ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF (Liberia)
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician and economist who was president of Liberia (2006-2018). She was the first woman to be elected head of state of an African country....
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician and economist who was president of Liberia (2006-2018). She was the first woman to be elected head of state of an African country....
Carla Fibla García-Sala is an analyst journalist specialized in Africa and the Middle East. She has lived and traveled in the MENA region (Maghreb and Middle East) for more than...
Politician, former Minister of Culture, Handicrafts and Tourism of Mali, Deputy Director of the 2013 presidential campaign and former Director of the Starcom group. N’Diaye Rama DIALLO is a professional...
Inés París is a film and television director and screenwriter. As a screenwriter, she has extensive experience in television and film, and has worked for many years alongside Daniela Fejerman....
I am currently Chairwoman of the COTEC Foundation and I am a member of several advisory boards such as Unicef, Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), etc... and on the boards...
Honorary President of the Women for Africa Foundation.
In 1990 she directed her first work, the short documentary Pour le plaisir, where she already shows her transgressive attitude by directly showing the need to be master of one's...
Through the work of her mother, former Minister of Environment of Nigeria and current Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nadine has confessed that she became aware of the most...
Began in the film industry as an actress in 2008. In 2014 she writes, directs and produces the play A Lifetime of Blues, which wins the Best Set Design Award...
Machérie was born in Kisagani (Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1993. She is trained through various film and screenwriting workshops while studying law and starts working in the production department...
Bolivian politician and medical doctor by training. 2010-2015: Senator of Bolivia. 2012-2013: President of the Bolivian Senate. 2015-2018: President of the Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia. 2019: Minister of Health...
She currently holds the position of President of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament and First Vice-President of the Party of European...
Peace activist and expert in gender, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Specializes in preventing and countering violent extremism, women's peace and security, and mediation and national dialogues. Co-founder and executive director...
General Director of the Mauritania Investment Promotion Agency (APIM), the government entity in charge of direct national and foreign investments, as well as the country's investment climate. Through APIM, Ms....
Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica (2018-2022), the first Afro-Costa Rican woman and the second Afro-descendant woman to hold that high office in the Americas, Afro-Costa Rican leader,...
Of Mayan-K'iche descent, academic, journalist, writer and anthropologist. She is director of the Augsburg University program in Guatemala, Yucatan and Chiapas. Advisor to several United Nations agencies on issues of...
Senior Advisor of All in For Development and member of the Board of Directors of All in for Development (Washington D.C). She directs and supervises international cooperation projects related to...
She is currently permanent advisor of the Council of State of Spain. She is also President of the Women for Africa foundation. As the first female Deputy Prime Minister in...
H.E. Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa is the Deputy Chairperson (DCP) for the African Union Commission. She is in charge of Administration and Finance and assists the Chairperson in the execution of...
A Pro-active and result-oriented African women’s leader, politician, an expert and trainer in democratic governance, empowering and defending women and youth rights, gender mainstreaming and peace mediation. She is Goodwill...
Dr. Abla Abdel Latif is currently the Chair of the Presidential Advisory Council for Economic Development; and the Executive Director and Director of Research of The Egyptian Center for Economic...
Political Leader, Activist and Entrepreneur. 1995: Created STRATEGIES!, a Leadership and Management consulting firm. 2007: Recognized as one of the 7 influential women entrepreneurs in Africa by the World Bank....
Director of the Gender Affairs Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. An advocate for women's human rights and gender equality, with 30 years of experience...
Verashni Pillay is the founder of explain.co.za, a portal aimed at making news more accessible. She was previously editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian and HuffPost South Africa, and head...
Adie Vanessa Offiong is an award-winning journalist based in Abuja, Nigeria, with experience in cross border reporting, investigative, science and development journalism. She is currently a reporter with CNN’s As...
Rosebell is a writer, campaigner, award-winning blogger, pan-African feminist and multimedia communications strategist. She is the current curator & editor of AfricanFeminism.com. She has expertise in human rights, gender, peace...
Secelela Balisidya is an award-winning communication specialist having more than 20 years experience in presenting messages through various forms of communication. Most of her career has been spent in communication...
UN Women Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean. PhD in Law and Social Sciences. Master in Public Policy. Effects of the COVID19 pandemic on violence against women and...
Ibero-American Secretary General at the Extraordinary Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in 2014. Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in 2021. Vice-President of Costa...
