President & Co-Founder, GWL Voices
Susana Malcorra is the President and one of the co-founders of GWL Voices – an association dedicated to the advancement of women in the context of the work of the United Nations. She is also a Senior Advisor at IE University in Madrid after previously serving as Dean of IE School of Global & Public Affairs.
Ms. Malcorra was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic from December 2015 to July 2017. After stepping down, she served as Minister Advisor to President Mauricio Macri, coordinating and presiding over the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference and preparing for the 2018 G-8 Summit in Buenos Aires.
Prior to her service in Argentina’s government, Ms. Malcorra served an extensive UN career, starting in 2004 when she joined the UN World Food Programme as an Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing emergency and humanitarian operations in more than 80 countries. Starting in 2008, she led the Department of Field Support for Peace Missions as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations where she provided logistics, communications, personnel and financial support to UN peacekeeping operations worldwide. From 2012 to 2015, Ms. Malcorra was Chief of Staff to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In this role she coordinated the Mission on the Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons and the first Health Mission for Ebola Emergency Response in West Africa.
Before joining the United Nations, Ms. Malcorra built a broad professional career with 25 years in the technology and communications sectors, starting at IBM Argentina as a systems engineer and moving to Telecom Argentina where she began as Regional Director of Operations in 1993 and retired as Chief Executive Officer in 2002.
Ms. Malcorra serves on a variety of other Boards of Directors including Molinos Argentina, the International Crisis Group, the Inter-American Dialogue, the Kofi Annan Foundation, and the Aspen Ministers Forum. She has a degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Rosario.