Agi Veres
Ms. Veres is the UNDP Deputy Regional Director for the Europe and CIS region since 2019. Since 2002 when she joined UNDP, she has served in various capacities at headquarters, regional and country levels. Previous to her current post, she served in management positions as Resident Representative and Country Director of UNDP in China (2015-2019), […]
Fauziya Abdi Ali
Fauziya Abdi Ali is Founder and President of WIIS HoA and Chair of Sisters without Borders, a network of Kenyan organisations devoted to the prevention of violent extremism. Fauziya is an advocate for women’s engagement in peace and security, engaged in development projects encompassing peacebuilding, women and youth programming and conflict resolution. She developed and […]
Jacqui True
Jacqui True, FASSA, is Professor of International Relations and Director of Monash University’s Centre for Gender, Peace and Security. She is also a Global Fellow, Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo and received her PhD from York University, Toronto, Canada, and an honorary doctorate from Lund University Sweden in 2018. Her research is focused on the Women, […]
Simon Nyambura
Dr. Simon Nyambura is the Director of the IGAD Center of Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (ICEPCVE) in Djibouti. Prior to that, he was the Head of Counter Terrorism Pillar at IGAD SSP in Addis Ababa. Dr. Nyambura has over 18 years extensive professional experience and knowledge in designing and implementing counter terrorism and counter violent extremism strategies […]
Raffi Gregorian
Mr. Raffi Gregorian brings to the United Nations over 33 years of academic, diplomatic and military experience in counter-terrorism and international peace and security. As Deputy to the Under Secretary-General and Director of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), Mr. Gregorian directs the 150-person office headquartered in New York, chairing its Programme Review Board […]
Junko Nozawa
Junko Nozawa is a Senior Legal Analyst for the Global Center. She provides research and programming support on criminal justice and rule of law issues with a focus on assisting judiciaries in East Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia to improve their strategies for handling complex criminal cases. In the field of international […]
Malin Herwig
Malin brings experience from across the organization, having worked in UNDP since 2003 in Country Offices, an RC Office, Headquarters, and most recently in the Regional Hub for the Arab States, on issues of prevention, governance, peacebuilding, and transition. In UNDP’s Regional Hub for the Arab States, Malin worked as Advisor on Conflict Prevention and […]
Hassan Khannenje
Dr. Hassan Khannenje is the current Director of the HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies, a research and policy think-do tank based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a Fulbright Scholar with a Doctor of Philosophy in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University, Florida (USA). He holds a Master of Arts in Social and […]
Roudabeh Kishi
Dr. Roudabeh Kishi is ACLED’s Director of Research & Innovation. She oversees the quality, production, and coverage of all ACLED data across the globe; leads research and analysis across regional teams; aids in new partnerships with local sources and users; and supports the capacity building of NGOs and conflict observatories around the world. She also […]
Arvinn Gadgil
Arvinn has been engaged in governance and development policy for almost 20 years. Before joining UNDP he was Policy Director for International Development Policy in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Recently he has focused on issues such as domestic resource mobilization, addressing illicit financial flows, anti-corruption, fiscal stability, and global economic governance. He has […]
