Reem Altharwa

Commercial Attaché

Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia

Biography:

Reem AlTharwa is the Saudi Commercial Attache in Washington DC. with the main objective to promote the economic interests of Saudi Arabia through facilitating support to exports, bilateral trade, and investments between Saudi Arabia and the US. 

Prior to joining the General Authority of Foreign Trade, Reem was the General Director of Promoting Investment in the Ministry of Health to be part of the future vision of Saudi Arabia by promoting and enhancing private sector participation in the healthcare sector. She developed SMEs Department and set its strategy with the Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority “Monshaat”.

More than 20 years of experience mostly in corporate banking and corporate finance before expanding its executive competencies by making tangible differences in developing the Saudi capital market as the Capital Market Initiatives Implementation Head in Capital Market Authority where she also had the opportunity to be part of corporate governance and its contribution to higher standards of accountability and business performance to listed companies. 

Reem earned a bachelor of art degree from Mount Vernon College an affiliate of George Washington University in Washington DC. 

Nicole Griensewic

Executive Director

Region Nine Development Commission in Minnesota

Biografy:

Griensewic has served as Executive Director of Region Nine Development Commission since 2012. As executive director, Griensewic has made it a priority to foster collaboration and engagement by sharing Region Nine’s story both regionally and globally. Griensewic is an active board and committee member for multiple organizations throughout Minnesota. Griensewic is the immediate past President of the Greater Minnesota Partnership, and is the first female to chair the Executive Committee for the University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies, where she served as chair of the Governance Committee. Griensewic also served as secretary of Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota’s Governing Board of Directors and chaired the Governance Committee and currently serves as an advisory board member for South Central College’s Center for Agriculture. She serves on the executive committee for the MACS Board, Minnesotans for the American Community Survey Board of Directors and represents the Midwest on the National Assoc. of Development Orgs.’s (NADO) Board of Directors.

Griensewic is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and has completed course work through Harvard’s Kennedy School’s Executive Education. She received the 2017 Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Her professional background includes extensive private sector and non-profit leadership experience.

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