Winnie Byanyima
Uganda’s Byanyima is a champion of women’s rights, democratic governance, climate change, and peacebuilding and is currently the executive director of Oxfam International. Elected in Uganda’s Parliament for three terms, she led Uganda’s first parliamentary women’s caucus, helping enact gender equality provisions in the country’s post-conflict constitution. In 1985, during Uganda’s peace agreement, she helped broker peace while supporting women’s involvement in the process. She is the founder of the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), as well as, the co-founder of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance, her profile said.
