Sascha Gabizon, with an international business masters from ESCP/EAP France, developed the organisation WECF to become the major international network of women and environmental organisations working for sustainable development and poverty reduction, feeding results into EU and United Nations policy processes.

Sascha Gabizon is the Executive Director of WECF Women in Europe for a Common Future, an international network on sustainable development, gender and environment. The WECF network counts 100 women’s and environmental non-governmental organisations based in 40 countries. WECF operates from 3 offices in Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Sascha Gabizon is overall responsible for all WECF sustainable development programmes which reach more than 35.000 local beneficiaries in the area of safe water supply and sanitation, safe renewable energy and chemical safety and advocating for women’s economic and political empowerment.

Sascha Gabizon lived and worked in Spain, Netherlands, France, Germany, and the US and has long-term project experience in Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Poland, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

She has published a large number of studies and articles.