This is not unusual for me to be here as the last. My husband will always tell you "You always get the last word”. And so should you. That is what she was encouraging us to do. You all have already passed the most important test of leadership- Stamina.

You have been here, you are dedicated, you are committed and should you ever doubt in the future, that you have it what it takes to hang in there and make it work for you-you should never doubt that . I am so personally very appreciative of it too. So thank you. Also I must say that we as panellists here were challenged. I went in for a bio break. Challenged to be there with you. Personally I have been so inspired by the work that is being done everywhere, by what is being inspired by the Art of Living foundation and most importantly by our male champion. Sir thank you so much. We need more men have champions of women power. So a big round of applause for every body else in the panel here. I already gave you the good news that since I am the last one between you and lunch - I have already given you a quick preview of my speech because honestly I saw that we were running out of time.And i thought I am never going to get time.So I might as well say whatever I had to say now when i asked my question. But seriously I am very excited to be here amongst a group women leaders because we have already heard so many examples of how women's leadership matters. And one thing we know if nothing else for certain that some leaders are born women. Now that was not always believed but some leaders are born women. Women like Ms. Marissa Mayer who was the CEO of Yahoo who famously left her high level project at Google for this post when she was pregnant with her first child. That was unprecedented. The first CEO of a public Ltd company in USA who was pregnant. And she spurted doubling of yahoos value in the first year at the helm. Or Aung San Suchi who many of you must know was the opposition leader in Myanmar and winner of the 1991 nobel peace prize who brought about a revolution to elevate the well being of her people after decades spent on house arrest or Christine Lagarde, MD of the International Monetary fund and a likely candidate for the next president of France or Valerie Jarrett , senior advisor to President Obama and a former Chicago lawyer, business woman and civic leader who helped Obama win in 2008 and has remained the key advisor ever since. She is one of the few who has stayed with him all this time and she is till there. And of course if I may move ahead Hillary Clinton. Former US secretary of State and potential candidate for the 2016 US presidential election. Stay tuned and we are expecting an announcement any day now. But what differentiates these world leaders from those who do not rise to the top? We are all here in this room seeking to make a difference. The difference we make will be defined by the amount of leadership we can exert around the shared values as we were hearing that we hold. Given that the world economic forum predicts that women will only reach leadership parity in 2095, which is not in my life time. I do not know about you but it is not in my lifetime. To accelerate this progress we need to understand this better so that we can each fulfill each of our full leadership potential. So what do we learn from these remarkable women who have made it to the top of their fields. Over the years as I have mentioned that I have had the privilege and the pleasure of observing the secretary of state enduring her various life phases as the first lady and then a senator and working with her as a presidential candidate and secretary of state. And I began to realize why this woman was different. And what it was for this woman to always rise to the top and lead as she does. So today I would like to share 4 things that I have learnt from Hillary Clinton about leadership. Because it is a lesson on those who rise to the top all do. No matter where in the world they lead or no matter whether they are male or female by the way. So first leaders have vision. In 1995 first lady f US Hillary Clinton was scheduled to address the UN 4th World Congress on women in Beijing, China. Now I do not know how many of you are old enough to remember that- a series of diplomatic crisis emerged that prevented her from attending. Yet she knew it was her chance to set out her vision on women's rights. And she did just that. In a remarkable speech that we have all heard over and over again, that was instantly recognized as a milestone and has become a manifesto of sorts for women's advocacy all over the world she said that no one else would. And something perhaps we take for granted today but perhaps we should never do. She said "Human rights are Women’s right and women's rights are human rights. Once and for all”. Now thank you for all women's advocates out herewith that she set a high bar for equality that no country in the world had achieved and that inspired others to pursue ever since. Declaring her vision boldly in front of an audience that was both powerful and potentially threatened by it and then inspiring others to work on this mission as hard as she does has demonstrated to the world what an extraordinary leader Hillary is. Second lesson is that Leaders take risks. On January 20th 2007 Hillary announced the formation of a Presidential exploratory committee saying "I mean and I mean to win”. At that time as a 2 term senator, former first lady, ex law firm partner, published author, she had plenty of accolades and accomplishments to her credit. So without having to step up to this great challenge and responsibility and yet as a determined leader she was willing to take the risk and the initiative to promote the values and initiative that is deemed essential to the prosperity of American people and the world. Bottom-line, Leaders lead. Takes the risk and do what you have to do. And to give all the respect to paraphrase His Holiness when he says about "Women dominating" we know he doesn't mean that physically or in a negative way. It is about women stepping up to leadership. And that is what we all need to do. Shortly after she announced I joined the financial council of the campaign. And I never did anything political in my life before. And you heard I was in the private sector, I was a banker, I