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, NationalWater 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 EstebanSkoknic 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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