H.E. Michelle Bachelet is the United Nations high commissioner for Human Rights. Bachelet, the first female president of Chile, served for two terms, between 2006 and 2010, as well as from 2014 to 2018. During her presidential tenures, she achieved education and tax reforms and the created the National Institute for Human Rights and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. Bachelet also established the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality, adopted quotas to increase women’s political participation, and approved legislation granting civil unions to same-sex couples. In 2011, she was named the first director of UN Women, an organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of women and girls internationally. Economic empowerment and ending violence against women were two of her priorities during her tenure. In 2010, Bachelet chaired the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group, a joint International Labor Organization and World Health Organization initiative, which sought to promote social policies to stimulate economic growth and social cohesion. She served as Chile’s and Latin America’s first female defense minister from 2002 to 2004, and as health minister from 2000 to 2002.