Thierry Randon joined the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in May 2009 as Civil-Military Relations Programme Coordinator. In 2013, Thierry became Senior Programme Officer in the Regional Development Programme. He was in charge of coordinating events and courses in relation to Swiss and Foreign Armed Forces such as Defence Attachés Courses. In 2018, Thierry took on his current position of Senior Course and Event Coordinator in the Global Support Group, which provides assistance and expertise for all kinds of events/projects at the GCSP.

Anna Brach is Head of Human Security at the GCSP. Her work focuses on issues of environmental and health security with special emphasis on the climate change and security nexus. Her research interests include human security, human rights, environmental security, climate change, global public commons and resource management. She is responsible for developing and running the GCSP’s Human Security Cluster activities, including executive courses, workshops and high-level conferences in Geneva and internationally. She is the Course Director for the European Security Course.

Alan Channer is a project director, documentary film producer, writer and researcher on peacebuilding and the environment. He was a runner-up for the 2019 Bremen International Peace Prize; co-designer of a programme on 'pastoralist-farmer conflict transformation' in Nigeria which won a United Nations Intercultural Innovation Award in 2017; speaker at the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Forum; and producer of the award-winning film,The Imam and the Pastor, which premiered at the United Nations in 2006.

Louise Helen Brown is a climate finance expert based in Windhoek, Namibia. She is the recent founder of a small business, Triple Capital, which develops financial and economic solutions to environmental and social challenges. Previously, she coordinated the Africa Climate Change Fund, a grant-making fund for climate resilience at the African Development Bank.

Karina Cheah is a rising senior at Colgate University (Hamilton, NY, USA) and is currently working for Initiatives of Change Switzerland as an intern for communications and the Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with a double minor in French and Creative Writing and plans to continue with all three fields in her postgraduate education. Her academic areas of interest include the intersection between foreign and domestic policy and the politics of Southeast Asia.