Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Governing Council; Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights OHCHR; Former Director for Political, Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Human Rights affairs in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General.

Former audit director at KPMG. For the last 15 years, she worked with international large & medium-sized NGOs; IFRC, the Gavi & the Global Fund amongst others.

Representative of the Host Government on the Governing Council; Head of the Human Security Division, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Executive Director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation; former Inspecteur General des Finances at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of France; former advisor for Africa and Development in the offices of various Foreign Affairs Ministers; former French Senate advisor for the Finance and Budgetary Commission between; Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.

Moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) since 2013. Director of the organization TAABCO Research and Development Consultants; former Africa president for the WCC (1999-2006). More than 40 years  of experience in the ecumenical movement, peacebuilding, gender and human rights.

Professor of Practice, Human Security and Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego; former Senior Policy Advisor to the Peacebuilding Support Office at the United Nations Secretariat; former Vice President of the International Peace Academy