SUSANNAH ANASTASI
Senior Consultant, AMEC Entec

Susannah is a Senior Consultant with environmental consultancy AMEC Entec, where she advises public sector organisations and large blue chip companies on their environmental, social and ethical responsibilities. Susannah began her career as a financial auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers, following which she completed a Masters degree in Environment & Business at Leeds University to change career direction and focus more closely on sustainability. Her involvement with the UN Global Compact began in 2003 when she completed a dissertation on the achievements of the UK Network of the UN Global Compact, which was subsequently published.

Susannah continues to maintain that relation with the UK Network of the UN Global Compact in her role as observer on behalf of the Young Professionals Network of UNA-UK. She was also recently elected to the UNA-UK Board of Directors.

DAME MARGARET ANSTEE
Former UN Under-Secretary-General and the first female head of a UN peacekeeping mission during a career which spanned more than four decades at the UN

Dame Margaret served the United Nations for over four decades, rising to the rank of Under-Secretary-General, becoming the first woman to have held this position. Over the course of her career she lived in 15 countries and visited over 130 on official missions. From 1952 to 1987 Anstee directed operational programmes of economic and social development in every developing region of the world. She was then appointed Director-General of the UN in Vienna and until 1992 served concurrently as Head of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs and as the coordinator of all UN narcotic drug control programmes. From 1992 to 1993 she was the Secretary-General's Special Representative to Angola and head of the UN peacekeeping mission there (UNAVEM II: the UN Angola Verification Mission). Since leaving the UN in July 1993, Dame Margaret has worked ad honorem as an independent consultant and lecturer on issues relating to the United Nations, and, until 2006, as a special adviser to the president and government of Bolivia on development and international finance.

Her book ‘Orphan of the Cold War: the Inside Story of the Collapse of the Angolan Peace Process 1992-3’ was published in October 1996. Her autobiography, ‘Never Learn to Type: A Woman at the United Nations’, was published in 2003. Her latest book, ‘The House on the Sacred Lake’, was published last year and charts her personal journey, building a home and living in an Andean community on the shores of Lake Titicaca, while at the same time advising successive Bolivian governments. Dame Margaret was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and at London University.

ZEINAB BADAWI
Presenter of BBC World News Today specialising in international affairs

Zeinab Badawi is the presenter of World News Today, an hour-long BBC news programme providing analysis of international affairs and exploring the issue behind the headlines. Zeinab has worked in British broadcasting for two decades, covering British politics as well and reporting from Europe, Asia and Africa.
After a stint of live reporting on British politics from the BBC's Westminster studios, Zeinab joined BBC World News where she has become a regular face, presiding over debates on major issues and providing analysis on news from around the globe. As well as being a presenter of HARDtalk, interviewing personalities such as the Dalai Lama and US General Tommy Franks, Zeinab has worked in radio, regularly presenting The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 and Newshour on BBC World Service. From 2010, she has also presented on the BBC News Channel.

An Oxford graduate in politics and economics with a postgraduate degree in Middle Eastern affairs from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London). She was named ‘International TV personality of the year’ in November 2009 at the international media excellence awards organised by the Association for International Broadcasting.

DAVID BULL,
Executive Director of UNICEF UK

David Bull joined the United Nations Children’s Fund as Executive Director of the UK Committee in September 1999. Since then, UNICEF UK has positioned itself as an advocate for the world’s children through a series of campaigns focusing on maternal health, poverty, conflict, exploitation and HIV/AIDS. David is also currently Vice-Chair of the Standing Group of UNICEF National Committees.

Mr Bull was previously Director of Amnesty International’s UK Section (1990-1999). From 1987-1990 he was General Secretary of the World University Service (UK) and prior to that he was Executive Director of the Environment Liaison Centre in Kenya (1984-87) and Public Affairs Officer at Oxfam (1979-1984). He was a founder of the Pesticides Action Network (PAN) and he is the author of ‘A Growing Problem: Pesticides and Third World Poor’ (1982) and ‘Kampuchea: the Poverty of Diplomacy. He has been a Trustee of PAN UK and of the Refugee Council, and is an observer member of the FTSE4Good Policy Committee. He has a degree in Economics from the University of Sussex and an MSc in Development Studies and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Bath.

KATHRYN COLVIN
Mmember of the UNIFEM UK National Committee

Kathryn Colvin has been a member of the UNIFEM UK National Committee since 2008 and a member of the London Committee since 2007. She has long experience of diplomacy following a carreer in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and her last post was as British Ambassador to the Holy See (Vatican). During her career she served for 11 years on the British delgation to the annual UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. She currently works in the House of Lords, organising the work of the European Union Sub-Committee which deals with foreign affairs, defence and development.

