Abhishek Raman Parajuli
Abhishek Raman Parajuli, 19, is taking a year off before college to intern with the South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment in Kathmandu, Nepal.
R.K. Pachauri
R.K. Pachauri is Director-General, The Energy & Resources Institute, New Delhi, India, and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on climate Change, and Director, Yale Climate and Energy institute, United States.
Emyr Jones Parry
Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry has been Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations since July 2003, after serving as Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council in Brussels. He also served as Political Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as Director at the European Union. Sir Emyr completed his PhD in Polymer Physics at Cambridge University.
Hélène Pelosse
Hélène Pelosse is Director General, International Renewable Energy Agency.
Rebecca Peters
Rebecca Peters is Director, International Action Network on Small Arms (www.iansa.org).
Peter Piot
Peter Piot has been Executive Director of UNAIDS since 1995. He has a distinguished academic and scientific career, focusing on AIDS and women’s health in the developing countries. Dr. Piot was a professor of microbiology and of public health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp and the Universities of Nairobi, Brussels and Lausanne. In 1992, he joined the WHO Global Programme on AIDS. After graduating from medical school, he co-discovered the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in 1976.
Bill Quigley
Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans and Director of its Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center. An active human rights lawyer, he has served as Counsel with public interest organizations on such issues as social justice, public housing, voting rights, death penalty and civil liberties. He is the author of Ending Poverty as We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage.
Wayne Quilliam
Wayne Quilliam is recipient of Australia's 2009 National Indigenous Artist of the Year Award and the 2009 Human Rights Media Award.
Ramón Quiñones Cintrón
Ramón Quiñones Cintrón, 20, is a political science student at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, an Eagle Scout, and Local Committee President, AIESEC Mayagüez.
Richard Race
Richard Race is Senior Lecturer in education and a University Fellow at the Centre for Education for Human Rights, Social Justice and Citizenship at Roehampton University in London, United Kingdom. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book, Advancing Multiculturalism, post 7/7, and a co-series editor on Contemporary Issues in Education with Continuum Books.
Bertrand G. Ramcharan
Bertrand G. Ramcharan is Chancellor of the University of Guyana and Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He served as Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003-2004), Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, and Director of the Africa I Division of the UN Department of Political Affairs.
Esteban Ramírez González
Esteban Ramírez González, 23, is a student at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and Secretary-General, Global Model United Nations 2010.
Dashika Ranasinghe
Dashika Ranasinghe is a Sri Lankan Australian communications professional currently residing in France. She worked at the Press Office and Yearbook Units of the United Nations Department of Public Information, and at leading digital advertising agency, R/GA in New York.
Anirudh Jagannatha Rao
Anirudh Jagannatha Rao, 16, is a student at the Lalaji Memorial Omega International School (www.omegaschools.org), a UNESCO Associated School in Chennai, India.
Sudeshan Reddy
Sudeshan Reddy has been the National Information Officer at the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) in Pretoria since October 2001. He previously served as Public Information Officer at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Office for Southern Africa, also in Pretoria.
Enuga S. Reddy
Enuga S. Reddy is a former UN Assistant Secretary-General in charge of the Centre against Apartheid, which he directed from 1976 to 1984. He was also the first Principal Secretary of the Special Committee against Apartheid. Mr. Reddy has written extensively on the struggle for liberation in South Africa and on international solidarity with that struggle.
Shakera Reece
Shakera Reece, 20, is Barbados National Record Holder of Women’s 100m, a graduate of Rice University, and a recipient of the Stancliff Award for academic achievement and outstanding track and field performance.
Rhone Resch
Rhone Resch is President of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), a national trade association representing over 500 solar energy companies in the United States.
Oscar Reyes
Oscar Reyes and Tamra Gilbertson are researchers with Carbon Trade Watch (www.carbontradewatch.org), a project of the Transnational Institute.
Patrice Robineau
Patrice Robineau is Senior Adviser to the UNECE Executive Secretary. He served in the same capacity to the Deputy Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and as Secretary General of the International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, a federation of NGOs based in Brussels. Mr. Robineau also worked as a researcher at the International Institute for Labour Studies and professor at the Department of Economics, University of Algiers.
Enrique Román-Morey
Enrique Román-Morey is Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Disarmament Commission.
Chuck Root
Chuck Root is the Immediate Past Governor of Rotary District 5110 which includes 4,000 members living in the southern two thirds of Oregon and a portion of northern California.
