WPL Summit 2023

    Day one - June 7th

    European Parliament Brussels

    Ten years after the inaugural WPL Summit in the European Parliament, Women Political Leaders (WPL) comes back to Brussels June 7-8: the WPL Summit 2023 will take place in the Belgian Federal Parliament, and the European Parliament.

    WPL Summit 2023

    Day Two - June 8th

    Belgian Federal Parliament

    Ten years after the inaugural WPL Summit in the European Parliament, Women Political Leaders (WPL) comes back to Brussels June 7-8: the WPL Summit 2023 will take place in the Belgian Federal Parliament, and the European Parliament.

Representation matters

WPL summit 2023

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Elliane Tilleux

Speaker, House of Representatives,Belgium
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Dr. Oby Ezekwesili

Chair of the WPL Board
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Roberta Metsola

President, European Parliament
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Silvana Koch-Mehrin

President and Founder of WPL
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Stephanie D'Hose

President, Senate of Belgium
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We must continue to push for high female representation in politics”, said
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia in her keynote on the occasion of the inaugural WPL Summit, hosted at the European Parliament in Brussels in 2013.

Johnson, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her efforts to bring
women into the peacekeeping process continued to say: “We have come a long way, but we cannot afford to be complacent.

When it comes to political decision-making that reflects the experiences and
perspectives of the world’s population, the message is clear:

Representation matters. This will be the theme of the WPL Summit 2023.