Michael oversees the policy and impact direction of the Global Citizen movement and has worked on campaigns in North America, Europe, India, South Africa and Australia. He has worked with many artists, heads of government and philanthropists including Rihanna, Beyoncé, Usher, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa…
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Papa Seck is the Chief Statistician at UN Women. Since joining UN Women in 2009, he has led statistics and data work at UN Women and has also contributed to the Research work of UN Women more broadly, including co-authoring two editions of Progress of the World 's Women as well as various other research products. He leads UN Women’s efforts to monitor the SDGs and for the past year has…
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Dragana assumed the position of Executive Director with strategic, organizational and programme focus at ERA – LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey as a logical next step after initiating and leading the consortium of 27 LGBTI organizations from the region, with the aim to establish ERA. She has been for 10 years now involved in different types of work and activities…
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On 30 May 2019, UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Ms. Anita Bhatia of India as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women. Ms. Bhatia has had a distinguished career at The World Bank Group, serving in various senior leadership and management positions, both at Headquarters and in the field. She brings extensive…
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Reema Nanavaty: has been working with the Self-Employed women workers from informal sector since 1984 when she joined the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and stayed on to be elected as its General Secretary in 1999. She expanded membership to new heights making SEWA the single largest union of informal sector workers. Her key focus has been to provide full employment & self-reliance…
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Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading global voice in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and positive masculinities. He is the CEO and co-founder of Promundo-US, which has worked more than 10 years in nearly 40 countries. He is also co-founder of Instituto Promundo in Brazil, which began work on healthy masculinities and male allyship more than 20 years ago. Gary is co-founder of…
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Noëlla Coursaris Musunka, a Congolese/Cypriot philanthropist and international model, is the Founder & CEO of Malaika, a grassroots nonprofit that empowers girls and communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through a school, a community center, and a clean water program. A unique and fearless spokesperson, and the face of leading fashion campaigns across the globe, Noëlla is a…
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Jamila Belabidi is the Director of Supplier Diversity and Women Economic Empowerment at Procter & Gamble. Previously as the Global Purchases Director at P&G, she led many industry transformation projects (packaging, commodities, Marketing and services). Jamila is engaged in promoting Gender Equality throughout the workplace, the marketplace (supply chain) and within communities. She…
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The World Bank Group has expanded partnerships to improve the collection, access, sharing, and use of sex-disaggregated data over the last several years including investing in the recently relaunched Gender Data Portal and the “Strengthening Gender Statistics” project. This event is an opportunity for a high-level yet engaging discussion on the value of gender data for policy reforms, programming, and monitoring progress/outcomes towards achieving gender equality.
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Anila Denaj was Albania’s former Minister of Finance and Economy. Prior to that, she was the General Director of the Albanian Compulsory Health Care Security Fund. She was also the General Director at the Albanian Ministry of Finance with a focus on overseeing operations at the Department of Finance, Legislation and State Ownership, Information Technology Management, Department of Administration…
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