Balkans Expert Joins the Global Fund Board

Working in women's rights is a "permanent pleasure, challenge and a living source of energy and knowledge," notes Boriana, a Bulgarian native and Swedish citizen.

Global Fund for Women is honored to have Boriana Jonsson join our Board.  After many years of working on women's human rights especially in conflict areas, and after serving as a dynamic advisor to the Global Fund on our grantmaking in Eastern Europe, Boriana brings to our diverse Board her several years of experience at the Swedish Foundation Kvinna till Kvinna (KtK). 

Fluent in Bulgarian, Swedish, Russian, English and Macedonian/Serbian/Croatian, Boriana has worn many hats at KtK, a foundation active in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. KtK provides financial assistance, support and advice to developing women’s rights and peace-building organizations.

Boriana's invaluable work as an advisor to the Global Fund draws from her rich and diverse expertise in women's organizing in conflict areas and her experience of working in Macedonia, and Croatia and most-recently in Jordan as the Middle-East coordinator for KtK.

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 new/different Europe. She is also active in Swedish politics.