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Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration
Faculty Chair, Leadership Initiative
Harvard Business School
Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and chair of the Leadership Initiative. Linda is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on leadership. Linda was named by Thinkers50 as one of the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2013 and received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2015. Linda is the author or co-author of several award-winning articles and books including…
Former Police Commissioner of United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), the United Nations Stabilization Mission In Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the Integrated Mission in Timor Leste (UNMIT)
Mr Luis Miguel Carrilho took up his functions as Police Commissioner of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Mission Stabilization in Central Africa Republic on 13 September 2014.
Police Commissioner Carrilho first joined the United Nations in 1996, working primarily on training of civilian police with the United…
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,…
Former Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations and Former Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)
Lieutenant General Obiakor is former Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations and former Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). LGen Obiakor has had a long and distinguished career with the Nigerian Army, beginning in 1973. He served as the General Officer Commanding, Second Mechanized Division, of the Nigerian Army, as Commander of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG)…
Dr Khemka is a philanthropist, public health specialist and academic. She is currently a Trustee at the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation and Nabha Foundation, focussed on the conjunction of climate and public health. She is also Director at PATH- a global Health think-tank dedicated to improving health equity.Dr Khemka holds a PhD and MPhil in Development Studies from the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, where she studied health and gender, focusing on the decentralisation of the health sector in two Indian states. She serves on the Women’s…
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Zainab Hawa Bangura of Sierra Leone assumed her position as Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict at the level of Under-Secretary-General on 4 September 2012. In this capacity, she serves as Chair of the interagency network, UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict (UN Action).
Ms. Bangura has over 20 years of policy, diplomatic and practical experience in the field of governance, conflict resolution and reconciliation in Africa. She served most…
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…
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…
Carlos Lopes was appointed Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) at the level of Assistant Secretary-General on 1st March 2007. In addition, he has been serving as Director of the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) since November 2007, the parallel appointment that he received from the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.
Lopes previously served as UN Assistant-Secretary-General and Director for Political Affairs in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.
Lopes has actively contributed to…
Senior Advisor
Shift
Ashleigh Owens is a Senior Advisor with Shift, a New York based non-profit that works with a wide range of government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, trade unions, major investors and financial institutions to provide companies around the world with practical, context-specific advice on how to ensure respect for human rights. Ashleigh leads Shift’s work with financial institutions and investors, supporting them to model and move markets to reward respect for human dignity. Prior to relocating to NYC in 2018, Ashleigh was Executive Director at…