Schedule - Women Deliver 2019 Global Conference

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Sunday 2 June
Monday 3 June
Tuesday 4 June
Wednesday 5 June
Thursday 6 June

Plenary Concurrent Film Power Stage Side Event Youth Zone Special Event Pre-Con Workshop

Tuesday 4 June

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Gender and Climate Change: Climate Justice Solutions

Speakers

Hwei Mian Lim

Organization: Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre (ARROW)

Hwei Mian Lim

Hwei Mian Lim works at the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre (ARROW) in Kuala Lumpur. She manages ARROW’s programme on climate change. She represents ARROW at the COP, the Green Climate Fund, and the Women and Gender Constituency of the UNFCCC. Prior to ARROW, she was with the Federation of Reproductive Health Associations, Malaysia. Her areas of interest include climate change and its interlinkages including SDGs, gender and climate finance, sexual and reproductive health and rights, public health, research and project management. She has written publications on climate change and women’s health, population and development, and women’s health and nutrition. She holds a Master’s in Community Health.

Gemma Pryor

Organization: Mondelez International

Gemma Pryor

Gemma Pryor is the Director of Corporate Affairs at Mondelez Canada. She has lead the implementation of Cocoa Life, Mondelez’s responsible cocoa sourcing program, across the Cadbury brand in both the U.K. & Canada. Gemma has comprehensive experience working with major brands, including McDonald’s and Coca-Cola, on sustainable sourcing, and fair employment initiatives. On a personal level, Gemma describes herself as firm feminist, but believes this is a life-long learning journey.

Mette Schmidt

Organization: Danish Family Planning Association

Mette Schmidt

Ms. Schmidt has been with the Danish Family Planning Association for 10 years. Starting as global advocacy officer and now head of the Policy Unit, covering both national and global policy, including defending sexual and reproductive rights in UN negotiation foras, such as CPD and CSW. She followed the negotiation process on the SDGs very closely. Prior to this, she was a policy officer for the Danish Youth Council. Ms. Schmidt has a masters degree in political science from the University of Copenhagen, with a focus on international politics, and has studied European Studies in France.

Alan Jarandilla Nuñez

Organization: Change the System

Alan Jarandilla Nuñez

Alan is a lawyer and passionate activist from Bolivia. Alan is the Director of Policy and Advocacy of IYAFP, and a member of the YCSRR. He is the Founder of Change the System (CTS), a Bolivian youth-led organization working towards sustainable development, human rights and youth participation, from a systemic change perspective. He is the writer of “Mother Earth and Climate Justice: Indigenous peoples’ perspectives of an alternative development paradigm”, a chapter of the Routledge Handbook on Climate Justice. He is a strong advocate for systemic change and a holistic approach to address global issues.

Fleur Newman

Organization: UN Climate Change Secretariat

Fleur Newman

Fleur Newman is the lead officer for the gender and climate change agenda item under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Gender Focal Point and Focal Point for Women at the UN Climate Change secretariat. Fleur is a lawyer by training who, before joining the UN, spent 10 years practicing law in the private sector in areas including climate change, sustainability, energy and international law. Throughout her career, Fleur has been an advocate for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. Fleur has a Bachelor of Science, Sustainable Development and Master of Laws, International Law.

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Concurrent

Date: Tuesday 4 June

Location: Room 215-216, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Speakers: Hwei Mian Lim; Gemma Pryor; Mette Schmidt; Alan Jarandilla Nuñez; Fleur Newman

Tags: Concurrent

Gender and Climate Change: Climate Justice Solutions

Organized by: BSR, UNFCCC, Women’s Environment and Development Organization

This session explores the linkages between gender equality, women’s empowerment and climate change by highlighting the differentiated impacts of climate change, and how they exacerbate existing gender inequalities. Come learn about the urgent need to accelerate the move away from business-as-usual towards low carbon, climate resilient economies and societies. Panelists will present examples of how to promote, facilitate and embed justice into climate policy and action to ensure the long-term sustainability and effectiveness of solutions.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

The Power of Money: Driving equitable economic growth by investing in women

Speakers

Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe

Organization: Maverick Collective, an initiative of PSI

@MotsepeFoundtn

Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe

Dr. Moloi-Motsepe is a businesswoman and philanthropist who started her career in medicine, specialising in women’s health. After establishing the Motsepe Foundation with her husband Patrice Motsepe in 1999, they became the first couple in Africa to join the Giving Pledge in 2013.

