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Cécile Molinier joined the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1992 from the UN Secretariat. She worked for 15 years in the field as Deputy in Tunisia then as Resident Coordinator in Sao Tome and Principe, Togo, and Mauritania. She was reassigned as Director to the UNDP Office in Geneva in August 2007, where she instrumental in promoting the UN reform agenda and developing innovative partnerships with sub-national authorities, the academic community, civil society organizations and the private sector. Since her retirement from the UN in 2012, she has been active as a lecturer on multilateral affairs and development issues, and as a member of the Board of several associations focused on sustainable development.

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Dr. Bell is an experienced non-profit executive, who leads Pew Research Center’s international programs and directs the institution’s overall partnership strategy. Dr. Bell helps design research and communication strategies that translate rigorous data and analysis into stories that open minds, change behavior and improve solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the globe. He is expert in quantitative and qualitative methods and has guided both social and computational science projects. Prior to joining the Pew Research Center, Bell worked at the US State Department for nearly a decade, most recently as director of international opinion research. Bell earned his doctorate in geography from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is widely published, has appeared on television and radio, and presented at major events hosted by the United Nations, World Economic Forum, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Paris Peace Forum, Circulo de Economia, and Berlin Policy Forum, among others.

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Prof Liliana Andonova is a faculty member of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies since 2008. She was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy, and Assistant Professor in Government and Environmental Studies at Colby College, USA. She authored Transnational Politics of the Environment and EU Integration and Environmental Policy in Eastern Europe (2004) as well as numerous articles. Her current research focuses on institutional change and public-private partnerships, European integration, transnational governance, and climate cooperation.

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Bringing together experience as an international attorney, with expertise in advocacy, external relations and partnerships, Ms. Coté continued her engagement in International Geneva by contributing to multi-stakeholder relationships and conflict resolution. She believes that the global agenda is best tackled by linking the public, private and non-profit sectors, and that dialogue and empathy are essential to achieve the sustainable development goals. Ms. Jacqueline Coté is also the current President of Caux – Initiatives of Change.

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Dr Nathanael Tilahun is an Assistant Professor of Law at Coventry University, United Kingdom. Prior to joining Coventry, he worked as Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is an international law scholar with expertise in sanctions, peace and security, countering terrorism financing, and financial crime. He is a Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) and Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). He provides advisory and consultancy services to governments, international organisations (e.g. the European Union) and non-profit organizations on international legal aspects of economic sanctions, and the rule of law in countering terrorism. He widely publishes, teaches and frequently speaks to media on the use (and abuse) of sanctions for safeguarding human rights and democracy, African approaches to sanctions, recovery of misappropriated assets from developing states, global governance institutions in the area of financial crime and security. He is the author of a monograph titled “Regulatory Counter-Terrorism: A Critical Appraisal of Proactive Global Governance” (New York/London: Routledge, 2018). He has held visiting faculty and researcher positions at law schools of Queen Mary University of London, University of Cambridge, and University of California Berkeley. He obtained PhD in public international law from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Bart M.J. Szewczyk (SHEF-chick) is a nonresident senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund in Brussels focusing on international order, transatlantic relations, NATO, the European Union, Ukraine, Russia, and the United Nations. He also teaches grand strategy at Sciences Po in Paris. Dr. Szewczyk recently worked as advisor on global affairs at the European Commission's think tank, where he covered a wide range of foreign policy issues. Between 2014 and 2017, he served as member of Secretary John Kerry’s policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked on Europe, Eurasia, and global economic affairs. From 2016 to 2017, he concurrently served as senior policy advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, where he worked on refugee policy. He joined the U.S. government from teaching at Columbia Law School, as one of two academics selected nationwide for the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University where he studied as a Gates Scholar, a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.P.A. from Princeton University, and a B.S. in economics (summa cum laude) from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is widely published.

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Sona Bari is an external relations leader specializing in global public health and partnerships. At the World Health Organization since 2004, she is a strategic communicator and advocate, with expertise in reputation management with media and donors. She has built and managed teams for communications, fundraising, political advocacy and engagement across partners that vary widely in terms of technical expertise, geography, and culture. Ms Bari started her career in journalism covering humanitarian disasters and human rights. Wishing to move from reporting a situation to preventing or resolving it, she worked for a series of non-governmental and intergovernmental organisations in human rights, including Grassroots International and the International Labour Organization. She now specialises in external relations for public health, advocating for transparent, science-based communications that empower policy makers and the public.

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Eva Åkerman Börje is the OiC, of the Department of Data, Insight and Policy Coordination in IOM. Prior to this she led IOM’s Policy Hub in the Office of the Director-General of IOM and served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for International Migration in the UN Secretariat in New York during the negotiations of the Global Compact for Migration. Before joining the UN, Ms. Åkerman Börje was the Director/Ambassador for Global Cooperation on International Migration and Development in the Department for Migration and Asylum Policy at the Swedish Government.

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Dr Köhler is Ambassador and co-lead of the Grand Bargain between some of the largest donors and humanitarian organisations who have committed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the humanitarian action (since 2023). He has extensive field and Headquarters experience in foreign policy, development and humanitarian affairs. From 1994 to 2024 Michael Köhler served in the European Commission. From August 2019 to January 2024 Dr Köhler was Deputy Acting Director-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations in the European Commission’s DG ECHO, in charge of coordinating the world-wide EU humanitarian aid activities. Michael Köhler holds a Dr. Phil. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Hamburg University (1987). Since 1997 he is a professor for "Europe and the Mediterranean" the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and teaches at Université Paris1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne.