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.

Sergio Mujica

Secretary General, International Organization for Standardization

Musonda Mumba

Secretary-General, Convention on Wetlands

Nadia Theodore

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Canada to the WTO in Geneva

Olympia Neocleous

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Cyprus to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva

Dominic O'Neill

Executive Director, The UN's Sanitation and Hygiene Fund

Atsuyuki Oike

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Cholpon Orozobekova

Director, The Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations

Petter Ølberg

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Norway to the WTO and EFTA in Geneva

Ignacio Packer

Executive Director, Caux Initiatives of Change

Miroslav Papa

Ambassador, Permanent Observer, Permanent Delegation of the Council of Europe to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva

Melissa Parke

Executive Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Rolph Payet

Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
Steering Committee
Christophe Payot

Christophe Payot

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Belgium to the United Nations Office and specialised institutions in Geneva

Ib Petersen

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Robert Petit

Assistant Secretary-General, Head, International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism – Syria (IIIM)

Marie-Thérèse Pictet-Althann

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Sovereign Order of Malta to the United Nations in Geneva

Anita Pipan

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Slovenia to the UN in Geneva

Birgit Poniatowski

Executive Director, International AIDS Society

Amy E. Pope

Director General, International Organization for Migration

Deike Potzel

Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva

Hilary Power

UN Geneva Director, Human Rights Watch

Tobias Privitelli

Director, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)

Gerhard J.W. Putman-Cramer

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Karla I. Quintana Osuna

Head, Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic

Dr. Salma Rasheed

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Maldives to the United Nations Offices at Geneva

Yannick Roulin

Director, Ambassador, Fondation des immeubles pour les organisations internationales (FIPOI)

Marie-Laure Salles

Director, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Riia Salsa-Audiffren

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Estonia to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva

Eleanor Sanders

Ambassador for Human Rights, Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations in Geneva

Peter Sands

Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Celeste Saulo

Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization

Erica Schouten

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations, WTO and other international organisations in Geneva

Heidi Schroderus-Fox

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Kirsten Schuijt

Director General, WWF International

Magdalena Sepúlveda

Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Carina Solmirano

Head, Arms Trade Treaty Secretariat

Mirjana Spoljaric

President, International Committee of the Red Cross

Maxime Stauffer

Co-CEO, Simon Institute for Longterm Governance

Simon Stiell

Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Daren Tang

Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Louise Thivant

Executive Director, Child and Youth Friendly Governance Project

Anna Tomasi

Executive Secretary, The Global Commission on Drug Policy

Nina Tornberg

Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the WTO, Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Volker Türk

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Aniela Unguresan

Co-Founder, EDGE Certified Foundation

Valdecy Urquiza

Secretary General, INTERPOL

Dushko Uzunovski

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Republic of North Macedonia to the UN, WTO and other International Organisations in Geneva

Tatiana Valovaya

Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva