I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

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

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.

When women do better, economies do better.