Saphira Rameshfar currently serves as a Representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, leading engagement on gender equality, climate justice and global governance. Saphira currently serves on the Executive Committee of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women to the United Nations in New York and serves as a Co-Chair of their Young Professionals program. 
 
Saphira has previously served as Chair of the Working Group on Girls to the UN, convener of the Faith and Feminism Working Group to the UN, on the Youth Steering Committee to the UN Department of Global Communication and has collaborated closely with UN Women, UNFPA, UNDP, UNICEF and the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth, as part of the Inter Agency Network on Youth Development and the Major Group on Children and Youth, to host the Youth ECOSOC Forum, Youth CSW and other civil society spaces at the United Nations. 
 
Ms. Rameshfar has worked for over a decade on projects aimed at the empowerment of young people in Australia as well as in communities throughout the Asia Pacific region and North and South America. She has worked at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) in New York and for the Australian Federal Government in Canberra. Saphira is an executive leadership coach and certified mediator.