The invited and confirmed speakers for the WPL Summit 2019 include:
Akiko Yamanaka
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005–06), Japan. Member of the House of Representatives, Japan (2005-09)
SPEAKERS
Amal Al Qubaisi
President of the Federal National Council, United Arab Emirates
António Guterres
Secretary General, United Nations.
High Commissioner For Refugees, United Nations (2005-15).
Prime Minister, Portugal (1995-2002)
Åsa Lindestam
First Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag of Sweden, WPL Ambassador
Bidhya Devi Bhandari
President of Nepal
Christine Lagarde
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Emiko Takagai
State Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. Member of the House of Councillors, Japan
Fumiko Hayashi
Mayor of the City of Yokohama, Japan
Gifty Twum Ampofo
Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister of Education from Ghana
Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir
Senior Advisor, UN Women.
Chair, WPL Board.
Minister Of The Interior, Iceland (2013-2014).
Mayor, Reykjavik (2008-2010)
Helen Clark
Administrator (2009-17), UNDP.
Prime Minister, New Zealand (1999-2008).
WPL Executive Board Member
Hilda Cathy Heine
President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Ināra Mūrniece
Speaker of the Saeima (Parliament) of Latvia
Jerrlyn Uduch Sengebau
Senator of Palau
Jewel Howard Taylor
Vice President, Liberia.
WPL Executive Board Member
José Manuel Barroso
President, European Commission (2004–2014).
Chairman, Goldman Sachs International.
Prime Minister, Portugal (2002-2004).
WPL Global Advisory Board
Junko Mihara
Member of the House of Councillors, Japan
Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister, Canada
Kaori Takagi
Member of the House of Councillors, Japan
Kimie Hatano
Member of the House of Representatives, Japan
Mabel Memory Chinomona
President of the Senate of Zimbabwe, Chairperson of the Women's Committee of the African Parliamentary Union (APU), WPL Ambassador
Maki Ikeda
Member of the House of Representatives, Japan
Mara Carfagna
Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy
Member of the Parliament of Ireland, Minister of State for Health Promotion (2016-2017)
María Loreto Carvajal Ambiado
First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
Marisol Casado
President of the International Triathlon Union, Member of the International Olympic Committee
Masoumeh Ebtekar
Vice President, Women and Family Affairs, Iran
Mody Al Khalaf
Member of Parliament of Saudi Arabia
Nadia Calviño
Minister of Economy and Business, Spain
Nancy Kemp-Arendt
Member of Parliament of Luxembourg
Naomi Tokashiki
Member of the House of Representatives, Japan
Natsue Mori
Member of the House of Representatives, Japan
Noriko Furuya
Member of the House of Representatives, Japan
Nurhayati Ali Assegaf
Member of the House of Representatives, Indonesia.
WPL Executive Board Member
Oyunkhorol Dulamsuren
Minister of Environment & Member of Parliament of Mongolia, WPL Ambassador
Paola Taverna
Vice President of the Italian Senate
Paula Cox
Premier of Bermuda (2010-2012)*
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
Rebeca Grynspan
Head of the Ibero-American Secretariat
Satsuki Katayama
Minister for Gender Equality, Japan
Shinako Tsuchiya
Member of the House of Representatives, Japan
Silvana Koch-Mehrin
Founder and President, Women Political Leaders (WPL).
Vice-President, European Parliament (2009-2011).
Member, European Parliament (2004-2014).
WPL Executive Board Member
Tadamori Oshima
Speaker, House of Representatives, Japan
Tamar Chugoshvili
First Deputy-Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia
Tedros Adhanom
Director General, WHO
Theresa May
Prime Minister, United Kingdom
Tomoko Abe
Member of the House of Representatives, Japan
Toshiko Takeya
Member of the House of Councillors, Japan
Verónica Delgadillo García
Member of the Senate, Mexico. WPL Ambassador
Victoria Budson
Founding Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University
Viktorija Čmilytė
Member of the Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania
Wakako Yata
Member of the House of Councillors, Japan
Yasuko Komiyama
Member of the House of Representatives, Japan
Yoko Kamikawa
Member Of The House Of Representatives, Japan.
Minister of Justice, Japan (2014-2015, 2017-2018), Japan.
WPL Ambassador
Yuka Miyazawa
Member of the House of Councillors, Japan
Zuraida Kamaruddin
Member of Parliament and Minister of Housing and Local Government of Malaysia, WPL Ambassador