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WIP Summer Summit 2014

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Speakers (In order of appearance in the programme)

1 July 2014: Opening Ceremony

H.E. Donatille Mukabalisa was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies in 2013. She studied law at university and worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO) upon graduation. After WHO, she joined the UNDP in Kigali, where she worked for 16 years. Between the years 2000 and 2003 she was Member of Rwanda National Transitional Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Economy and Trade. Between 2003 and 2008 she was Member of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputy Chairperson of the Standing Committee on

Political Affairs. At the WIP Annual Summit 2013, H.E. Donatille Mukabalisa received the WIP Award for Leadership in Closing the Gender Gap on behalf of the Republic of Rwanda.

Ms. Silvana Koch-‐Mehrin has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004. From 2004-‐2011 she was Chairwoman of the German liberal delegation of the European Parliament and from 2004-‐2009 Deputy leader of ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe). From 2009-‐2011 she was Vice-‐President of the European Parliament. Her parliamentary work focuses on trade policy and gender equality. She is the founder of the Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP). She holds several honorary functions and is Alumni of the Young Global Leaders of the

World Economic Forum.

Mr. Lamin Manneh, a Gambian national, was appointed the United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Rwanda in 2012. Prior to his appointment in Rwanda, Manneh served as the UN Resident Coordinator in Congo Brazzaville for four years. Since 1996, Lamin Manneh has served in several Senior Managerial Positions within the United Nations Development Programme, both at Headquarters as well as in Country Offices. Before serving UNDP, Lamin Manneh worked with the African

Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund as well as with the Ministry of Economic Planning and the Central Bank in The Gambia.

1 July 2014: Panel I

Ms. Clotilde Mbaranga Gasarabwe, a native of Rwanda, is presently the United Nations Assistant Secretary-‐General for Safety and Security in New York, managing the Department of Security and Safety (DSS) for all UN Offices around the world. She brings to the Department extensive experience in International Development, Humanitarian, and Peace and Security issues. Prior to her current position, she served in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for 20 years. From

2001-‐2010, she served as the UN Secretary-‐General’s Representative in Mali, Guinea, Djibouti, and


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Benin in the roles of Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ms. Mbaranga Gasarabwe, has a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Burundi and an MBA from the Arthur D Little School.

DCG. Mary Gahonzire is presently the Deputy Commissioner General of the Rwanda Correctional Service, a security Agency charged with corrections of both penitentiary and inmates sentenced to community work as an alternative to imprisonment. Prior to her current post, she was the Commissioner General of the National Prisons Service 2009-‐2011, and Ag. Inspector General of the Police during 2007-‐2009. DCG Mary Gahonzire is also the Chairperson of the Secretariat for the Group of Friends of

Corrections (GFC), which is a support system to the UN Corrections reform programmes in Peace Keeping. She is a graduate of Economics and Sociology from Makerere University, and holds Post Graduate qualifications in Human Resources Management from Makarere University, Kampala-‐Uganda.

Hon. Jewel Howard Taylor is a Liberian politician and currently the senior Senator from Bong County. In 2005, Taylor was elected to the Senate of Liberia in Bong County as a member of the National Patriotic Party. She is the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Autonomous Commissions and Agencies. Ms. Jewel Howard Taylor has held a number of official posts in the Liberian government, including Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Liberia and President of the Agriculture

Cooperative. Taylor holds a graduate degree in banking and two bachelors in banking and economics. She is the former First Lady of the Republic of Liberia and is mother to four children and two grandchildren.

Hon. Léa Koyassoum Doumta is the Vice President of the Central African Republic’s National Transitional Council, which is the Transitional Parliament of the Central African Republic. At the WIP Summer Summit she is the personal envoy of the Head of State. Teacher by profession, Hon. Léa Koyassoum Doumta has been Minister for Social Affairs, Justice and Health. She was elected Vice-‐President of the Transitional Council on 2013 and is interim-‐president of her political party.

Mr Arthur Asiimwe is currently the Director General of Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA), a public broadcasting institution with one national public TV station and eight radio stations including community radios. Prior to joining RBA, Mr Asiimwe was the Director General of Rwanda Health Communication Centre (RHCC) and Managing Editor of Rwanda’s only English Daily, The New Times. During his 14-‐year journalism career, he worked with major international news agencies including Reuters news

agency, the Associated Press (AP), UN-‐IRIN News network and The East African Newspaper, covering the Great lakes Region. Mr Asiimwe pursued a Master’s Degree in Journalism from Carleton University, Canada. Mr Asiimwe is also a former Chairman of Media High Council of Rwanda, the state regulatory body of the Media.


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1 July 2014: Panel II

H.E. Ms Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-‐Zuma is the Chairperson of the African Union Commission since 2012. She is a South African politician and former anti-‐apartheid activist. She served as South Africa's Minister of Health from 1994 to 1999, under President Nelson Mandela, then as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 17 June 1999 to 10 May 2009. She transferred to the position of Minister of Home Affairs in the Cabinet of President Jacob Zuma, on 10 May 2009, a capacity in which she served

until her resignation on 2 October 2012. On 15 July 2012, Dr. Dlamini-‐Zuma was elected by the African Union Commission as its Chairperson, making her the first woman to lead the organisation. Dr. Dlamini-‐Zuma is Member of the WIP Advisory Board.

Hon. Oda Gasinzigwa is the current Minister of Gender and Family Promotion in Rwanda. In 1998, she was employed by the then Ministry of Gender Family and Social Affairs to work with the Secretariat of the National Women Council where she was responsible for facilitating the empowerment of women in Rwanda. Ms. Gasinzigwa has been a member of a number of civil society women organizations, and in 2004, she was elected President of the National Women Council of Rwanda. In 2008 she was appointed by the Government to head the Gender Monitoring

Office (GMO). Ms. Gasinzigwa has also been participating in national and regional bodies charged with women rights, reconciliation, peace and security and she holds a Masters Degree of Social Sciences in Gender and Development.

Ms Moletki Geraldine Fraser is the Special Gender Envoy of the African Development Bank. Prior to this, she was the Democratic Governance Director in the UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy, at the level of Assistant Secretary-‐General. She is South African and was appointed Minister of Welfare and Population Development in July 1996 and Minister for Public Service and Administration in June 1999. She was also a member of the National Executive Committee of the African

National Congress until 2007. She has used her influential position to fight for gender equality in government and society, and has led South African delegations to Commonwealth Women Minister's meetings, as well as chairing the Pan African Conference on Women's Development, Equality and Peace in Rwanda. In 1995 she was the deputy leader of the South African delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Ms Celestine Munda is a Senior Partner at EY and the Africa representative to EY's Global Advisory Council. She is the Advisory Services Leader for the East and Central African Cluster, which comprises 9 countries, namely, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Celestine is also EY's Africa Advisory Leader for Consumer and Diversified Industrial Products sector and prior to that, Celestine held the role of Africa Risk Leader for EY for 3 years.

Celestine mentors and coaches young women at EY and prior to joining EY, she held a number of


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senior positions within the Royal Dutch Shell Group in Kenya and South Africa. In her personal capacity, Celestine is a patron of Tuinuane Women's Group -‐ Holy Souls where she works with a group of rural women in creating sustainable wealth through agriculture, business and socio-‐cultural activities.

Ms Diana Ofwona is UN Women’s Representative in Rwanda and Coordinator of the Peace and Security Programme for the Eastern and Southern Africa Region. From May 2010 to June 2013, she served as UN Women's Regional Director for Central Africa covering 9 countries. Prior to that, she worked in New York as Special Advisor to the UN Assistant Secretary General and Director of UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa (2006-‐2009). Over the past fifteen years, Ms. Ofwona has been in leadership

positions in the United Nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. Diana is also a member of a number of boards and specialised committees, most notable being her appointment, in 2006 to a high-‐level UN Strategy and Management Review Panel commissioned to develop a new strategy for UNDP in Africa. Diana Ofwona holds a Master of Arts in French and a Bachelor of Arts (hons) in Political Science and Language from the University of Nairobi in Kenya.

