Deborah Dean is a lawyer and advocate for accelerating gender parity in the world. She recently completed a year in-residence as a Fellow at Stanford University’s Distinguished Career Institute. Immediately prior to Stanford, she served as an executive at Dassault Systèmes for several years in the roles of Vice President, General Counsel-Americas, Founder and leader of the Women’s Initiative (WIN). WIN’s mission is to provide leadership for the advancement of women in the company as well as education and scholarship aid for girls in Rwanda. Debbie was a member of the Board of Directors of DS Americas Corp. and both a past and present member of the Board of the Dassault Systèmes US Foundation. She was recognized as In-house Lawyer of the Year for Mentoring by Chambers Women in Law USA in 2014, as one of the top 100 Diverse Corporate Leaders in STEM by StemConnector in 2014 and named a Leader in the Law by Lawyers Weekly in 2013.