{"60":"2021-03-18","61":{"first":"Noura","last":"Mokhtari"},"62":"Fb21al6@amideast.org","63":"202-776-9628","64":{"street":"2025 M Street NW, Ste 600","street2":"AMIDEAST- Fulbright","city":"Washington,","state":"DC","zip":"20036","country":"United States"},"191":"Corp LLM","66":"This major is a perfect match for my previous academic studies, my current professional expertise, my home action plan and my future professional career objectives.","67":"Delaware is a prestigious academic institution and one of a very few law schools that offer an LLM concentration in Corporate Law & Finance with a wide range of courses that perfectly suit my learning and research objectives.","68":"","69":"After finishing the program, I will work on achieving the following objectives:\r\nMy immediate plan after coming back home is to work on strengthening the advocacy function of the Algerian competition authorities to achieve a balance between competition and other public policy objectives. Therefore, my first step will be presenting an impact assessment mechanism of regulatory measures as I noticed that some reform measures adopted by the government have raised significant antitrust concerns as they led to the consecration of monopoly in some sectors to the detriment of general welfare. \r\nMy midterm goal is to suggest the adoption of a reform policy which will review the current role of the external services of the Algerian Ministry of Commerce as decentralized services that were established with the main objective of bringing the administration closer to the administered and organizing and regulating trade affairs at the local level, while the reality of trade sector reveals that it remains monopolized by parallel market and overwhelmed by illegal commercial practices and tax evasion.\r\nThus, as a law school graduate, a current civil servant and a future policy maker, I perceive this program as an opportunity for personal growth and professional progress as it will equip me with the necessary knowledge and skills to achieve my goals not only as an ambitious civil servant, but first and foremost as a female professional aiming at breaking through the glass ceiling and climbing the professional ladder to a higher position.\r\n","70":"Strongly influenced by my personal experience with gender related constraints, I am highly committed to women empowerment in my community. My work experience has made me realize the importance of financial independence for women and allowed me to closely witness the challenges that are facing them in the business field.\r\nCompletely aware that any change in the current situation of women in my society starts mainly from empowering them, I decided to work on establishing a platform that gathers professionals from different sectors, with the objective of providing access to information and training for women entrepreneurs to reduce the complex bureaucratic impediments that are facing them. \r\nIn order to build my skills and acquire firsthand experience in the field of economic empowerment of women, I have engaged in two programs that serve the same cause. In the first program, called \u201cBawsala\u201d, organized by the US Embassy in Algiers and World Learning Algeria, I volunteered as a mentor to provide guidance for newly graduate female students to help them make well-informed decisions about their professional career. While, in the second program, I engaged as a mentee in an international mentorship program called Athena MENA Program, organized by Global Thinkers Forum, aimed at strengthening women leaders in the MENA region. \r\n","72":"NOURA MOKHTARI"}