Moustafa Ayad
Moustafa Ayad is the current Executive Director for Africa, the Middle East, and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), overseeing more than 20 programmes globally, and has more than a decade’s worth of experience designing, developing, and deploying multi-faceted P/CVE, elections, and gender projects in conflict and post-conflict environments across the Middle East, […]
Laila Bokhari
Served as Deputy Minister with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as State Secretary to the Prime Minister of Norway from 2013-2017. Bokhari is an academic, politician and a diplomat. She has worked on political violence, terrorism and radicalisation for the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and […]
Simon Alexis Finley
Simon has over 15 years experience working on research, policy, and programme development in governance and conflict prevention. In 2014 Simon joined UNDP’s Bangkok Regional Hub and developed its approach on PVE in Asia. The innovative approach saw the creation of #ExtremeLives, an online video series bringing the stories of communities affected by violent extremism […]
Ruth Simpson
Ruth oversees International Alert´s work in Lebanon. She provides strategic oversight of the programme and expert advice on design and monitoring and evaluation for peacebuilding, conflict prevention, conflict sensitivity, social cohesion and preventing violence. Prior to this she was the Europe and MENA Programme Development and Learning Manager leading on programme development, impact and quality […]
Kristin Janson
Kristin Janson is currently Counsellor (Political Affairs) at Canada’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York where her files include counter-terrorism. She joined Global Affairs Canada in 2007 and was posted at the Canadian Embassies in Afghanistan and Israel. Her previous roles in Ottawa include Chief of Staff for the Assistant Deputy Minister […]
Thomas K. Samuel
Thomas Koruth Samuel is at present the Regional Consultant for Terrorism Prevention with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). He is focusing on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) and his chief areas of interest lie in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia in particular, and the Southeast Asia region in general. He […]
Letta Tayler
Letta Tayler is an Associate Director in the Crisis and Conflict Division of Human Rights Watch, leading the division’s work on terrorism and counterterrorism. Her focus includes the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, counterterrorism policy at the United Nations, drone strikes and other targeted killings, and measures in countries around the world in response to foreign ISIS suspects […]
Ahmed Shaheed
On 1 November 2016, Mr. Ahmed Shaheed assumed his mandate as Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. He is Deputy Director of the Essex Human Rights Centre. He was the first Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran since the termination of the […]
Ilwad Elman
Ilwad returned from Canada to Somalia in 2010 whilst the conflict still raged heavily and the majority of Mogadishu and South Central Regions of Somalia were lost to the control of the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group Al-Shabaab. She remained in Somalia ever since, co-founding the first rape crisis centre for survivors of sexual and gender based […]
Asako Okai
Ms. Asako Okai officially began her role as UNDP’s Assistant Administrator and Director for the Crisis Bureau on August 22, 2018. In this role, she leads UNDP’s corporate crisis-related work and drives UNDP’s vision and priorities for crisis prevention, response, and recovery. Ms. Okai has over 30 years of experience in the Japanese Foreign Service […]