Ms María del Carmen Quintanilla is a Member of the Spanish Parliament representing the Popular Party (Partido Popular), and the President of the Committee for Equality of the Spanish Parliament.In the Spanish Parliament she has served on a number of committees. She has participated in the drafting of various laws dealing with women’s issues, among them the Social Economy Law (2011) and the Shared Ownership of Farms Law (2011). She has also been co-‐rapporteur of the

Law dealing with protection orders for victims of Domestic Violence (2003) and of the Law against Gender Violence. She is also the Vice-‐president of the Equality and non Discrimination Committee in the Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe. She holds a degree in Labour Relations and has taught in this field. Today she is President of the Association of Rural Women and Families AFAMMER, an association working for the promotion of rural women’s rights.

Dr. Margee Ensign is currently the President of the American University of Nigeria, the only American style university in Sub-‐Saharan Africa, (and the only member of AAICU, American Association of International Colleges and Universities. Dr. Ensign won international awards in 2012 and 2013 from African Business Forum and African Leadership Institute respectively, for guiding AUN in becoming Africa’s first Development University, whose goal is to educate the future leaders and problem

solvers of the continent. She has written widely on development and Rwanda including "Rwanda: History and Hope", which documents the country’s rebuilding since the 1994 genocide. She is a co-‐editor of "Confronting Genocide in Rwanda" (2014) and is completing a third book on Rwanda entitled Rwanda @20.


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3 July 2014: Joint session with the MDG Advocacy Group

Rt. Hon. Ms Erna Solberg is the Prime Minister of Norway since October 2013 and the co-‐chair of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group. She has been leader of the Norwegian Conservative Party since 2004 and has represented the Conservative Party at the Parliament since 1989. During the recent Parliament period she was Member of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services Affairs, the Standing Committee on Foreign and Defense Affairs and

the Electoral Committee (2009-‐2013). She has previously been a member of standing committees on Finance and Local Government, and head of the Parliament's delegation to NATO's Parliamentary Assembly. Erna Solberg was Minister of Local Government and Regional Development 2001-‐2005. She holds a Cand. Mag. Degree in Sociology, Political Science, Statistics and Economy from the University of Bergen.

H.E. Mr Paul Kagame is the President of the Republic of Rwanda and co-‐chair of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group. Led by Kagame, the Rwanda Patriotic Army defeated the genocidal government in July 1994 and Kagame was appointed Vice-‐President and Minister for Defence in the Government of National Unity in 1994, and four years later he was elected Chairman of the RPF. On 22 April 2000, Kagame took the Oath of Office as President of the Republic of

Rwanda, after being elected by the Transitional National Assembly. In August 2003, he won the country’s first-‐ever democratically contested multi-‐party election. President Kagame has received recognition for his leadership in peace building and reconciliation, development, good governance, promotion of human rights and women’s empowerment, and advancement of education and information and communication technologies.

3 July 2014: Panel III

Hon. Ms Dr. Anita Asiimwe is currently the Minister of State for Health in charge of Public Health and Primary Health Care in Rwanda. Under her docket, she’s mandated to promote the health of the Rwandan population through delivery of preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services. Dr. Anita Asiimwe specializes in Public Health Strategies tackling the HIV AIDS epidemic and other diseases’ conditions. A Medical Doctor by profession, she holds a Masters degree in Public Health from

Dundee University (UK). Prior to this, Dr Asiimwe was the Deputy Director General of Rwanda Biomedical Center and Head of the Institute of HIV, Disease Prevention and Control (IHDPC). She is presently member of the Eastern and Southern Africa region’s high level task force for women, girls, gender equality and HIV.


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Mr Sering Falu Njie is the Deputy Director for Policy with the United Nations Millennium Campaign in New York where he leads the campaign’s global policy work as well as coordinating the citizen feedback initiative that seeks to amplify citizen voices and facilitates citizen-‐state engagement for the realisation the MDGs. He is a statistician by training and a development professional with over 20 years of hands-‐on experience working on poverty issues in Africa. He has spent 10 years

working in the Government of Gambia, where his most recent position was Director General of the National Planning Commission. Prior to his long experience with the Government, Falu has also worked with leading international NGOs including Save the Children and Action Aid in the policy advocacy arena. Falu holds a Masters degree in Poverty Reduction and Development Management from the University of Birmingham in the UK and a Bachelors degree in Statistics from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.

