Irena Vojáčková-Sollorano - Deputy Director General for Management and Reform at interim. As a skilled international humanitarian leader, Irena brings a wealth of knowledge and operational field experience. She has more than three decades of global expertise in migration management, migration and development and refugee issues as well as in emergency response and change management. Irena’s career with the United Nations System spans a decade serving in multiple roles. She was tripled-hatted in Iraq as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG), Resident Coordinator (RC), and Humanitarian Coordinator (HC); she also served as the Development Coordination Office (DCO) Regional Director in Istanbul; and previously as RC in Türkiye and Serbia. Irena was a member of the RC system restructuring team during the creation of the DCO within the UN Secretariat. She began her journey in humanitarian aid in the Philippines as a Development Officer/Associated Expert and the Operations Officer. Throughout her distinguished tenure of 23 years with IOM, Irena has held key leadership positions including the Director for Migration Management in Geneva; Regional Director for Southeast Asia in Bangkok and for Central Europe in Vienna. She has opened seven IOM national offices, participated in two IOM reform processes and served on several migration research boards. She holds a Diploma in International Economic Relations from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, an MA in History, Geography and International Law from the University of Vienna, and a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Irena is proficient in English, German and Czech.

Caroline Ziadeh was appointed as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on 19 November 2021.Having served since 2017 as Director of the Department of International Organizations, Conferences and Cultural Services in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of Lebanon, Ms. Ziadeh brings to the position close to 30 years of experience in international diplomacy with extensive knowledge of the United Nations having led national delegations to the United Nations on human rights issues, the Women, Peace and Security agenda and migration. Former Deputy Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York (2006-2017), SRSG Ziadeh served at the Embassies of Lebanon to the United Kingdom (2004-2006), to Belgium and the European Union (1994-1999), as well as the Permanent Mission of Lebanon in Vienna and the Embassies to Austria, Croatia, and Slovakia (1999-2002). SRSG Ziadeh holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Economy and Political Science from the Lebanese University, Beirut, and Diplomas in International Relations from the University Libre de Bruxelles and the Diplomatic Academy Vienna. She is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

Robert Dann has been a senior political adviser and negotiator in high-level UN diplomatic, good offices and mediation efforts in Cyprus (2000-2003 for the negotiations of the “Annan Plan”), the Middle East (based in Jerusalem 2005-2011 as senior political adviser to envoys de Soto, Williams and Serry) and Syria (advising Special Envoys Annan, Brahimi and de Mistura in earlier periods and now as chief political adviser based in Geneva for Special Envoy Geir O. Pedersen) He was Chief of the UN Mediation Support Unit in the Department of Political Affairs in New York from 2011-2016, among other things managing the Standby Team of Mediation Experts and advising on the UN’s preventive diplomacy and mediation efforts globally. He was also speechwriter to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2003-2005, closely involved in developing the Secretary-General’s “In Larger Freedom” reform agenda) and assisted him in preparation of Mr. Annan’s memoir: Interventions: A Life in Peace and War. He has also worked as a legal associate to Justice Sir Daryl Dawson of the High Court of Australia (1996-1997) based in Melbourne and Canberra. Robert holds degrees in Arts and Law with First Class Honours and the University Medal from the University of Queensland (1991-1995), and a Masters (with Distinction) in International Relations from the University of Oxford which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar (1997-1999). He joined the United Nations in 1999. He has guest lectured on the United Nations, the Middle East, and international peace negotiations at universities and led senior trainings of UN envoys and their teams.

Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, born in Rome on October 11, 1955, graduated in Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University and Literature and Philosophy at the University of Rome. He was ordained as a priest in the diocese of Palestrina on May 9, 1981, and later became part of the diocese of Rome. Throughout his career, he served in various roles, including as a parish priest and prefect in different Roman parishes.In 2012, he became the titular Bishop of Villanova and an Auxiliary Bishop of Rome. Later, on October 27, 2015, Pope Francis appointed him as the Archbishop of Bologna. He was elevated to the rank of Cardinal on September 1, 2019, and received the cardinal title on October 5, 2019, at St. Peter's Basilica. Cardinal Zuppi also holds positions in various Vatican dicasteries and serves as a Judge of the Court of Cassation in the Vatican City State. Furthermore, he was appointed as the President of the Italian Bishops' Conference by Pope Francis on May 24, 2022.