HUGH ELLIOTT
International Government Relations Manager, Anglo American plc

Hugh Elliott is International Government Relations Manager at Anglo American plc, one of the world’s largest diversified mining companies. He is responsible across the company for government relations policy and practice and political risk management. Prior to joining Anglo, he worked for 17 years in the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In a wide range of posts, he held responsibilities for issues as diverse as counter-terrorism/counter-narcotics and conservation/climate change. A specialist in European Union issues and the Hispanic world, he served overseas at the British Embassies in Madrid, Buenos Aires and Paris.

He graduated in Modern and Medieval Languages from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is married to Toni Martín-Elena; they have two children – a son and a daughter. Hugh is also currently Chairman of Canning House, the UK’s Centre for Latin America and Iberia.

CHARLOTTE GAGE
Policy Officer, Women’s Resource Centre

Charlotte has worked within the Policy Team at the Women’s Resource Centre since 2008, with a particular focus on the 'Why Women?' campaign and implementing the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the UK, in addition to other research and policy work. Prior to this she worked at the campaigning organisation Abortion Rights and various other voluntary and community sector organisations.

Charlotte studied Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. She is also a Trustee for The WISH Centre in Harrow.

ISABELLA HAYWARD,
UNYSA Youth Council President

Isabella is the President of the UN Youth & Students Association (UNYSA) - the youth wing of UNA-UK - a position to which she was elected in March 2010. She is currently studying International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE). Isabella has been involved with the LSE UNYSA branch since her first year at LSE, managing the events team, spearheading campus campaigning and fundraising, and helping to organise the LSE delegation to the UNFCCC COP15. She has also forged links between LSE UNYSA and the World Food Programme through the WFP Student Ambassador Scheme.

Before moving to London, she spent two years on the board of the European Youth Parliament in Sweden, an NGO facilitating intercultural dialogue among students in more than 35 countries.

STEVE KENZIE
Senior Programme Manager at the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), and manages the Secretariat of the UN Global Compact

As part of his responsibilities as a Senior Programme Manager at the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), Stephen has managed the Secretariat of the UN Global Compact UK Network since 2008. Stephen joined the International Business Leaders Forum in May 2006 and is a key member of the Programmes team where he leads IBLF’s work on climate change, food security and water issues.

Stephen has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia and an MSc from Imperial College London in Environmental Technology.

DEBORAH LEARY, OBE
Founder and CEO of Forensic Pathways Limited (FPL)

Deborah Leary, OBE is Founder and CEO of Forensic Pathways Limited (FPL). In addition to her role as CEO of Forensic Pathways, Deborah is Deputy Director of the United Nations UK Global Compact Network, National President of the British Association of Women Entrepreneurs, and Chair of the Midlands World Trade Forum, a network supporting businesses involved in international trade.

In recognition for her commitment to entrepreneurship Deborah was awarded an O.B.E. in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2008. Other awards have included the Joyce Award for Commitment to the British Association of Women Entrepreneurs, FCEM International Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2007/8, European Woman of Achievement 2006 and British Female Inventor of the Year 2005. In 2009 Deborah was voted one of Britain’s Top Most Entrepreneurial Women by Real Business Magazine.

KISHORE MAHBUBANI
Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and former President of the UN Security Council when serving as Singapore's ambassador to the UN

Kishore Mahbubani is currently Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) of the National University of Singapore. With the Singapore Foreign Service from 1971 to 2004, he had postings in Cambodia (where he served during the war in 1973-74), Malaysia, Washington DC and New York, where he served two stints as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations and as President of the UN Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002. He was Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998. He served for 33 years as a diplomat for Singapore and was conferred The Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singapore Government in 1998.

Professor Mahbubani was awarded the President’s Scholarship in 1967 and graduated with a first-class honours degree in Philosophy from the University of Singapore in 1971. From Dalhousie University, Canada, he received a Masters degree in Philosophy in 1976 and an honorary doctorate in 1995. He spent a year as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1991 to 1992. He was also given the 2003–2004 Dr Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts University. Mahbubani is the author of numerous books and articles on world affairs and his new book entitled ‘The New Asian Hemisphere: the irresistible shift of global power to the East’ was published in New York in February 2008. He was also listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines in September 2005 and was also included in the March 2009 Financial Times list of Top 50 individuals (including Obama, Wen Jiabao and Sarkozy) who would shape the debate on the future of capitalism.

SANDRA MACLEOD, Chief Executive, Echo Research Limited
Chief Executive of Echo Research Limited and Board Member of Echo Research Inc, Sandra Macleod has more than 25 years’ experience in communications and reputation analysis and evaluation. Her international career has spanned Canada, France and the UK, while working at PA Management Consultants. Considered to be among the 100 most influential practitioners by PR Week, Ms Macleod is an author and lecturer across five continents and has contributed to books on professional accountability and corporate social responsibility.

She is the first international Trustee of the Institute for Public Relations in the USA, a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Management, and on the Board of the Finance and Performance Review Committee of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF).

EDWARD MORTIMER
Senior Vice-President of the Salzburg Global Seminar and former Chief Speechwriter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Edward Mortimer is Senior Vice-President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. He started out his career as a journalist, first with The Times of London, where he worked first as assistant Paris correspondent, then, from 1973, as foreign specialist and leader-writer on Middle Eastern and Mediterranean affairs. In 1987 he joined the Financial Times, where he was the he was the main commentator and columnist on foreign affairs until he joined the UN in 1998. Mortimer has worked in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations since 1998, as head of the Speechwriting Unit and from 2001 until 2007 served as the Director of Communications.

Mr Mortimer has also served as a fellow and/or faculty at several institutions, including Oxford University (where he was a Fellow of All Souls College), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Mr Mortimer received an M.A. in modern history from Oxford University. He is the author of several books which include ‘People, Nation, State: The Meaning of Ethnicity and Nationalism’ (co-edited with R. Fine 1999), ‘The World that FDR Built’ (1989), ‘Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam’ (1982).

 

Mary Morrison is the Director of Professional Development and Global Classrooms London Model UN Coordinator at Mulberry School for Girls in Tower Hamlets, London. In 2009, she acted as a consultant to UNESCO Associated Schools UK and UNA-UK in the production of 'The United Nations Matters', a free resource for teachers educating students about the work of the UN. Mary also works as the Citizenship Consultant, training participants for the Teach First programme, a charity addressing educational disadvantage in the UK.

Mary has been teaching Citizenship in inner London schools for the last six years. Her work focuses on training teachers across London and the UK about the UN, and educating students about how the UN tackles global issues. She has coordinated ten Model UN conferences with over 3000 students through the Global Classrooms London programme.

PROFESSOR SIR NIGEL RODLEY KBE
Chair of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Professor Sir Nigel Rodley KBE is currently Chair of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He started as an Assistant Professor of Law at Dalhousie University, Canada. In 1973, he became the first Legal Adviser of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, where he remained until 1990. In 1990, he was appointed as Reader in Law at the University of Essex and Professor of Law in 1994. From 1993 to 2001 he served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. Since 2001 he has been a Member of the UN Human Rights Committee, established under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Vice Chair 2003-2004). He is also currently a Commissioner to the International Commission of Jurists.

Sir Nigel obtained an LLB from the University of Leeds in 1963, an LLM from Columbia University in 1965, an LLM from New York University in 1970 and a PhD from the University of Essex in 1992. In 1998 he was knighted in the Queen's New Year's Honours list for services to Human Rights and International Law and joint recipient of the American Society of International Law's 2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal for distinguished work in human rights. He is also a prolific author and his most recent publication is ‘The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law’ (3rd ed 2009, Oxford)

ROLAND SCHILLING
UNHCR Representative in London

Roland Schilling took up his post as UNHCR Representative in London in July 2009. Prior to this he worked in Ankara as the Refugee Agency’s Deputy Representative, where he oversaw refugee protection activities and supported the Turkish Government in establishing a national asylum system. Roland began his work with UNHCR in Hong Kong (1990-1991) and has since held posts in the Republic of Yemen as a Protection Officer in Sana'a (1995-1997), in Moldova, where he opened the office in Chisinau (1997-1998) and in Sri Lanka (2002-2005). From 1991-1995 he served as Liaison Officer with the then-Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees in Nuremberg.

A Dutch national, Roland Schilling was born 1961 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany and educated at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin. He holds an advanced degree in Political Science.

PETER SCOTT-BOWDEN
UN World Food Programme (WFP)

Peter Scott-Bowden joined the United Nations World Food Programme in 1993 as head of the WFP Sarajevo office in Bosnia Herzegovina. Since then, Peter has worked in operations in Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan, Liberia and Indonesia. From 1999 – 2003, Peter served as Head of WFP’s Augmented Logistics Intervention Team for Emergencies (ALITE) supporting logistics services for both WFP and humanitarian partners. In 2003, he assumed the role of Emergency Preparedness & Response Advisor for Asia, leading contingency planning, civil-military engagement and emergency management support. Following the 2004 tsunami, Peter served as WFP’s Emergency Coordinator for relief operations in the Indonesia. Following a secondment to the UN System Influenza Coordination Office (UNSIC) in 2006, Peter took up his current role as WFP’s global Pandemic Preparedness & Response Coordinator.

