Bernedette Muthien has held executive and senior management positions over twenty years in academia, civil society and the public sector in South Africa and abroad. She is an accomplished facilitator, researcher and poet who designs, implements and evaluates projects for diverse institutions. She has postgraduate degrees in political science, and over 200 publications and conference presentations, some of which have been translated from English into at least 16 other languages. She serves on various advisory boards, including international journals on human security and the International Institute on Peace Education. She co-founded Women’s International Network on Gender & Human Security (WINGHS) in 1998, and Gender Egalitarian, a global indigenous women’s network, in 2005.