Miral Hamani-Samaan, director of M&A, corporate transactions and international governance, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Miral Hamani-Samaan, director of M&A, corporate transactions and international governance, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Interview

Geneva-based Miral Hamani-Samaan is director of M&A, corporate transactions and international governance at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She discusses the paradox inherent in positive discrimination and quota-setting for workplace equality, and the importance of role models.

ROLE MODELS

My mother is a lawyer and all through my youth, during the summertime, I would work as an intern with her or her colleagues, going to court, seeing criminal and civil cases. I was always interested in the legal profession, and it really started with seeing my mother take the oath − because she became a lawyer rather late, resuming her studies while I was a young child.

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