Golda El Khoury is Founder and President of Higher Ground, a Lecturer at Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), France and Adjunct Professor at Dayananda Sagar University, India. She brings over three decades of international experience at the intersection of diplomacy, multilateral affairs and institutional leadership.

Her career includes senior leadership positions with UNESCO, UNICEF and Save the Children. Working in complex political and institutional environments, she has advanced institutional transformation, led negotiations, built strategic partnerships and alliances, and mobilised resources under constraint.

Today, she brings this experience into speaking engagements, executive learning and strategic dialogue, focusing on diplomacy, the changing architecture of multilateralism, leadership and resource mobilisation. Her work on women’s leadership moves beyond individual empowerment to examine the institutional, cultural and societal conditions that enable women and men to lead and thrive.