful Women in Swedish Business in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Rangita de Silva de Alwis
Rangita de Silva de Alwis is a globally recognized international women's rights expert. She serves as the Associate Dean of International Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she teaches international women's rights and has been appointed Leader-in-Residence at the Harvard Kennedy School for 2019-2020 academic year. In 2017, she started the Global Women's Leadership Project under the auspices of UN Women's Executive Director, Under Secretary-General Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to map the laws that regulate the status of women in the family