Dr. Moloi-Motsepe’s philanthropic vision is guided by the Global Goals, and her initiatives focus on community and societal development. Through the Foundation she grants access to education, resources and skills to empower the youth; launched a Girls In STEM programme to create a pipeline of women within these industries; hosts frequent dialogues for building awareness and challenging patriarchy to empower women and men; and supports social entrepreneurs through partnerships with the Schwab Foundation and Harvard Kennedy School.

She is also founder of a fashion company, which promotes African fashion and textiles by creating Fashion Week platforms and identifying commercial opportunities for African designers.

Dr. Moloi-Motsepe is also a member of:
- The Harvard Kennedy Women’s Leadership Board;
- The International Women Forum of South Africa;
- The Cancer Association of South Africa;
- The Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum; and
- Co-chair of Maverick Collective.

Raj Kumar

Organization: Devex

@raj_kumar

Raj Kumar

Raj Kumar is the founding President & Editor-in-Chief of Devex, the media platform for the global development community. A social enterprise dedicated to ensuring global development efforts do more good for more people, Devex was born in 2000 when Raj was a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School. Today, there are 100+ Devexers around the world serving a global audience of more than one million aid workers and development professionals. Beginning as a kid in Kerala, India, Raj has witnessed firsthand determined and courageous development work in over 50 countries – it’s what drives the Devex mission to “Do Good. Do It Well.” He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a media leader and former humanitarian council chair for the World Economic Forum, and has interviewed on-camera and on-stage hundreds of global luminaries on the most important challenges of our time. Raj is the author of the book "The Business of Changing the World," a go-to primer on the ideas, people, and technology disrupting the aid industry.

Maria Cavalcanti

Organization: Pro Mujer

@cavalcanti_nyc

Maria Cavalcanti

Maria Cavalcanti is President and CEO of Pro Mujer. She holds over 25 years of professional experience advancing women and working with a wide range of business and non-profit organizations across Latin America, the United States, Western Europe, and India.

Maria leads Pro Mujer in sustainable growth, developing an extended, large-scale service and products platform to empower women in Latin America.

Before joining Pro Mujer, Maria co-founded and became managing partner of FIRST Impact Investing, a private equity fund in Brazil. Prior to FIRST, she served as Chief Strategy Officer for Fundación Avina, where she spearheaded strategy and operational initiatives across the organization, spanning 15 countries. Earlier in her career, Maria worked at Dell Inc. and as a management consultant with A. T. Kearney and TPI.

Maria is recognized as a leading speaker on impact investing and financial inclusion in Latin America. She has authored multiple trade and academic articles and has served on international boards, including the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, PYME Capital Fund, and FUNDES. In 2017, she was appointed Co-chair of Partnership for Responsible Financial Inclusion (formerly MCWG).

Maria holds an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin and an MS in Information Science from Columbia University in New York.

Humphrey Nabimanya

Organization: Reach A Hand Uganda

@HumNabimanya

Humphrey Nabimanya

Humphrey Nabimanya is the founder and Team Leader of Reach A Hand Uganda (RAHU) and a Women Deliver Young Leader (Class of 2013). He is a youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) advocate, leader, and change agent.

His youth-led organization RAHU empowers young people through livelihood and skills development, Behavior Change Communication (BCC), SRHR, and HIV/AIDS awareness. RAHU has created campaigns, projects, and programs that appeal to young people while focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including health and wellbeing (SDG 3), quality education (SDG 4), and gender inequality (SDG 5). Humphrey’s leadership at RAHU has generated a movement of young advocates with over 27 core team members and 500 volunteers through a Peer Educators Academy, which expanded to almost all regions in Uganda.

