EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President
Representative to the United Nations as Chief Executive Officer
Feminist, researcher, women’s historian, writer.
Member of IAW for over 30 years:
Representative to the UN Conference on Human Rights, Vienna 1993 and to one session of the ILO
Secretary General 2002 – 2007,
Co–organizer and Moderator for the Centennial Celebration in Berlin 2004,
Delegate to the United Nations in Vienna – Head of Delegation 2004–2010,
Web Content manager for womenalliance.org 2002–2013
Head of Election Committee 2010–2020
IAW President 2022-2025
Treasurer
Dr. Antonia Lavine is a lawyer with over 20-year experience in criminal prosecution, litigation, and oversight. She holds Master of Laws degrees in International Legal Studies and United States Legal Studies from the San Francisco Golden Gate University School of Law.
As a public prosecutor and criminal law expert in Europe, she specialized in law enforcement, justice reform and legislative action in the areas of human rights protection and combating complex crime, including money laundering, corruption, human trafficking, and other forms of organized crime. With law degrees in both the civil and common law legal systems, Antonia is consulted regularly for her comparative and international law expertise and has served on numerous government, UN, and NGO-sponsored projects and panels. She has directly contributed to drafting various pieces of domestic and international legislation, including the European Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings, and served for several years as an appointed expert on the European Union’s Group of Experts on Trafficking in Human Beings.
In her current positions as Treasurer of the International Alliance of Women, Director of the San Francisco, Coordinator of the San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking, and Executive Director of the National Council of Jewish Women San Francisco, Antonia utilizes her legal expertise and project management skills in social justice reform and advocacy action. For her social justice work in fighting discrimination, violence and exploitation, Antonia has received the prestigious CEDAW Women’s Human Rights Award of the San Francisco Friends of the Commission on the Status of Women and Award of Recognition for Outstanding Achievements in Cross-System Collaboration from the California Department of Social Services.
Vice Presidents
Dr. Sibylle von Heydebrand is a Swiss lawyer. She studied in Geneva and Basel (Switzerland) and received her PhD in Law (Dr. iur.) from the University of Basel. She is a proven expert on political rights and has a long experience as a lecturer. Her native languages are French and German. She also speaks English and Italian as second languages.
Since 2020, she has been the Representative, and since 2021 she acts as the Main Human Rights Representative of the IAW at the United Nations in Geneva. With her team, she monitors and reports to IAW on human rights activities of the UN entities based in Geneva. IAW’s human rights Representatives at UN Geneva advocate for the rights of women and girls in all their diversity.
Since 2020 she represents the IAW at the NGO Committee on the Status of Women in Geneva and serve as their Financial Auditor.
In 2022, Sibylle was elected to the Board of IAW.
She is committed to improving the position of women and girls in society and works to enhance the visibility of women’s societal involvement.
Dr. Uzma Gul, a socio-political development practitioner, is internationally recognized and multiple times awarded for her work on Women, Peace and Security; Youth empowerment, Inclusive and sustainable development and Democratic good governance.
She actively played her role in evidence-based youth, peace and security UNSCR 2250 policy drafting, One Korea peace dialogue, spoke on behalf of global south at UN we want, UN 2030 agenda, UN global governance forum, she also contributed to Feminist Women Movement Action Plan (FwMAP) course development for university teach ins.
She has been a keynote speaker at recognized platforms and media channels that are directly and indirectly related to bring positive social change in society.Uzma is now actively working on Intergenerational dialogues and multilateralism. Recipient of national and international fellowships, worked as a young consultant for public/private sector, organized important and meaningful conferences, she knows the grass root issues and brings them to light in front of world leaders along with possible strategic and sustainable solutions.
A human rights defender, global advocate for SDGs, poetess, story teller, an empath, speaker, young world leader and a healthcare professional – previously attached with World Economic Forum, WHO, ILO, The Commonwealth Youth Council and currently working with United Nations as a Youth Representative – is now a Vice President of International Alliance for Women.