Dee Poku

Dee Poku-Spalding is the Founder and CEO of WIE, an innovative women’s leadership and empowerment network. WIE connects emerging and established women leaders and works to equip them with the tools to succeed. The organization has attracted an incredible range of speakers to its global gatherings, including Melinda Gates, Donna Karan, Arianna Huffington, Queen Rania, Diane von Furstenberg, Nancy Pelosi, Christy Turlington, Elizabeth Rice and Iman.

She is also the founder of The Other Festival, a new all female platform for makers and creators.

Dee’s background includes senior roles at Paramount Pictures and Focus Features (Universal Pictures). She oversaw the international marketing campaigns for movies such as Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’; the Coen brothers’ ‘No Country For Old Men’; Sofia Coppola’s 'Lost in Translation', Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Babel’ and Ang Lee’s 'Brokeback Mountain'.

She is on the Credit Suisse New Markets Advisory Board and the Board of Directors of the British Academy of Film & Television (BAFTA). She is also a contributor to Forbes and The Huffington Post