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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is the Executive Director of UN Women. She has formerly served as Deputy President of South Africa from 2005 to 2008 where she managed programmes targeted at combatting poverty and ensuring that the benefits of a growing economy reach the poor, particularly women. Mlambo-Ngcuka was actively involved…
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the former President of Liberia (2006-2018), and first female African head of state.
She is the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize alongside two women’s rights campaigners, Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen ‘for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women…
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Amina Mohamed is a Kenyan lawyer, diplomat and politician. Former Cabinet Secretary (Minister) for Education, Mohamed has been in public service since 1985. She is the current Cabinet Secretary for Sports in Kenya, having formerly served as the Cabinet Secretary (Minister) for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the first…
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Priscilla Chan is the Co-founder of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic foundation she founded with her husband, Mark Zuckerberg in December 2015.
The foundation focuses on using technology to prevent and eradicate disease, improve learning experiences for children, and reform the criminal justice system. It also aims to build a…
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Jacinda Ardern is the Prime Minister of New Zealand, at 38 years of age the country’s youngest prime minister in over 150 years.
A graduate of Communications Studies from the University of Waikato (2001), Ardern has been globally recognised and praised for the leadership skills she displayed in response to…
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Angie Brooks was a Liberian diplomat and jurist who served as the president of the 24th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the first African female president of that body.
Brooks started as a lawyer and worked as a counselor-at-law to the Supreme Court in Liberia after returning…
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What would the world be without an effective healthcare system? What would we do without the people who dedicate their lives to caring for our health? We owe these people not just gratitude but the highest regard as well. Margaret Chan, a two five-year Director-General of the World Health…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist and non-fiction writer whose work has been recognised globally, appearing in numerous publications that include the Financial Times, The New Yorker, The O. Henry Prize Stories, Granta, and Zoetrope. Inspired by the late Professor Chinua Achebe after reading his Things Fall Apart…
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Oprah Winfrey is an American media mogul, TV host, actress, and philanthropist.
Despite having a difficult childhood of poverty and sexual abuse, Winfrey rose to become one of the most visible, successful, and admired women of her time. She became a talk show expert, even going on to establish her…
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Sheikh Hasina Wajed is the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, a position she has held since 2008.
Since she became the prime minister, Bangladesh has experienced rapid economic growth and development. The country is almost self-sufficient in food production and has attained a level of life expectancy that is even higher…