Africa 11 - Participants

Participants Position
Mr Mohamed Yusuf Abshir Senior Consultant, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Ms Ngozi Amu Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Office to the African Union
Ms Netsannet Asfaw Director, Peace and Security Department, The Intergovernmental Authority on Development
Mr Emannuel Bombande Executive Director, West Africa Network for Peacebuilding
Ms Francesca Bomboko Executive Director, Founder, Bureau d’Etude, de Recherche et de Consulting International; Member of the Steering Committee, World Movement for Democracy
Mr Joseph Waryoba Butiku Executive Director, Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation
Ms Ruth Gibson Caesar Founding Member, National Focal Point, Mano River Women's Peace Network
Dr Jakkie Cilliers Executive Director, Institute for Security Studies
Mr Wane El-Ghassim Director, Peace and Security Department, African Union Commission
Dr Comfort Ero Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group
Mr Alex Grzybowski United Nations Mediation Standby Team Member; Managing Partner, Pacific Resolutions
Dr David Harland Executive Director, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Professor Nicholas Haysom Director, Political and Peacekeeping Unit, Office of the United Nations Secretary-General
Ms Marianne Weydahl Hille Senior Advisor, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ambassador Seif Ali Iddi Second Vice President of Zanzibar
Ambassador Jan Knutsson Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva
Mr David Lambo Senior Adviser, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; Former United Nations Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees
Ms Karin Landgren Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office in Burundi
Ms Stine Lehmann-Larsen Acting Senior Programme Manager, Africa Regional Office, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Mr Jeremy Lester Head of Division for the Horn of Africa, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, Africa Directorate, European External Action Service
Ms Fiona Lortan Senior Political Officer Strategic Issues (Disarmament), Department of Peace and Security, African Union Commission
Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Løj Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Liberia
Ambassador Dr Augustine P Mahiga Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia
Ambassador Haile Menkerios Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Sudan and South Sudan
Mr David Mozersky Director of Investments, Humanity United
Ambassador Liberata Rutageruka Mulamula First Executive Secretary, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region
Mr Laurie Nathan Extraordinary Professor, Director, Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria
Ms Alice Nderitu Commissioner, National Cohesion and Integration Commission, Kenya
Dr Ozonnia Ojielo Coordinator, Conflict Prevention and Recovery, Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery United Nations Development Programme
Dr Thania Paffenholz Project Director and Senior Researcher at the Centre on Conflict, Peacebuilding and Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Dr Katia Papagianni Head, Mediation Support Programme, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Mr Einar Rystad Adviser, Section for International Development Policy, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ambassador Dr Salim Ahmed Salim Chairman of the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation; former Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity; former Foreign Minister of Tanzania; former Prime Minister of Tanzania; former Minister of Defence and National Services of Tanzania
Mr Patrick Smith Editor, Africa Confidential
Ms Yasmin Sooka Executive Director, Foundation for Human Rights, South Africa
Ms Teresa Whitfield Senior Adviser and Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
Ambassador Michael Winzap Special Envoy for Sudan, South Sudan and the Horn of Africa, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Mr Tayé-Brook Zerihoun Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, United Nations Department of Political Affairs

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