Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Chairperson, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is the Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Form on Indigenous Issues. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education) based in Baguio City, Philippines.  

Victoria is the Convenor of the Asian Indigenous Women's Network and the co-President of the International Forum on Globalization as well as the Indigenous and Gender Adviser of the Third World Network.

Some of the other positions which she holds at present are as follows: member of the World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization, chairperson of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, commissioner of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women, and chair of the World Summit on Sustainable Development Indigenous Peoples Caucus.

Victoria is an indigenous activist belonging to the Kankana-ey Igorot peoples of the Cordillera region in the Philippines.