IPWS in City Weekend & Shanghai Family

Shanghai’s community & online magazine City Weekend has featured IPWS’ President Tiziana Figliolia this month, and you can find a lot more women (in business, arts & culture and more) featured in their ‘Women’s Issue’ this month online. “City Weekend dedicates the month of October to women, partly because it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but also because there seems to be a noticeable shift towards a future where more and more women are taking on leading roles in the city.” […]

5 Minutes With… Ana Candida Perez – Consul-General of Brazil

In our 5 Minutes With… series, we’re speaking to remarkable women about their career highlights, challenges, who they admire and advice they have for other women.  In this edition of 5 Minutes With…, we’re featuring Ana Candida Perez, the Consul-General of Brazil. We were fortunate to host her at Navigating Borders: Women on the International Stage event on October 19. Read on! My biggest career challenge was:  At a certain point in my career, I had two small children, I was studying for a […]

5 Minutes With… Eu-Niz Chan, Consul for Economic Policy, Australian Consulate General

In our 5 Minutes With… series, we’re speaking to remarkable women about their career highlights, challenges, who they admire and advice they have for other women.  In this edition of 5 Minutes With…, we’re featuring Eu-Niz Chan, Consul for Economic Policy at the Australian Consulate General. We were fortunate to host her at Navigating Borders: Women on the International Stage event on October 19. Read on! My biggest career hurdle was: Believing that I wasn’t good enough to do something! My advice to female young […]

5 Minutes With… Therese Healy – Irish Consul General

In our “5 Minutes With…” series, we’re speaking to remarkable women about their career highlights, challenges, who they admire and advice they have for other women. IPWS is one of Shanghai’s longest running groups for professional women of all industries and career stages, and it’s our mission to connect the unconnected and empower women from all walks of life in our community. In this first edition of 5 Minutes With…, we’re featuring Therese Healy, Consul General at the Consulate General of Ireland. We were fortunate […]

5 Minutes With… Guergana Guermanoff – New Zealand’s Consul General

In our 5 Minutes With… series, we’re speaking to remarkable women about their career highlights, challenges, who they admire and advice they have for other women.  In this edition of 5 Minutes With…, we’re featuring Guergana Guermanoff, the Consul-General, New Zealand Consulate Shanghai. We were fortunate to host her at Navigating Borders: Women on the International Stage event on October 19. Read on! My biggest career hurdle was: I left government and went to work for an advisory firm, which was working with a […]

An Evening with Diplomats

What an amazing evening! Over 40 IPWS members and friends met to mix, mingle and learn about the exciting lives of diplomats. We were thrilled to welcome many new faces to this event. Our distinguished guests were Ana Candida Perez, Consul-General of Brazil; Therese Healy, Consul-General | Consulate General of Ireland; Guergana Guermanoff, New Zealand Consul-General; and Eu-Niz Chan, Consul for Economic Policy, Australian Consulate General. Moderating the discussion was Lee Kane, Consul for Political, Economic and Public Affairs with the Consulate General […]

Welcome Epermarket! A New IPWS Sponsor

IPWS is so happy to introduce Epermarket as our newest annual sponsor and today we’d like to share a little more about the online supermarket that makes life in Shanghai easy and delicious! Jean Yves Lu is the founder and CEO of Epermarket, an online supermarket that focuses on providing expats in Shanghai and surrounding areas with safe, high-quality groceries. It Started With an Idea After living and working in France for many years, Jean Yves decided to move himself […]

Sponsor Spotlight: eco&more

In May eco&more join International Professional Women’s Society as an annual sponsor! We want to send our warm thank you to founder Jeni Saeyang & her team for their ongoing support and we wanted to share Jeni’s story with you. Here’s a Q&A below, but make sure you visit the eco&more store at K11!   1 The origin of eco&more is that you want to add the eco-friendly products for Chinese customers? Do you find any changes in the past 5 […]

IPWS Annual Survey – A Chance to WIN

Every year IPWS wants to know what YOU would like to see on the event calendar and what YOU enjoy about being a professional woman in Shanghai. With 2-3 events a month and a community of over 3000 women across our different platforms & channels, the IPWS team want to make the year ahead just as successful as the previous season! We’re excited to announce that by filling in the Survey below, you’ll be in the running to pick up […]

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