Daniela Ligiero

Daniela Ligiero is the Chief Executive Officer of Together for Girls, a global, public-private partnership dedicated to ending violence against children, especially sexual violence against girls. Before she joined Together for Girls, she served as the Vice President of Girls and Women’s Strategy at the UN Foundation and developed the foundation’s gender integration strategy. In addition, she worked at the U.S. Department of State where she led the integration of gender issues across all of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). She has worked on gender issues at the World Bank and U.S. Senate. Dr. Ligiero earned her Ph.D. in counseling and community psychology from the University of Maryland where she also held the honor of a distinguished lecturer in the Department of Psychology.