Ms Nyadarzayi Gumbonzvanda is the General Secretary of the World YWCA, a global network of women and young women leading social and economic change in 125 countries. She has over 10 years experience with the United Nations, where she served as Regional Director for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Eastern and Horn Africa, covering 13 countries. She was previously a human rights officer with UNICEF in Liberia and Zimbabwe. She is

Zimbabwean and a trained human rights lawyer with extensive experience in conflict resolution and mediation. For some twenty years, she has been working on issues of women and children's human rights, with a special focus on crisis countries.

Ms Jane Dudman is a journalist working for the Guardian. She is editor of the Public Leaders Network, the Guardian's online resource for managers of all public services. Jane joined the Guardian in 2007 after a number of years as a freelance business journalist. She is head of content across the Guardian's public services and not-‐for-‐profit professional networks. She has written about information management and information technology for many years and contributed to many different

publications. She has also written for organisations as diverse as Age Concern and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

3 July 2014: Panel IV

Ms Begoña Lasagabaster is the Chief at the Leadership and Political Participation Section at UN Women, New York. She is an internationally respected voice on women empowerment and women's rights and has been instrumental in the UN Women's advocacy for on its Constitutional Database, which she will be presenting at the WIP Summer Summit. Prior to joining UN Women she served as a Member of the Spanish Parliament from 1996-‐2008. A lawyer by training, Ms. Lasagabaster

specialized in community law, civil law and private international law as a graduate of the University of Salamanca and the College of Europe.


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Hon. Ms Juliana Kantengwa has been a Member of the Rwandese Parliament since 1999 where she has served on 4 different permanent committees. In the Committees of Social Affairs she worked actively on children’s rights and in the committee on Agriculture and Livestock she focused on environmental protection and land rights. She served as the President of the Trade and Economy Committee when Rwanda carried out most of the legislative reforms on trade, business and

investment and currently, she is member of the permanent committee of Security and Foreign Affairs, mainly dealing with issues of integration and security. In parallel, she has been member of different parliamentary forums such as the Rwanda Women Parliamentary Forum (FFRP) and she is a founding member of several non-‐profit organisations including the Rwanda chapter of the Forum for African Women Educationalists and the Society for Women and Aids in Africa.

Hon. Mr Tito Rutaremara has been a Rwandese senator since 2011. Prior to being appointed senator, he was the National Ombudsman, a position he held since 2003. From 2000 to 2003 Tito Rutaremara was Chairman of the Legal and Constitution Commission and between 1994 and 2000 he was member of the National Transitional Assembly. In addition, he is member of the executive committee of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, and he has been the President of Rwanda Red Cross. He also

participated in in the study of the creation of African Union. He holds a BA in History and Geography, a MA in Physical Geography as well as a PHD in Urban and Rural Planning.

Hon. Dr. Joyce Cherono Laboso is the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya. She was elected to represent the Sotik Constituency in the Parliament of Kenya in a by-‐election held on September 25, 2008, succeeding her sister, Lorna Laboso, who died in a plane crash the same year. She is the ACP Co-‐president of the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a former Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at Egerton University. Dr. Joyce Cherono

Laboso also served as Commissioner of the National Commission on Gender and Development.

Hon. Ms Zobeida Gudiño Mena, is Chairperson of the Committee on Collective Rights, Parliament of Ecuador. She has been Member of the Parliament of Ecuador for the Zamora-‐Chinchipe Province. She was born and raised in a socialist home and has throughout her political life advocated for the rights of the most vulnerable.