Guinean-Bissau politician, Member of Parliament and Coordinator of the Committee of Women Parliamentarians of Guinea-Bissau. Advocate for women's participation in national political affairs. Part of the feminist movement that avoided...
Nana Oye Bampoe Addo is a human rights lawyer in Ghana with 30 years’ experience in court practice, human rights advocacy and litigation, gender, governance, and social protection. She has...
- President of African Alliance for Women Empowerment. - President of the African Congress for Women Entrepreneurs - Chair of FEMNET (African’s Women Development and Communication Network). - President of...
Journalist. 2013-2015: personal assistant to the President of the country. 2016-2017: former minister of social welfare, gender and children's affairs. Known as the only female news editor in her country...
Chief Justice, Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia Women's Rights Activist: Gender Equality and Participation Founder of the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) Promoter and Board Chair of Enat Bank (Women...
Tanzanian teacher, politician and diplomat. 1985: Vice-President of the World Conference on Women. 1989: Represented Tanzania at the Commission on the Status of Women and was head of the information...
Coordinator of the Syrian Women's Forum for Peace. Vice-President of the Syrian political movement Building the Syrian State. Senior gender advisor with extensive experience in the Arab region. Former Deputy...
UN Women Representative in Colombia. Prior to joining UN Women, she held high-level positions in the Government of Spain as Secretary of State for Equality (2010 -2011) and Minister of...
1991-1994: President of the National Women's Organization of Namibia. 1996-2000: Director General of Women's Affairs in the Office of the President. Then Minister of Women's Affairs and Child Welfare. 2005-2010:...
Mme Bineta Diop, is since 2014, the Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Women, Peace and Security. She is the Founder and Chair of the...
Angellah Kairuki is a Tanzanian politician and Currently, She is a Chairperson of the National Advisory and Coordinating Committee on Generation Equality Forum Implementation on Women’s Economic Justice and Rights...
President of the association Kadirat pour la Parité et l'Égalité and member of the steering committee of the solidarity network of African women's organizations. Samia has been working for over...
Women's rights activist and politician. Former President of the Guinean National Coalition for Women's Rights and Citizenship (CONAG-DCF), a coalition recognized as a consultative group by the United Nations. She...
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is the leader of the Belarusian democratic forces who independent observers agree won the presidential election on August 9, 2020, against the autocratic President Aliaksandr Lukashenka. As the...
Emanuela Claudia Del Re has been appointed EUSR for the Sahel from 1 July 2021. She has been a member of the Italian Parliament and she served as Vice-Minister of...
Global leader on inequality and champion of social justice and women’s rights. Executive Director of UNAIDS and an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2019. 2013-2019: Executive Director of Oxfam...
Doctor and Politician. Subject: World of health. President of the country (2006-2010 and 2014-2018). First pro tempore president of UNASUR and first head of UN Women, the UN agency for...
Graduate in Educational Administration. Maya K'iche'/Guatemalan woman. Advisor to MADRE for indigenous women based in New York, as well as of the Emblematic Indigenous Women's Program of the Indigenous Fund...
Director of the SEGIB office. Director for the Andean countries of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), since 2019. She was a member of the United Nations Commission of Experts on...
Former President of the UN General Assembly, fourth woman in history and first Latin American to preside over the body since its founding in 1945. In Ecuador, Minister of Foreign...
Distinguished Scholar at the Shar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and Research Fellow at the Transnational Crime, Corruption and Terrorism Center (TraCCC). Founder and Executive Director...
Since her debut in 1974 she has performed on the world’s most prestigious opera and concert stages. Her vast repertoire spans from baroque to contemporary opera, concert, chamber music and...
She is a former freedom fighter in Mozambique’s FRELIMO movement and that country’s first Minister of Education. Machel produced a ground-breaking UNICEF report “The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children”...
Advocate for education as a structural axis, women's empowerment, gender equality and economic progress. Commissioner for Human Development and Gender of ECOWAS (2008-2014). In this capacity, she was responsible for...
Politician, Journalist and Writer. 1996-1999- Vice-President of UNDE (União Nacional para o Desenvolvimento Estudantil) and from 1999 up to 2010 President of UNDE. Since 2010 to now Member of Mozambique...
