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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…
Visiting Professor, Development and Global Health Policy
Former Director of the United Nations Development Programme Representation Office in Tokyo
Tetsuo Kondo is the former Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Representation Office in Tokyo.
He served as Country Director of UNDP Chad, Deputy Resident Representative of UNDP Kosovo, Senior Humanitarian Coordination Advisor of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor Leste, Senior Advisor of UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok, Special Advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-…
CEO of London-based Global Education Holdings Ltd (GEDU)Dr Rana completed an MBA from Ohio University and gained an MSc and PhD from Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr Rana has executed a number of complex cross-border equity/debt-structured investments and finance transactions in the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Hong Kong while working at HSBC’s New York office. He enjoys evaluating different global education models and applying them to unlock the potential of students in accessing education. He has also written a textbook, Dr Rana on Applied Corporate…
Sven Harten is Head of the Competence Centre for Evaluation Methodology / Deputy Director at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval). He is an evaluation expert and Political Scientist, with a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science an evaluation expert with more than 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of evaluations in the field of development cooperation. Sven Harten has lived and worked for 15 years in countries of the Global South, where he was mainly active as an evaluator and project manager, with M…
Mr Roca is currently head of unit, resource mobilization at the WHO Regional Office for Europe. In his role, Mr Roca is responsible for the coordination of resource mobilization efforts at both regional and country levels within the WHO European Region (53 Member States). Prior to working for WHO, he worked as a Partnerships Development Officer for The Defeat-NCD Partnership as well as a Programme Manager in the health team in the DG for International Partnerships (INPTA) of the European Commission. He also has more than eight years of experience in the private sector,…
Urbanist, sustainability educator, and social innovator
May East is a British/Brazilian urbanist, sustainability educator, and social innovator. Her work spans the fields of cultural geography, urban ecology, and women’s studies. A UNITAR Fellow, she holds a Master of Science in Spatial Planning with specialization in the rehabilitation of abandoned villages and a PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning on the topic “What if Women Designed the City?”. Her research interests, also, include nature-based solutions for urban planning and the…
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…
Attorney General of Qatar and UN Special Advocate on the Prevention of Corruption
H.E. Dr. Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri is the Attorney General of the State of Qatar (since 2002) and the UN Special Advocate on the Prevention of Corruption.
H.E. Dr. Ali bin Fetais has been a member of the United Nations International Law Commission since 2002. In September 2012, Dr. Ali bin Fetais was appointed Special Regional Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the recovery of stolen assets. His responsibilities included supporting the activities…
Simeon Olaosebikan Adebo (1914-1994) was appointed United Nations Deputy Secretary General and Director General of UNITAR in 1969, and stayed with the Institute until 1972. Born in Western Nigeria, he became an Okanlomo (Chief) of the Yoruba people. After obtaining a degree in law from London University and being admitted to the bar, he continued his career at the Nigerian Ministry of Finance and the Treasury and in 1961 became head of the Civil Service and Chief Secretary to the Government of Western Nigeria.
In 1962, Chief Adebo moved to New York to represent his…
Sarah Cook is a Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Previously, she worked as an adjunct with the Institute for Global Development of the University of New South Wales, Australia and was formerly Director of the Institute. From 2015 to 2019, she was Director of UNICEF’s Office of Research, Innocenti and, from 2009 to 2015, Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. She was previously a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and has also worked for the Ford Foundation in China.…