About the Event
The Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative launched the fourth edition of its seminal Defining Feminist Foreign Policy paper, reviewing the state of the field from 2023 to 2025 and noting key opportunities, challenges and trends. Defining Feminist Foreign Policy 2025 is our most robust edition yet, featuring in-depth country analyses of more than twenty governments that have committed to or are exploring the advancement of a feminist foreign and/or development policy, featuring resources and perspectives of leading feminist activists, academics and organizations working to advance the field around the world. The event presented the paper’s key findings, showcased perspectives from key government and civil society partners from around the world and concluded with a cocktail reception for networking and further discussion. The event was livestreamed with simultaneous interpretation in French, Spanish and English for in-person and remote participants.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Time:
4:00-5:30 PM CEST: Panel, Report Launch, Q&A
5:30-7:00 PM CEST: Reception (in-person)
Location:
Le Carré Edouard VII, 13 bis Rue Bruno Coquatrix, 75009, Paris
Zoom
Speakers
Lyric Thompson, Founder and CEO, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Spogmay Ahmed, Senior Policy Advisor, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Delphine O, Ambassador and Secretary General of the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policies, Government of France
Arlene B. Tickner, Ambassador-at-large for Gender Issues and Feminist Global Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Colombia
Memory Kachambwa, Executive Director, FEMNET
Beth Woroniuk, Senior Fellow, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Ana María Alonso Giganto, Ambassador-at-large for Feminist Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain
Hibaaq Osman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Karama
María Cristina Perceval, Former Ambassador to UN and Special Representative for FFP of Argentina; Senior Fellow, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Beatriz Silva, Knowledge Management and Language Justice Consultant, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Biographies
Lyric Thompson
Founder and CEO, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Lyric Thompson (she/her) is the Founder and CEO of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, where she publishes and advises governments and thought leaders on feminist foreign policy. In her 2-decade career, she has advocated on women’s rights issues at the United Nations, G7/G20, White House, the U.S. State Department, USAID and the Department of Defense. She is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, where she teaches a graduate level course on women’s rights advocacy. Previously, Lyric has served as: the Vice President of Policy, Advocacy, and Strategy at the International Center for Research on Women, the founding co-chair of the Coalition for Women’s Economic Empowerment and Equality, co-chair of Girls Not Brides USA, on the Executive Committee of the Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, on the Women’s Human Rights Coordination Group of Amnesty International, USA and as the Senior Policy Manager for Women for Women International.
Learn more about Lyric here.
Spogmay Ahmed
Senior Policy Advisor, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Spogmay Ahmed (she/her) is the Senior Policy Advisor for the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative. In this capacity, she helps manage the Global Partner Network for Feminist Foreign Policy and the Coalition for a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States, and provides overall policy and advocacy expertise for civil society, governments and multilateral organizations. Spogmay serves as the Collaborative’s main liaison to the United Nations, and has served as a Women 7 (W7) Advisor for the G7 Presidencies of Germany in 2022, Japan in 2023, Italy in 2024 and now Canada in 2025. Prior to joining the Collaborative, Spogmay served as Senior Global Policy Advocate at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), handling ICRW's portfolio on feminist foreign policy globally and in the United States. She has provided policy analysis and advocacy leadership in multilateral spaces, including the United Nations, G7 and G20.
Learn more about Spogmay here.
Ambassador Delphine O
Ambassador and Secretary General of the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policies, Government of France
Ambassador Delphine O (she/her) is Ambassador and Secretary General of the IVth Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policies at French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs since 2019. She led the organization of the Generation Equality Forum, the largest and most important international conference on gender equality and women’s rights since 1995, which took place in Paris in June 2021. The Forum raised $40 billion and 3000 commitments from Member States, international organizations, civil society, private sector and philanthropies, to accelerate gender equality in the next 5 years.
In 2023, she authored her first book « La diplomatie féministe est un sport de combat » (« Feminist foreign policy is a martial art »), published by Tallandier. She teaches Feminist Foreign Policy and Gender equality in International Relations at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) of Sciences Po, France’s top public policy graduate school.
Previously, Delphine O was a member of the French Parliament for La Republique en Marche. In the National Assembly, she was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the chairwoman of the France -Iran friendship group and the co-rapporteur of the mission on the South China Sea. A graduate from the Ecole Normale Superieure and the Harvard Kennedy School, Delphine O has previously worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Stimson Center in Washington, DC and ActionAid in Afghanistan.
Learn more about Delphine here, and connect with her on LinkedIn.
Arlene B. Tickner
Ambassador-at-large for Gender Issues and Feminist Global Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Colombia
Ambassador Arlene B. Tickner (she/her) is a committed feminist with over 30 years of teaching, research, mentoring and consulting experience in the field of International Relations. She holds a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Miami and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. Before her current appointment, she served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations in New York.
Ambassador Tickner has authored and co-authored approximately 100 books, edited volumes, book chapters, journal articles and working papers, and has also served regularly as a newspaper columnist and expert analyst for national and international press, radio and television.
Learn more about Ambassador Tickner here.
