Board of Directors

Brent Blackwelder (US)
President Emeritus, Friends of the Earth

Barbara Bramble (US)
Senior Program Advisor for International Affairs, National Wildlife Federation

Douglas Hellinger (US)
Treasurer,Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Development Group for Alternative Policies

Nadia Martinez (Panama)
Associate Fellow; Institute for Policy Studies

Muadi Mukenge (US)
Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund for Women

Wu Qing (China)
President, Women’s World Summit Foundation; Board Member, Center for Asia and Pacific Women in Politics; Deputy to Haidian District People’s Congress; Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Fellow; Ramon Magsaysay Public Service Awardee

Advisory Council

Mariam Chamberlain (US)
Founding President, National Council for Research on Women

Diane Elson (UK)
Professor on Gender and Development, University of Essex

Sushmita Ghosh (India)
Former President and Leadership Team Member, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

Dan Guttman (US)
Lawyer, Gender Action

Joanna Kerr (Canada)
Director of Policy and Outreach, Oxfam Canada; Former Executive Director, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)

Nicky McIntyre (Scotland)
Executive Director, Mama Cash

Honorable Angelina Muganza (Rwanda)
Executive Secretary, Public Service Commission; Former Minister, Ministry of Skill Development, Vocational Training and Labour and Ministry of Gender and
Promotion of Women in Development

Honorable Geri Palast (US)
Executive Director, Campaign For Fiscal Equity; Former Executive Director, Justice at Stake; Former Assistant Secretary of Labor

Bruce Rich (US)
Founder and Director of the International Program, Environmental Defense; Winner of the UN Global 500 Award for Environmental Advocacy on the IFIs

Gale Summerfield (US)
Director, The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana 

Funders