Speakers
Find out more about our list of speakers for the 2025 edition of Geneva Peace Week.
Nathalie Gendre
Head of Gender and Security
Fleur Heyworth
Head of Gender and Inclusive Security
Dany Diogo
Geneva Peace Week Lead
Awa Dabo
Deputy Head
Gustavo Gallon Giraldo
Permanent Representative of Colombia
Mahamane Cissé-Gouro Cissé-Gouro
Director, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanism Division
Dagmar Schmidt Tartagli
Deputy Head of Peace and Human Rights Division
Anita Househam
Vice President Social Responsibility
Gérald Pachoud
Managing Partner
Silvia Perel-Levin
Vice-Chair, NGO Committee on Ageing, Geneva
Abdul Galil Shaif
Former Chairman
H.E. Mr Samuel Žbogar
Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the UN (New York)
Mohamed Haykal
Executive Chairman of Transtek Systems
H.E. Prof. Danilo Türk
Former President of Slovenia
H.E. Ms Anita Pipan
Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the UN in Geneva
Frank Kayitare
Country Representative in RwandaBen Oumar Salagou Saidou
Head of the Division of Administrative and Legal Affairs
Guillaume Simonian
Head of Humanitarian Policies and interagency Coordination Unit at Headquarters.
Zhili HAN
Research Professor
Mathilde Boddaert
Technical Officer
Victoria Krueger
International Junior Consultant
Georg Stein
Senior Mediation Advisor
Alvaro de Soto
Distinguished Peruvian diplomat and renowned international mediator
Juanita Millán Hernández
Senior Mediation Advisor
Dr Laurie Nathan
Director of mediation program
Dr. Govinda Clayton
Thematic Lead, Ceasefire and Security Arrangements
Sarah Noble
Head of Global Engagement
Dr. Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2003), pioneering judge, lawyer, and internationally recognized human rights advocate.
Gal Harmat
Senior Researcher
Maruee Pahuja
Visual Artist, Intermodal Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner
Alvaro Quiroz
Founder of Brigada12 Laureate Young Activist Summit 2024
Barbara Aebischer
Specialist Culture and Development, Peace
Sabine Bakyono Kanzie
Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso to the UN in Geneva
Hazel De Wet
Deputy Director, Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS)
Elizabeth Biniya Moga
Youth Peace Mediators’ Mentoring Programme
Omar Ahmed Abenza
Director of Global & Field Programs at CIVIC
Mary Winnie Gulliver
Advocacy and Partnership Coordinator
Amjad Saleem
Orchestrator for Strategic Engagement on Youth and Peace
Mulu Teka
Director and Principal Researcher
Renée Larivière
Senior Director of Programmes
Julien Oussou
Regional Coordinator
Celine Van Till
Paralympic medalist, Member of ParliamentAmapola Alama
Senior Project Officer
Sabrina Bonnano
Product Manager & Italian Commercial Director / Adapted Sports
Ana Luiza Thompson- Flores
Director
Clara Friedrich
Adviser on Gender Equality/ OSCE Gender Issues Programme
Victoria Do Nascimento Houpert
Member of the Peacebuilding Initiative and a Master’s student in International Development at the Geneva Graduate Institute, specializing in Gender, Race and Diversity
Lara Scarpitta
OSCE Senior Adviser on Gender Issues and Head of the Gender Issues Programme
Hernan Vales
Chief of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Indigenous Peoples and Minorities Section
Terezia Rostas
Founder, Care for Young People’s Future CIC & Welcoming Cultures UK/ Roma cultural producer | Human rights and gender justice advocate
Judith Wyttenbach
Member of the Council of Europe Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in respect of Switzerland and Gender Equality Rapporteur
Antonia Mulvey
Founder and Executive Director of Legal Action Worldwide
Miroslav Papa
Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe for United Nations
Christophe Kamp
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Safak Pavey
Senior Advisor
David Fernandez Puyana
Ambassador and Permanent Observer University for Peace to the UN Office at Geneva and Vienna & Permanent Delegate to UNESCO in Paris.
Simon Yazgi
Consultant
Véronique Dudouet
Senior Advisor
Bouthaina Dinar
Deputy Chairperson
H.E. Mr. Idris AL KHANJARI
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Oman to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
H.E. Geraldo Gonçalves Miguel Saranga
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mozambique, Coordinator of the African Group in the WTO
H.E. Mr. Ezekiel Pajibo
Chargé d'affaires
H.E. Ambassador Khadra Ahmed Dualeh
Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and other IOs in Geneva
Itonde Kakoma
President
Cyprien Fluzin
Policy and Research Fellow
Rotha Suong
Co-Director, Creative Director
Daniela Wildi
Co-Director of the movie and Graduate of the Master in International and Development Studies at the Geneva Graduate Institute
Firas Bali
Storytelling facilitator & Co-lead Waves to Home
Bernard Z. Keo
Assistant Professor, International History and Politics,
Joost Van Der Zwan
Senior Policy Advisor, Governance, Rule of Law and Peacebuilding Hub Institutional affiliation
Katherine Elizabeth Condon
Project Associate
Marisa Leon Gomez Sonet
Partnerships and Stakeholder Advisor
Keyvan Ghavami
Co-Founder and President
Kiara Jacoby
Global Experiences Manager
Hayley Stone
Program Head and Analyst, Complex Conflict Resolution
Sarala Khaling
Head of Resilient Economies and Landscapes
Maya Nehme
Director
Dinara Ziganshina Ziganshina
Director
Pablo Imbach Imbach
Climate Action Lead
Silja Halle
Programme Manager, EU-UNEP Partnership on Climate, Environment, Peace and Security, UNEP
Annika Erickson-Pearson
Lead, Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP)
Anna Littorin
Actress and Writer
Johanna Wilson
Actress and Writer
Janieke Drent
Senior Policy Officer UN Peacebuilding
Heide Rieder
MHPSS officer (Peace and Recovery Focus) with IOM
Friederike Bubenzer
Independent consultant Peacebuilding and MHPSS
Moju Emmanuel Andera
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Officer
Andrea Carolina Ardila del Toro
Research leader and MHPSS Officer
Sarah van der Walt
Senior MHPSS Policy Adviser
Nasir Ahlad Andisha
Strategic Advisor to CDP-G Board,
Michael Semple
Practitioner Chair, The Senator George J Mitchell Institute
Richard Garratt
Counsellor and Team Leader Humanitarian, Migration and Protracted Crisis
Amina Khan
Director of the Center for Afghanistan, Middle East & Africa (CAMEA), Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad
Khrystyna Kozak
Researcher
Dr Florian Weigand
Co-Director
Wolfgang Petrisch
President of the Austrian Institute of International Affairs
Professor Ioana Cismas
Co-Director, Centre for Applied Human Rights; Professor at York Law School
Dr Katharine Fortin
Associate Professor
Fawzia Koofi
First Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, Peace Negotiator, Advocate
Larissa Mina Lee
Advisor Network & Advocacy at PeaceWomen Across the Globe
Luana de Souza
Senior Advisor Network & Advocacy at PeaceWomen Across the Globe
Denise Worth
Education Policy Researcher, MA Education Planning, Economics and International Development
Marianne Antunes de Oliveira
Mediator and Negotiator, MSc Candidate in Conflict, Peace and Security
Karima Cherif
Head of Communications and Outreach
Briony Jones
Professor of Peace and Justice
Patricia Danzi
Director General, Ambassador
Anna Brach
Head of Human Security and Planetary Resilience
Florian Krampe
Director of Studies, Peace and Development, at SIPRI / Acting Director of the Climate Change and Risk Programme
Utchang Kang
Programme Manager
Justin Mundy
Co-founder of the Mapping Pathways for Security; Chairman of SLM Partners, Chairman of Earthna Center of the Qatar Foundation
Julius Jackson
