Elaine Gold is a Global Entrepreneurship Network global advisory board member, and established Qatar’s first Global Entrepreneurship Week. She chaired the GEW advisory board for three years. She has more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant, and spent eight years in Qatar working to support young Arab entrepreneurs in the MENA region. She is now based in the UK, but she continues to have projects in the MENA region, including “Women Entrepreneurs Weekly.”