Women United Foundation

A global platform for women who shape the world.

First Ladies, business leaders, and women of influence, aligned around leadership, capital, and execution across Africa and international markets.

First Ladies Business Leaders Women of Influence
FOUNDER'S STATEMENT
W

omen have always been the force behind the world's most consequential moments. Not at the margins. At the center. The work has simply not always carried our names.

I founded Women United Foundation because I understood something clearly. Women with immense influence, vision, and access rarely had structures built to match the scale of what they carried. And Africa, a continent of extraordinary richness, strategic weight, and global relevance, was confronting a similar truth on an even larger scale.

For decades the language offered to both has been the same. Empowerment. Capacity. Development. It is the vocabulary of a gift, and it has never matched what was actually in the room.

We are not looking for empowerment.
We are already powerful.
We are looking for investment.

That is what Women United Foundation is built to do. Not a gesture toward inclusion, but a serious global platform that places women of influence at the center of leadership, capital, and execution.

Deborah Elizabeth
FOUNDER AND GLOBAL EXECUTIVE CHAIR
Deborah Elizabeth, Founder and Global Executive Chair, Women United Foundation
EXECUTION PLATFORM

NEXUS

We do not ask for a seat at the table.
We build the architecture around it.

Getting the right people in a room is the easy part. Markets do not build themselves. Opportunity does not structure itself. Outcomes do not happen because the right people met once. NEXUS is what turns the conversation into something that holds.

01

Women United Foundation

Leadership access at the highest level, and the alignment to make it count.

02

African Women Business Union

The people who know the ground. The relationships. The execution.

H.E. Ana Dias Lourenço, First Lady of the Republic of Angola
03
CAPITAL ARCHITECTURE

Women's Prosperity Alliance

Where capital meets opportunity that has been properly built to receive it.

Women are already contributing enormously to our economies. The challenge is creating stronger systems, partnerships, and access so that contribution can grow at a much larger scale.

H.E. Ana Dias Lourenço
First Lady of the Republic of Angola
Advisory Council, Women's Prosperity Alliance
LEADERSHIP

The room, and who is in it.

Women United Foundation is shaped by leaders who have served nations, built industries, guided institutions, and carried influence across borders.

H.E. Dr. Fatima Maada Bio
H.E. Dr. Fatima Maada Bio
Global Spokesperson and Strategic Ambassador
HRH Princess Isabella Orsini
HRH Princess Isabella Orsini
Vice President, European Affairs and Cultural Diplomacy
Daphna Edwards Ziman
Daphna Edwards Ziman
Honorary President, Humanitarian Leadership
Dr. Martha Tilahun Namundjebo
Dr. Martha Tilahun Namundjebo
Business Strategy Advisory
Luanda, Angola
NEXT CONVENING

Women United Foundation
Business Roundtable

Luanda, Angola October 2026

Convened with the Office of the First Lady of Angola, alongside Women United Foundation board members and an American delegation. Angola is the flagship, and the proof that this model scales.

Not a symbolic event. A working session connecting a cohort of Angolan women entrepreneurs to global capital, expertise, and partnerships across agribusiness, energy and infrastructure, health, creative industries, and finance. It produces an operating agreement, sector working groups, and the Luanda Roadmap.

THE DELEGATION

Women United Foundation arrives with an American and European delegation assembled for what this room is meant to produce.

  • Senior leadership from US development finance, with direct experience structuring Angolan infrastructure at scale.
  • Counsel who helped architect the US legislative frameworks for African development.
  • European royal and government relationships carrying the outcomes onward into Europe.
  • Business leaders who have built across the continent and know what it takes to hold.

Full participation will be announced in advance of the convening.

What is built in Luanda becomes the model. Angola leads, and the platform extends from there.