Amina Mama, Chair Nigeria/South Africa/UK
Amina Mama is currently the first Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills College in Oakland, California. She spent the past decade as the first Chair in Gender Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she also served as Director of the African Gender Institute for five years. Amina is a widely published activist and scholar, and founding editor of the continental journal of gender studies Feminist Africa. She also serves on the United Nations Committee for Development Planning, the Board of the Institute of African Studies at University of Ghana, and on the Swedish Development Policy Council.

Stans Kleijnen, Treasurer The Netherlands/United States
Stans Kleijnen is an executive coach and management consultant at Orange Canopy, Inc. She is a former vice president of market development engineering at Sun Microsystems and recipient of the YWCA Tribute to Women In Industry (TWIN) Award.

Dina Dublon, Secretary United States
Dina Dublon serves on the board of directors of Microsoft, Accenture Ltd. and PepsiCo. She is also a Life Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, and co-chair of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children. She is the former executive vice president and CFO of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, and was listed in Fortune as one of America's most powerful women in business.

Charlotte Bunch United States
Charlotte Bunch is the founder and executive director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and a Board of Governor’s Distinguished Service Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department. She is the author of numerous essays and the recipient of several women’s rights and human rights awards, including induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Myrna Cunningham Nicaragua
Myrna Cunningham, a surgeon, is chair of the Center for Indigenous People’s Autonomy and Development and founder of Casa Museo, a museum and multicultural center dedicated to indigenous and Afro-Nicaraguan art and history. She previously served as the minister of health and governor of the North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua and Chancellor of the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. In 2002, she received the Pan American Health Organization’s Public Health Heroine of the Americas Award.

Abigail Disney United States
Abigail Disney is a filmmaker, whose first film, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, won the Best Documentary award at the Tribeca Film Festival and will be released in theaters in the fall of 2008.  She is also the founder and president of the Daphne Foundation, which provides operating support to grassroots organizations working with low-income communities in New York City. She serves on the board of the White House Project, the Fund for the City of New York and the Roy Disney Family Foundation, and serves as Vice Chair of the board of Shamrock Holdings of California.

Lydia Alpízar Durán Costa Rica/Mexico
Lydia Alpízar Durán is the incoming executive director of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). She is co-founder and advisor of ELIGE - Youth Network for Reproductive and Sexual Rights (Mexico), and co-founder of the Latin American and Caribbean Youth Network for Reproductive and Sexual Rights. She serves on the boards of the International Council of Human Rights Policy and the International Committee for the Peace Council.

Leila Hessini Algeria/USA
Leila Hessini serves as Director of women’s organizing and community outreach at Ipas, a global organization that promotes women’s sexual and reproductive rights. She co-founded Strategic Analysis for Gender Equity promoting gender and economic justice and global equity. She serves on the boards of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights and the Mediterranean Women’s Fund.  Leila has published widely on issues related to Muslim women, reproductive rights and social justice.

Boriana Jonsson Bulgaria/Sweden
Boriana Jonsson brings many years of expertise in women’s human rights and organizing in conflict areas as a result of her work in the Balkans and most-recently in the Middle-East as a regional coordinator for Kvinna till Kvinna (KtK), a Swedish foundation. Boriana is part of the France-based European Feminist Initiative that is currently lobbying for new Defense and Security policies with the European Union and for a different Europe. She is fluent in Bulgarian, Swedish, English, Russian, and Macedonian/Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian.

Laurene Powell-Jobs United States
Laurene Powell-Jobs is the co-founder and president of the board of College Track, an after-school program providing comprehensive support to high school students who have the desire but lack the resources to attain higher education. Currently, Laurene’s board and advisory affiliations include KQED (PBS), EdVoice; Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Gay McDougall United States
Gay McDougall serves as the United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues. She is the former executive director of Global Rights. She has also served on the U.N. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. She was appointed the only American member of the 1994 Electoral Commission of South Africa, which facilitated the election of Nelson Mandela.  In 1999 she was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Kavita N. Ramdas India/United States
Kavita N. Ramdas, president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women is the recipient of several philanthropic and leadership awards. She currently serves on the Global Development Program Advisory Panel of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; on the Mt. Holyoke and Princeton University Board of Trustees; the African Women Millennium Initiative on Poverty and the Human Rights Advisory Council.

Mu Sochua Cambodia
Mu Sochua is a Member of Parliament and the deputy secretary general of the Sam Rainsy Party and the former minister of women's and veterans' affairs of Cambodia. She is the founder and former director of Khemara, the first local development organization for women in Cambodia. She is the recipient of the 2005 Vital Voices Annual Leadership Award and The Haas International 2006.

Zenebeworke Tadesse Ethiopia
Zenebeworke Tadesse is the Deputy Director, Learner Support of the Regional Learning Centre of the University of South Africa in Ethiopia. She was the immediate past President of the Council for the Development of Social Sciences in Africa and serves on the Board of the United Nations Institute for Social Development.  She also serves on the Board of the African Governance Institute and as a member of the Global Advisory Committee, Research Programme Consortium on Women's Empowerment.

Sakena Yacoobi Afghanistan
Sakena Yacoobi is the founder and executive director of the Afghan Institute of Learning, one of the largest non-profit organizations in Afghanistan. She is vice president of the board of Creating Hope International. She is the recipient of the 2005 National Endowment for Democracy Award and the 2004 Peter Gruber Foundation - Women's Rights Prize. In 2006, she received the Citizen Leader Award from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.  In 2007, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Pacific for her human rights work.

Julie Parker Benello United States
Julie Parker Benello has over 10-years experience in producing award-winning documentaries on health and environmental issues that have screened on PBS and HBO. She co-founded Chicken and Egg Pictures, an innovative film fund and production company that provides grants and executive services for select nonfiction and fiction film projects by women filmmakers. She currently serves on the board of The Center for Environmental Health, and is an active member of the Women's Donor Network.

Linda Gruber United States
Linda Gruber is a long-time community volunteer and president of the Gruber Family Foundation which funds in the areas of education, progressive media, the arts and women’s issues, including reproductive rights. She also serves on the boards of the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Wellesley College Friends of Art.