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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