Pilwha Chang
Convenor, Organizing Committee for WW05
Dean of Graduate School, Ewha Womans University

Gertrude Mongella
President of the Pan-African Parliament, Tanzania


June 21, Tuesday "Violence, Intolerance and the Culture of Peace"

  • Heisoo Shin (Korea)
    Executive Committee Member, The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery
    by Japan

  • Cynthia Enloe (U.S.A)
    Research Professor, Clark University

  • Monica Munoz (Chile)
    Former Chief, LA-Caribbean division of Unifem
    Joanna Bigfeather Artist and curator , La Jolla reservation

  • Charlotte Bunch (U.S.A)
    Founder and Executive Director, the Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University


June 22, Wednesday "Globalization, Economic Values and Poverty"

  • Wu Qing (China)
    Former professor, English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University

  • Josefa “Gigi” Francisco (Philippines)
    Executive Director, Women and Gender Institute, Miriam College

  • Nancy Folbre (U.S.A)
    Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts

  • Joanna Kerr (Canada)
    Executive Director, Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)


June 23, Thursday "Changing Paradigms for the State, Health and Environment"

  • Ito Peng (Canada)
    Professor ,Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

  • Irene Dankelman (Netherlands)
    Head of the Sustainable Development Programme, Radboud University, Nijmegen

  • Njoki Wainana (Kenya)
    Former coordinator, African Women's Development Communication Network (FEMNET)

  • Gloria Bonder (Argentina)
    Director, Area "Gender, Society and Policies" in the Latin American Postgraduate Institute in Social Sciences (FLACSO)

  • Sandra Harding (U.S.A)
    Professor, Social Sciences and Comparative Education, the University of California


June 24, Friday "Celebrating Women's Leadership - the Way Forward"

  • Hiroko Sue Hara (Japan)
    Professor, Josai International University

  • Chen Lanyan
    Professor, Sociology in the Program of International Relations, Beijing University

  • Kang KyungWha (Korea)
    Former Chair, UN Commission on the Status of Women

  • Ayse Feride Acar (Turkey)
    Professor, Middle East Technical University

  • Mary Hartman (U.S.A)
    Professor and director, Institute for Women's Leadership, Rutgers University