UWE Executive Board

Griselda Kenyon
President UWE/GEFDU, elected September 2009
Phone/Fax: +44 19 59 56 24 47
uwepresident@ifuw.org
www.ifuw.org/uwe

Born and brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland. M.A. in English and Philosophy , Edinburgh University. Teaching certificate, Liverpool University. One daughter, one son, one granddaughter.

Joined the British Federation of University Women in 1969 and went to the Japan IFUW International Conference in 1974. I have been to all the conferences since.

When my husband joined the UK Diplomatic Service we were sent to Geneva in 1976 and on everybody’s advice, I went to the IFUW head office in Geneva and they suggested that  I should go with their representative to the UN to observe the Commission on the Status of Women to see whether I found it interesting. I have been observing the UN meetings, off and on, ever since, including international conferences on the Environment and the internet society.

After Geneva we were posted to Bogota, Colombia for three years and then back home for 6 years. We then returned to Geneva  and I was a member of the IFUW Status of Women Committee for 9 years. We lived in the Hague for 5 years, during which time I attended the Beijing World Conference on Women.

I have been CIR and then President of the British Federation, Vice-president of IFUW and then President of IFUW . During my time at home and since we retired to Kent, England I have worked with the UK Women’s National Commission which is the link between Government and women’s organisations in Britain.

VICE PRESIDENTS
uwevicepresident@ifuw.org

Vera John - Mikolajewski (Germany)
Privatdozentin , University of Essen;
Diagnostic Radiologist, retired 2007
UWE Vice President since September 2008

Education
Medical Doctor (M.D.), Berlin Free University
Doctor’s Degree in  Pharmacology,  Free University Berlin, 1969
Habilitation/ Clinical Radiology , University of Essen, 1985

Current Activities/Interests

• Relationship between society, health and human rights
• Health and gender
• Health and education
• Health and culture / religion
• Health and discrimination

Lectures on Female Genital Mutilation: Health care aspects and Human Rights
Lectures on Domestic Violence: health care aspects and costs to society
Lectures on Organ transplantation: medical, ethical and Human Rights aspects
Lectures on  the benefit of the implementation of the gender perspective into medicine, especially with regard to pharmaceutical therapy and research.

• Implementation of the gender perspective into medical curricula,  as a routine 
• Networking to find allies to improve the current situation on the basis of existing law

I am deeply committed to gender equality, that, to my understanding, means equal participation of women and men in all spheres and at all levels of society, and also includes equal share of family responsibilities and equal opportunities to earn equal salaries for equal work.

I am convinced that these issues can only be realised on the basis of parity democracy, for which women have to fight in a solidarious manner.

Marie José JONCZY- MONTASTRUC
(France)

Doctor in Law, Diploma of Political Sciences, and from the Institute of European Studies. Secrétaire Générale d’Europe Université, Assistante à la Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Economiques de Paris. Civil Servant of the European Commission as a lawyer in the Legal Service successively in charge as a legal adviser of social affairs, including the equality between men and women, competition, in particular State Aids, including agriculture, as a principal adviser of external affairs, internal market and negotiations for the accession of the 12 new Member states of the European Union. Eventually, Director of the Legal Service. In these qualities, pleaded many times at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, represented the Commission as well as in the Council of Ministers as in the European Parliament and the international organizations (UNO,UNESCO, Council of Europe ). Wrote two books on Social Law (including gender equality),and continued all along her career to teach in France and in different European and American universities. Actually, CER of the French Association for University Women, Vice-President of the UWE and Member of the Board and of the Executive of the European Women’s Lobby(EWL)

Treasurer

VACANCY

photo: Arno Nollen

I am Dutch and I live in Amsterdam. I studied at the Amsterdam University UVA and have a degree in Dutch Law.

After having taken fulltime care of my young children for about 10 years and in the meantime working as a volunteer in the Executive of different organizations, I joined a German Chemical Multinational Company (Bayer AG). I worked for more than 20 years a.o. as an assistant of the CEO and as a sales-person in the department of inorganic chemicals (silicones).

After my early retirement, I worked as a senior consultant of political education in the leading Dutch political Party (CDA). Being so, I was a special advisor of the Amsterdam CDA Executive.

For about 45 years, I have been involved in advocating women’s interests and feminism. As a young mother of 2 daughters and 2 sons, I started being the president of a local branch of a national woman’s organisation. Some years later, I was invited to become a member of a group of “wise women” that gave strategic advice to the national board of that same organisation.

In 1989, I became a member of the Dutch Association of University Women (VVAO) and for some years, I was the delegate of the Amsterdam branch to the National AGM. More than anything else, I am interested in international networks and the international connections of VVAO. Therefore, my focus points within VVAO are  UWE and IFUW: I am a member of the VVAO committee that organises exchanges with other NFA’s.  Being a networker avant la lettre it is my goal to connect (graduate) women from all over the world in order to create female friendships and to enable women to make use of each other’s talents, capacities, qualities and potentials.

I am a grandmother of one grandson and three granddaughters and it is, above all, my concern for my daughters and granddaughters that motivates me to advocate womens’ interests.

National Coordinators for
European Relations (CERs)