Mrs Evelyn Thomas Agan is a visionary and outspoken Chartered Accountant with many years of experience in Women issues, organizational leadership, and women mobilization towards gender equality across nations and cultures around the world. She is the founder and President of “ROYAL DIADEM”, a growing Women Organization in Nigeria which focuses on anti-female trafficking, women’s health, women’s development / capacity building, and economic empowerment. She is concerned about climate change consequences in Africa e.g. declining rainfall, rising temperatures and drought, Sahara Desert encroachment, crop failures in local agriculture, food insecurity, climate-induced human migration and land conflicts, flora and fauna species extinctions, and limited technology or technical and financial capital in Africa to tackle all of the above.

Dr Glory Sunday Etim has many years of participation and experience in both church-led and NGO humanitarian activities. She is currently an academic with lecturing experience in marketing in both Akwa Ibom State University and the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She has been a passionate advocate of social inclusion and gender mainstreaming in programs on small and medium scale enterprises funded by governments, donors, corporate sector, and international conservation and development organizations.  She maintains that women’s unsustainable environmental practices in developing countries is underpinned by poverty and income inequality between men and women. Glory strongly believes that women’s poverty and unsustainable environmental practices in the tropical world cannot be significantly reduced if women are not supported, and do not arise to occupy the driver’s seat in small and medium scale enterprises. Her passion in WONCA is environmentally sustainable women’s enterprise development.

Veronique has a background in Canadian engineering military training, yet very concerned and committed to women’s participation in global (north – south) partnerships and collaboration towards tackling social inequalities in nations, women development and empowerment, global warming and climate change, and other environmental problems.  Her interests in nature conservation and sustainable development cuts across in-situ and ex-situ biodiversity conservation activities in national parks and botanic gardens, eco-tourism / sport hunting, sustainable rural livelihoods in buffer zone communities of national parks, climate smart agriculture, renewable energy, aquaculture (as alternative to poaching and water poisoning for fishing purposes), and the UNREDD program in developing countries.

Grace Jamie Pepple has a background in marketing and business management up to master’s degree level. She is naturally endowed with enviable social skills that make her to easily cut across women of different social strata and backgrounds. For several years, she has been a dynamic change agent, NGO activist, woman leader and mobilizer in both her church and local community. She is a leading advocate of girl child education in Africa, campaigner against human trafficking, and a strong proponent of gender equality in society and human affairs. Grace believes that only a gendered approach to community-based nature conservation interventions, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, can enhance more effective and sustainable positive outcomes in the current quest for transition to a global green economy.