Champions | International Gender Champions

International Gender Champions is a leadership network that brings together female & male decision-makers determined to break down gender barriers and make gender equality a working reality in their spheres of influence.

António Guterres

Secretary-General, United Nations

Global Advisory Board

Arancha González

Executive Director, International Trade Centre

Global Advisory Board

Monique van Daalen

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations in Geneva

Global Advisory Board

Martin Chungong

Secretary-General, Inter-Parliamentary Union

Global Advisory Board

Guy Ryder

Director-General, International Labour Organization

Global Advisory Board

Jan Beagle

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

Global Advisory Board

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman

CEO / Founder, Women@TheTable

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés

President, United Nations General Assembly

Jürg Lauber

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

Audra Plepytė

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations in New York

Annika Markovic

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Embassy of Sweden to The Netherlands

Carmel Agius

President, International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

Fekitamoeloa Katoa 'Utoikamanu

Under-Secretary-General for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, United Nations

Maria Assunta Accili

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Italy to International Organizations in Vienna

Olga Algayerova

Executive Secretary & Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Yukiya Amano

Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency

Kim Andersen

President, World Sailing

Makeda Antoine-Cambridge

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Mikael Anzén

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the WTO , Permanent Mission of Sweden

Fernando Arias

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

Harald Aspelund

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Iceland to the United Nations in Geneva

Roberto Azevêdo

Director-General, World Trade Organization

Michelle Bachelet

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

Sima Bahous

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United Nations in New York

Sabra Bano

Director , Gender Concerns International

Monique Barbut

Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

Veronika Bard

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations in Geneva

Sheikh Mohammed Belal

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Embassy of Bangladesh to The Netherlands

Andrej Benedejčič

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Slovenia to International Organizations in Vienna

Fatou Bensouda

Prosecutor, International Criminal Court

Seth Berkley

Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance

Gillian Elizabeth Bird

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations in New York

Marc-André Blanchard

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York

Katalin Annamária Bogyay

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations in New York

Kathryne Bomberger

Director-General, International Commission for Missing Persons

Yann Borgstedt

Founder and Chairman, Womanity Foundation

Julian Braithwaite

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

Serge Brammertz

Prosecutor, International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

Jennifer Brant

Director, Innovation Insights

Hans Brattskar

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations in Geneva

Alicia Buenrostro Massieu

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Mexico to International Organizations in Vienna

Philippe Burrin

Director, Graduate Institute Geneva

Geraldine Byrne Nason

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

Kathy Calvin

President and CEO, United Nations Foundation

Catarina Carvalho

Director and Head of Office, International Planned Parenthood Federation

Natasha Cayer

Ambassador & Permanent Representative, Delegation of Canada to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Tae-yul Cho

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in New York

Regina Maria Cordeiro Dunlop

Ambassador , Embassy of Brazil to The Netherlands

Noel Curran

Director General, European Broadcasting Union

Suraya Dalil

Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations in Geneva