Dr. Khalid Koser is founding Executive Director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund, a public-private partnership dedicated to preventing violent extremism. In its first three years GCERF has reached over two million people in communities at risk. An academic by training, Khalid is Professor of Conflict, Peace and Security at the University of Maastricht, as well as non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, Chatham House, and the Lowy Institute.
Siddharth Singh is a facilitator, coach, designer and traveler. He co-founded ‘Paradigms Unlimited’, a business leadership-consulting firm, in 2001, which is committed to working with people to create personal and organisational transformation. Siddharth is also a full time volunteer with ‘Initiatives of Change’, which is an international movement working in the field of creating organisational and social change through personal transformation.
Désire Tuyishemeze graduated in Clinical and Social Psychology and focuses on the exploration of the link between mental health, trauma healing, piece, reconciliation and climate change. He is active in different local and international organizations, aiming at promoting mental health and psycho-social well-being for individuals and communities. He is an active member of Initaitives of Change, locally and internationally, and part of the Programme Support Team for Emerging Agents of Change (IofC International).
Liliya Luts is experienced in Human Resources management and organizational capacities building, she is focused in personal developments from the view of the Future requirements and for the last years especially works with engagement of youth into professional programmes with orientation on self determination and connection to communities and personal confidence. To ensure that she also provides support to teachers and parents for helping them to become a trustful partner in relations with youth.
Lada (Vladyslava) Kanevska is a professional mediator and facilitator, with a more than 30 years of experience in building partnerships and profound connections for sustainable development in Ukraine. Being involved with Foundations for Freedom projects since 2014, she is a co-coordinator of the Network of Dialogue facilitators and participated in various Caux Forum activities since then. She constantly supports trust building processes and knowledge sharing within local and international projects, state and nongovernmental organizations, business and communities.
Farai Maguwu is the founding Director of the Centre of Natural Resource Governance (CNRG), a leading organization in Zimbabwe. In 2011, he was arrested for his human rights work and detained for 40 days by the government. Later that year, Human Rights watch awarded him with the prestigious Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism. Farai is a PhD candidate at the School of Developmental Studies, University of Kwazulu Natal and holds an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies and an MA in Peace and Governance.
Iqbal Singh Bains is the current Additional Chief Secretary under State Government of Madhya Pradesh. He has over 30 years of experience as a member of India’s premier civil service, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and has worked in a wide range of government departments, from energy to rural development to aviation. In 2012 he was responsible for conceptualizing and implementing the Public Service Delivery Guarantee Act in Madhya Pradesh, the first of its kind in India.
Dr. Achim Wennmann is an expert on the economic perspectives of violent conflict, peace mediation and peacebuilding with years of experience in conflict response: peace processes, conflict prevention, and violence reduction.