Rumyan Russinov
Rumyan Russinov is a leading activist of the Romani movement in Europe. In 1997, he led a national campaign for the adoption of Government policies to combat discrimination against Roma in his native Bulgaria. Mr. Russinov has served as Director of the Open Society Institute, a Roma Participation Program based in Budapest. Since 2005, he is Deputy Director of the Roma Education Fund.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, and is currently the Special Advisor to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the MDGs. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and also served as Special Advisor to former Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Nemat Sadat
Nemat Sadat is pursuing a Master of Science degree in negotiation & conflict resolution at Columbia University.
Joanne Sandler
Joanne Sandler is the Ad Interim Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She guides efforts to implement rights- and results-based programmes in support of women’s empowerment and rights worldwide. Ms. Sandler has also served on the Boards of a number of international and domestic organizations, including the Association of Women’s Rights in Development, Gender at Work, and Women Make Movies.
Linda Saputelli
Linda Saputelli is President of the Association of Former International Civil Servants, New York.
Sousath Sayakoummane
Sousath Sayakoummane is Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR.
Romuald Sciora
Romuald Sciora is a French Filmmaker and a playwright who began his work with an acclaimed series of documentary films titled Chronicles from a Barbaric Era. His latest feature-length film, The Ashes of the Phoenix, was inspired by the work of Father Mansour Labaky, who devoted his life to helping underprivileged children in Lebanon and through his writings sought to teach peace and tolerance.
Edward W. Scott, Jr.
Edward W. Scott, Jr. is the founder and Chairman of Friends of the Global Fight, which provides support, with the assistance of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, for The Global Fund to Fight for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He also founded the Center for Global Development and has served on the Board of Directors for the Institute for International Economics. Mr. Scott is also a co-founder of DATA, an advocacy organization dedicated to building public awareness about development problems in Africa, most notably the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Emilio Sempris
Emilio Sempris is Director of the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (www.cathalac.org).
Akorshi Sengupta
Akorshi Sengupta, 17, is a student at the Lalaji Memorial Omega International School (www.omegaschools.org), a UNESCO Associated School in Chennai, India.
Sha Zukang
Sha Zukang is the Secretary-General for the Rio+20 Conference and UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.
Jonathan Shanklin
Jonathan Shanklin discovered the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985 as a member of a British Antarctic Survey team. He is head of the Meterology and Ozone Monitoring Unit of the BAS.
Yamei Shen
Yamei Shen is Assistant Research Fellow, Department for American Studies, China Institute of International Studies.
Drew Shindell
Drew Shindell is Senior Scientist, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York City.
Rumishael Shoo
Rumishael Shoo is Regional Advisor of Child Survival and Development, with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office. He also served with the World Health Organization as Coordinator for southern Sudan and a medical officer for Somalia. Dr. Shoo held various positions in health planning, health management and teaching, and served in various capacities in health with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Michel Sidibé
Michel Sidibé is Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Margaret Simwanza Sitta
Her Excellency Margaret Simwanza Sitta is currently Minister for Community Development, Gender and Children of the United Republic of Tanzania. She is also a member of the Parliament and the National Executive Council CCM (Ruling Party). Minister Sitta served as Principal Education Officer with the Ministry of Education and Culture, head of Department Workers’ Education Tanzania Federation of Trade Unions and District Education Officer. She was also Chairperson of the Trade Union Congress of Tanzania and President of the Tanzania Teachers’ Union.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Duane Smith
Duane Smith is President of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference Canada and Vice-President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. A former Co-Chair of the World Conservation Union Arctic Specialist group Sustainable Use Initiative, he is an adamant advocate for indigenous rights, their relationship to the environment, and the traditional knowledge and insights that indigenous people can provide.
Mike Smith
Mike Smith is Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate.
Francisco Songane
Francisco Songane est Directeur du Partenariat pour la santé de la mère, du nouveau-né et de l’enfant lancé par l’OMS. En tant que Ministre de la santé du Mozambique (2000-2004), on lui attribue le mérite d’avoir recouru au partenariat pour prévenir l’apparition d’épidémies durant les inondations de 2000 et 2001 et d’avoir contribué d’une manière décisive à l’élaboration et à la mise en application de la stratégie du Mozambique pour le secteur de la santé. Il a mis au point un certain nombre d’interventions innovantes dans les systèmes de santé du Mozambique, dont un vaccin contre l’hépatite B et des études sur un vaccin possible contre le paludisme. Il a été membre du Conseil d’administration et du Comité exécutif du GAVI.Francisco Songane is Director of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, hosted by WHO. A former Minister of Health of Mozambique, he is credited for using a partnership approach for averting a disease outbreak during the 2000/2001 floods and for assisting in the launch of a national health strategy. Dr. Songane worked to introduce innovative interventions into the Mozambican health system, including a Hepatitis B vaccine and trials on a candidate malaria vaccine. He served on the Board and the Executive Committee of the GAVI.
