THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF
WOMEN & GIRLS IN SCIENCE
#February11
Water Unites Us.
International Day of
Women and Girls in Science
February 11, 2022, UN Headquarters,
9.00-18.00 US-EST
60+
Speakers
128
Countries
8
High-Level Sessions
#February11
Agenda
09:00 -10:00 US-EST
OPENING
Welcome Remarks / Opening Statements
15 Speakers
10:00 -12:30 US-EST
PANEL 1
High-Level Panel on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: / The human rights-based approach
1 Speaker
10:05 -11:05 US-EST
CONVERSATION 1
Women in Science for Water and Society: Bridging Voices to Action
17 Speakers
11:05 -12:20 US-EST
CONVERSATION 2
Reviving Peace Through Science-Based Water Diplomacy
14 Speakers
12:20 -12:30 US-EST
EBRU ART
1 Speaker
12:30 -13:50 US-EST
Cansu Global Media Room
13 Speakers
13:20 -13:30 EST / BREAK
12:30 -16:05 US-EST
PANEL 2
High-Level Panel on Investing in Water for Sustainable Development
1 Speaker
13:35 -14:50 US-EST
CONVERSATION 2
Re-Shaping Water Economics for Inclusive Green Growth
17 Speakers
14:50 -16:05 US-EST
CONVERSATION 2
Financing Innovative Science- and Green Technology-Based / Water Solutions and Programs
17 Speaker
16:05 -18:00 US-EST
CLOSING CEREMONY
Women & Girls in Science for Water: / Celebrating the 7th Anniversary of #February11 Global Movement
19 Speakers
Speakers
More than 80 participants
from 30 countries.
Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister
President of Association of Women in Science, USA
Miss Anya Khan
13 years-old Science Advocate, Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform, USA
HRH Princess Dr. Nisreen El- Hashemite
Executive Director of the Royal Academy of Science International Trust (RASIT)
H.E. Mr. Abdulla Shahid
President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly
H.E. Mr. António Guterres
Secretary-General of the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Borut Pahor
President of the Republic of Slovenia
H.E. Prof. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
President of the Portuguese Republic
H.E. Dr. George W. Vella
President of the Republic of Malta
H.E. Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou
President of the Hellenic Republic
H.E. Mr. Francesco Mussoni
Captains Regent of the Republic of San Marino
HE Mr. Giacomo Simoncini
Captains Regent of the Republic of San Marino
H.E. Mr. José Manuel Albares
Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain
H.E. Mrs. Agata Kornhauser-Duda
First Lady of the Republic of Poland
H.E. Dr. Tandi Dorji
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bhutan
H.E. Ms. Han Jeong Ae
Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea
H.E. Ms. Anita Muižniece
Minister of Education and Science, Latvia
Ms. Hoda Kanso
Coordinator of the Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform, Lebanon
HRH Prince Zain El-Hashemite
Founder of Y 4 X Global Movement for Equality in Science, and Founder of Value Veda International Initiative for Science Education
Prof. Wanda Díaz-Merced
a Puerto Rican Blind Professor of Astrophysics, Senior Scientist, European Gravitational Observatory in Pisa-Italy.
