Gázquez González, Ingrid
Ingrid Gázquez González
Polarity Certifications: PACT™ Foundations & Professional Applications Geneva Switzerland
Ingrid Gázquez González, is the Leadership Portfolio Manager for the Geneva Leadership Alliance, a partnership that combines Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) expertise on peace, security and global governance with the leadership development expertise of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).
The mission of this Alliance is to advance the understanding, practice and positive impact of leading in public, private, non-profit organizations and civil society.
A lawyer by trade, Ingrid holds a Master’s Degree in Human Rights and International Adoption from the University of Barcelona and a second Master’s Degree in Communications and Marketing. She is currently pursuing an MBA with #ThePowerMBA.
As a certified Project Manager Professional (PMP), she honed her change management and educational expertise when founding her own NGO: Mundus. In its first 3 years, Mundus supported more than 1000 change makers to access "learning by doing" opportunities funded by the European Commission. Her entrepreneurial spirit has led her to engage with countless social enterprises and NGOs all around Europe confirming for her that community, government engagement and workforce development are essential enablers to make any social investment initiative successful.
Her previous roles include Learning and Development Specialist at The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, where she, together with Ministries of Health, designed and implemented capacity strengthening programs in more than 15 developing countries to improve the availability of medicines in the Global South. Earlier in her career, she was with Mondelez (former Kraft foods), coordinating operations for their third party verified sustainability cocoa initiative, Cocoa Life,
Ingrid is a Spanish national and her mother tongue is Spanish. She is fluent in Catalan and English and has an intermediate level of French and German.
