Monika Froehler is CEO of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens (BKMC) and is a passionate change maker, advocate, founder and speaker. She was entrusted to create the BKMC after working at the UN in Geneva, NY and Vienna, the EU, the Austrian Foreign Ministry and in field missions around the globe. She is passionate about the implementation of the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement. Throughout her career she managed to support hundreds of women, young people and communities all over the globe e.g. working in Africa and Latin America to ban landmines; working to improve hospital care in rural Central Asia and Africa; assisting in eco-friendly city planning in Asia and bettering the living conditions of women in the Middle East and West-Africa.

As CEO of the BKMC, she works closely with Ban Ki-moon, the 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations and Co-chair of the BKMC, who was one of the key architects of the Paris Climate Agreement and the SDGs. She is an international gender champion and a passionate speaker and has prominently featured at several high-level events and roundtables on climate adaptation, most notably at the Africa Climate Summit & Week and COP28. She has been crucial in driving forward the BKMC’s advocacy work on climate adaptation providing strong visibility to voices of women and youth farmers at international events and roundtables.