H.E. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad Bande
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, President of the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly
Drs. Alice Bouman-Dentener
Co-Founder of Cansu Global, Royal Academy of Science International Trust
H.E. Dr. Helena Dalli
European Union Commissioner for Equality
H.E. Ms. Nada Al-Nashif
United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
H.E. Ms. Shamila Nair-Bedouelle
Assistant Director-General for Natural
Sciences, UNESCO
Ms. Marcelline Kayitesi
Director-General in Charge of Water & Sanitation at the Ministry of Infrastructure, Rwanda
Olivia Cohn
Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform
Prof. Nataša Zabukovec Logar
Head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Technology, National Institute of Chemistry, Researcher in the field of Wastewater Management, Slovenia
Dr. Brigita Daļecka
Researcher at Riga Technical University, Latvia
Dr. Barbara Janusz-Pawletta
Vice-Rector International Cooperation and Public Relations, Kazakh-German University, UNESCO Chairholder in Water Management in Central Asia
Ms. Dorota Serafin
Executive Director, Polish Humanitarian
Action, Poland
Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque
CEO Sanitation and Water for All, First Special
Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and
Sanitation, Portugal
Dr. Ma. Josefina P. Abilay
Regional Director DOST-MIMAROPA Regional
Office DOST-MIMAROPA Regional Office Department of Science and Technology, the Philippines
Ms. Yvetta Veliskova
Director of the Institute of Hydrology of the Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia
Dr. Dorit Matmon
Senior Hydrogeologist at Ecolog Engineering, Israel
Prof. Juliet Willetts
Research Director Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Silvia Rafaelli
Head of Office, Litoral Regional Centre, National Water Institute (INA) of Argentina
Prof. Andrea Ballestero
Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, USA
Prof. Eun Mie Lim
Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea
Ms. Nina Kickinger
Associate Information Systems Officer, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)ea
H.E. Mr. Jonibek Ismoil Hikmat
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations
H.E. Ms. Alya Al-Thani
Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations
H.E. Amb. Bankole Adeoye
Commissioner for the Political Affairs, Peace and Security, African Union (tbc)
Prof. Farouk El-Baz
Space and Geology Scientist, a Leading geologist in Apollo Mission – NASA, currently Director of Remote Sensing Center, Boston University
H.E. Prof. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
6th President of the Republic of Mauritius
Ms. Sofia Khan
Peer Mentor, Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform, United Kingdom
Prof. Susanne Schmeier
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education,
the Netherlands
Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace
Global Institute for Water Security, Canada
Prof. Dr. Aysen Erdincler
Head of the Department of Environmental Protection and Development, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey
Ms. Lyndsay C. Howard
Senior Analyst for Foreign Policy BLOOMBERG LP
Dr Lara Karam Boustany
Rector, Université La Sagesse, Lebanon
Dr Naho Mirumachi
Reader in Environmental Politics, Kings
College London, UK
Dr Mary Khimulu
Chairperson of Kenya Water Sector Trust Fund
Board of Directors, Kenya
Dr. Marta Domènech
Responsible for Sustainability, Water and Climate Change at the Andorra, Research and Innovation Agency, Andorra
H.E. Mr. Boštjan Malovrh
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the United Nations
Ms. Huaxuan Chen
Founding Team Member and Peer Mentor, Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform, Canada
H.E. Mrs. Vanessa Frazier
Permanent Representative of the Republic of
Malta to the United Nations
Mr. Chris Gaunt OBE
Chairman, The British Chamber of Commerce
in Turkey
Mr. J. Carl Ganter
Co-Founder and Director, Circle of Blue, USA
Mr. Idar Kreutzer
CEO Finance Norway
Ms. Michela Miletto
Director and Coordinator of the World Water
Assessment Programme, UNESCO
Engr. Lorvi B. Pagorogon
Director of the Science High-School, the Philippines
Dr. Monika Kędra
Global Young Academy, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Ms. Christelle Kwizera
Founder and Managing Director at Water
Access, Rwanda
Ms. Anda Ikauniece
Director of the Department of Marine Monitoring and Senior Researcher, Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Latvia
H.E. Mr. Jukka Salovaara
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Francisco Duarte Lopes
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Portugal to the United Nations
H.E. Ms. Isabelle Durant
Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD
Ms. Patricia Espinosa
Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (tbc)
H.E. Ms. Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko
Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment (ARBE), African Union
H.E. Ms. Teresa Ribera
Vice-President and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Spain
H.E. Mr. Owen Bonnici
Minister of the Republic of Malta for Equality,
Research and Innovation
Ms. Meghna Badami
Science Advocate, Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform, India
