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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…
Karin Kohlweg is an independent evaluation consultant with more than fifteen years of experience in international development. She has substantial experience in planning, managing, and implementing different types of evaluations, studies, reviews, UNEG peer reviews, and meta-analyses in various sectors and topics including gender mainstreaming, institutional capacity development, education, civil society, private sector, water, hygiene and sanitation and others. She conducted quality assurance on a regular basis, developed, and revised evaluation guidelines and manuals and…
Chair of the Technical Committee
Global Water Partnership
Jaehyang (“Jae”) So is the Chair of the TEC (Technical Committee) of the Global Water Partnership, a global action network with over 3,000 partner organizations in 179 countries.
Jae worked for 30 years at the World Bank Group on a range of development topics, from infrastructure, water, urban development, gender, and public-private partnerships. As Director of Trust Funds and Partnerships, Jae strengthened the World Bank’s corporate and fiduciary management by reforming and simplifying the policy and…
Vice President
Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Africa Board
Sarah Anyang Agbor is Vice Chairperson of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) as well as the Vice President, Africa Board, Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE). Sarah is a Trustee Board Member of the African Progress Group (APG) and Board Member of Coalition on Media and Education for Development Africa Forum (CAFOR). Sarah is the African Union (AU) Consultant for Policy Renaissance leading the AU project in providing strategic support and establishing…
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…
On 8 June 2015, Mr. Nikhil Seth was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.Before assuming the post of the UNITAR Executive Director, Nikhil Seth was the Director of the Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. In this role he served as head of the Rio+20 secretariat and of the secretariat for the Third International Conference on Small Island…
Marcel A. Boisard served as Executive Director of UNITAR from March 1992 to February 2007. As of August 2001, he was also appointed, by the UN Secretary-General, as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. Prior to these appointments, he occupied the position of Director of the UNITAR European Office after having joined the Institute as “Special Fellow” in June 1980.
By the time of joining the United Nations, Boisard had already had a long record of international activities working with diplomatic and humanitarian missions and conducting academic research…
Executive Vice President of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SHAC)Dr. Fan serves as the Executive Vice President of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SHAC). He has extensive knowledge of the Asia-Pacific region and is an experienced arbitrator. Over 200 arbitration proceedings have been conducted with him as presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator under the rules of UNCITRAL, CAS, SIAC, HKIAC, KCAB, CIETAC, etc. On top of commercial arbitration, Dr. Fan’s appointments and tenures witness his extensive experiences in the…
His Excellency Dr. Bosun Tijani is the Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. An accomplished entrepreneur and business leader, Dr. Tijani is a pioneer in the African startup ecosystem and has been instrumental in driving innovation and fostering the growth of tech startups across the continent. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), the leading pan-African technology and innovation center with presence in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Namibia. Founded in 2010, CcHUB has played a pivotal…
Carlos Tarazona is a senior evaluation officer at FAO where he is responsible for leading major evaluations. He has more than 20 years of experience in the evaluation of agricultural and rural development programs including capacity development initiatives. Before joining FAO, Carlos served as an evaluation officer at the International Atomic Energy Agency and managed the Independent External Evaluation of FAO. Carlos holds a master’s degree in international agriculture from Larenstein University in the Netherlands and Reading University in the United Kingdom.