Xiaofei Yao is the Chinese e-commerce CEO of Rogrand - a company involved in

pharmaceuticals A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and rel ...

e-commerce E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain manageme ...

Life

She is the founder and CEO of Rogrand E-commerce. Rogrand E-commerce is based in Beijing and has eight other offices in China in Shandong, Hubei, Guangdong, Shanxi, Liaoning, Sichuan, Zhejiang and Henan. In 2016 her company launched an initiative at a conference in

Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...

to tie together partners in the Chinese pharmaceutical market including manufacturers, pharmacies and hospitals to manage chronic diseases using on-line resources. She emphasises the importance of data to ambitious companies. Xiaofei Yao Helianti Hilman Claudia de Heredia Patricia Zoundi Yao and Nina Angelovska

Xiaofei Yao Helianti Hilman Claudia de Heredia Patricia Zoundi Yao and Nina Angelovska

In September 2019 the

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. It was established in 1964 by the ...

announced seven "eTrade for Women Advocates" from the developing world. The others were

Nazanin Daneshvar Nazanin Daneshvar (born in 1983, Tehran) is an Iranian Internet entrepreneur who founded the discount website "Takhfifan". She is unusual as a woman establishing a company in Iran and she has attracted some attention. In 2019, she became one of UN ...

Clarisse Iribagiza Clarisse Iribagiza (born 28 January 1988) is a computer scientist in Rwanda. She is the CEO and co-founder of the mobile technology company HeHe Limited and she is one of the UNCTAD's seven "eTrade for Women Advocates from the developing world". ...

Patricia Zoundi Yao Patricia Zoundi Yao (born in 1976 in Aboisso, Côte d'Ivoire) is a well-known social entrepreneur in Côte d'Ivoire. She is the founder of several companies, including Quickcash (fintech) and Canaan Land ( agribusiness). Her determination and l ...

Nina Angelovska Nina Angelovska (born 13 July 1988 in Skopje) is a Macedonian politician and the former Minister of Finance in North Macedonia. She is also an entrepreneur, UNCTAD eTrade for Women Advocate and president of the Macedonian E-commerce Associatio ...

Claudia de Heredia Claudia de Heredia Romo (born 28 August 1982) is a Mexican e-commerce entrepreneur. Life Romo was born in Mexico City. She took a degree in marketing at Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Santa Fe and graduated in 2006. She then worked in Procter ...

and

Helianti Hilman Helianti Hilman (born ) is a lawyer involved in e-commerce in Indonesia with "Javara". The business's mission is to market indigenous Indonesian food products. In 2019 she became one of UNCTAD's "eTrade for Women Advocate". Life Hilman was born in ...

from Indonesia. The awards were announced on the periphery of the

United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Curr ...

in New York and she was one of the five winners who were present.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Chinese businesspeople {{PRChina-business-bio-stub