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We create greater opportunities for women in the workforce

We’re on a mission to create diverse and ​equitable workspaces.
NINEby9 delivers impactful research & data-driven advocacy to ​create greater opportunities for women in the workforce. We’re a Singapore-based, not-for-profit organisation, driving ​change across Asia.

Despite all the talk, change is slow. And getting slower.
1.8X
JOB LOSSEs
Female job losses are 1.8 times higher than male job losses during the pandemic
1/3
BARRIER
Women in Asia Pacific say their gender has been a significant barrier to opportunity
70%
NOT PRIORITY
Organizations say that gender equality is not a top 10 priority for them
*SOURCE: MCKINSEY GENDER PARITY REPORT, SOUTHEAST ASIA 2018 & POWER OF PARITY REPORT 2020, 2020 LINKEDIN OPPORTUNITY INDEX, IBM WOMEN & LEADERSHIP REPORT
How we work
We drive gender equality through research insights that highlight ​the barriers and enablers to gender equality and provide a ​foundation for action.
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Define
gender parity for individuals and organizations
Track
progress and trends
over 9 years
Act
with a tailored framework for sustainable change
NINEby9 delivers impactful research & data-driven advocacy to ​create greater opportunities for women in the workforce. We’re a Singapore-based, not-for-profit organisation, driving ​change across Asia.
CO-FOUNDERS

CHRISTINE FELLOWES
"I forged a career as a corporate leader while raising three children at a time where there was little acknowledgement in the workplace of the challenges of family and societal demands on women. In co-founding NINEby9 I aspire to a vision that my daughters and son enter a workforce which offers equal opportunity, regardless of gender."

APRIL SWANDO HU
"As a reset year sparked by life experiences and world events, I co-founded NINEby9 in 2020 to cascade strategic action for gender parity for sweet-spot working women in Asia. I believe that women in management is good business and Eastern and Western balance is even better business."
ADVISORY BOARD

CHRISTINE AMOUR-LEVAR
CO-FOUNDER, WOMEN ON A MISSION & FOUNDER, HER PLANET EARTH
Christine Amour-Levar is a French-Swiss-Filipina Social Entrepreneur, Adventurer, Author and Advocate. A passionate champion of female empowerment and environmental conservation, she founded Women on a Mission (WOAM) and HER Planet Earth, two award-winning, not-for-profit organisations.

SANJEEV CHATRATH
PARTNER, FINANCIAL SERVICES, EY APAC
Sanjeev is a Global Executive and Business Leader. He has worked in Financial and Information Services Industries for over 25 years with multi-national firms including Citigroup, Standard Chartered, Thomson Reuters, and IBM.

INEET NARULA BARTHWAL
BAIN & COMPANY
Ineet Narula Barthwal is a Vice President at Bain & Company and leads the Bain Executive Network (BEN) in the Asia Pacific region. Ineet comes with a 15 years extensive experience in management consulting, executive development and talent solutions in Asia Pacific.
ADVISORY COUNCIL

KOH TAI ANN
Senior Associate at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Prof. Koh Tai Ann was an early member of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), was on the Executive Committee and then, Advisory Committee of the former UNIFEM (Singapore) and has been an advocate on gender equality and women’s rights.

KOH TAI ANN
Senior Associate at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Prof. Koh Tai Ann was an early member of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), was on the Executive Committee and then, Advisory Committee of the former UNIFEM (Singapore) and has been an advocate on gender equality and women’s rights.

KOH TAI ANN
Senior Associate at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Prof. Koh Tai Ann was an early member of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), was on the Executive Committee and then, Advisory Committee of the former UNIFEM (Singapore) and has been an advocate on gender equality and women’s rights.

DR. VINIKA RAO
Executive Director, INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute & Gender Initiative. Asia Director, INSEAD Hoffman Global Institute
Dr Rao has a doctorate in leadership diversity and currently sits on the boards of a non-profit organization, a think-tank and is an ambassador for Power Women of India, Council of Leaders, Women Icons Network and She2030. Her research is in gender diversity in corporate leadership, male allyship, millennials & inter-generational influences on the workplace and emerging markets.

PROF. JOANNE KATHRYN ROBERTS
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT (ACADEMIC AFFAIRS), YALE-NUS COLLEGE
Joanne Roberts did her undergraduate training in Economics at the University of Waterloo and her graduate work at Queen’s University in Canada. In 1998, Joanne joined the faculty at the University of Toronto, and in 2008, the University of Calgary, before joining Yale-NUS in 2017.

PROF. KOH TAI ANN
Senior Associate at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Prof. Koh Tai Ann was an early member of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), was on the Executive Committee and then, Advisory Committee of the former UNIFEM (Singapore) and has been an advocate on gender equality and women’s rights.
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