Dr. Monique Nsanzabaganwa is Vice Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda since 2011. Prior to that, she served in the Government of Rwanda Cabinet from October 2003 to May 2011 where she served as Minister of Trade and Industry (2008-‐2011) and Minister of State in charge of Economic Planning (2003-‐2008. She is an

Economist by training, and holds a PhD in Economics and a MA Cum Laude in Economics, both from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Dr Monique Nsanzabaganwa is a Fellow of the Harvard


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University John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Executive Education in Public Financial Management and a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative East Africa and the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

3 July 2014: Closing Ceremony

H.E. Mr Jean Damascene Ntawukuliryayo is curently the President of the Senate in the Parliament in Rwanda. He is the former Minister of Health in the Rwandan government and in 2002 Ntawukuliryayo was appointed Minister of Infrastructure. He also served as Minister of State responsible for higher education. In 2004, he was appointed Minister of Health, he was elected as Vice-‐President of the Chamber of Deputies before being elected as President of the Senate in October 2011.

Ntawukuliryayo earned a B.A. in pharmacy from the National University of Rwanda and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical technology from Ghent University, Belgium. From 1997 to 1999, he was Vice Rector in charge of Administration and Finance at the National University of Rwanda.

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Mr Andris Piebalgs is the EU Commissioner for Development. As from July 2012, he is member of the UN High Level Panel on the post-‐Millennium Development Goals agenda beyond 2015. He is an experienced Latvian politician who occupied key positions in both national and European political fields. During the first Barroso Commission, starting in November 2004, he was the European Commissioner for

Energy. Before joining the Commission, Andris Piebalgs pursued a political career, occupying strategic ministerial portfolios. He was also a high-‐ranking diplomat, helping Latvia to play its role in the EU. Piebalgs is a graduate in Physics from the University of Latvia.

Mr Dr. Mo Ibrahim is the Founder and Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. He is a global expert in mobile communications with a distinguished academic and business career. As Technical Director with BT's Cellnet, he launched the first cellular service in UK in 1985. In 1989, Dr. Mo Ibrahim founded Mobile Systems International (MSI), a technology consultancy and software business. Dr. Mo Ibrahim founded Celtel in 1998 to build and operate mobile networks in Africa. Celtel became one of Africa's

most successful companies with operations in 16 countries. Established in 2004, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation is an African initiative to recognize achievement in African leadership and stimulate debate on good governance across sub-‐Saharan Africa and the world. Dr. Mo Ibrahim holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, a MSc in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Bradford and a PhD in Mobile Communications from the University of Birmingham.


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Ms Florika Fink-‐Hooijer is the Director for Strategy, Policy and International Cooperation, at the Directorate-‐General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection in the European Commission. Previously she was Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, who is responsible for humanitarian aid, international cooperation and crisis response. Dr. Fink-‐Hooijer has spent most of her career in the Commission on foreign external policy matters and in particular on crisis

management and conflict prevention. Inside the Commission Dr. Fink-‐Hooijer had set up the managerial and financial structures for CFSP and crisis management and has been directly involved in initiating numerous EU police, rule of law or protection missions in third countries.

Ms Zainab Bangura is the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict at the level of Under-‐Secretary-‐General. Prior to this, Ms. Bangura was the Minister of Health and Sanitation for the Government of Sierra Leone, and brings to the position over 20 years of policy, diplomatic and practical experience in the field of governance, conflict resolution and reconciliation in Africa. She was previously the second female Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, including Chief Adviser and Spokesperson of the President on bilateral

and international issues. Ms. Bangura has on-‐the-‐ground experience with peacekeeping operations from within the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and she is an experienced results-‐driven civil society, human and women’s rights campaigner and democracy activist. Ms. Bangura is a former fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London and received her Bachelor of Arts from the Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. Ms Bangura is Member of the WIP Advisory Board.

Prof. Muhammad Yunus is Nobel Peace Prize Winner and founder of the Grameen Bank. He established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, fueled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. His objective was to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound financial principles so they could help themselves. In 2006, Yunus and Grameen Bank jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to create

economic and social development from below." From 1993 to 1995, Professor Yunus was a member of the International Advisory Group for the Fourth World Conference on Women, a post to which he was appointed by the UN Secretary-‐General. He has served on the Global Commission of Women's Health, the Advisory Council for Sustainable Economic Development and the UN Expert Group on Women and Finance. He is a member of the board of the United Nations Foundation. He is a member of the MDG Advocacy Group and Member of the WIP Advisory Board.

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