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Chief, Integrated Training Service (ITS), Policy Evaluation and Training Division, UN Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support
Mark Pedersen has served with the UN since 1993. The majority of his service has been in the field where he has worked as a civil affairs officer and a political affairs officer. At headquarters in New York he has worked on policy, political, training and mission support issues. He is currently the Chief of the Integrated Training Service within the Policy, Evaluation and Training Division. Prior to joining the UN, he served in the…
Dr. Vishwajeet Rana is a globally recognised education leader and the Group Chief Executive Officer of GEDU Global Education, a multinational education group operating across more than 15 countries.With a background in international finance and a deep commitment to widening access to quality education, he is dedicated to building inclusive and high-impact learning ecosystems that continue to inspire educational reform and opportunity across continents. His leadership was recently recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award from POWER 100 and British Asians Who’s Who for…
Born in Sudan, the son of a French governor and descendant of an influential African family, Gabriel D’Arboussier had lived in many African countries and countries of the Pacific region that were a part of the French empire. After having studied law in France, he took an active part in the political life of the African continent as a member of various parliaments and as a civil servant and diplomat following the independence of Senegal in 1960.
Elected to the Constituent National Assembly of France in the aftermath of World War II, he contributed to the adoption of…
Adriana E. Abdenur is co-President of the Global Fund for a New Economy (GFNE). Between 2023 and 2025 she was Special Advisor in international affairs in the office of President Lula, working on the president's view of the G20, BRICS and COPs. A Brazilian policymaker and scholar, she co-founded Plataforma CIPÓ, a think tank headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. Dr Abdenur earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University and an AB from Harvard University and has published widely on global governance and sustainable development. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ambassador Petersen was as appointed Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations in Geneva on 1 November 2023. From September 2020 to October 2023 Ambassador Petersen served as Assistant Secretary General, Deputy Executive Director (Management) in UNFPA, New York. He came to UNFPA from a position as Director for the Department of Migration, Conflict and Stabilization of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Petersen has over 30 years of experience within the spheres of bilateral and multilateral affairs and development. He served as the Ambassador…
Executive Director of Kofi Annan Foundation and Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mr. Alan Doss is Senior Political Advisor at the Kofi Annan Foundation. He is Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He spent his entire professional life in the service of the United Nations working on peacekeeping, development and humanitarian assignments in Africa, Asia and Europe as well as at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
He was appointed, in 2007, by…
Ms. Dominique Bichara, is the Director of Corporate Affairs and Administration in the Corporate Secretariat of the World Bank Group (WBG), where she joined in 1992. As Senior Counsel, she led negotiations for project finance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans, as well as regional initiatives on environmental law, legal and judicial reforms. In 2004, she opened the first Bank’s office in Tunisia. In 2010, she was appointed Special Representative of the World Bank Group to the United Nations in New York. In this capacity, she managed the WBG's…
Ambassador Mathu Joyini is Permanent Representative of South African to the United Nations in New York and Chair for the Commission on the Status of Women (2021 to 2023). Previously, Ambassador Joyini served as Deputy Director-General at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, heading the Diplomatic Academy and the Mediation Support Unit (since 2016). She has undertaken various international assignments, including as Permanent Representative of South Africa to the International Seabed Authority (2010 to 2015) and as High Commissioner and Ambassador to…
Born in Cameroon, Michel Doo-Kingué devoted an important part of his life to the United Nations and to the promotion of democracy and development in the countries of the South and, more specifically, in Africa. He started his career at UNESCO as the head of the Africa Department in 1963. He then became Director of the Division of Relations with International Organizations and Programmes at UNESCO. He served as chief advisor on African Affairs to the Director-General of UNESCO from November 1963 to January 1969.
In 1971, Michel Doo-Kingué was appointed as the first…
2012, Ms. Sally Fegan-Wyles was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as UN Assistant Secretary-General, Acting Head, Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.
Ms. Fegan-Wyles has more than 30 years of experience within the United Nations system, holding various managerial positions in different UN entities both in the field and at Headquarters. Her most recent position was Senior Adviser on System-Wide Coherence in the Office of the Deputy Secretary-General where she led the inter-agency team that prepared…