Champions | International Gender Champions

António Guterres

Secretary-General, United Nations

Martin Chungong

Secretary-General, Inter-Parliamentary Union, Chair of the IGC Global Board

Maimunah Mohd Sharif

Executive Director, UN‐Habitat

Athaliah Molokomme

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Botswana to the United Nations in Geneva

Anne-Sophie Lois

Senior United Nations Representative New York & Geneva, Plan International

Jean Kimani

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Kenya Permanent Mission to UN-Habitat

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman

CEO / Founder, Women@TheTable

Rafael Mariano Grossi

Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Jürg Lauber

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in Geneva

Catherine Pollard

Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy, Compliance, United Nations

Tatiana Valovaya

Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva

Aurora Díaz-Rato Revuelta

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organisations

Anna Joubin-Bret

Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). , United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)

Mohammed Abdiker

Regional Director, International Organization for Migration/UN Migration, East and Horn of Africa

Ramy Abdu

Chairman, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

Movses Abelian

Under‑Secretary‑General for General Assembly and Conference Management, United Nations

Asim Ahmed

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Maldives to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva

Kadra Ahmed Hassan

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Djibouti to the United Nations in Geneva

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein

President and CEO, International Peace Institute

Mohamed Al-Hassan

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations

François Alabrune

Ambassador, Embassy of France to the Netherlands

Silvia Elena Alfaro Espinosa

Ambassador and Permanent Delegate, Permanent Delegation of Peru to UNESCO

Alessandro Cortese

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Italy to the International Organizations in Vienna

Inger Andersen

Executive Director, UN Environment Programme

Evelyn A. Ankumah

Executive Director, Africa Legal Aid (AFLA)

Luther Bois Anukur

Regional Director, Eastern and Southern Africa, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Fernando Arias

Director-General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

Audrey Azoulay

Director General, UNESCO

Pascale Baeriswyl

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York

Sima Bahous

Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director , UN Women

Manizha Bakhtari

Ambassador, Embassy and Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Vienna

Václav Bálek

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva and President of the Human Rights Council

Zainab Hawa Bangura

Director-General, United Nations Office at Nairobi

Sabra Bano

Director , Gender Concerns International

Dr. Andrea Barschdorf-Hager

CEO and Marketing Director, CARE Austria

Dorothée Baumann-Pauly

Director, Professor, Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights (GCBHR) and NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

Paul Bekkers

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva

Irakli Beridze

Head, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research (UNICRI) Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, The Hague

Seth Berkley

Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance

Thijs Berman

Executive Director, Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

Christophe Bernasconi

Secretary-General, Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH)

Marc Bichler

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva

Ian Biggs

Ambassador, Australian Embassy to Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovakia & Slovenia and Permanent Mission to the IAEA, UNODC, CTBTO, UNOOSA & OSCE