Dr. Ruth-Gaby Vermot Mangold

Ruth Gaby Vermot Mangold is Co-President of Peace Women Across the Globe, an international network of women working in different fields of human security, joining forces to bring the knowledge and leadership of peacewomen to official decision making arenas.

With a doctorate in ethnology, she has lived a number of years in Africa doing research for the Swiss Development Cooperation. She has also conducted conferences emphasizing development policy and held lectures on questions of gender and public relations in a number of universities. She is a partner of the firm ‘Buero hekate’ for management training, the coaching of leaders, organization development, and intercultural counseling. Her political points of interest are migration and refugee policies. She deals with problems of integration, violence in local settings, and drugs. She is engaged in questions of gender equality and equal rights in general. In the Council of Europe she is speaker for refugee matters in South Caucasia. Major themes are trafficking in women and children and, above all, matters in connection with international crises and wars. Ruth-Gaby Vermot is president of Contact-Net, an institute for drug-dependency assistance, and of the Swiss section of The Society for Threatened Peoples. She is also Co-President of PeaceWomen.