Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is a South African politician and former United Nations official,who served as the Executive Director of UN Women with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Musimbi Kanyoro is a Kenyan human rights advocate who served as the CEO and President of the Global Fund for Women from 2011 until 2019,and currently serves as Chair of the International Board of the United World Colleges. She is a founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians,and was elected as the first coordinator of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians at the continental gathering in 1996,a post she held until 2002.
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is a non-profit organization with offices in Washington,D.C.,United States,New Delhi,Ranchi,and Jamtara,India,Nairobi,Kenya,and Kampala,Uganda. ICRW works to promote gender equity,inclusion and shared prosperity within the field of international development.
Awa Marie Coll-Seck is as Senegalese infectious diseases specialist and politician who served as Minister of Health of Senegal from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2012 to 2017. She also served as former Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and is on the board of directors of several notable global health organizations. She is an agenda contributor of the World Economic Forum.
Lael Brainard is an American economist serving as the 14th director of the National Economic Council since February 21,2023. She previously served as the 22nd vice chair of the Federal Reserve between May 2022 and February 2023. Prior to her term as vice chair,Brainard served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,taking office in 2014. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve,she served as the under secretary of the treasury for international affairs from 2010 to 2013.
Catherine Mary Russell is an American attorney and political adviser who is the current Executive Director of UNICEF. Russell previously served as Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office,United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues,and Chief of Staff to then-Second Lady of the United States Jill Biden.
Marleen Temmerman is a Belgian gynaecologist,professor and former Senator,currently heading the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University in Nairobi,Kenya.
Geetanjali Misra is the co-founder and executive director of Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action,a women's rights and non-governmental organization based in New Delhi. Geetanjali has worked at an activist,grant-making and policy levels on issues of sexuality,reproductive health,gender,human rights and gender-based violence. Presently,she is on the Amnesty International Gender Task Force,Spotlight Civil Society reference group and a board member of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.
Sarah Degnan Kambou is president of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW),a global research institute that focuses on making women integral to alleviating poverty worldwide.
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan Politian,pediatrician and co-founder and the former vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (2017-2022). In 1996,she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held many positions including the position of Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and Minister of Health from May 2011 until July 2016. She has been a professor of global health delivery practice since 2016 and a professor of pediatrics since 2017 at the University of Global Health Equity. She resides in Kigali.
Ravi Verma is the regional director for the International Center for Research on Women's Asia Regional Office and leads the organization's local and regional efforts on various aspects related to research,providing expertise in building capacity and participating in policy dialogue on issues that include adolescent girls,reproductive health,HIV/AIDS,and gender-based violence.
Quarraisha Abdool Karim is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and co-founder and Associate Scientific Director of CAPRISA. She is a Professor in Clinical Epidemiology,Columbia University,New York and Pro-Vice Chancellor for African Health,University of KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa.
Deborah Leah Birx is an American physician and diplomat who served as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021. Birx specializes in HIV/AIDS immunology,vaccine research,and global health. Starting in 2014,she oversaw the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program to support HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs in 65 countries. From 2014-2020,Birx was the United States global AIDS coordinator for presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump and served as the United States special representative for global health diplomacy between 2015 and 2021. Birx was part of the White House Coronavirus Task Force from February 2020 to January 2021. In March 2021,Birx joined ActivePure Technology as Chief Medical and Science Advisor.
Precious Moloi-Motsepe is a South African philanthropist and fashion entrepreneur. One of the richest women in South Africa,she started her career as a medical practitioner,specializing in children and women's health. In September 2019 she was elected Chancellor of the University of Cape Town,succeeding Graça Machel,and beginning her ten-year term on 1 January.
Morénike Giwa Onaiwu is an American educator,author,and autism and HIV advocate. Alongside E. Ashkenazy and Lydia Brown,Onaiwu is an editor of All the Weight of Our Dreams, an anthology of art and writing entirely by autistic people of color published by the Autism Women's Network in June 2017.
Sarah Ssali,is a Ugandan social scientist,researcher,academic and academic administrator,who is an associate professor and dean of the School of Gender Studies at Makerere University,Uganda's oldest and largest public university.
John N. Nkengasong is a Cameroonian-American virologist serving as the Global AIDS Coordinator in the Biden administration since 2022 and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health Security and Diplomacy since 2023. He previously worked as the Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016 to 2022,as well as at the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Nkengasong was appointed the WHO Special Envoy for Africa.
Carla Ravi Koppell is an American academic who serves as interim Vice Dean for Diversity,Equity,and Inclusion at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. As part of her work she collaborates with the Volcker Alliance to spearhead the University Leadership Council on Diversity and Inclusion in International Affairs. In that role,she works with deans of graduate schools of public policy and international affairs to incorporate attention to diversity and inclusion in their curricula and programs.
Lisa A. Carty is an American diplomat who serves as United States ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council in the Biden administration.
