Full Name
Cynthia Gabriel
Speaker Bio
In June 2021, at a rare and exceptional invitation by the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Cynthia addressed the plenary of member states at their special session against corruption. Cynthia was appointed into the prestigious Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum (WEF), on economic and anti- corruption issues for the term 2019-2020, an advisory body to the World Economic Forum, which meets every year in Davos, Switzerland. In 2017, she was conferred the prestigious democracy award by the National Endowment for Democracy for her brave activism, articulate and insightful knowledge on governance and anti corruption work, at the United States Congress by honorable Speaker Paul Ryan. In 2020, Cynthia received a meritorious award from the King of Malaysia for her outstanding efforts in fighting corruption and courage in advancing democratic freedoms in Malaysia and the greater region. Cynthia was further added into her prestigious alma mater's hall of fame in 2018, as leading and exemplary former student of the Assunta Secondary School, one of the most respectable schools in the country. With the monumental change that took place last May 2018, Cynthia was appointed into the 1MDB special committee set up by the Eminent Council of persons to advise the new government on finding solutions and holding the corrupt accountablet. She served in the drafting committee to develop a national anti- corruption plan that was to serve as a 5 year roadmap for the nation’s anti- corruption agenda.