Wanda Muñoz is an independent consultant and has been working on the rights of people with disabilities, assistance to victims of conflict and humanitarian disarmament for the past 18 years. She has worked at project and policy levels in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, and contributed to the development of the victim assistance provisions of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. She has authored various expert publications on victim assistance, inclusive livelihoods, gender-based violence, autonomy in weapons systems, and artificial intelligence. She has been an invited speaker to several forums, including at the UN Security Council and the OAS.

Muñoz' current disarmament efforts focus on autonomy in weapons systems. She is a member of the Feminist AI Research Network (A+ Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms), member of UNESCO Women4Ethical AI, member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Experiential AI Ethics Advisory Board, and member of the Board of Education for Sharing. Formerly, she was a member of SEHLAC and independent expert at the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence, nominated by Mexico. She has worked extensively for Humanity & Inclusion in different positions.

Muñoz holds a dual degree Master of International Affairs with a specialization in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po Paris, for which she was a recipient of the French MFA Eiffel Excellence scholarship. She holds a BA on International Affairs from Tec de Monterrey (Mexico) and specialized in Southeast Asian Affairs at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). She recently obtained a certificate on Feminist Public Policy.   In 2020, Muñoz was recognized by the Nobel Women’s Initiative as a “peacebuilder working for woman activist and peacebuilder, working for peace, justice and equality” and by UNLIREC as one of Latin America’s “women who are forces of change to advance arms control, non-proliferation and humanitarian disarmament”