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The growing recognition of the strength of women in Saudi Arabia to fully step into their social and economic power over the last few years hasn’t surprised Emon Shakoor, a Saudi neuroscience researcher who became a technology entrepreneur and startup catalyst. “I see Saudi women possessing vision with great agility,” she declares. “Saudi women are extremely resilient and adaptive, which is a core quality for any entrepreneur.”
Strength is a part of Shakoor’s personality too. Despite battling with dozens of epilepsy seizures a day while growing up, Shakoor managed to get past those hurdles and go on to earn a degree in cognitive sciences from the University of California, San Diego, and then work at Parexel, a US clinical research and biopharmaceutical company, where she led hundreds of Pfizer