President of the Focus Development Association. Sociologist, gender specialist and qualitative research. International consultant for French-speaking countries. 2009: Founder of the Movement promoting gender in politics and development (VMLF) and...
Former Minister of Employment, Technical Education and Vocational Training (2016-2018). Former Member of the Malagasy Parliament (2014-2019). President of the Gender and Development Commission. Vice-President of FAWE Africa (Forum for...
Lawyer. Management and Development consultant. Negotiator in the Extractives Sector (petroleum and mining). Studies: international law and international trade (LL.M.); business development (M.B.A.) Experience in government, development (United Nations) and...
Zimbabwe Human Rights Defender. National Director of Zimbabwe Peace Project: monitors and documents human rights abuses as well as political and/or electoral violence and keen on exposing abuses affecting women...
Politician, Economist and Social Entrepreneur. Studies: Energy Economics, business management. President of the Forum for Democracy and Development. Political Experience: Minister of Energy & Water Development, Minister of Agriculture, Food...
Maisoun Badawi is currently a Senior Private Sector Development Consultant for the World Bank Group in Khartoum-Sudan. Working at the intersection of injecting influence on structural reforms targeting social and...
Libyan researcher, independent consultant and human rights advocate based in Canada. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Ayat has...
President of the Association des Femmes des Médias (AFEM). A Congolese organization of women journalists that has been working for 20 years to promote gender equality and fight against sexual...
Founder and CEO of Karama, a network of women's rights organizations working in 13 countries in Africa and the Middle East. Hibaaq's work focuses on building and supporting grassroots movements...
Elected woman Mayor of the Urban Commune of Goundam in the northern part of Mali in 2004, 2009 and 2016. Committed to promoting the role of women in society and...
Expert in economic intelligence, entrepreneur and community activist. Based on more than 25 years of experience in business development and strategic consulting, she manages an integrated group of companies serving...
Lawyer and Economist. Professor, entrepreneur, former Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reform; President of the Party of Citizen Action through Work (PACT) and candidate in the last presidential elections...
Otiko is an Activist and the Voice of Ghanaian girls, women and persons with disability to scale up gender and disability equity, equality and inclusion. Currently, she is the Executive...
Mayor of the 12th district of the city of Ouagadougou from June 2016 to February 2022. Former President of the caucus of local elected women of Burkina. Former deputy secretary...
A corporate lawyer and human rights activist, she has led numerous actions in favor of women's rights within civil society. Woman of mediation, noted for having assumed the presidency in...
Linguist and politic. State administrator at Cimentos de Mozambique (2003-2007). President of the National Authority of Public Services (2005-2007). Minister of Civil Service (2007-2010 and 2010-2014). Minister of labor, Employment...
Isata is the CEO of AFRiLOSOPHY, a social enterprise focused on education, mentorship and financial inclusion for women. She is the Founding Director of Voice of Women-Africa, which aims to increase...
Former President of the Algerian National Council for Human Rights and President of the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions from 2017 to 2018, former magistrate. First woman president...
Former Senator, Vice-President of the Legal, Administrative and Human Rights Committee of the Senate. Founding member of the Network of Arab Women Parliamentarians for Equality and Equity. Founding member of...
She is Chairperson of the governing board of Uganda Agribusiness Alliance whose main purpose is to provide agribusiness with a coordinated and unified voice as well as transform agriculture in...
Professor of public law. Tunisian Secretary of State for Women's, Children's and Family Affairs (2014-2015). Responsible for implementing State policy on the promotion of equal rights, economic empowerment of women,...
Retired Judge of the High Court of Tanzania and President of the East African Judges and Magistrates Association [EAMJA] Law and Justice. Retired as a Judge In charge of the...
Board Chair, Women's NGO Secretariat of Liberia (WONGOSOL). Board Chair, Teach for Liberia. As a further demonstration of love and commitment to her country and the vulnerable population, Mrs. Cassell...
Professor of French Language and Linguistics, politician and writer. She is well known for her career in Education. First Nigerian Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). Only...
Obiageli “Oby” Katryn Ezekwesili an Economic Policy Expert is Senior Economic Adviser of the Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative and one of co-founders and pioneer directors of Transparency International-TI. Ezekwesili...
Former Minister of Education (especially for girls and women). Numerous education-related roles: professor, dean and first vice-chancellor of a public university in Ghana. Immediate past President of the Forum for...
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