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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…
Dr. Mansoor Alawar, is Chancellor of Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU) and a Member of the Executive Council of the Association of Arab Universities (AARU). A pioneering figure in smart education and governance excellence across the Arab world, he has led transformative initiatives such as the award-winning Smart Campus and the Emirati Programmer programme. From 2014 to 2021, he served as Chairman of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), where he led global efforts to integrate ICT into education. His…
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…
Ambassador Gallegos is a distinguished Ecuadorian diplomat who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of UNITAR. With over five decades of service in international relations, human rights, and multilateral diplomacy. He has been Ecuador’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in both New York and Geneva across three separate terms, playing a key role in advancing global human rights frameworks.Ambassador Gallegos has also held ambassadorial posts in El Salvador, Australia, and Bulgaria, as well as leadership…
Ms. Lorena Aguilar, is a global leader passionate about human rights, inclusion, and sustainable development, with over three decades providing strategic contributions to national and international policies. Leading inclusive collaboration with government counterparts, UN agencies, international organizations, and civil society towards advancing inclusive and equitable sustainable development. Lorena has field experience in more than 50 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. Ms. Aguilar also served as Vice-Minister of Foreign…
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…
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…
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…
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…