Membership Profile


Dynamic & Diverse
IWF's members represent an exciting and wide range of professional pursuits - directing Fortune 500 companies, composing symphonies, conducting medical research, founding new businesses, managing ranches, leading nations, hosting TV shows and running the networks, serving on the highest judicial courts, presiding over universities, promoting peace, anchoring the news, directing non-profits...in short, women pioneers who have broken and are continuing to break professional obstacles to women in leadership.

IWF women are world-class athletes, film stars, writers, composers, scientists, diplomats, prime ministers, heads of state, judges, academics, philanthropists, corporate chief executives, business leaders, journalists, artists and the makers of opinion, public policy and international law. No other organization is composed of so widely diverse a population of women world leaders. IWF's richness is its diversity, and IWF's power is its reach.

A sampling of IWF’s 4000+ members on five continents:

H.E. Suhair Al-Ali Minister of Planning & International Cooperation, Jordan
Cathleen Black President, Hearst Magazines, USA
Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell Former Prime Minister, Canada
Olga Carmen Sanchez Cordero Supreme Court Justice, México
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, DBE Master, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK
Anita DeFrantz President, Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, and U.S. Olympic Bronze Medalist
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Minister of Foreign Affairs, South Africa
H.E. Delia Domingo Albert Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany & Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, the Philippines
Ivelisse Estrada Senior Vice President, Univision Communications Inc., USA
Carla Fendi President, Fendi, Italy
Barbara Franklin Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Hon. Allyson Maynard Gibson Former Attorney General & Minister of Justice, the Bahamas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Christine Gregoire Governor of Washington State, USA
Mary Harney

Minister for Health and Children & Former Deputy Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland

Pansy Ho Managing Director, Shun Tak Holdings Limited, Hong Kong
Naina Lal Kidwai CEO, HSBC India
Evelyn Matthei Senator, Republic of Chile
Zanele Mbeki First Lady, Republic of South Africa
Cathy Minehan President & CEO, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, USA
Evelyn Matthei Senator, Chile
Rita Levi Montalcini Nobel Laureate, Italy
Josie Natori CEO, The Natori Company, USA
Gale Norton Former Secretary of the Interior, USA
Ana Palacio Senior VP & General Counsel, World Bank Group and former Foreign Minister, Spain
Vasundhara Raje Chief Minister, Rajasthan, India
Gail Sheehy Author and Lecturer, USA
Dr. Kathryn Sullivan Scientist & Astronaut, First American Woman to Walk in Space, USA
Brigadier General Wilma Vaught President, Women in Military Service Memorial Foundation, USA
Patricia Woertz CEO & President, Archer Daniels Midland Company, USA
Judy Woodruff Senior Correspondent and Prime Anchor, CNN, USA
Miri Yachin Chief of Protocol, Knesset, Israel
Elena Yarmak Moscow Fashion Designer, Russia
Yee Shoon Yu-Foo First Female Mayor, Singapore




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