Fabrice Houdart is the executive director of the newly created Association of LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors. He also advises Fortune 500 firms on human rights issues. Fabrice is a member of the L’Oreal Global Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board. He is an advisor to the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Center for Inclusive Governance and serves on the editorial board of the Women’s Forum. Fabrice was previously human rights officer at the United Nations in New York in 2016-2020 where he worked on Free & Equal, an unprecedented United Nations campaign for LGBTQ+equality. He co-authored and led the United Nations Global LGBTQ+ standards of conduct for business, the largest corporate social responsibility initiative on LGBTQ+ issues in the world. In 2001-2016, Fabrice was senior country officer at the World Bank. At the bank, he authored economic development analyses on Yemen, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Tunisia and provided contributions to the 2012 Gender World Development Report (WDR) and the 2011 Conflict, Security, and Development WDR. He holds a BA in economics and management from Dauphine University in Paris and a MBA from American University in Washington. Fabrice volunteers on the boards of Outright Action International, Housing Works, Fondation Emergence (governor), TransNewYork, Witness to Mass Incarceration (president), the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (treasurer), the Institute of Current World Affairs (trustee), and is a senior advisor to the board of Open for Business. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (FRSA) and a member of the Impact Guild. He is a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington. In 2019, Fabrice received the Golden Gate Business Association Award, the IGLTA Pioneer Award, and the Alan Turing LGTBIQ Award for his work on LGBTI rights. He was ranked 2nd by Yahoo Finance among LGBTI public sector executives globally in their 2019 Outstanding list, and listed among Crain’s Notable LGBTQ Leaders and Executive 2020, and among the 100 LGBTQ+ trailblazers by London-based Attitude magazine in 2021. NACD listed him among the 100 most influential governance experts the same year. In 2022, LinkedIn named him among its top 10 LGBTQIA voices, the Boardlist a Top 10 Candidates You’d be Proud to Have in Your Boardroom, and Diligent among its Modern Governance 100. He was interviewed by The Economist and Al Jazeera and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine, and The Guardian on issues pertaining to human rights of LGBTQ+ people and the business and economic case for LGBTQ+ equality. Fabrice serves as an expert witness for the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the issue of corporate boards diversity.