Meet Rotterdam’s Women’s Business Network
See what fuels our mission and connects our community.
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Behind the Mission
Meet the faces behind the Women’s Business Network. As students ourselves, we understand the challenges of navigating the start of a career. We are here to ensure every member of our community has the tools, the network, and the confidence to reach their full potential.
Evangelina Drobin
President
Beatrice Skietryte
Vice President
Hania Orczyk
Head of business events
Amal Aslam
Head of social Events
Viktoria Bodrogi
Head of the Mentorship Programme
Malena Bilali
Digital Marketing Manager
Alessia Oestara
Social media Marketing manager
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Our mission
The Women’s Business Network (WBN) is a study association that offers a platform for ambitious female students and graduates at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Our association is established as a response to the growing demand for diversity within businesses and society. Our goal is to become a platform where we can connect young, talented female students and graduates with the right companies, as well as mentors and alumni.
We want to empower young women to become successful leaders in the world of business. Through WBN, members are able to find their career direction, develop their professional network and skills, and take their first step in launching their careers. In order to make this happen, we focus on three main development areas for our members: education, skills, and networking. With every event, we aim to add value to at least one of these three areas. This can include leadership conferences, in-house days, case study events, a mentorship program, social events, various workshops, etc.
Together with our business partners, we aspire to raise more awareness of the importance of gender diversity issues and hope to inspire young, determined female students to be the best version of themselves.
Yours sincerely,
The 2025-2026 Board
Our Values
Women’s Business Network (WBN) istrives to close the gender gap by bringing young women together with inspirations and opportunities. By organizing events that focus on networking, representation of women in different industries, and on raising awareness of unconscious biases, we want to help students to start their careers and reach their full potential.
Our vision is to strive to close the gender gap and inspire ambitious women to achieve their full potential.
Our Three Pillars
WBN wants to make a positive impact on society by breaking down barriers that might hinder especially talented female students from reaching their full potential. To reach our mission of gender equality, we focus on three main areas:
1. Networking
The networking aspect is incorporated into the name ‘WBN’ itself and is thus a cornerstone of the association. WBN seeks to create a platform for its female students to build a strong network that can be a valuable asset also once they start their professional careers.
Furthermore, through activities organised together with companies, we promote ambitious women to succeed in the business world. The ‘Networking’ pillar of WBN is based on its strong member base and forward thinking corporate partners.
2. Representation
If we can’t look up and see women who have been successful in certain industries or roles, it becomes harder to see ourselves reaching those positions.
Moreover, gender disparity in leadership roles remains largely unchanged and various stereotype biases keep undermining women’s leadership aspirations. Therefore, WBN wants to bring forward female leaders and inspiring women from different industries to provide role models that female students can relate to, and who can encourage our members to reach out for leadership positions.
3. Engagement
The existence of the gender gap has long been an undisputed fact but too little progress has been made to properly address it. We at WBN truly believe that if we can engage a larger audience in the discussion on diversity and inclusion, we can also come up with better solutions to tackle the problems regarding gender inequality. We also want to bring awareness to the unconscious biases that all of us, regardless of one’s gender, have. Therefore, WBN wants to engage all the students at EUR in this discussion so that we can achieve the best possible solutions together.