Experts & Trailblazers

• UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
• United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
• Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization.
• Womankind Worldwide, a global women’s rights organisation working with women’s rights organisations and movements.
• Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization that seeks to advance reproductive rights, such as abortion.
• Women for Women International, a nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides practical and moral support to women survivors of war.
• Equality Now, an NGO advocating for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls.
• Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), an NGO advocating for human rights, gender equality, and the integrity of the environment.
• Global Fund for Women, an international grantmaking foundation that supports groups working to advance the human rights of women and girls.
• Rise Up, an international nonprofit with over 600 advocacy leaders all over the world working towards achieving gender equality policies enacted in Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the US. 
• International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), an international research institute focused on tackling challenges facing women and girls worldwide.
• Gender Equality Resource Center, an NGO promoting gender equality for development in and through cooperatives.
• International Alliance of Women, an international NGO comprising 41 member organizations  involved in the promotion of women’s human rights, of equality and of the empowerment of women.
• Girls not Brides, a global partnership of more than 1400 civil society organisations committed to ending child marriage.
• European Institute for Gender Equality (Europe), an autonomous body of the European Union, established to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality
• Promundo (South America), a Brazilian-based, NGO promoting caring, non-violent and equitable masculinities and gender relations in Brazil and internationally.
• Abaad MENA (MENA), a UN ECOSOC (the UN Economic and Social Council) accredited organization that aims to achieve gender equality as an essential condition to sustainable social and economic development in the MENA region.
• Femnet (Africa),  (The African Women’s Development and Communication Network) is a feminist, pan-African organization with over 500 individual and institutional members in 43 countries in Africa and in the diaspora working to amplify African women’s voices and advance women’s rights.
• The Female Lead, is an educational foundation empowering women to take the lead in their lives by celebrating women’s stories, and showcasing the lesser-known successes of women, in order to support and encourage the next generation.
• Vital Voices Global Partnership is an American non-profit investing in women leaders who are solving the world’s greatest challenges – from gender-based violence to the climate crisis, economic inequities, and more. 

• Sima Sami Bahous – Executive Director of UN Women 
• Åsa Regnér – Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women – Contact: asa.regner@unwomen.org 
• Sarah Hendriks – Director Programme, Policy and Intergovernmental Division, UN Women – Contact: sarah.hendriks@unwomen.org 
• Raquel Lagunas del Amo – Global Director of Gender, UNDP – Contact:raquel.lagunas@undp.org
• Peggy Clark President, International Center for Research on Women – Contact: peggy.clark@icrw.org 
• Sarah Degnan Kambou –Senior Advisor to the CEO & President, President, International Center for Research on Women – Contact: sarah.degnan.kambou@icrw.org 
• Chidi King – Branch chief, Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at International Labour Organization – Contact: king@ilo.org
• Melinda Gates – Co-Founder Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Contact: media@gatesfoundation.org 
• Irma Erlingsdóttir – Head of the Center for Gender Research, RIKK – Contact: irma@hi.is 
• Caren Grown – Senior Director for Gender, World Bank Group – Contact: cgrown@worldbankgroup.org 
• Djamila Seftaoui – Director of the division for Gender Equality, UNESCO – Contact: gender.equality@unesco.irg
• Monika QUEISSER. Head of Social Policy division, OECD – Contact: monika.queisser@oecd.org ; Gender Initiative, OECD – Contact: news.contact@oecd.org
• Latanya Mapp Frett – President and CEO, Global Fund for Women, former Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global – Contact: Media room, Anja Tranovich atranovich@globalfundforwomen.org  
• Natalia Kanem – Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations sexual and reproductive health and rights agency. Expert in women’s preventive medicine, public and reproductive health – Contact: nkanem@unfpa.org

Africa

• Dr. Amany Asfour – FEMNET Chairperson 
• Memory Zonde-Kachambwa – FEMNET Executive Director – Contact: m.kachambwa@femnet.or.ke 
• Dana Elhassan – Senior Gender Specialist, African Development Bank – Contact: d.elhassan@afdb.org 

Asia

• Nina Bagdasarova – Professor of Psychology Department in American University of Central Asia and author of the Manual for textbook authors on gender and social inclusion issues – Contact: bagdasarova_n@auca.kg 
• Aya Yamaguchi – Senior Gender Advisor, Japan International Cooperation Agency – Contact: ayayama@jica.go.jp 

Europe

• Carlien Scheele – Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) – Contact: eige.sec@eige.europa.eu 
• Virginija Langbakk – Director, Eurogender EU Entity, the European Institute for Gender Equality’s online cooperation and consultation hub – Contact: eige.sec@eige.europa.eu 
• Marcela Linková – Head of the Centre for Gender and Science at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences & Chair of the ERAC (European Research Area and Innovation Committee) Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation – Contact: marcela.linkova@soc.cas.cz  

South America

• Clara Alemann – Director of Programmes & Gender specialist, Promundo –  Contact: c.alemann@promundoglobal.org 
• Gary Barker – President, CEO at Promundo & expert in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and positive masculinities  – Contact: g.barker@promundoglobal.org 
• Alejandra Valdés Barrientos – Coordinator of the Observatory of Gender Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean, Gender Affairs Division, ECLAC  – Contact: alejandra.valdes@cepal.org 

North America

• Susan Markham – Policy expert, advocate and political strategist for women empowerment at Smash Strategies, former Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment USAID –  Contact: shari@smashstrategies.com  
• Gabrielle Cole – Interim Global Head of Gender & Inclusion at Plan International – Contact: gabrielle.cole@planusa.org 

MENA

• Sana Afouaiz – Award-winning gender expert on global feminism and women issues in the MENA region, Advisor for UN Women, Author of “Invisible Women of the Middle East” and Founder of the Womenpreneur Initiative  – Contact: sanaa@womenpreneur-initiative.com 
• Fatima Outaleb – Human rights and gender equality advocate, in charge of the MENA region within the Global Network of Women Shelters, Founding and Executive Board Member, Union for Feminist Action, Morocco – Contact: nswomennetwork@coe.int 
• May Al-Dabbagh – Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, gender and globalization in the Middle East specialist, NYU Abu Dhabi, and Founding Director of the Gender and Public Policy Program at the Dubai School of Government Contact: md166@nyu.edu 

 Oceania 

• Helen Dalley-Fisher – Senior Manager Equality Rights Alliance at YWCA Australia – Contact: era@ywca.org.au 
• Lisa Lawrence – President of the National Council of Women of New Zealand – Contact: lisa.lawrence@ncwnz.org.nz

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