Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

If you have an overwhelming majority of one sex over the other, and clearly in our case at the moment - and it has been like this for a long time - it is male over female, you tend to have group thinking. You tend to have common references, combined with competition, combined in this case with testosterone. I'm not suggesting it's a toxic mix, but I'm saying it needs to be tempered and altered and modified and made better by diversity.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

When women do better, economies do better.

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.