Author: Negaya Chorley

Negaya Chorley is the CEO of Results Australia and has 20 years of experience in human rights. She is passionate about creating spaces for people at the margins to inform policymaking at the local, national and global level. Chorley has worked with communities in Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands towards this aim; bringing together policymakers and representatives from often marginalized groups (women, children, refugees, people living with HIV and Aboriginal leaders) to collectively shape solutions. She holds an honors bachelor’s degree in international development from the University of East Anglia, a master's in international development policy from Duke University, and graduate certificates in peace and conflict resolution and nonprofit leadership from the University of North Carolina.

In a World Increasingly Defined By Crises, We Need Women’s Leadership Like Never Before

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Three trends characterized women’s leadership in the pandemic response: effective leadership, rapid response and socially inclusive policies.

In a future being shaped increasingly by climate change, the collapse of liberal democracies, growing inequality, pandemics and now a war in Eastern Europe, what’s needed more than ever are leaders with empathy backed up by serious attention to the needs of the most vulnerable—ones that can bring people together, in solidarity, during times of hardship and craft a set of socially inclusive policies that capture the complex and myriad impacts of crises.  We need not just more women, including diverse women leaders at the top but also more male leaders embracing the qualities that women leaders have exemplified throughout the pandemic. Nothing less than our future depends on it.