Sjoerd Warmerdam is committed to ensuring gender equality throughout his whole career. For many years he worked as a policy advisor on gender equality for the Government of the Netherlands, representing the Netherlands at the EU, Council of Europe and the UN. As a politician, he drafted proposals on how to positively include men in matters regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights. When working as a director for the Ministry for Social Affairs during the Ukraine crisis, Sjoerd’s main focus was to include the voices of women refugees in policy making.