Ana Maria Bonny

Ana Maria Bonny Hernandez is the representative of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the NGO Committee on the Status of Women in Geneva, Switzerland.

NGO CSW Geneva comprises representatives from some 40 UN-accredited nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who have consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The Church is one of those organizations, through Latter-day Saints Charities.[1]

The Committee on the Status of Women group promotes gender equality and the empowerment and defense of the rights of women and girls everywhere.

The special assignment came as a total surprise to the family. “I feel very grateful to feel the love of our Savior Jesus Christ and to be able to serve Him, with all my love and desire,” she ponders. And she feels her life has prepared her to better understand the new responsibility. “My role as wife and mother has been, is and will always be the one that will teach me the most about the perfect and deep love Heavenly Father has for each of his children”, she concludes.[2]

Bonny was born in Madrid, Spain. Her parents were pioneers in the Church there, having joined in 1976. Her family moved to Geneva in 1982. She married Martin Bonny, who is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1997. They are the parents of three sons and a daughter.

She is the first European member of the Church of Jesus Christ to fill the assignment. She replaced Carol F. McConkie who was on the committee since April 2019.

• Source: Church Newsroom