Graça Machel

Founder, Graça Machel Trust

Graça Machel founded the Graça Machel Trust in 2010 where she focuses on advocating for women’s economic and financial empowerment, food security and nutrition, education for all, as well as good governance. An African stateswoman whose decades-long professional and public life is rooted in Mozambique’s struggle for self-rule and international advocacy for women and children’s rights, she is also  a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals Advocacy Group.