Eleanor Mohammed, RPP, MCIP, EP is the President of the Commonwealth Association of Planners, Co-Chair of the UN-Habitat Professionals Forum, and the Founder/Principal of Strategic and Resilient Together. She is an executive leader with over 17 years of public, private, and not-for-profit sector experience. As a passionate professional who regularly speaks and presents at international events, Eleanor is a champion for the planning profession, climate action, equity and inclusion, healthy communities, technology adaptation, and sustainability.

 Eleanor has served as the President the Canadian Institute of Planners and the President of the Alberta Professional Planners Institute. She holds a Masters with Distinction in Town and Country Planning from the University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K. and has an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Environmental Management.

She is not afraid to rise to any challenge and is a natural collaborative leader!

Safia Yonis is an Associate Programme Officer who has recently joined UN Habitat’s global headquarters in Nairobi. She's a human rights expert with the Human Rights and Social Inclusion Unit. Her responsibilities include, conducting policy and project evaluations on human rights, social inclusion, and gender-based issues as well as implementing safeguard mechanisms and helping colleagues with human rights indicators and results-based impact monitoring. She is also responsible for ensuring that all institutional programming, planning, training, and activities implement a Human Rights Based Approach, among other things. As a Human Rights Expert before joining UN Habitat, Safia had previously worked for the African Union, where her extensive understanding of peace and security issues in Africa allowed me to keep track of human rights developments and their ramifications for South Sudan's peace. Along with this, her position as team leader allowed her to help develop stakeholders' capacity by organizing high-level AU delegation visits while serving as the primary focal point on specific topics and humanitarian and gender related issues. 

Safia holds a bachelor’s degree in human rights & history from Kingston University in the United Kingdom and a master’s in human rights law from the School of Oriental African Studies (SOAS), London UK. 

Chantal Hildebrand is the Deputy Director at Alliance for Girls, where she helps shape the next phase of impact of this dynamic organization and leads the development of the organization’s robust range of programs to improve systems to best meet the needs of girls and gender-expansive youth. Chantal has a decade’s worth of experience in the nonprofit sector, working to advance gender and racial equity. She brings an intersectional lens and a passion for creating spaces for historically-oppressed populations to share their diverse experiences and to lead decision-making processes to improve their lives and wellbeing, and that of their communities. Chantal has a Masters in Public Health and a Masters in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.