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Sanda Ojiambo

CEO and Executive Director, UN Global Compact

Alyssa Carson

Astronaut in Training

Iris Bohnet

Academic Dean of Harvard Kennedy School

H.E. Epsy Campbell Barr

Vice President of Costa Rica

Salam Al-Nukta

Founder and CEO, Changemakers

Ann Cairns

Executive Vice Chair, MasterCard

Amanda Ellis

Director, Global Partnerships, ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab

Rebeca Franco de Abreu

Sustainability Analyst, B3

Deborah Gibbins

COO, Mary Kay

Anja Blacha

VP, Youth Engagement, PMI

Musimbi Kanyoro

Senior Global Advisor, Target Gender Equality

Jacqueline Mugo

Executive Director, Federation of Kenya Employers

Maggie Lake

Correspondent, CNN International

Michel Khalaf

President & CEO, MetLife

Cheryl Smith

Chief Economist, Trillium Asset Management

Amy Jadesimi

CEO, LADOL Nigeria

Marie Morice

Head of Sustainable Finance

Wendy Clark

Global CEO, Dentsu International

Alejandro Muñoz Rojas

Gerente General, Caja Los Héroes

Theresa Jang

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Stantec Inc.

Roberto Marques

CEO, Natura

Marcel Fratzscher

President, German Institute for Economic Research

Matilda Payne Boakye-Ansah

Designer, MH Couture & Xtreme Upcycle

Tea Trumbic

Program Manager, World Bank

Sid Amalean

Head, Sustainable Business, MAS Holdings

Mabinty Koroma-Moore

Founder and CEO, Legacy Impact Venture Enterprises Africa

Vaishali Nigam Sinha

Chief Sustainability, CSR and Communication Officer at ReNew Power

Alexis McGill Johnson

President and CEO, Planned Parenthood

Sylvain Obedi

National Youth Gender Activist

Paul Polman

Vice-Chair, UN Global Compact and Co-founder and Chair, IMAGINE

Katarzyna Byczkowska

Managing Director, BASF Polska

Alyse Nelson

President and CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership

Flower Msuya

Founder and Chairperson of the Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative

Ivana Gažić

president of the Management Board at Zagreb Stock Exchange

Heike Deggim

Director Maritime Safety, International Maritime Organization

Úna Brosnan

Offshore New Markets Manager at Mainstream

Henrik Österblom

Science Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre

Jerry Azilinon

Doyna Movement Coordinator and HeforShe Ambassador

Aleksandra Karasińska

Editor in Chief, Forbes Women Poland

Louis Cole

Social Media Influencer

Emanuel Chirico

CEO, PVH

Tessa Young

Founder, PRISM DJs

Meshvara Kanjaya

Chief Executive Officer, PT Supra Boga Lestari, Tbk

Michelle Milford Morse

Vice President for Girls and Women Strategy, UN Foundation

H.E. António Guterres

Secretary General, United Nations

Ralien Bekkers

Senior Country Engagement Specialist, NDC Partnership to WRI

Lauren McCarthy

Co-Director of the Centre for Research into Sustainability (CRIS)

Takalani Netshitenzhe

Chief Officer and Executive Director of External Affairs for Vodacom South Africa

Norah Odwesso

Senior Director for Social Impact at The Coca-Cola Company

Cynthia Clark

Professor of Management, Bentley University

Elizabeth Vazquez

CEO and Co-Founder of WEConnect International

Divya Singhal

Professor and Chairperson- CSSA at Goa Institute of Management

Rana Kawalit

Corporate Communication & PR Manager, Fine Hygienic Holding

Peter Zerp

Accenture

Lisa Schiffman

Director, EY

Aakanksha Bhargava

CEO, PMR

Cristiano Cardoso Teixeira

CEO, KLABIN

Viviane Martins

President, Falconi Consultants

Pavita Cooper

Founder, MoreDifference

Seema Bains

Partner at DWF

Maria Paz Anzorreguy

International Organisation of Employers (IOE) Director for ILO Coordination

Dona Bertarelli

UNCTAD Special Adviser for the Blue Economy

Ikram Bghiel

Directrice RSE, AtlantaSanad Assurance

Véronique Goy Veenhuys

Présidente, Fondation Equal Salary

Christian Nanon

Directeur du Développement Durable, Groupe Rogers

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Executive Director, UN Women

