Idayat Hassan

Idayat Hassan is a senior program officer at the Centre for Democracy and Development West Africa (CDD), where she helps develop and implement projects promoting empowerment and democratization in West Africa. Prior to joining the CCD, Idayat was a deputy regional coordinator with the Movement Against Corruption in Nigeria, an organization that seeks to eradicate corruption and poverty in Nigeria. Idayat received her bachelor’s degree in law from the Lagos State University, Ojo, and holds an LL.M.

Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat

Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat is a transformational peace professional, heading the Nigerian Mission for International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) as its Nigerian Ambassador between 2011-2016. He was elevated in December 2015, to double as Under Secretary General for the IHRC before resigning to begin the operation of Foundation for Peace Professionals. He holds Bachelor Degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution and currently pursing Masters Degree in the same field at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

Véronique Sikora

An associate professor at the School of Engineering and Management in Yverdon-les-Bains in western Switzerland, Véronique Sikora brings her passion for knowledge sharing, and several years of multicultural experience in communications and training, to TIP. Having worked in business and government in Canada and Switzerland, she became keenly interested in how people share knowledge. This led her to steer her career path towards higher education where for the last 13 years she has been designing and delivering courses in business communications.

Dominique de Buman

Dominique de Buman is a Swiss politician who has been active on the political scene since 1986, when he first served as Municipal councilor of his native canton at Fribourg. Also involved since 1988 in one of the main swiss political parties – the Christian-Democrat party – he was elected vice-president in 2004 and served as such the party until 2016. At the Swiss national parliament, Mr. de Buman served as a National Councilor since 2003. He was elected as Second Vice-president of the National Council in 2015, and as First National Council vice-president in 2016.

Josephine A. Apira

Josephine A. Apira, born and raised in Uganda, is currently a refugee living in the UK. She is a human rights activist and is the present Chair of the Ugandan Sustainable Development Initiative (USDI). In 1986, Josephine was running the World Bank’s regional reconstruction programme in Northern Uganda, when President Museveni came to power. After witnessing numerous atrocities being committed in Northern Uganda by Museveni’s National Resistance Army (NRA), she fled firstly to Southern Sudan, then to Kenya, before being granted a visa to enter the UK.

Anik Asad

Anik Asad is an Anthropologist and at the same time he is a devoted Social Worker and Human Rights Activist working for the advancement for the most marginalized people of Bangladesh. He started his career as an academician in a public university as an Anthropologists but ultimately he changed his career and became a social worker and a human rights activist to pursue his commitments towards the most marginalized people of Bangladesh as he sees the advancement of society in the lanes of an anthropological world view.

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CDLS Steering Group

  • Chris Evans
  • Rhamis Kent
  • Alan Channer
  • Alan Laubsch
  • Benjamin Callison
  • Chris Evans
  • Jonathan Dudding
  • Meera Shah
  • Nicholas Foster
  • Olivia Lazard
  • Peter Rundell
  • Tom Duncan
  • Patrick Worms
  • Rishab Khanna
  • Dr. Bremley W.B. Lyngdoh

Lisa Yasko

Lisa Yasko is the Founder of the NGO Yellow Blue Strategy, and a producer of documentary films about Crimea and the history of the KGB for Aljazeera, ZDF, ARTE. She holds a Master of Public Policy Degree from Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and was the first Ukrainian to graduate from the School. Lisa also has expertise in music as a tool for social impact.

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