Governance and MMM Teams

Board 2022-2024

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, Head of MMM UN Delegation (Switzerland)
Vice-President: Johanna Schima, Head of EU Delegation (Belgium)

Laurence van den Abeele, President, MMM Belgium
Aliette Abraham, President, Otitsara (Madagascar)
Philip Biswas, Founder & Director, Rural Reconstruction Foundation – RRF (Bangladesh)
Françoise Cardoso, Expert in Sustainability, Health & Planet, Social Innovation & Inclusion, Women empowerment & CSR (France)
Alain Englebert, President, En Avant les Enfants – EALE (Belgium/DRC)
Nikki van der Gaag, Independent Consultant on Gender equality issues (UK)
Jean Bolly Kouassi, President, AJAD (Côte d’Ivoire)
Jocelyne Le Pivain, President, MMM France
Xavier Prats-Monné, Special Advisor, President of the European Committee of the King Baudouin Foundation (Spain)
Roland Vaxelaire, Consultant (Belgium)

International Secretariat (SGI)

Afaf Abounouadar, Executive Director

Marie-Liesse Mandula, Secretary General

Shahnaz Pakravan

Shahnaz Pakravan, Communications Manager

Angela Garcia Romero

Angela Garcia Romero, Project Director

Sarah Krimi, MMM Network Coordinator

Carol Pinson, Accounts Manager

MMM UNESCO Delegation – Paris

Marie-Liesse Mandula

Brigitte Marais

Read about the work of the UNESCO Delegation here

MMM European Union Delegation – Brussels

MMM Brussels team

MMM Brussels team – from the left: Angela Romero Garcia (Project Director), Anne-Claire de Liedekerke (President), Johanna Schima (Head of EU Delegation), Véronique de Vaumas (EU delegation), Sarah Krimi (Network Coordinator) – Missing: Anne-Michelle de Mathelin

Read about the work of the EU Delegation here

MMM UN Delegation – New York, Geneva, and Vienna

In New York: 

Jacqueline Leduc

Jacqueline Leduc

Marie Delecourt

Marie Delecourt

+ Aurélie Cole & Elisabeth Fonteneau
In Geneva: 

Valerie Bichelmeier

Valerie Bichelmeier, Head of UN delegation

Karen Thorsen

Karen Thorsen

Melanie Nedelec

Mélanie Nédelec

In Vienna: 

Irina Palffy, UN Vienna

Irina Palffy

→ Read about the work of the UN Delegation here

MMM at the National Level – Belgium & France

Laurence Vanden Abeele Bosteels, MMM in Belgium

Laurence de Batz, MMM in France

Laurence de Batz, MMM in France

Jocelyne Le Pivain, MMM in France

MMM teams – Brussels January 2024

 

 

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