Ewa Urbaniak

Plant Director, L'Oreal Warsaw

Mário Parra da Silva

Chair of the Board | Global Compact Network Portugal

Anabela Vaz Ribeiro

Executive Director | Global Compact Network Portugal

Ana Bernardes

Human Resources Director | Accenture Portugal

Inês Sequeira Mendes

Partner | Abreu Advogados

Katrien Buys

Strategy, Innovation and Sustainability Director | Ageas Portugal

Paula Carneiro

Head of Global People Experience | EDP Group

Suzanne Johnson

Special Advisor, UN Global Compact

Catherine Musakali

Founder and Chair of The Women on Boards Network

Alison Ngibuini

CEO, Al Is On Productions Limited

Kariuki Ngari

CEO Kenya Standard Chartered Bank

Kate Glazebrook

Chair, Co-founder, and former CEO of Applied

SUELI NORONHA KAISER

GRUPO CENE FOUNDER & BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT

Teresa Vernaglia

President & Chief Executive Officer, BRK Ambiental

Elizabeth Broderick

Founder and Convenor Champions of Change Coalition

James Fazzino

Non-Executive Director, Convenor Champions of Change Coalition

Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

Global Lead, Nutrition and Public Health, Aquatic Food Systems at WorldFish

Gary Carney

Corporate Social Responsibility at The Very Group

Soraya Narfeldt

CEO, RA International

Kayla Winarsky Green, Esq.

Adviser in the Human Rights and Business Department at the Danish Institute for Human Rights

Surya Deva

Vice Chair of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Lara Bianchi

Assistant Professor in Business and Society, Nottingham University Business School

Daniel Danso

Global Diversity Manager, Linklaters LLP

Ana Gabriela Rodríguez Castañeda

Directora Atracción de Talento, BBVA México

Graciela Dietrich

Deputy General Manager of El Mejor SRL.

Olga M. Sauma Uribe

Directora Ejecutiva AED (Alianza Empresarial para el Desarrollo)

Jacqueline Balbontín

Vicepresidenta de Recursos Humanos de Scotiabank Chile

Sally Gilligan

Chief Information Officer and Head of Strategy , Gap Inc.

Martha Herrera

Global Director of Social Impact at CEMEX

Sonia Cissé

TMT/IP Counsel, Linklaters LLP

Olukayode Pitan

CEO, Bank of Industry

Valrie Grant

Managing Director of GeoTechVision

Lisa Wong

Specialist on Non-Discrimination at the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Griet Cattaert

Head of Labour Rights, UN Global Compact

Ananya Sabharwal

Director, Human Resources, Unilever

Jameela Jamil

Advocate and Founder of I Weigh

Maria Jose Villanueva

Director of People & Management,Central America Bottling Corporation

Marcus Priest

Global Reward Leader at Novartis

Francesco Starace

CEO, Enel

Amina Mohammed

Deputy Secretary General, United Nations

H.E. Arancha González Laya

Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain

Kekeletso Khena

Chief Technology Officer, K Squared

Pamela Coke-Hamilton

Executive Director of the International Trade Centre

Rubana Huq

President, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association

Angélica Fuentes

Founder of MUVOP

Beata Gutman

Founder and CEO of Grasshopper

Mats Granryd

Director General of the GSMA

Laura Stebbing

Co-CEO of accelerateHER

Stephen Bereaux

Deputy to the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau

Peter List

Global Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at IKEA Retail (Ingka Group)

Emrah Özbay

Internal Audit, Risk and Sustainability Director

Hande Şenova

Head of People-Partner, KPMG

Ebru Tüzecan

TÜSİAD, Gender Equality Working Group Member

Erdal Karamercan

Co-chair, Global Compact Turkey Gender Equality Working Group

Aydın Fethi Baytan

Human Resources and Corporate Development Director at Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.Ş.

Melsa Ararat

Board Member, Global Compact Network Turkey; Director, Sabanci University Corporate Governance Forum

Ann Dennison

Senior Vice President and incoming CFO, Nasdaq

Irene Natividad

Chair, Corporate Women Directors International

Jeremy Awori

CEO, Absa Bank Kenya

Loty Salazar

Corporate Governance Officer & Lead, Women on Boards and in Business Leadership, IFC

Caroline Fattal

Senior VP and Board member, Fattal

Mireille Chrabieh

Special Education Consultant at S-miles, 2020 Global Compact Network Lebanon SDG Pioneer

Kate Willoughby

Head of Group Sustainability & Impact, DP World

Xiomara Diaz Hopkins

Founder and Owner, The Garden Café, Granada

Kathleen Matthews

Ex Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer,Marriott International; U.S. Congress Candidate

Adimaimalaga Adi Tafunai

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Women in Business Development, Inc.

