Women's Forum Singapore 2024

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ChloƩ Vialard

A&O Shearman

Lawyer and Women's Forum 2023 Rising Talent

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ChloĆ© Vialard is a lawyer at A&O Shearman. Shearman & Sterling and Allen & Overy officially merged on May 1, 2024 to form A&O Shearman, the world's third largest law firm. Before joining Shearman & Sterling's Singapore office in 2018, she practiced in the firm's Paris office since 2014. ChloĆ© has experience advising and representing companies and State-owned entities in international arbitrations conducted under the rules of various arbitral institutions, with a focus on Asian and African matters. She advises clients in enforcement and annulment proceedings before French courts and is an accredited mediator at the Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI). ChloĆ© also develops collaborations with clients and other stakeholders, notably through legal pro bono, public policy, and corporate social responsibility work, including in support of non-profit organisations that help women survivors and victims of online harm. The firm received the ā€œChampion of Goodā€ recognition from the Singapore National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre in its two last editions in 2020 and 2022. ChloĆ© spearheads various diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives aimed at supporting gender equality and women and girlsā€™ rights. She is a Women's Forum 2023 Rising Talent and a member of the Advisory Board for the Womenā€™s Forum in Singapore. ChloĆ© was also a core member and co-coordinator of a team advising the Womenā€™s Forum to prepare public policy proposals to promote and support women's entrepreneurship, in the context of the 2020 G7 Summit. ChloĆ© engages as a volunteer lawyer at the Support Centre for women victims of violence among the French community in Singapore, a first-of-a-kind multi-jurisdictional pro bono partnership that she co-initiated in 2019 with the Paris Bar, the Law Society of Singapore and the Embassy of France in Singapore. She is Laureate of the 2024 edition of the ā€œTrophĆ©es des FranƧais de lā€™Ć©trangerā€ organised by LePetitJournal.com for her contribution to this innovative framework. ChloĆ© is co-President of the Women in Business Committee at the French Chamber of Commerce Singapore and sits on its Board of Directors.

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Impact Hub (Discovery Space)
Jun 19, 2024
5:00 PM5:45 PM

Digital violence: Battling backlash to womenā€™s rights online

SUKKI I See HerAward-winning screenwriter/director, producer and activist on women's rights and inclusivitySaumya BaijalVIRTUE Strategy LeadNoelle MartinUWA Tech & Policy LabResearcher, activist, and lawyerChloƩ VialardA&O Shearman Lawyer and Women's Forum 2023 Rising Talent
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Womenā€™s rights must be protected online as well as offline. However, according to Plan International, over 50% of girls around the world have been harassed online and this is worse where they are politically outspoken, disabled, Black or identify as LGBTIQ+. What is the role of internet ā€˜hashtivismā€™ in educating for change and feminist dialogue? How can women be better equipped to combat this violence?
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