Humphrey’s mission is to support his peers to take control of their lives and present themselves in ways that inspire, impress, and spur confidence in themselves, and provide them a platform to make informed choices regarding their SRHR. His efforts have earned him speaking engagements at global events such the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival as well as recognition as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans by the Africa Youth Awards in 2018.

Theo Sowa

Organization: African Women’s Development Fund

@TheoSowa

Theo Sowa

Theo Sowa is an independent advisor and consultant, specialising in international social development with a particular emphasis on children’s rights and protection issues. She is currently the CEO of the African Women’s Development Fund.

Born in Ghana, she has lived and worked in many countries in Africa, as well as the UK, Europe, and the USA. Her work includes advisory roles to African and other international women and children’s rights activists and leaders, plus policy development and advocacy with a variety of international agencies and organisations. She was Senior Programme Advisor on the UN Study on Children and Armed Conflict (the Machel Report) and led the five year review of the report.

Theo is a board member of various national and international civil society organisations and grant making foundations, including being a trustee of Comic Relief (a multimillion grant making foundation) and Chair of Comic Relief’s International Grants Committee; a member of the African Advisory Board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation; a Patron of Evidence for Development; a member of the UBS Optimus Foundation and a board member of the Graça Machel Trust.

She has authored many publications, including being a contributing editor to ‘The Impact of War on Children’; a contributing author and co editor of a Harvard Law School/UNICEF Innocenti publication on ‘Children and Transitional Justice’; and co author of ‘Groupwork and Intermediate Treatment’.

Theo was awarded a CBE in June 2010.

Suzanne Biegel

Organization: Catalyst at Large

@zanne2

Suzanne Biegel

Suzanne is a globally recognised expert, field builder, and speaker on gender-smart investing. She is the Co-Producer of the Gender-Smart Investing Summit. She is Investment Director for SPRING Accelerator, focused on enterprises in emerging markets that positively effect adolescent girls. She is Senior Gender Lens Investing Adviser to Wharton Social Impact Initiative at Wharton Business School, to CDC Group, to Tara Health Foundation, for DFAT’s Investing in Women Initiative, and others. She is a Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She serves on numerous boards and advisory boards including Cornerstone Capital, SheEO, The Boardroom Africa, and WorldPulse. She received the Beacon Award for Philanthropy in the UK in 2015, amongst numerous other accolades in the UK and the US over the past 25 years. She began her career in the corporate world at IBM, and grew and ultimately sold a successful educational technology business through the 1990’s. Her personal portfolio is invested across all asset classes with an impact and gender lens and she is an active angel and venture investor. She is an alumna of The Wharton School and the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and has been based in London for nine years.

Dr. Gayathri Vasudevan

Organization: LabourNet

@vgayathri10

Dr. Gayathri Vasudevan

Dr. Gayathri Vasudevan was cited as one of the top 50 women in business by Business Today, a leading magazine in India in the year 2017 and “Entrepreneur of the Year in Social Business Category” by Forbes India in 2018.

She has a doctorate in Development Studies with 30 publications in the areas of labour and employment and gender issues to her credit. Gayathri was also a speaker at the EY World Entrepreneur Forum 2017 at Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Between 1999 and 2007, Gayathri worked for the International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency. She co-founded LabourNet in 2006 with a vision to enable livelihoods and enhance quality of life through Education, Employability and Entrepreneurship. LabourNet’s model has been widely acclaimed as one of the few companies in this space which is run profitably and having far reaching impact. LabourNet has impacted about a million lives, empowering youth, men and women to earn a decent living or become profitable micro entrepreneurs.

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Plenary

Date: Tuesday 4 June

Location: Plenary Hall, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Speakers: Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe; Raj Kumar; Maria Cavalcanti; Humphrey Nabimanya; Theo Sowa; Suzanne Biegel; Dr. Gayathri Vasudevan; Lareina Yee; Vivian Hunt

Tags: Plenary

The Power of Money: Driving equitable economic growth by investing in women

The World Bank estimates that nations leave $160 trillion on the table when women don’t fully participate in national economies. The Power of Money will examine examples of investments in women’s financial inclusion, seed funding, patient capital, gender smart investing, and women-led and owned businesses. Through partnerships and mechanisms, and by creating an enabling environment, we can drive inclusive and equitable economic growth that benefits everyone. We will also explore ways to increase funding and other resources for women-focused organizations. Investing in girls and women is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do.

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Opening: Dr. Precious Moloi Motsepe, Co-Founder and CEO, Motsepe Foundation and Co-Chair, Maverick Collective, an initiative of PSI

Moderator: Raj Kumar, President & Editor-in-Chief, Devex

Panel:
- Maria Cavalcanti, President & CEO, Pro Mujer
- Humphrey Nabimanya, Founder and Team Leader, Reach A Hand Uganda
- Theo Sowa, CEO, African Women’s Development Fund
- Suzanne Biegel, Founder, Catalyst at Large
- Gayathri Vasudevan, Co-Founder and CEO, LabourNet

Presentation: The Power of Parity - New Evidence on the Benefit of Investing in Gender Equality
- Lareina Yee, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, McKinsey & Co
- Vivian Hunt, Managing Partner, UK and Ireland, McKinsey & Co.

Wednesday 5 June

10:30 am - 12:00 pm PST

A Key to Combating Climate Change: Empowering Girls and Women

Speakers

Angie Rozas

Organization: The Coca-Cola Company

Angie Rozas

Angie leads The Coca-Cola Company’s signature 5by20 initiative to enable the economic empowerment of 5 million women entrepreneurs across the Company’s value chain by 2020. Angie’s work on 5by20 began in 2012. Her progressive 23-year career with Coca-Cola has also included roles across Strategic Planning, Marketing, Innovation, and Sustainability. As the global leader for 5by20 she provides strategy and expertise on Women’s Economic Empowerment and collaborates with local teams, stakeholders and partners around the world to drive plans to meet the ambitious goal through shared best practices, scalable tools and pioneering monitoring and evaluation processes and studies.

Samantha Harris

Organization: BSR

Samantha Harris

Samantha (Sam) drives the climate resilience pillar of BSR’s climate change practice, which includes how businesses can act at the intersection of people and climate change. She leads BSR’s research and strategy on the intersection of climate and women’s empowerment, and through the Business Action for Women collaboration. Sam also leads the international policy engagement at the UN climate negotiations for the We Mean Business coalition. Before joining BSR, Sam worked on the Climate Action Network International policy team, and prior to that, the NGO Islands First, advising Pacific small island nations on climate change.

Leakhena Saroeurn

Organization: Women Deliver Young Leader

Leakhena Saroeurn

Leakhena studied Tourism Management at Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and human rights and environment at Earthrights School Mekong in Thailand. A Young Environmental Fellow of the JWH Initiative of Both ENDS, Project Head Advocacy on ClimateEducation, young feminist climate storytelling project for FRIDA, and a Project Manager at the Thrive Program of SHE investments, Leakhena has been working with many projects on climate change resilience/adaptation through agriculture practice, as well as water issues. She is a former Young Parliamentarian of the World Youth Parliament for Water and project coordinator of Y-farm. She is really passionate about water issues, farming, and climate change.

Christina Kwauk

Organization: Brookings Institute

Christina Kwauk

Christina Kwauk is a fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on girls’ education in developing countries, gender equality in education, and 21st century skills and youth empowerment. Christina is co-author (with Gene Sperling and Rebecca Winthrop) of What Works in Girls’ Education: Evidence for the World’s Best Investment. She has also published on girls' life skills education, the gender sensitivity of education policies, the intersections between girls' education and climate change, and sport for development. Christina also manages the Echidna Global Scholars Program and serves as chair of the Girls CHARGE initiative

Poonam Muttreja

Organization: Population Foundation of India

Poonam Muttreja

Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India-PFI, has over 35 years of experience promoting women’s rights, rural livelihoods, public advocacy, communications and behaviour change. She conceived and promoted the transmedia initiative, Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon - I, A Woman, Can Achieve Anything. Before joining PFI, she served as Country Director of McArthur Foundation in India. She serves on the board of several non-governmental organisations, and co-founded SRUTI, DASTKAR, and Ashoka Foundation. An alumnus of Delhi University and Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government, Poonam is a regular television and print commentator in India and internationally.

