Kate Gilmore

Former United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights. Prior to joining OHCHR, Gilmore was Assistant Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director for Programmes with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Executive Deputy Secretary General of [...]

Elhadj As Sy

Former Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); decades of experience working in the humanitarian sector, including in senior positions at the United Nations Children’s agency (UNICEF), the Joint Unite [...]

Khaled Khiari

Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Governing Board Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations; former Director General of Americ [...]

Agnes Abuom

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 ecumenica [...]

Staffan De Mistura

Former Under-Secretary-General and United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Former Italian Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Afghanistan and Iraq and Lebanon; Former Personal Representative [...]

Simon Geissbühler

Representative of the Host Government on the Governing Board Head of the Human Security Division of the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs; former Deputy Head of Mission of Switzerland to the United States; former Deputy Chief of the Department of America [...]

Martti Ahtisaari

Recipient of 2008 Nobel Peace Prize; former President of Finland; Chair of the Interpeace Governing Council from 2001 to 2009 [...]

John A. Kufuor

Former President of Ghana; former Chairperson of the African Union (AU); former Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) [...]

Matthias Stiefel

Founder and former President of Interpeace [...]

Alan Doss

Former President of the Kofi Annan Foundation; Visiting Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; former Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; former Special Representative of the [...]

Necla Tschirgi

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 [...]