Ms. Susana Malcorra is the President and one of the cofounders of GWL Voices. She was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic from 2015 to 2017. After her resignation, she was appointed Minister Advisor by President Mauricio Macri and, in that capacity, she was the Chairperson of the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC11) hosted by Argentina in 2017. After various positions in the private sector, she joined the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in 2004.
She served as Chief Operating Officer. In 2008, United Nations Secretary-General appointed Ms. Malcorra Under Secretary-General for the recently created Department of Field Support, where she was charged with providing logistical, communications, personnel, and financial support services to Peacekeeping Operations overseeing a budget of eight billion dollars.
In 2012, Ms. Malcorra was appointed Chief of Staff to the Secretary-General, broadening her experience in the diplomatic field including a range of activities from handling negotiations with various countries (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Chad, Somalia or Afghanistan, among others) to the approval by the General Assembly of strategic, financial and budgetary matters involving over $9 billion. Among other specific tasks, Ms. Malcorra coordinated the Mission on the Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons and the first Health Mission for Ebola Emergency Response in West Africa. She became Dean of the IE School of Public and Global Affairs in 2020. Ms. Malcorra has been affiliated with multiple think-tanks, foundations and NGOs related to matters of democracy, global governance, leadership and gender.