Prior to joining WFP, Peter severed as an UN Election Coordinator in Angola in 1992 and subsequently served as Special Assistant to the Special Representative for the Secretary-General to Angola. In 1990, he worked with Solidarites Afghanistan on irrigation projects. Peter was commissioned in 1984 by Royal Military College in Sandhurst, UK into the Brigade of Gurkhas, serving in the UK, Hong Kong and the south Atlantic. Peter earned an MSc in Political Science from Bristol University.

JANOS TISOVSZKY
Deputy Director of the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) in Brussels

Janos Tisovszky has been working with the United Nations since October 1990. He currently holds the post of Deputy Director of the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) in Brussels. Prior to taking up that post he has worked in the Peace and Security Section of the Department of Public Information (DPI) where his primary duties focused on the United Nations counter-terrorism efforts. He has also served as the acting Director of the UN Information Centre in Islamabad in the summer of 2009. His previous tasks also included serving as the Spokesman for the President of the 62nd Session of the General Assembly between September 2007 and September 2008. Prior to joining the New York office of DPI in 2005, he worked at the Vienna offices of the United Nations. Before joining the United Nations, he was an editor and columnist with the foreign affairs section of the Hungarian daily, Magyar Nemzet (1987-1990) and before that he worked as a reporter and associate editor with the English language section of the Hungarian radio (1984-1987). During his career with the United Nations, Janos Tisovszky has lectured extensively for both the general public and academic on UN-related issues, most often on peace and security topics.

He published a book on ‘The United Nations and Peacekeeping’ with the Hungarian UN Association in 1997. He is also the writer of ‘Reforming the United Nations’ , a study-paper published by the Hungarian Atlantic Council in 1997. He has served as an adjunct professor at Webster University Vienna and taught a course on International Law in 2001. He holds a university doctorate in international relations from the Budapest University of Economics; an MA in economics also from the Budapest University of Economics; and a post-graduate diploma from the Hungarian National School of Journalism.

DR ABIODUN WILLIAMS
Vice-President of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the United States Institute of Peace, and former director of strategic planning in the Office of the UN Secretary-General.

Abiodun Williams is Vice-President of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. Previously, he served as Associate Dean of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. Williams began his career as an academic and taught international relations at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, University of Rochester, and Tufts University. In 1990, he was the recipient of a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs. From 1994 to 2000 he held political and humanitarian affairs positions in United Nations peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, and Macedonia. From 2001 to 2007, he served as Director of Strategic Planning in the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, advising both Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon on a full range of strategic issues including UN reform, conflict prevention, peacebuilding and international migration. He also managed relations with the UN’s international research and training institutes.

Williams has served on the boards of the Academic Council on the UN System, the United World Colleges, Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Jesuit International Volunteers, and QSI International School of Skopje. He holds an MA (Hons) from Edinburgh University, and M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He has published widely on conflict prevention, international peacekeeping, and multilateral negotiations.

MS ELIZABETH WILMSHURST, CMG, Associate Fellow,t Chatham House

Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG is Associate Fellow of International Law at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) and a visiting professor at University College, London University. Ms Wilmshurst was a legal adviser in the United Kingdom diplomatic service between 1974 and 2003. During this time she was the Legal Adviser to the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York (1994 and 1997), and subsequently Deputy Legal Advisor at the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Her work included participation in the negotiations for the establishment of the International Criminal Court.

Ms Wilmshurst has extensive experience in public international law, with a particular emphasis on the use of force, international criminal law, the law of the United Nations and its organs, consular and diplomatic law, state and sovereign immunity, international humanitarian law. She is a co-author of ‘An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure’ (Cambridge, 2007).

SIR NICHOLAS YOUNG
Chief Executive of the British Red Cross

Sir Nicholas is Chief Executive of the British Red Cross, the country’s leading voluntary crisis response organisation, and part of the worldwide Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. Prior to re-joining the Red Cross in 2001, Nick was Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Relief. Before that he was Director of UK Operations at the British Red Cross, following 5 years with the Sue Ryder Foundation setting up new Sue Ryder Homes. He started his career as a commercial solicitor in the City and then as a partner in a firm in East Anglia. He was educated at Wimbledon College Grammar School and at Birmingham University.

Sir Nicholas is also a Trustee of the Disasters Emergency Committee, and of the Monte San Martino Trust; and a past or current member of various government and voluntary sector working groups and task forces. He was knighted in the year 2000 for services to cancer care and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2007.