Ms. Julia Sanchez
Chair of the Board of CIVICUS
Julia Sanchez is currently serving as the Chair of the Board of CIVICUS and was previously Treasurer from 2016 to 2019. Julia is also the new Secretary General of ActionAid International since March 1, 2020. She is a development practitioner, feminist, and environmentalist who has been promoting equity and sustainable development for over 25 years. She has extensive experience in top-level international development management, including many years working in developing countries with international partners and donors. Julia was previously President-CEO of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (2011-2018), a candidate for the Canadian Parliament, and has worked on a global climate change campaign and with the labour movement. She is an active supporter of national and global civil society coalitions, having also served as Co-Chair of the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, among others. Julia is an economist and political scientist. She holds an MA (in Economics) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is trilingual and has lived and worked in numerous countries in North and Latin America, Asia and Africa.