WIP Summer Summit 2014 Speaker CVs 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 WIP Summer Summit 2014 Speaker CVs 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. WIP Summer Summit 2014 Speaker CVs 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 WIP Summer Summit 2014 Speaker CVs 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.