Virginia Littlejohn was Senior Advisor for Women’s Entrepreneurship for the OECD’s SME Unit from 1996 to 2006, and first got them interested in women’s entrepreneurship. During this time, she co-organized 3 global best practice conferences on women’s entrepreneurship for the OECD in Paris and Istanbul, one tied-in with an 86-country SME Ministerial, and 2 regional best practice conferences for the MENA Region in Istanbul.  She is a W7 Advisor, Co-Head of the US W20 Delegation, Co-Chair of the W20’s MSME Working Group, and is Global Coordinator for Women Entrepreneurs Act (WE Act), designed to drive W20 action and implementation.