International Women’s Day: How public servants can Break the Bias

Speakers

• Bynta Ernest

  Gender Relations Officer

  Saint Lucia

• Bruna Santos

  Innovation Director

  Brazil

• Cécile Gréboval

  Programme Manager Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Equality Advisor

  France

• Muthoni Muriu

  Senior Adviser, Diversity, Inclusion and Shared Leadership, UN Women

  United States

• Bynta Ernest, Gender Relations Officer at the Department of Gender Affairs of Saint Lucia, where she is responsible for developing and executing Gender Equality Policy. In this role she is specifically responsible for Gender mainstreaming within the Public Service.

• Bruna Santos, Innovation Director at the National School of Public Administration in Brazil (Enap). She holds a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University (USA) and a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. She was Director of Comunitas and program officer at Columbia Global Centers, in Brazil. Bruna is a member of the global network of Eisenhower Fellows and has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University at Columbia University's EMPA Global. Bruna was honored by Apolitical and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council (GFC) on Agile Governance as one of the 50 most influential leaders championing innovation in policy making.

• Cécile Gréboval, Programme Manager, Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Equality Advisor, Gender Equality Division of the Council of Europe. Cécile Gréboval has devoted her professional career to the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights at the European and international level. She has been working as Gender Equality Advisor in the Council of Europe since 2015. Cécile previously worked for many years in the civil society sector as Secretary General of the European Women’s Lobby in Brussels. She also served in different European and international advisory groups and as representative with the United Nations.

• Muthoni Muriu, Senior Adviser, Diversity, Inclusion and Shared Leadership. Previously, as Senior Director, International Programs with Oxfam America, she was responsible for delivering Oxfam’s global programs, providing strategic guidance and practical management to seven Regional Offices covering 30 countries including the United States. As Senior Adviser, Diversity, Inclusion and Shared Leadership, Muthoni supports the development, implementation and monitoring of UN Women’s diversity and inclusion programs. Her role includes a focus on race and discrimination issues related to, amongst others, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, and disability. Her focus is on supporting a truly inclusive workplace culture where all personnel are valued and empowered to contribute their best work in service of gender equality and the empowerment of women.