Elisabeth Werner, Deputy Secretary-General for Policy Coordination, European Commission Elisabeth Werner, an Austrian national, has been working for the European Commission since 1996, where she held numerous roles in the area of budget and transport. In 2014, Ms Werner joined the Cabinet of Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva, responsible for Budget and Human Resources, where she became Head of Cabinet. In the field of transport and mobility, she was Director of Land Transport, responsible for road and rail transport in the EU and its security. In March 2021, Ms Werner was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the European Commission. She is responsible for policy coordination, including the Green Deal. Ms Werner is Chair of the European Commission's Taskforce on Equality. Ms Werner holds a degree from the University of Vienna in economics and an MA from Collège d'Europe, Bruges

Emmanuelle (e/er) is an impact driven entrepreneur. Following an international corporate career leading portfolio brand strategies for Global Fortune 500 companies, she is launching DUIN Partners, a consultancy focussed on enhancing organisational resilience to face the sustainability challenges. With an MSc. in Economics and an MBA from SDA Bocconi, her work is science backed and data driven. Emmanuelle serves as chair or board member of Intersekse Vlaanderen, çavaria, and Humanity Summit

Prior to her cabinet appointment, Hble. Mrs. Tània Verge was Full Professor of Politics and Gender at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), where she also led the institution's Equality Unit in the period 2014-2021. She has published extensively on the adoption and implementation of equality policies. She has also served as a gender consultant for national and international organisations, such as the Council of Europe, the European Institute for Gender Equality, the Parliament of Catalonia, and the Catalan Ombudsman.

The Ministry of Equality and Feminisms leads the gender mainstreaming strategy, from an intersectional approach, in all government action. The Ministry's portfolio includes: women's rights, gender-based violence, LGBTI+ rights, care and time policies, migrants' and refugee's rights, antidiscrimination and antiracism policies. The feminist transformation, one of the four axes of the government plan of the Generalitat de Catalunya (the Catalan Government), is defined in the following way:

"Toward a feminist country based on the guarantee of human rights: Inequality, discrimination and violence are both cause and consequence of structural systems of oppression that generate arbitrary domination, such as heteropatriarchy, racism and anti-Romanism. Given that without equality there is no individual nor collective freedom, governmental action requires a fair and equitable distribution of rights, obligations, opportunities and resources, based on the recognition and respect for difference."