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Ligia Carolina Oliveira-Silva is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership of the Australian National University and an Associate Professor of the Psychology Institute at the Federal University of Uberlândia (Brazil). She earned her Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Work and Organizational Psychology from the University of Brasília, Brazil. She is the leader of the Research Group “Working with Marias: Psychology, Career and Women”, supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Brazil). She coordinates research and applied projects on women's career achievement and progression, women’s leadership, women's barriers in male-dominated fields, gender biases, ambivalent sexism, motivation to lead, career-helping behaviors, career guidance programs, and mentoring for women. She is interested in why women have difficulties entering, remaining, and ascending in their careers, mainly in STEM fields, as well as the factors that contribute to the economic empowerment of women and the reduction of gender inequities.

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Dr. Alexandra N. Fisher (she/her) holds a PhD in Social Psychology (2020) from the University of Victoria, Canada. She is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at the Australian National University. Her research combines interpersonal and intergroup perspectives along with advanced analytic techniques to understand gender inequalities in well-being, work, and close relationships.

Prof. Dr. Michelle K. Ryan is the inaugural Director of the Global Institute of Women’s Leadership (GIWL) at The Australian National University (ANU). She studied psychology at ANU at both an undergraduate and PhD level. She is a Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology. She currently holds a European Research Council Consolidator Grant examining how context and identity shape and constrain women's career choices.