Speakers
Find out more about our list of speakers for the 2024 edition of Geneva Peace Week. For any question or interview requests, please contact our Communications Coordinator: tatiana.avanthay@gpplatform.ch
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Mamoudou Amadou
Ex-combatant involved in the “Support Project for the Socio-Economic Integration of Repentees through Public Interest Services” @ ONG GARKUA
Amanda Horzyk
Early-career researcher in AI Law and Regulation @ Innovation, Technology and the Law LLM 2023/4, University of Edinburgh
Muhammadou Kah
Ambassador of the Gambia to Switzerland and permanent representative of the Gambia to the United Nations Organisations @ Gambian Government, UNOG, WTO
Amir Abdulla
Deputy Executive Director @ World Food Programme and Kofi Annan Commission on Food Security Commissioner
Mahamar Ahimidi
Ex-combatant involved in the “From armed repentant youth to actor for positive change” @ Think Peace
Halima Sadiya Ahman
Nurtured Agro-resources Limited & Youth AgriChampion @ Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens
Rashid Hamad Al Naimi
Commander of the Qatar Strategic Studies Center @ Qatar Strategic Studies Centre
Lubna Alkanawati
Syrian feminist and women’s rights activist, Co-executive Director @ Women Now for Development
Hayma Alyousfi
Feminist Researcher, General Program Manager @ Syrian Female Journalists Network (SFJN)
Arizza Ann Nocum
Peace and education advocate @ Extremely Together Young Leader, Kofi Annan Foundation
Dima Asfour
Deputy Permanent Representative @ Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the UN
H.E. Sylvain Astier
Swiss Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa @ Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Krisztina Bende
Permanent Representative @ Swiss Permanent Mission to the United Nations organizations in Rome
Gilles Cerutti
Head, Humanitarian, Diplomacy, Peace and Human Rights Division @ Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, SwitzerlandKarima Cherif
Head, Communications and Outreach @ United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Adam Day
Head of the Geneva Office of United Nations University Centre for Policy Research @ United Nations University, Centre for Policy Research, Geneva
Jérôme Duberry
Managing Director, Academic Advisor @ Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
H.E. Christian Guillermet Fernández
@ Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations in Geneva
Christian Frutiger
Vice-Director General @ Thematic Cooperation at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Sidonia Gabriel
Senior Advisor for Fragility, Conflict and Human Rights, Peace, Governance and Equality section @ Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Alexander Guest
Director of Research @ the Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development, SeeD
Mustafa Abdullahi Hassan
Director General of the Southwest Ministry of Interior @ Local Governance, and Reconciliation, State of Somalia
Dr. Ilke Dagli Hustings
Director General @ the Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development, SeeD
Mark Iozzi
Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS), Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations @ U.S. State Department
Prof. Briony Jones
Professor, Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development, Politics and International Studies Department @ University of Warwick
Aminata Kindo
Survivor of violent extremism receiving psychosocial support from the PREVENIR project @ UFC-Dori
Nirina Kiplagat
Coordinator, Governance and Peacebuilding, Regional Service Center for Africa, @ United Nations Development Programme
Abdon Dominique Koko
West Africa Specialist @ the Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development, SeeD
Alexander Kriebitz
AI and Human Rights Researcher @ The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI) at Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Felix Kufus
Adviser for Digital Peacemaking @ Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation
Aurélie Lamazière
Senior Programme Manager, Lead on Accountability for Grave Violations Affecting Children @ Save the Children
Joanna Makhlouf
Project Assistant Local Leadership Labs (LLL) Initiative @ CIVICUS : World Alliance For Citizen Participation
Mario Nascimento
Policy and Planning Officer @ Office for Rule of Law and Security Institutions – Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Section
Dr. Raymond Omollo
Prinicpal Secretary @ State Department for Internal Security and National Administration, Kenya
Madeleine Rees
Former Secretary-General @ Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Mary Robinson
first woman President of Ireland @ UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Chair of The Elders
Angélica Rojas Moncada
Coordinadora Regional Guaviare @ Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development (FCDS)
Veronicah Rotich
Youth member @ Independent Panel of Advisors on the Republic of Kenya’s Peacebuilding Architecture Review
Antonio Sampaio
Thematic Lead: Cities and Illicit Economic @ Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
Pedro dos Santos Maia
Research Assistant @ Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera
former Senator of the Republic of Colombia @ negotiator during the peace process in Colombia and ex-combatant of the FARC-EP
Rie Vejs-Kjeldgaard
Director, Sustainable Enterprises, Productivity and Just Transition Department @ ILO
Brian Williams
Chief for the Peacebuilding Strategy and Partnerships Branch @ UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)
Vanessa Wyeth
Global Lead Conflict Prevention, Fragility and Peacebuilding Programme Group Leadership Team @ UNICEF
Martin Wählisch
Associate Professor @ Transformative Technologies, Innovation and Global Affairs University of Birmingham
