Board of Directors

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

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

Regina Dumba (Zimbabwe)
Women for Women International; Former Executive Director, Feminist Political Education Project, Zimbabwe and Vice Chair, the Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe

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

Joel Lawson (US) Chair
President, Lawson Communications; Public Affairs Consultant; Former Congressional Staff Member; Former Advisor to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AAUW, AmFAR The Foundation for AIDS Research; Former Director at Planned Parenthood.

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

Emily Sikazwe (Zambia)
Executive Director, Women for Change


Irene Tinker (US)
Board Member Emerita; Founder of the Equity Policy Center and the International Center for Research on Women


Elaine Zuckerman (Canada)
Founder and President


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)
International Chief Executive, ActionAid; Former 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 

 

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