Degree in Catalan Philology (UAB) Postgraduate degree in Cultural Management (Ramon Llull University) Teaching certificate in Executive Management Alta (Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya) Territorial Coordinator for Youth, Girona Director, Public Administration and Governance Territorial Services, Girona Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya delegate, Girona Director General for Equality, Ministry of Employment, Social Affairs and Families, Generalitat de Catalunya, January 2016 – 2021. As part of the Directorate General for Equality she was responsible for the implementation of Law 11/2014 for the guarantee of LGBTQ rights, which set up the current 100 comprehensive care services located throughout the territory, as well as the promotion of Law 19/2020 on equal treatment and non-discrimination. She is currently Secretary for Equality at the Ministry of Equality and Feminism of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Melissa Kerim-Dikeni is a French and Togolese national. She works at the OECD as part of the Water Governance and Circular Economy Unit. Mélissa has been working in the sustainability field for the past four years with diverse organisations. She holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris and a Master’s degree in Law from La Sorbonne University.

Lesha is Steering Committee member of Women for Water Partnership (WfWP), advocacy lead. Serves as steering committee member of the European Pact for Water, the Butterfly Effect NGO coalition, AGWA and #ClimateIsWater campaign. She is a (alternate) permanent representative to the UN (CSW, HLPF, UNESCO, UNEA, UNECE, UN Water) on behalf of Business and Professional Women international and WfWP and is representative to the EU Parliament. She chairs the VAM foundation; is a former vice-chair of the Hydropower Sustainability Governance committee; former chair of the sustainable development committee of the Netherlands women’s council, standing committee of IFBPW on sustainable development, former advisor of the Netherlands to the commission on sustainable development. She is a strategic group member of WWQA, core member of the stakeholder Engagement Platform working group and a member of the UNESCO WWAP water and gender working group.

With more than 20 years of professional and academic experience, Anthi has worked on water governance, policy and financing, and natural resources management at national, regional, sub-regional and transboundary levels in the Mediterranean within UfM, EU, UN (UNEP/MAP, UNECE, ESCWA, UNDP), IFIs (EIB, EBRD, WB, AfDB), donors (Sida, SDC) and OECD frameworks. She has led/managed and serviced more than 13 regional projects, funded by multilateral (EU, UN, GEF, AfDB) and since 2019 she is leading the agenda on diversity (gender, youth) within GWP-Med. Anthi, a political scientist by education, specialised on global development issues and water policy, through her postgraduate and doctorate studies on global development issues and water policy. Prior to joining GWP-Med in 2006, Anthi worked for three years as a lecturer at SOAS, University of London, and two years as a freelancer water expert in Madrid, Spain.