Team

Zita is fighting for gender equality for more than two decades, most recently Special Adviser on Gender, European Commissioner for International Cooperation & Development. Previously Zita was a Member of the European Parliament (2004-2014), where she was vice-chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality committee and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Previously she was a member of the Hungarian Parliament. She is the President of PES Women, the Women Section of the Hungarian Socialist Party, and board member of the Central & Eastern European Gender Network.

You can contact her at gurmaizita@gmail.com in English, French and Hungarian.

Rick Zedník is General Manager of Lie Detectors, an award-winning and journalist-led non-profit that works to enable schoolchildren and their teachers to differentiate fact from fake online.

Rick was Managing Director of WPL from 2016-2020 and continues to serve as Secretary of the WPL Board.  Prior to joining WPL, Rick’s management career spanned more than two decades in media, including as CEO of EURACTIV, the independent EU policy news network, and as marketing director for The Wall Street Journal Europe. A dual citizen of the USA and Slovakia, he co-founded The Slovak Spectator newspaper in Bratislava in 1995. Rick holds an MBA from Harvard, a master’s in journalism from Columbia, and a bachelor’s in political science from Trinity College (Connecticut). Rick and his wife have two teenage daughters

Katja Iversen is an executive adviser, author, and leading global advocate on sustainability, gender equality, and women’s health and leadership.
She is the former President/CEO of Women Deliver, and today has various board and advisory roles, including with UNILEVER’s Sustainability Advisory Council, King’s College and Global Goals World Cup etc. She worked with the UN Secretary General’s office on including a gender lens in the UN’s COVID response and recovery plans.

Katja was a member of President Macron’s and Prime Minister Trudeau’s G7 Gender Equality Advisory Councils, an advisor to Bill Clinton and Dthe Clinton Global Initiative, on MIT Solve’s Women and Tech Leadership Group, and has been a trainer of Fortune 500 Executives in cross cultural management.
Katja, who is Danish, was one of the original members of 100Women@Davos, and was recently named Dane of the Year, as well as included in Apolitical’s Top 20 of the Most Influential People in Gender Policy. She has collaborated with Women Political Leaders since it was founded and has been speaking at the Reykjavik Global Forum several times.