Ms. Malahat Ibrahimqizi MP
Parliament:
Parliament of Azerbaijan
Political Party:
New Azerbaijan Party Ms. Ibrahimgizi has been a member of the Azerbaijan Parliament since 2000. Thrice re-elected, she is a member of the National Delegation to NATO and Euronest and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Countries.
Ms. Ibrahimgizi is a leader in gender issues in Azerbaijan: she is currently the Co-chairman of the National Confederation of Azerbaijani Women and is an Honorary member of the Owner Women Council. In 2000, she founded the NGO, Leader Women Social Union, which focuses on equal rights and opportunities for women. From 1998 until 2000, she was the 1st Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of Women’s Issues. From 1994 to 2000, Ms. Ibrahimgizi was Chairman of “Sevil” Women’s Assembly and was Chairman of the Council on Women, 1989 until 1991.
She has authored six books on gender issues and she shares her expertise on this topic as an Expert Member of the Coalition on 1325 on the Caucasus region and as a Gender Expert with the State Commission on Poverty Reduction and Economical Development.
Since 2001, she has been a member of the State Forgiveness Commission providing advice to the President on the forgiveness of prisoners. Furthermore, she has been a member of the European Parliament’s Working Group on Population and Development, the 1st Deputy Chairman of the Steering Committee of the National NGO Forum of Azerbaijan, and the Coordinator of the Forum of the Women of GUOAM countries.
Ms. Ibrahimgizi is a licensed doctor educated at the Azerbaijan State Medical University. She employed her medical skills in refugee camps and among internally displaced people (IDPs) in need of health assistance. In 2000 she received her law degree from Baku State University; she continued on to complete PhD studies in Political Science focusing on gender issues.
Ms. Luzviminda Ilagan, Rep.
Parliament:
House of Representatives, 15th Congress
Political Party:
Gabriela Women’s Party Ms. Luzviminda Ilagan is a member of the House of Representatives of Philippines’ 15th Congress and a well-known woman rights activist in the country.
She holds BA degree in English and MA in Public Administration at the University of the Philippines in Padre Faura.
She started her career as a teacher teaching English to high school and college instructors and soon became member of the Board of Trustees of the Ateneo de Davao College. Back then she also became a leader in the Women’s Rights Movement in Davao City and later joined the nationwide Gabriela coalition of women organizations. A renowned women activist, she’s been representing Philippines in many international conferences on women rights. She was also a public servant in a Davao city council from 1998 to 2001.
Mr. Borko Ilic MP
Parliament:
Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
Political Party:
Democratic Party of Serbia Borko Ilic has been an elected member of Serbian National Parliament from 2006 until 2008. Since 2008 he is the leader of DSS (Democratic Party of Serbia) caucus group in the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and member of the Committee on Administrative and Mandate-Immunity Issues as well as the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Status of the Province.
Mr. Ilic is the party leader in the second largest Serbian town - Novi Sad and member of the Economic Council of Democratic Party of Serbia. Since 2002 until 2007 he was active in the Democratic Leadership Program in the Council of Europe. He speaks English and French.
Dr. Attiya Inayatullah MP
Parliament:
Parliament of Pakistan Dr. Attiya Inayatullah holds a Ph.D. in Demographics and has had a life-long association with the Family Planning Association of Pakistan. Former Chairperson of the Executive Board of UNESCO, she has acquired international recognition in the fields of international relations, human rights, gender equality and social development at both the global level and in Pakistan. As a member of the first International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, she contributed to the Universal Declaration on Human Genome and Human Rights.
Dr. Inayatullah served as an advisor on Population Welfare to President General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in the early 1980s. In the elections of 1985, she was elected a member of the National Assembly. She served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo as a Minister of State for Population Welfare. In 1988, she was again elected a member of the National Assembly. Following the military takeover by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999, she was one of four civilian members of the National Security Council of Pakistan in 1999 and 2000, when the Council was Pakistan's supreme governing body. Since then, she has served as Minister of Women's Development, Social Welfare and Special Education. She is currently a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Prof. Ahsan Iqbal, MNA
Parliament:
National Assembly of Pakistan
Political Party:
Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Mr. Iqbal is a Pakistani politician and a former Federal Minister for Education. He is also the information secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), of which he is a senior member. He was elected as a Member of the National Assembly from his constituency NA-117 (Narowal-III) in February 2008.
Mr. Iqbal studied mechanical engineering at the UET Lahore and holds an MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania). He also attended executive programs in such schools as the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (1989), the University of Oxford (1992) and the Harvard University (2004).
Mr. Iqbal was responsible for the country’s long term economic planning and management. On his initiative, the Pakistan's first National IT Policy was formulated.
