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.
Joseph Mithika Mwenda
Executive Director,
Pan African Climate Justice Alliance
Fergal Mythen
Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations in New York
Nadia Theodore
Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of Canada to the WTO in Geneva
Raphael Nägeli
Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the OSCE, the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna
Izumi Nakamitsu
Under Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs,
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Olympia Neocleous
Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of Cyprus to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva
Chege Ngugi
Africa Regional Director,
ChildFund International
Dominic O'Neill
Executive Director,
The UN's Sanitation and Hygiene Fund
Farah Obaidullah
Founder & Director,
The Ocean and Us
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
Steering Committee
Carolina Olarte-Bácares
Ambassador of Colombia to the Kingdom of The Netherlands,
Embassy of Colombia in the Netherlands
Cholpon Orozobekova
Director,
The Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations
Rasa Ostrauskaite
Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the OSCE in Vienna ,
Delegation of the European Union to the International Organisations in Vienna
Petter Ølberg
Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of Norway to the WTO and EFTA in Geneva
Ignacio Packer
Executive Director,
Caux Initiatives of Change
Josipa Palac
President,
International Cultural Diversity Organization (ICDO)
Melissa Parke
Executive Director,
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Pramila Patten
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict,
Office of the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict (OSRSG-SVC)
Rolph Payet
Executive Secretary,
Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
Steering Committee
Christophe Payot
Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of Belgium to the United Nations Office and specialised institutions in Geneva
Véronique Pepin-Hallé
Ambassador and Permanent Representative,
Delegation of Canada to the OSCE
Andreas Persbo
Director,
PAX sapiens Austria - Open Nuclear Network
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
Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette
Présidente,
Haut Conseil à l'Egalité entre les femmes et les hommes
Anita Pipan
Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Slovenia to the UN in Geneva
Catherine Pollard
Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy, Compliance,
United Nations
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
Andrii Pravednyk
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ukraine,
Embassy of Ukraine to Kenya
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
Leticia Reis de Carvalho
Secretary General,
International Seabed Authority
Thomas Renard
Director,
International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)
Garance Reus-Deelder
Director,
Plan International
Jean-Pierre Reymond
Executive Director,
2050Today
Tijmen Rooseboom
Executive Director,
Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy
Anacláudia Rossbach
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director,
UN-Habitat
Yannick Roulin
Director, Ambassador,
Centre d'Accueil de la Genève Internationale
Alice Ruhweza
Senior Director, Global Policy Influence and Engagement ,
World Wide Fund for Nature International
Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani
Ambassador, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations
Marie-Laure Salles
Director,
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies