Speakers

Explore the leading voices for our sessions below.

Andrew Gilmour

Executive Director, Berghof Foundation

Alar Karis

President of the Republic of Estonia

Hiba Qasas

Executive Director, Principles for Peace Foundation

Christoph Heusgen

Chairman, Munich Security Conference

Susanne Baumann

State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office

Henry Huiyao Wang

Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization

Annette Weber

EU Special Representative for the Horn of Africa, European Union

Miriam Coronel Ferrer

Co-Founder, Southeast Asian Women Peace Mediators

Hikmet Abdella

Eldridge Adolfo

Senior Dialogue & Mediation Adviser, Folke Bernadotte Academy

Barney Afako

Commissioner, UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan & former UN DPPA Senior Mediation Adviser

Fatima Al Ansar

Director, Tilwate Peace Network

Khadeeja Resen Al Jaberi

Freelance Expert in Agribusiness & Climate Change

Ebtesam Al Ketbi

President, Emirates Policy Center

Shaikh Humaid Al-maani

Ambassador, Foreign Ministry of Sultanate of Oman

Martin Albani

Head of Mediation and Dialogue Sector, European External Action Service, European Union

Shaheen AlSharif

Executive Director, Youth In Action - Sudan

Günther Baechler

Ambassador (rtd) Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Chernor A. Bah

Minister, Ministry of Information and Civic Education, Republic of Sierra Leone

Peter Batchelor

Director Partnerships and Advocacy, Principles for Peace Foundation

Tilman Brück

Founder and Director of ISDC International Security and Development Center

Rana Dajani

Founder of We Love Reading, Richard Von Weizsacker Fellow at Robert Bosch Academy

Anna Derinova-Hartmann

Corporate Citizenship, Amazon

Bineta Diop

Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Women, Peace and Security

Florian Dunkel

Director, CRISP

Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri

High Signatory of the Colombian 2016 Agreement, President of Comunes Party

Basir Feda

Head of Unit Afghanistan, Head of Unit Central/South Asia, Berghof Foundation

Neil Ferguson

Peacebuilding Program Director, ISDC International Security and Development Center

Eamon Gilmore

Former EU Special Representative for Human Rights

Eduardo González Cueva

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali, UN Human Rights Council

Hans Grundberg

UN Special Envoy for Yemen, United Nations

Abdalla Hamdok

Executive Chairperson, The Center for Africa's Development and Investment & former Prime Minister of Sudan

Nafees Hamid

Research & Policy Director, King's College London

Lasana Harris

Professor of Social Neuroscience, University College London (UCL)

Nicholas Haysom

Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan

Outi Holopainen

Under-Secretary of State (Foreign and Security Policy), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland

Hilde Frafjord Johnson

Senior Advisor, European Institute for Peace and Former Norwegian Minister of International Development

Najat Jumaan

Board Member, Jumaan Trading & Investment Co.

Itonde Kakoma

President, Interpeace

Michael Keating

Executive Director, European Institute of Peace

Martin Kobler

Ambassador (rtd)

Roman Koller

Research Associate, Fraunhofer Institute

Tetiana Kyselova

Advisor, Ukrainian Community of Dialogue Practitioners

Kateryna Levchenko

Government Commissioner for Gender Equality Policy, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Xiaoyu Lu

Professor in International Relations, Peking University

Janina Lukas

Head of Ethics & Social Impact, Bayer AG

Mirko Manzoni

Ambassador of Switzerland to South Africa and regional countries, Former UN Under Secretary General and Personal Envoy for Mozambique

Kees Matthijssen

Lieutenant-General (ret.), Former Force Commander United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali

Monica McWilliams

Professor, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University

Nickolay E Mladenov

Director General, Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy

Mark Muller KC

Founder, Beyond Borders Scotland

Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE

Founder/CEO, International Civil Society Action Network; Richard von Weizsacker Fellow

Michael Niconchuk

Program Manager, Wend Collective

Esther Njomo Omam

Executive Director, Reach Out Cameroon

Dag Nylander

Director, NOREF Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution

Nathalie Olijslager

Director Stabilisation and Humanitarian Assistance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Katia Papagianni

Director of Mediation Support and Policy, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Gareth Penny

Chairman, Ninety-One Plc.

Meredith Preston McGhie

Secretary General, Global Centre for Pluralism

Elisabeth Prügl

Professor of International Relations, the Geneva Graduate Institute

María Paulina Riveros

Partner, Riveros Bazzani Abogados

Mohamed Nabil Hayel Saeed Anam

Senior Strategic Adviser to the Managing Director, HSA Group

Neha Sanghrajka

Senior Conflict Sensitivity Advisor - UNOPS, Fellow and Senior Advisor at the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP).

Helga Maria Schmid

Helga Maria Schmid, OSCE Secretary General

Axel T. Schulte

Department Head, Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Research

Hanna Tetteh

UN Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, United Nations

El Ghassim Wane

Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MINUSMA

Teresa Whitifeld

Issue editor (Accord), Conciliation Resources

Mazen Aman

Senior Advisor to Managing Director, HSA Group

Moderators

Beatrix Austin

Head of Department Conflict Transformation Research, Berghof Foundation

Linn Bieske

MIT Leaders for Global Operations Fellow, MIT / Frontline Associates

Claude Bruderlein

Faculty Instructor, Harvard School of Public Health

Chris Coulter

Deputy Executive Director, Berghof Foundation

Annette Dittert

Senior Correspondent ARD London

Véronique Dudouet

Senior Advisor, Berghof Foundation

Annika Erickson-Pearson

Professional Facilitator, Independent

Jeffrey Feltman

Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow at the UN Foundation, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs

Janel B. Galvanek

Head of Department Regional Peace Support, Berghof Foundation

Tatiana Orozco García

Researcher, International Security and Development Center (ISDC)

Vasu Gounden

Executive Director, African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)

Charlotte Hamm

Researcher & Project Manager, Berghof Foundation

Jason Miklian

Senior Researcher, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo

Sonja Neuweiler

Senior Advisor Middle East and North Africa Unit, Berghof Foundation

Femi Oke

Journalist & Co-founder, Moderate The Panel

Tim Phillips

Founder and CEO, Beyond Conflict

Thomas Ritzer

Senior Advisor Climate and Peace, Berghof Foundation

Joshua Rogers

Senior Project Manager, Advisor Yemen Unit, Berghof Foundation

Carla Schraml

Advisor Mediation & Negotiation Support, Berghof Foundation

Graeme Simpson

Principal Representative (NY) & Senior Peacebuilding Advisor, Interpeace; Adjunct Lecturer in Law, Columbia University School of Law.

Luxshi Vimalarajah

Senior Mediation Advisor, Berghof Foundation

Anja Wehler-Schöck

International Editor, Tagesspiegel

Oliver Wils

Head of Department, Regional Peace Support MENA & Yemen, Berghof Foundation

Natascha Zupan

Head of the Global Learning Hub for Transitional Justice and Reconciliation, Berghof Foundation