was 13 years in Corporate Executive in American express and Bank of America till I became a serial entrepreneur in the San Francisco , Bay area. I had never done anything political before. I was very active in the community- I was the president of the financial women's association, head of various community organizations but I stepped up when Hillary announced as I thought "I have got to help this woman get there”. I campaigned and hosted major fund raining events for her.This photo was taken by me and Hillary when I went to her home during the first fund raising event in her home in the 2008 campaign and I was one of several hosts . We had a full house. Together we helped raise a quarter of a million dollars for her campaign in 2008 the first event and when we went to do much more. It was the night of the New Hampshire primary which won and a couple of nights of the IOWA caucuses which didn't win. I asked her how she was able to sustain her energy levels throughout the intense campaign and with a smile she said to me "Vitamins". I said I want a case of those. More than anything though I wanted for this leader who was taking all kinds of personal risks on behalf of the country to succeed. With each step forward she inspired each of us to do more. The third lesson is that leaders adapt. You may find it funny that I have used this photo about women leaders adapting but Hillary always makes a joke that if she ever wants to knock a bad news story off the front page of the New York Times she changes her hairdo. And that is a sad commentary on how women leaders are reflected. So though she garnered 18 million votes in the primaries leading unto the 2008 election Hillary lost out narrowly to Obama. That said she stayed in the race till the bitter end demonstrating her tenacity, her determination and her dedication. After the primaries ended even Obama had to concede that “I honor her today for the valour and historic campaign she has run. She shattered barriers on behalf of my daughters and women everywhere who now know that there are no limits to their dreams". And as we now know that this was not the last thing that Obama would say about Hillary. To her credit when she gave her concession speech she threw her full weight of support to Obama saying " The way to continue our fight now to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy and our passion our strength and all we can to help elect Barrack Obama the next President of the United States. Once again demonstrating that her heart is as big as her brain. And once again inspiring us all to move forward and adapt as leaders do. It was no doubt that this gracious concession along with Hillary's incomparable record and reputation that led president Obama to ask her to join his cabinet as Secretary of State.After declining twice she accepted and went on to achieve many great things. Even New York Times noted how quickly she adapted. Even before taking office Hillaray Roddam Clinton is seeking to build an even more powerful state department with a bigger budget, high profile special envoys to troubled spots and an expanded role for dealing with global economic issues at a time of crisis. Fortunately for me one of those economic issues she chose to deal with was the empowerment of women and youth through entrepreneurship. I was recruited initially to launch an initiative on global women's entrepreneurship and then to take over the global entrepreneurship program which we grew to almost a 150 countries. The secretary was supportive throughout. It became clear that ambassadors all over the world loved promoting what many considered to be the best part of the American brand i.e entrepreneurship. And for me personally it was thrilling to have the secretaries backing to launch many thrilling programs for both public private partnerships. Programs that have helped to train, incubate and fund and grow start ups all over the world. By showing us how to adapt or pivot as we say in the entrepreneurship world Secretary Clinton helped us to transform economic state craft as a major pillar of diplomacy. Last certainly not least of the lessons is that Leaders help elevate others. At the State department Secretary Clinton provided leadership on dozens of issues such as nuclear non proliferation and arms control. Many don't know that she negotiated our first nuclear non proliferation treaty in over 20 years with Russia. That is not often thought about. To dresden world hunger to rebuilding after the Arabs spring and many more issues she championed. she travelled almost a million miles during her 4 years of personal service meeting with world leaders offering her very personal style of leadership and inspired so many wherever she travelled. But if there is one set of issues and initiatives for she is most known that would have to be empowerment of women. Throughout her time as secretary she never lost the passion for the issue that she called : The unfinished business of the 21st century- the empowerment of women. Not only did she establish the first "ambassador at large for global women's issues" but she supported the efforts of every department and bureau at the state department to mainstream the gender agenda. The book she wrote about her term as secretary "hard choices" has an entire chapter focussed on this and so many other efforts at the state are also reflected in this. I am going to skip a small part here and just finish off by saying "At least the last lesson leadership of "True leaders are not all about just elevating themselves but rather elevating and inspiring others to their greatest potential”. And with that in mind it won't surprise you to hear that " I left the state department shortly after she did in April of 2013 to do two things - First to promote entrepreneurship and elevate entrepreneurs globally to their fullest potential and secondly most importantly to elevate one presidential candidate to her fullest potential. As I now serve as national finance co chair for ready for Hillary for political action committee. So along with Hillary who was born a women I can also say "I hope I will see one women president in my life time" and I hope to see many women rise to the top of their field by creating a vision, taking risks, adapting and elevating others. Thank you very much. .