Valentina Beghini
is a lawyer by training, with a PhD in European and Comparative Legal Studies and more than 10 years of experience working at the national and international level – including with governmental agencies, the United Nations, non-governmental organisations and in the private sector in Europe, South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. She has worked extensively on fundamental principles and rights at work, international labour standards, gender equality and children’s rights. She is currently working as a Technical Specialist on Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination, at the International Labour Organization (ilo) in Geneva, coordinating the work on the promotion of the ratification and implementation of the ilo Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) and its accompanying Recommendation.
Zsuzsa Blaskó
is a senior research fellow at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. She is a sociologist by background and her main research interest lies in social inequalities, with a particular focus on education and gender relations. Her work includes analyses of gender role attitudes, maternal employment and girls’ expectations about working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In April 2020, she published the Joint Research Centre (jrc) Technical Report, How will the covid-19 crisis affect existing gender divides in Europe?.
Flavia Bustreo
is a leading physician, public health professional and advocate for the health and human rights of women, children, adolescents and the elderly. She is known for taking action on the social and environmental determinants of health, including the health impacts of climate change. She is currently the Chair of the Governance and Nomination Committee at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and advises several governmental and non-governmental entities including the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Dr Bustreo was the former Assistant Director-General for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health for the World Health Organization (who) from 2010 to 2017. At who she led the organization’s work on reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health, climate change, ageing, vaccinations, health and human rights, health and gender equity, and the social determinants of health. Dr Bustreo’s contributions to global health have
Umberto Cattaneo
is an economist in the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch of the International Labour Organization (ilo) in Geneva. Umberto has advanced ilo research and advised ilo constituents on gender equality and non-discrimination at work, including on the care economy, violence and harassment in the world of work and equal pay for work of equal value. Umberto is closely involved in providing support to the G20 Employment Working Group. He is currently the lead author of the new ilo Care Report 2.0, which will provide an update regarding legal provisions on care leave policies and care services, as well as cost/benefit policy simulations. Prior joining the ilo, Umberto worked for two years in the Office of the Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank and obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Genova in Italy.
Federica Cristani
is a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Czech Republic, and a visiting senior researcher at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland. She holds a PhD in international law from the University of Verona, Italy. She previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, Switzerland, and at the University of Verona, and has been a visiting scholar at several universities and research centres in Europe. Her main research interests include international economic law and international law of cyberspace. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and has contributed to several book chapters. She is a Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on International Economic Law of the European Society of International Law.
Elisa Fornalé
is a Swiss National Science Foundation (snsf) Professor at the World Trade Institute (wti), University of Bern. She holds a law degree from the University of Trento, Italy, and a PhD in law from the University of Palermo, Italy, and she specialises in international law, human rights and migration. Since April 2021, she has been the Principal Investigator of the project “Gender Equality in the Mirror (gem)” which explores women’s participatory rights. She is the Gender Coordinator of the Gender Team at the wti and she initiated the Gender Lecture Series – Know the gap. In parallel, she is implementing the “Framing Environmental Degradation, Human Mobility and Human Development as
Joseph Francois
is managing director and professor of economics at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. He served as deputy director of the National Centre of Competence in Research: Trade Regulation from 2015 to 2017. Previously he was professor of economics (with a chair in economic theory) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. He is a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), director of the European Trade Study Group and the Institute for International and Development Economics, senior research fellow with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, and a board member of the Global Trade Analysis Project. He serves on the editorial board of the Review of Development Economics, and the World Trade Review. Past professional incarnations have included professor of economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, research economist for the World Trade Organization, and chief of research and acting director of economics for the US International Trade Commission.
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
is a tenured research associate of the Fund for Scientific Research in Belgium and senior lecturer (maîtresse d’enseignement) at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her recent publications include the edited Special Issues “Mobilités dans le Sud globalisé: altérité, racialisation et fabrique des identités” [Racialisation and othering in the context of mobilities: a focus on the globalised South] (with Julian Debonneville and Gwénola Ricordeau, Civilisations 2019) and “Asia-Europe intimate links: family migration, binational couples and mixed-parentage children” (with Simeng Wang, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 2021). Her ongoing research project examines the contextual mobility of Belgian-Asian couples in their cross-border social spaces.
Chiara Germano
is an Italian lawyer specialised in commercial and labour law, who has been practising in Turin since 2006. Always interested in gender equality issues, in 2016 she was nominated by the Italian Ministry of Labour as Vice-Counsellor for Equal Opportunities in the Piedmont Region. This institution is responsible for supervising the correct application of the rules on gender discrimination in
Anna Giulia Ponchia
is an international development professional and advocate for gender equality and for the rights of women and girls in humanitarian and conflict settings. She is currently part of the Innovation Team at Results for Development, working to identify and scale up innovative solutions to address systemic challenges in health, education and nutrition in low- and middle-income countries. Previously, Anna Giulia worked for the governance team at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, hosted by the World Health Organization. She was also a trade officer at the British Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, specialising in Latin American trade and development. Her research interests lie in the application of innovations in humanitarian settings through the integration of a localisation and gender lens. Anna Giulia holds an msc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a ba from the University of Warwick.
