2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian Peace Activist, Trained Social Worker and Women’s Rights Advocate. She is the Founder and current President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA); a foundation that provides educational and leadership opportunities to girls, women and youth in West Africa and around the World. She also currently serves as the Executive Director of the Women, Peace and Security Program at Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York, USA. She is the Co-Founder and former Executive Director of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN-A). She is also a Founding Member and former Liberia Coordinator of Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET). Madam Gbowee currently serves as a Member of the High-Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development. She serves as a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocate for the United Nations (UN) and in 2017, she was appointed by the UN Secretary-General to serve as a Member of his High Level Advisory Board on Mediation. She is a Member of the World Refugee Council (WRC) and serves on the Board of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, Board of Directors of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa-USA and the PeaceJam Foundation, and she is a member of the African Women Leaders Network for Reproductive Health and Family Planning. She has been an Oxfam Global Ambassador since 2013. She is also a member of the International Honorary Committee of the Global Biosphere Institute and a member of the Aurora Prize Selection Committee and the Business for Peace Awards Committee. She was recently appointed by Canadian Prime Minister to serve as a member of the Gender Equality Advisory Council of the G7. She holds a M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, VA), and a Doctor of Laws (LLD) honoris causa from Rhodes University in South Africa, Dartmouth College USA and a proud mother of eight children.