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Women Transforming Global Security
The Elders • Horizon 2045 • Ploughshares
We partner with The Elders and Ploughshares to host Women Transforming Global Security. Biothreats, nuclear weapons, misaligned AI, and other threats now interact and compound faster than conventional governance systems have evolved to meet them. Closing that gap requires a kind of judgment rarely cultivated in elite security institutions, grounded in care, relationality, and accountability across generations. WTGS cultivates that judgment and directs it not at managing cascading risk, but at interventions that generate opportunity and lead to more resilient decisions.
A New Approach
Women Transforming Global Security brings together senior women leaders and former heads of state to rethink how governments, multilateral institutions, and civil society define security. Together they are developing an Integrated Security Framework: a portfolio of decision support and governance tools for the conditions of this century.
WTGS treats nuclear danger, climate disruption, AI governance failures, pandemic vulnerability, and democratic erosion as interconnected. It develops the tools, frameworks, and research leaders need to act on those combined effects.
That work builds the trust, evidence, and shared vocabulary leaders need to treat these threats as interacting and mutually reinforcing, not isolated, and to act on that reality together.
50 STRONG
The Integrated Security Framework is on track for public launch at Reykjavik this November, with pilots to follow this year across governance reform, diplomacy, and crisis response, ahead of wider release.
2026 FRAMEWORK LAUNCH
Early conversations are underway to bring this work to global publics beyond elite leadership spaces, extending the Framework's reach.
50 STRONG
WTGS has grown from an initial cohort into a standing network of nearly 50 senior women leaders and champions.
Why Now
At Davos in January 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the rules-based international order hasn't experienced a transition. It has experienced a break. The Munich Security Conference's 2026 report, titled Under Destruction, documents the same shift at the institutional level: political forces across Western democracies now favor dismantling existing rules and institutions over reforming them.
Security since 1945 has largely been organized around adversarial competition between states. WTGS builds a different operating logic, centered on relationality, care, plurality, coherence, entanglement, accountability across time, and the wellbeing of human and planetary systems.
This shift matters because today's threats cross borders, sectors, institutions, and generations, and because a security paradigm built for one domain at a time, deterrence for one threat, regulation for another, cannot meet a reality where the threats themselves don’t stay separate.
Uniquely Qualified
WTGS brings together three complementary strengths. The Elders contribute moral authority and a global network of former heads of state. Horizon 2045 contributes the foresight and design methodology that turns cross-sector insight into working tools. Ploughshares Fund contributes decades of nuclear policy and grantmaking expertise.
WTGS was launched at the invitation of The Elders’ Mary Robinson and Helen Clark. Mary is the former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Helen is a three-time Prime Minister of New Zealand and former Administrator of the UNDP. The network they convened includes senior cross-sector leaders such as Anne-Marie Slaughter, Tirana Hassan of Doctors Without Borders US, and Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Minister of Digital Affairs, among two dozen others.
WTGS is championed by former heads of state and Nobel laureates. These include Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway; Hillary Rodham Clinton, former US Secretary of State; Nobel Peace Prize laureates Oleksandra Matviichuk and Beatrice Fihn; and Sigrid Kaag, UN Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process.
INAUGURAL MEMBERS
Heba Aly
Article 109
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
International Civil Society
Action Network (ICAN)
Alexandra Bell
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Nahid Bhadelia
Boston University Center for
Emerging Infectious Disease
Birgitte Bischoff Ebbesen
International Federation
of the Red Cross
Maria Butler
Nobel Women’s Initiative
PeiYao Chen
Global Fund for Women
INAUGURAL MEMBERS
Heba Aly
Article 109
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
International Civil Society
Action Network (ICAN)
Alexandra Bell
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Nahid Bhadelia
Boston University Center for
Emerging Infectious Disease
Birgitte Bischoff Ebbesen
International Federation
of the Red Cross
Maria Butler
Nobel Women’s Initiative
PeiYao Chen
Global Fund for Women
Kate Crawford
USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Roopa Dhatt
Stanford University
Kirsten Dunlop
Climate KIC
Marina Favaro
Anthropic
Maleeka Glover
Centers for Disease Control
& Prevention (CDC)
Melanie Greenberg
Humanity United
Tirana Hassan
Doctors Without Borders US
Laura Holgate
US Department of State (former)
Elissa Jobson
The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
Chen Zak Kane
United Nations Institute
for Disarmament Research
Jane Kinninmont
United Nations Association UK
Alexa Koenig
UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center/Investigations Lab
Amy Larsen
Visa
Melissa Parke
International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Nicola Reindorp
Crisis Action
Joan Rohlfing
Triastron Technology Corporation
Anne-Marie Slaughter
London School of Economics School of Public Policy
Mallory Stewart
Council for Strategic Risks
Audrey Tang
Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs
Cat Tully
School of International Futures
Heather Williams
Center for Strategic &
International Studies (CSIS)
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Heba Aly
Article 109Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
International Civil Society
Action Network (ICAN)Alexandra Bell
Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsNahid Bhadelia
Boston University Center for
Emerging Infectious DiseaseBirgitte Bischoff Ebbesen
International Federation
of the Red CrossMaria Butler
Nobel Women’s InitiativePeiYao Chen
Global Fund for WomenKate Crawford
USC Annenberg School of Communication and JournalismRoopa Dhatt
Stanford UniversityKirsten Dunlop
Climate KICMarina Favaro
AnthropicMaleeka Glover
Centers for Disease Control
& Prevention (CDC)Melanie Greenberg
Humanity UnitedTirana Hassan
Doctors Without Borders USLaura Holgate
US Department of State (former)Elissa Jobson
The Kvinna till Kvinna FoundationChen Zak Kane
United Nations Institute
for Disarmament ResearchJane Kinninmont
United Nations Association UKAlexa Koenig
UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center/Investigations LabAmy Larsen
VisaMelissa Parke
International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)Nicola Reindorp
Crisis ActionJoan Rohlfing
Triastron Technology CorporationAnne-Marie Slaughter
London School of Economics School of Public PolicyMallory Stewart
Council for Strategic RisksAudrey Tang
Taiwan Ministry of Digital AffairsCat Tully
School of International FuturesHeather Williams
Center for Strategic &
International Studies (CSIS)
Kate Crawford
USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Roopa Dhatt
Stanford University
Kirsten Dunlop
Climate KIC
Marina Favaro
Anthropic
Maleeka Glover
Centers for Disease Control
& Prevention (CDC)
Melanie Greenberg
Humanity United
Tirana Hassan
Doctors Without Borders US
Laura Holgate
US Department of State (former)
Nicola Reindorp
Crisis Action
Joan Rohlfing
Triastron Technology Corporation
Anne-Marie Slaughter
London School of Economics School of Public Policy
Mallory Stewart
Council for Strategic Risks
Audrey Tang
Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs
Cat Tully
School of International Futures
Heather Williams
Center for Strategic &
International Studies (CSIS)
Elissa Jobson
The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
Chen Zak Kane
United Nations Institute
for Disarmament Research
Jane Kinninmont
United Nations Association UK
Alexa Koenig
UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center/Investigations Lab
Amy Larsen
Visa
Melissa Parke
International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
INAUGURAL MEMBERS
Heba Aly
Article 109
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
International Civil Society
Action Network (ICAN)
Alexandra Bell
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Nahid Bhadelia
Boston University Center for
Emerging Infectious Disease
Birgitte Bischoff Ebbesen
International Federation
of the Red Cross
Maria Butler
Nobel Women’s Initiative
PeiYao Chen
Global Fund for Women
INAUGURAL MEMBERS
Heba Aly
Article 109
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
International Civil Society
Action Network (ICAN)
Alexandra Bell
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Nahid Bhadelia
Boston University Center for
Emerging Infectious Disease
Birgitte Bischoff Ebbesen
International Federation
of the Red Cross
Maria Butler
Nobel Women’s Initiative
PeiYao Chen
Global Fund for Women
Kate Crawford
USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Roopa Dhatt
Stanford University
Kirsten Dunlop
Climate KIC
Marina Favaro
Anthropic
Maleeka Glover
Centers for Disease Control
& Prevention (CDC)
Melanie Greenberg
Humanity United
Tirana Hassan
Doctors Without Borders US
Laura Holgate
US Department of State (former)
Elissa Jobson
The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
Chen Zak Kane
United Nations Institute
for Disarmament Research
Jane Kinninmont
United Nations Association UK
Alexa Koenig
UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center/Investigations Lab
Amy Larsen
Visa
Melissa Parke
International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Nicola Reindorp
Crisis Action
Joan Rohlfing
Triastron Technology Corporation
Anne-Marie Slaughter
London School of Economics School of Public Policy
Mallory Stewart
Council for Strategic Risks
Audrey Tang
Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs
Cat Tully
School of International Futures
Heather Williams
Center for Strategic &
International Studies (CSIS)
Kate Crawford
USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Roopa Dhatt
Stanford University
Kirsten Dunlop
Climate KIC
Marina Favaro
Anthropic
Maleeka Glover
Centers for Disease Control
& Prevention (CDC)
Melanie Greenberg
Humanity United
Tirana Hassan
Doctors Without Borders US
Laura Holgate
US Department of State (former)
Nicola Reindorp
Crisis Action
Joan Rohlfing
Triastron Technology Corporation
Anne-Marie Slaughter
London School of Economics School of Public Policy
Mallory Stewart
Council for Strategic Risks
Audrey Tang
Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs
Cat Tully
School of International Futures
Heather Williams
Center for Strategic &
International Studies (CSIS)
Elissa Jobson
The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
Chen Zak Kane
United Nations Institute
for Disarmament Research
Jane Kinninmont
United Nations Association UK
Alexa Koenig
UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center/Investigations Lab
Amy Larsen
Visa
Melissa Parke
International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
With Your Help, We Will
Launch Pilots in 2027: Deploy the pilot programs.
Foster Leadership: Build a leadership track and mentorship for emerging women leaders in global security.
Increase Our Reach: Expand the conversation about security's future from elite leadership spaces to global publics.
Ensure Adoption: Support the goal of having at least three influential partners actively using the framework by 2028.
Program Initiative
The Integrated Security Framework
The Integrated Security Framework is WTGS's cornerstone: a portfolio of decision support and governance tools, including protocols and heuristics for seeing how choices in one domain compound risk or create opportunity in the others.
The Framework launches publicly at Reykjavik in 2026, with pilots to test the portfolio in 2027. It is designed for use by governments, multilateral institutions, funders, and communities.