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Concurrent

Date: Wednesday 5 June

Location: Room 109, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PST

Speakers: Angie Rozas; Samantha Harris; Leakhena Saroeurn; Christina Kwauk; Poonam Muttreja

Tags: Concurrent

A Key to Combating Climate Change: Empowering Girls and Women

Organized by: BSR, UNFCCC, Women’s Environment and Development Organization

Women bear the brunt of climate change, yet they are the world’s best bet in the fight for a clean, healthy, and sustainable planet. This session will look at three key spaces for empowering girls and women to be leaders on climate action: 1) through corporate value chains, 2) through grassroots activities, and 3) through policy arenas.

Thursday 6 June

10:30 am - 12:00 pm PST

Power of Community: Climate Advocates

Organized by: BSR, WEDO Power of Community sessions are semi-structured dialogues for various communities of practice, defined by geographical local of work, technical focus of work, and other identifying characteristics. Self-select a community and…

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Special Event

Date: Thursday 6 June

Location: Room 208-209, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PST

Tags: Special Event

Power of Community: Climate Advocates

Organized by: BSR, WEDO

Power of Community sessions are semi-structured dialogues for various communities of practice, defined by geographical local of work, technical focus of work, and other identifying characteristics. Self-select a community and dive right in! Together, we can strengthen ties and advance collective action.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm PST

Climate Finance: Funding Gender-Just Climate Action

Organized by: BSR, UNFCCC, Women’s Environment and Development Organization Climate finance can seem daunting and complex, but it simply provides the funds that enable climate action. This session will highlight the need for massive-scale commitments…

Speakers

Theo Sowa

Organization: African Women’s Development Fund

@TheoSowa

Theo Sowa

Dr. Mariama Williams

Organization: South Centre

Dr. Mariama Williams

Mariama Williams, Ph.D. is a feminist economist with over 20 years of experience working on economic development, with a focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment and social equity in international trade, external debt and finance arenas and more recently on climate change issues. Her path breaking publications include Gender and Climate Financing: Coming Out of the Margin (Routledge 2015) and Gender Issues in the Multilateral Trading System (Commonwealth 2003). She also co-authored Trading Stories: Experiences with Gender and Trade (with Marilyn Carr, Commonwealth Secretariat 2010) and Gender and Trade Action Guide: A Training Resource (with Catherine Atthill, Sarojini Ganju Thakur, Marilyn Carr, Commonwealth Secretariat 2007). Williams is currently Senior Programme Officer at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Bridget Burns

Organization: Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

Bridget Burns

A feminist, environmental activist & Director of WEDO, Bridget specializes in policy advocacy, research and movement building at the intersection of gender equality, women’s rights and environment/climate justice. Bridget often focuses on integrating gender equality into the decisions and outcomes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a space where she serves as the co-Focal Point of the Women and Gender Constituency. Prior to WEDO, Bridget worked at LEAD International coordinating a global network of environmental leaders and conducting leadership training. She obtained a Masters from the London School of Economics in Gender, Development and Globalization.

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Concurrent

Date: Thursday 6 June

Location: Room 213, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm PST

Speakers: Theo Sowa; Dr. Mariama Williams; Bridget Burns

Tags: Concurrent

Climate Finance: Funding Gender-Just Climate Action

Organized by: BSR, UNFCCC, Women’s Environment and Development Organization

Climate finance can seem daunting and complex, but it simply provides the funds that enable climate action. This session will highlight the need for massive-scale commitments as well as local-scale financing that focuses on climate justice and empowering girls and women.

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Tuesday 4 June

Gender and Climate Change: Climate Justice Solutions

The Power of Money: Driving equitable economic growth by investing in women

Wednesday 5 June

A Key to Combating Climate Change: Empowering Girls and Women

Thursday 6 June

Power of Community: Climate Advocates

Climate Finance: Funding Gender-Just Climate Action

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