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Simone Filippini - Senior Dutch Diplomat & UN SDG Champion joins the Athena International Advisory Board

We would like to welcome Simone Filippini to the International Advisory Board at Athena School of Management. Simone is a former senior Dutch diplomat. She served as Head of the Gender & Women Rights Department in the Netherlands MFA ,Consul-General for the Southeastern US and Dutch Caribbean, and Dutch Ambassador to North Macedonia. In 2013 she became CEO of Cordaid after which was ED of NIMD Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy .In 2018 Simone established Leadership4SDGs Foundation which aims at empowering government leadership to lead & drive achieving the SDGs.

Simone has been the elected International Secretary of the National Board of Dutch political party D66, President of the Skopje International School, Board member of the CIDSE – together for Global Justice & of the European Partnership for Democracy (EPD). She is member of the World Government Summit Dubai Global Council on SDG16, President of the UN Association for the Netherlands (UNANL) & Member of the Supervisory Board of the Netherlands-African Business Council & regular contributor to Horasis.

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