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GPS Managing Director Shazia Z. Rafi (twitter.com/shaziazrafi) is a leader with over twenty-five years experience in diplomacy and international relations, working to build a more representative, accountable and effective international political system.

Since 2014 Ms Rafi and GPS Associates have been advocating for clean air/air-quality targets and indicators in the UN’s negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more…

From 1996 to 2013, she was the Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA). PGA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of elected legislators from over 100 countries that leverages parliamentary processes to promote peace, international law, gender equality and reproductive health. PGA was founded in Washington D.C. in 1978 with a focus on nuclear non-proliferation and negotiation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Under Shazia Z. Rafi’s leadership, PGA successfully promoted the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court; played a critical role in the passage of the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate conventional weapons trade; built international consensus for progressive legislation on gender equality and reproductive health at the Cairo Conference and the Beijing Conference; clean air/clean water legislation focused on urban environmental health and mediated in conflict zones from Azerbaijan to Cote d’Ivoire and Haiti.