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Highly skilled, multi-lingual, trade law and policy expert with 16 years of experience advising ministerial officials on politically complex international and regional trade issues at the World Trade Organization. Combining academic background, diplomacy and in-depth trade policy knowledge for work in fragile and conflict-affected countries. Currently, serving on the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment, which aims to enhance the dialogue between trade and sustainability. Passionate about nurturing the next generation of global trade policy makers, through lecturing at European and Asian institutes on practical experiences as a WTO trade practitioner.

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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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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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Ms. Corinne Momal-Vanian is the Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation. Previously, she worked in various senior positions and a variety of countries for the United Nations, most recently as Director of Conference Management at the United Nations Office at Geneva (2015-2020) and Director of Information (2010-2015). Ms. Momal-Vanian served as Special Assistant to Kofi Annan in 2005 and 2006, traveling with him to some 20 countries as he worked to resolve crises, defuse tensions, highlight the plight of communities and individuals suffering from discrimination and abuses, build international cooperation and strengthen support for development and justice. She worked for a total of six years in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, after serving in two regional economic and social commissions of the United Nations. Passionate about justice, gender equality, inclusion, innovation and learning, Ms. Momal-Vanian chaired the Steering Group of the International Gender Champions from 2016 to 2019 and was a co-organiser of the three editions of TEDxPlaceDesNations. A French citizen, she holds a master’s degree in business administration from HEC Graduate School of Management, Paris and an advanced degree in international relations from the Institut Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) - Paris. She recently completed an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Research & Publications Division at IOM headquarters in Geneva and Editor of IOM’s flagship World Migration Report. She is an international migration specialist with 25 years of experience in migration as a practitioner, program manager, senior government official and researcher. Marie has researched, published and edited widely in academic and policy spheres on migration. She is on the editorial boards of journals International Migration, Migration Studies and Migration and Development, is an Associate Editor of the Harvard Data Science Review, and is a regular contributor to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Agenda blog series. Marie is a Senior Associate at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), senior fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Sir Roland Wilson Fellow at the School of Demography at the Australian National University. She co-chairs the World Bank’s KNOMAD thematic working group on migration data and demography, is a member of MIT’s Global Technology Review Panel, IUSSP’s panel on international migration and curates the WEF's Migration Transformation Map. She has been regularly called upon to advise Ministers, senior officials and CEOs on migration and displacement, including former UN Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, in his capacity as Chair of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State.

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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 organizations (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 organizations 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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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.