Lead, Conflict and Peace Unit, Office of Emergencies and Resilience
Marcus Lenzen
Senior Adviser & Deputy Chief, Peacebuilding Fund
Nieves Thomet
Chief Technical Adviser, Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
Menna Waguih
Peace-Responsiveness and Programme Management Support OfficerAlrasheed Mohammed Eissa Mohammed
Head, Peace & Reconciliation Committee
Habib Achsanul
Deputy Permanent Representative, Chargé d’affaires ad interim, Ambassador
H.E. M. Aboubacar Sadikh Barry
Permanent Representative, Ambassador
H.E. M. Jamal Jama Al Musharakh
Permanent Representative, Ambassador
Danilo Türk
Lead Political AdvisorOumarou Fouta Garba
Project Manager PREVENIR, Niger (former DRC staff)
Freek Haarmans
Manager Durable Solutions - Darfur
Line Brylle
Global Peacebuilding Advisor
Wendy MacClinchy
Director, United Nations programme
Marie Noelle Steinig
Programme Management Officer
Vincenza Scherrer
Head of Policy Engagement
Viviana E. Mojica Aurelio
Programme Specialist
Olivier Mukarj
Consultant
Achaleke Christian L eke
Executive Director
Issaka Garba Abdou
Head of Division AU Human Rights and Governance
Nidal Foqaha
Executive Director
Daniel Owen
Lead Social Development Specialist in the Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice, Eastern and Southern Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo Country Office
Gadi Baltiansky
Executive Director
Ambassador Hesham Youssef
Ambassador of Egypt
Dr. Helder da Costa
Secretary General
H.E. Ambassador Gustavo Adolfo Gallón Giraldo
Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Eleonora Serpi
Global Co-coordinator of the Housing, Land and Property Areas Responsibility (a.i) of the Protection Cluster / Associate Programme Management Officer atNyakuma Peter Gatkuoth Riak
Founder & Director of Together South Sudan
Ruvendrini Menikdiwela
Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
Bernardo V enturi
Head of Research and Policy
Francesca Bosco
Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer
Michele Giovanardi
Programme Officer, Digital Peacemaking
Blessing Iyare
Program & Data Strategist
Nankpak Cirfat
Communications & Governance Professional
Hon. Safi ya Alkali Ajikolo
Poet/Child Parliamentarian
Sajuda Mahmud Isa Bagwai
Spoken Word Artist
Godson Osarenren
Founder/Lead Convener
Abdulmalik Yahya
President
Hiba Qasas
Executive Director
Augusta Nannerini
Program Officer
David Hammond
Director of Research
Dr Glaucia Boyer
Global Advisor on Stabilization and Reintegration
Sergiusz Sidorowicz
DDR Policy and Planning Officer, Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Section
Dr Jente Althuis
Researcher Managing Exits from Armed Conflict
Dr Robin Geiss
Director
Marie-Louise Tougas
Legal Adviser
Xavier Philippe
Professor of Public Law at the Law Faculty
Maria Daniella Marouda
Professor in International Law/ Humanitarian Law
Nadeshda Jayakody
Legal Advisor
Joumana Seif
Senior Legal AdvisorYousef Razouk
Legal Officer
Margaret Satterthwaite
UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Stephen Rapp
Senior Visiting Fellow of Practice
Blandine Blukacz-Loisfert
Chief, Institutional Memory Section
Mark Stephens
Co-Chair
Dr. Keith Krause
Director
Annika Hilding Norberg
Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding
Fancy Chepkemoi Too
Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Agi Veres
Director
Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle
Director for International RelationsIsela Violeta Vásquez Alcántara
Coordinator of the Antonio Esteban Human Rights Center
Nina Potarska
Co-founder of the Women's Network for Dialogue and Enduring Peace and National Coordinator of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Ukraine.
Amrita Kapur
Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Didier Gbery
Head of Office
Amb. Cherno Marenah
Deputy Permanent Representative of The Gambia & former Solicitor General and Legal Secretary
Catherine Turner
Professor of International Law at Durham Law School
Ayeshah Jammeh
Survivor, human rights activist and Head of Programme
Beatrice Mosello
Senior Advisor, Adelphi
Prashani Dias
Head of Office a.i. at UN Women Sri Lanka
Helen Hakena
Executive Director, Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency
Elisa Urwin
Head of Research, Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding PhD Researcher in International Relations & Political Science
Janani Vivekananda
Head of Programme Climate Diplomacy and Security
Rashed Hamad Al-Naemi
Commander of the Strategic Studies Centre, Qatar
Rola Sami Sirhan
Editor-in-chief
Mohammed Almasri
Head of the Palestinian Centre for Research and Strategic Studies (PCRSS)
Guila Clara Kessous
Human rights artist and academic
Ayman Ayoub
Head of MENA - DECAF
Riyam Dhahir Hayder
Policy and Advocacy Officer
Basheer Adil Soud
Member of the Community Peace Team (CPT) supported by Nonviolent Peaceforce
Bakhita Steven Guet4
Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer (NP South Sudan)
Ali Hussein Ali
Focal Point of the Sinjar Climate-focused Community Peace Team supported by Nonviolent Peaceforce
Flora Francis Brinigi
Member of the Women Protection Team supported by Nonviolent Peaceforce in South Sudan
Gatthak Biel
A youth leader and peacebuilder at the Juba Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in South Sudan
Huibert Oldenhuis
Global Head of Programming - Nonviolent Peaceforce
Lara Sutter
Moderator
Erika González Ramírez
Film Director
Claire De Lune Lopez
Programme Lead
Natalia Chan
Senior Conflict and Security Adviser
Bertrand Baldet
Director of Programmes
İlke Dağlı Hustings
Director General
Trokon Redem McGee
Executive Director
Adam Day
Head of Office
Ulrich Garms
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer
Sara Ferro Ribeiro
Senior Human Rights Advisor
Semkhothong (Sem) Haokip
Social worker, peacebuilder, and entrepreneur
Rev. Dr. Joseph Nyamutera
Rwandan pastor, peacebuilder, and reconciliation leader
Dr. Salim J. Munayer
Founder and Senior Consultant of Musalaha: A Vision of Reconciliation
Asmaa Al-Farraj
relative and co-founder of Families for Freedom
Karla Quintana
Head of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic (IIMP)
Prof. Olivier de Frouville
Director of the Paris Human Rights Center (CRDH) and Chairperson of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Dr. Doaa E lnakhaka
Senior researcher
Rana Elias
Programme Manager
Ayman Ayoub
Head of MENA
Ahmed Ekzayez
Chief Programs Manager
Peter M. Wagner
Head of the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments
Minister Raed Al-Saleh
Ministry for Emergency and Disaster Management
Mark Downes
Director
Erik A. Schnetzler
Project Manager
Audrey L egat
Senior Advisor Water Governance | Water, Peace and Security
Oleksandr (Sasha) Nesterenko
Water and Peace Officer
Nattaphat (Peter) Jansson
Advisor Water Peace and Security
Branka Panic
Founder and Executive Director
Antonio Salvatore Armentano
Chief, Mine Action Programme Colombia
Paolo Benanti
Professor, Councilor of the Apostolic Penitentiary
Sophia Delvin
CEO
Paola Gálvez Callirgos
AI Ethics Manager
Tatiana Valovaya
Director-General
Annyssa Bellal
Executive Director - Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Olivia Bornyi
Student
Emma Hamilton
Co- President of Peacebuilding Initiative (PBI)
Nathalie Chuard
Ambassador, Directrice du DCAF
Pierre Krähenbühl
Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Tobias Privitelli
Director of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)
Thomas Greminger
Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
António Guterres
9th Secretary-General of the United Nations