Lucy Ferguson is a trainer and specialist in gender equality in the tourism sector. She was the Lead Expert for the Global Report on Women in Tourism, 2nd Edition. She has worked to produce both Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines and is currently collaborating with the UNWTO Centre Stage project through trainings for the public and private tourism sector.

Lucy has also worked extensively as a trainer and researcher for the UN Women Training Centre, and produced the Working Paper Series. She has collaborated with a range of international organisations on gender equality, including UN Women, Asian Development Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, European Commission and UNDP. She is the author of "Gender Training: A Transformative Tool for Gender Equality" along with a range of academic publications in the field of feminist knowledge transfer and feminist pedagogies.

Anna Falth heads the Secretariat of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) – a set of principles offering guidance to business on how to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community. Anna provides advice to the private sector on how to advance on the WEPs journey – from setting the direction, to execute actions and assess the results.

An economist, Anna has more than 20 years of experience as economic advisor within the UN system, including UNCTAD, UN-DESA, UNDP and UN Women. She has a MSc in Economics from Lund University, Sweden, and a Masters in Law and Economic from Hamburg University, Germany.

Jocelyn Chu is a Programme Specialist Consultant working in the Economic Empowerment Section at UN Women. Prior to UN Women, Jocelyn worked at international NGOs and in the private sector with a focus on business development. She holds a Master's of Economic and Political Development from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a Master's of International Public Management from Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). Her most recent publication, Procurement’s strategic value: Why gender-responsive procurement makes business sense, presents the evidence-based business case for gender-responsive procurement (GRP). It makes the case for companies to rethink their procurement practices, framing GRP as a way to create social and economic value amid increasing economic uncertainty.