Our Advisory Council

Selmin Hava Caliskan

Human rights advocate, former director of Open Society Foundations and Amnesty International Germany

Jennifer Cassidy (PhD)

Lecturer at University of Oxford | Editor of the book ‘Gender and Diplomacy’ | Former diplomat

Sawsan Chebli

Former State Secretary for Civic Engagement and International Relations I Foreign policy expert I Creator of the annual #Farbenbekennen award I Social media influencer

Scilla Elworthy

Three times Nobel Peace Prize nominee | Founder of ‘The Business Plan for Peace’ | Founder of ‘Peace Direct’

Nahid Shahalimi

Afghan-Canadian Author I Artist I Producer I Social Entrepreneur I Founder of We The Women I Member of UNICEF Germany & EU’s AWLF Committee
Valerie Hudson

Valerie M. Hudson

Distinguished Professor and Department Chair at Texas A&M University | Founder of WomenStats

Jutta Freifrau von Falkenhausen

Lawyer in Berlin, Co-Founder FidAR e.V. | Member of the Board of DGAP e.V.

Sanam Naraghi

Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini

Founder & CEO; International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN); Author; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, School of International Public Affairs; First UN Mediation Standby Team Gender & Inclusion Expert

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Distinguished professor and department chair at Syracuse University | Widely translated author of numerous books

Michelle Müntefering

Member of the Bundestag | Former Minister of State for International Cultural Policy at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany

Elmira Bayrasli

CEO of Foreign Policy Interrupted | Author of Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places | Director | Entrepreneur | Author | Public Speaker.

Madeleine Rees (OBE)

Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom | Human rights lawyer | Professor at LSE | Bosnia UN human sex trafficking scandal whistleblower

Catalina Ruiz-Navarro

Activist | Journalist

Margot Wallstroem

Margot Wallström

Former Swedish Foreign Minister | First Vice President of the European Commission | First UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict

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