President of PGA

Hon. Syed Naveed Qamar

MP (Pakistan)

Hon. Qamar serves as Federal Minister for Commerce and Investment, member of the Pakistan People’s Party and former Defense Minister. He is a champion for the protection of the oceans, addressing the illicit trade of small arms and light weapons and the rights of transgender persons in his country.

Chair of the International Council

Mr. Ali Ehsassi

MP (Canada)

Mr. Ehsassi is a liberal politician who represents the riding of Willowdale, Ontario in Canada's House of Commons. He is Chair of the House Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee.

Treasurer

Ms. Petra Bayr

MP (Austria)

Ms. Bayr is a Member of the Austrian National Council and Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) spokesperson for global development. She serves as General Rapporteur on Combating Racism and Intolerance at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe..

Dip. Margarita Stolbizer

(Argentina)

Dip. Stolbizer is a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina. Originally a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), she founded her own party, Generation for a National Encounter (GEN) in 2007. She is a past President of PGA.

Hon. Valerie Woods

Speaker of the House of Representatives (Belize)

Hon. Woods has served as Speaker of Belize's House of Representatives since December 2020. Previously, she was a Senator for the People’s United Party.

Hon. Agho Oliver Bamenju

MP (Cameroon)

Hon. Agho Oliver Bamenju is a Member of Parliament in the Cameroon National Assembly. He is currently one of the youngest Members of Parliament. He is a human rights advocate on issues of child labor and child trafficking.

Hon. Sahar Albazar

MP (Egypt)

Hon. Sahar Albazar is an Egyptian MP and the Deputy Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee at the Egyptian House of Representatives. She is the Head of Harvard Women in Diplomacy, Defense and Development covering Sub- Saharan Africa.

Hon. Amanza Walton-Desir

MP (Guyana)

Hon. Amanza Walton Desir is a Guyanese politician and attorney serving as Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Guyana since 2020.

Hon. Dr. Angela Brown Burke

MP (Jamaica)

Dr. Brown Burke has served as Mayor of Kingston and St Andrew before becoming involved in National politics. She was elected the first woman chairperson of the 83-year-old People's National Party (PNP).

Sen. Boris Dittrich

(The Netherlands)

Sen. Dittrich is a member and former leader of the Democrats 66 Party, jurist, author and human rights activist. He is the first member of the Dutch Parliament to have drafted four different Private Bills that have successfully become law and is a leading advocate on the issues of same-sex marriage, euthanasia, legalization of specific forms of sex work and decriminalizing the use of soft drugs. From 2007-2018, He has served as Advocacy Director of the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.

Hon. Mirza Ikhtiar Baig

(Pakistan)

Hon. Mirza Ikhtiar Baig is a Member of the National Assembly and former Senior Vice President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Hon. Bernard Georges

MP (Seychelles)

Hon. Bernard Georges is a member of the National Assembly of Seychelles. A lawyer by profession, he is a member of the Seychelles National Party, and was first elected to the Assembly in 2002. In 2015, he was appointed to Judge of the Court of Justice for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.

Hon. Fox Odoi-Oywelowo

MP (Uganda)

Fox Odoi-Oywelowo is a Ugandan advocate and legislator. An avid human rights advocate and defender, he vows to hold every institution accountable for human rights violations,

Hon. Dr. Galyna Mykhailiuk

MP (Ukraine)

Dr. Galyna Mykhailiuk is a Member of Parliament of Ukraine and Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

H.E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein

H.E. Mr. Alexander Marschik

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of Austria
President of the Economic and Social Council

H.E. Mr. Rodrigo A. Carazo

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Mission of Costa Rica

H.E. Mr. Ivan Šimonović

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Mission of Croatia

H.E. Mr. Martin Bille Hermann

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of Denmark

H.E. Mr. Olof Skoog

Head of the European Union Delegation to the United Nations
Permanent Mission of the European Union

H.E.Mr. Harold Adlai Agyeman

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of Ghana

H.E. Mr. Cho Tae-yul

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea

H.E. Mr. Olivier Maes

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Mission of Luxembourg

H.E. Ms. Pascale Christine Baeriswyl

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Mission of Switzerland

H.E. Mr. Sergiy Kyslytsya

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Mission of Ukraine

Mr. Adama Dieng

UN Secretariat and Agencies
UN Expert on Human Rights in the Sudan; Former Under Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide