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International Conference on
Social Protection in contexts of
Fragility &
Forced Displacement Brussels
28-29 September, 2017
Speakers’ Biographies
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FRANCESCA BASTAGLI
Francesca Bastagli is Head of the Social Protection and Social Policy
Programme at ODI. She specialises in research and advisory work on the
design, implementation and evaluation of social policy, with a focus on social
protection policies and their poverty, inequality and employment outcomes.
Her most recent research is on the distributional impact of taxes and
transfers, targeting and conditionality in cash transfers, the employment
trajectories and wages of women with children. She has extensive experience
in the monitoring and evaluation of social assistance programmes and on
social protection system development, including in the context of crises and
shocks. She holds a PhD and MSc in Social Policy from the London School of
Economics and a Laurea in Economics from Bocconi University.
SHEREE BENNETT
Sheree Bennett currently serves as a Technical Advisor within the Research,
Evaluation and Learning Unit at the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
She is a part of the Evidence to Action team and leads the organization’s
strategy for increasing the use of evidence in programmatic and policy
decisions within the organization and the broader humanitarian sector. She
also supports the IRC’s Client Voice and Choice Initiative, which seeks to
improve the organization’s responsiveness to the preferences, needs,
desires and expectations of the populations the IRC serves. In her previous
role at the IRC, she worked with academic experts to design and manage
impact evaluations for governance programs in countries such as the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and Zimbabwe. Ms. Bennet’s
background is in comparative politics, empirical methods and social psychology. She holds degrees from Yale
University.
SANDIE BLANCHET
Ms Sandie Blanchet was appointed as Director of the UNICEF Office for
Partnership with the EU, in Brussels, in July 2017. Ms. Blanchet comes with
23 years of experience with UNICEF and other UN agencies. In her previous
position, as the UNICEF Representative in Romania, she led the
implementation of the partnership agreement with authorities to accelerate
the universal realization of child rights in the country between 2012 and
2017. From 20008 to 2012, she worked as Deputy Representative in UNICEF
Moldova, focusing on education and child protection reforms for the most
vulnerable children. Earlier, she was the Knowledge and Communication
Manager in UNICEF Supply Division in Copenhagen, where she improved
communication and knowledge management on the procurement of
essential supplies for children inside and outside the Organization. Between
1996 and 2002, Ms. Blanchet contributed to UNICEF's advocacy on child rights and partnerships with the media
first in Vietnam, and then in India. She graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Aix-en-Provence), and
has a MA in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies.
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JOANNE BOSWORTH
Dr. Joanne Bosworth is UNICEF’s Regional Advisor on Social Policy for
Europe and Central Asia, covering 21 countries with a focus on child
poverty, social protection and public financial management for
children. She has over twenty years’ experience working on poverty,
economic and social rights in diverse contexts in Europe and Africa,
including support to the development of social protection for children
in Kenya and Uganda. She has wide experience in research, evaluation,
policy engagement and programme management in the field of social
policy and social protection including social development in the context
of decentralization. She has contributed to numerous publications on
social protection and child poverty, including the “Social Monitor 2015:
Social protection for Child Rights and Wellbeing in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia”
and “From Evidence to Action: The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub Saharan Africa”.
TILMAN BRÜCK
Professor Tilman Brück is the Founder and Director of ISDC - International
Security and Research Center in Berlin and Team Leader of Development
Economics at IGZ – Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops,
Germany. He is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the „Households
in Conflict Network” (HiCN). Professor Brück's research interests focus on
the economics of household behaviour and well-being in conflict-affected
and fragile economies, including the measurement of violence and conflict
in household surveys and the impact evaluation of peace-building programs
in conflict-affected areas and of humanitarian assistance. He was previously
Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and
Professor of Development Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in
economics from the University of Oxford.
DOMINIQUE BURGEON
Dominique Burgeon, a national of Belgium, holds an M.Sc. Diploma in
Agricultural Engineering from the State University of Gembloux, Belgium
and a post-graduate degree in International Relations and European
Integration from the State University of Liège, Faculty of Law, Belgium. He
has over 20 years of professional experience with FAO in various functions
in the field and in headquarters. In July 2011, he was appointed as
FAO Representative in Bangladesh, overseeing one of the largest country
programmes of the Organization putting in practice the concepts of
disaster risk management for food and nutrition security. In November
2012, he was appointed Director of FAO’s Emergency and Rehabilitation
Division. Mr Burgeon also leads the FAO Corporate work on Increasing the
resilience of agriculture-based livelihoods to threats and crises.