Mara Catherine Harvey
is driven by two fundamental beliefs: that daily money decisions are an untapped source of positive social and environmental impact, and that we cannot wait another 100+ years to achieve economic gender equality. As senior manager in finance with more than 21 years of experience in Wealth Management at ubs, she has had the privilege to transform the world of finance to better address women’s needs, and to support clients from all around the world to make more impact with their wealth. Above all, she is a passionate advocate for financial literacy, equality and female economic empowerment. She holds a doctorate with highest honours in Political Economy from Fribourg University, Switzerland, and she speaks English, Italian, French and German fluently. Since 2014, she has lived in Zurich and she enjoys spending her free time writing. She is the author of Women and Risk – Rewriting the Rules (2018) and A Smart Way to Start (2018–2020), a rhyming book series for children on money, equality and sustainability. Her vision is to redefine financial parenting and shape our children’s financial future, to empower all girls to talk about
Rachael Hinton
is a social scientist and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in international health and development, including women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health, human rights, and peace building and conflict reduction in humanitarian and fragile settings. Rachael has wide-ranging professional experience, including over ten years leading research teams in Papua New Guinea and working with the Partnership for Maternal and Child Health and the World Health Organization on a range of technical, policy and advocacy-related products. Dr Hinton leads an independent consultancy company, focusing on writing and publishing projects in the fields of global health and development.
Catherine Kessedjian
is Professor Emerita of the University Panthéon-Assas Paris ii. She acts as arbitrator in selected international commercial and investment disputes. She also acts as a mediator in French and English. She is listed as International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Conciliator (list of France). She is a member of numerous professional organisations, notably the American Law Institute (ali) and the Institut de droit international. For ali, she currently acts as a member of the International Advisers Committee for the Restatement on Foreign Relations Law. She is the President of the French Branch of the International Law Association (ila) and Vice Chair of the global ila. Until 2016, she was the Deputy Director of the European College of Paris and Director of Studies of the llm in European Law. In 2016, she was visiting professor at Padova University (Italy) and in 2017 Wainwright Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at McGill Faculty of Law.
Sandra Mantu
is assistant professor at the Centre for Migration Law (cmr), Faculty of Law, Radboud University, the Netherlands and co-managing editor of the European Journal of Migration and Law. Her research and teaching focuses on European Union (EU) citizenship, free movement of persons, implementation of EU law, social rights, equality, and nationality law. In 2014, Sandra defended her PhD thesis, which dealt with the legal rules and practices of citizenship deprivation in a selection of EU Member States and their link with EU citizenship. She
Lidia Katia C. Manzo
has recently been awarded the Marie Sklodowska Curie European Individual Fellowship 2020–2022 to develop the project city-of-care at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. She is interested in the application of ethnography and participatory methods in critical urban cultural studies to reinforce our knowledge of how discrimination, segregation and hegemony work spatially. She teaches urban and environmental sociology and general sociology at the University of Milan. Among her latest publications, ‘Mothers, Childcare Duties, and Remote Working Under covid-19 Lockdown in Italy: Cultivating Communities of Care’ (with Manzo, A. and Minello, A) in Dialogues in Human Geography (2020).
Sara Martucci
is an assistant professor of social and behavioral sciences at Mercy College in New York. Her research is typically focused on everyday experiences of gentrification in New York City. She is currently researching the gendered division of labour in the home during the covid-19 lockdown and how these experiences differed for mothers by profession. Sara regularly presents her work at the Urban Affairs Association annual conference. She recently published the article ‘He’s Working from Home and I’m at Home Trying to Work: Experiences of Childcare and the Work–Family Balance Among Mothers During covid-19’ in the Journal of Family Issues. Dr Sara Martucci holds a PhD in Sociology from the cuny Graduate Center.
Alessandra Minello
is assistant professor of demography at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padua. Her academic research focuses on gender differences in several domains. She received her PhD in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento, Italy, where she compared the factors affecting the educational expectations and aspirations of children of immigrant and native students in Italy and Europe. During her PhD, she also worked as an associate researcher at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy (Bocconi University of Milan, Italy), where she
Emanuela Pozzan
is a senior gender and non-discrimination specialist at the International Labour Organization with more than 18 years of experience working in the Middle East, Africa and Asia on gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the world of work. Her educational background includes a degree in Middle Eastern Studies and a Master of Science in Development Studies from soas with a focus on gender equality and forced migration. Her career has included serving in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, non-governmental organisations, United Nations Population Fund and the International Labour Organization (ilo). She is now working in the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch at the ilo headquarters where she coordinates a portfolio of initiatives in the area of access to work for women, care economy, pay equity, and violence and harassment in the world of work. Among her latest publications, A Quantum Leap for Gender Equality: For a Better Future of Work for All (ilo, 2019).
Cecilia Rocco
is a consultant with expertise on international relations, diplomacy, and gender equality. Rocco has worked as a consultant for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, hosted by the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Her research focuses on the effect of multilevel actions and integrated policies to ensure for women, children, adolescents and newborns the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. Her main areas of work cover diplomacy, women’s rights and Sustainable Development Goal (sdg)5 Gender Equality, with a specific focus on target 5.2 and the role of global governance and international platforms in creating synergies to address gender-based violence and maltreatment of young people, especially from a socio-economic perspective. Rocco holds an msc in International Relations and Diplomacy, and a ba in International Relations from the University of Trieste.
is a Swiss lawyer. She practised law with the Geneva bar, later worked with the International Labour Organization in Madagascar and then taught at the Faculty of Law of Geneva. She headed the Federal Office for Gender Equality from 1994 to 2010 and represented Switzerland at the United Nations (UN) and Council of Europe, including in major meetings on gender equality. She did two mandates as expert in the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (cedaw, 2011–2018), including being its Rapporteur and chairing the Working Group on Individual Communications. She joined the Board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (2011–2016), where she is now a Senior Research Associate. Her latest publication is The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its Optional Protocol: A Commentary. Second Edition edited by P. Schulz, R. Halperin-Kaddari, B. Rudolf and M. Freeman (2nd edn, OUP forthcoming 2022).