Anne-Claire de Liedekerke, President of MMM
President: Anne Claire de Liedekerke (Belgium)
Secretary-General: Marie-Liesse Mandula (France)
Treasurer: Anne del Marmol (Belgium)
Vice-President: Valérie Bichelmeier, UN Advocacy Team Leader (Switzerland)
Vice-President: Johanna Schima, EU Advocacy Team Leader (Belgium)
Laurence van den Abeele, MMM in Belgium
Aliette Abraham, President, Otitsara (Madagascar)
Françoise Cardoso, Expert in Sustainability, Health & Planet, Social Innovation & Inclusion, Women empowerment & CSR (France)
Alain Englebert, President, En Avant les Enfants – EALE (Belgium/DRC)
Jean Bolly Kouassi, President, AJAD (Côte d’Ivoire)
Stephania ter Hark (Spain)
Roland Vaxelaire, Consultant (Belgium)
Afaf Abounouadar, Executive Director
Marie-Liesse Mandula, Secretary General
Shahnaz Pakravan, Communications Manager
Angela Garcia Romero, Project Director
Ariane de Liedekerke, MMM Network Coordinator
Carol Pinson, Accounts Manager
Marie-Liesse Mandula
Brigitte Marais
Read about the advocacy work of the UNESCO Team here
MMM Brussels team – from the left: Angela Romero Garcia (Project Director), Anne-Claire de Liedekerke (President), Johanna Schima (EU Advocacy Team Leader), Véronique de Vaumas (EU Team), Sarah Krimi (Former Network Coordinator) – Missing: Anne-Michelle de Mathelin (EU Team)
Read about the advocacy work of the EU Team here
In New York:
Jacqueline Leduc
Marie Delecourt
+ Aurélie Cole
In Geneva:
Valerie Bichelmeier, UN Advocacy Team Leader
Karen Thorsen
Mélanie Nédelec
In Vienna:
Irina Palffy
→ Read about the advocacy work of the UN Delegation here
Laurence Vanden Abeele Bosteels, MMM in Belgium
Laurence de Batz, MMM in France
Jocelyne Le Pivain, MMM in France
MMM teams – Brussels January 2024
14.07.25
UN Geneva - The UN Human Rights Council provides a crucial platform for advocacy and engagement on key human rights issues that affect mothers. This overview highlights MMM’s engagement at the 59th session of
13.07.25
MMM was invited to speak at AGE’s annual conference, which focused on contributing to the EU Strategy on Intergenerational Fairness. The event explored a range of key areas, including the labour market, healt
09.07.25
Make Mothers Matter, along with 24 member organisations of the Alliance for Investing in Children, has sent a joint letter to Ursula von der Leyen (President of the European Commission), Roberta Metsola (Presid
06.07.25
UN New York / HLPF - Register now to join us online for our High Level Political Forum side-event.
06.07.25
UN New York – Ahead of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) MMM's written statement focuses on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on Gender equality, which is under review this year. More specifically
06.07.25
From 30 June to 3 July, Make Mothers Matter was in Sevilla, Spain, for the 4th UN International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). Here’s a look back at this major UN event and the key takeaways