Farah Ramzan Golant is CEO of Girl Effect, a nonprofit that builds girl-powered media brands that reframe the value of girls in society through magazines, girl groups, and TV programs that attract, connect, and empower girls and dismantle the social norms that hold them back. Golant has served on the British prime minister’s business advisory group and was a business ambassador for the creative industries of Britain. In 2011, she was awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her services to the advertising industry and was named business woman of the year in the Asian Women of Achievement Awards of 2010.
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The idea that investing in girls is the single most effective investment available to spur economic development and end global poverty has become a widely popular notion. And...