Karen Fang

Managing Director, Head of Global Sustainable Finance, Bank of America

Sbusisiwe Myeni

Co-Founder and CEO, Imbeleko Foundation

Lucy Aquino

Executive Director, WWF Paraguay

Leticia González

Business Development Manager and Board Member, Laboratorio y Herboristería Santa Margarita S.A

Cristina Goralewski

President, National Forestry Institute

Shabnam Siddiqui

Executive Director, GCNI

N.S. Bala

CEO, APMEA, Wipro

Ashwin Yardi

CEO - Capgemini Technology Services India

Marcia Balisciano

Global Head of Corporate Responsibility RELX Group

Carlo Pereira

Executive Director of Global Compact Brazil

TITO AMARAL DE ANDRADE

Managing partner of Machado Meyer

Marco Castro

CEO of PwC Brazil

Barbara Galvão

Global Diversity & Inclusion Uber Eats/CommOps

Milena Buosi

Diversity and Inclusion Manager of Natura &Co

Cristiane Romano

Partner at Machado Meyer Advogados

Rodrigo Rubano

Organizational Development Manager at Klabin

Cristina Sanchez

Executive Director, Global Compact Network Spain

Arif Zaman

Executive Director, Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network

Ole Lund Hansen

Chief, Global Operations, Global Compact

Judith Stroehle

Senior Research Fellow, Programme Lead, Oxford Rethinking Performance Initiative

Stéphanie Lachance

Vice President, Responsible Investment

Simone Phipps

Associate Professor of Management School of Business Middle Georgia State University

Ida Margarita Hyllested

Regional Child Rights and Business Manager for UNICEF in East Asia and the Pacific

Tahmina Zaman Khan

Head of Sustainability at Mutual Trust Bank Ltd

Victoria Rubadiri

award-winning Kenyan journalist

Salma Boudina

Strategic Mobilisation Officer, Global Compact Network Morocco

Sonia Consiglio Favaretto

Sustainability Specialist and 2016 SDG Pioneer by the UNGC

Nejia Gharbi

Présidente du Conseil d’Administration et Administrateur - STB Tunisie

Charlotte Karam

founding director of the Center of Inclusive Business and Leadership for Women

Maureen Kilgour

Chair, PRME Gender Equality Working Group

Melda Çele

Executive Director, Global Compact Turkey

Cihan Koral

Turkey Program Manager, Target Gender Equality

Aylin Gençyürek

Human Resources Director, Yaşar Holding

Cenk Akıncılar

Human Resources Executive Vice President, QNB Finansbank

Mashook Mujib Chowdhury

Manager, Sustainability in DBL Group

Natasha Mudhar

Founder, The World We Want (WWW)

Liza Mariana Hernández- Betancourth

Regional Lead Americas and Caribbean, GNDR

Ryan Soscia

Founder & CEO, JDOE PBC

Adriana Carvalho

Diversity and Inclusion and Corporate Responsibility leader for EY Latin America South

Bo Young Lee

Diversity and Inclusion Leader, Uber

Rodolfo Nardez Sirol

President of Global Compact Brazil Board of Directors

Laura Addati

Policy Specialist on Women’s Economic Empowerment atthe ILO Office for the United Nations

Amy Luinstra

egional Lead, Gender and Economic Inclusion, East Asia Pacific, IFC, World Bank Group

Gayathri Ramamurthy

Senior Director, Learning & Development Capgemini India

Annemarie Hou

Executive Director a.i., UN Office for Partnerships

Fidelia Ohemeng

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Ghana

Sheila Minkah-Prem

Managing Consultant, Apex Lawconsult

Javier Molero

DIRECTOR OF PROJECTS AND AGENDA 2030

María Inés Salamanca

Coordinator of the UN Women Chile

Mette Morsing

Head of PRME

Dolors Feliu Aymar

CaixaBank

Elena Domínguez Cañas

Vice-President for International Relations at the Spanish National Research Council (C.S.I.C.)

Carmen Becerril Martínez

President of the Spanish Association of Energy Women (AEMENER)

SUSANA SANCHIZ CABANA

Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE)

Antonia Lorenzo

Head of R&D and CEO of BIOAZUL S.L

Isabel Pardo

President of the public business entity Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF).

Diana Ranola

UN Women

Marcia Balisciano

Head of Corporate Responsibility, RELX

Anne-Marie Levesque

Head of Gender and Imapct, FinDev Canada

Mikael Nystrom

Swedbank

Margarethe Wiersema

Dean's Professor in Strategic Management, The Paul Merage School of Business University of California, Irvine

Judy Njino

Executive Director, Global Compact Network Kenya

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Human Resources and Corporate Development Director at Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.Ş.

Pia Haslauer

Leadership Initiatives, UN Global Compact

Zoe Dean-Smith

Vice President, Vital Voices

Sara Elinson

Payments and D&I Leader, EY US

Joanna Bichsel

CEO and Founder, Kasha

Megan A. Speight, M.S. (Pronouns-She, Her, Hers)

Global Head, DE&I, Project Management Institute

Carolina Macri

Global Forensics Technology Operation Leader, EY

priyam lahiri

Director, Strategy and Transactions, EY

Jesse Romanelli (he/him)

Project Manager

Brantlee Underhill

Managing Director, North America, PMI

Eugenia Podesta

Vital Voices

Anna Falth

UN Women

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