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JONATHAN CAMPBELL
Jonathan is the WFP Deputy Country Director in Turkey where he oversees
the operations assisting Syrian and other refugees. He supervises the
programme and monitoring units as well as the area offices ensuring WFP
coverage across Turkey.
A long-term WFP staff member, Jonathan has worked predominantly in
emergencies, serving with WFP in various positions before coming to
Turkey including as Emergency Coordinator for the Syrian response in
Jordan, regional emergencies office for the MENA region during the Arab
Spring and head of programme for the tsunami response in Sri Lanka.
Before WFP, Jonathan worked for NGOs in DR Congo and Kosovo.
TED CHAIBAN
Ted Chaiban was appointed as Director of Programmes for UNICEF in August
2014. Working for UNICEF, he has been Director of Emergency Programmes,
Representative in Ethiopia, Sudan and Sri Lanka, Regional Emergency
Advisor for the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office and Deputy
Chief of Operations for the Operation Lifeline Sudan consortium based in
Nairobi. Prior to joining UNICEF, Mr. Chaiban was Country Representative
for Catholic Relief Services in Haiti, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan. He also
worked as a Programme Manager focusing on food security and child
survival. Mr. Chaiban is a national of both the United States of America and
Lebanon. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and Political Science from Tufts University and a
Master of Arts Degree in Development and Arab Studies from Georgetown University, USA.
JOSEPH CHEGE
Mr. Joseph Chege is a food security specialist with USAID East Africa mission.
He possesses extensive experience in the formulation and implementation
of emergency food security programmes. He has 7 years’ experience in cash
transfer programmes in fragile context having previously worked in different
capacities for International NGOs implementing food security programmes
in Somalia. In the last one year, Joseph has been instrumental in the design
and implementation of large scale cash transfer programme funded by
USAID FFP to prevent famine in Somalia. He holds a Master’s degree in
Project management from University of Nairobi and Bachelor degree in food
and nutrition from Egerton University. He is a certified monitoring and evaluation professional.
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OLEKSANDRA CHURKINA
Deputy Minister for European Integration, Ministry of Social Policy of
Ukraine (since September 2017). Responsible for child protection, social
services and international relations portfolio. Social policy officer, UNICEF
Ukraine (2014 - 2017). Responsible for child poverty, social protection and
public finance for children programmes. Head of Financial Policy
Department, Institute for Budgetary and Socio-Economic Research (2011-
2014). Lead the design and implementation of result based budgeting at
sub-national level. Lead Economist, Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, World
Bank Projects’ Coordination Section (2008-2011). Member of the National
Inter-Ministerial Commission on Child’s rights (since 2014). Author of more than 50 publications.
SARAH COOK
Sarah Cook is currently the Director of UNICEF’s Office of Research-
Innocenti and was formerly Director of the United Nations’ Research
Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) from 2009-2015. Formerly a
Fellow at IDS, Sussex, she had undertaken extensive research on social and
economic transformations in China, on social protection, labour markets
and gender. Publications include Social protection as development policy -
Asian perspectives (edited with Naila Kabeer, 2010); ‘Harsh Choices: Chinese
Women’s Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic
Reform’ (with Xiao-yuan Dong) in Development and Change (2012) and
recent papers on social policy in China’s response to crisis.
KENN CROSSLEY
Kenn Crossley is currently Deputy Director of Policy and Programme
Division. Responsible for Cash based Transfer, Social Protection and Safety
Nets and Climate Risk management. He has also held posts for WFP as Chief of
Hunger Solutions, Deputy Country Director in Cambodia, and Deputy Director
of US Government Relations. Previous program experience includes filed
assignments with WFP, UNICEF, and the Canadian International Development
Agency in southern Africa, Kenya, and pre-independence south Sudan. A
Canadian national, Mr. Crossley holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy from the
University of British Columbia.
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JEAN-LOUIS DE BROUWER
Jean-Louis De Brouwer, a Belgian, is Director for Europe, Eastern
Neighbourhood and Middle East as of July 2016, in the European
Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and
Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). He joined ECHO in November 2012
as Director of Operations for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, having
previously been Director in charge of the coordination of employment
politics in the Commission's department for Employment and Social Affairs.
Prior to that, he spent 18 years in the Justice and Home Affairs department,
specialising in migration and asylum questions, latterly as Director in charge
of border and visa issues. Before joining the European Commission, Mr De
Brouwer worked in the Belgian civil service (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs). Mr De
Brouwer has Masters Degrees in Law and Sociology from the Catholic University in Louvain, where he also did
his undergraduate degree in Political Sciences. He is a lecturer in International Relations and EU Affairs at the
same university. Born in 1954, he is married with four children.
MASSIMO DE LA ROSA
Massimo has more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of
development cooperation and humanitarian aid working for international
institutions such as the European Commission, the United Nations and for
civil society organizations posted in Africa, in Asia and in the Balkans. Over
the extensive time in developing countries, he contributed in developing
tools to promote innovative approaches to enhance the strategic dialogue
between humanitarian and development stakeholders to deal differently
with recurrent and protracted crisis in fragile and conflict affected contexts.
His technical expertise in food security, livelihoods and social protection
have been conducive to hold the current position with the EU as ECHO
global thematic coordinator for Forced Displacement and Migration. He
holds a university degree in political science and international relations
(Milan, Italy) and a post-graduate degree in socio-economic changes in rural contexts (Imperial College,
London. UK).
STEFAN DERCON
Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of
Government and the Economics Department, a Fellow of Jesus College, and
Director of the Oxford Centre for the Study of African Economics. Since
2011 he has been Chief Economist of the Department of International
Development (DFID), the UK’s government department in charge of aid
policy and spending. Stefan holds the post of DFID’s Chief Economist while
teaching and researching at Oxford. His current research focuses on the
political economy of development, the challenge of economic
transformation and industrialization in Africa, and links between
psychology and poverty.
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UGO GENTILINI
Ugo Gentilini is a Senior Economist with the Social Protection and Jobs Global
Practice at the World Bank. His interests encompass the analytics and
practice of social protection, including as they relate to fragility and
resilience, urbanization, food security and nutrition, activation and labor
markets, political economy of redistribution, universal basic income, human
development, and the nexus between safety nets and humanitarian
assistance. Before joining the World Bank in 2013, he spent over a decade
with the United Nations World Food Programme, working on policy,
implementation, and evaluation of cash- and food-based social assistance.
He holds a PhD in development economics and has dozens of publications in
books, academic journals, working paper series, and the blogosphere.
RIC GOODMAN
Ric Goodman is DAI Europe Director for Resilience. His focus is on shock-
responsive social protection solutions to extreme vulnerability, often in
hard to reach areas. Since 2014 he has been Team Leader for the DAI-
managed Hunger Safety Net Programme in Kenya. Previously Ric also lead
design and implementation of the “graduation” approach of the Chars
Livelihoods Programme in Bangladesh for 5 years, which provided cash,
assets and income generating skills directly to vulnerable families,
combined with social and technical support, supporting basic needs and
increased economic activity. He has acted in a variety of project management and technical advisory roles,
including with EU ASiST in Somalia and Sudan, and ECHO, DFID and Australian DFAT worldwide.
CAMILLA HAGSTRÖM
With an educational background in political science and international
relations, Camilla Hagström joined the European Commission in 1995, where
she has always worked in the field of external relations. With a career focused
on good governance and justice and home affairs issues, she is particularly
experienced in the area of external cooperation on migration and asylum.
After four years as deputy Head of Development cooperation in the EU
Delegation to the Philippines, in 2012 she was appointed Head of Section for
Migration and Asylum in DG DEVCO. Since 2017 she is the deputy Head of Unit
of DEVCO.B3; Migration, Employment.
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JUERGEN HOHMANN
Juergen Hohmann is working as social protection expert in unit B3
(Migration, Employment; Inequalities) of DG DEVCO. As part of his
assignment at the Commission, he initiates, contributes to and manages
various actions in the area social protection, often across DGs and in close
collaboration with EU MS and international organizations. He represents the
European Commission in SPIAC-B, the global coordination mechanism on
social protection. He has a track-record in experience of social protection
and health systems in the EU, Asia and Africa, where prior to his work for
the Commission he has performed many advisory missions on macro-
economics, system design and financing and on the curricula development
of short and long-term academic trainings in social protection, including social assistance, health, pension and
long-term care.
GÖRAN HOLMQVIST
Göran Holmqvist is, since August 2017, director of the Department of Asia,
Middle East and Humanitarian Assistance at the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). He has previously held various
management positions at Sida. During 2012-17 he was associate director at
UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, which is known for its research on
impact evaluations of cash transfers. Göran Holmqvist has an academic
background as an economist with a PhD in peace and development studies.
INGRID-GABRIELA HOVEN
Ms Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Director-General, has been working at the BMZ in
various positions since 1986, i.a. as Special Envoy for Climate and
Development in the run-up to the climate conference in Paris. From 2010 to
2104, Ms Hoven served as Executive Director to the World Bank Group,
representing Germany. Ms. Hoven was a member of the board of GAVI, the
Vaccine Alliance. She served as a Co-chair of the Global Facility for Disaster
Reduction and Recovery and was a board member of the Green Climate Fund
and the Global Environment Facility. Ms. Hoven studied economics and
political science at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and University Paris
IX/Dauphine and is alumni of the postgraduate studies at the German
Development Institute (GDI).
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MARJETA JAGER
Marjeta JAGER is currently Deputy Director General for the Directorate-General
for International cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO). Ms JAGER has
been working in the European Commission since 2005, starting as Director for
Security in DG Energy and Transport and later being Director for international
energy and transport files and coordination, as well as being Head of Cabinet of
the Transport Commissioner. Before joining the Commission Ms JAGER was
more than a decade working on the accession of Slovenia to the EU for the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and she was the first Coreper I Ambassador of
Slovenia to the EU.
SHERAZ AHMAD KHAN
Dr. Sheraz earned his graduate degree in clinical medicine and Master’s
degree in Public Health. Conducted thesis on comparative analysis of
different Social Health Protection Initiatives in Pakistan and evaluated their
conformity with the concept of Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable
Development Goals. Joined Social Health Protection Initiative after
conducting thorough research on the same. Started current job in lines with
ambition to make healthcare affordable and equitable in Pakistan. From
Sept 2013 to Sept 2015, worked as focal person for social protection
initiatives under direct supervision of Minister for Social Welfare, special
education & Women Empowerment. Coordinated social assistance activities
on behalf of Minster Social welfare for facilitating the exodus of internally
displaced people (IDPs) in 2014 in aftermath of Army’s decisive action against terrorists in North Waziristan
Agency. Led a delegation of KP government officials to Japan for a short course. This course was titled "Capacity
Development of Government Officers on Social inclusion of Persons with Disabilities". Upon the lessons learnt
in this course, policy suggestions were made to Govt of KP, leading to various institutional reforms for social
protection of persons with disabilities. Was part of another Govt delegation to Germany, with focus on
“Protection of women against all forms of discrimination”. Subsequent to inputs from this delegation, various
measures were put in place at KP, in order to protect the vulnerable women of the province.
CAMILLA KNOX-PEEBLES
As Deputy Humanitarian Director, Camilla oversees Oxfam’s Global
Humanitarian Team's work on Local Humanitarian Leadership, Capacity
Building, WASH and support to Oxfam’s emergency programmes in the
Horn, East and Central Africa and Asia. In her previous role, as Head of
Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods, Camilla oversaw Oxfam’s work
on cash transfer programming and social protection programmes. She
also contributed to numerous articles on food security issues and to the
development of improved toolkits including WFP's Emergency Food
Security Assessment (EFSA) and the Emergency Market and Mapping and
Analysis (EMMA). She is also the author of WFP's handbook for NGOs
on ‘How to work with WFP’ (2005). Camilla has 20+ years experience of leading assessments, evaluations and
running programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America and worked previously as a consultant to WFP, FAO,
DfID and other International NGOs such as Save the Children UK. Camilla holds a BA in Social Anthropology
with Indonesian Studies from SOAS, London University and an MSC in International Health from Queen
Margaret University, Edinburgh.
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CHARLES KNOX-VYDMANOV
Charles Knox-Vydmanov is the Global Adviser on Social Protection at
HelpAge International. His work involves direct technical support and
training to government, and supporting HelpAge offices and network
members to advocate for better pension policy. His ten years at HelpAge
have included policy engagement and analysis in countries including
Bangladesh, Belize, Kenya, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malawi, Mozambique,
Myanmar, Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania and Zambia. Charles has been
involved in extensive evidence gathering and research on pensions,
including leading the development of HelpAge’s Social Pensions Database
hosted on www.pension-watch.net.
SARAH LAUGHTON
A Canadian national, Sarah has 20 years’ experience with WFP, managing diverse safety net and other programmes in various country offices including Uganda, Swaziland, Nepal, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and also previously serving in the policy division at HQ. Her work includes policy direction, technical guidance and support, and corporate knowledge for WFP to increasingly support countries to achieve their Zero Hunger and SDG targets through country social protection programmes.
CARELL LAURENT
Joined USAID as a Foreign Service Officer in 1994 and has served in this
capacity in Ethiopia, Haiti and Washington DC. Among her positions within
USAID, she has served as Division Chief in the Office of Food for Peace, Office
Chief in USAID/Haiti’s Food Security Office and, currently, as Deputy Director
of USAID’s Center for Resilience. Previous to USAID, she worked for CARE
International from 1983 to 1994 in Chad and in Haiti. Carell Laurent received
her BA in Anthropology at Brown University, Providence RI and her MA in
International Economics and Comparative Politics from Johns Hopkins
University, School of Advanced International Studies, Wash. DC. Carell grew
up in Ghana; Madagascar; New York, and Sri Lanka. She is the mother of two:
her son, Nicholas is 30 and her daughter, Caitlin Gabrielle is 25.
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EWEN MACLEOD
Ewen Macleod is currently Special Adviser to the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Development Cooperation. He was
formerly head of the Policy Development and Evaluation Service at UNHCR
in Geneva. He has worked in development and humanitarian assistance
operations for the United Nations (UN) and the European Commission (EC)
holding both field based and headquarters positions. During the course of a
thirty year career he has been involved in many complex humanitarian crises
and post conflict reintegration operations in Asia, the Middle East, and
Africa.
NISAR MAJID
Nisar Majid (PhD) has worked in and on Somali-related issues since the late
1990s. His early work was in food security and livelihoods analysis (including
early warning) and latterly he has studied and worked on Somali diaspora
and remittance dynamics. Recently he has been working on studies looking
at access and programme quality in volatile contexts, corruption in
humanitarian aid and remittances and vulnerability, all with a focus on
Somalia. He recently co-authored 'Famine in Somalia: Competing
Imperatives, Collective Failure'.
MARIA CLARA MARTIN Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
UNHCR Quito, Ecuador. M.A. in Latin American Studies (History, Politics
and Development), University of London. Licence in Applied Foreign
Languages, Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. Before her
assignment as UNHCR Representative in Ecuador, she worked as Chief of
the Americas Section at the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights in Geneva. Prior to working with OHCHR she was Head of the
Appeals and Reports Unit at the Donor Relations and Resource
Mobilization Service of UNHCR, and also UNHCR’s Senior European Affairs
Officer in Brussels. Mrs. Martin was a Protection Consultant for the World
Food Programme (WFP), and Head of UNHCR Field Offices in Rwanda and
Mozambique. She also worked as Human Rights Observer in the UN/OAS International Civil Mission in Haiti.
Her experience in human rights and refugees started in 1986, when Mrs. Martin worked for Amnesty
International in London for seven years. She has also worked as a journalist and as Producer for the BBC in
London.
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EPPU MIKKONEN-JEANNERET
Ms Eppu Mikkonen-Jeanneret (BA Hons, MA at School of Oriental and
African Studies) is the Senior Adviser for Global Social Policy at the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs of Finland. She has worked in the field of social policy since
2000, with extensive experience in the transitional economies in the Balkans
and Central Asia. She has a specific interest in the enabling role of social
protection systems in the context of demographic change and labour market
transformations, including the dimensions of disability and gender. Before
the MfFA she worked as Head of Policy for HelpAge International where she
led the initiative on life-course approach to ageing in development.
ANDREW MITCHELL
Andrew Mitchell is the Senior Solutions Officer for Social Protection and
Resilience at UNHCR. He has a geosciences background in the private sector,
and since 2002, has engaged with front-line humanitarian work with French
INGOs as a water engineer, Country Representative, Desk Officer and Risk
Management expert. He later worked as a consultant with development
donors on risk management, resilience and social protection. He joined
UNHCR in 2016, and is charged with harnessing the cash-based
interventions, public health, education, community-based protection,
livelihoods and disaster preparedness capacity of UNHCR under a whole-of
social protection approach in protracted forced displacement contexts. He has graduate and doctorate
degrees in geosciences from the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia.
FLORENCE NAKIWALA KIYINGI
Honourable Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi, State Minister for Youth and Children
Affairs is a champion for youth empowerment and child rights in Uganda.
At the 9th Commonwealth Youth Ministers’ Meeting held in Kampala in July
2017 she successfully organised a high level meeting where a concept on
empowering families and communities to care for children was launched by
Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC the Secretary General of Commonwealth in the
company of the First Lady of Uganda Janet Kataaha Museveni. Honourable
Florence is the Chairperson of a presidential initiative, the Uganda North
American Youth Development Association Inc which brings over 4 Million
Ugandan youth together with the sole purpose of organizing youth for
economic empowerment and development. She has held several leadership positions in numerous capacities
in the past 25 years.
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RAMAZAN ÖZDAĞ
Republic of Turkey Ministry of Family and Social Policy Deputy General
Director of Social Assistance Ramazan Özdağ, started his professional carrier
at Ministry of Finance in 1989. Özdağ is expert of financial management and
budgeting. He has been working intensively on financial management of
social assistances since 2008. In 2011, Özdağ was appointed as a Head of the
Department which is responsible for financial management of Social
Assistance and Solidarity Fund which is the biggest social assistance fund
funded by the State in Turkey and he has been working as Deputy General Director of Social Assistances since
2014. Ramazan Özdağ is responsible for coordinating social assistance programs financed by foreign sources
for Syrians and the other foreigners in Turkey.
LEILA PAKKALA
Leila Pakkala is the UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa,
responsible for leadership and guidance to 21 country offices, and
representation with governments, donors, civil society and private sector.
Ms. Pakkala was previously UNICEF’s Director of Private Fundraising and
Partnerships, leading the strategic relationship of the organization with its
National Committees and guiding private sector fundraising and partnership
activities that generate over a third of the organization’s revenue. She has
also worked with UNICEF in senior management positions in Mozambique,
Somalia, FYR Macedonia, and in technical advisory roles with UNICEF in
Uganda, with UNDP in Ethiopia and with the private sector in Lesotho.
Ms. Pakkala brings more than 24 years of development and humanitarian
programming, private sector engagement, and organizational management
experience to her function. She holds post-graduate and graduate degrees
in psychology, and a diploma in special education. She is a qualified counsellor in child development
psychology.
MONIQUE PARIAT
Monique Pariat is appointed Director-General in DG Humanitarian Aid and
Civil Protection as from 1st September 2015. Prior to this post, she was
Deputy Director-General in DG "Agriculture and Rural Development". She
was responsible for EU international and trade relations in the area of
agriculture and rural development, and for further developing EU
agricultural quality policies. She was also Director for the Mediterranean and
the Black Sea in DG "Fisheries and Maritime Policy", Director for General
Affairs in DG "Justice, Freedom and Security" and Director for Resources in
DG "Agriculture and Rural development". She has been an official at the
European Commission since 1987. She graduated from the Institute of
Political Studies of Strasbourg and holds a degree from the College of Europe
in Bruges.
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AMBER PETERMAN
Dr. Peterman is a quantitative impact evaluation specialist working at the
UNICEF Office of Research—Innocenti on large-scale social protection
evaluations focusing on gender and youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Previously
she was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina and a
Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute based in
Washington DC., Kampala and Dakar. Dr. Peterman has led or contributed to
over a dozen impact evaluations of cash and in-kind transfer programs,
including in refugee hosting and fragile settings of northern Ecuador, Uganda
and Yemen.
CHRIS PORTER
Chris Porter has 19 years professional experience with the UK Department for
International Development (DFID), UNHCR, OCHA and as an independent
consultant working for clients including the World Bank, UNICEF and the Red
Cross. Between 2010-2014, he was DFID’s senior humanitarian and resilience
adviser based in Nairobi covering Somalia and Kenya. Subsequently, he was
appointed DFID’s global Humanitarian Head of Profession, where he
continues to explore the potential of transitioning some shorter term
humanitarian assistance into nascent social protection-like mechanisms in
more fragile contexts.
ANDREAS PROKSCH
Andreas Proksch has been Director General of GIZ’s new Sector and Global
Programmes Department (GloBe) since September 2015. He headed up the
company’s Africa Department from 2007 until 2015 and let GTZ’s Corporate
Development Unit from 2001 until 2007. He has a total of 17 years’
experience working abroad, in Ecuador, Nepal, Pakistan and Viet Nam.
During this time he held management positions (as GTZ country director)
and was responsible for urban and regional development programmes. He
was a founding member and for many years international coordinator of the
‘Learning Network on Capacity Development’ (LenCD), and is an Africa
expert with a proven track record. Mr Proksch graduated in economic and
social science. He began his professional career with the Friedrich Naumann
Foundation in Bonn.
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MARYAN QASIM
Dr. Maryan Qasim is a medical doctor, a humanitarian and a politician.
She worked as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist as well as a University
lecturer and a community activist in Somalia, Yemen, the Netherlands and
Great Britain. She is currently serving as the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs
and Disaster Management in the Federal Government of Somalia since March
2017. Previously she served as the Minister for Human Development and
Social Services, which included the portfolio of Health and Education in 2012
– 2014. She also served in 2010 - 2011 as the Minister for Women's
Development and Family Welfare. She has also served as Goodwill
Ambassador for the Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal
Mortality in Africa (CARMMA) in Somalia. Besides Somali, Dr. Qasim is also fluent in English, Dutch, Arabic and
Italian.
IRENÉE ARIMANANA RAVELOJAONA Je suis économiste de formation et travaillant dans le domaine de la
protection sociale depuis 10 ans. J’étais directeur de la réponse aux Chocs
et Protection contre les risques sociaux de 2014 à 2016. Actuellement
Directeur Général de la Protection Sociale auprès du Ministère de la
Population, de la Protection Sociale et de la Promotion de la Femme où je
suis chargée de la coordination des interventions de protection sociale et
assure la coordination du groupe thématique Protection sociale incluant le
sous-groupe cash transfert co-leadé avec Unicef. Contact :
BYRON ALFONSO ROMERO PENA Undersecretary of Family – Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion.
Economist with mention on Business Management; Specialized in Public
Administration. Mr. Romero is in charge of planning, coordinating,
managing, and evaluating public policy, plans, programs, strategies and
projects aimed to reduce poverty and vulnerability, with special emphasis
in priority groups. Before being nominated as Undersecretary, Mr. Romero
developed and implemented several business coaching training
programmes with a human development perspective to improve the
productivity of enterprises, all over the country. Mr. Romero has also been
Consultant for the public sector. He provided support to the Ministry of
Public Health in decision-making processes related to investments in the Health sector, as well as with the
assessment of programmes and projects. He was also part of the team that developed a Logistics Plan for the
National Port System for the Coordinating Minister of Production, Employment and Competitiveness.
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VALERIE SCHMITT
Valerie Schmitt is the Deputy Director, Social Protection Department, ILO
Geneva. She is also leading ILO’s Flagship programme on building social
protection floors for all. Born in 1972, Ms. Schmitt holds a Master of
Advanced Studies (first year of doctoral studies programme) in
quantitative economics from Paris Sciences Economiques (Laboratoire du
Delta) and a Master of Business Administration with honours from HEC
(Europe's highest ranked MBA programme by the Financial Times). She
also holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Paris
IV – La Sorbonne. Ms. Schmitt joined the ILO in 2003. She has 20 years of
progressively responsible professional experience in the field of social
protection, combining both headquarters and field experience in various
types of organizations: the ILO at HQ, in Africa and Asia, the corporate sector in France, and a NGO in Africa.
FEDERICO SPANO
Federico Spano is a Social Protection and Resilience specialist. He holds a
M.Sc. Diploma in science of politics and two post-graduate degree in
international cooperation and sustainable territorial development.
Federico has over 7 years of experience in the sector working for several
international NGOs and consultancy firms as resilience coordinator,
project manager and researcher in development and emergency contexts
such as Afghanistan, Brazil, Italy and Venezuela. In 2015 he joined FAO to
work on the linkages between social protection, resilience and climate
change policies. He covers a number of activities ranging from developing
research, capacity development and guidance material, to providing direct
technical support to countries, working on resource mobilization and
external partnerships.
PIA STJERNVALL
Pia Stjernvall currently works as an Ambassador for Civilian Crises
Management at the Finnish MFA. Prior to this position, she worked as the
Head of Mission for EUPOL Afghanistan (before that being the Deputy
Head of Mission and the Acting Head of Mission). Ms. Stjernvall has
previously been the Special Representative for International Dialogue on
Peacebuilding and State-building (IDPS) at the MFA Finland and the
Coordinator for Mediation at the MFA. She also has served i.a. as Charge
d’Affaires at the Embassy of Finland in Kabul and as Finland’s Deputy
Permanent Representative to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in Kenya.
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CHRYSTELLE TSAFACK TEMAH
Chrystelle Tsafack Temah has 12 years of experience in development work.
She is currently Chief of Social Policy in UNICEF Mali. Chrystelle has been
working with UNICEF for five years in the field of economic and social policy.
Before joining UNICEF Chrystelle worked as an Economist for the United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa and as a Lecturer
in Economics at the University of Auvergne, France. She has extensive
working knowledge of many countries in Africa, including Burundi,
Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Togo and Zimbabwe. She holds a PhD in
Economics from the University of Auvergne.
MITO TSUKAMOTO
Ms. Tsukamoto joined the ILO in 1994, where she has worked in various
capacities – and has worked on sustainable infrastructure development since
about 2005. Linking humanitarian livelihoods, employment policy and
natural and physical infrastructure development, she has worked in Bangkok
and in Geneva on community-driven efforts to use employment intensive
investments through public works programmes (PWP) over the last 11 years.
She led the ILO team in strengthening the synergies between public
employment programmes (PEP), social protection floor (SPF) and climate
change adaptation to address the different multiple objectives of PWPs –
and highlighting their economic, social and environmental impact in addressing the need for decent work and
social justice. In her most recent posting, she has contributed to the ILO’s response to the global economic and
financial crisis where she co-authored a policy paper on “Towards the right to work: Innovations in Public
Employment Programmes (PEP)” a “Guidebook for designing innovative PEPs”, and managed a team in the
development of the training course and material on the same topic. She also continues to work on adaptation
to climate change issues, where she co-authored a policy paper on “Towards an ILO approach to climate
change adaptation” and on youth employment where she co-authored “Boosting youth employment through
PEPs”.
ARTHUR VAN DIESEN
Arthur van Diesen is the Regional Social Policy Adviser for UNICEF in the
Middle East and North Africa. He has twenty-five years of experience in social
policy, applied social research, monitoring and evaluation and programme
management. Arthur has worked and lived in Africa, South and Central Asia,
and the Middle East. He has worked for the United Nations, for bilateral aid
agencies and for international NGOs. His career has included both advisory
and managerial functions, both of which he thoroughly enjoys. Arthur is a
sociologist by training, with a Master’s Degree from Tilburg University in The
Netherlands. His main areas of technical expertise include: social policy,
social protection, poverty analysis, gender equality and women’s empowerment, civil society
development, and monitoring and evaluation.
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FÁBIO VERAS
Fábio Veras holds a PhD in Economics from University College London
(2004). He is currently one of the Research Coordinators of the International
Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG). He is on leave from the Institute
for Applied Economic Research (Ipea). He has worked with impact
evaluation of cash transfers programmes in countries such as Brazil,
Paraguay, Mozambique and Yemen. He has had his work published in the
Journal of Development Effectiveness and the Latin American Research
Review, and has written book chapters on the comparative analysis of cash
transfer programmes.
NATALIA WINDER ROSSI
Natalia Winder Rossi is a senior social protection specialist with experience in Latin
America and Eastern and Southern Africa. Currently, she is Deputy Director Ad
Interim of the Social Policies and Rural Institutions Division, as well as Social
Protection team leader and Delivery Manager. She is leading FAO’s work in
strengthening policy and programmatic linkages between social protection,
productive inclusion, nutrition and resilience. Prior to joining FAO, she was the
Senior Social Protection Specialist (Social Protection) at UNICEF’s Regional Office
for Eastern and Southern Africa, and Social Protection Officer in UNICEF-
Headquarters in New York. Ms. Winder has also worked at the Inter-American
Development Bank and the Organization of American States in social policy and
protection programmes in Latin America. Natalia holds a Master’s of Science
degree in Foreign Service (Economic Development) from Georgetown University, a Master’s of Science in Social
Policy Research from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
ALEXANDRA YUSTER
Alexandra Yuster is Associate Director, Programme Division, UNICEF HQ,
leading UNICEF’s work on Social Policy and Inclusion, which encompasses social
protection. She served as UNICEF Representative in Moldova from 2008 to
2013, and previously at HQ as well as UNICEF Country Offices in Mozambique,
Zimbabwe, and India. While in Moldova, UNICEF helped the government to
maintain and strengthen social protection during the economic crisis. At
UNICEF HQ from 2003-2008, Ms Yuster was part of a multi-agency effort to
advance child-sensitive social protection. During previous UNICEF postings her
work encompassed health, child protection, HIV, and social policy. Born and
raised in NYC, she holds a BA in Anthropology and a Masters in Public Health.