WISeKey Appoints Ouided Bouchamaoui, a
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, to its Advisory Committee to Advise the
Company on its Journey of Protecting Humans of the 4th Industrial
Revolution and Their Digital Identity
Geneva, Switzerland – October
20, 2022 – WISeKey International
Holding Ltd (“WISeKey “) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading
global cybersecurity, Blockchain and IoT platform company, today
announced the nomination of Ouided Bouchamaoui, a Nobel Peace Prize
laureate 2015, member of the Tunisian National Quartet, to its
Advisory Committee to guide the company on its journey to protect
individuals and their digital identity.
Members of WISeKey’s Advisory Committee
originate from a wide variety of sectors that are of critical
importance to WISeKey’s growth strategy, including Cybersecurity,
IoT, Blockchain, and information technology.
Ouided (a.k.a. Wided) Bouchamaoui is the
co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize 2015. As Elected President of
the Tunisian Confederacy of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA)
in May 2011, first woman elected to this position in the Arab
World, and member of the National Dialogue Quartet, she played a
historic and legendary role in helping her country navigate through
a great time of crisis during the Arab spring and move Tunisia to a
more transparent and collaborative society with democratic
processes, constitutional framework and transparent elections.
Business leader, visionary, peace activist, and
philanthropist, Mrs. Bouchamaoui became a Nobel Peace Prize
co-laureate in 2015. She launched the Tunisian National Dialogue
which initiated, as part of a national collaboration, negotiations
that resulted in a peaceable solution for Tunisia's political
crisis that followed the revolution in 2011. Bouchamaoui played a
historic and legendary role in shifting her country from a
potential civil war to a pluralistic democracy with a firm focus on
human rights.
Born in 1961 in Gabès, Tunisia, Mrs. Bouchamaoui
received her master's degree in international business from the
Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, and her diploma of
specialized higher education (DESS) in international trade law from
Tunis University II, Mater in Public Administration Harvard Kennedy
School. Her father, the late Hédi Bouchamaoui, was an entrepreneur
who established hydraulic infrastructures and set-up and developed
agricultural lands across the Tunisian territory. Her grandfather,
Ahmed, started a civil engineering company at the beginning of the
20th century that her father later made into Hédi Bouchamaoui Group
(HBG), specializing in oil, textile, and other sectors. Mrs.
Bouchamaoui has been the firm's shareholder and director since
1988. HBG has turned the group into a portfolio company operating
in Tunisian automotive distribution, agriculture, real estate
development, specialized distribution, and financial services.
Mrs. Bouchamaoui was named “Best Businesswoman
of the Arab World” in 2013 under the auspices of the G8 Deauville
Partnership. In 2015, the Tunisian President, Beji Caid Essebsi
made her Grand Officer of the Order of the Republic, and His
Majesty, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, decorated her with the
Royal Order of the Polar Star. She also received the Legion
d'Honneur from the French President François Hollande, in December
2015. At the Annual Women Economic Forum (WEF) 2018 in India, she
was granted the highest WEF Award of Legendary Peace Leaders of the
Decade. Bouchamaoui was granted honorary doctorates from Paris
Dauphine University and from FON University, Macedonia, American
University of Beyrouth, CEDS, France.
Mrs. Bouchamaoui is also recognized as one of
the most influential businesswomen in Africa. She was elected in
2017 as vice president of the European Center for Peace and
Development in Belgrade, a partner institution of the United
Nations University for Peace. She is also member of the Oslo
Business for Peace Award Committee. A member of the council of
University for Peace, San Jose.
From May 2011 to January 2018, Bouchamaoui was
president of the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade, and
Handicrafts (UTICA). She was the first woman elected to this
position. Under her presidency of UTICA, and along with the
Tunisian General Union of Labor (UGTT), she launched in 2013 the
initiative of the national dialogue. They were joined by the League
of Human Rights and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers to form “The
Quartet." These four of Tunisia's most powerful institutions,
initiated negotiations with all parties involved in Tunisia's major
political crisis in 2013, creating an almost impossible alliance
that would go on to result in a peaceable solution and save
Tunisian democracy. For this successful endeavor, they were awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015.
Mrs. Bouchamaoui is renowned for her decisive
contribution as a member of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
to her country's transition through a time of crisis to a more
transparent and collaborative society with democratic processes, a
constitutional framework, and transparent elections.
Mrs. Bouchamaoui has been involved with various
foundations for many years, including the Business for Peace
Foundation, the Fundación Cultura de Paz, and the Global Hope
Coalition. She also sits on the board of Leaders Pour la Paix and
is founding member of the Connecting Group, a women's leadership
network. In 2016, her family created the Hédi Bouchamaoui
Foundation to carry on their father's engagement in the field of
education and culture. “I am pleased
to welcome Ouided to our Advisory Board and look forward to her
valuable input and wide counsel to reinforce initiatives to protect
humans of the 4th Industrial Revolution and their digital identity
as a human right. It is hard to imagine anyone who has been more
prolific, profound and influential in protecting human rights,”
said Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey and Founder of the
OISTE.ORG Foundation.
“I am looking forward in supporting WISeKey’s
management team and being part of the continued success of the
Company by bringing my experience to the Advisory Committee,” said
Mrs. Bouchamaoui.
About WISeKeyWISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY / SIX Swiss
Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity platform company
currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for
people and objects respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the
Internet. The WISeKey IoT technology stack includes a range of
technologies such as Semiconductors, eIDs, Blockchain, NFTs, Post
Quantum, Pico Satellites and Trust acting seamlessly as a platform
which secures the simple connection of objects to the Internet to
the most complex applications that use these connected objects, the
data they gather and communicate and the different steps needed to
power these applications.The WISeKey Semiconductors Secures the
pervasive computing shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey
IoT has an installed base of over 1.5 billion microchips in
virtually all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones,
agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, NFTs, smart lighting,
servers, computers, mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.)Our
technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss based
cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure authentication
and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for
the Internet of Things. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust
anchor to ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects
and between objects and people. For more information,
visit www.wisekey.com.
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