Shamima Akhter

Anyone who has worked inside a consumer goods business in Bangladesh knows the discomfort of seeing your own packaging in a drain. Companies here have understood the problem for years. What has been missing is not intent, but structure, a framework that lets the whole value chain act together.

I have followed Indra Nooyi’s career for years. To me, it feels like a dream to become the CEO of a top global company, and that too as a woman from South Asia.

When I started working in the early 2000s, women in Bangladesh were making significant strides.