Champions
Leadership Network
International Gender Champions is a leadership network that brings together decision-makers determined to break down gender barriers and make gender equality a working reality in their spheres of influence.
Global Board
Martin Chungong
Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Chair of the IGC Global Board
Dr. Grethel Aguilar
Director General,
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Jan Beagle
Director-General,
International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
Global Board
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Secretary-General,
International Telecommunication Union
Winnie Byanyima
Executive Director,
UNAIDS
Jagan Chapagain
Secretary-General,
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Steering Committee
Sameer Chauhan
Director,
United Nations International Computing Centre
Pamela Coke-Hamilton
Executive Director,
International Trade Centre
Noel Curran
Director General,
European Broadcasting Union
Regina De Dominicis
Regional Director, Europe and Central Asia; Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe; UNICEF Representative to the UN in Geneva,
UNICEF
Maria Dimitriadou
Special Representative to the WTO and UN,
World Bank Group
Philippe Duneton
Executive Director,
Unitaid
Pernille Fenger
Director,
UNFPA Representation Office in Geneva
David Fernandez Puyana
Ambassador, Permanent Observer, United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE) to the United Nations in Geneva,
Permanent Delegate, UPEACE to the UNESCO in Paris
Monica Ferro
Director,
UNFPA London Office
Dr. Robin Geiss
Director,
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General,
World Health Organization
Fabiola Gianotti
Director-General,
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Filippo Grandi
High Commissioner,
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Dr. Thomas Greminger
Director,
Geneva Center for Security Policy
Rebeca Grynspan
Secretary-General,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Michelle Gyles-McDonnough
UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director,
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Gilbert F. Houngbo
Director-General ,
International Labour Organization
Kamal Kishore
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Head of UNDRR,
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Arnold Kreilhuber
Regional Director and Representative, Regional Office for Europe,
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Philippe Lazzarini
Commissioner-General,
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
Cindy McCain
Executive Director,
World Food Programme
Masahiko Metoki
Director General,
Universal Postal Union
Philippe Metzger
Secretary-General and CEO,
International Electrotechnical Commission
Tatiana Molcean
Executive Secretary,
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Sergio Mujica
Secretary General,
International Organization for Standardization
Musonda Mumba
Secretary-General,
Convention on Wetlands
Dominic O'Neill
Executive Director,
The UN's Sanitation and Hygiene Fund
Rolph Payet
Executive Secretary,
Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
Geir Otto Pedersen
UN Special Envoy for Syria,
UN Office of the Special Envoy for Syria
Robert Petit
Assistant Secretary-General, Head,
International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism – Syria (IIIM)
Amy E. Pope
Director General,
International Organization for Migration
Tobias Privitelli
Director,
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)
Peter Sands
Executive Director,
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Celeste Saulo
Secretary-General,
World Meteorological Organization
Carlien Scheele
Director,
European Institute for Gender Equality
Mirjana Spoljaric
President,
International Committee of the Red Cross
Simon Stiell
Executive Secretary,
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Daren Tang
Director General,
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Ibrahim Thiaw
Executive Secretary,
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Volker Türk
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Valdecy Urquiza
Secretary General,
INTERPOL
Tatiana Valovaya
Director-General,
United Nations Office at Geneva