Ms. Katja Sreš
a Girl advocate, the Children's campaign
"Plastic Pirates", Project of the EU Trio-Presidency of (DE, PT, SI), Slovenia
Ms. Alma Nordenstam
Peer-mentor, Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform, Sweden
Ms. Victoria Ballesteros-Gonzalez
Coordinator of the Spanish Section, Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform, Spain
Mr. Sulton Rahimzoda
Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Fund for the Aral Sea, Tajikistan
Mr. Abderrahman Mahboub
Director of the Loukous Hydraulic Basin Agency, at the Directorate General of Water, Morocco
Ms. Soledad García Muñoz
Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Argentina
Ms. Kathleen Dominique
Program Lead Financing Water, OECD
Prof. Ms. Choi Kyung-Sook
Commissioner of National Water Management Committee and Professor at Kyungbook National University, Republic of Korea
Dr. Najat Saliba
Professor of Analytical Chemistry, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Mr. Jaime Melo Baptista
President of the Board, Lisbon International Centre for Water, Portugal
H.E. Mr. Milenko Esteban Skoknic Tapia
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations
Ms. Josefina Maestu
Water Economics Expert, Water Advisor of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Spain
H.E. Mr. Rustami Emomali
Head of the Upper Chamber of the Parliament of Tajikistan
H.E. Mr. Gilbert F. Houngbo
Chair of UN-Water, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (tbc)
H.E. Mr. Bakhtiyor Ibragimov
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan to the United Nations
Mr. Roderick Planta
Assistant Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines
Ms. Mirjana Spoljaric Egger
Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, United Nations Development Fund (UNDP)
Prof. Metka Filipič
National Institute of Biology, Slovenia
Ms. Alenka Zalaznik
Limnos, Company for Applied Ecology, Slovenia
Ms. Alexandra Serra
CEO at AdP-Valor and COO at AdP International, Portugal
H.E. Ambassador Attallah Shabazz
Eldest daughter of Malcolm X, Diplomat and Chief Strategist, Lecturer and Philanthropist, USA
Prof. D.Sc. Eng. Arch. Anna Januchta-Szostak
Researcher and Academic at the Faculty of Architecture at Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Ms. Neeta Pokhrel
Chief of Water Sector Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department of the Asian Development Bank
Mr. Helmy Eltoukhy
CEO Guardant Health, USA
Ms. Ebru Dildar Edin
Executive Vice President, Garanti Bank, Turkey
Mr. Diogo Faria de Oliveira
Secretary-General, WISE PPP UNECE International Specialist Centre of Excellence in PPP for Water & Sanitation, Portugal
Ms. Linda Mežule
Dr.Sc.ing; Associate Professor of the Department of Water Engineering and Technology, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Dr. Alison Baker
Fund Manager, Water for Women Fund, Australia
H.E. Mrs. Elisenda Vives Balmaña
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Principality of Andorra to the United Nations
H.E. Ms. Amal Mudallali
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations
H.E. Ms. Sima Bahous
Executive Director, UN-Women
Ms. Solvita Strāķe
Dr.biol; Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Senior Researcher of the Department of Marine Monitoring, Latvia
Ms. Filipa Bessa
PdD and Researcher on Coastal Systems and Oceans at the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ms. Andreja Sušnik
Drought Management Centre for Southeastern Europe, Slovenia
Dr. Mona Minkara
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Northeastern University, Director of RASIT “Writing Science in Braille” Program
Dr. Naheda Sahtout
Office of the Chief Science Operating Officer, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada
Dr. Liu Xiaoyan
Office of the Chief Science Operating Officer, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada
Dr. Maggie Kossida
Water Resources Engineer, Director at SEVEN Engineering Consultants, Greece
Prof. Dr. Khin NiNi Thein
Initiator of Myanmar Water Think Tank, Country Chair of Eco-Civilization, Myanmar
Ms. Reema Khan
CEO & Chairman, Green Sands Equity
Dr. Maky Zanganeh
Founder and CEO, Zanganeh and Associates, USA
Ms. Polona Safaric Tepes
PhD Candidate, University of Ljubljana and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Slovenia
Prof. Amal Qattan
King Faisal Specialist Research Institute, Saudi Arabia
Ms Dimitra Xynou
Policy Analyst, Environment Directorate, OECD
Dr. Ola Zahran
Head of WIPO Office New York
Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier
Chief of UNCTAD New York
Ms. Rebecca Jekogian
Advocate for Value Veda Campaign, Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform, USA
Ms. Stephanie Ajwan’g Okeyo
Under the Microscope (UTM), Kenya
Ms. Yuling Li
Coordinator of the Chinese Section, Girls in Science 4 SDGs International Platform, China
Dr. Humayra Bashir
Researcher, International Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Nigeria
Ms. Berthy Buah
Regional STEM Coordinator, Ghana Education Service, Ghana
Ms. Joanne Kirkland
STEM Leader, Computer Science Teacher, The Howard of Effingham, United Kingdom
Ms. Vasso Tsiaoussi
Greek Biotope/Wetland Center (EKBY), Greece
Ms. Betty Soto Terrazas
Specialist in Community Water and Sanitation Management, Bolivia
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