Sophie Pouget

ONU Femmes France

President

Biography

Sophie Pouget is President of UN Women France and an international expert in human rights and gender equality, with over 20 years of experience spanning law, multilateral policy, international development and philanthropy. She has held senior positions at the World Bank Group, UN Women France and the RAJA Foundation, where she served as Executive Director. Her work focuses on advancing women’s rights and gender equality through policy, advocacy, strategic philanthropy and multi-stakeholder partnerships. A former lawyer, she currently serves as a judge at the French National Court for Asylum and lectures in international and European development law. She has contributed to major international and European initiatives on gender equality, including the Generation Equality Forum, and served on the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs’ Feminist Diplomacy Task Force. She is also the co-author of Bas les Armes!, published in 2026, and regularly speaks and publishes on women’s rights, multilateralism, philanthropy and international affairs.