Devi Sridhar
Devi Sridhar is Director, Global Health Governance Project, Oxford -University, and Research Fellow at All Souls College.
Daniel Stauffacher
Daniel Stauffacher is former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Nations and Co-Founder and Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation.
Walter Staveloz
WALTER STAVELOZ is Director of International Relations, Association of Science-Technology Centers, Washington, D.C.
Achim Steiner
Achim Steiner was appointed Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme in March 2006. He previously served as Director-General of the World Conservation Union and worked in Southeast Asia as Chief Technical Advisor for sustainable management of the Mekong River programme and community-based natural resources.
Lindsay Stevens
Lindsay Stevens, 16, is a student at the Deerfield Academy, United States, and has volunteered at Philani in South Africa.
Annick Stevenson
Born in Lyon, France, Annick Stevenson is an international journalist, having spent more than twenty years with the United Nations, author of the portrait of Jean Giono's long-time mistress and muse, Blanche Meyer et Jean Giono, and co-author of a book in memory of the late Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed in the bombing of the UN headquarters in Bagdad, Sergio Vieira de Mello: An Exceptional Man. She has written for a large number of newspapers and magazines throughout her career and has also translated or co-translated several works. She is currently at work on two additional UN-related projects: the translation of the portrait of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan written by his long-standing spokesperson, Fred Eckhart, and a book to be published together with a documentary on the United Nations by filmmaker Romuald Sicora in the fall of 2008.
Andreea Stoiciu
Andreea Stoiciu is Coordinator of UN/WSIS Subgroup “e-Government for Sustainable Development” and Executive Director of the Institute for Management and Sustainable Development, Romania.
Abid Suleri
Abid Qaiyum Suleri is Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy institute, Pakistan.
Madhura Swaminathan
Madhura Swaminathan is Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She was a member of the Government of India’s High-Level Committee on Long-Term Grain Policy.
Erie Tamale
Erie Tamale is Environmental Affairs Officer and Ulrika Nilsson is Associate Public Information Officer at the Biosafety Unit in the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal.
Aurea Tanaka
Aurea Tanaka is Research Associate, Education for Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Yokohama, Japan.
Arno Tanner
Arno Tanner is Adjunct Professor, Universities of Helsinki and Tampere. Most recently, he published "The Future of International Migration Governance".
Daniel Tarantola
Mr Daniel Tarantola is Professor of Health and Human Rights, University of New South Wales and Chair of its Initiative for Helath and Human Rights. He was formerly a senior advisor to the World Health Organization, supervising the team responsible for eradicating smallpox worldwide. He played a key role in the creation of Medicins Sans Frontieres.
Edward Telles
Edward Telles is Professor of Sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). His book, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil, won the 2006 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association. In the 1990s, he was the Human Rights Program Officer for the Ford Foundation in Rio de Janeiro.
Dirk Willem te Velde
Dirk Willem te Velde is Programme Leader of the Investment and Growth Programme, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom.
Ramesh Thakur
Ramesh Thakur is Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, and Professor of International Relations, at the Australian National University. He previously was the Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University at the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. His next major project is The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is an Academy-award winning actress and a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on eliminating violence against women.
Anna Tibaijuka
Anna K. Tibaijuka is Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, the first African woman elected by the UN General Assembly as Under-Secretary-General of a United Nations programme, and is currently serving a second four-year term. In 2005, she served as the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Human Settlements Issues in Zimbabwe. Dr. Tibaijuka is currently a member of the World Health Organization Commission on the Social Determinants of Health and of the Advisory Board of the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
Dmitry Titov
Dmitry Titov is Assistant Secretary-General for the Rule of Law and Security Institutions, Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
Massimo Tommasoli
Massimo Tommasoli is Permanent Observer for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) to the United Nations.
Emily Troutman
Emily Troutman is a writer and photographer whose work focuses on global humanitarian issues. In October 2009 she was named UN Citizen Ambassador.
William H. Tucker
William H. Tucker is Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University-Camden (United States) and specializes in the study of social scientists whose work is used to support oppressive social policies. His most recent book is titled The Funding of Scientific Racism.
Sireen Tutunji
Sireen Tutunji is an alumni of the Face to Face/Faith to Faith, annual dialogue and leadership programme for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim youth, planned and implemented by the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel, in partnership with Auburn Theological Seminary in New York. Programme participants meet biweekly in East and West Jerusalem in order to foster positive relations and tolerance of “the other,” and to develop dialogue and leadership skills. She also volunteers to benefit the Jewish and Palestinian communities in Jerusalem.
José Francisco Calí Tzay
José Francisco Calí Tzay has been a member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination since 2004. Mr. Calí Tzay is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Indian Treaty Council.