Blandine Boulekone

Blandine Boulekone is an advocate for women's rights in the island country of Vanuatu. She is the former president of the Vanuatu National Council of Women; a position she held from 2012 to 2014. She was also one of the founders of the Vanuatu Family Health Association, an organization that works in health education, family planning and sex education. Boulekone has held the position of executive director of the anti-corruption NGO group Transparency International in Vanuatu.

Biography Born in 1946 in Montromant, France,

To help establish a health education system in Vanuatu, she founded the Vanuatu Family Health Association, which works across the country's various islands. She was also the executive director of the Vanuatu branch of Transparency International, and a founding member of the National Council of Women, of which she was subsequently president from 2012 to 2014. She became a naturalized Vanuatu citizen in 1990.

Honors and distinctions

Femme 3000 Entrepreneur award from the French Senate (2014) Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor by the government of France (2016)