At the Gender x Geopolitics conference, we will bring together experts and stakeholders to discuss the gender dimension in foreign and security policy, with a focus on representation and its reflection in policies.

The goal of this conference is threefold: The first panel will explore why women are underrepresented in decision-making roles and politics and what is needed to address these deficits to create more comprehensive and sustainable policies that benefit society as a whole. In the second panel, we dive more concretely into the role of women in security and find out why more and more countries in the EU are adopting gender-just or feminist foreign policies. The conference will be completed by a closed-door working group for a more gender-just foreign and security EU policy.

Programme

·        13.00 Registration and Light Lunch

·        13.30 Welcome & Keynote

·        13.50 Panel: Who Run the World? – Stepping Up Female Representation in International Politics

-       Joanna Burnos (Founder LEADERIS Institute)

-       Rick Zednik (Advisor & Secretary of the Women Political Leaders Board)

-       Moderator: Lucia Klestincova (European transformation leader, impact coach and founder of Lights on Europe)

·        14.50 Coffee Break

·        15.00 Keynote by Kira Rudik (Member of Ukrainian Parliament, Leader Golos Party, ALDE Party Vice President)

·        15.15 Panel: Striving for Gender-Just Security and Foreign Policy

-       Kira Rudik (Member of Ukrainian Parliament, Leader Golos Party, ALDE Party Vice President)

-       Damjan Denkovski (Deputy Executive Director, Center for Feminist Foreign Policy)

-       Shada Islam (Founder, New Horizons Project | Editor, EUObserver Magazine)

-       Moderator Lucia Klestincova (European transformation leader, impact coach and founder of Lights on Europe)

·        16.15 Coffee Break

·        16.30 Working Group on an EU Gender-Just Foreign and Security Policy (upon invitation only)

-       Facilitators: Jeroen Dobber (Head of the FNF Global Security Hub) & Theresa Winter (Security and Defense Manager, Friedrich Naumann Foundation)