PresidentRights and Resources Group
Dr. Solange Bandiaky-Badji is Coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a global coalition of over 150 organizations advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples. She also serves as President of the Rights and Resources Group, the nonprofit coordinating body of the coalition based in Washington, DC. Bandiaky-Badji previously led RRI’s strategy for engagement in Africa with a focus on tenure rights reform, and spearheaded RRI’s Gender Justice program. Before RRI, she was with Partners Global, where she led programs on access to justice, security sector reform, and peacebuilding. She has also worked as a regional expert on gender and climate change for the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) and the UNDP/ BDP Gender Team in New York. Bandiaky-Badji holds a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Clark University, Massachusetts, and an MA in Environmental Sciences and in Philosophy from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal.