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.

Janet Mbugua

Executive Director and Founder, Inua Dada Foundation Trust

Corinne Momal-Vanian

Executive Director, Kofi Annan Foundation

Joseph Mithika Mwenda

Executive Director, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance

Damilola Ogunbiyi

CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy, SEforALL

Sanda Ojiambo

Assistant Secretary-General and CEO, United Nations Global Compact

Cholpon Orozobekova

Director, The Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations

Ignacio Packer

Executive Director, Caux Initiatives of Change

Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette

Présidente, Haut Conseil à l'Egalité entre les femmes et les hommes

Birgit Poniatowski

Executive Director, International AIDS Society

Hilary Power

UN Geneva Director, Human Rights Watch

Marie-Hélène Proulx

President, The International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA)

Madeleine Rees

Secretary General, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Thomas Renard

Director, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

Garance Reus-Deelder

Director, Plan International

Jean-Pierre Reymond

Executive Director, 2050Today

Marie-Laure Salles

Director, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Edit Schlaffer

Founder & Chair, Women without Borders

Kirsten Schuijt

Director General, WWF International

Elena K. Sokova

Executive Director, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP)

Charlotte Stemmer

Head of Geneva Office and UN Representative, Plan International

Louise Thivant

Executive Director, Child and Youth Friendly Governance Project

Anna Tomasi

Executive Secretary, The Global Commission on Drug Policy

Fernando Travesí

Executive Director, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)

Aniela Unguresan

Co-Founder, EDGE Certified Foundation

Ian Vale

Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Save the Children

Lars van Dassen

Executive Director, World Institute for Nuclear Security

Reintje van Haeringen

CEO, CARE Nederland

Alix Vuillemin

Executive Director, Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice

Akinyi Roselyn Walender

Africa Director, Practical Action

Wang Le

Director, UN Representative, Save the Children, New York Global Advocacy Office

Tanya Wood

Executive Director, CHS Alliance