Memory Kachambwa
Executive Director, FEMNET
Memory Kachambwa (she/her) is a pan African intersectional feminist, gender and women’s rights activist, with deep experience in organizing and advocating for feminist policies at the regional, national and international levels. She’s a seasoned cross-cultural thought leader and strategist bridging national, regional and global women’s rights networks with policy leaders.
She led in the development and positioning of FEMNET as a pan African feminist movement working on climate justice and the intersections with economic justice and sexual reproductive justice. She is passionate about dismantling and disrupting patriarchy, neo-liberal systems and structures that oppress and deny women dignity.
She has been working on feminist foreign policy from a Global South perspective and as a movement builder, has done policy advocacy work by preparing policy briefs and provides technical support to Negotiators in a number of policy processes that include CEDAW country reporting, Regional Beijing Review and Commission on the Status of Women.
Learn more about Memory here.
Beth Woroniuk
Senior Fellow, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Beth Woroniuk (she/her) has worked to advance gender justice and feminist approaches to policymaking for over 35 years. She is particularly interested in financing for gender equality, feminist foreign policies and women, peace and security. Beth has advised and worked with bilateral aid agencies, women’s funds, UN entities, international NGOs and feminist organizations, strengthening their work on gender equality and women’s rights. She has developed analytical tools, supported policy development, carried out research, blogged, conducted evaluations, organized, lobbied and testified before the Canadian Parliament. Until early 2024, Beth served as the Vice President of Policy at the Equality Fund. In 2025, Beth received the King Charles III Coronation Medal and was nominated to the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council. She is currently a Senior Fellow with Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative.
As part of the inaugural class of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative’s Visiting Fellows Program, Beth will focus her scholarship and thought leadership on current feminist foreign policy discussions, Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy and feminist funding.
Learn more about Beth here.
Ana María Alonso Giganto
Ambassador-at-large for Feminist Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Government of Spain
Ana María Alonso Giganto (she/her) holds a degree in English Philology and has been a member of the Spanish Diplomatic Service since 2007. She has been posted to Spanish embassies in Afghanistan, Egypt, Thailand, Australia, and Counsellor in the Mission of Spain to United Nations. As Ambassador-at-Large for Feminist Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (MAEC), she is responsible for mainstreaming a gender perspective throughout Spain’s foreign policy and the institutional culture of the ministry itself, as well as within international forums. Academically, she coordinates the MAEC’s course on Feminist Foreign and Development Cooperation Policy and Gender Equality. She is also a member of the Alliance of Feminist Foreign Policy Ambassadors, which includes representatives from various countries and organizations such as NATO, the EEAS, the OSCE and UN Women. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Casa Asia and of the Global Partner Network of Feminist Foreign Policy Steering Committee.
Hibaaq Osman
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Karama
Hibaaq Osman (she/her) is a Somali activist, political strategist, and global thought leader whose work bridges grassroots mobilization with high-level political influence. As the founder of Karama, she has redefined advocacy by positioning women as architects of policy and power. Her vision embodies the principles of Feminist Foreign Policy, asserting that peace, security, and governance must be shaped by those most affected. Osman’s leadership transforms humanitarian response and peacebuilding into political acts of inclusion—where women’s agency drives structural change and influences the highest political, international, national, and regional institutions.
Learn more about Hibaaq here.
Marita Perceval
Former Ambassador to UN and Special Representative for FFP of Argentina; Senior Fellow, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
María Cristina (Marita) Perceval (she/her) is a Senior Fellow with the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative and the President of Feminists Without Borders in Argentina. Most recently, she was the Special Representative for Feminist Foreign Policy of Argentina. From 2021-2022, she served as the Secretary of Equality and Diversity of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity of the Argentine Republic. Marita has held various Secretary and Under-Secretary positions in the Government of Argentina, including on portfolios regarding international cooperation on education and the promotion of human rights, focusing her work on the regulation of Argentina’s gender identity law and the launch of a support platform for women human rights defenders. In 2016, Marita became the Regional Director of UNICEF for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Notably, in 2012, Marita became the first female Permanent Representative of the Argentine Republic to the United Nations and was elected Vice President of the 69th General Assembly and Vice President of ECOSOC. She carried out two terms as a National Senator for the Province of Mendoza, serving as the first female President of the Defense Committee and creating the Women’s Caucus which coordinated to advance legislation informed by international women’s human rights law on the prevention of gender-based violence, combatting human trafficking, promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Learn more about Marita here.
Beatriz Silva
Knowledge Management and Language Justice Consultant, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Beatriz Silva(she/her) is a Knowledge Management and Language Justice Consultant at the Feminist Foreign Policy, where she developed and manages the Feminist Foreign Policy Repository. She served as a Political Science and Political Philosophy Teaching Assistant at University College Dublin. Beatriz was previously the GW Chapter Vice President of the Student Consortium on Women, Peace and Security, where she concurrently served on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. In the summer of 2022, she was a Research Intern at EMILY's List. In 2021, she was a Summer Education Intern at the Inter-American Dialogue. Beatriz has a Master’s in Gender, Politics and International Relations from the University College Dublin. She is originally from São Paulo, Brazil.
Learn more about Beatriz here.