Board of Directors
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Marie Bass
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Terms: 2004-2007, 2009-2011 and 2012-2014
- Cofounder and Former Partner, Bass and Howes, Inc.
- Cofounder and Former Director, Reproductive Health Technologies Project
- Board Member, New Mexico Teen Pregnancy Coalition
- Member, International Women's Forum
Pouru Bhiwandiwalla, MD, MSPH, FACOG
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Terms: 2004-2006, 2007-2009, and 2011-2013
- President, Gyn Center for Women
- Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina
- Member of the Board of Directors, Population Action International
- Medical Director for Women's Health, Wake Research Associates
- Consultant, Family Health International and Emory University
- Former Medical Director & Director, International Programs, Family Health International
Gabriela Cano Azcarraga
Mexico City, Mexico
Terms: 2007-2009 and 2010-2012
- Cofounder and Director, Espacio Espiral, Cultural Promotion, Sustainable Development and Equity
- Founding member and Board member, The Youth Coalition
- Cofounder and Board member, Latin American and Caribbean Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Cofounder/consultant, "Young women´s articulation," working in LAC for human rights and citizenship
- Member of the Board, Balance, Development Promotion and Youth
- Member of the Committee of Promotion for Safe Motherhood — Mexico
- Founding member of the Maternal Mortality Observatorium — Mexico
- Founding member of the Gender Violence Observatorium's Network of Mexico
Jolynn Dellinger, JD, MA
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Term: 2008-2010 and 2011-2013
- Program Manager for Data Privacy Day, The Privacy Projects
- Former Privacy and Security Counsel, Intel
- Staff Attorney, The Honorable W. Earl Britt, Senior U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC
- Former Senior Lecturing Fellow, Family Law, Duke Law School, Duke University
- Former Member and Secretary, Juvenile Justice and Children's' Rights Section, NC Bar Association
- Former Chair, NARAL — N.C. Board
Jemima Dennis-Antwi, PhD, Msc, BScN, RNM, PHN, FWACN
Accra, Ghana
Term: 2010-2012
- Regional Midwifery Adviser, Anglophone Africa, International Confederation of Midwives
- Technical Advisor, Presidential Malaria Initiative, Population Council, CHPS Programme, Ghana
- Technical Advisor, Preservice Education, American College of Nurse-Midwives, CHPS Programme Ghana
- Former Director, National Health Learning Materials Programme and Health Education Unit, Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service
- Member, Board of Directors, Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana
- Education and Counseling Coordinator, Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Ghana Government Partnership
- Fellow, West African College of Nursing
- Member, National Taskforce for Newborn Screening for SCD in Ghana
- Acting President, Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
Deborah De Witt, CPA, MBA
Deer Isle, Maine, USA
Term: 2012-2014
- Former Director of Tax for Treasury Operations, General Electric Capital Corporation, Stamford, CT
- Former Partner, Ernst & Young, New York, NY
- Member, Board of Directors, Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY
- Member, Board of Directors, Island Nursing Home, Deer Isle, ME
Geoffrey Knox
New York, NY, USA
Term: 2012-2014
- Founder and President, Geoffrey Knox & Associates
- Former Director of Communications for Gay Men’s Health Crisis, American Foundation for AIDS Research
- Former Board Member, Empire State Pride Agenda
- Former Board Member, HIV Law Project
Jerker Liljestrand, MD, PhD
Phnom, Penh, Cambodia
Term: 2012-2014
- Team Leader, MNCH, URC Better Health Services project, Cambodia
- Former Program Co-coordinator, Advanced International Training Porgram on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Lund University, Sweden
- Former Chair, FIGO Safe Motherhood Committee
- Former Lead Health Specialist, maternal-newborn health, World Bank
- Former Chief, Maternal-newborn health/Safe motherhood, WHO
Bene Madunagu, PhD
Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria
Terms: 2004-2009 and 2011-2013
- Cofounder and Chair, Girls' Power Initiative, Nigeria
- Professor of Botany, University of Calabar, Nigeria
- Chair, Board of the International Centre for Reproductive & Sexual Rights (INCRESE)
- Former General Coordinator, DAWN
- Former Chair, Board of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights
- Past President, National Abortion Federation
Tracey Ramsay, HBSc, MBA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Term: 2010-2012
- Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Sales, Afexa Life Sciences, Edenton, Canada
- Former Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Takeda Canada, Inc., Ontario
- Former Vice President, Marketing, HealthMedia, Inc., Michigan (division of Johnson & Johnson)
- Former General Manager, Ortho Biotech, Ontario, Canada (division of Johnson & Johnson)
Nozer Sheriar, MD, DNBE, FICOG, FCPS, DGO
Mumbai, India
Term: 2010-2012
- Consulting Obstetrician, Gynecologist and Gynecological Endoscopist
- Deputy Secretary General, Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI)
- Former Chairperson, Medical Termination of Pregnancy Committee, FOGSI
- President, Mumbai Obstetric and Gynecological Society
- Technical Advisory Panel, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
- Member, Board of Directors, CEDPA India
- Medical Advisory Panel, Family Planning Association of India
- Former member, Governing Council, International Planned Parenthood Federation
Otobo Innocent Ujah, MBBS
Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
Term: 2011-2013
- Member, Global Doctors for Choice
- Former National Vice-President of Internal Affairs, Nigerian Medical Students' Association
Elizabeth S. Maguire, MA (ex officio)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- President and CEO, Ipas
- Board Chair, WomanCare Global (WCG)
- Co-Chair of the IPPF Safe Abortion Action Fund
- Former Director, Office of Population, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Member of U.S. Delegation to the Int'l Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) & ICPD +5
